Presentation of the colors that will be followed by the singing of the national anthem. [inaudible conversations] poco [applause] [applause] [applause] please be seated. Thank you to the West Covina High School and rotc honor guar guard. I would like to recognize some special guests with us this evening. Please welcome to members from the board of directors of the Richard Nixon foundation, john and sandy quinn. [applause] Orange County supervisor. Members of the city council including the mayor, and mark blown. [applause] Close Friends of the Richard Nixon foundation and ruth b shannon. The National Archives and Records Administration director for the Nixon Library and his associate left wallace, director of education. And our most important resource that is the envy of the other 12 president ial libraries represent 150 volunteers, thank you. [applause] the Nixon Foundation is largely supported by its members. Membership support Educational Programs and opportunities for our youth to e
Ceiling or tax reform in the next days and months. Plus, President Trump remarks come after the president huddle with National Security team in the final days of working vacation, speaking of vacation, the countdown is on, folks, we have weeks before congress is expected back in washington following their august recess, Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell and Steven Mnuchin answering questions earlier today as Louisville Chamber of commerce but the focus of the discussion, it was supposed to be on tax reform, the big headline, mcconnells outlook on the debt ceiling. Blake berman outside with the very latest. Mcconnell somewhat optimistic, blake. Zero percent chance that they will default on the credit, the United States debt, mcconnell saying, look, this is going to happen, dont worry about it. He was sitting along Steven Mnuchin and mnuchin said he wants a clean debt ceiling. We will see if that happens politically but sort giving off the image today that this is going to happen. W
Medicare or medicaid patients. Dose to 60 of the work we is in this population of patients. I do notpendent know if that is the right word but im going to use it how dependent is the u. S. Health care system on the federal government and moneys from medicare and medicaid and other sources . Medicare represents about 23 of the 2. 4 trillion spent every year in health care in the country. Edicaid is another 16 i think the latest figures i have seen are about 39 of the 2. 4 trillion is medicare and medicaid. It is a major component of the health care spending. How would you describe the relationship between the mayo clinic and the federal government . We have had a long relationship with the federal government. Many, many decades working closely with them to advise them on policy and regulation and sharing our model. We believe our model of coordinated care focus on the patient provides better efficiency, safer care, better outcomes, and overall with lower cost. We have sure those message
that it is individual employees that come together to form an organizaon to represent and bargain, so we have got this disconnect, where we think this union is this nebulous thing out there, and people do not understand that that union is, at least in my case, made up of feral employees. so what we need to do, and i think the message we need to tell folks, and what we are doing is we are taking the tack of having our members tell their stories. what is in, for example, we represent veterans in administration doctors and nurses who are held and the highest esteem of any federal employees in the eyes of the public. those folks went right at the top in terms of a positive impression that the public has of them, so we re asking our members who are nurses and doctors to tell their story, you know, what it is they can do, the health care they provide veterans, how does that contribute to the nation and to the economy, how does that contribute to making the community s stronger, and
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