Welcome to the National Press club. My name is john hughes. I am an editor for our breaking news desk in washington, and i am the president of the National Press club. Our guest today is actor humanitarian given sunnis gary sinise. He will discuss challenges facing americas servicemen and women and what can be done to improve their lives and support their loved ones. But first, i want to introduce our distinguished head table. This Group Includes press club members and guests of our speaker. From the audiences wright, president of d. C. Media connections publisher of stars and stripes, defense reporter for politico and cochair of the National Press clubs young members committee. Amy fickling, editor with one communications news, the staff writer for marine corps times. Jim livingston, a medal of honor recipient and guest of the speaker. [applause] john hughes the chairman of the press Club Speakers Committee the Washington Bureau chief for the buffalo news, and former National Press cl
An alternate they are foye pair with their cessation of opiates. I would like you to respond to something that weve heard the secretary say and read about in the press that he has 28,000 positions to fill in the vha. Its something it was reiterated in the hearing here. Then when the Ranking Member and i and some other members of congress in the senate were in your command and control center on the eighth floor a few weeks back, weve heard that number was not 28,000, that it was 50,000 positions to be filled at the vha. Could you confirm that number and could you tell me how youre prioritizing those hires . And obviously im getting to if we have a crisis in Mental Health and were treating all hires the same, we have a problem. If youre prioritizing Mental Health, heres a chance to tell this committee and the public at large. So i did not hear the number 50,000. Ill have to check on that and get back to you drekly. I think that would probably be the easiest way to say that. With 300,000
Good morning. Im joe and i want to welcome everyone here in our Conference Room and everyone watching through electronic means to a Conference Today addressing the general and very specific question also of stabilizing the Health Insurance market under the Affordable Care act and in particular a proposal made by a group of eight governors. We will actually be following the panel. You may wonder why we have the governor speaking after us. The answer is travel considerations. Fortunately although this panel is not obligated to confine their remarks to the governors proposal the governors did put out a letter last week that is really quite easy to summarize. Ill summarize the major points so everyone has a basic grounding in what is governors are talking about and to some extend what the panel will be talk about as well. So they identify really three categories of actions that could be taken, immediate federal actions to stabilize the markets and then other types of reforms that address c
Hello . Ok. Good morning, everyone. With the American Enterprise institute. I want to welcome everyone in our Conference Room and everyone watching through electronic means to a Conference Today addressing the general and specific questions, also of stabilizing the Health Insurance market on the Affordable Care act. Proposal made a by your group of eight governors who will be following the panel. Why we have the governor speaking after us. The reason is travel considerations. Fortunately, although this panel is not obligate it to can find , fortunately the governors to put out a letter last week that is easy to summarize. I will start by summarizing their points so everyone has a basic rounding on what the governors are talking about grounding on what the governors are talking about and what we will be talking about. Identify three categories of actions that could be taken. Actions toederal and than the markets other types of reforms that cost and whatge, they call the federal state is
Im joe, and i want to welcome everyone here in our Conference Room and everyone watching through electronic means to a Conference Today addressing the general and very specific question also of stabilizing the Health Insurance market under the Affordable Care act and in particular a proposal made by a group of eight governors. We will actually be following the panel. You may wonder why we have the governor speaking after us. The answer is travel considerations. Fortunately although this panel is not obligated to confine their remarks to the governors proposal the governors did put out a letter last week that is really quite easy to summarize. Ill summarize the major points so everyone has a basic grounding in what is governors are talking about and to some extend what the panel will be talk about as well. So they identify really three categories of actions that could be taken, immediate federal actions to stabilize the markets and then other types of reforms that address coverage that