850 formally submitted comments. In december of 2015, the working Group Released a comprehensive document. In october of last year we issued a legislative discussion draft. Soon after that we finalized four of our policy proposals in its 2017 medicare physician fee schedule rule, and twon provisions from our discussion draft where included in the 21st century cures act which president obama signed into law this past december. In other words, sefrlt working groups policies have already been enacted and were working to get rest signed into law fully implemented. Toward that end, we introduce the latest version of the chronic care act, the bill that encompasses the working groups proposals in april. The legislation currently has 17 bipartisan cosponsors and has been endorsed by numerous organizations in the Healthcare Community. Today, is the latest step in our in our efforts. The next step will come later this week, as weve noticed a markup for thursday morning. I want to thank my collea
Within your means please pot buy books at the book tent. This festival is free to all of us, but book sales are important because it helps publishers and convinces them to send their authors to the book festival and we would like to continue to make this festival grow. Its now my great privilege to introduce our speaker, Sidney Blumenthal was the former assistant and Senior Advisor to president bill clinton and Senior Advisory to Hillary Clinton and began his career as a journalist and has been an National Staff reporter for the washington post. Washington editor and staff writer for the new yorker and Senior Writer for the new republic as well as contributor to many other publications. He has also written several bestsellers, the clinton wars, rise of the counter establishment and the Permanent Campaign and has worked in television and film was executive producer for the Academy Awards taxi to the dark side. He is here with us today to talk about his newest book, wrestling with his an
Gaithersburg book festival. I am a volunteer here. Gaithersburg is a city that supports the arts and humanities and im pleased to bring this event thanks to the generous support of our sponsors and volunteers. If you see a sponsor or volunteer please thank them. A few announcements before we get started. Please silence your cell phones, you dont want cell phones going off during the presentation. If you are on social media and hope you are, use the hashtag gbs. Your feedback is important, there are surveys here, if you register you could win a 100 visa gift card. Who does not want to win a 100 gift card. I know i do. Sally will be signing books after the presentation. Copies of the book are available at politics and prose, quick word, this is a free event. It helps to purchase a book. If you buy a book the more books you sell the more publishers will want to send authors here to talk at the festival so consider purchasing a book if you are able to do so. Lets learn about sally. A seari
And over here. My medic started working on it. It is okay. Two guys got hurt with me, they had been hurt, not going to solve this problem with a lot less. I never went to die but a minute and a half. My tourniquet and left leg turner kept, and two guys were fine. And a helicopter blue me out to kandahar hospital. So good at traumatic injury, leave there alive. And traumatic injury. Trying to get back up, i am mad i am lying on this bed. Jumping my chest, one guys just held me down. I can stop being afraid of showing fear. Saving private ryan, the medic yelling for his mom. My last memories, and you are going to be okay. Shut up and do your job. If i die it is not your fault. My little girl am i ever going to see her again, my girl is 6 months old, my left leg came off with it, triple amputee now. 14 hours of surgery, two nurses, 30 blood transfusions, i had to do month of testing, they didnt have time to go through this procedure to keep me alive. Everything got me going, that was apri