Well call the subcommittee back to order and thank everyone for their forbearance. We have concluded with member Opening Statements. The chair would remind members, pursuant to committee rules, all members Opening Statements will be made part of the record. And we do want to thank our witnesses for being here today, taking time to testify before the subcommittee on this important issue. Each witness will have the opportunity to give an opening statement, followed then by questions from members. Again, previously mentioned our witnesses, but today we will hear from mr. Michael holmes, ceo cook executive Health Services. Jami snyder, and ms. Cindy mann. We appreciate you being here today. Mr. Holmes, you are recognized for five minutes for an opening statement, please. Thank you, chairman burgess, Ranking Member green, members of the subcommittee. My name is mike holmes. Im the ceo of Cook Area Health Services, providing mental, dental, Behavioral Health care, in nine locations to more t
Well call the subcommittee back to order and thank everyone for their forbearance. We have concluded with member Opening Statements. The chair would remind members, pursuant to committee rules, all members Opening Statements will be made part of the record. And we do want to thank our witnesses for being here today, taking time to testify before the subcommittee on this important issue. Each witness will have the opportunity to give an opening statement, followed then by questions from members. Again, previously mentioned our witnesses, but today we will hear from mr. Michael holmes, ceo cook executive Health Services. Jami snyder, and ms. Cindy mann. We appreciate you being here today. Mr. Holmes, you are recognized for five minutes for an opening statement, please. Thank you, chairman burgess, Ranking Member green, members of the subcommittee. My name is mike holmes. Im the ceo of Cook Area Health Services, providing mental, dental, Behavioral Health care, in nine locations to more t
Part in a discussion about the Childrens Health Insurance Program. The program is up for reauthorization in congress this year. This is 40 minutes. Starting the panel, we have the president and ceo of the Childrens Hospital association, the president of the American Action for him and a former director we were joking about the cbo scores and withstanding criticism and so forth and we also have the former director of the Medicaid Services and bill, the favorite of reporters everywhere, the Bipartisan Policy Center very helpful and also a former director of the Senate Budget committee thank you. Thank you for coming. We appreciate everyone being here today. When we planned the conference we thought we would be a little further along in the discussion of the Childrens Health Insurance Program reauthorization. We thought there would be conversations going along. There have been a few private conversations but not as we might have expected all those many months ago. When you think of Childr
And a brilliant lawyer who wrote for he did not work for pay but the general counsel he spotted what he said would be a determinative gender discrimination case. 1970 and the and the Supreme Court had never seen an gender classification. This case was decided by the Supreme Court of idaho. It was about a woman named sally lee who was divorced when her son was a tender years so sally got custody. When the boy became a teenager he now needs to be prepared for a a mans world so the father wanted him to live with him. The boy one day take out one of his fathers many rifles and killed himself. Sally wanted to be appointed administrator of his estate not because of monetary gain but for sentimental reasons. He had a guitar Record Collection a small bank account. That was it. Her former husband applied to the administrator. A couple of weeks later sally thought she would get the appointment because she applied 1st but the Probate Court judge said this leaves me know choice. Entitled to admini
Country. There was a women in the Law Conference i attended at i think the first one was at yale. And we were getting out materials to i rode with my friends, herman cain and kenneth davidson, one of the published cases on sex discrimination and the law. But we came to see by the way, i should say who the we were. A brilliant lawyer, marvin kilpack, he was one of the general counsel. He spotted in law week what he said is going to be the turning point gender discrimination case. The year is 1970 and the Supreme Court has never seen a gender classification that it thought was unconstitutional. This case was decided by the Supreme Court of idaho. It was about a woman named sally reid who was divorced when her son was what the law calls of tender years so sally got custody. When the boy got to be a teenager the father said he now needs to be prepared for a mans world, so i want him to live with me. Sally thought that was a bad idea. Ill cut part of the story short, but the boy one day too