Within our own 14 states, the cigna brand, the cigna products, may come into our blue cross portfolio within those 14 states. However, in the National Account space it will still continue to compete as cigna, so its a combination of kind of placements in the country that are based on our blue states and our nonblue states where cigna will, in fact, compete. With respect to the best efforts rule that you brought up, we do need to comply with that rule, and we do not need to respond to the rule in terms of how we will comply until after the transaction closes. And then well have two years thereafter to adjust our portfolio, but we do not believe that will be an impediment to the deal nor do we believe that will present any competitive deterioration in the marketplace. Whereas today cigna has every incentive its incentivized naturally to compete as much as possible and fight for as much market share as possible, but boe wont the best efforts rule necessarily limit and cap cignas future co
Bios of the gentlemen. I will introduce them by name. Oscar leeser Ruben Villarreal thank you, gentlemen, for joining us. [applause] i would like to ask, in relation to the 800 million Border Security package, is that a blessing or a curse . Two things, it is a curse because of the publicity with the National Guard and that 800 million to protect the border, it gives the impression that the border is unsafe, which is not. When we go to recruit industry we are doing it from the Economic Development standpoint. It has created a problem for us. The first question people ask is, what about security in that area . The Border Security issue is bad from a political standpoint. It does have a positive standpoint, and there is some money in there, for example intelligence and infrastructure for that. As i always say, coming to a neighborhood near you is the word for the first line of defense on that, but overall i would say publicity outweighs a little bit more than the benefits immediately. Ho
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Vacation is over, kids. Keep your eye on the bottom of the screen and see dozens of schools with delayed openings but philadelphia a schools will be reopened this morning. Parent, is that a cheer in the background . Lets check with katie and meisha. We know, yes. Lets keep it real around here. Got to get to work. So, were in the hump now, hump day is here, almost to the weekend, it is wednesday and first thing i thought when i walk out it felt warmer this morning. Warmer say then even yesterday. Yeah, it is. And in fact as a result we may not a as many refreezing issues this morning. I want you to play it safe fit looks wet maybe want to slow it down but our temperatures profiles are milder then they were the last couple of mornings. We will continue that melting trend here in the next couple of days, and is there a mild are trend in general heading our way. I want to direct to you behind me but we are seeing some showers out there. We will start off by taking you outside briefly, live
Week spectacular change of policy. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to the pulse and welcome to davos. We are live from the World Economic forum right here in switzerland. And it is i would like to say it is warming up. You are an optimist. We have a lot of ceos here. They see some positive things. They see the oil price having an impact. They see easy money continuing for longer. They are focused on what is happening with the ecb. I think oil is the real standout story. For me, it is indecision. Last year, the participants seemed to have a better handle on the situation. Here, they are more lax. There is a lot of uncertainty. The same for keeley. They cant figure out the impact. The pace is what is confusing them at the moment. The oil price has come down so fast. The swiss franc went up so fast. That is what freaks them out. There are a few black swans flying over davos. It is going to be interesting to get a take on that. South africas Central Bank Governor is going to be joining us