Being proposed in one state or another so even though it seems we just got through a few weeks ago, insurers are already proposing their rates for the department of insurance for the coming year. What we are going to try to do today with the help of a group of panelists with analytical firepower is to help explain what those numbers mean and what importance we should place on them. One fact i would like you to keep in mind is most of the members you will be hearing referred to policies in whats called the individual market and in the year 2012 about 19 Million People were covered in that market out of the 267 on the elderly americans who have coverage from all sources. As interesting as this discussion will be remembered that it applies to about 7 of americans with coverage. We are pleased to have the Commonwealth Fund a century old philanthropy to establish a commonwealth and we are pleased to have as the moderator the Vice President for federal and state Health Policy somebody with a
The timeline or era by era, we could absolutely miss vitally important things. Instead of trying to do that and failing, what if we just gave a snapshot of st. Louis history that would give people a glimpse of all of the diverse things that have happened and they can use their imaginations to fill in the rest. Objects 50 moments, 50 to try to choose the most diverse selection that we could. We are standing in the 50 objects section of the exhibit right now. This is what most people would call the real history. This is where the object is right in front of you, this is such a huge part of st. Louiss history. With lotsmazing story of different breweries. The most famous became anheuserbusch. Era of anheuserbusch talking about millions of barrels, we think they are producing so much beer that this is from an era when things were so much simpler. It is fun to show people this object and gauge their response. They had cans, they put courts in the top of wattles. Somebody had to do it by han
Afghan womens and girls, some of the real tragedies that are taking place right now over there. These are things that languish where we could correct a throoft in this bill a lot of that in this bill. So theres no reason to put it off. We dont want to go through what we went through last time. Now is the time to prepare thoor that. All we have to do is get amendments down. No one should complain later on in november or december about not being able to have their amendments heard if theyre not out there right now bringing their amendments down. With that, its my understanding that senator mccain wanted to participate in this plea that were making but he has a statement hell be submitting for the record. With that, i would yield the floor. I suggest the absence of a quorum. The presiding officer the clerk will call the roll. Quorum call a senator mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from wyoming. Mr. Enzi mr. President , i ask the quorum call be set aside. The presiding offi
Overseas if we had a preclearance locations. We have global entry located overseas. We are working towards that together. The secretary is driven towards that goal and i think we are in the process of doing that. I would differ to my colleague from cbp to answer some of that as well. If you would please. Looking up at different arrival experience. Its getting rid of forms for them to fill out. Its motivating selfservice kiosk that not only gives them a better strength but helps us be more efficient and more secure in what we do. Saying things like global entry that frequent lowrisk travelers keeping a program like that. We are getting 60 to 70,000 applications a month for that program. Its been steady like that for the last yeartoyear and a ha half, tremendous uptick in that program. Usage can vary from five to 10 depending on the day the week but it tends to trend with business travel. Later in the week we see those percentages increase up to 10 of total arrivals. Automated passport c
To deploy automated passport control kiosks known as abc. These are like the exact change booths. The administrator portion of the arrivals process thereby reducing the overall interaction time with the cbp officer and allows the cbp officer to focus on the security aspects of that inspection process. In the past year 16 airports are launched apcs and several more planned to join by the end of year. All of these airports that have launched these kiosk we have seen average wait times decrease by 30 to 35 after the installation of kiosks. We have also automate the for 494 arriving at seaports of entry. We have the arrival information from electronic record taking into processes easier and faster for travelers in addition to using reducing hc cause. We are are looking for Paper Production formed to eliminate the process. We envision several ways to use the internet mobile device kiosk and seeing the options available like when checking in for flight. Effective secures should be a travel f