Satellite provider. The nations governors are in washington, d. C. , this week for their annual winter meeting. Discussingnors are efforts by republicans to repeal injury place the Affordable Care act. This is one hour. My name is sarah. I am a senior policy correspondent. I have been covering the healthcare care debate for about seven years and it appears i will be covering it for many more years. Ofm a journalist with plenty job security. We are here to talk to a few healthgovernors about Care Solutions at a moment when there is a lot of potential for change. What they saw, what they think about situations. Ofill do a brief round introductions and let them introduce themselves in opening remarks they are prepared. Me is the former governor of vermont. Next to him, former governor of South Carolina. Former governor of nebraska and all that web my left, haley barker, former governor of mississippi. Thank you for coming to join us here. I will start right here. If you want to kick off w
Plentiful job security. So we are here today to talk to a few former governors about health care solutions, at a moment when there is a lot of potential for change. What they saw from their perch as governor and how they see the situations thousand with governors and the work they do will be quite affected. I will did a brief round of introductions then let them introduce themselves through a few opening remarks they prepared. I have jim doug as. Jim hodges. Ben nelson. And all the way on my left is haley barbour, former governor of mississippi. Thank you so much for coming to join us here. [ inaudible ] thats good. Just been waiting there with that one. So i will start right here next to me with governor douglas if you want to kick us off with a few opening remarks for the panel. Happy to, sarah, thank you. And haley is on your right. Well positioned for this panel. I have the privilege of serving from 2003 to 2011. About the midpoint in 200 of we passed health care in vermont. I can
February 2, 2016 a motion is an order that has been moved. Moved and seconded. Are there any correction to the minutes . Not seen any, were prepared to go. All those in favor please say aye. Opposed. The next item item 3 is the directors report. Good afternoon. I want to give you a quick update. The World Health Organization declared the International Health emergency on monday, february 1. The center for Disease Control has identified additional countries with a virus isnt issue and seeking testing. It also issued guidance to pregnant women regarding sexual transmission to the missed last week, the department has activated and Management Team to respond to Laboratory Testing and share information with medical providers and local communities and last week particularly invited somebody within organizations and certain individuals from Central America particularly to get input and part of that includes representative from the Mayan Community which have several dialects do we want to make
Report. Good afternoon. I want to give you a quick update. The World Health Organization declared the International Health emergency on monday, february 1. The center for Disease Control has identified additional countries with a virus isnt issue and seeking testing. It also issued guidance to pregnant women regarding sexual transmission to the missed last week, the department has activated and Management Team to respond to Laboratory Testing and share information with medical providers and local communities and last week particularly invited somebody within organizations and certain individuals from Central America particularly to get input and part of that includes representative from the Mayan Community which have several dialects do we want to make sure they are informed. So, we are collaborating with them and work closely with them with the communities in affected areas to make sure they have the information they need. We will also be working with travelers in those areas. As you
As we used to say. Maybe we still do. We do. Of course we do. You can see there the dax in particular up 1. 69 off of not a bad overall year as we look at yearly returns. How is the tenyear note yield doing you ask . There it is. 2. 25. And of course crude and natural gas crude in particular, so important in the movement of the market, down yesterday. Market down. Up today, well see whether the broader equity market follows through. We have the latest s p caseshiller home price report. That was released just a moment ago. The results being shown, you can see them at the bottom of the screen. It looks like a decent october. 5. 2 annual increase based on what they saw in october. 2015. Verses a 4. 9 increase in september of 2015. San francisco, denver and portland continue to have the hottest housing markets in the country, at least at this point. Not a great year for housing stocks. Home builder stocks had a lackluster year when you look at the performance thus far. The open question fo