Policy, can you keep it. There were a lot of people that wanted to buy policies that cost less and that didnt have lifetime caps lifted. There are a lot of people that wanted to buy that didnt cover their 26yearold. You didnt let us do that. And that is the problem. We are smart people. We can make our own decisions. We dont need the government telling us what we have to have. And that is the biggest complaint i get from idahoans, from americans saying why are you politicians and washington, d. C. Constantly telling us what we should do for ourselves . And thats the basic problem of all of this. Whenever you try to socialize in the industry, nationalize an industry like its been done here, its never worked. Its been in tried in all sorts of countries and it never works. Its not going to work here. Well, let me go over a couple other points. First of all, i want to ask mr. Knoll, im told that there are have been 150,000 small group plans that have been canceled in your state. Is that tr
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Agreement on the budget. When lawmakers return after the thanks giving recess, will that happen. I am not sure, but i am fairly optimistic. I think the the discussions between paul ryan and senator murray are going pretty well. I think there is a real chance that we could have a budget agreement that nobody is in love with, but is at least a step forward in saving money in ways other than these across the board sorts of cuts that come with sequestration. Im hopeful that it will actually happen. If it actually happens, what will it look like . I think the hope is that it will last for a couple of years. That it would include at least some reforms in mandatory spending programs which after all occupied two thirds of the federal budget, and that it would prevent any further cuts in National Security and other discretionary programs. I think it is important for people to remember that defense is 17 of the federal budget, and yet it is has had to absorb the percent of all of these budget cu
Then, Federal Reserve chair janet yellen testifying about the Federal Reserve and monetary policy. Likes this week, david medine, chairman of the privacy and Civil Liberties review board. They give for being here. What is the argosy and Civil Liberties review board . We decide what went wrong and what could be done better. We created the 9 11 commission to look at how we could he for intelligence gathering and connect the dots. Far downnot to go too that line to sacrifice our Civil Liberties. You are an independent board. Could you report to . Who do you report to . We inform congress and the president , but there is no review of our report. We issued a report recently about the Metadata Program and surveillance report. The board voted and issued our report. The president d before his speech with our recommendations. I think that is where alan ellen wants to pick up. Ask your board got constituted and mete at a very opportune time, right in the midst of the snowden, who put a huge spot
But also not to go too far down that line to sacrifice our Civil Liberties. You are an independent board. Who do you report to . We dont. We inform congress and the president , but there is no review of our report. We issued a report recently about the Metadata Program and surveillance report. The board voted and issued our report. We also briefed the president before his speech with our recommendations. I think that is where ellen wants to pick up. Your board got constituted and met at a very opportune time, right in the midst of the leaks by Edward Snowden, who put a huge spotlight on several important surveillance programs. One of them is section 215, as you mention. Your board came out with a 238 page report last month. I would say it is arguably the most extensive analysis of the legal underpinnings and the utility of the 215 program, which is, as most of the public now knows, a program where the nsa collects metadata, data about phone calls of americans, and puts it in a database