Rich karlgaard, sabrina schaefer, john tandy and bruce jackson. Welcome, bruce. Thank you for coming on. Steve, were the protesters right . Absolutely right in terms of choice. Government gives you very little choice. We are ending up as a people paying more for less. No reason a 60yearold man should pay for maternity benefits. So the whole thing is collapsing. Both in cost in terms of joyce and in terms of the rollout. Against the whole grain of american individualism and free markets that is turning caris city to abundance. This has gone the opposite direction of the soviet union. Berlin wall fell in 1989 the last i checked. Bruce, going back to listen to the protesters before obamacare was rolled out, you realize how right some of their concerns were, dont you . Well, certainly there are people who are, whose costs will go up but it is because they get a better plan, they get essentially Health Benefits they havent had before. For most part they will get more choices. We have to rem
Hope that other participants in the dialogue will as well, but it will be a challenge for us to make sure folks are getting Accurate Information and really being educated about this choice. Very good. Thank you. Lets go on to Public Comment. This is on these three items. I dont have any cards before me. We will do three minutes per person. Good afternoon commissioners. Eric brooks representing San Francisco green party and the local Grassroots Organization our city. Hopefully you have read the email, all of you that advocates sent. There are concerns about okaying this very kind of light framework today that doesnt have a lot of detail in it. I want to start out to get to those concerns about talking about what commissioner torres raised in the code of conduct with pg e. We saw during the 2010 prop 16 attack on the Clean Energy Programs and Community Choice in california that it didnt matter that pg e didnt use rate payer funds they were able to argue that entire 46 million plus campai
Education Program Survey and early notification portions are the sort of the new pieces that arent required by state law. We are using those outreach efforts, those outreach components to inform who we talk to in the actual statutory opt out phase. We are not suggesting that anyone who is going to be served by cleanpower sf would not receive an opt out notification. Anyone who wishes to participate can participate which sounds like opting in, but we wont enroll them after we have included them in an opt out process. So i think we have worked with the City Attorney o this to make sure we are accurately understanding our obligation and that our approach is consistent with it. We think it is. And so were not always this careful with our language as we should be, but the actual steps will be anyone who says let me in will receive and be included in the opt out portion of the program. Thank you. Youre welcome. Can i add also the people who are seen in the green area that are saying i dont w
A spiritual advisor of the 9 11 bombers. This is not some extraneous person. This is someone who is a major in the militarys communicating by email within. Despite all of our surveillance capabilities, we failed to prevent that horrific that claimed the lives of 14 innocents. In your judgment, what could we have done better to prevent that . To be honest, i will answer that question to senator graham. The that may suggest more broadly on both of these that it would be a far better allocation of resources in the nsa and our efforts to prevent terrorism generally as much by resources were big to targeting those who we have reason to know are dangerous. We have reasons to know the islamic terrorist and have less resources were devoted to broderick intersection and her valence of lawabiding citizens. It is to me for some time that the priorities have been backwards and we had to be targeting the bad guys than protect innocents from terrorist attacks and at the same time respecting the Cons
And also one of the things that excites me is developing computer simulations and models so that you can actually study some of these devices in that context instead of in animal models or people in the early stages so that you can really number one manipulate things and play with it more but also reduce costs and potential risks to patients but still really get import information to again moved things that have promise into the marketplace and making a difference in peoples lives. So i think its a wonderful public credit partnership. Thank you for your leadership in helping to make it possible and we are very committed to working with it read we are seeing the benefits already and we see more importantly a foundation for lots more progress. Well thank you for your role in that and for your excitement about it. Senator enzi. Thank you mr. Chairman. I would like to revisit the goals you immediately identified when he took the helm at the fda modernizing how the agency considers new ther