Now have your secretary call the roll. President scott, present. Lim,print. Breslin, here. Farrell, expected. Ferrigno, here. Follansbee, excused. Commissioner sass, excused. We have a quorum. Thank you. Well now take action item number 1. Item 1, action item approval with possible moud fiication oz thf minutes of inmeeting set forth below regular meeting of march 9, 2017. Im ready to entertain a motion fruproval the minutes. Move that we approve the minutes. Second. Hear second. Any edits clarification or comments by the board . Any Public Comment on the minutes preceding meeting . Hearing and seeing none, we are now ready to vote. All in favor signify by saying aye. Opposed . Motion carries. I do have discussion item. That is item 2, discussion item. General Public Comment on matters within the board jurisdiction not appearing on todays agenda. Is there any matter in the boards jurisdiction any member the public wish to comment on it . As it relates to the Health Service system . Not
Now have your secretary call the roll. President scott, present. Lim,print. Breslin, here. Farrell, expected. Ferrigno, here. Follansbee, excused. Commissioner sass, excused. We have a quorum. Thank you. Well now take action item number 1. Item 1, action item approval with possible moud fiication oz thf minutes of inmeeting set forth below regular meeting of march 9, 2017. Im ready to entertain a motion fruproval the minutes. Move that we approve the minutes. Second. Hear second. Any edits clarification or comments by the board . Any Public Comment on the minutes preceding meeting . Hearing and seeing none, we are now ready to vote. All in favor signify by saying aye. Opposed . Motion carries. I do have discussion item. That is item 2, discussion item. General Public Comment on matters within the board jurisdiction not appearing on todays agenda. Is there any matter in the boards jurisdiction any member the public wish to comment on it . As it relates to the Health Service system . Not
The suv. It is trapped underneath. The front end of the amtrak train. I dont know what speeds the train was traveling but as they passed the rail crossings, they go at a high rate of speed that would explain why it was pushed so far down the track. No word on how fast train was going. One passenger said he was on the same train yesterday which actually struck and kill a pedestrian a mileandahalf north of here. The bodies of the mother and child are still on the scene. The coroner is expected to arrive any minute. A family is being notified and you can see people out here sort of inspecting the tracks and we are just waiting to get more information. We are hoping to confirm the identities of those involved. Again the family needs to be notified. Back to you. The big question is how that vehicle got where it was at that time. You know there is that is a very good question. We simply dont know. We dont know if maybe perhaps the driver wasnt paying attention or on the cell phone or didnt h
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I should know that we an Important Role on the floor this morning, so i, and other members, will likely need to step out briefly to participate. We may briefly paused a hearing proceedings, although sometimes necessary,ot become dependent on the order in which people ask questions. We are here, to discuss the proposed mergers between four of the nations five Largest Health Insurance Companies. In early july of this year, aetna announced it had reached a deal to purchase rival humana. If you years later, a few months later, at them i now sit sigma. L to purchase the Department Justice is currently reviewing these transactions. The industrys big five will be reduced t the big three. United care, and send, and aetna hem, and aetna. These acquisitions raise the questions is the Product Offerings will impact the market. That antitrust inquiry is whether the combination will lead to a market concentration that make substantially lessen competition. , and thensactions concurrent review, also