Challenges for American Health care. This is about 90 minutes. Thank you all for coming back after the break. Appreciate it. Hi. Im david im the ceo of specific Business Group on health. First i want to thank them for sponsoring this meeting for us. It is across many points of view they have a strong stake for their own populations and for everybody in the country. Its important to note that while these are tremendous organizations that are investing a great deal in experimentation and learning they are not typical of american employers. Any small and medium sized employees around the country to influence health care. I think one thing well talk about is the implications for these kinds of strategies for other employers who have the same resources to effect the market. We think theres a lot to be learned. What i want to do is take a minute to transition between the first panel and the second and mention a few of the themes i think we have heard. We talk about implications for the marke
Burgess of texas talks about efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care act. Hosted by the American Enterprise institute, this is two hours. Okay. Okay. I want to thank everyone for attending this event today. Im joe antos, the wilson had h. Taylor scholar for Health Care Retirement policy at the American Enterprise institute. On behalf of aei, the Brookings Institution and the Pacific Business group on health, i want to welcome everyone here and everyone watching remotely including those who are watching cspan to todays conference. Were going to discuss High Quality Health Care that is available for patients, employers and taxpayers. This is a critical topic for government poll he icymaker spo. The recent election highlighted the disagreements among many people in this country about what is the best way for government to proceed in this area. And obviously changes are coming. The expansion of Health Insurance coverage under the aca has come at a steep price and the Incoming Adm
Providing affordable employer based insurance plans. I want to thank everyone for attending this event today. On behalf of ada and the Pacific Business group on health i want to welcome everyone here and everyone watching remotely including those who are watching c span to today pfsh conference. We are going to discuss challenges of providing High Quality Health Care that is affordable for patients, employers and taxpayers. This is clearly a critical topic for government policy makers. The recent election obviously highlighted the disagreements among many people in this country about whats the best way for government to proceed in this area. And obviously changes our company. The expansion under aca is at a steep price and the Incoming Administration is looking for ways to get costs under control while insuring that people continue to have access to Health Insurance. Employers have long been at the forefront of this struggle for Affordable Health care. About 150 Million People under th
Thank you all for coming back after the break and finding a seat. Appreciate it. Well just get settled again. Hi, im david lanski. Im the ceo of Pacific Business group on health. Some of the panelist you just heard from were members of ours. Let me just say a word about what were doing here and my job here really is to help make a transition between the wonderful case studies and purchasers to the implications for policy development in washington where we started the day with dr. Burgess. First i want to thank aei and brookings for sponsoring this meeting with us. Tremendous opportunity to have a dialogue that is nonpartisan and across many points of view to try to think what the successful developments of health care policy. Pbj is one of the sponsors. We represent about 60 very large employers and purchasers. They together have about 12 million covered lives and together they spend about 60 billion every year so they have a strong stake in the improvement of the Health Care System fo
News desk with what authorities are saying right now, kevin . Tonight County District attorney 6 children dead police wont confirmelementary School Children kindergarden 5th grade35 people on the bus 23 brought to hospitalChattanooga Police bus turned on its side and hit a tree speed is a focus of their investigation. Driver cooperating hired an tomorrow with counselors and for support. Notify every Single Family but Chattanooga Police say what they are focusing on a lot is the speed of that bus and how fast it was going they say the bus driver is cooperating we hear from some of our partners in local television that bus driver has gotten an attorney tonight but is cooperating and being interviewed by police. This is a picture from much ambulances left there were 35 people on board the lion share of those people were most likely Elementary School students aging from kind garden to fifth grade weve been tracking this all day long what we know is that School District will have School Tom