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
[ applause ] thank you very much for that, pat. That was very inspiring to think about health as being much bigger than health kcare and trying to find the solutions to get us there. Now we are going to turn to avic roy who has just returned from his money moon. Hes the opinion editor at forbes. He has an interesting back glund includes both medicine and finance. Hes a leading conservative change agent and a sought after president ial campaign advisor. Hes currently advising senator marco rubio and has previously advised rick perry and mitt romney. Hes the principal author of the apothecary, the influential forbes blogs. And he also serves on the Advisory Board. Join me in welcoming avik roy. [ applause ] thanks, nancy, and let me just second what you just said there. Its i really enjoyed what andrew and pat had to say. I think its inspiring to see some people focused on improving the quality of the delivery of care. Its been a tough problem, as you all know, and its been actually diff
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19th century spanish novels so without further ado the moderator for the second panel liberalism at home and the challenges to western survival. [applause] can can you hear me all right all right . Welcome to the second panel on this conference on James Burnham suicide of the west which the william f. Buckley program is organized to put together. I should point out that unfortunately james was unable to attend but wonderfully at the massachusetts the last moment we have a replacement. Avik roy has stepped up and volunteer to fill in for him so we thank him. [applause] our time of consist of James Taranto and avik roy. We will open up the floor for discussion. When i accepted lawrence kind invitation to moderate this panel i was genuinely to thought delighted to have the opportunity to revisit burnhams classic book but as i started to read i realized that i was absolutely dead wrong about it. Not about his classic status but i have actually read the book before. Because as i read furthe
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