These options today. Thank you, i look forward to your questions. Let me start was in questions. Many factors contributed to the failure of the coops. Lower than higher expected enrollments, restrictions on investors, risk adjustment formulas, lots of those. Let me start off. What are the top reasons the coop failed in your state . Thank you for your question. Our coop had challenges from inception, in that as the commissioner mentioned, going into a state without Provider Networks cause the company to have to lease those. There were a ministry of cost that were new to the startup, that any startup would have. But in 2014, we had disastrously low enrollment. Truly come at most, 1000 people signed up for the coop plan. Mostly because the rates were somewhat higher than the leader and the wellestablished companies in tennessee. Overcoming those challenges became extremely difficult. And is why we saw significant rate increases for 2015 and beyond because of the enrollees across the marke
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Internationally respected. It had been in the Health Insurance business until the 90s when they sold off the health plan to humana. So with their credibility and their experience and expertise, i was hopeful and optimistic that we would be successful. In hindsight, it was too much into short. Of time. Plus all of the other problems described. Another five minutes. This is what i was talking about in my opening statement. The aca started in 2010. Then these coops started a couple years later, he had a couple years to get going. It was not like we were trying to stand up 22 companies all at the same time we were doing the enrollment on the website and all that. This was staggered, is that right, mr. Morrison . Yes or no will work. Mr. Morrison the awarding of the loans was staggered. That is true. So really, part of the problem is that there was no support as it went along. With that be a Fair Assessment . That is kind of what i want to talk about. The coop was initially conceived as a g
To accommodate that request from our folks. And it began doing that. The situation is dire, and we are doing everything we can to preserve the network of providers to make sure their policyholders will continue to have coverage through the end of 2015. Now state regulators have the unenviable task, as i have had, of trying to wind down a company, at the same time conserving it in my state, unlike tennessee without the protection of the Guaranty Fund to assure the Health Care Providers that their bills would be paid. Let me talk for a few minutes about our relationship we do not have minutes. Youre out of time. Heres the thing, we have one vote. He . Lso have staff, is mr. Chairman, the problem is there down to two or three minutes. I dont think they will hold open for us. With all due respect, i will invite my members to go down and vote. Unless someone wants to be very quick. Come back as quickly as possible. We should be up to reconvene in about 10 minutes. Thank you. We are joined b
Control system it is the brain of any industry complex until you can open up the water system, there is a series of things if you took control of the system, that consequences would be serious. It is surprising weve not seen this happen already, given the antiquated nature of the sim. Wwe know that the dams and pipelines, are all targets if for the attacks, does it predate the internet. Most of these systems put in place before there was any connection for them to be internet. They are antiquated systems. What do they look like . Interesting what is all intended to do if you imagine a command center, you can sit in a single room, control the flow of oil, water or electricity and reroute it depending on demand. These attacks are up in the last year, they are 245 in prior year this fiscal year 295, were seeing an increase in this probing, we should not take much comfort from fact we see an increase in probing but not attacks. What a state actor will do, they want to see if they could pen