Updates from the Health Plan Representatives overall. And agenda item requests. Additionally, we are going to begin Public Comment with three minutes in length. All Public Comment should be made concerning the current agenda item that has been presented. Again, any Public Comment made outside of the current agenda item presentation will be asked to hold their comment and remake their comment during the appropriate agenda item. Next slide, please. I will not review all of the instructions for Public Comment. But there will be a Public Comment slide at the end of each presentation for members to make Public Comment during that time. Thank you. President breslin all right. Item number 2, please. Clerk item 2 is the roll call. President karen breslin. President breslin here. Clerk Vice President stephen follansbee. Present. Clerk commissioner mary hao. Present. And commissioner randy scott. Present. Commissioner chris canning. Im here. And supervisor dean preston. Here. We have a quorum, p
Other Health Coverage thats not sponsored by one of our employers. Number two here, this is 2 and 3 is in respect to our s. F. A. S with health care s. F. A. S, they can decide to cancel Going Forward for the rest of the plan year, cancel their election. They can make a new election if they had not enrolled in a flexible spending account before. Or they can increase or decrease their election. And this is Going Forward. And number three, applies to our dependent care flexible spending accounts. Again, they can cancel Going Forward in the plan year of their election and make a new election or increase or decrease the election they have made for the plan year 2020. Next slide. So the next one, which is based on i. R. S. Notice 2033, is specific to Health Care Flexible Spending accounts and this is our carryover provision that we currently have in our Health Care Flexible Spending accounts. Typically i would ask you to approve this, again, this september for the following 20202021 plan ye
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Also a surgeon and author of several books. His latest is the price we pay what broke American Health care and how to fix it. If you had to pick a Tipping Point for health care in america and where you saw the first break, where would that be . Guest really, if you had to identify the issues that are driving our affordability crisis, that nobody is talking about, that we need to talk about, it is number one, pricing failures, number two, the middleman industry, and number three, inappropriate medical care. Collectively, there is broad consensus in america about addressing these issues. But unfortunately, our discussion has been sidetracked into this false choice we have into whether or not you are pro or con health care. Sidetrackede choice we have into whether or not you are pro or con health care. I have yet to meet somebody who thinks that any industry has gone from nontransparent pricing to transparent pricing and then said this is a bad idea, lets go back to hiding prices. People
Policy at Johns Hopkins university in baltimore. Policy at Johns Hopkins university in baltimore and also there. H or surgeon his latest book is the price we , good morning dr. Mccarrick. If you had to pick a breaking point for American Health care, where would you put it . Guest if you had to identify the issues that are driving our affordability crisis, it is number one pricing failures, number to the middleman industry, and number three in appropriate medical care. Collectively there is broad consensus in america about addressing these issues. Unfortunately our discussion has been sidetracked into this false choice we have into whether or not you are pro or con health care. I have yet to meet somebody who thinks that any industry has gone from nontransparent pricing to transparent pricing and then said this is a bad idea, lets go back to hiding prices. People are getting hammered out there. People are getting crushed. They are hungry for honest pricing and health care. It is ironic.