And mrs. Clinton. If you use it, everybody will know that i was the source. And ways ve i was very worried about that. But i trusted them. Sunday night on q and a. Real j care experts recently outlined how the Affordable Care act works in their state. The Brookings Institute in washington hosted the twohour discussion on the Health Care Laws successes and failures. Good morning and thank you for coming. Welcome to this session is can which is a joint session of the Brookings Institution and the Rockefeller Institute of government. And were going to talk about the results after fivestate study on how competition is working in the Affordable Care act marketplaces. And what we might learn from this study and how we think about competition in the marketplaces Going Forward and to officially open us up. I welcome my colleague Richard Nathan from the Rockefeller Institute to the platform. Thank you, alice. I dont work at brookings so maybe i shouldnt welcome people. But i worked here 11 year
Good morning and thank you for coming. Welcome to this session which is a joint session of the Brookings Institution and the Rockefeller Institute of government. Were going to talk about the results of a fivestate study on how competition is working in the Affordable Care act marketplaces and what we might learn from this study and how we think about competition in the marketplaces Going Forward. And to officially open us up, i welcome my colleague, richard nathan, from the Rockefeller Institute, to the platform. Thank you, alice. I dont work at brookings so maybe i shouldnt welcome people, but i worked here 11 years. It is a while ago. And this is one of my Favorite Places to it be able to work with colleagues. It is a pleasure today to welcome you to this conference, as alice said. The brookings and rock fefeller Institute Field Network Study of the competitive she mentioned this competitiveness of marketplaces in Health Insurance, individual, Nongroup Health Insurance marketplaces i
Carolina, texas, kentucky, maryland and West Virginia plus an overview report on the region. Next month, we will publish reports on northeastern and midwestern states. The researchers who have produced the reports come from a variety of disciplines. Some are political scientists, economists, sociologists, Public Health specialists and some of many other nationalities, i suppose. All of them have a deep understanding of the states they are studying, because they live in these states and have studied the states for many years. They share a deep interest in understanding and documenting the changes produced by the aca. Some of you know, conducting Field Research by coordinating longtime tradition at the Rockefeller Institute. We have studies, welfare reform, medicaid and many othernnational incentives. The studies vary a lot. A few basic elements are found in all of them. Yp8n first, they focus on implementation, on how state and local bureaucracies and private organizations put the new r
Demographics, another factor influences state responses to a. C. A. Just as the issue of Medicaid Expansion reflect issues. State experiences also tell us there is more to the equags than just politics. What is notable in our Field Research is how market and demographic forces have shaped state level deliberations and action. When the a. C. A. Was signed into law, a number of states signaled their intonet create their own state operated exchanges. It is safe to say that the conventional wisdom held that the federal exchange would be a fallback rather than a default choice and the states would actively pursue exchanges. We know this has not come to pass. As our Field Research con firms, much of this was for partisan reasons. There were other factors at stake that proved to be a real world test for this new policy design. For some states like West Virginia which was one of the first states to authorize planning, analysis and the challenges of developing an i. T. System suggested that aon
And i think it needs really deeper thinking on what it takes to do that. But if countries like egypt or emirates are on board, great. We have seen a lot of volunteers wanting to cross the border and the iranen government has stopped ian government has stopped them. What happened to yazidis really filled every sentiment. But iran would not allow them to come so easily and the kurds seem in iran are not in this picture that people are talking about. But this is a challenge. I think, again, iran will be well advised to have their own strategy to deal with them. But in terms of them crossing the board to help unless they do it illegally, theres no other way that they can. Okay. Yes. You talked about strategy of aircraft supporting someone on the ground. So do you see the kurds doing this not only in the kurdish regions but into regions even reaching to mosul or do you think kurds will not take this step . The kurds will stop short of going into any traditional sunni areas. They cannot do i