In washington d. C. As part of the United States senate youth program, sunday night fa8 00 p. M. Pacific on e1cspans q a. On wednesday a panel looks at trends in Health Care Costs. Looking at the role of the Affordable Health care act in the slowdown of health care in the last few years. This was put together by the alliance for healthc reform and the kaiser foundation. Good afternoon. I am marilyn sarafeeney with the alliance of health reform. Along with senators carter and blunt, i would like to welcome you to todays briefing on the subject of Health Care Costs. I would also like to thankw3 our partner in this briefing, the Kaiser Family t foundation and we have with us today as my comoderator drew altman who is the founder of the kaiser foundation. Our Mission Today is to try to take some of the mystery out of Health Care Costs. Our experts are goingt to explain the trends, the prospects moving forward, what is driving Health Care Costs, and what policymakers and the Health Care Com