We now have Health Care System in which it your income is less than four times the official poverty threshold for a family of four is now in the vicinity of 90,000 a year, scaled down for smaller families, you are eligible for subsidies, refundable tax credits and assistance with cost sharing, on a sliding scale that starts with recently complete coverage of what is called the Silver Health plan and that is the premium that is charged for a Health Care Plan that covers 70 of the covered Health Care Services on an actuarial basis. Plans can provide that coverage in different ways. Many people also want more generous coverage or they receive it through and foyer sponsored plans. If you buy through a Health Exchange you can buy plans that cover up to 90 of the cost of coverage which leaves relatively small amounts for deductibles where there may not be anybody or cost sharing only for certain services. It is very generous coverage. Perhaps not as generous as try care is not described as b
The two remaining witnesses on the panels are noshow. They were invited, accepted the invitations and confirmed them of their attendance and we informed them the hearing will proceed so it is unfutunate they have chosen not to chose this official hearing. We will go ahead with the witnesses who did proceed. Thank you very much for coming down from rhode island for this hearing. Thank you. It as a pleasure to be here. Thank you for the opportunity to testify today. I am an associate professor at the Brown University center for health. I earned by doctorate from ha r hararharava harvard. Shortterm ozone exposure and health effects. This is based on studies over decades and showing that ozone leads to increased deaths, hospital visits, increased symptoms and more medical use and reduced air function and reduced air levels. A 2010 study by the scientist at emory found in the atlanta area, ozone was linked to higher rates of hospital visits for asthma even at levels below the current standa
Limited thing that we should back off of the specific numbers and recognize there is a strong commitment to readiness as the department of defense says there should be especially wary face as many facts that come up with a warning as they do in healthcare. I can tell you from personal experience that discussions are made about benefits and what we are going to do to the Health Care System and military readiness is something that always gets raised and it should be and will continue to be. I want to invite wanted to invite you to add anything that you would wish. Given the responsibilities you have and how much youve contributed and realizing that you are now out of service in the department of defense i think im hearing you today say the military Health Care System is in reasonably good shape but it needs a lot of work into the compensation system is reasonably fair but there are significant changes we can and should consider and we dont need an overhaul but we do need a lot of work in
Insulin pumps. And the 30hour workweek provision which is forcing employers to cut workers hours and wages in order to afford obamacaremandated health care costs. We will also work to repeal the Health Care Laws individual mandate. The federal government should not be in the business of forcing americans to buy a governmentapproved Health Insurance product. Finally, republicans will tackle some of the big challenges that need to be addressed if were going to put our country back on a path to longterm prosperity. We want to make our nations costly and inefficient tax code fair and simpler for families and for businesses. We also intend to take up regulatory reform. Recent regulations released by the president s e. P. A. Illustrate just how pressing the need is to reform our countrys outofcontrol bureaucracy. Just one of the recently proposed e. P. A. Regulations the president s National Energy tax would eliminate tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of jobs and devastate enti
Number three share some future looking ideas on how we can be better prepared in the future to handle situations like these and then i would be happy to discuss these will pocket into the qanda part. The phase one trial which has been completed and published satisfactory we also have the enrolled in cities in the uk, switzerland and then molly. I say this with precision because our perspective is that we need to define what is the best storage to use in phase two. We also are planning on starting to trials in africa when including almost 3,000 subjects and the other involving about 800 in the middle of january and then the phase three where we have a commitment with the nih to purchase a piece participate in the trial and see the leone. That is what we have planned and we also have tuesday and we can only have a good vaccine that can protect in the short term but have a sustained longrange by providing the booster vaccine by combining the vaccines that we are developing. So quite a com