Who discussed the change at a talk hosted by the alliance for Health Reform and Kaiser Family foundation. This is an hour and a half. Were going to go head and get started. Im marilyn serafini. Im with the alliance for Health Reform. I would like to welcome you to todays briefing on payment and Delivery System reforms in medicare. So today were going to be looking at the evidence behind numerous experiments that are going on across the country to pay medical providers based on quality rather than the quantity of services. I would like to thank our supporter in this event, the Kaiser Family foundation and in particular our longtime partner, Tricia Neuman. I wanted to let everybody know that you can tweet with us live with this event. You can tweet your questions. You may tweet your comments. For both the people in the room and also those who are joining us live on cspan. The hash tag is medicare demos. If you would like to access our speaker presentations and you are not in the room wit
100,000 a year can call 2027488002. If you are making over 100,000 a year, 2027488003. You can find us on social media as well. Each of the president ial candidates has released a tax proposal and they are dramatically different this year. The taxa chart from policy center that shows you just how different they are. Ted cruz would create a flat tax of 10 on all income. By awould decrease revenue trillion dollars over a decade. Over the decade. You can see donald trump has a similar plan, but his is lester dramatic. Less 17. 5 p 1 paying less, less than they are now. John kasichs plan is not fully fleshed out yet. Sanderss tax plan would increase the taxes on the top 1 by 33. 5 . Everyone would be paying more. Hillary clintons plan is the least dramatic. Would cost the country 1. 1 raise the taxes by 1. 1 trillion over the decade. The impact on most people would be fairly minimal. How do americans feel about these tax proposals . A recent gallup poll shows that 63 of americans support e
Now, current and Foreign Military officers on allowing women to serve in military combat. This comes after the Defense Department lifted all restrictions on women serving in combat roles including infantry positions, reconnaissance, and special operations roles. The new York City Bar Association hosted this event. Washington where think tanks and Panel Discussions are a way of life but some of them are not so good. We have a great one tonight. We are here to talk about an important to truly the military and i would argue as a reporter that covers the pentagon, important to the nation. Allintegration of women in roles in the military including in combat roles. What happened for those of you that may or may not be familiar with the contours of this issue is the current defense secretary ash carter announced in december after three years of study, that all jobs would be open to women across the military. It was an interesting announcement, i found, because mr. Carter, who has been the sec
Dozens of Different Missions for decades are simply shocking and unacceptable. It is the u. S. That is footing most of the bill for the peacekeepers who are committing these atrocities against men, women, and children. If the people who we are funding and supporting to the peacekeepers cannot be trusted our support for peacekeeping is at risk of doing more harm than good. Listen to act, not just to bring an end to Sexual Exploitation. Simply providing peacekeeper and police does not fulfill a Member States obligation. It is the responsibility of Member States to oversee the appropriate units. It is a struggle. Contributing countries are deploying in order to get troops paid we are not attracting the best, most capable forces from around the world. Before we make progress, we have to institute meaningful accountability for nations and their peacekeepers that connect these crimes. Ive been forward to exploring ways we can help the u. N. Push for accountability that is meaningful to and t
Warrior ride. [applause] servicememberous and veteran organizations whose logos we all probably wear. This shows the support for the men and women of our nations military. This is one of the defining characteristics of team red, white, blue. [applause] the military and civilian men membership gives understanding for communities. See a resilient population, one that does not lead invisible nor visible womens illnesses or injuries to find them, but uses them as a way to remus strength and inspire. That, i see a population is one of the countrys greatest assets. All of you will go on to do great things for your families, communities, and our country. As a father with a great wife of 10 years and a founding board member of team red, white, blue, and captain, none of this would have been possible without the support and services of our military immunity. I urge you all to keep setting higher goals. Then senator obama visited me at walter reed, and in 2012 i set president obama as way pledge