Construction of us really supplements in near the woman and past midnight here in moscow. Welcome to the R T International news. Run up my names. You to know me the us. Hi. So representatives has approved spending an excess of 60000000000. 00 more dollars to keep the ukraine conflict going know simply however, most Republican Congress members voted against the bill, which had been deadlocked on capitol hill and its previous inspiration for months. Russias Foreign Ministry spokesman slammed the motion, saying it was only a few of more on necessary violence that in the us allocation of motor a to a crane is rolling, tie one will aggravate Global Crisis mailed to 8. So the key of regime is the direct sponsorship of terrorist activities. Males for a to tie one is the name to syrians in chinas into and the list says, those are a to israel is a direct path to an unprecedented escalation in the region. 61 b. Ready in dollars now all amendments and there were some rather creative amendments th
Joined by supervisor yee and supervisor tang and supervisor sheey will be joining us in just a moment. And i also want to recognize our clerk and thank you for joining us and thank you for your help at sfgtv. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements today . Yes, we silence all cell phones and Electronic Devices during meeting today. With that said, mr. Clerk, please call item number one. Item number one is a hearing to receive a budget update from the department of children, youth, and their families for fys20172018 and 20182019; and requesting the department of children, youth, and their families to report. So we want to recognize dr. Sue from the department of children, youth and their families welcome dr. Sue. Good afternoon chairwoman cohen and supervisors yee and tang, i am dr. Sue with the department of children youth and their families and today i will be doing a presentation to give you a sneak preview of our Service Allocation plan and we hope to come back and made to show us
Supply. It involves many issues including market structures. And we could go on and on. Substitution possibilities, etc. But but what we tackled so far were the difficult issues of things like helping ukraine face the winter, etc. This year and that will continue. But this year frankly a harder issue. We are due to report onto the g7 leader summit. And that is a real intermediate to longterm plan for integrated collective Energy Security. And that gets into some very fundamental policy issues in different countries. But that will be a big agenda item for this year. Finally let me say a few words on the quadrennial Energy Review. I have to say a few words about it first. Some of you are familiar and some are not. This is an admissionwide effort that is looking to weave together all of the equities and threads of an Energy Policy across the government. The first of the quadrennial. It to us its one plus one plus one plus one. And in the first one, we are focussing on energy structure. Tr
The physician payment sunshine act. It was a bipartisan piece of legislationo senate by senatorrofz grassley. Republican from iowa. And senator herb kohl a democrat from wisconsin. And the bill sought to lift the veil on the relationship between industry and it was a true piece of Bipartisan Legislation that was founded on a lot of the research that youre going to hear from some of our great speakers today. It was written in conjunction z with the information that we gotrcd from the research community, and the consumer community, represented by pew and allen here today and aarp and amsa and me concerned that these r b2bk ; relationships, the Financial Relationships, were impacting both the quality of health care, and the cost of health care. J2. Sn and i have to say that the process was long and tireless. At the time i worked for senator herb cole and we had, with my colleague Chris Armstrong from oa senator grassleys office, about 300 meetings with consumer a d z tr t hahp hc groups,
3. 7 billion in payments to p n hospitals in fiveu r months of the first year of reporting. Thats a÷n1szw eajjr hvqp . Those are funds that are either going to research and product development, and thats important and important for the public to understand. Or going to drive uptake of particular products. Thats also important and important to understand. eb÷ so where are we now . Pew has been involved in this acs issue in a long time, as have the other folks on the pafj0o today, and many other organizations. And since passage we have s continued tkgf hp orking group of consumer organizations, and also individual companies to build shared understanding about how the data should be presented. And about some of the technical challenges in getting that data d,s7÷ . uujeu q ublic domain. Data for the first full year of reporting has been collected. 2014 data has been collected. It will be submitted to cms in march. And in june we will have publication of the first full ÷ bko year ofut9