That mandate equal coverage for physical and Mental Health care. Mental Health Care Providers testified about difficulties in implementing a federal health care parity law. This hearing of the house energy and subcommittee on health is an hour and 40 minutes. Ladies and gentlemen, if youll take your seats, well start. The subcommittee will come to order. Before we begin, i want to make a note that members may be filtering in and out throughout the hearing. Unfortunately, the condensed september session, there are a number of scheduling conflicts this morning. But we wanted to be sure to have this important hearing before congress recessed at the end of the month. With that being said, chair recognize himself for an Opening Statement. Todays Health Subcommittee hearing will examine the federal Mental Health parity laws and regulations. In 2008, Congress Passed a bill requiring most Group Health Plans to provide more generous coverage for treatment of Mental Illnesses comparable to what
Bailout talks broke down. Both sides refuse to blink greece is rushing toward the cash crunch that threatens to drive it out of the eurozone. We are joined by hans nichols. And without the bureau chief in joins us from greece. Hans, lets start with you. Lets talk about the greek finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis. And his reasoning about what he is doing. According to him, it is simple and illogical for Yanis Varoufakis to excel at a deal, a program his party was elected to repeal, it is simply a nonstarter. He said they went backwards last night and not forwards. He said. The last weeks meeting, they had a few setbacks and then they made progress. He held out the prospect for additional talks is that he is willing to negotiate. We have been saying steadfastly for the beginning we want an honorable settlement. We want to wedge together these principles, the principles of the program have to be respected and the government that challenges the logical problem and find Common Ground betwe
Studies, john monahan whos been involved with the Oneill Institute and is now the special assistant to president dejoy ya on a range of issues, including health issues. Tim and linda oneill who made the Oneill Institute possible through their vision and generosity and, of course, to the faculty director of the to kneel institute, larry godsden, who really is just a visionary in Global Health law and who has done so much to focus us on this crisis and to bring us here today. So we brought together the most influential speakers in the country from the cdc,. Doctors working on the ground in west africa, as well as Global Security experts. This is the convening power at its finest. Thank you all for being here, and let me turn things over now to dr. Godsden. Thank you very much, bill. We really appreciate you taking the time to come. What im going to do is, first of all, you can see were sitting could be on easy chairs down on easy chairs, and were planning to do that because we want to ha
People to solidify their views on this but it doesnt seem to be shifting more people into this. Thats as far as i would go with what we can say at the moment, i think. The gentlemen with a camera here in the back. I am a journalist with army television. The reason why we follow more closely [inaudible] the conflict has not evolved yet. So if people vote yes on september 18, to you think if scotland becomes member of the international independent, international commend into in memory, while they pursue policy more sympathetic toward these type of selfdetermination movements in the caucasus or elsewhere . I think i would an exception for ukraine because western countries seem to be united against russia but how about other similar complex . My quick second question would be about edinburg agreement, independent from the results that we will have on september 18. Do you think edinburg agreement will set up a precedent for other similar complex . Because no they want to see it again and th
In the effort to lead the global jihad. With isil increasingly posturing itself as the legitimate followon or heir to Osama Bin Laden or al qaeda vision. And what that is also doing is causing intellectual ferment in the Community Around the world. We see this from other affiliates as they seek to decide for themselves, do we align with isil or maintain fidelity to our traditional bonds of loyalty to al qaeda core . One thing we can observe pretty obviously is that success breeds success. When isil has had success on the battlefield in taking over large swaths of territory in iraq, that has served as a draw not only to foreign fighters who might want to choose where to bring their capabilities but also to individuals who may be affiliated with other al qaeda groups who decide id like to go where the jihad is the most hot and the where my ability to Impact Global jihad can be felt most acutely. And theres no doubt that theyre at the level of individual Al Qaeda Affiliated individuals th