Yeah, all right. My brother i stood in front of the crowd with picture from 40 years ago. Thats me. Thats my brother david who is now taller than i am. Cool. But thats we bought an iowa state flag when we lived in plainsville because the city hall didnt have a flag. So my mom, of course still has the lines from the photo of them in there. And i think that was in your book, too. Yeah. Isnt that fun . As you crashed into the pillar, right . There you are. Hey good to see you. Better today than being here would be out in my thats right. Meet you out there but they said no. Theyve got a front end. I see that. Airconditioning today. Id like you to meet my wife. Nice to meet you. My wife. Nice to meet you. How are you . Very good. Thank you so much. Welcome. This is wonderful. Great. We had fun. It was great. Last month we were in with joni and her husband, dale, and we had a blast. I compete with my staff and my fit bit and that day i didnt walk much. And i had 17,000 steps and i realized,
Good morning everyone. Welcome to the newly refurbished oversight investigation room. This is the first one of 115th congress. Welcome here and welcome our Witnesses Today. Welcome back to my friend and colleague. This is our medicaid oversight hearing on ways to strengthen the program. The Sub Committee convenes to examine patient and Affordable Care act. Medicaid and Medicaid Expansion. It provides Health Care Coverage for over 70 million americans and accounts for more than 15 of health dacare spending in th United States. The federal share and medicaid spending is expected to rise from 371 billion in 2016 to 624 billion in 2026, ten years. At a time when Medicaid Program costs are skyrocketing it makes sense to ask is it adequately serving our most vulnerable populations . 20 and 40 cents of value for each the government spends on their behalf. Further, reports by nonpartisan watchdogs, two of which are here today show that the Program Remains a target for waste, fraud and abuse. B
Good morning everyone. Welcome to the newly refurbished oversight investigation room. This is the first one of 115th congress. Welcome here and welcome our Witnesses Today. Welcome back to my friend and colleague. This is our medicaid oversight hearing on ways to strengthen the program. The Sub Committee convenes to examine patient and Affordable Care act. Medicaid and Medicaid Expansion. It provides Health Care Coverage for over 70 million americans and accounts for more than 15 of health dacare spending in th United States. The federal share and medicaid spending is expected to rise from 371 billion in 2016 to 624 billion in 2026, ten years. At a time when Medicaid Program costs are skyrocketing it makes sense to ask is it adequately serving our most vulnerable populations . 20 and 40 cents of value for each the government spends on their behalf. Further, reports by nonpartisan watchdogs, two of which are here today show that the Program Remains a target for waste, fraud and abuse. B
You can fill in gaps and things of that nature. So the regulations address one i would consider a very small segment of the issue and through industry programs, like responsible care for instance, we are able to cast a much broader net to make sure there is at least a base level Security Product is out there that address not only cybersecurity in the hold on the physical security and Environmental Protection and safety as well. That again, because the Financial Services sector and the isac get collaboration with others, through your experience if you were advising a site or that is just coming along and tried to build up their infrastructure for information and collaboration, what Lessons Learned do you have that could be applied to other sectors quite for one thing, that is a great question because the isac has assisted in actually helps run the isac which deals with large facilities in the country, large buildings. We have helped other stuff can as well rant. The lesson i have learne
My f. Y. 2014 execution meetings with the various accounts. I would just tell you these factors are coming together daily, and there are adjustments here in how much money is available and the rate at which those funds will last. So were doing the best we can. Two things we are doing here. Were trying to keep our operations going for as long as possible to where we are allowed by exception under the law to take kear of as many veterans as we can, for as long as possible. The other thing i have to do is make sure im taking care of our employees so that im not telling people that theyre going to be furloughed when in fact they arent going to be. Theres a period of time here, not to be alarmist, but at an appropriate moment when we know were going to have to were not going to have a budget, well have to take other steps, that we will inform our employees that they are going to be furloughed. The ones that have been furloughed, we have gone through this process. But its not just telling th