Obama, since obama has been in office. As a committee there are particular things. I think that of course the administration gave an adequate support in different times ofti the past two or three years but maybe just put it in contextfo uncomfortable for us and not what we were advocating for with the state department and others in thest United States. But this wasnt fortunately a moment where lives were at stake and as would be seen by the rest of the world as a top issue for American Foreign policy or given all the other things going on. So i agree with you that the sort of language they use on several occasions was unhelpful, didnt go as far as we would have liked. W i am not sure whether it ranged alongside some of the things we discussing today for the Foreign Policy issue betweev them. One of the things with the two countries working sidebyside with iraq inquiry by this committee and the housing inquiry and currently it taken Something Like four years. We are beginning to emerge
New media caucus and the congressional internet caucus. He joins us for the communicators this week. Congressman latta, not a lot going on in Telecommunications Policy in this congress, is that a fair statement . [laughter] guest actually, if youre on the committee, theres a lot going on. Almost weekly weve been having different subcommittee hearings, and weve been very, very active. And, of course, theres some big issues that have been going on like the spectrum auction, and so theres Different Things out there, and cybersecurity. But sometimes it doesnt make all the news, but the subcommittees been very, very active. Host and were going to talk about some of those issues in this edition of the communicators, but i wanted to ask you about the fcc. Brand new fcc, five be members all coming to see your committee, potentially, in december. Is that correct . Guest correct. Host whats the importance of having all five . Guest well, again, the fccs so important to the industry and to the co
Individual patients through 200,000 visits. So also i would be remiss if i didnt say texas as im sure all of you in this room know, this is not Medicaid Expansion state, so, therefore, only children, the elderly and disabled are still eligible for medicaid. We are also a, on the federal run exchange we did not object to a state exchange. Our marketplace and how people are accessing it, they are coming into our clinic, making appointment or walking in. They meet first with a certified application counselor who starts the process by getting them to walk through the consent. This causes a lot of anxiety for some people, and because theyve heard a lot of bad publicity. Declared about identity theft. Theres also been several groups in houston that have been fraudulent groups out collecting information from people, and basically stealing their identity. Theres been a lot of publicity around it. We have to get over some of that anxiety. Then we have to determine the clients knowledge. And thi
And the disabled and the chronic conditions, we have got to do more than just keep them covered, we have got to cover and then at th to the cost curv. David blumenthal at commonwealth has done a famous job explaining this. This is what the states are doing that i think its is reay exciting news. Im going to do another session on this. Reforming the Delivery System and reforming the way that we pay for care in this country. We have to treat Health Care Just like a bunch of economic and the words paying for value that is with medicaid is focused on these days i will stop there and look for questions at the end. Thank you. That is a great start this discussion and now we are going to turn over to daniel skyler who is the director of Exchange Technology and a former director of the technology for Utah Health Insurance exchange which has been in business as long as anybody. His colleagues have been helping a number of states prepare for the implementation, especially the exchanges and we ha
Were concerned about problems nd its puzzling to me why these key people didnt talk to you about it. They gave you no hint this is existed . Perhaps i just was not included in certain discussions. What you knew then have spoken ld you up more with regard to rolling out the website on october 1 . Luxury of a ad the time machine to go back and change things, but i cant do that. I understand that. It is a matter did you ask someone at that time for more time . No. Why not . Because my direction was from . Tavner was to n deliver a system on october 1. So marilyn said deliver october 1. Briefingsen in on the from mckenzie that said there were serious problems. Them, i n two of believe. And this was hhs headquarters on april 4. Also in the and Eisenhower Executive Office building on april 6. Briefing the problems. Move it for october 1. Charge of man in making this work, she didnt problems hat those existed . Is that what youre saying today. Told you or didnt tell you . Just curious. I dont