Which are collapsing. About 16 just this past year. Have etna has one group and another Health Policy group and outut of 35 states getting of the business of health care with the exchange. Fiscallyeen a very responsible state. Were one of only nine states, believe it or not, in america aaa bond rating. It is not a matter of wanting to help people and providing them care. Ealth i came up with a Better Program called health utah. You get off of government assistance by getting a job. We have the concern of those that need health. We need to do it in a fiscally responsible way. 30 seconds, if you would like. Not only was the failure to expand medicaid morally bankrupt, it was fiscally irresponsible. You as utahns have paid the taxes. Ofre sending hundreds millions every year to washington and other parts of the country. Were not bringing that money back. Over the three years we could medicaid, weve sent 1 billion of your taxpayer money, and were not bringing it back to utah to provide hea
We are glad to have become today. We will change the methodology little bit. We have two votes. When i 2 45 and one following that vote. We are going to run the hearing continuously. We going to waive Opening Statements. We will go straight to secretary mcdonell to make his full statement. Then we will go into q and a. With your cooperation, will work with those two votes. If we do shutdown, it will only be for a couple minutes. Let me welcome everybody to this meeting of the Center Veterans affairs meeting. I think todays hearing will be equally as good as last week. The commission on care is a great project that examined the veteran administrations Delivery System for our veterans and had a lot of recommendations. A lot of provoking recommendations. I appreciate the embrace that secretary mcdonell has given to ideas from others that have come in. We have talked a little bit about them. He will have a great testimony. ,et me welcome the secretary Robert Mcdonald to make his testimony.
Dedicated to serving them. Thats what va is to veterans and thats why you dont find veterans demanding Community Care as the only choice. The demand for that only choice comes from elsewhere. It doesnt come from veterans. Veterans know better. I have tested this during my time as secretary, when somebody tells me that veterans should only have the choice of the Choice Program, i ask them are you a veteran . And by and large the answer is no. And then i ask to be here in between votes and, mr. Secretary, pleasure that you are here with us as well. I have a specific set of circumstances that ive addressed to you in a letter and want to follow up in this setting today. And i have no doubt but what you and other officials at the va are sympathetic and concerned and want to resolve the circumstances we find ourselves in with a particular employee at a particular va hospital in our state. We have the circumstance just to set the background for my questions, we face one of the worst examples
I am the anger of a statewide morning show and it is my privilege to be the moderator. Im not just you keep time, but to ensure that each candidate equal time. It is the quality of the discussion that matters. I think you can all agree. Both candidates have spent time preparing for this debate, so its only fair that we allow them to do what they came here to do. We ask this large and supportive crowd to be supported. However, we are here to hear from the candidate. We ask that you refrain from disruptive behavior were anything that might distract from the candidates. They have a limited amount of time to address the issues and questions presented to them, so we want some respectful civility. We ask that you hold your applause until the end of the debate. In order to maximize the amount of time each candidate has to answer the questions. It is time to meet our candidates. [applause] moderator governor Steve Bullock was born and raised in montana. The governor says he is proud of his rec
Contributing editor at the Higher Education law and a member of the Editorial Board of the journal cases in education. He has worked as a Higher Education policy analyst at the Florida Legislature and as a turkey says he had for the florida Postsecondary Education planning commission. We also have leonard niehoff, professor at the university of Michigan School of law and a counsel to a law firm. He is the author of numerous publications in the field of First Amendment law and Higher Education lot and for more than 30 years is litigated cases on behalf of the media entities and colleges and universities and he got his ba and jd from the university of michigan and studied at the ecumenical theological seminary. Each panelist will take for about 12 minutes. I will ask a couple questions and then it will be up to you ought to follow up. Good afternoon and thank you for inviting me to participate in this important symposium and for including me in such distinguished company. And accepted th