Thank you steve. Good afternoon everybody. Welcome to our dc members and or guests. It is wonderful to be here at the Detroit Economic Club. Organization is long attracted some of the nation his most distinguished thinkers and innovators. It is my privilege to introduce todays participants. Well engage us to the capitated rating discussion about the future of healthcare. The may begin by introducing our guest speakers, someone who ive known for monday years and consider him a mentor and a friend. Scott promises the president and ceo of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association National federation the source 36 independent communitybased and locally operated Blue Cross Blue Shield companies. Including Blue Cross Blue Shield of michigan. The Blue Cross Blue Shield system through his federation of insurers, covers one out of every three americans. I think this is the very important statistic. What else does this frankly. It serves every zip code in the united states. In every zip code in ame
And unemployment is at an alltime low, so there is nothing to worry about. And probably the truth is somewhere between those, inclusive maybe. And so that is what this panel is talking about. And whether itai is a substitute or complement to human labor. I will introduce our guests weekly. Diane bailey is an associate professor at the university of coverswhere she engineering product design, economic development, and she conducts large scale empirical studies. Essen is from the Boston University school of law. His latest book is learning by. Ng ece kamar is a researcher at Microsoft Corporation and focuses on Artificial Intelligence. Rian is a chief economist at google. Been involved in many aspects of the Company Including Corporate Strategy and is also an emeritus professor at the university of california berkeley in three departments, business, economics, and information management. A good place to start is to talk about what we actually mean by Artificial Intelligence. Ag brought t
We will check the mood live in beijing. Not politics daunting markets, the outcomes not exactly the results we were expecting. We are going to be delving into the in depth in the next few hours. I want to take a quick look at a close in the u. S. Market on friday. Not surprising that after a fed meeting, continued concerns over what was coming out of the u. N. , tensions with north korea, there was about a mixed close. You can see that the dow was just down ever so slightly. Flat, fractional gains in the s p 500 and the snp s p 500e up. Not a lot of direction for us. We have a lot hanging when it comes to the big week in washington. Centralbank speakers set to speak, as well. New zealand not a whole big reaction to this weekends election when it comes to stocks. We are continuing to see the kiwi dollar, 7310 weakening from the third of desperate 3 the surprise outcome here as we look ahead to those Coalition Talks. Australia, we are seeing teachers up about seven point four the excess
Right around the bay. Inland though in the clear. And those areas will be heating up. In the upper 90s to 100 degrees. You will notice a change later on today. Here is the fog hanging out near the shoreline and right around the bay. Low visibility reports in santa rosa this morning. A good on shore wind as well. Already transporting the fog and push thanksgiving into the bay last night. Current numbers, santa rosa, 52. San jose, 62. Here is the plan for today. Starting the day out with the fog. We know that. Partly cloudy skies if youre inland. There is the eventual temperature range. So a big temperature range getting hot inland. It looks like the hot weather pattern sticks around for the weekend. We will talk about that in a few minutes. We will check if with sal right now and the traffic looks like it is ramping up as well. Is that right, sal. It is. But weve had a quiet commute in some areas. Marin county traffic has been good. As we look at the golden gate bridge, it is obvious th
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