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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 anxie ....
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 ....
Right now were hearing from the State Attorney General and the police commissioner. We really cannot forget in all of this the eight alleges victims, boys as young as 7 or 8 years old. We do have to warn you that the details reveiled revealed by the grand jury are report and hard to stomach. Many News Articles and Opinion Pieces have already been written about this and many of you are very familiar with the allegations contained in the presentment, as well as the defendants that have been charged and the institutions and organizations that have been mentioned in this case. I also understand that many of you have questions concerning the allegations. The criminal charges an other issues related to the case. Commissioner noonan and i will attempt to address many of those as many of those questions as possible, but i ....
That are necessary to respond to the explosions. I am troubled by the prospect of thousands or maybe tens of thousands of these facilities operated under the radar screen in there used to be a sense of urgency on this issue at all levels. It is essential between osha and dhs and the coast guard and state regulators and there has to be enough Information Available to identify those facilities that could pose a risk. That information needs to be shared. The next challenge is to ensure that dhs analyzes the facilities that provide information and gao has told us that when it comes to assessing and assigning risk, arguably the most essential aspect of the program is neither reliable or consistent. To that point the blue rhino facility exploded scented fireballs into the night sky and it was not determined by dhs to be high risk. But i believe with a lot of work and smart people in this program, we can do better. That is why we ....