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we will go ahead and get started. i am scott madison, the executive director of the national governors association. feel free to take your seats. welcome. this is the 108th summer meeting of the national governors associati association and taking place with the backdrop of a lot of serious issues across the nation and world and of course two major party conventions taking place in the next couple weeks. i am happy to introduce the chairman of the national governors association from utah, governor branstad and we have the vice chairman, governor mcauliffe from virginia and the host, the longest serving governor in the mystery of the united states terry branstad. we are happy to have him. [applause] and now, it is funny, people say the meeting is going great so far and i say it is good laws of governor branstad. i am turn it over to david yepsen and many of you probably know david. heavy has been with the des moines register and on public television in different capac ....
it s an hour and 20 minutes. good afternoon, i m charlie baker, the governor of the commonwealth of massachusetts and the chair of the nga razz health and hum services committee. glad toaround by the vice-chairman, new hampshire governor and as well as by governor bevin, who dropped us all into this conversation in a big way at the meeting we had back in february. i want to start first of all by saying how much i appreciate the fact that so many of our fellow governors signed on to the compact we developed to deal with this issue. last count we had 46 governors signed on to the compact, representing 250 million americans, and certainly for news massachusetts, and i know for many of the folks around the table this is probably the single biggest public health issue you re dealing with based on the chase had with second burwell and others how big a deal this is across the country. i do want to point to the cl ....
actually taken that question out in terms of the financing for the surveys, so that no one can even if, whether it was a monetary incentive or not, if people were thinking and believing that, we wanted to take the action. now, going to part two, that medication assisted treatment, which i know you all are working deeply on, we are as well, you may have heard that last week we announced that we have put out a final regulation that will increase the numbers that doctors who are prescribing, as long as they meet certain conditions, because we want to make sure we do this in a safe way, that they re able to do. in terms of that expanding medication assisted treatment. as well as we re also today releasing two reports on ways to help pregnant women and new mothers. because that s a part of this, with the medication assisted treatment. i see head nods. this is something you all have told us is one of the problems. we ve got two reports coming out to help with that treatment ....
[ applause ] it is now my honor to it is now my zing honor to present to you the governor of the state of vermont, the honorable peter e. shumlin. thank you. thank you. thank you, thank you. thank you so much. thank you. thank you so much. mr. president, mr. president protem, mr. speaker, mr. chief justice, senator leahy, general heston, members of the general assembly, distinguished guests, and fellow vermont ans. thank you all so much. i m also really excited to welcome today the person who has stood by me every single day of my governorship, been extraordinarily patient, loving supportive, my love, your first lady, katie. [ applause ] i am as honored and humbled to stand before you today as i was giving my first inaugural address in 2011. that day i spoke with affection about our last governor from putney, george akin. three quarters of a century ago he stood before this body, and he reflected on the challenges and progress of his day. he said during these ....
[ applause ] it is now my honor to it is now my zing honor to present to you the governor of the state of vermont, the honorable peter e. shumlin. thank you. thank you. thank you, thank you. thank you so much. thank you. thank you so much. mr. president, mr. president protem, mr. speaker, mr. chief justice, senator leahy, general heston, members of the general assembly, distinguished guests, and fellow vermont ans. thank you all so much. i m also really excited to welcome today the person who has stood by me every single day of my governorship, been extraordinarily patient, loving supportive, my love, your first lady, katie. [ applause ] i am as honored and humbled to stand before you today as i was giving my first inaugural address in 2011. that day i spoke with affection about our last governor from putney, george akin. three quarters of a century ago he stood before this body, and he reflected on the challenges and progress of his day. he said during these ....