In utah we try to do that here it we have the lowest Cost Health Care in america, the fifth rated best Quality Health care in our state. It starts with individual responsibility, l the lifestyles, people taking ownership and try to provide opportunities for health care in the private sector to find those niches and ways to deliver services to people in a free market system. Trying to provide opportunities of their for health care in the are to find those niches and ways to deliver some bridges services. There are challenges out there, and theres not any Silver Bullet to find the solution to the problem. I have been critical, and still remain disappointed that when we created the Affordable Care act, that this body was never consulted. They do not come to the states could they do not come to the governors. And yet we are the ones on the front lines having to build programs. It is a challenge. What would have been better is if they had said to the states, we have the health care issue, y
We have found that has been a really great thing. The byproduct of ethanol actually goes into the food chain and makes for delicious beef. Host in your state of the state address you listed a series of goals for this year, including the creation of 200,000 new jobs and a 15 reduction of the cost of government across iowa, 25 notease in family income, only the healthiest eight of the nation, but the best schools in the nation. How do you pay for all of that . Those areest Ambitious Goals that i said when i became governor. We have created 130,000 of those 200,000 jobs already. We have gone from six percent unemployment to 4. 2 unemployment. The big challenge now is funding the people with the skills to fill the jobs. Have an initiative this year and courage and the people coming out of the military to come to iowa. We are eliminating the tax and military retirement, making it possible for them to go to our schools on instate tuition, making it easier for them to get professional licensi
What is stopping you from making this a year job creator . Is it permitting, uncertainty in government, miscommunication and awareness of this potential opportunity . Were trying to match people up with these opportunities and we are recruiting workforce. People are coming to north dakota. We are getting great jobs. In the last 12 years we have gone from 39th in the nation in per capita income to six. That is quite a bit of progress. We believe the right policies and opportunities, they will make that happen not just in north dakota, because theres much more going on than just the market play. It will happen in any state. You wanted to jump in and i know there were others here. Thanks for bringing up the topic of energy. Wyoming exports more btus than any other state. It is as big an issue for us as north dakota. That is good, we need competition. Jack we are gaining on you. In and of itself, energy produces a lot of jobs. You look at states that can produce lots of energy. They have l