Thank you for broadcasting. The due to the covid19, the Committee Room is closed. However, members will be participating in the meeting remotely. The interpreter, please. Im sorry, i didnt get the whole thing. Im going to find somebody that can assist, because its long. Its pretty long. So i think maybe one of our interpreters has the script and will do a more accurate job. Due to coincident house emergency and to protect boar. S. Due to coincident Health Emergency and to protect Board Members, the board of supervisors, the chamber and Committee Room are closed. However, members will be participating remotely. This is pursuant to the local, state and federal orders, declaration and directives. Committee members will attend through Video Conference and participating in the meeting to the same extent as if they are physically present. Public comment is available on each item on this agenda. [ ] i apologize, chair fewer, it sounds like we got disconnected. Can you go ahead and hang up and
Im the chair of the budget and finance committee and joined by supervisor walton, mamd exlman and president yee. Thank you for broadcasting. The due to the covid19, the Committee Room is closed. However, members will be participating in the meeting remotely. The interpreter, please. Im sorry, i didnt get the whole thing. Im going to find somebody that can assist, because its long. Its pretty long. So i think maybe one of our interpreters has the script and will do a more accurate job. Due to coincident house emergency and to protect boar. S. Due to coincident Health Emergency and to protect Board Members, the board of supervisors, the chamber and Committee Room are closed. However, members will be participating remotely. This is pursuant to the local, state and federal orders, declaration and directives. Committee members will attend through Video Conference and participating in the meeting to the same extent as if they are physically present. Public comment is available on each item o
Of center is Carrie Banahan who comes to us all the way from kentucky pictures responsible for the implementation and operation of the kentucky exchange. Into my far right, mila kofman who want a shorter commute. Shes the executive director of the d. C. Exchange. If youre watching us live today on cspan2, we welcome you and encourage you to tweak your questions to us. Will try to get them to our speakers, to answer today. You can use the hashtag oe3, and you also we will be live tweeting today, so we welcome you of course to live tweet with a picnic in the hashtag is oe3. Im going to turn over now to sara collins with the Commonwealth Fund. Thank you. Enka, maryland dont have of pashtun thank the panel succumbed and also extend a warm welcome to the audience. In looking ahead to the 2016 open enrollment period, an estimated 29 Million People remain uninsured. Hhs estimates about 10. 5 Million People are eligible, uninsured people are eligible for coverage through the marketplaces. In a
Customers make better decisions. 136 year, we will have Group Health Plans and 26 different individual plans. When you have that many options, we know an shows that it is overwhelming. We heard that from our customers currently. We heard it from our broken partners broker partners, our navigators, and our assistance. Next year, we will be launching something similar. For 2016, we will also have new standardized plans. That means standardized benefits , as well as outofpocket expenses, that will help our customers make more informed decisions, compare apples to apples. In our first year of operation, we had semistandard products. The benefits had to be the same in the essential Health Benefits benchmark no substitutions. Copays and other outofpocket costs very. Although that was helpful, it was not the complete tools some needed to make good decisions. Same thingsed the as kentucky. Folks chose platinum when they had few opportunities to get medical care. They did not need it, they were
no role in health plan selection. our role is limited. first set of issues on the exchange concenred another enterprise. cgi was not the only one raking in cash. as of march $55 was paid to quality software services to set up a data port. $31 million was paid to national government services for consumer call center and the mutual corporation got $22 million for project management and i.t. security. so for all the dollars spent, why the big flop? should the administration start from scratch? senator john mccain has his own ideas on a possible quick fix. it s been a fiasco. send air force one out to silicon valley and load it up with smart people and send them back to washington to fix this problem. it s ridiculous and everyone knows that. a lot of confusion.