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Affordable care act. This is hosted by americans for Health Reform. We have a lot to talk about today. To thank our sponsors for annual session, our series. And i wante anthem, to thank the blue cross and Blue Shield Association and our other sponsors for their support. I would like to point out one of meg murray. Mbers is thanks for being here. We will hear a couple of brief words from two of our spencers sponsors. Martin,o introduce sean here to say a few words. Sean . Martin thank you very much, and congratulations on securing the friday after the Health Reform vote for this discussion. Good morning. I am with the American Academy of family physicians, but i am here on the half of years ago organizations launched a campaign to draw attention to the value of Preventive Care in health care system. There is a lot of debate in washington now, clearly. The one thing we know is investments in primary care and longterm cause benefits. A study found in a state found that for every dollar in
From the alliance for Health Reform, this is 1. 5 hours. And president of and ceo of the alliance for house reform. This is part of a series on the future of Health Insurance. Three summitsng on the future of health care this year, starting with the future of Health Insurance, moving on to the future of chronic care, and then the future of the health care work. You arexcited that here. It is fair to say that the future starts here and now of Health Insurance in the senate. We have a lot to talk about today. But before we do, i want to thank our sponsors for todays session, our annual series. Our sponsors are anthem, and i want to thank the blue cross and Blue Shield Association and our other sponsors for their support. I would like to point out one of our Board Members is meg murray. She is from the association of Community Affiliated lands. Thanks for being here. We will hear a couple of brief words from two of our sponsors. I want to introduce shawn martin, Senior Vice President at t
This briefing is part of a series on the future of Health Insurance and we will actually be doing three summits on the future of health care this year starting with the future of Health Insurance, chronic care, and the excited that youre here and its certainly i think fair to say that when it comes to Health Insurance the future starts here and now in the senate. We have a lot to talk about today but before we do i want to thank our sponsors for todays session, our annual Summit Series sponsors are an thumb, ascension and health is primary and i would like to thank them, also the Blue Cross Blue Shield association, cvs health and other sponsors for their generous support. I would like to point out one of our Board Members who is here with us today, one of our new Board Members is me go murray from the association of Community Plans so inks that for being here. We will hear a couple brief words. First i would like to introduce sean martin, Senior Vice President for advocacy, and policy
Im married to a former colonel out of the u. S. Army. I have a son thats going into the u. S. Army. I sit so we consider ourselves a mmit, military family. And im going to tell you, we cannot continue as the solution with everything to send our troops in to do business. There are other means in which. We have to do that. Rselves diplomatic means. We have to have actionable intelligence. We have to use the economics of the situation. So i believe, in particular the Bush Administration used the military far too much and to our detriment in many cases. And sometimes i wonder if the ma Obama Administration doesnt understand that. It feels compelled to understand the situation and doesnt understand that somehow weve got to extricate ourselves south of some of these situations. You mean compelled the use iy military as an option . Exactly. Any ca they may feel compelled. Again, ill be very honest. When he first came in, i said look, we cant continue this. We just cannot continue this. Its no