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Could affect that. The 21 million includes 13 1 2 million in assets and this as we mentioned before they are reserves and an analysis of stables reserves and contingency reserves that will be done and incorporated into next year. 2. 8 million in favorable claims experiences in blue shields and nor the reported. 2. 4 million in the shared dental plan and a reduction of 1 million estimated medical hmo premium revenues avenue application of the early retirement reassurance program. This is the federal money being used. One of the things that happens is a reduction in the estimated hmo insurance premiums. 700,000 increase to account for the time between the fsa contribution and filing of claims. 800,000 for interest assuming that we have no significant increases in those yearend value including investments. 200,000 reduction for transfers to the general fund. So what does this mean . When you take the 21 million you add it to the 71 million that i was discussing before and you end up with ....
He has been on the floor for 5. 5 hours. We will show you some of his speech over the next couple of hours. You can continue to watch it on cspan two. We have put up a poll. Speech ond cruzs defunding obamacare. Here is the poll. Do you support ted cruz as he speaks in the u. S. Senate to defund Health Care Law . 1225 are in support voting against 394. We will also give you a choice chance to weigh in on twitter. Were also looking at some of the congressional reporters. This could be a late night up at capitol hill. It was a tweet a short while ago ed okeefe. The way you join that conversation is the cspan tage page. The senate takes its first procedural vote on the stopgap bill. Wednesday will vote and likely overwhelmingly to limit the spending bill. We will get to the u. N. Speeches just a it later on. Back to the senate, ted cruz cruzs speech. One thing we learned from henry that it willts is be short. Comments. Nator reeds w ....
Toi think it is important remember there is no open enrollment for medicaid. We have i think had a very. Ich discussion here i think it cannot be understated whats an Important Role commitment at the state level to making this work is in terms of being able to move forward and get people connected to insurance. We have also seen from individuals here that we are really building on the experience of the chip program where we learn to do outreach to children and use perry is mechanism to reach people in the community. I think all activities are going to be local and really does depend on mountain on the groundwork. Important thing we have learned is also takes a Real Partnership between people working at the state level tom inside of State Government, outside of Sta ....
Hospital readmissions and that changed and that the lower hospital recommissions is driving the lower part. We are seeing dramatic reductions in per capita spending for the part dmp side, primarily a shift from brands to generics and kind of. Undamental, kind of pipeline lower part a and part d are driving the overall slowdown. Think that phenomenal experience for the medicare program. Part b is continuing to rise, which may make sense as hospitals shift care from the inpatient side to lower cost outpatient side. The first take away of the slide is that the overall economy isnt driving we covered this live earlier today and see it in our Video Library at cspan. Org. And take you live to the United Nationses and hear from iranian president rouhani. Mr. President. , praise beame of god. O god, the lord of the world mr. President , mr. Secretary, general, ladies and gentlemen, at ....
Before anybody gets excited about that, we have in terms of reserves and obligations, we have 68. 6 million. When you net those out, you are just looking at 8. 7 million that is quasi free, but its not, but, so thats our room if every obligation is realized and reserve is realized in the next fiscal year. So, that, you know, we are not a wash with money. Lets put it that way. So the 24 million increase in net assets between 20112012 and 2013, consist of 20. 5 million in a combination of utilization in a city health plans reserve which we call what you may have heard before and the savings conversion from the pharmacy medicare benefits. There was 1. 5 million in the flex plan for 2013. 3. 1 million net decrease in the blue shields fully in insureds plan from july through december by the 2 percent premium pledge and 1. 6 million net increase in other benefits. So, that nets you us out to the 77. 3 million. We have a net point 6 million. That is a continue continue contingency in reserves ....