Providing affordable employer based insurance plans. I want to thank everyone for attending this event today. On behalf of ada and the Pacific Business group on health i want to welcome everyone here and everyone watching remotely including those who are watching c span to today pfsh conference. We are going to discuss challenges of providing High Quality Health Care that is affordable for patients, employers and taxpayers. This is clearly a critical topic for government policy makers. The recent election obviously highlighted the disagreements among many people in this country about whats the best way for government to proceed in this area. And obviously changes our company. The expansion under aca is at a steep price and the Incoming Administration is looking for ways to get costs under control while insuring that people continue to have access to Health Insurance. Employers have long been at the forefront of this struggle for Affordable Health care. About 150 Million People under th
Thank you all for coming back after the break and finding a seat. Appreciate it. Well just get settled again. Hi, im david lanski. Im the ceo of Pacific Business group on health. Some of the panelist you just heard from were members of ours. Let me just say a word about what were doing here and my job here really is to help make a transition between the wonderful case studies and purchasers to the implications for policy development in washington where we started the day with dr. Burgess. First i want to thank aei and brookings for sponsoring this meeting with us. Tremendous opportunity to have a dialogue that is nonpartisan and across many points of view to try to think what the successful developments of health care policy. Pbj is one of the sponsors. We represent about 60 very large employers and purchasers. They together have about 12 million covered lives and together they spend about 60 billion every year so they have a strong stake in the improvement of the Health Care System fo
The shootout killed one suspect. 19yearold tristan conte, and injured another who was flown to a hospital in unknown condition. The deputy shot is in good health and has been released from the hospital. Two other suspects have been detained. We have all the subjects accounted for, one of the subjected admitted there were four of them in the vehicle. And we are told the captured suspects are juveniles who are currently at the Detention Center in reno. The Carson City Sheriffs Office will lead the death investigation. A man hunt is underway for two suspects possibly connected to a murder case in South Lake Tahoe according to the el dorado investigator. They are being sought by authorities in fairfield and vallejo, california as well as both suspects are considered armed and dangerous. Two other men have been arrested on suspicion of taking part in the murder. 40yearold Dennis Wright jr. Died after being shot during a drug deal there in january. And bartenders are behind bars after allege
Investigation is ongoing. The Reno Police Department would like anyone with further information about this incident to contact them at 3342188 or to call secret witness at 3224900. You can also text your tip to 847411. The name of the victim has not yet been released at this time. Covering crime beat live in downtown reno, ryan canaday channel two news now heres mike algers first look at the pinpoint 2 forecast while it may take until the end of the weekend, there are some signs that a more active storm pattern will return to the region. In the short term, the west coast ridge of High Pressure will continue to keep us warm and the north to give us much chance of getting any water out of them. High temperatures will rise to near 70 degrees tuesday and wednesday before falling back to the low 60s on thursday. Late saturday, the ridge finally breaks down to allow the first of what could be several storms to move into the region, with valley rain a decent possibility, but mountain rain and
Experts say an ideal runoff would begin in april with sustained snowmelt to keep the water from soaking into the ground. The snowmelt has already started in some areas. Jeff we had a lot of low elevation snow that melted off all at the same time and that boosted river flows. It got some of the smaller creeks flowing and its boosted reservoirs. Lahontan reservoir has doubled its volume in the last month. March averages about 8 inches of precipitation. Thanks to the good start to winter anderson says just a few wet storms could mean the snowpack will peak either at or above normal. Jeff even after a pretty dry month, were still sitting at near normal conditions, which is way better than weve had the last four years. Chad what we have now compared to what we had the last few years, this is great. This is a great snowpack. March is the big unknown as far as how much moisture well get but experts are hoping the winter will end the way it began with plenty of precipitation. Covering the big