Without objection . That will be the order. When you refer do you mean recommended. Recommended as a committee report. Yes thank you. If there is no further business before this body, we are adjourned. I call to order the Health Service board regular meeting december 8, 20 16. I ask everybody to stand for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Madam secretary, can we have roll call. Thank you. Roll call, scott, excused. Lim, present. Breslin, here. Farrell, present. Ferrigno, expectedal. Follansbee, present. Sass, present. We have a quorum. Would you call item 1. Item 1, action item. Approval with possible modification of the minutes of meeting set borthd below regular meeting of september 8. Special board forum held november 10, 2016. Closed session member appeal november 10, 2016. Are there any corrections from any of the m
Without objection . That will be the order. When you refer do you mean recommended. Recommended as a committee report. Yes thank you. If there is no further business before this body, we are adjourned. I call to order the Health Service board regular meeting december 8, 20 16. I ask everybody to stand for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Madam secretary, can we have roll call. Thank you. Roll call, scott, excused. Lim, present. Breslin, here. Farrell, present. Ferrigno, expectedal. Follansbee, present. Sass, present. We have a quorum. Would you call item 1. Item 1, action item. Approval with possible modification of the minutes of meeting set borthd below regular meeting of september 8. Special board forum held november 10, 2016. Closed session member appeal november 10, 2016. Are there any corrections from any of the m
This is two hours and 40 minutes. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the meeting will come to order. Senator whitehouse is next followed by senator young. Senator whitehouse. Thank you, chairman. Lets me ask first to put into the record a letter from our governor in rhode island, which says in rhode island im quoting here we have actually seen exchange premiums decrease in two out of the last three years. Ended that this has saved consumers nearly 220 million since 2012. So, the story on the Affordable Care act in rhode island is a good one. I would also like to put this little graphic into the record, which to explain briefly, the red line along the top is the cbo estimate of where our healthcare costs were going to go back when they were making the estimate in 2010. Then, at this time 2016, after the aca was in place they took a look at the Actual Experience up to that point ended a new new projection Going Forward based on the Affordable Ca
Ordered. Id like to welcome everyone to this mornings hearing. Today, we will consider the nomination of dr. Tom price to be the secretary of the department of health and Human Services. And want to welcome dr. Price to the finance committee. I appreciate his willingness to in a position of this magnitude, especially at this particularly crucial time. Republicans in Congress Warned that the new health care law, basically, would harm patients, emilys and businesses. Too fine apine point on it, but we were right. That will address costs among other things. This will be an important endeavor. One that will and should get a lot of attention here today. But it should not be the sole focus of the next hhs soap secretary. Hhs has an annual budget of over 1 trillion. Let me repeat that. One department, 1 trillion. Hhs and purposes encompasses medicare and medicaid. Disease control and prevention, the National Institutes of whole, the federal Drug Administration and many others. This is no exag
Ordered. Id like to welcome everyone to this mornings hearing. Today, we will consider the nomination of dr. Tom price to be the secretary of the department of health and Human Services. And want to welcome dr. Price to the finance committee. I appreciate his willingness to in a position of this magnitude, especially at this particularly crucial time. Republicans in Congress Warned that the new health care law, basically, would harm patients, emilys and businesses. Too fine apine point on it, but we were right. That will address costs among other things. This will be an important endeavor. One that will and should get a lot of attention here today. But it should not be the sole focus of the next hhs soap secretary. Hhs has an annual budget of over 1 trillion. Let me repeat that. One department, 1 trillion. Hhs and purposes encompasses medicare and medicaid. Disease control and prevention, the National Institutes of whole, the federal Drug Administration and many others. This is no exag