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Yes, in the very back there. Wait for the microphone. Safe foundation. Sir, i was impressed with your presentation. Now, i have a more fundamental question about the government of the United States and the people who control this country, the right and the left both together. Now, the kind of activities we are engaged in at this time, the spying on american citizens, the entire war crimes that we are committing all over the world, all these things, 20, 30 years from now we will be very, very ashamed as we are ashamed of the things that were being done in the 50s and 60s by those who controlled our government. How do we change this . We are continuously doing such tremendous amount of activities which are inhuman and barbaric. One of the themes and we could have a separate discussion of how bad the conduct of one or another American Government is at any given time, but i t ....
Thomas pickering was ambassador to india and russia under the clinton administration. He spoke at George WashingtonUniversity Last month about u. S. Efforts to promote democracy. This is about an hour and ten minutes. Thank you all for coming to this event. Were all very excited to hear from the honorable thomas pickering. The panel the conversation is going to be moderated by chris kojim who is a visiting professor of the practice of International Affairs after serving as the chairman of the National Intelligence council at the Elliot School he was previously the director of the mid career mipp program and director of the summer Foreign Poli ....
Changes. Interestingly enough, the present drop in the price of oil has an impact on russia, they have balanced the budget at 100, and it is now down an 80. Russias political fast and hoos activities have had a serious effect on the russian economy, more than anybody expected to see at this stage. A serious infleet in flight. Many billions of dollars have left. Almost no foreign investment. A rubble Exchange Rate that is going 10 against the ruble. No growth in the russian economy. Oil prices down, income is down. They may account for at least mr. Putins temporary paying attention to the minsk agreement, over how to deal with the problem in ukraine. Not beautifully, not perfectly, not without exception, some of that is happening. If we could get the europeans, four 40 and 50 on russias hydrocarbons, get off that, giving them the opportunity to say to the russians, our off take is so low, we request suspend it, find other sources to ....
So to give you a sense of why that really diminishes the incentives, if you think about an aco increasing spending during a Contract Period, medicare shared savings program, aco for example that isnt facing any Downside Risk, they are penalized for doing that. And it increases their benchmark for the following Contract Period and then they can receive a shared savings bonus for doing nothing. Under the pioneer program, they are penalized for doing more, but again theres that offsetting effect by the benchmark going up and the subsequent Contract Period, so for pioneer acos the incentives are more akin to fee for service with a lag. Then, thinking about the fixed costs of investing in systems to actually control spending, the rebasing is that much more of a problem ....
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