swagger amy men on and though walter mondale campaign against 84 served as my role models the democratic sen cancer trade this summer of 1980 and taught me well. the lead man for being with self-confidence and quick humor. [laughter] is that self-serving enough? he claims he was his mentor but what got more pages was known as a great teacher. just to be clear. joshes a good buddy and a great friend a lot of people work with him and work with me we work with democratic politics together but he has written and interesting book if he said he would sign everybody s exchange politics thematically and the famous debate of nixon verses kennedy people said when they heard it a thought nixon had rabbit when they watch tv everybody thought kennedy won because he wishes younker and clean shaven nixon had a 5:00 shadow so that was the tv era so now the campaign s over the last 50 years of portrayal of the candidates has made a tremendous difference the former governor schwarzenegger he
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the 10 required benefits. how much variation in his there in benefits going forward? we know from the bronze to the silver that has to do with the degree of coverage of premium but in terms of benefits how much variety is that is for the given product so what is that is a representation and across all types of products was the average rate of increase? spittoons your question after 2014 the variability of benefits, you are correct there is the much lower variability among the level of:insurance and deductibles as well as provider networks and of formulary. what you will see i think is we are competing more ought customer service and value added things that is the ability to help keep you healthy to get you engaged and the variability is greatly reduced. i have to go locale but we offer and again looking at that value-added how to keep people engaging keep tight people healthy? with congressional research service of the question is a top provider networks. from whe
different dynamics. an air tran area. georgia, a state that has gotten some attention, an urban area like atlanta, you have a lot of different providers, lot of different providers competing, a lot of choice and variations of very competitive marketplace is. for providers as well as for plans. in other parts of the state we may be only insurer and then maybe the only hospital network. and so a lot of the variation for ross has to do with the provider network, the formularies, really with the underlying cost of care which gets automatically reflected in the rate. we cannot lose sight of the fact that ultimately on the cost of care. i would add to the point that from a rating perspective carriers of the flexibility to include the geographic rating factor. you may be across a different area and end up with variability because carriers can price based upon geography. if i could add three quick things. the first is it is important to emphasize that we have to look at aggregate