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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
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