Enterprise Adventure Capital Fund and was named in 2015 as one of washingtons top hundred tech leaders. Well proud to have sean as a member. Also joining us today is angela braly. Finally john cass tee lanni former president of pharma and cdc member. Thank you all for joining us and being here and, boy, what an issue. Sean, take it away. Thank you very much. So i feel like were stepping backwards. We talked about tax reform which is next on the agenda and now were going backwards to health care which is i was at an event the other night and theyre talking about its failed and i think the more appropriate term was its paused and it seems like itll be taking up again. Ill just start with a couple facts and figures and things that i think are interesting about the health care market, the Affordable Care act and i think well jump into the discussion. When the Affordable Care act was passed theres some projections as to how that would effect enrollment. For 2017 where are we supposed to be
Charges. It is a sentence that taylor teffaults family is fear saying he took the life of a young hero. We will live fiercely in his absence. Reporter trooper tyler was just 21 years old when he was killed in the line of duty. It got taken away from him. Taken away by Christopher Gebers who crashed into him 18 months later, the family of the fallen trooper asked the judge to give gebers the maximum sentence including trooper rusher who was nearly killed as well. He will never have to experience that kind of thing. It is the only memory i have of that day. Not knowing what happened. Not knowing a man you were supposed to be responsible for that day had died. Read a letter he had written in high school. I admire your strength as you seem to come out stronger every time. I will forever be his mom. Do now know how hard it is to see you mom when you dont see your child every day . And before the sentence was handed down. He addressed the family. Im sorry. If i could take it back, would. Im
Indiana. Also the cato institutes ian vasquez looks at the future of u. S. cuban relations in a trump administration. Postfidel castro. And Boston University assistant professor linda spraug martinez looks at a new report looking at the safety of young people of color and what impact the lack of access to overall support and opportunity has on them. Cspans washington journal. Live beginning at 7 00 a. M. Eastern saturday morning. Join the discussion. At a pentagon briefing today, Afghanistan Military Operations Commander general John Nicholson wrapped up 2016s military operations and counterterror efforts in the country. This is about an hour. Folks, weve got about 45 minutes and ten minutes of opening comments. Ill be calling questions for general nicholson. Sir, all yours. Thanks, jeff. Good morning, everyone. Great to be back with you all again. Want to thank you for covering our mission in afghanistan. What id like to do this time since my last update in september is review 2016 an
Natural law. Remarkably for the story as other natural law thinkers, positive law that conflicts with natural law is not law at all. Having examined stories general philosophical work let us see how he applied his law in cases. In the case of the an American Public armed vessel seized an allegedly french ship as suspected of engaging in the trafficking of slaves. The american captain asserted that the trafficking of slaves from africa to a Foreign Court violated the law of nations, and therefore, the con my accusation of the ship was the appropriate penalty. Stories opinion begins by claiming the law of nations rests on the eternal law of nature. The law of nature he said is deduced by correct reasoning from the right and duties of nations and the nature of moral obligation. Natural law for story is the basis for the law of nations. However, story is careful to note that he as a judge only has the authority to end force the law of nations if it has not been relaxed or waived by the con
The specific reasons for these trends will be explained in slides to follow. Regarding the Affordable Care act, all provisions that have become effective since enactment in 2010 are included in our Health Spending estimates because they are reflected in our data that measure total revenues. While our Historical Data cannot parse out the spending that wpj directly the result of the a. C. A. , the projections model show there was minimal impact from the Affordable Care act on aggravate National Health through 2012. Within specific services and payers, we can identify some of the provisions that affected spending for those sectors. However, even within the specific sectors, the impacts were very small and in some sectors, the impacts were offsetting. For example, for private Health Insurance, programs that expanded coverage added to spending while the minimum medical loss ratio had a slight reducing effect. For medicare, a notable fact on spending was from reductions to medicare Payment U