it's a great pleasure to introduce ann martin who will lead off. ann is an economist in the national health statistics group in the office of the actuary. she will be followed by michael hartman who is a statistician. he's a national health statistics group. two of the individuals here that will be available to answer question or help answer questions or respond to opinions, whatever. lekha whittle who is the economist in the office of the actuary. >> thank you very much. is this how i operate this? ok. good morning, thank you all for coming today. my name is anne martin. i'm here today with other members of the national health expenditure accounts team to present to you the results of our national spending article for 2012. the trends that we will discuss today highlights some of the important points contained in our article which is to be published in the january edition of health affairs. just a couple reminders, the information that we're presenting here today is embargoed until 4:00 p.m. at that time, the entire historical data series will be a

it's a great pleasure to introduce ann martin who will lead off. ann is an economist in the national health statistics group in the office of the actuary. she will be followed by michael hartman who is a statistician. he's a national health statistics group. two of the individuals here that will be available to answer question or help answer questions or respond to opinions, whatever. lekha whittle who is the economist in the office of the actuary. >> thank you very much. is this how i operate this? ok. good morning, thank you all for coming today. my name is anne martin. i'm here today with other members of the national health expenditure accounts team to present to you the results of our national spending article for 2012. the trends that we will discuss today highlights some of the important points contained in our article which is to be published in the january edition of health affairs. just a couple reminders, the information that we're presenting here today is embargoed until 4:00 p.m. at that time, the entire historical data series will be a

my name is anne martin.ere today with other members of the national health expenditure accounts team to present to you the results of our national spending article for 2012. the trends that we will discuss today highlights some of the important points contained in our article which is to be published in the january edition of health affairs. just a couple reminders, the information that we're presenting here today is embargoed until 4:00 p.m. at that time, the entire historical data series will be available on our website. i'll start off with main points of the 2012 report. national health expenditures increased 3.7% in 2012 compared to 3.6% in 2011. total health spending reached $2.8 trillion, where $8915 per person. health spending is a share of over all economic output as measured by gross domestic product fell from 17.3% share in 2011 to 17.2% share in 2012. i like to point out that in july of 2013, there was a substantial upward revision of gross domestic product. this caused health spending share of gd

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good to be with you on this martin luther king jr. day. i'm anne-marie green. this morning folks in tupper midwest are waking up to another round of arctic-like cold following a brief warmup. the subzero temperatures are moving down from canada and headed south and east. the effects are already being felt. lauren casey of our minneapolis station wcco has more on our frigid weather. >> reporter: here in minneapolis, the highs were 30, high by our standards. temperatures will plummet into the single digits here by lunchtime today, windchills to 40 and possibly 50 below by tonight. tomorrow night lows will be in the single digits in places like new york and philadelphia, highs on wednesday across the northeast will be in the evens and 20s, and only in the 30s as far south as atlanta. is this the return of the polar vortex? well, kind of. the polar vortex is an area of low pressure in the upper atmosphere. it typically hangs out in the arctic regions but not too uncommonly in the wintertime it will dive down into the u.s. dragging frigid air along with it as we exp

by stalin's for jewish immigrants to more contemporary names like ann landers and washington may get miss manners herself judith martin. she's been waiting for the key column since nineteen seventy is then seen casey and proper guidelines for social behavior. and she's come to the jewish community center of greater washington to share some of her wisdom. now if you yearn for the days when everybody behaved well just tell me when at once her column isn't the only place to find her thoughts ms martin has also authored a series of books. the latest isn't on the day kicking off its called miss manners minds your business which he co authored with her son was wonderful i have written a book that my daughter before and i wrote this in with my son. and we made love getting into it. and of course they were extremely well brought up as you can imagine. and this isn't the first time ms martin has come to the jewish community center. this local audience is receptive to her rules. many have been reading her column for years and they always have lots of questions barbara we got the gcc explains. i believe that she use to take year

martin luther king day. the idea of these speeches was to capture the i have a dream speech if it were given today. anne rubin sat down with anne williams today to talk about king, his legacy and how williams hopes to use his experience to inspire others. >> get up, use your mind, use your heart. use your soul. but use your life. >> reporter: his words a call to action at glide. his words aimed to inspire others like he was inspired by martin luther king. >> at times it seemed like history was beating us down. >> reporter: williams was with king in washington and to the march in selma to montgomery. then there was the march home. >> he woke up us in order to right injustices. >> reporter: with his wife by his side, that's what williams did. >> they moved me. and i'm glad they were there to move me to do something in this world. >> reporter: and though he has been inspired by king and by nelson mandela and other great leaders, he believes he will be led by others too. >> i am convinced of that. that there will be others. >> i was really touched today with the service that took place today. i wasn't expec