being paid by blue shield versus united health care. i heard your presentation and you said this in the rfp the there was a difference in the scoring with united shield scoring lower and i wonder what that means what is planned design mean opposed to customer service. and is there was there something in the rfp this captured the customer service experience? everyone seemed to being worried about. the other thing the length of time getting paid. the theme about the providers experience and being paid. by the two providers. and left but not least i wonder, how upon often does an rfp come out for this. should people experience what they fear. in terms of customer service or relationship with their provider. is there rfp this come for this. you know at a regular interval so there would be pressure on blue shield to -- provide a good service customer service? you know. if it come ump again. >> a lot. >> sorry >> check the respond to all concerns. number one the plan design we use insider of baseball language of hmo and ppo it is everywhere im

. >> both families had blue shield of california insurance. i reached out to blue shield and pmh in an emailed statement. pmh tells seven on your side. its general practice is not to invoice patients for covid 19 testing during the public health emergency. if patients provided insurance information at the time of testing, but that certain insurers improperly issued payments for the tests directly to the patient instead of issuing the payment directly to pmh, the lab claims this practice violated the cares act, which specified the insurer shall reimburse the provider, not the patient, the lawsuit states. defendants intent was to profit by issuing only partial payments to patients and by forcing out-of-network providers like pmh to chase recovery of such lower payments from the patients. in its statement to abc seven news, pmh says this practice placed an undue burden on patients to identify why they received the payment and to deliver the insurers payment to pmh. also that it placed an undue burden on pmh to obtain the issued payment from the p

. >> both families had blue shield of california insurance.o blue shield and pmh in an emailed statement. pmh tells seven on your side. its general practice is not to invoice patients for covid 19 testing during the public health emergency. if patients provided insurance information at the time of testing, but that certain insurers improperly issued payments for the tests directly to the patient instead of issuing the payment directly to pmh, the lab claims this practice violated the cares act, which specified the insurer shall reimburse the provider, not the patient. the lawsuit states. defendants intent was to profit by issuing only partial payments to patients and by forcing out-of-network providers like pmh to chase recovery of such lower payments from the patients. in its statement to abc seven news, pmh says this practice placed an undue burden on patients to identify why they received the payment and to deliver the insurers payment to pmh. also, that it placed an undue burden on pmh to obtain the issued payment from the patient. accordi

. >> both families had blue shield of california insurance.ached out to blue shield and pmh in an emailed statement. pmh tells seven on your side. its general practice is not to invoice patients for covid 19 testing during the public health emergency. if patients provided insurance information at the time of testing, but that certain insurers improperly issued payments for the tests directly to the patient in stead of issuing the payment directly to pmh, the lab claims this practice violated the cares act, which specified the insurer shall reimburse the provider, not the patient, the lawsuit states. defendants intent was to profit by issuing only partial payments to patients and by forcing out-of-network providers like pmh to chase recovery of such lower payments from the patients. in its statement to abc seven news, pmh says this practice placed an undue burden on patients to identify why they received the payment and to deliver the insurers payment to pmh. also, that it placed an undue burden on pmh to obtain the issued payment from the pati

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our table sponsors the steve and amy van andel foundation, blue cross blue shield, blue care network of, michigan, and the secchia family foundation and are the principle table sponsors. i want to point out that joan secchia, the wife of the late ambassador peter secchia, is us. thank you so much for being here here. there are many additional sponsors who are listed on the back of your program. and we appreciate and thank you. well, i'd now like to reverend lynette sparks, senior pastor at westminster presbyterian church, to come forward and offer a benediction, an invocation. thank you. thank you. gleaves and to all of you at the gerald r ford foundation for the invitation to participate today. so as we begin, i invite you to join me in prayer, holy and almighty, one source of all is good and noble and gracious. you gather, your people together in communities for mutual support and for of the common good. and we come to this gathering, thankful for the community assembled here today. we come with gratitude for all those who have committed lives to public service and to the bettermen

first one from blue cross blue shield to win. >> you got to believe there's going to be a lot more comings according to the cdc covid cases are on the rise in 38 states. doctor marty makary joins me now. like to have you. should we be concerned about this, are there new variants that are concerning? >> there are, this is the lifecycle of covid that the common cold. the common cold disproportionally affects high risk people, people elderly getting trouble with the common cold but it's part of the common cold, and annoyance for the vast majority of americans but saw small sub select, they need to be monitored. this is the season, extreme heat, people move into air conditioning in the winter are the two season right now we see the heat season. >> should we get a new booster shot just in case? [laughter] >> i'd like to see the data before i recommend any medication and as you know, the fda and pharma companies, i can't tell the difference sometimes, they will just bypass regulatory approval. >> interesting. we are told cases of beaver rising in the united states which sounds alarming, a virus

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our table sponsors the steve and amy van andel foundation, blue cross blue shield, blue care network of, michigan, and the secchia family foundation and are the principle table sponsors. i want to point out that joan secchia, the wife of the late ambassador peter secchia, is us. thank you so much for being here here. there are many additional sponsors who are listed on the back of your program. and we appreciate and thank you. well, i'd now like to reverend lynette sparks, senior pastor at westminster presbyterian church, to come forward and offer a benediction, an invocation. thank you. thank you. gleaves and to all of you at the gerald r ford foundation for the invitation to participate today. so as we begin, i invite you to join me in prayer, holy and almighty, one source of all is good and noble and gracious. you gather, your people together in communities for mutual support and for of the common good. and we come to this gathering, thankful for the community assembled here today. we come with gratitude for all those who have committed lives to public service and to the bettermen

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profiled and flagged is risky, appear in a separate color to fill the vanity producing the green and blue shield customers who post less of a risk. the ones who are going to lose between 10 and 20 percent of what they gambled may be a bit more worried about those once they're good clients on the end. so they come to the site and they lose their money. and then alongside that, we had the opposite. the warmer colors show the customers to watch out for the customers we have flagged as dangerous this and indoors. what we'll see in this oscar city category. uh, these are the shocks, the category hayes and the ones that appear in bright red at the book make is really shocking shots of people who generally when a lot of money in sports bashing and who regularly bait the book make is better. okay, cool. i think you're, you know, of course, i think over here our role was to identify any player who even remotely resembled a shock and send the best thing id to the profiling department to show natalia was always pushed as of this at all. so now these are people who are going to have, they advance limits age

our table sponsors the steve and amy van andel foundation, blue cross blue shield, blue care network of, michigan, and the secchia family foundation and are the principle table sponsors. i want to point out that joan secchia, the wife of the late ambassador peter secchia, is us. thank you so much for being here here. there are many additional sponsors who are listed on the back of your program. and we appreciate and thank you. well, i'd now like to reverend lynette sparks, senior pastor at westminster presbyterian church, to come forward and offer a benediction, an invocation. thank you. thank you. gleaves and to all of you at the gerald r ford foundation for the invitation to participate today. so as we begin, i invite you to join me in prayer, holy and almighty, one source of all is good and noble and gracious. you gather, your people together in communities for mutual support and for of the common good. and we come to this gathering, thankful for the community assembled here today. we come with gratitude for all those who have committed lives to public service and to the bettermen

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. >> private through the city most of them have kaiser permanente or blue shield and have moose of caresone on their own. initiated by themselves from their primary care providers if they have one. >> if they have one. >> i'm guessing the electronic health records might speed the transfer information with any other health providers taking care of our people. >> um, that is a possibility. just our department as the office of employee health we don't necessarily have access to all those health records for their privacy we don't anticipate having that- >> (multiple voices). >> they have access to yours. >> nor do they have access to yours. >> (multiple voices). >> it is usually a health examine. >> so with with annual health examine i have a preservation. as there is from my understanding a history of worry between the office and because it is related to the employment so people are worried about losing their jobs or taken off duty. so our office is not going to get their medical information that is on there. we're trusting that the primary care providers will do a comprehensive evaluation

the health services board on split vote june 13, voted to replace united healthcare with blue shield california primarily in the belief this would save $20 million a year in a 3 year period. there are ethical questions how the vote was obtained. there was 400 letters and unanimous in person public comment against. there has been history of political pressure from the mayor's office on behalf of blue shield in spite of could cost and service issues in the past. please do what you can to mitigate and monitor the situation. please protect the most vulnerable in our healthcare system. >> speaker time expired. thank you much for addressing the committee. mr. hsu, next caller, please. >> hello. i'm gale. san francisco native. menlo park resident. cochair social justice task force of san mateo democracy of america and rate payer. the san francisco puc is heading for serious financial trouble and making it far worse by overestimating future water needs. as a native of san francisco, i clearly remember when activists from save the bay, save san francisco bay from over-development, including p

>>blue states are practicing under shields to send help to people who aren't in blue states.sion to attack medication i want to bring you in because we had the pleasure of wrote for the nation about how mifepristone case was abo ■

it's sort of like the blue wall that will shield them from, from losing the election and have only one state. goes, goes rad. um, it's going to be really bad news for the democrats. so judy vance is, responsibility will be the tour, pennsylvania, wisconsin, michigan, where they think he has this appeal with kind of background and story that you just mentioned and, and that's going to be his job. and if he delivers trumbull be present and then november julian blue collar with analysis today. julie, we appreciate your time. thank you. thanks for having this. let's take a look now and some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world . the us present job i has called for a ban on the type of gun that was used in the attempted assassination of his political rivals. the investigation is continuing into the attack of donald trump at a campaign really in pennsylvania, speaking in las vegas bite and also renewed his appeal to cool down the tone of american politics. the islamic state is claimed responsibility for a shooting and a sheet like mos in amongst a capital, in which

. >> doctors in blue states are practicing under shield laws to send help to people who aren't in blue states. it really is a strategic decision to attack medication abortion. i want to bring you in because we had the pleasure of working together. i edited a piece you wrote for the nation about how mifepristone case was about which government branch should be related medication abortion. and to really mention that chevron being over, now we know what happened behind the scenes, but if you could talk about this place we are in where the supreme court is adding to the doubt being sewn about. this is not just from antiabortion folks but also anti-vaccination folks. about the fda's ability to regulate medication, period. . >> thank you regina and thank you for publishing my work and being a wonderful editor. and michelle for convening us. one of the key questions that are at stake here is where and how decisions about medication should be made. in the vaccines. and the whole array of things we would like to leave in the hands of experts. do we want courts to make those decisions? do we wan

shields. they're red, white, and blue they, then another thing you can notice is they keep their faces covered they don't announce their march is because they're afraid of counter-protests are showing up and making them look week. now, michaeli, if you look at his twitter for file, his name is based michaeli. so maybe he hasn't heard of this group, but that term based comes from the exact same extreme of subculture that patriot frehse came out of. that speaks to the degree to which even though these guys haven't entered the mainstream, their ideas have, well, that's interesting. yeah, there's certainly has been an evolution of senator mike lee from the days that he came on the scene as an earnest constitutional conservative. your book profiles a lot of people who are not household names frederick or fred brent and plays a crucial role in creating a place on the internet. were trolls lurk, tell us about him and why he significant. >> so a decade ago, fred brennan was a really smart teenager and a tough circumstance. he'd been in foster care, hit a severe disability the internet was his window t

we will remind them, said that he threw them to the ground and shield to them essentially, my first blue google experience was as a five-year-old going to a john f. >> kennedy rally in new york city and no one there would have thought there was any danger. i'm sure no one there they're thought there was any danger. no. yesterday and that was a formative event in my life. i'm i'm worried. it's this certainly was a formative event in that at firefighters life and for his children, it's going to stay in them for the rest of their lives. but look, the question for this convention is are they, is the mover was the mood going to be one of unity? is there a sense of a pulley? think back and pulling together as a country or is it going to be a mood of anger and if it if this convention projects and donald trump rejects the spirit of unity and coming together it'll be much more successful, whether he can, you're trying to reel in forces you've been covering for years and years and years. that isn't the spirit in which i think people expect it to come to milwaukee, but he has a chance to do it. i

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