and county of san francisco for launching the 2012 aging and disability technology summit. it was approximately a month ago that secretary kathleen sebelius said the u.s. department of health and human services announced the creation of this new federal agency, and that is the administration for community living. and in her words, she said "for too long, too many americans have faced the a possible choice between moving to an institution or living at home without the long-term services and support they need." so this new administration for community living will be to helping people with disabilities, as well as seniors, to live a productive, satisfying lives. now, as you may be aware, the aging and disability population has been recognized actually at the local and state levels for quite some time now. so the mechanisms for providing support that facility community living have been really brought together into local and state agencies such as the san francisco departments the of aging and adult services that serves those populations since the year 2000. yet, at the federal level, policy developments from a community outreach, and program implementation related to aging and disability service

and congratulations. (applause) >> thank you, brandt. next i'd like to introduce herb schultz who is the regional director -- regional 9 director of the department of health and human services. come and speak to us. thank you. (applause) >> hi, region 9 u.s. department of health and human services. [laughter] >> it's a mouthful. it is a real honor and a pleasure to be here with you this morning. and first off, i want to ask you all to give yourselves a round of applause for the leadership of this community and of san francisco and the bay area and california broadly. (applause) >> you know, it's an honor to get up here and represent my boss, secretary kathleen sebelius and be like brandt colfax, another round of applause for dr. colfax, please. (applause) >> to have a

and congratulations. (applause) >> thank you, brandt. next i'd like to introduce herb schultz who is the regional director -- regional 9 director of the department of health and human services. come and speak to us. thank you. (applause) >> hi, region 9 u.s. department of health and human services. [laughter] >> it's a mouthful. it is a real honor and a pleasure to be here with you this morning. and first off, i want to ask you all to give yourselves a round of applause for the leadership of this community and of san francisco and the bay area and california broadly. (applause) >> you know, it's an honor to get up here and represent my boss, secretary kathleen sebelius and be like brandt colfax, another round of applause for dr. colfax, please. (applause) >> to have a reinvest and recovery act, our stimulus law with the leadership of leader pelosi, of our mayor, of our supervisors, and our community to have $9-1/2 million given to this city and to this area for this. but not just for this, but everybody's already setting this this morning, the local impact, the state impact, the national impact, and indeed the international impact. and i represent a region that is 50 millio

director, center for substance abuse treatment, substance abuse and mental health services administration, u.s. department of health and humanervices, rockville, maryland; dr. thomas mclellan, director, center for substance abuse solutions, philadelphia, pennsylvania; dr. alexandre laudet, director, center for the study of addictions and recovery, national development and research institutes, incorporated, new york, new york; dr. candace peterson, associate scientist, evaluation shared service, university of wisconsin population health institute, madison, wisconsin. dr. clark, what does research to practice mean and what does it mean for a methodology or a practice to be evidence-based? research to practice is a concept that captures the evolvement in the research community with regard to various aspects of, in this case, substance abuse or mental health care in an effort to increase the ability to positively affect the individual who's affected by it. so, evidence-based, then, is mobilizing administrative, clinical, and research information to enhance the quality of care and the effectiveness of care in order

and be one of the last steps in the 2010 merger and subsequent integration of the two airlines. federal investigators have uncovered $1.5 billion in medicare fraud. the inspector general of the department of health and human servicesys 25% of all medicare claims from nursing homes had errors or overcharges. medicare officials are agreeing to pay closer attention to fradulent billing. the departure of windows president steven sinofsky from microsoft appears less about the new operating system or tablet he oversaw - although the company has been conspicuously quiet about sales - and more about a company moving from one business model to another. in our cover story, it might not seem a hard landing - unless you're perceived as a rival for ceo with the person who currently holds that job. steven sinofsky, a 23-year veteran of microsoft, left abruptly, two weeks after the debut of the operating system and tablet he guided to their launch under ceo steve ballmer. "sinofsky really carved out a powerful empire, and instead of ballmer's heir apparent, he was perceived as ballmer's rival." analysts call sinofsky's departure "a negative," that he "rescued windows following vista." if there was acrimony, sinfosky didn't hint

department of health and human services. [music] universal counseling services as an outpatient, mental health and substance abuse treatment program. we are at all the local department of social service sites where we do mental health screenings and referral. we're at the various courthouse sites in the city where we do substance abuse assessments and referrals into the community. we're in about 13 different baltimore city public schools, where we provide substance abuse and mental health screening, as well as provide treatment, referral, crisis intervention, and mental health supports for the school system. it get better, you know? right. get better if you work on it, try to keep yourself focused. it is very important that we find out what the individual is requesting, what they're in need of, so that we can better address both other organizations' problems, such as homelessness, hiv, substance abuse co-occurring, and, a lot of times, legal issues are also in need of. i want to thank you for letting me see this second half o

watching you, big brother is watching you through the obama white house, through the department of health and human servicesnd transmit that to the job and also to your employer. i don't like it. i don't want big brother watching me and telling me how much to eat or when to walk or whether or not to smoke, i like to live my own life, and i'm a grownup. i had my mother telling me what to to eat when i'm a child, i'm done with that, i don't want mr. obama to be my mother. >> and i listen to my mommy and calls me and tells me to eat more veggies i will, but i draw the line there. julian, i think it's part of that social utopia coming out of washington these days, not only ultimately expensive, but takes away from personal liberties. it's one thing to try to pick winners and losers in the economy, but to decide on personal behavior just seems wrong in america. >> well, we incentivize behavior we think is good and disinvent advise. >> who is we? >> who is we? >> the government, the government constantly. so, the point here is i think price waterhouse cooper did a study before the health care law and found the si

department of health and human services. [music] the national center for state courts is a private, nonprofit corporation created to promote the rule of law and to work with the state courts in improving the administration of justice. to provide them with information that's going to be helpful to them. we first conduct research of issues that affect the administration of justice. hopefully, we develop some solutions. we pilot test those solutions, come up with best practices. different kind of scans of the brain. we have an educational arm that we use to produce training programs that we share what we've learned with the leaders in the court field. the translating drug court research into practice initiative is part of a general trend in recent years towards more and more emphasis on what does research have to say that can benefit the person who's on the ground? so instead of researchers talking to one another, they're really trying to take our research and make it available to people in ways that could improve the job that t

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this a good deal of litigation already concerning the contraception ruling of the department of health and human services, that is already in the courts, in several courts. neil: you know, ed, i have a theory on president's second terms whether their own doing or just, you know fluke of events, second terms are problematic for your boss, ronald reagan with the iran contra and we saw it with richard nixon and watergate, when it fell out of bed, almost, immediately after he was reelected. i am wondering whether there will be the same sort of drip, drip, drag, drag away -- weighing down? >> it is hard to tell. right now, but i kkow that ronald reagan made it easier on everyone by saying there would be no executive privilege, everyone to testify honestly, and he tried to facilitate the inquiry rather than obstruct it. neil: he addressed nation on it, that was a rare concept at the time. do you get a sense though, lou dobbs and i were getting this last night, the better angels that could inspire president to no longer obstructed by another race or anything to answer to the public, you can rise above the fray

a state with an exchange means that 2014, the department of health and human services will do it allhem. why this rebellion? the first reason is cost. this is the big unknown in obamacare. governors are afraid they will get stuck with the cost of setting a been running these exchanges. the cost from ten to 100 million per year in each state. in fact among wisconsin governor scott walker is opting out because he says operating the exchange we will cost up to 60 million for wisconsin each year and federal funding is only guaranteed for one year. if we assume the exchange's cost about $50 million, on average for each state in the union, a conservative estimate, by the way, that would still amounto the into a half billion dollars. two and a half billion. and you say, well, where is the federal government and all of this? well, they are there with all of their support that they can possibly bring. health and human services has a billion dollar fund to ma $1 billion. ese governors, republican and democrat are no dummies. they know that leaves a little problem. one and a half billion dollar

health care was a huge plus. another word for gifts is handouts. who likes handouts better than african-americans and hispanics? never mind that according to the department of health and human services his span ins make up 32.5, african-americans make up 15.9% and white people 44.6% of the insured. romney campaign official confirmed authenticity of the remarks but noted governor romney was elaborated on what axlerod said about the obama campaign's effort to target key demographics, specifically women. other republicans in a bid to avoid party imlation pushed back including governor bobby jindal. >> absolutely reject that notion that description. i think that's absolutely wrong. i don't think that represents where we are as a part and where we're going as a party. that's got to be one of the most fundamental takeaways from the election. >> joining us discuss all of this and more, republican strategic mark mckinnon co-founder of no labels which aims to get political leaders to stop fighting and start fixing. a lot needs to be fixed. i guess i wonder, as someone that has watched this election cycle, what you make of the ashes that have resulted at the end of it, which is to say, how do

and the entire range of domestic programs. for education, that will be head start, which is in the department of health and human services. there will be a $4.80 billion cut, the largest education cut in the history of the country. that will move us that courts whether the goal is -- move us backwards. our biggest challenge in the short-term is to work together with groups like the urban league and the national council of la raza to come up with a balanced approach to deficit reduction and ask people who can pay a little bit more to do so without balancing the budget on the backs of children and students and working people and low income people. a couple of quick things i want to say. we are also facing increasing enrollments. enrollments are expected to go up in the next decade at the elementary and secondary level. we have 22% of children in the united states living in poverty, the highest level in decades. it creates more challenges for schools. in terms of the policy front, congress is gridlock. the main educational law was supposed to be read authorized in 2007, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012. next year is not optimistic. the

employers who say being forced to comply with the contraception mandate issued by the department of health and human serviceseir rebleg just beliefs. today the hobby lobby arts and craft stores chain asked the federal judge for injunction against the mandate. the owners say it could force them to provide insurance that covers what they call, quote: abortion causing drugs and devices. ever since h.h.s. under the direction of secretary cath lean sebelius issued guidance stemming from the president's healthcare law, many employers have been fighting against the contraception mandate. two have won injunctions including one in colorado and another in michigan just this week there was also a key development in the fight against the healthcare law at the supreme court level this week. liberty university, which brought one of the original cases against the law is fighting to continue a challenge that was blocked by a federal appeals court based on different grounds and issues than the supreme court addressed in its historic decision back in june. after the university petitioned the high court for chance to have the

on tuesday the department of health and human services issued new regulations that explained the health care law in practical terms like what will a deductible actually be able to go up to and can your insurer jack up the price when you hit your 30th birthday or 50th birthday and this one is for you, john boehner. what is the policy for smokers anyway? the answers there just so you know are in order, a deductible can in the cheapest plans be $2,000 or more in some cases. insurers can't hit you with a huge new bill when you hit a new decade. increases due to your age have to be gradual and smokers can be charged 1.5 times as many as non-smokers but not if they enter a program to help them quit smoking. as a nation's near universal health care system is being defined in washington there is a campaign right now to make sure people around the country know about it, understand it and become part of it. if this campaign succeeds, it could make the affordable care act bigger and better than we thought. you have probably heard that the law will cover 30 million people. what you probably don't k

richardson apartment, that is very dependent on our relationship with both the department of public health and human services agency. so, again, we look forward to answering any questions that you may have on our parcels as well as the rest of the octavia plan. thank you. >> supervisor wiener? >> thank you, mr. chairman. i have a question. i don't know if it's proper to address it more at mr. rich or open [speaker not understood]. so, i know in terms of the financial transactions surrounding the parcel transfers, earlier this year the transportation authority and its council had raised concerns about those transactions. and i just wanted to know what the concern was and what the status is and were those concerns valid or not valid? >> thank you. shortly before an earlier hearing on the finance committee a few months ago, transportation authority raised questions before the hearing. one of the reasons we're here today is to address those concerns. so, we have been advised by the city attorney that the path we're on is something that we can do. i would refer to the city attorney for further detail on that beca

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department of health and human services and is commissioner of the new york city department of health for mental hygiene. we also have the interim commissioner, warren a. smith. lauren a. smith has been the interim commissioner of the massachusetts department of public health since october 25, 2012 and prior to assuming that position served as medical director and chief medical officer of the department. let me welcome you to the committee, and let me ask you. you are aware the committee is holding an investigative hearing and we are doing so having the practice of taking testimony under it. do either one of you have an objection to taking testimony under oath? >> no. >> no. >> the chair then advises you that under the rules of the house and the rules of the committee you are entitled to be advised by counsel. do you desire to be advised with counsel during your testimony today? in that case, please rise, raise your right hand and i will swear you in. do you swear to tell the whole truth, and nothing but the truth so help you god? you are now under oath subject to the penalties set fo

>> it basically means the department of health and human services comes in and has to build an insurance regulation system itself. >> john: working with the states or just creating and imposing it on the states? >> it is more the latter than the former but here's the problem. so first of all, if the states did it themselves, that's the way the law is written so that's the optimal situation for carrying out that law. never mind whether people think it should have been a different law. this is the one we're working with. that's how it is supposed to function. that's the ideal situation. right now, it looks like only about 20 states including d.c. are going to actually do it that way. about another half-dozen or so are going to do what's called a partnership which is very vaguely defined but that means that they're going to help the federal government carry out this work, the feds will do most of it looks like but the states will, at a minimum cooperate and probably on top of that, depending on what state actually try to assist. >> john: assist the government in implementing the law. >> tha

and health, housing, fbi, air traffic controllers from the food safety, entire range of domestic programs. for education if you count headstart, which is at the department of health and human services a $4.8 billion cut would be the largest education cuts ever in the history of the country. that would just move us -- essentially move us backwards on whether the goal is closing achievement gaps come increasing high school graduation rates, increasing college access and college completion. our biggest challenge in the short-term this lame-duck lame-duck session this to work together with groups like the urban league and national council to come up with a balanced approach to deficit reduction. as genocide, as people who can pay more to do so without balancing the budget on the backs of children and students and working people and low-income people. the other cop couple quick things i want to say is we are facing increased enrollment expected to go to the next decade, both of elementary secondary level. we have now 22% of children in the united states living in poverty. it's the highest level in decades. it creates for challenges for schools. congress is in terms of the policy front v

plus the district of columbia that have submitted that declaration letters to the department of health and human servicesndicating that they will be running their own exchanges. we have another four states that indicated they will be doing a partnership exchange. we're waiting on the decisions from other states. we're waiting to learn what those decisions will be. host: states that are declining in to join our republican states. texas, alaska -- what is the reasoning behind that? guest: there are a number of different reasons why states are choosing not to run exchanges. in some cases, it has to do with ideology and opposition to the health reform law. in other cases, it has to do with concerns over state resources and the ability of states to actually build these exchanges. this is a significant undertaking for states and will require a fair number of staff resources. while there is federal money available, there are still resources that the states will have to put there. for some smaller states, it is a question of whether the exchange will be viable. if you do not have enough people going into the exc

and $0 first month's payment on any new volkswagen. visit vwdealer.com today. >> gretchen: 43 minutes after the top of the hour. quick headlines. did the department of health and human services? kathleen sebelius facing a subpoena, so we may find out. the house ways and means committee says the obama administration has stonewalled request for information. forget co-pays. this illinois doctor charges only five bucks a visit. the 87-year-old doesn't even accept medical insurance. he claims it's not worth the hassle. he says he's just interested in helping people and not making much dough. all right. steve? >> steve: president obama yesterday held his first press conference in eight months and got testy when asked about the deadly attack in libya where four americans were murdered. >> i would like for you to address the families, if you can, on 9-11 as commander in chief, did you issue any orders to try to protect their lives? >> i'll address the families not through the press. i'll address the families directly as i already have. i can tell you that immediately upon finding out that our folks were in danger that my orders to my national security team were do whatever we need t

yesterday the department of health and human services released some of the new health care regulations4. some of the new things that are going to take effect, and you heard about a lot of these things -- require companies to cover people with preexisting conditions. you heard about that. they'll prohibit insurers from charging women higher premiums than men. there will be limits on premiums. they will, however, be able to allow apparently older patients to wind up paying about three times more than younger people. >> alisyn: apparently every year you get older, your premium will tick up a little bit. you remember when nancy pelosi said, well, we're going to have to pass it to find out what's in it. today is the day. yesterday when they released it, that some information is slowly dribbling out, some of these won't be implemented 'til 2014, but we're starting to get information about how it's going to look now and if prices and premiums are going up. >> brian: meanwhile, when you tack about what the states are going to do to help finance this, they're supposed to set up exchanges with p