co-moderating with me today is diane rowland, the executive vice president of the foundation, and herself one of the leading health experts in the country. diane. >> thank you and welcome to all of you. i want to share with at my appreciation of you braving the weather to be with us today. we weren't sure if the audience would all have to watch via media or be with us today. i noted, and he just said that we would talk about what the law actually says. we will not talk about the supreme court debate over state-based exchanges. those topics will come up much later. what we want to do today is make sure the basic framework of the law is clear and you have an understanding of where to dig deeper when you want to talk about other issues. with that, let's start. we have a lot to cover in a very short amount of time. all of the speakers have been given a short timeframe to talk of a very complex set of changes that have really revamped much of our health care system. >> terrific. thank you, diane. a little bit of housekeeping if i can. first of all, if you're in the mood to tweet, you can use t

code moderate with me today is diane rowland, the executive vice president of the foundation, and herself one of the leading health experts in the country. diane. >> thank you and welcome to all of you. i want to share with at my appreciation of you braving the weather to be with us today. we weren't sure if the audience would all have to watch me a media -- via media or be with us today. i noted, and he just said that we would talk about what the law actually says. we will not talk about the supreme court debate over -- those topics will come up much later. what we want to do today is make sure the basic framework of the law is clear and you have an understanding of where to dig deeper when you want to talk about other issues. with that, let's start. we have a lot to cover in a very short amount of time. all of the speakers have been given a short timeframe to talk of a very complex set of changes that have really revamp much of our health care system. >> terrific. thank you, diane. a little bit of house cut -- housekeeping if i can. first of all, if you're in the mood to tweet, you can

medicaid and chip we are very lucky that we have on the dais, one of america's most former experts, diane rowland, to be in addition to her position, has been on the medicaid and chip access commission. she has graciously building for charlene. will be a video recording for this briefing available monday or tuesday on the kaiser website kff.org. thanks very much to the foundation for taking care of that very important aspect of our work. a few days later, there will be a transcript you can look at on the alliance website. allhealth.org. those of you watching on c-span you may, if you have access to a computer, go to allhealth.org. it has all of the speaker presentations, you can follow along as we go. for those of you in the room you can go back to materials all of the presentation, and as i mentioned, the biographical sketches as well. at the appropriate time, those of you in the room can ask our panel a question by filling in the green question card and it will be brought forward, or you can go to one of the microphones and ask it. orally -- ask it orally. at the end of the briefing there is an