dr. alice rivlin, senior fellow at the brookings institution, who will be moderating the final session. >> thank you, paul. [background sounds] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> okay, are we live now? i think we are. now we're going to shift the focus. we have talked about this data release and several other data releases, and we've talked from the point of view of researchers and health plans and the policy community, but what it's all about is patients and consumers. and so now we are going to shift the focus to the patient, the consumer, and talk about what they need to know. and i hope we can be a bit more visionary and expansive in this panel because we are where we are, but where do we want to be? and i hope that these three representatives who have worked very hard on behalf of consumers over quite a long time can help us think about what do consumers really need, what do they need it for and how can that data be generated? to help us with this question we have, first, robert krughoff who is the president for the center for the study of services/consumer checkb

dr. jonathan woodson who served as assistant secretary of defense for health affairs as well as former white house budget director alice rivlin and former undersecretary of defense comptroller robert hale. from the brookings institution this is two hours. >> good morning everyone. welcome to brookings. merry christmas, happy hanukkah. i michael o'hanlon on 21st century security and intelligence. we are privileged to have an all-star cast on the subject of military health care reform. we are going to hear from assistant secretary of defense for health affairs dr. jonathan woodson first. he is responsible for the 50 billion-dollar plus enterprise that takes care of almost 10 million people including dod active-duty personnel and families, retirees. they took care of 50,000 wanted on the battlefield and that is a very large player in her national health care system. for that reason after we heard from dr. woodson and we will assemble a panel of distinguished scholars to range across not only the military domain but also the broader health care and economic domain of her country as well and i will have the privilege of monitoring