dr. rob thompson, side by side. mike, you buying some clothes? uh-huh.e're not going to let you buy those clothes. and they pay every -- let me put it this way. everywhere i go, people stuff business cards in my hand, wanting to buy me clothes. vb wants to take me shopping. i have clothes in my closet with the price tag still on them. wipe the jealousy off your face. i've never seen so much jealousy in one room.

dr. thompson.ow, our final speaker is karen, she's the president and c.e.o. of america's health insurance plans, which is the trade association for america's health insurance plans. she's been working with the plans for, i can't believe this, 20 years or so. before that, she directed the a.f.l. work on employee benefits. on the professional staff of what is now the senate health committee. karen's here to share a bit of what her members are encountering as they prepare for the full scale implementation of the major a.c.a. provisions, including ex changes. both the federally facilitated exchanges and the state-based ex changes over the coming months, or weeks as the case may be. >> karen thank you so much for being with us. >> good afternoon everyone, it's terrific to participate on this wonderful panel. i look forward to questions as well. i have four slides after this one, and what i tried to do is anticipate all the great information that would be imparted already, if i knew i was batting clean-u

dr. chris thompson from the university of san francisco. go, dons. 1855. i have not been there that long. i am in the department of exercise and sports science. i think it is a good match for me to be demonstrating the wii, which is a good physical activity. i am joined on the stage by a student, not from usf, but from san francisco state. we actually talk to each other. this is mackenna. >> good morning. >> finally, i am joined by alicia from the independent living center in san francisco. it is great for all of you to be here today. people will be trickling in over the next half hour. we will give you a taste of what wii is like. we have set up the game. i will start by playing mackeena in a game of tennis. the interesting thing about

we will turn out to joe thompson, dr. joe thompson has the title surgeon general for the state of arkansas, which iss a pretty impressive but it belies even at that it's very wide-ranging portfolio of responsibility in academics, in clinical were, in public policy. .. joe? >> thank you. i appreciate being here. we look forward to question and answers. to give a little bit of ab environmental perspective. arkansas is a little bit more politically diversified than maryland. [laughter] we have a republican house, a republican senate, and democratic governor. i have served as the cabinet-level adviser to the governor and former governor. we're in the middle of really a four or five year system transformation that predate the affordable care act. we started with the work force strategic planning process. we lost a multipayer public information. and along came the fract -- affordable care act which i described as disruptive. what's what you do with it. the brand of the arkansas health connector originally we were not going parti

. >> barry: carol thompson, james buford, dr.ruce brown, filmmaker: it brought the discussion into the black household about politics, because before then there was no reason to get involved because there was nobody that looked like you, that sounded like you. he just wasn't the mayor, he was our friend. >> ivanhoe donaldson: he loved people. he went out and he talked to them, but he remembered them, he knew their names. he gave them eye contact, he related to them, they were somebody to him and he became somebody to them. >> berry: marion would smooch it up with everybody. charisma, magnetism. >> i think that was his art. i mean, you walk in the room, people say, "mr. mayor," and they're ready to shake your hand and give you anything you want. jonetta rose-barras, author: it was like that with marion barry, he could get people to follow him. >> effi barry: wherever we would go there would just be throngs of people, and of course, throngs of women. ♪ >> tom sherwood: it was like a teenager perpetually on a date. she could be 15 y

dr. height, i told secretary, i would call her back. she insisted on speaking with me. thompson, my son, you must come now. now! i dropped everything. got in the cab, went to see her. when i walked into her office, the winds were out certain ils because a shoulders shehoms climbed to reach success. i said, mother height, what will do? we must get this deal completed. she said. height, give me a few minutes to reflect. she said, mr. thompson, see what you can do. you ever met him? >> i have met jeffrey thompson. yes. talk to u -- did you him at all ever about any of this? >> no, i certainly tried. way before i started researching him.article, i ran into a social event. there are many in washington, d.c. nikita mr. thompson, i'm stewart. i said do you think we could talk now? remember he said, no. >> how old is he? >> 58. is he from? >> from jamaica in the perish of st. elizabeth. >> how did he get to the united states? >> he moved here with his father other siblings before he moved here, his mother had come here. and two of his siblings passed away and she was upset according fam

dr. nine i told my cemetery that i would call her back. she insisted on speaking with me. she said, mr. thompson you must come now. now. i dropped everything, got in a cab and went to see her. when i wanted her office, it was like the windows that are for sale a cousin a certain gentleman on his shoulder she climbed to achieve success and for whom she had opened -- she many doors dared to walk away from this mission. so what will you do? we must get this deal completed, she said. i said, give me a few minutes to reflect. before i left her office, she said, mr. thompson, see what you can do. >> have you ever met him? >> i have met jeffrey thompson. >> did you talk to him ever about all of this? >> i certainly tried. way before i started researching him --ticle, i ran into he was walking in and i actually said oh, mr. thompson come i am nikita stewart. i've been calling you. you never returned any of my calls. you think we can talk now? our member he said -- no. >> how this he? >> 58 years old. >> where is he from? savanna. he moved here with his father and of the siblings before he moved here --