inside of the four walls of kaiser permanente.o bring everything to the. >> we could have done kaiser and skipped the aca if we could have somehow instituted that nationwide. i like what you say here bernard, i'm not sure what you mean. we asked you about obamacare and you go we are a law-abiding company. therefore you're working to implement it. what if you weren't law abiding you wouldn't want to implement this thing? >> we've been a long-term supporter of access to care for everyone. >> that's not necessarily obamacare. >> well millions more are covered today. >> i understand. >> because of the affordable care act. >> as you pointed out we needed to transform -- >> absolutely. >> and it's doing it on its own. it's not doing it because of obamacare. >> but in fairness we're talking about the first year of the implementation. so we think it is headed down the right path. there's a lot of work to do. for this thing to get -- >> there's some things that can -- there are still some things that pay very careful attention to, in the f

arthur rock and antonio e thompson who have been long time members and kaiser permanente, we have a very generous member of our board who is unanimously made several large gifts to here's to unanimous here's the to the user i irvine foundation the chevron corporation mitch and kathy johnson aren't i supposed to have an automatic package turner. the bechtel foundation and others we've got a lot of generous people i want to say one other thing about the club. some of you that know me better than others are aware of my politically i think inclinations on the conservative side who pains me, however, the dialog the political dialog in our country has become unfortunately bitter, contentious, derivative and one of the things that the club offers all of us is an opportunity for civilized dialog in a world that sorely needs it so congratulations to all of us particularly to the people are involved directly that with the commonwealth club and gloria and may god bless that wonderful project. thank you (clapping) and now to give us some words of prayer and benefit decision that go beyond any messag

this percentage in eliminating the tennis to join kaiser permanente will help us avoid the cadillac tax that is for 3 benefit cycles in 2013 we have a decrease ever 8.2 percent saving over $20 million for all the employers we work with and when rate increases nationally we're between 8 and 4 percent we have better patient management and low runldz from blue shield and kaiser. the rate decrease it is presented for $19.4 million in federal tax for the affordable health care a quarter of a million dollar for the research outcomes fee that go to covered california. so all the fees are covered in the premiums and we have a rate reduction we have an owners required that establishes the anchorage for the 10 months populated county's in the state the majority of unities unions have waved that for the employer contributions and the contribution is still used to calculate the retirees rates and a few of the existing unions. i present this and urge your support we're very proud and happy to have mark farrell on that >> we also have our actuary here in you have questions. >> so i recognize supervis

this is being backed by the clinton family foundation and kaiser permanente. >>> developing news out of taiwan. at least 40 people were killed when a transair shaw airplane flied. it happened about eight hours ago. the 70-seat turboprop plane was making a second emergency landing attempt and crashed near the runway on an island west of the mainland. there were 58 passengers and crew on board. 11 people survived but were injured. the typhoon passed through earlier in the day. trans asia had canceled most flights because of the weather. >>> the bodies of some of the victims from the crash of malaysian flight 17 received a somber welcome in the netherlands today. ♪ >> 40 caskets with unidentified bodies were put into hearses. the dutch lost 193 people in the crash which is prompting a national day of mourning in that country. some of the 298 people on board were internationally-known medical researchers on their way to australia for the 2014 a.i.d.s. conference. former president bill clinton pay pained tribb -- paid tribute to the victims at thattent event. >> it's important that this g

the crash happened at the intersection of cottel road right next to kaiser permanente. bob redell live at police headquarters. bob, the officers say the crash, the driver tried to make a run for it? >> reporter: that's correct. good morning, scott and kris. and san jose police can understand why this driver tried to make a run for it, based on what they eventually found in his car. the car in question, a black mitsubishi sedan. the driver of that car, a 36-year-old man was heading south on cottel when he ran a red light around 3:30 this morning. he ended up colliding with a blue mustang, sending it into a third car. the driver who ran the red light was hurt, but not bad enough that he couldn't make a run for it, which he did. he ran down cottel, turned the corner on to santa teresa. we're talking about a good two to three-block head start here. but police tell us they were so fast in responding, two of their officers was able to catch up to the driver, who was still running down a sidewalk, and take him into custody. the driver of the third car, not hurt. while we were

. >> reporter: he is a parasitologist who practices at kaiser permanente and teaches at stanford. he says you first have to look for infected animals like birds who serve as meals for these insects. and there are plenty of them around here. this is the california official west nile website. santa clara has 429 cases of infected birds this year. not only tops in the state, but four times as more than the next closest county. given how many case we've seen of dead birds, does this pose a tremendous risk to humans? >> i would not say it's tremendous at this point, but the unknown is what we're concerned enough to take on fogging. >> reporter: it's one of many steps health officials say will help you from contracting this illness. >> they do what's caused integrated pest management. so there's many, many, many layers of prevention. >> reporter: this is santa clara county's public health officish who tells us all kinds of steps. here's the result so far. 15 reported cases in humans in california, not one in santa clara county. she recommends measures to prevent infection, such as elimi

. >> kaiser permanente hospital in oakland will open, 349-bed facility is located at the corner of broadway and mcarthur boulevard across the street from the medical center it is replacing. the one million square foot building has private rooms for every patient. the rooms come with wi-fi and room service. >> millions more g.m. cars are added to a growing recall list. here is america's money report. >> good morning, topping america's money, g.m.'s growing recall crisis ating 7.6 million vehicles to the lit of recalls bringing the total recall in north america to 29 million this year. and a cosmetic company settled a deal over products. >> and there is a new flight from london to los angeles which will cause a price war and prompt other budget carriers to take on the routes. >> a bill now will offer full day kindergarten every california public school. some districts only offer half day classes and backers of full day kindergarten believe it will help youngsters later if life when it comes to literacy can math and requires the superintendent of public instruction to come inwith a plan by nex

- it is not unusual for large scale health projects, for example, i can think of big project kaiser permanente when they installed records, cost a billion dollars to put in place. it is hard to know what the benchmark is to build a consumer facing website instead of back end systems that connect to 50 states, to medicaid plans, to insurance companies. so i'm not quite sure. >> let me help you a little bit because i don't know if you remember or not, but my background is a 30-year information technology professional. i have been through the lessons learned and the trial by error of trying to project costs of complex it systems like this. the gao says we spent nearly a billion dollars on this, with the cost climbing. do you believe that taxpayers have received a good return on their investment thus far? >> congressman, i think two things happen and it is hard to know how much fits into each category. one thing that happened is clearly this was a more complex project and needed a lot more work than people expected and for that part -- >> that goes -- that goes back to the genesis of some of the q

the crash happened at the intersection of cottel road right next to kaiser permanente.