kaplan's point. in terms of preventive care that has a good pay off, i feel very strongly with the evidence suggesting prenatal and child care is crucial. >> the medicaid program has a program epsdt. are you familiar with that? it is a comprehensive set of benefits. it is -- is it essential that that same set of benefits, which includes preventive screening tests be available on all accounts? . . when we think about setting up a public auction, it will be able to put competitive pressure on private firms because there may be more administrative costs. >> is there much difference between the two? >> i believe it is substantial. >> the 25%-45%, is that the magnitude that you understand? >> i have to check the numbers to make sure i am answering correctly. i am happy to give back to you on that. >> thank you. one of the things we are trying to do is to transform healthcare. we are also trying to make sure everyone has coverage. we are doing financial access at the same time. should we do them one at a t

he's now with kaplan and was a pillar of the atlantic council. he provides me into the rest of our leadership strategic advice as well as sound legal advice and is still free walking around and have not yet been incarcerated. that is because of wall slocombe. i am grateful for your service, and we're delighted to have a distinguished former pentagon official moderate this evening's discussion. [applause] >> thank you. it is a great honor to be asked to introduce that roe keating. he has that kind of resume that mere mortals only dream of. he graduated from the naval academy in 1971. shortly thereafter, began a distinguished career as a legal aviator. the most impressive thing is not the stress on his sleeve or the stars, if he were wearing a slightly different uniform, but it is that he is carried out 1200 arrested landings on aircraft carriers. he was the did the commander in thewing during the first gulf war, and he was the commander during visiting gulf war. in between, like all senior military officers, he has to do the additional penance, wo

walt, who's now with kaplan and drysdale is -- and this is not an overuse of the word, a pillar of the atlantic council. he provides me and the rest of our leadership strategic advice as well as sound legal advice. i am still free walking around and have not yet been incarcerated. that's all because of walt slocombe. walt, i'm grateful for your service and we're delighted to have such a distinguished former pentagon official moderate this evening's discussion. [applause] >> thanks, fred. it's a great honor to be asked to introduce admiral keating. he has that kind of resume that mere mortals only dream of. he graduated from the naval academy in 1971. shortly thereafter, began a distinguished career as a naval aviator. the most impressive thing is not the stripes on his sleeve or the stars if he were wearing a slightly different uniform, he has carried out 1200 arrested landings on aircraft carriers. he was the deputy commander of an air wing during the first gulf war and he was the commander during the second gulf war. he's had the duty of occasional penance working in washington in a

going into research for that but in terms of pleasure the books i'm looking for to reading are fred kaplan biography of lincoln as a writer which came out earlier this year, and hw brands new biography of fdr, traitor to his class which was a runner-up for the pulitzer earlier this year as well. and then on the fiction side i love reading books about india, i traveled there and find it a fascinating country and so i've got the sierra poppies on my list for the summer and also a huge fan collecting these books over the last couple years so i got one of the last ones i haven't read it, is a battlefield, on the list for this summer as well as a collective and volume of the w. somerset maugham's short stories that i picked up and a bookstore in long beach last summer, of course one of the big influences on the writing so i love to read them together when i can. >> children's author emma walton hamilton, what is the key to writing a children's book? >> gosh, i would say respecting children as readers and not talking down to them. if any thing it is basically about trusting their judgment and th