. >> well, a lot of that credit goes to deputy, sitting attorney, mahony and just katie porter as well. >> great. >> and as well, as, you know, the department representatives in particular, and department chief, tony olka and the director hiks, and i will put a great deal of effort into this too and so many thanks to them as well. >> oh,, thank you. >> is there any questions from other commissioners? >> commissioner loftus, you are first. >> thank you, president mazzucco. >> this is just a tremendous body of work and i being here with the commissioner i am so grateful that there is a framework that we are actually required to do, given the number of lawyers that we have on the commission and we like to follow the rules and we hold the other people to follow the rules and we should know what the rules are that we are accountable. thank you for that and it will be help follow for me to know what reports we took off. in large part because, one of the things having been in government, but now being outside in government and outside of government in the non-profit is that the one piece that

policymaking process in this includes the link to the online tool that was developed this includes katie porter and her team so not just to medicare proposals, but a comprehensive proposal controlling health care costs would transformation. and after careful analysis, we agreed on areas where action is needed and this is different on specific recommendations and there was enough commonality to just momentum and you see those here on the side. and this includes improving market competition and something that has been pretty controversial and i think that many of us were pretty surprised to see that in almost all of the proposals. and con considerable aosals. and considerable agreement when we look at this, it tends in the bipartisan proposals as well. and that really was part of the goal, to see if this makes its way to the policymaking system. some of the common elements, there is more information available and all of them recommend this and this is apparent with many of the organizations. it also encourages insurance practices with value-based purchasing. in some of the areas where we saw the