mr. patterson, please. mr. patterson: thank you for the opportunity to submit testimony. about the insurance exchange in colorado and the people who are getting coverage through the individual market. my name is kevin patterson. i'm the ceo for connect for health colorado. our mission is to increase access, affordability for families and employers purchasing health insurance. i'm proud of the innovation to reduce the uninsured rate and increase enrollment. how thissed to share unique division allows us to expand health to the people of colorado. since we opened for business in 2013, we have helped hundreds of thousands of coloradans at the desk get the coverage they need to protect their health and livelihood. increasing health care started years before the passage of the affordable health care. in 2006, a bipartisan group of lawmakers studied models under then republican governor bill owens. with the passage of the aca, our state legislator passed a bill creating that colorado benefited exchange as a public nonprofit entity that had the bipartisan legislative oversight co

mr. patterson? >> for mr. patterson inle colorado the answer is yes. >> the [inaudible] . >> yes, chairman the answer from new jersey is yes. >> mr. slavitt. >> yes, mr. chairman. >> mr. pope? >> yes, mr. chairman. >> thank you. commissioner, why did new jersey decide to establish a state-based marketplace rather than relying on the federally facilitated marketplace? >> thank you, chairman, for that question. as i mentioned previously, we were sending funds to washington and the money that we were sending, we weren't being able to utilize it properly. and on top of that, we were seeing policies that were coming out of washington that was just creating confusion and making our job much more challenging. by keeping those funds in new jersey, we were able to tailor it specifically to our residents. we've been able to use that money to improve and expand our navigator's program, outreach, education. >> please explain, please explain the navigator. >> yes, chairman, the navigators are individual organizations in the

mr. patterson. you haven't addressed the illegal parking situation, which would seem to address whether there was a u.d.u. or not? >> sure. i think it's an issue in that needs to be addressed in the other process. >> i can make a comment if there's an open visual connection to a residential unit on the property. >> clerk: okay. right now, president lazarus had a question about the parking, not about the open and visible. president lazarus, do you have anything further? >> president lazarus: no, not on that topic. >> clerk: now we're moving onto the rebuttal permission for the planning department? >> i'm not allowed to make a comment? >> clerk: no, sir, your time is up. thank you. >> thank you. scott sanchez, planning department. the board of supervisors and the mayor adopted the legislation to protect housing, and specifically in general for rent controlled housing and tardable rent controlled housing. it is not the easiest code provision to implement. whenever you have something that's looking at u

mr. patterson immittee would agree w -- assume, mr. patterson, that you would agree that the flexibility granted to the states is the flexibility that would build upon the existing protection all foundation -- protectional foundation of the aca, not flexibility to get away from those? is that a more fair characterization of what you articulated? -- patterson: i'm sorry, i was on mute. the flexibility within the congress -- within the affordable care act to the best of our ability in the state. >> not flexibility to undermine the foundational characteristics of the aca. i think flexibility can be interpreted different ways, and i took from one member that he may have interpreted your point to be flexibility to move away from what the aca provides, and i want to be careful that not be a position -- i do not believe that works with the way that you represented yourself so far today. mr. patterson: i would agree with your characterization, yes. >> i wonder if i could turn to mr. slavitt on the issue of pre-existing conditions. in michigan,

mr. patterson. >> the answer is yes. >> i ask now. >> the answer from new jersey is yes. >> yes, mr. chairman. >> why did new jersey decide to establish the marketplace rather than relyingma on the federally facilitated marketplace? >> thank you, chair man, for that question. asha i mentioned previously, we were sending to washington and the money that we were sending we were not able to utilize it properly. and on top of that, we were seeing policies that were coming outt of washington that was just creating confusion and making our job much more challenging. by keeping those in new jersey, we are able to tailor specifically to our residents. we've been using it to improve and expand the navigators program outreach, education. >> the organizations in the communities that help our residents to educate them about the exchange we had one navigator in 202019 while under the federal platform and we have managed to possess much more money now, 3.5 million and expanded it to 16 navigators to this coming open enrollment. >> thank you very much. >> mr. slavitt, how destructive would it be fo

very good to have you with us mr patterson so i want to thank you know your reaction 1st and what do you think about the even ian reaction tehran saying it will not go on a major shopping spree after the end of this embargo do you believe that. i think that's a very wise statement by the foreign minister he said specifically that the unconventional arms weapons of mass destruction and a rapid purchases of conventional arms do not fit into iran's defense doctrine at the moment and probably also do not fit iran's surf and their. situation. but the united states is very much aware of this and we are very eager the drop in ministration is very eager to have a verifiable peace agreement with her and that totally excludes nuclear weapons and so i hope we are all very hopeful that these discussions can take place as soon as possible yeah before we talk about what could happen next with the us how do you think other signatories of the 2050 nuclear deal including the e 3 russia and china will react to the lifting of this arms embargo on iran you think the russians for instance or the chinese