ms. hayes served as vice president of health policy for jennings policy strategies, inc., and worked as a health policy adviser for two large catholic health systems and cardinal glennen, children's hospital. ms. hayes was also served as health policy advisor to members of the senate and house of representatives in both political parties, served as a program consultant to the state of missouri, medicaid agency, and has been an education policy adviser for the state of texas in the office of state, federal relations. ms. maize hayes received a bachelor of arts degree in international studies from the university of north carolina at chapel hill and a juris doctorate from the american university western college of law. following her remarks we'll hear from dr. l.h. schwamm professor of neurology at harvard medical school and executiveman of neurology at hospital where he is the chief of the stroke division. he also serves as director of the partners national telestroke network as well as medical d

ms. hayes: we are on the banks of the potomac, as you can see. we are directly across from mount vernon. this cat away park is a national park that was signed into legislation by john f. kennedy in 1961. it came about because a , francesoman from ohio payne bolton, a member of the mount vernon ladies association, bought a farm right here where we are standing. 1950's.or sale in the she bought it to prevent it from becoming developed, and then donated the land. the foundation helped lead a partnership of organizations on this area in preserving six miles of shoreline on the potomac river. also involved with the alice foundation, the homeowners who live here in piscataway park, and individuals from the county. piscataway park is nearly 5000 acres. the foundation stewards 200 acres of the park through a corporation with the national park service. there is a section down the road called the creek site, which has a lovely boardwalk. there are some other entry points for piscataway park. we have a visitors center, five trails, a fishing. , heritage rea

ms. hayes was an associate research professor at george washington university school of public health. prior to joining, she served as vice president of health policy for jennings policy strategies ink and practiced law and worked for ealth policy adviser o large catholic health care systems. she served as health policy adviser to members of the senate and house of representatives in both political parties. served as a program consultant to the state of missouri. medicaid agency and as health and education policy adviser for the state of texas. ms. hayes received a bachelor of arts degree in international studies from the university of north carolina at chapel hill and jury is doctorate from washington college of law. following her remarks, we will here from professor of neurology at harvard medical school and executive vice chairman of neurology at the massachusetts general hospital where he is the chief of the stroke division and serves as director of the telestroke network as medical directo

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ms. hayesing b was an associate research professor at george washington university school of public health and health services. prior to joining gw, ms. hayes served as vice president of health policy for jennings inc., andategies, worked as a health policy advisor for 2 large catholic health systems. the children's hospital. ms. hayes also served as the health policy advisor to members of the senate and house of bothsentatives in political parties. she served as a program consultant to the state of missouri, medicaid agency, and helped the education policy advisor in the state of texas in the office of state-federal relations. ms. hayes received a bachelor of arts degree in international studies from the university of north carolina at chapel hill, and a juris doctorate from the american university washington college of law. following her remarks, we would ,ear from dr. lee schwamm professor of neurology at harvard medical school, and executive vice chairman of neurology at the massachusetts g

ms. dash: thanks, and now i would like to introduce mark hayes. he is senior vice president of federal policy and advocacy at ascension. mr. hayes: good morning. we are glad to be a sponsor of this session. very timely today. if you don't know about us, ascension is the largest nonprofit health system in the united states and the largest catholic system in the world. we are committed to achieving 100% access and 100% coverage. this session is so timely as all eyes moved to the senate to work the very hard work to strengthen and stabilize the individual market and insure that health plans can participate and have a vibrant, competitive market and to preserve the coverage that we have under current law. we're looking forward to this session. we thank you for being here. and thank you all for being here very much. have at it. ms. dash: thank you, mark. let me give context for the conversation. clearly in the wake of the passage of the affordable health care act yesterday, there are a lot of questions about what happens next. there will be a lot quest