the nature of our business is reischauer, so if we stretch that to have one person work, inherent in that is over time. in terms of the best practices, most of the transit system's i'm aware of, especially on the bus side deploy part-time operators to be somewhere between 10 to a quarter of their workforce because of the peaks in schedules. as a benchmark for ballpark as past practice, that is a way to build efficient schedules, the use of part-timers. we do not have that available to us right now. that causes some of additional scheduled overtime. the other variables that take into effect to build on what was said is the things like the quality of the service, if you will. when you have a lot of delays, that causes additional overtime. one of the other things is as well as the age of the fleet, in terms of the fundamental practice of providing service on a transit system, best practice is most people looked to balance some percentage of old- timers and part-timers on both bus and rail molds somewhere between 10% to 25% to balance the peak times. muni is a little bit less peak- inten

a passing reischauer is certainly possible for the next couple hours until the sun sets. moved out.ain has check out the numbers and you will see 0.6 of 1 inch of rain from the shore activity. the highs are -- the high temperatures occurred after midnight. kind of on the tail end of yesterday's warm weather. it was 68 degrees as the day turned over to wednesday at the inner harbor. 62 early this morning at dwi marshall. it has been a struggle to get back to that 60-degree mark. these were the morning lows. the lows so far across the region. some colder to the north and west. 20's and 30's and subfreezing temperatures. that is where the northwesterly winds are coming from, so expect a cooler nights. holding around 60 now. the low to mid-50's. kind of bouncing back and forth between 39, 40, 41 degrees and as the skies clear, they may have freezing temperatures in some of the colder valleys and frasca buyers raised in allegheny county and a freeze warning for parts of west virginia. 46 inner harbor and a bit of a breeze filling -- making it feel chilly. some scattered showers will dimi

that is all i have to say. >> okay, roger, go ahead. >> i would like to thank bob reischauer for pointing out the issue of quality. anytime you cut payments that are not matched by productivity increases weathered the payments to doctors or medicare advantage plans, you run the risk of reducing quality. for that reason, i thought that the original plan to pay private plans more if they achieved high-quality scores was a good one. we can argue about the measures of quality, but it was a good start. however, that plan got watered down to the point where it has simply become a way of restoring some of the budgeted payment cuts so it was someone step forward and at least one backward. now on the question of the relevant life expectancy for calculating the medicare obligations, i disagree with you. if you want to ask how much am i going to get out of medicare, at age 65, then you should look at life expectancy past age 65 but if you want to take a societal perspective, how much is society going to have to pay for additional medicare and then the right perspective is life expectancy at earth. >

reischauer. we'll take a couple questions. i ask you leave any technical questions to the background briefing we will do after the secretaries and trustees depart. we'll take a couple. up front? >> this is for secretary sebelius. you mentioned some affects of the affordable care act on medicare. besides the 500 billion that was cut from medicare advantage, what other specific programs are affecting that long-term cost? if you could just explain some of them? >> first of all there wasn't 500 billion cut from medicare advantage. that is a portion of the reduction in cost increases over time. certainly there are some significant delivery system reforms that are just getting underway, we anticipate significant savings. the accountable care organization structure, the new partnership for patients which i just mentioned which has some cost savings. we have new tools for going after fraud, waste and abuse last year alone produced about $4 billion back into the trust fund. we produced a report yesterday that is available in more detai

reischauer. we'll take a couple questions.ou leave any technical questions to the background briefing we will do after the secretaries and trustees depart. we'll take a couple. up front? >> this is for secretary sebelius. you mentioned some affects of the affordable care act on medicare. besides the 500 billion that was cut from medicare advantage, what other specific programs are affecting that long-term cost? if you could just explain some of them? >> first of all there wasn't 500 billion cut from medicare advantage. that is a portion of the reduction in cost increases over time. certainly there are some significant delivery system reforms that are just getting underway, we anticipate significant savings. the accountable care organization structure, the new partnership for patients which i just mentioned which has some cost savings. we have new tools for going after fraud, waste and abuse last year alone produced about $4 billion back into the trust fund. we produced a report yesterday that is available in more detail which,

reischauer. we'll take a couple questions. i ask you leave any technical questions to the background briefing we will do after the secretaries and trustees depart. we'll take a couple. up front? >> this is for secretary sebelius. you mentioned some affects of the affordable care act on medicare. besides the 500 billion that was cut from medicare advantage, what other specific programs are affecting that long-term cost? if you could just explain some of them? >> first of all there wasn't 500 billionut from medicare advantage. that is a portion of the reduction in cost increases over time. certainly there are some significant delivery system reforms that are just getting underway, we anticipate significant savings. the accountable care organization structure, the new partnership fo patients which i just mentioned which has some cost savings. we have new tools for going after fraud, waste and abuse last year alone produced about $4 billion back into the trust fund. we produced a repo yesterday that is available in more detail whi

reischauer. couple estion i ask you leave any technical questions to the background briefing we will do after the secretaries and trustees depart. we'll take a couple. up front? >> this is for secretary sebelius. you mentioned some affects of the affordable care act on medicare. besides the 500 billion that was cut from medicare advantage, what other specific programs are affecting that long-term cost? if you could just explain some of them? >> first of all tere wasn't 500 billion cut from medicare advantage. that is a portion of the reduction in cost increases over time. certainly there are some significant delivery system reforms that are just getting underway, we anticipate significant savings. the accountable care organization structure, the new partnership for patients which i just mentioned which has some cost savings. weave new tools for going after fraud, waste and abuse last year alone produced about $4 billion back into the trust fund. we produced a report yesterday that is available in

reischauer. we'll take a couple questions. i ask you leave any technical questions to the background briefing we will do after the secretaries and trustees depart. we'll take a couple. up front? >> this is for secretary sebelius. you mentioned some affects of the affordable care act on medicare. besides the 500 billion that was cut from medicare advantage, what other specific programs are affecting that long-term cost? if you could just explain some of them? >> first of all there wasn't 500 billion cut from medicare advantage. that is a portion of the reduction in cost increases over time. certainly there are some significant delivery system reforms that are just getting underway, we anticipate significant savings. the accountable care organization structure, the new partnership for patients which i just mentioned which has some cost savings. we have new tools for going after fraud, waste and abuse last year alone produced about $4 billion back into the trust fund. we produced a report yesterday that is available in more detai