and now let me turn to the aforementioned sara collins. she's the vice president for the affordable health insurance program at commonwealth and co moderator of today's program. she's an economist and the name author of the papers you have analyzing the provisions of the respected reform bills available as handouts. sara? >> thank you, ed. good afternoon. as mentioned, i'm going to briefly laid out a broad provisions of the house and senate bills and look where people in particular are estimated to gain coverage under the bills. in particular the number of people covered through the exchange's and then discuss why we need an insurance exchange and the type of reform bills that are before the congress and with the key issues are in terms of structure and implementation as we move forward. everyone knows by now the broad outlines in the bills, they both aim for near universal health insurance coverage by building on what are the strongest aspects of the health insurance system and large employer based coverage, medicaid, children's health in

my colleague and moderator, sara collins, will be helping to for in that discussion about what issues need to be addressed in reconciling the two versions, which is a nice segue to the fact that our partner and co- sponsor in this briefing is the commonwealth fund, which has both commission and done some very excellent analysis of this issue. the exchange proposals in the bills and the idea of an exchange itself. now let me turn to the aforementioned sarah palin said, vice-president for the help -- sara collins the vice-president for the health insurance program. she is an economist and also the main author of the papers that you have analyzing the provisions of the respective per -- respective reform bills that were available as handouts. sarah? >> thank you ed, and good afternoon. i will briefly laid out the broad provisions in the senate and house reform bills and where people are estimated to gain coverage under the bills, in particular, the number of people covered through the exchanges and then discuss why we need an expert -- and insurance exchange and the type of reform bills

just varies tremendously. >> as i turn to sara collins for the final comment, let me just ask you to reiterate my request, that you fill out the blue evaluation so that we continue to improve the programs for you. sara? >> thank you, and thank you so much to the panel. it's been an excellent conversation. end i do want to just emphasize too how critical that piece of the reform bill is. it's -- we've focused a lot on the public plan over the last year. and some other and rather pieces of the proposals. i think this really is critical. individual and small group market is have people lose their coverage until the united states. they drop through the system hat that point. this is the fix to those markets if we are going to build on the existing system. and the issues that are raised in the tim's paper and by the panel i think are really critically important both in terms of deciding on the provisions in the bills, federal versus state control. and also implementing the bills over the next -- over the provisions over the next few years. thank you. >> thank you, sara. thanks to our frien

my colleague and moderator, sara collins, will be helping to for in that discussion about what issues need to be addressed in reconciling the two versions, which is a nice segue to the fact that our partner and co- sponsor in this briefing is the commonwealth fund, which has both commission and done some very excellent analysis of this issue. the exchange proposals in the bills and the idea of an exchange itself. now let me turn to the aforementioned sarah palin said, vice-president for the help -- sara collins, the vice-president for the health insurance program. she is an economist and also the main author of the papers that you have analyzing the provisions of the respective per -- respective reform bills that were available as handouts. sarah? >> thank you, ed, and good afternoon. i will briefly laid out the broad provisions in the senate and house reform bills and where people are estimated to gain coverage under the bills, in particular, the number of people covered through the exchanges, and then discuss why we need an expert -- and insurance exchange and the type of reform bil

collins explains, the general assembly begins this week. the issue is high on the agenda. >> the man charged in the sara foxwell case had already been convicted of sexually abusing two other girls. now that lawmakers are heading back to annapolis, they'll be considering bills that could keep someone like that locked up. sara foxwell's body was found days after being taken from her bed in the night. the man charged thomas l'eggs jr. had dated the girl's aunt who was her legal guardian. leggs has been convicted twice with sexual child abuse. >> if we lose one child to murder, that's one child too many in our state. whenever these things happen, it inspires all of us to ask one another what can we do? what are the additional things that we can do to better safeguard lives of our children. >> the governor tells wjz he thinks lawmakers will debate a slew of bills after this horrible crime. hoping to prevent something similar in the future. >> i'm sure we'll revisit the notion of periods of civil commitment after criminal sentences are completed. >> reporter: right now, when a child sex offender serves his full sentence, the state can do no more bu