when we look at the worksite, we're engaging the employers that we cover to look at the cafeterias that they have. to make recommendations about what foods should be there, how they should subsidize the items that they serve there. what kind of vending machines do they have in place? this is not about having a single bullet. this is about being very comprehensive in how you think about care. when we think about the community, we do things that are unusual for health insurance company. we were the major advocate for smoking cessation in hour state. we have beat tobacco, we took that money and plowed that back into taking the smoking rates down. we also do things like complete streets, where we advocate for sidewalks, bike paths, safe crossing guards, things that a health company would think about as opposed to perhaps an insurance company. : >> and back to the employer who is delivering that care. so it absolutely has a return, and it's absolutely critical. minnesota has a 17% smoking rate. the country has a 22% smoking rate. blue cross blue shield of minnesota has a 10.9% smoking rate.

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when we look at the worksite we are engaging the cafeteria's at the have to make recommendations about what food should be there, how they should subsidize the items they serve their. what kind of many machines to have in place. this is not about having a single bullet but is being comprehensive in how you think about care. and we think about the community we do things that are unusual for health insurance company. we were the major advocate for smoking cessation in our state. we beat tobacco and how that back into taking this smoking rates down. we do things like complete streets every advocate for sidewalks, bypass, a safe crossing guards and things that i held company would think about as opposed to an insurance company. when you look at the social determinants of how these things that are driving cost. this is social connectedness, this is how people think about child development before the age of five. are foundation has been actively involved in this work for over 20 years. this is an imprint distinctive about how we think about health care. the next slide is to shoot it's not ea

and living in the shadows, living in terror that any time at any moment they can be picked up at the worksite or at home and separated from their loved ones. we have had mother separated from their children, we have had brothers separated from their sisters, this has been a brutal policy that we have had over the last eight years. but it is also import from the perspective of building progress of power because those 12 million undocumented immigrants if we are successful in treating a path to citizenship will join in a larger progressive coalition on all the fights for economic and social justice and a loss. we not only need to win the state's progressive challenges and price ahead of us, we need to win the right. and what i mean by this is that our obligation as progressives is to fight for principles that we hold dear. we're ultimately about the people that we represent and so in the context of health care that means be relentless about fighting for a public plan option for every single american in the united states of america. [applause] it also means making sure that we address issues lik

the multibillion-dollar logcap 3. commissioners and staff had made two trips to afghanistan afghanistan to inspect worksites, review documents conduct interviews and receive briefings from officials on the ground. the first trip took place in early december 08 with an itinerary that included agency briefings them baghdad anka bolles wallace reduce the construction of the baghdad police college in reconstruction -- for construction and repair of the bagram airbase in afghanistan. a-10 the investigative study in 2009 comprised of a 15 person group of commissioners and staff that broke into three teams. one team or deny iraq and the other two and afghanistan. they conducted more than 125 meetings, usaid, the military contractors working on a range of projects. the commission continues to develop a test for research and investigation to extend and deepen its knowledge and to cope with new change in issues. our plans include many more trips to theaters of operation, additional hearings and by the government agencies, non-governmental organizations, academics and member of the contrasting community and continued liaison with congr