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[Virginia "Ginny" Lyons (Chair)]: Here, look. Alright, good morning. It is January 22, amazingly, every day it feels amazing. And this is Senate Health and Welfare. Today we have a little bit of time for committee discussion and then we're gonna move on to looking at some basic information regarding the blueprint for health just to get an understanding of primary care in the state, the significance of that. I'll mention that a little bit later again. But I did wanna call your attention to the reports that we have gotten in this committee. And we have a request on the part of Ledge Council to go through those reports. And I did that the first time. So I went through the 13 pages. And then I talked with Legg Council and received some help in triaging what I've done. So now I'm gonna go through those reports again and then I will share with you what I think we might wanna do with the report we have in committee. So some of them are old reports that we keep getting annually. Do we still need them or can we ask, can we cancel the reports and just suggest that we'll get the information upon request. There are quarterly reports that we get, maybe we can lengthen that kind of help. So I'll look at that and bring it back to you. Some of the reports are probably less important to us right now. Some are more important. I'm gonna be doing that. Again, going through 13 pages of reports was exciting. Oh my goodness. No. It's down no. But Jen has whittled it down to five pages, which is good. Wow. Yeah. So there are some reports for example, the reports that we asked for last year in act 68, we don't want to cancel those right away because they're term limited, right? Unlike us. And then there's reports that we've been getting for years and years and years, and some of them are triannual, some of them are, you know, spiannuals. What is it? Biannual or biannual? When you get it every other year? Biannuals? Biannuals twice a year, right? Biannuals twice a year? What's biannuals? Well, how do you say you get it every other year? Just like twice a year. Not just like that. Every other year. It's both. It should be either every other year or twice a year. The most confusing. Twice a year. By Or It's twice a year. It can be either. Yeah. Either. That's the worst. It's something This is important to When will we so when will we yeah. That'd be good. So through all the biopsy shit. Like, when will we be able to hear your final Are you asking me how quickly I'm working on this? No. There. No. I'm gonna try to do this. Did I did the 13 pages on Tuesday, and I'm gonna try and do this. Maybe I'll do it soon. Any anything we can do to ease the burden of the people doing the work, I think, would be great. I completely agree. Yeah. I've heard comments that all all some people do is write reports, and the reports are useful to us. In fact, I really do rely on these reports, but really all this is without me. Is there any way we could find John? Is he out? He's right he said he's right out. I'm a hold I'll begin in a minute. Okay. I think you can. Oh, I can't. Because I think we can we can move ahead. I think you can. Get back. So I think so. And then the bills that we've been working on will continue to bring in testimony. So if folks, especially you folks who are in the room now, if you know specific representatives who can speak to the bills we're looking at, I like to know what is the person actually doing the work, think about how we could improve the bill. That's what I really wanna know. So I'd say the chamber's here. If you have a business owner or an individual who will have something to say about any one of the bills that we have, I would really like to hear that. If we have a primary care doc out there who wants to speak, that would be good. A hospital administrator and just going down the line, if there are people who are actually in the community doing the work, that would be helpful. Whomever you represent. It's one thing to hear from the whole organization but it's another thing to hear the effect in the office or whether it's a physician, a practitioner, or someone who's paying for insurance. And if you have something that would be interesting. Oh, So we're starting a little early. You can take a seat up here and did you want to bring anyone else with you, John? Good morning. Doctor. Armstrong is supposed to be here with me and Well, it's just twenty minutes early.
[John (witness)]: Yes, yes. I think she'll be here at moments earlier. We can take the break until until she's here if you would prefer that. It it could it be a short break? I don't wanna delay you, it's just unusual for her not