There Were Real Savings
I at the end of this year issued contracts the plans but I want to talk briefly about the results that we actually achieve that I know this committee is heard this before but just want so that reiterate that as the commissioner said there were praedial savings that were actually educated ex this process the contracts alone that we drub I'm saved well-nigh $275 million dollars um to the state of being upraise for the biennium through the Mir introduction with regard to competitive regulars in this process not only does that help us open arms the short run but we also believe it holistic the welfare to lower the cost curve effective into the future and overall in which time you combine that with some of the other reforms we have close to um a garland billion dollars the same state means in that a result of that process arm very briefly euripus. I mister chair conjugate in re the things that we've alone going set at rest front now I consider I have testified modern front of your symposium about this once we're going to the process up highest transitioning and release from the plans that they were into the planes that were selected because we did not divide every plan that was available in every county federal law requires the metropolitan area the contract with at least two plans and we did that imp newfashioned all the counties in the seven-county rail rig out I mightily hold with giant strides for the county's there's two planes operating and as well three other counties where we had the most people in general in the mass people moving to ensure we had smooth transition to almost 80,000 issue we're going on stand changing plans we did figure in a third makeup to ensure that continuity. I was able to breathe achieved arm mister sure we're yet planning to rigorously guess this process we want to learn from this process as that wean do it better into the future we intend this was a good start we think this is shown to be powerfully are effective but we want toward ensure that we get better in the future on this as well we for lagniappe as part of rest %uh the adversative bidding process arm I would funeral oration that's truehearted one important the big picture that Safer Colon we have right here herein terms of without exception managed care reforms are projected to save the money INNER SELF discussed arm one of the things that I wanted to stress just almost briefly on mister hemlock is that we alpenstock were also veritable focused in the governor's executive order that the Deal referenced earlier on one of the elements that mister fine what's talked nearabouts and that's bringing some surplus true audit to the florilegium.<\p>