So what will the world of health care look like in 2025? According to futurist William Rowley, it’s probably going to be harder to find a family physician.

“In America, about 32 percent of all physicians are primary care,” said Rowley, a senior fellow at the Institute for Alternative Futures and a speaker at Friday’s Health Policy Task Force session. “In most countries on this planet, it’s about 50 percent. In Great Britain, 80 percent of physicians are in primary care.”

“Here, renewable energy is not a fuel source, it’s a religion,” California Public Utilities Commissioner Timothy Alan Simon told CSG’s Energy and Environment Policy Task Force Friday.

With some of the richest renewable energy zones in the United States, California also has the most ambitious renewable energy standard in the country. California’s Renewable Portfolio Standard, which evolved in three pieces of legislation over the course of the last decade, requires investor-owned utilities and electric service providers to increase procurement from eligible renewable energy resources to 33 percent by 2020.

Federal transportation reauthorization legislation—typically a long-term, multi-year process—will cover only two years and provide a fraction of the money needed to maintain current transportation needs.

When Illinois Rep. Michael Tryon had a physical exam in 2004, his cholesterol level was good, he had a normally functioning thyroid and his long-term blood sugar level—also called an A1c—was normal. After his first year of service in the legislature, things had changed.

Rhode Island has made three attempts at pension reform in the past three to six years. But last year when lawmakers considered the issue once again, they decided to make it a complete reform, said Richard Licht, Rhode Island director of the Department of Administration.