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December 4, 2011
Areas where the states do have the responsibility of pushing back, particularly in the area of education. i do have a concern. i am not advocating of doing away with the department of education, but i have concerns of educational matrix laid out there -- >> well, just to be clear, the federal government is a small partner in education, at the state and local level. its 8% of the total level. i understand your opinion around mandates -- >> one of the things that was discussed last night at great ...
December 4, 2011
The kinds of things he said will be. >> here is the key he made that i have not heard made. i think people have a sense that we are dealing with a fixed pie at a zero sum game, and what will happen is you will give health care to these people and there is theres a fixed quantity of it and i will get less. and the key point is the more comprehensive the system is the better it works together and we engineer a high quality system, and what happens is the costs come down. >> its also the reality of...
December 4, 2011
Strange format. >> the governor is trying to turn over the -- >> well, i was going to say a lot of it is the tantrum, because as was said, its easiest to ignite people against the common evennemy. it takes on a life of its own. i find a certain laziness at the heart of the aspect. >> i think there is -- i think thats true. there is also a lot of sincerity. it was manifest and people do take the state and federal division of power and that has been used as a proxy for very -- >> all sorts of thin...
December 4, 2011
Takeover, government takeover, and when that happens what is sacrificed on the other end? thats our concern with the other government. >> i am more moved about the point you made about absent fathers. seems to me these issues of the families would be more resident with your constituency than for example what went on with fannie mae and freddie mac. and there was a time in the 70s and the 80s where the government was involved in what you could call subsidizing people not to be married and that wa...
December 4, 2011
He articulated the best case i have heard for the affordable health care act. >> he also hears an extraordinary decent and humane, a man that knows the field better than anybody. to me it suggests a few things, one the dysfunction of the system, the republicans who would holed up the confirmation, and he became a pinata for the affordable care act. as the former head of the agency ran under bush said you could not get gandhi through the -- >> he was a polarizing figure. >> what he spoke for me i...
December 4, 2011
>> i also trained in public policy, and i got interested in quality of air. it was evident to me as a doctor that things were not going well, costs were way out of control due to waste and i got interested in modern methods of improvement and for over 20 years i worked on taking methods of improvement, the kind of things that made improvements and cars and making other production things better, and i started a nonprofit institute, and we worked globally on health care improvement, 70% or 80% in ...
December 4, 2011
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December 4, 2011
In families. if we want change in the family, do we want to rail against government when government can do good things and bad things in these cases, where we have actually seen? >> what do you mean by railing against the government? >> it pertains to which side of the fence you turn on, and the issue of states rights versus federal rights, of course, that sort of argument was used to perpetuate the idea of slavery in the 1800s, and now today we are looking at alabama and arizona engaging those ...
December 4, 2011
This so i never would have believed my children would have had to encounter some of the things we are hearing. i just came back from alabama, and in arizona three weeks prior, and its totally amazing to me, and its beyond me, a generation that we confront these issues in the 21st century. thats why i may be right of center, but i am an independent. i have a problem with the donkey and with the elephant for different reasons. with the elephant, my problem is this issue of immigration. what is the...
December 4, 2011
Second is riffing off of chriss question. i am down in d.c. defending the affordable care act, and with you where you are, and the difficulty of getting these things into positions, what can we do? give us guidance. we need help getting the affordable care act over the barriers here. >> leaders like you need to speak up in -- on the moral high ground about what it means to be a country where you get care, no matter who you are or the size of your wallet or the color of your skin, and you need to...