Celsius over a hundred years, it does create pockets of these heat waves. Sreenivasan all that and more, on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the worlds most pressing problems skollfoundation. Org. The lemelson foundation. Committed to improving lives through invention, in the u. S. And developing countries. On the web at lemelson. Org. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Sreenivasan we are now on the eve of seeing a Senate Proposal for health care, including replacing the Affordable Care act. Republ
Celsius over a hundred years, it does create pockets of these heat waves. Sreenivasan all that and more, on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the worlds most pressing problems skollfoundation. Org. The lemelson foundation. Committed to improving lives through invention, in the u. S. And developing countries. On the web at lemelson. Org. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Sreenivasan we are now on the eve of seeing a Senate Proposal for health care, including replacing the Affordable Care act. Republ
Once they walk in the door, drink from the fire hose. Whether democrat or republican really doesnt make much differ. 45 trillion Dollar Agency to run and a lot going on. Big issue of repeal and replace, what do we do, nothing like that i saw in aviator 2001 one of the top National Issues. Im not sure where they are going with it but secretary price who i have known for years, these guys have, too, new administrator going to be they are way ahead of the game. What are they talking about now, my experience 88 transition a long time ago. Im actually 106 years old. We didnt do anything. We got people confirmed. Nobody sat around anderson talked about health care policies. I talked to Tommy Thompson, president bush, wanted to do it, privatizing medicare, medicaid in may. Gave a list of things to do, changed the name of the agency just to make people mad. Through part d maybe in may. December ive never seen anything like this. This is way out of the normal time schedule in my experience. Do
Right now as we are about three weeks after the election, that both president elect donald trump to the brink of office, a book that might be more timely for this moment in america and indeed, the turnout today for the book forum suggests theres widespread interest in the content of this book. I have to say also, im delighted to have today as speakers, both one of the authors, ben beginsberg, and don kettle, longtime friends o mind who have worked in the Political Science area, and Jennifer Bacher ner a good friend. And donald trump raises the question on the american agenda for some time, which is a deep dissatisfaction with much of the country that is outside the beltway. I remember one time may have been this fall sitting around thinking, after having lived in washington for some really about 25 years now you know thelight out there might really be different and this from a person who works at the Cato Institute who has professional commitment to the idea that life is better and out
Eating breakfast, but its time to get started. Feel free to continue eating. Breakfast is important, but welcome to the Nations Capital. Were very pleased to welcome you to d. C. And to the academys annual meeting and Public Policy forum. Id like to extend a special welcome to our firsttime attendees and particularly to new academy members. We hope that all of you will find our program over the next day and a half informative and stimulating. I would encourage you to take some time to connect with each other and interact with our speakers, so you get the very best and the very most you can out of our time together here. Were very proud to offer a tremendous lineup of speakers. They represent a wide range and deep range of Public Policy issues and professionalism issues. What better place to do this than the Nations Capital . And just days before a national electi election. Was halloween recently. I hope we were all scared a little bit in a positive and lifeaffirming way. Many of us fin