First of all, we couldnt dealt with the debt of the existing medicaid, which is for women, the elderly, children, and the disabled. What Medicaid Expansion does is expand that to much more of the population, and i could argue for good reasons because theyre being served off in the emergency room and so forth, but the dilemma i had was this. In a very short period of time, i would have had to put a brand new democracy bureaucracy together at a time period that i couldnt meet. I knew i couldnt meet it. When my current bureaucracy couldnt handle medicaid cost overruns happening. In my state, it was 500 million over projections set forth by the Previous Legislature and previous governor. Over 500 million over projection. Thats out of a 20 billion budget. Thats a big hit. There went all my teacher raises right there. Infrastructure. So the Medicaid Expansion is, i think, one of the most difficult issues on governors plates right now. Let me tell you the other issue we are having, and that i
Up next on booktv after words with guest host Siva Vaidhyanathan author of the globalization of everything. This week bestselling author Jeremy Rifkin and his latest book the zero cost society. In that the European Union advisor argues that capitalism is on its way out and Communications Energy and listed just ask internet will lead to its demise by increasing production and distribution and effectively eliminating corporate profits. The program is about an hour. Host hello. Jeremy rifkin is with me today. I am Siva Vaidhyanathan from the university of virginia and we are going to discuss his newest book the zero cost society. Its also his 20th book which is quite a feat in and of itself this book takes the entire world as its subject that has a tremendous amount of focused on the current state and perhaps immediate future state of the u. S. Economy as well and so it ranges across so many topics. Im sure we will have a very rich set of discussions that we will link together quite nicel
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