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Judges accountable is important. All good ideas and the one idea that is not feasible unfortunately is too cloned ted frank but he is an american treasure. For those of you out there in a National Television audience how did they get in touch with you ted if they want to send you a case or send you a check wax. Well classaction fairness. Org i think and classaction fairness gmail. Com. Those of you out here if you got a bad notice in the mail where you just think this is a problem and ted needs more than for lawyers to fight all the cases out there give him some help. Lets thank our panel wittman and lester brickman. [applause] those of you in the room who want cle credit sign out and turn in your evaluation form. Thanks. [inaudible conversations] at the Creation Museum believes space upon the bible but we also teach people the difference between believes and what one c ....
Not having to spend that money in the uncompensated care or the traditional medicate that folks could legally and legitimately move over to Medicaid Expansion. Thats the problem. Ive not done a very good job explaining that because of your thats a great question. You asked a great question, and others have asked that question. I have to do a better job of explaining how the 89 million savings exists. Its not a savings based like on saving penalties from employers. Its an actual savings thats already been realized and quantities identified in a budget. Ive been curious about what happens to prices in the Exchange Plan if you didnt get initial money for the private option because the overwhelming majority of the people in the exchange are the private option. If that money is not continued, what happens to your risk pool and what happens to the premiums next year . It will ha ....
Odds or which day in which week is probably not helpful that i think everybody understands that if it tracks out to long but the political calendar can start working again. Sonata tomorrow is what youre saying. Moving on the problem is we are getting all of that to the competitors. Very good. We will read that in the National Journal leader. [laughter] just kidding. I want to talk a little bit about the James Burling experience with lighted up the gst is a little bit and we were talking backstage about the pollyanna view of what washington was like in the clinton years in the late 90s and republicans and democrats got along better and there were negotiations that led to the agreement whereas now it has been much more difficult. Maybe that is less so now that we dont have the debt ceiling fight and there seems to be more of a desire on the republican side to create a fiscal c ....
Theks the hush falls over the hush falls over the room. We will start. Our guest today is douglas Congressional Budget Office director. This is his fifth visit to our room. Of the cbo inctor january, two thousand nine and brings an impressive background assignments. His master masters and doctorate in economics are from harvard. Our guest taught at harvard, and was on the staff of the council of economic advisers and the Federal Reserve board and served as the assistant deputy treasury secretary for policy. He was senior fellow in the Economic Studies Program it at bookings. Ritual recitation of mechanical details, as always, we are on the record. Please, no live blogging or tweeting or other means of filing while the breakfast is underway. There is no embargo with the session and, except that our ....
Thanks for an interesting panel and conversation. I want to come back to the then part of the seven deadly sins. And suggest lets try, call it arrogance and talk about scientific arrogance both as exercised by individual scientists and perhaps institutionally. Of course, there are lots of reasons why this would exist, first and foremost but thats a nice thing to say. Power and personality are involved. My question, we can take this out of the mythological framework of the Catholic Church and just say well, maybe theres a problem with arrogance and science needs to be addressed. We would have better science and better scientists, and a Better Society if we could deal with that your and what are the structural reasons for it, and how might we mitigate that . That would be my question. I think some of that has already been addressed as a competitive nature. But the other would ....