Under Medicare Part b, doctors were protected from socialized medicine. Allowed them to be compensated for usual fees. They were represented by american medical association, still then and still opposes quote socialized medicine. President johnson traveled to independence, missouri, the birthplace of trumans wife bess to sign the law. Bess and harry truman were given the first two medicare cards. Medicare expansion protected pharmaceutical industry. Some contend that aca protects Health Care Industry skirting efficient approach to insure the nation or medicare or singlepayer approach. Finally were now at chapter four, which raises the question, did the path we set for ourselves then result in a series of bonanzas . First bonanza for doctors and hospitals. Secondly a bonanza for the pharmaceutical industry and third now for the Insurance Industry itself. Or was it as others might argue, just the american way . Here we are traveled a long circuit does route to near universal access to he
And the second thing that we need to do in a fundamentally, efficient way is to go out and produce more things in our manufacturing plants and in new manufacturing plants that we would build and export them around the world. Those are the only ways to expand manufacturing jobs in the United States. I wasnt here when the north American Free trade agreement was negotiated. I can tell in you my state its viewed as a net positive. For that region of the country. As the central Free Trade Agreement is. Senator cornyn part of the consequences, i visited with senator kaine, down in honduras recently, you remember the influx of minors moving into the United States, and our failure to have help our neighbors provide not only security but also help grow their economy where they live does have residual and impact on us in ways that perhaps we dont even recognize. So i appreciate the great work that you and the Ranking Member have undertaken on this and look forward to supporting the t. P. A. In t
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Sales rose during the month of february. Is a weathert story. I know youre sick of talking about it. Jpmorgan chase estimated that in january we spent 24 billion dollars extra just staying warm on gas, electricity, money that did not go to dining out and two dresses and things like that. Were going to look to date to things like building materials. Do we buy more snow shovels, snowblowers and salt . It might give us a rough indication of whether we kept spending, but clicking the mouse at home instead. You mentioned the cars. They stole sold more units, about dollar volumes, it includes service and cost of parts. That category could go either way. Watch coreg to retail sales. Leave out cars and gas. You have what goes into gdp and that will tell us something. How ishe weather, this report . We talked about how much a shift towards internet shopping there is. Havees seem that investors figured this out. They do not care about it as much as some other numbers. It is always heavily revise
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