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
Preferences and the reauthorization of the importexport bank. Key to reforming our trade policies we believe is abolishing the outdated, unaccountable and undemocratic fast track process. The Transpacific Partnership, now being negotiated by our government, includes 12 countries and about 40 of the worlds g. D. P. And the t. P. P. Is designed to be infinitely expandable. So it could be the last trade agreement we negotiate so its especially crucial that we get the terms of this one right. And mr. Chairman, the idea that fast track lets congress set the standards and goals for t. P. P. Im not talking about other agreements but for t. P. P. , is an absolute fiction. The agreement has been under negotiation for more than five years and is essentially complete. So the instructions that you send them will have no affect whatsoever. Congress cannot set meaningful negotiating objectives if the administrations already negotiated most of the key provisions. I might also add, this will be the wo
In washington you have the house and the senate that want to go different directions. People will talk about the good old days of bipartisan compromise, by telling you how old they are. Because it is true that 30 or 40 years ago the republicans would get together with the democrats and they would argue about todays topics. All fights in washington dc work bipartisan. Going up to nixon. Lifetimeagans nice the twoparty sorted themselves out. Lon wants a more constrained view of the government, one wants a expanded view, and they are heading different directions. One wants to go east and one was to go west. What would compromise look like . Government, bigger and we have revised between bigger and much bigger credit each guy would go back to his corner and say you know, i got is a really good to have more than they wanted or less than they wanted. We were always compromising for bigger government. Which was not the direction that we want to go. Now we have one party that wants to go to le
By 16 . What is your rationale for that cut . Well, i mean, dealing with this whole problem of Sexual Violence is something that is obviously not on yougsly but is extremely important to us. Were making, i guess, changes here. Its a cut. As there theyre fazing out the prison rape review panel. These are grants. Yeah. I mean, there are ways in which you know, we have to make determinations about how were going to use the money that we have. We have a budget that is good, not as great as we would want it to be, so weve had to make some tough determinations about how we spend the money that we have. And to the extent that there were cuts there, we think that they were ones that were difficult to make but nevertheless will leave us with the ability to enforce prea in the way that was intended. I doubt that you really support cutting the grants by 16 . But unicor is beginning to use the authority to allow them to repatriot jobs back to the u. S. Increase the products. So that men and women