Health and the university and also not in the way of a great conversation so im delighted to introduce our moderator well known to all of you im sure. Michael is the chair of the department of Health Policy and management. [applause] eye in the chair of the department of Health Policy and management and i want to welcome you to the book launch. My job as the moderator is to let them come up to ask questions while i have a back and forth and then i get up towards the end and say now it is time to go to the reception and have some wine, so that is my main job. Three quick things about this terrific book. This book contains four case studies of leading Global Health organizations around the world. Its to the literature and thats number one. Number two, in an interesting way and pretty unique it is and always case studies. It looks at how the organizations are governed and what the rules of the government are, how they are financed, how transparent they are and takes a look at all these is
Health and the university and also not in the way of a great conversation so im delighted to introduce our moderator well known to all of you im sure. Michael is the chair of the department of Health Policy and management. [applause] eye in the chair of the department of Health Policy and management and i want to welcome you to the book launch. My job as the moderator is to let them come up to ask questions while i have a back and forth and then i get up towards the end and say now it is time to go to the reception and have some wine, so that is my main job. Three quick things about this terrific book. This book contains four case studies of leading Global Health organizations around the world. Its to the literature and thats number one. Number two, in an interesting way and pretty unique it is and always case studies. It looks at how the organizations are governed and what the rules of the government are, how they are financed, how transparent they are and takes a look at all these is
Leave it. President says hes done negotiating on health care. That crucial vote now set for later today. Keystone green light, the president set to officially reverse one of the obama signature Environmental Policies this morning. And then markets on track for their worst week since november, wall streets keeping close watch on d. C. And any progress for the trump agenda. President s pushing hard for House Republicans to pass Health Reform today. In the past hour he wrote after seven horrible years of obamacare, skyrocketing premiums and deductibles, bad health care, this is finally your chance for a great plan. A lot of people wondering if they move to taxes is that like the market saying lets have dessert first, jim . Well, look, i expect there could be a quick leg down if he doesnt win. Theres always this weird kind of, well, you know what, legislation momentum, trump loses and its over. No, history says its not over. So i think that the faster they get no matter what tax reform fai
Coverage throughout the entire hour, throughout the entire afternoon and, of course, were going to bring you any breaking news from the floor. But first, we do want to bring in peter barnes for the latest on where things stand at this hour. Peter . Reporter thats right, cheryl. Were about halfway through the four hours of debate on the bill. That debate started just a couple hours ago, the house first got through a critical procedural step earlier today, approving the rules of debate along party lines. Six republicans defected on that and voted with the democrats to disapprove it which would have killed consideration of the bill itself at that time. So right now were watching one by one as we hear from members among the moderates, the socalled Freedom Caucus, the conservatives, to get a handle on how many votes the president and Republican Leaders have. Back of the napkin it look like they can lose maybe ten of these republicans. And if they do, that would sink the bill. Ask just an in
Be sure to watch cspans washington journal. Live at 7 00 eastern on saturday morning. Sunday night on q and a, a conversation with thomas soul, who recently retired from the column he wrote for 25 years. Unlike todays left, i never felt i had to avoid being what people with different views thought. So during all of my years as a marxist, i Read Everything the political spectrum. There is a book on burke i first read when i was an undergraduate at harvard. I treasure that book. I can tell even then. I understood that there were reasons why people have different views. It is not just a question of being on the side against the forces of evil. I think the new administration in washington has some very good people, better than most of than most recent administrations have had. The only question is if the in washington has some very good president will listen to them, and we will not know until more time has passed. Sunday night at 8 00 eastern. Now, we will show you some of the four hour f