Enclosures in the best way forward and handling payment disputes. This is two hours and 20 minutes [inaudible conversations] the committee on Health Education labor and will come to order. Senator murray has an important meeting right now and she has asked me to proceed with the hearing because we have six excellent witnesses and we want to make sure that we hear from each of you. We want the senators to have a chance to ask questions of each of these so patty should arrive around 10 lock. When she comes we will enter and let her make her Opening Statement and then we will resume the hearing. Good morning senator murphy. Nearly a year ago after brent james from the National Academy testified before the Senate Health committee with a startling statistic. Up 21 2 of what the American People spend on Health Care May be unnecessary. Let me repeat that. Up to half of the 3. 5 trillion the United States collectively spent on health care in 2017 was unnecessary according to dr. James and many
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For those who dont know me, i am neil saul, Student Program ps coordinate here at the Cato Institute and an honor to introduce tonight, tonight is it at the heritage interns go headtohead with acute interns to debate is libertarianism or conservatism the superior political philosophy . With political flossie provides better answers to todays most important political questions . Of course each of us have always had much to agree upon, limited government, free markets and individual liberty are all pillars of the political flossie that we both value and appalled. Which of often led us to the same policy preferences and conclusions. Yet, what each of us invasion in a Free Society Without governmental and regulatory intrusion often does look quite different. Policy preferences surrounding foreign policy, immigration, sex work, emerging technology, marriage and families come just in a few, create cleavages that emerge from differences between our political philosophies. As weve seen in toda
Why is kenya important this african country is conducting yet another population count its outcome is expected to shift political boundaries and shape elections but in a country divided along ethnic and tribal lines what does that mean this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program. Governments has been holding a historic census over the weekend more than 160000 people would you ploy to collect data from its population of about 50000000 vets process has proven to be a challenge since millions of kenyans live in slums with no official address millions more nomadic herders who cross into neighboring countries regularly. Kenyas government is conducting a census for the 6th time happens every 10 years and the result may be significant for several reasons state resources are allocated to each district according to population higher numbers of people means more money from the Central Government in the last census 10 years ago there were allegations of data rigging this time police sa
Government can formulate policy is can know how to unlock a look at resources it is not necessary and in fact it is forbidden by law for the government to use this to directly identify people or to directly target individuals that is actually would be completely illegal by the statistics law that could be mentioned before. I think its also important for us to recall that theres a context here that the government itself has in previous times collected peoples data and then utilize it for the proper sees that it has and it was not intended so for example in the run up 227000 elections when people being asked to register. To vote in citing cases that information was taken was combined with information a government already has about mobile phone users because of go to register your same kind of it only get one and then they use that to try and push up. Out. People registering for the vote. In particular regions where they wanted particular candidates to win you know and even in especially