All the government would pay all the nations bills and everybody would have Coverage Area and a public option on the other hand would create a government type program like medicare like medicaid and more available. Right now you have to meet certain qualifications to into any of the government provided health programs. A public option would makeit much easier for people to get into government , government page. For the democrats debating on these issues, why are they so firmly advocating for these two positions. I guess what im asking, whats wrong with the Current System . Everybody agrees the Current System is not working well. People are paying too much, most people have insurance but substantial number of people still do not. A lot of people who do have insurance literally cant afford to use their insurance because they have multithousand dollar deductibles so everybody agrees that we need to fix whats broken. How you do that, democrats generally agree that everybody should have hea
Today Nelson Lichtenstein presenting his book a fabulous failure the Clinton Presidency and the chance formation of american capitalism. Professor lichtenstein, Research Professor in the department of history at uc santa barbara, where he directs the center for the study work, labor and democracy. He is the preeminent 20th century historian of u. S. And is the author or editor of 18 books, including the most dangerous man in detroit. A biography of the uaw leader walter ruther. And also state of the union a century of american labor, which i commend to anyone to understand the Labor Movement in the century. He has served on the editorial of numerous journals and writes frequently the popular press as well for academic journals and is the recipient of too many awards and fellowships for me to enumerate. Im also delighted to introduce alex hurdle fernandez, who will serve as the discussant today. He is associate professor of International Public affairs at columbia university, where he a
Presenting his book a fabulous failure the Clinton Presidency and the chance formation of american capitalism. Professor lichtenstein, Research Professor in the department of history at uc santa barbara, where he directs the center for the study work, labor and democracy. He is the preeminent 20th century historian of u. S. And is the author or editor of 18 books, including the most dangerous man in detroit. A biography of the uaw leader walter ruther. And also state of the union a century of american labor, which i commend to anyone to understand the Labor Movement in the century. He has served on the editorial of numerous journals and writes frequently the popular press as well for academic journals and is the recipient of too many awards and fellowships for me to enumerate. Im also delighted to introduce alex hurdle fernandez, who will serve as the discussant today. He is associate professor of International Public affairs at columbia university, where he also serves as vice dean fo
Must the communicators, monday night at 8 00 eastern on cspan two. Next reporters and scholars familiar with house and procedures discussed the legislative process for the 115th congress. From the brookings institution, this is an hour and a half. Thank you for joining us. For those of you standing in the back, there is an overflow. Thank you very much, i am sarah bender, the senior fellow in studies, i have the pleasure of moderating today. I will introduce our speakers, just a bit about the book. Then we will get it going. To my left is molly reynolds. A fellow here in government studies. The author to except as to the role. Pointl be the launching for us in politics and applications for policy and him particularly health and tax today. Vox. H cliff, from bo just a very, very brief comment to get us going here. I have to say that if you have not seen mollys will get. You should. It strikes me as the very best of what bookings has to offer. Which is twofold. In politicalrooted science
Bulk of the steady rain has been since moved out of here but we may again still have this to contend with, scattered variety of the couple left overs since we are in the warm sector of the storm, lieutenant of moisture here to work w talk about warm sector, we are already, closer to 60 degrees in dover this hour. Fiftythree current temperature at the airport. It is town right balmy outside we will still have a breeze to contend with, and continues to come from the southwest. It wouldnt say a warm breeze. We are at 61 in cape may. Are you kidding me . As day progresses do expect we will spike up to 62. That is more typical of midapril, my friends, so enjoy the taste of spring while you have it because meisha, it does not last very long. We will to have put your bathing suit away by tomorrow, over to you. All right, fine, katie. Good morning, everybody. It is gateway to the weekend and right the now we are looking at i95. Reason why, a, it is one of the areas that get busy the quickest a