Booktv streams live online for 48 hours every weekend with top nonfiction books and authors. Booktv. Org. In 2007 David Goldhills father died from an infection incurred at a hospital due to medical mistreatment. Up next, mr. Goldhill who is president and ceo of the Game Show Network contends that his fathers death was avoidable and questions how the Nations Health care system allows over 200,000 summer deaths due to air. This is just under an hour. Hello, everybody. We are going to get started, if you dont mind. Thanks to all of you for coming here today. Im a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute center for medical progress, and we are delighted to have David Goldhill join us this afternoon. For a talk about his new book, catastrophic care how American Health care killed my father and how we can fix it. I think that theres too when i think about health care i think of to challenges of blind spots that i think conservatives have had on health care. The first is that it tends to be l
And the response of conservatives is a thing to say, the Health Care System is just fine, its the best Health Care System in the world, dont mess with it, dont change it. I think the second blind spot of conservatives in general but certainly in health care is that we tend to talk about policy, Public Policy philosophically or with charts and data. And charts and data are important, but a lot of times the way liberals have one arguments is by talking about the single mother in oregon who doesnt have Health Insurance and what we need to help her, or the child was born with Cystic Fibrosis and how that child cant get Health Insurance. And these are real challenges in our system, and there are other challenges that people who are actually ensure to have coverage who are set up in the way we all think they should be who struggle with the convoluted mess, the extent and the mistakes that arise in the Health Care System. So with reflection of those two things, in reflection of those two thin
Its friday the 13th. Im sam stein. No endorsement yet from paul ryan, but Donald Trumps Charm Offensive with hill republicans helped to bridge divides. Most of all with the speaker of the house. We really had a great meeting today and i think we agreed on a lot of things and it will be a little process. But it will come along im pretty sure. It was very good. Very productive. We talked issues and i look forward to continuing the conversation. Do you feel that progress was made . I felt a lot of progress was made. I really do. I was very encouraged with what i heard from donald trump today. I do believe that we are now planting the seeds to get ourselves unified. Do you expect to endorse . Yeah, i think this is going in a positive direction and i think this is a first very encouraging meeting but again in 45 minutes you dont litigate all of the processes and all of the issues and the principles that were talking about. That did you think of his personality . His personality i thought i
Horrific. Good morning, everyone, welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. Well begin today with the politics lead. President trump heading to his golf club in jersey for the weekend tweeting this morning, quote, big win in the house. Very exciting, but when everything comes together with the inclusion of phase two, we will have truly great health care. Now, as the bill moves to it the Senate Republicans there are saying that they will write their own bill to repeal and replace obamacare, not just use the house version. Athena jones is traveling with President Trump and is live for us in branchburg, new jersey, and athena, optics of President Trump with all the House Republicans in the rose garden yesterday, its as if the bill had become law, but actually were very far from there. Reporter hi, jake, it was a big win for the white house but only a partial one. With the bill now in the Senate White House Officials Say President Trump will be fully engaged in selling it just like he was on th
Bill. This after 16 growling hours of debate. Voting down democratic issues from out of pocket costs and tax increases. The ways and means twitter account showing we are bringing we le relief. At this hour, this is what it looks like at 5 00 a. M. In the east on capitol hill. Once this Committee Passes its portion of the bill, both still need to go through house budget committees before going to full house votes. These guys like sharp for pulling an all nighter. The word on the street is they are exhausted. This is the first step on the broader level, but opposition is growing on capitol hill. President trump laying out two strategies. Plan a and a plan b. Sources tell cnn the president advised conservative leaders in an hour long meeting, he will allow obamacare to fail and let democrats take the blame. Sources say mr. Trump scolded the conservative groups for calling the house bill obamac e obamacarelite. This came as a bit of a surprise acknowledging they could have done more outrea