It did put people very temporarily in a position with e they should not have been one. I think over time, i think the attitudes have changed so much for me. When the book came out 12 and half years ago, my publisher was emboldened to do but i think there was a fear about putting a gay book out there. And i think there was very shocked reaction to the book even though there was Nothing Shocking within the book, just because it was a happy a book and people were not prepared for the. A book with a gay kids existed but were miserable was okay but if they were happy, thats too radical. I think now that is not as controversial because society has changed in leaps and bounds and sort of the challenges that we saw most recently for two boys kissing elect the last vestiges of a desperate grasp against turning society back when that is not. So the challenges have tapered off would you say . I think so. And i think, also ive written plenty of books with gay characters or gay themes that are not
With obamacare that are not going away and they will require congress and the president to get together and solve them. If they dont, things are going to get very bad. Whats problem number one . First of all, do you accept the Affordable Care act, obamacare, as the law of the land and are you okay with that . Will of course it is a lot of the land but no, the big six problems are big, big problems we need to solve. Its a bad before. We could get much better than that. Thats what im trying to do with the book. The biggest problem in your view with the Affordable Care act speak with you and i will be required to but insurance package. This causes going to grow faster than our income. If it is the guy they will grow twice as fast as income. Its going like this but the federal government help for us will be very flat. Spending on medicare, spent on medicaid hospitals, grows in deadly. The subsidies and exchanges after 2018 are going to go on with economy but health care is going like this.
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About 2500 for adults, 8000 for families. Thats when told it cause people to going to medicaid. Thats enough money to get medicaid like insurance and i dont see any reason why you could let people get for medicaid itself if they wanted. The vast majority are not going to want to be in medicaid. John goodman, independent institute, goodman institute. Here is the book, a better Choice Healthcare Solutions for america. We want to hear from you. To leadership a book about the programs you see. Twitter. Com a booktv. Guardian columnist Antony Loewenstein is next on booktv. He takes a critical look at Companies Like halliburton, g4 s. And serco that make money off of natural and manmade disasters around the world. Hi, everyone. Good evening. Welcome to housing works bookstore cafe. My name is molly quinn, the director of Public Program here at the bookstore. Welcome. Welcome to tonights event for disaster capitalism. We are so excited to have all of you here. Can i get a round of applause fr
The first and so far only debate in the senate race monday night. Live on cspan networks joining on the phone is joe gerth who covers politics for the journal. Thanks for being with us. Get a sense of where this race is three weeks out. Guest i think its safe to say that race is very close. The polling in recent months has been trending towards mcconnell asked month up by four points in the bluegrass poll along with two television stations in the newspaper here in kentucky. We recently showed a twopoint lead though these polls are in the margin of error and it wouldnt be a shock if either one of them comes out a couple Percentage Points ahead. Host Allison Grimes was asked whether she voted for barack obama in 2008 and 2012. First of all, why this question and what kind of news did she make . Guest the question was asked because mcconnell spent the past year playing her to do Barack Obamas policies. People dont like her personally, people dont like the policies and mcconnell has been t