With the expansion of medicaid. In addition, it dumps 15 million to 18 million lowincome americans into a Medicaid Program that none of us would want to be a part of because 50 of the doctors wont see new patients. So its like giving someone a ticket to a bus line when the bus only runs half the time. Thats what i said 5 1 2 years ago. Medicaid had already always been one of the federal governments biggest unfunded federal mandates. And expanding that mandate on states would only wreak more havoc on state budgets that especially at that time during the height of the recession were already struggling. Our former tennessee governor, bill bradison, a democrat, said the proposed Medicaid Expansion under obamacare would represen represent quote the mother of all unfunded mandates. When i was governor of tennessee in the 1980s, medicaid made up only about 8 of tennessees state budget. By last year, it was 30. 6 . States paying more and more to expand medicaid means less to spend on other pri
Boko haram. So then first to yemen where efforts to resolve the political crisis appear to be crumbling, the so called southern movements that wants to break from the north suspended participation in talks to form a government and calling it absurd dialog and a waste of time and we will go live in aid en in southern yemen and why this waste of time apparent waste of time . Reporter when this began on thursday evening there was an apparent breakthrough and the breakthrough is parties sitting around the table said they would set up a council and coalition of people that would have talks of running the country through an interim period and that is of course after hadi was forced to resign after the houthis took control of the capitol and say it is a waste of time because after they agreed on the principle of setting up a president ial council another demand is any of the malitia or the nongovernment factions who have weapons, who have taken over large parts of the country and capitol inde
Marc friedman author of the new book, the big shift navigating the new stage beyond midlife talks about the need for better social programs and savings plans for people in their 50s, 60s and 70s who want meaningful and sustaining work later in life. From the Commonwealth Club of california in San Francisco, this is 45 minutes. Good evening and welcome to the meeting of the Common Wealth club of california. I am chair the clubs grown ups for amend your host for today. We also welcome our listening audience and we invite everyone to listen to us on line at Commonwealth Club. Org. Now its my pleasure to introduce our distinguished speaker. Marc freedman is ceo and founder of encore. Org, a Nonprofit Organization working to promote Encore Careers. Second acts for the greater good. He spearheaded the creation of the experience core, now one of americas largest Nonprofit National Service Programs engaging people over 55. And the purpose prize, which annually provides five, 100,000dollar pric
Yes, we are actually helping with the nfl evolution. Set each day you see some of the tips, which i am the publisher of that site. I am also the author of home team advantage, the Critical Role of mothers in youth sport and i have a great new hat as a producer of a documentary about the. I keep hearing great pieces about parents. So yes, moms team is the website that i run. For the past 12 years weve been leading the way, i believe, in concussion education at these Sports High School level. Moms are very concerned. As a matter of fact a year ago, nine months ago i received a letter from my mom in oklahoma and she wanted moms seem to parachute in with our of experts to set up a concussion Risk Management program. That is a very common question we have received over 12 years is can you help us . We been halted by the long, but this time of what to document every step of the way. One of my triplet sons was taken out of football because of concussions years ago. Now knowing what i know, th
Now, as far as the whole thing there are all different people. Some of them were College Students who were also working. Some of them were living at home like maria was living at home and going to college. Some of them had jobs. There was a musician who was very much involved who made a good living as a Computer Programmer and some of them mostly shoplifted and lived in squat so there were all sorts of different people. Unfortunately we have run out of time but i want to thank you for your questions. You manage to touch on many of the areas. I hope to would have more time to explore and theyre so much more in the book. Mosh a guess and will be sunning outside and i would like to ask all of you to think about supporting this program but rings these kinds of writers to los angeles, and donations of course i am sure if you talk to Louise Steinman outside you can figure out a way to handle that. Look forward to her new work. She is riding she is writing on the tsarnaev brothers and the bos