Who are extremely demoralized and discouraged about the future. They feel themselves helpless. They feel theyre powerless. Theyre cynical about politicians, which, of course, just strengthens politicians vulnerability to powerful corporate and other lobbyists in washington, d. C. When i lost a lot of friends in traffic accidents as a young man, i looked into how they could have been saved. And they could have been saved by seatbelts and they could have been saved by a whole series of engineering devices that we now take for granted in our cars collapsing steering columns, better brakes, better tires, head restraints, padded dash panels. All of these and more were developed by engineers a long, long time ago, but they werent applied because the companies, as somethose of you who are a little older remember the companies were selling style and horsepower. They werent selling engineering integrity, and as a result, hundreds of thousands of people were killed, and millions were injured in
Who are extremely demoralized and discouraged about the future. They feel themselves helpless. They feel theyre powerless. Theyre cynical about politicians, which, of course, just strengthens politicians vulnerability to powerful corporate and other lobbyists in washington, d. C. When i lost a lot of friends in traffic accidents as a young man, i looked into how they could have been saved. And they could have been saved by seatbelts and they could have been saved by a whole series of engineering devices that we now take for granted in our cars collapsing steering columns, better brakes, better tires, head restraints, padded dash panels. All of these and more were developed by engineers a long, long time ago, but they werent applied because the companies, as somethose of you who are a little older remember the companies were selling style and horsepower. They werent selling engineering integrity, and as a result, hundreds of thousands of people were killed, and millions were injured in
Controversial issue and one in which frequently theres forward more heat than light and where we frequently see people who seem to be immune to data. But we have experts tonight to talk about this, and it will be moderated by dr. David casarett who is chief of college of care at university of pennsylvania. Im a psychiatrist, and i often think most people including many physicians dont really understand what psychiatry is. Nobody understands what Palliative Care is, and its a wonderful branch of medicine and needs to be better understood. Dr. Casarett launched a book here a year ago that was wonderful. This is his second book hes launching here. No, we do not have royalties on it, but i own two copies of it. So dr. David casarett will come up in a minute. We believe all of you are literate, we print biographies in the program. This is not grand rounds, im not going to sit up here for ten minutes and read every paper that everybody wrote. But dr. Casarett will come up, talk for a while,
Unconstitutional. Current and former lawmakers including former california governor Arnold Schwarzenegger spoke before the Supreme Court and also the plaintiff in the case spoke at the rally. When do we want it . No. Good morning and thank you for coming out to our rally. My name is joanne antoine, and i am the manager of outreach for common cause maryland. We are a nonpartisan Grassroots Organization dedicated to upholding the core values of our american democracy. We have over 30 state chapters and over a million members throughout the country. Common cause is just one of three groups that is hosting todays event, so please join me in giving a round of applause to represent us and center for American Progress. [applause] i also want to give a special thank you to all the groups who took different actions like filing amicus briefs and supporting the movement in a number of different ways. And also a special thank you to all of the volunteers who came out early and are helping out toda
To have a few panelist in the wings by chance . Rumor had it that i did. I see them coming. Chris, lonnie, good to see you. I was afraid i was going to have to do a monologue for an hour. That been something. Grab a chair. We are now going to have a debate. Well have a classical republican versus democratic debate. Seems to be the time to do that. We have repeal and replace in the wind. Apologize congress and nation. This is impacting us so we thought we would invite some representatives. In terms of format leme provide introductions. Then we will allow each of you to make a statement, few minutes to provide your perspective of where we are in the well talk. Christian is here to my left he is made his mark in big ways of the city working for the Obama Administration and the drafting of the Affordable Care act. Prior to that with the clinton administration. Highly regarded, well known and very much a d, as in democrat. Lonnie, a lawyer, a fellow with the hoover foundation. I mostly what