Of our Host Institution for today, the Georgetown Center for business and public policy. I will tell you that we are delighted today to have a discussion on something very important and near and dear to the Georgetown Center. That is the subject of trade policy. In particular, we are going to examine the issue of whether remedy unfair trade practices or are they themselves simply protectionist policies . Todays panel is going to be moderated by my colleague. Bob is a senior industry fellow at the center. Wonderfully in promoting and advancing the georgetown hill series that has clearly gotten so popular over the years. I will say that we are glad to have you here. I will not steal bob steiner, but in terms of introducing the panelists, i will some police say that its an extraordinarily blueribbon group of people that will be talking today. I will also say that when we looked at the list of registrants for today, we saw a number of experts in the audience. We won to make sure to have am
Cspan 2 and watch anytime on cspan. Org. And listen on the free cspan radio app. Next, a discussion on the future of u. S. Trade policy and current trade Protection Measures proposed by President Trump. Well hear from former clinton and obama trade officials as they talk about protectionist policies. The role of the u. S. In the World Trade Organization, and President Trumps proposed renegotiation of the north American Free trade agreement known as nafta. This is an hour and a half. Glad to see everyone here. I am john mayo, a professor of economics, business and Public Policy at Georgetown Universitys Mcdonough School of business. I am also the executive director of our Host Institution for today, the Georgetown Center for business and Public Policy. I will tell you that we are delighted today to have a discussion on something very important, near and dear to the Georgetown Center, and that is the subject of trade policy. And in particular, we are going to examine the issue of whether
Cspan 2 and watch anytime on cspan. Org. And listen on the free cspan radio app. Next, a discussion on the future of u. S. Trade policy and current trade Protection Measures proposed by President Trump. Well hear from former clinton and obama trade officials as they talk about protectionist policies. The role of the u. S. In the World Trade Organization, and President Trumps proposed renegotiation of the north American Free trade agreement known as nafta. This is an hour and a half. Glad to see everyone here. I am john mayo, a professor of economics, business and Public Policy at Georgetown Universitys Mcdonough School of business. I am also the executive director of our Host Institution for today, the Georgetown Center for business and Public Policy. I will tell you that we are delighted today to have a discussion on something very important, near and dear to the Georgetown Center, and that is the subject of trade policy. And in particular, we are going to examine the issue of whether
Enrolling in the program as a result. A question about the physician spending projections. You mention that your projections included the 21 i think reduction thats coming april 1st. Actually, no. Im sorry. Ill let you finish. I just wanted to clarify. Sure. The 21 reduction is in current law and thats under the Sustainable Growth rate formula. But what our projections our projections are consistent with the projected baseline scenario in the Medicare Trustees report. And in that, payment rates are expected to grow at 0 for 2015, then. 6 through the remainder of the projection period, per year, on average. These projections do not include the cut under the Sustainable Growth rate formula. In terms of the couple times it came up, the increase in highcost specially drugs and a specific mention of the hepatitis treatments that are out there. Does this analysis include any offsetting factors for someone getting cured of hepatitis and therefore not having ongoing costs in the future as a re
Culture in scotland, it sent too contested. Which is good. And everyone who lives in scotland, permanent residency in scotland, qualified commonwealth citizen gets a vote. I am german, the accent never goes away. I am german. I have residency in scotland. I lived there for five years, once you get permanent residency you get to vote. If you are a scott that moved to england, you dont get a vote it. Is the same for the Scottish Parliament. Some dont like that, obviously it is not majorly contested because, this is the Scottish Parliament franchise. Some didnt like that it is an agreed franchise. The idea, who lives in scotland, votes, that includes, i think 10 now of people who were born in england. For example, who have residency in scotland. That is the voting franchise, the only change was the lowering of the voting age to 16. That is a cross party consensus. Geographically splits within scotland, we do see splits, there was a pole in glasscow, the crucial thing is. For example. The