Playing hockey. He is not able to join us. Mike will cover some of the points he was going to make. Why theres a call to action to increase value in our Health Care System. Ill start first by introducing each panelist and sit down, and then go on. So ill start with mike, who is one of the nations most highly regarded economists. Really what distinguishes mike, not only is he broil yant on the theory and research. Probably more than any other economist, he understands how markets work. And he leads much of the Health Care Policy work coming out of harvard medical school, he also sits on harvards benefits committee, where he learns firsthand why markets are not always efficient. Is that fair to say . He also serves on cbos panel of health advisers. A member of the Massachusetts Health connecter board of directors and vice chair of medpac. We have the fortune of having him serve on our advisory board. Hes one of the pioneers of value based insurance design. And the go to researcher for me
Twitter, praying for this trooper and their family, my thoughts are with all of the Pennsylvania State police. Now to recap, a Pennsylvania State trooper has been shot in plane field township, this is Northampton County. Chopper three over the scene at this point. Now this happened during a traffic stop on route 191, police say the suspect or at least one suspect was also shot. Both are being treated at separate hospitals, at this point, we have crews on the way to the scene. Well continue to follow this story and well very much dates for you throughout this newscast. Meanwhile, in other news, philadelphia family of six is lucky to be alive after fire destroyed their home this morning. Eyewitness News Reporter trang do reports from germantown, Philadelphia Police officer, to thank for their safety. Outside, house completely engulfed in flames. A raging fire ripped through a pair of twin homes on the 200 block every eastman haim street in germantown, just after 3 15 a. M. Fortunately, o
Made here at lake merritt but police say the new tactic of not stopping the train worked dublin pleasantonbound train. Robbing at least seven people and punching at least two others. Bart officials were able to identify some of the suspects thanks to Video Surveillance footage from inside the bart train. Bart police say they have also stepped up their presence in and around the oakland colseium bart station. catherine that disturbing weekend incidence of mob violence on a bart train is causing another victim to come forward who says she was also attacked on a train. Kron 4s Maureen Kelly talked to the young woman who says bart police didnt take her assault seriously enough and she wants answers. There were a group of teenagers kind of messing around on the train, hanging off the bars being loud but in general i wasnt paying much attention to them because theyre teenagers why would i ever be afraid of them. Tess pawlisch says she was sitting on a bart train while travelling thru oakland
Media, has written a number of books. We met about a year ago at a a conference that was put on by the Berkeley Program at yale, and i can see that at the time she has a real affinity for trying to understand the connection between the Communications World and the media world on the one hand, and different elements of the conservative movement on theun other. So this is a natural kind of outgrowth of her previous work looking at that general area. Open to debate is the book. Heather has watched not maybe every single one of 33 yearss with the firing line episodes but pretty close to it i think. She is probably the reigning expert now on all things related to firing line. So please help a welcome heather hindershot to the podium. [applause] thanks so much. Its really great to be here, h, particularly here at the hooverr institution because the hoover was so important to the research i did on the book. I was out of stanford all the papers are and, of course, they preserved all the episod
Worth of firing line episodes but critics. Close to it so shes probably the reigning expert on all things related to the fire line. Please welcome Heather Hendershot to the podium. [applause] thanks so much. Its really great to be here particularly here at the Hoover Institution because the hoover was so important in the research i did on the. Rtant to i was at stanford where the papers are and of course theyrs have preserved all the episodes but the papers and transcripts i really could not have done it without without the who bringser addition great to be here. The ers keeping keeping up to blast me about the book is why did he write it . That people askt this book is why did you write it. The short, quick answer in part is this guy, i have been working on the book since 2011, about a year and half ago it became more urgent as our level of discourse seem to be deteriorating in the shouting matches be increase. It seemed like an important time to be talking about a show that really va