Great to have you with us in selma to commemorate the 50th anniversary. The event in 1965 became the catalyst to the Voting Rights act. Police assaulted 600 protesters as they tried to march from selma to montgomery alabama. The event was known. Many say there is still a long way to go tony harris has been covering the event in selma. Lets begin with you on this powerful weekend, there has been a new call for action. Absolutely. A powerful weekend. Take a look behind me at the Edmund Pettus bridge, the crowd is starting to thin out. The curtain coming down on what has been a remarkable weekend in this small town. As was the case 50 years ago. This day began in church. Brown chapel the church that housed the power and muscle of the selma marches. The epicentre for an impressive array of thinkers and activists. All the doubt. The we have the chance to vote and do many things because so many walked across the bridge, cried on the bridge and bled on the bridge. Politics is americas religio
Improving quality for health care. But to the extent we want it to happened to make sure the incentives are right but for decades they have not been aligned. There is an opportunity here to save Small Businesses a lot of money to grow more rapidly. Just very briefly defied the incentives. For years the primary symptom is that it is such a powerful point if you look at one mans cost or another mans revenues of the cost that you pay if you compare our performance versus other industrialized countries you spend 60 percent more than other countries but you dont see better quality measures or outcome so the incentives the opportunity to modify those incentives by the act and the contract being that it encourages is profound but what you see is hospitalization come down but that means they glad of business and that is a real challenge to say that is not a good thing but it can accommodate the extra volume with those spee mori efficient if they become more efficient than this model can work.
Because the matching is really a big deal. Its going to help them save money and i its going to help them get a better quality outcome. Very much so. Youre going to have to get that data down in such a way its more consumer global so people make the right choices. Sometimes you get, present us with the best choice but to cant drive us there. Thats a big chunk. Thats something that employees are also a bit concerned about is privacy as well, as we get more data and start using it more as the nsa incident has shown. Were all very vulnerable having that data out there. I would like to follow up on the point youre making. When you think about quality and cost, the two are related and if are going to attack the underlying challenges of making health care both affordable and high in quality you cant just took out the health care level. Have to go down to what hospitals and doctors are doing. We are seeing some encouraging results. One of our ncos, their physicians have understood the economi
Panel or the second one. But i think that this joint plan of action and the diplomatic effort of the administration give us a historic opportunity we cant afford to put a cross on. The joint plan of action and the interim agreement, with in my view from analyzing it and reading analysis done by many who are smarter than me that slows and reverses aspects with not all aspects but critical aspect of the Iranian Nuclear program, which sanctions alone has not been able to do. And it also provides this country and our partners and all of our allies and the entire world a better Early Warning system about whether iran is cheating. We get more time on the clock and better Early Warning system because of the deal. We have to give diplomacy a chance. We have to. I think aggressive diplomacy has been an underexercised american muscle. In the last 15 years. We have to return to the kind of aggressive diplomacy the nation embraced when Teddy Roosevelt broke end the end of the war, won a nobel peac
You know, we may disagree with some of our partners in the p5 on many things. Some of my European Partners sometimes want to go further than i want to go, but at the end of the day, we come to an agreement because we all understand how important it is to be united in going forward. And i appreciate, as senator risch says, the bipartisanship on this issue. I did, if i may, senator, want to make one remark in response to senator risch, which goes to this as well. The shutdown and putting a piece of legislation on for the Intelligence Community or for treasury are you would be hesm, but not nearly enough. There are so many parts of this that are problematic, even in the state department indeed, funding for israel, for instance, will be delayed until there is a c. R. Or fullyear appropriation. Our ability to protect the sinai is delayed with that force. So no one piece of legislation is going to solve what is a very complex International Issue that we face, and we are beginning to see edit