Took the first big step of his presidency in terms of dealing with the crisis. Saying he would declare it an emergency, saying he wanted to dedicate time and resources and money to this crisis. Because we havent seen the actual declaration yet, it is hard to say what this will do. Thingeral, the number one you can say is that this will mean a lot more awareness and attention on the issue. The easiest thing to say, this will put a spotlight on what is going on around the country when it comes to the crisis. From there we are looking at what the laws are that govern Emergency Declarations, to get a clue towards what he might do. Usedneral these things are for Something Like a hurricane or flood or a tangible event that is concrete. Public Health Emergencies are declared when it comes to Communicable Disease like influenza or the h1n1 virus. This is a novel use. We have not seen emergency for a broad used and multifaceted thing like the opioid crisis. Host when will this become official a
Members what kind of arguments can we bring to the table to help us convince our Public Officials that libraries matter in the community . This is a perfect one to end on because as i write in the first chapter of the book, wrote this book not for the library and the my love in the audience but for other people trying to make the case and specifically for people like you who are Board Members and for people who are in decisionmaking postures around making business whether its principles of high schools or town managers or whoever it may be too tried to decide on a budget. Thats exactly the point of this book and i hope it proves to be useful and you can actually borrow from your local public library. You can use an independent bookstore to buy it. Its the core of my argument that these are extraordinarily important institutions to democracies and i think this is extremely short money for the return you get. I dont have an economic model but i actually think it would be just made up gre
Members what kind of arguments can we bring to the table to help us convince our Public Officials that libraries matter in the community . This is a perfect one to end on because as i write in the first chapter of the book, wrote this book not for the library and the my love in the audience but for other people trying to make the case and specifically for people like you who are Board Members and for people who are in decisionmaking postures around making business whether its principles of high schools or town managers or whoever it may be too tried to decide on a budget. Thats exactly the point of this book and i hope it proves to be useful and you can actually borrow from your local public library. You can use an independent bookstore to buy it. Its the core of my argument that these are extraordinarily important institutions to democracies and i think this is extremely short money for the return you get. I dont have an economic model but i actually think it would be just made up gre
The Affordable Care act. We want to hear from those in the medical field about how this has impacted your job and patience. For the first 45 minutes we will have a special line for doctors 202 7488000. Nurses, special line for you, 202 7488001. All other medical professionals can call in 202 7488002. You can catch up with us on social media, on twitter. On facebook it is facebook. Com cspan. You, we areng to talking about the Affordable Care the current state and future of that law. We want to hear from doctors, nurses, other medical professionals this morning. We heard from the speaker of the house over the weekend about obamacare as he refers to it. Here are a series of tweets from paul ryan. Obamacare is giving americans another doubledigit premium increase, and fewer choices. Obamacare, millions of americans only have one choice for Health Insurance, which is really not a choice. It is a monopoly. Mitch mcconnell, the republican leader in the senate on twitter last week. Americans
Burgess of texas talks about efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care act. Hosted by the American Enterprise institute, this is two hours. Okay. Okay. I want to thank everyone for attending this event today. Im joe antos, the wilson had h. Taylor scholar for Health Care Retirement policy at the American Enterprise institute. On behalf of aei, the Brookings Institution and the Pacific Business group on health, i want to welcome everyone here and everyone watching remotely including those who are watching cspan to todays conference. Were going to discuss High Quality Health Care that is available for patients, employers and taxpayers. This is a critical topic for government poll he icymaker spo. The recent election highlighted the disagreements among many people in this country about what is the best way for government to proceed in this area. And obviously changes are coming. The expansion of Health Insurance coverage under the aca has come at a steep price and the Incoming Adm