Health care coops, which were supposed to offer a nonprofit alternative to private insurance, have essentially been strangled by the private insurers and by congress. 10 out of the 23 have are to close many more are expected to close in the next few months or years. They will probably never viable long term. It was a little like the peewee football he going against the nfl. Amy we will speak with dr. Steffie woolhandler as well as the head of the colorado coop that is going under, and insurance whistleblower Wendell Potter on why health care coops are failing. In a new documentary reveals why the u. S. Has become on of the leading tax shelters of the superrich. We are the 99 . We are the 99 . Invest int money to our country, to invest in people, and their not doing it anymore. As a nurse, i would say theyre probably mentally ill. It is not normal to hoard all that money. Require us to pay in the u. K. , we pay 6 million were not accusing you of being illegal, we are accusing you of bei
That these refuses benefit College Athletes and their student bodies at large. But i think we have to consider whether the lure of such riches could corrupt the basic mission of Athletic Programs. Winning teams get higher payouts than losing teams which creates a strong incentive to win. An incentive which land grant public universities and others are more than happy to follow and win at any cost. Much of the money is often funneled right back into the sports programs in the form of multimilliondollar coaching facilities and state of the art facilities many of it paid for by the taxpayerses to perpetuate the cycle of winning. I think somewhere in my reading here, about 48 million of all the 900 million that ncaa gets from, you know, their broadcasting, march madness and all the rest of it, a very small portion goes specifically to academics. But even thats hard to figure. Because nobody has the figures. Mr. Emmert works for them. They make the decisions. He carries out what they want.
This hearing will come to order. I want to thank all of you very much for coming here. You are a bit squeezed in. But water is on the house. Become portable and the black. College sports has an absolutely extraordinary position in the culture of our country, not only College Sports inspired incredible fan passion across the country but provided a very important way for young men and women as is britain, both to athletics as an avocation and get aunt in education, we are doing some talk about that today. And providing an avenue to college, as they would otherwise not have existed and it is important to understand that. College athletes and athletics are rooted in the notion of amateurism. The history of that is interesting going back to the founding of the n. C. A. A. In 1906 and going back to the greekss concept of amateurism. College sports is supposed to be an avocation. Students play College Sports for love of the game, not for love of money. Many people like the notion of College S
Sports games and the cutthroat competition and how people were treated. So i think what youre hearing up here today is the hope that these are deliverables, these are things that can happen, when you talk about changing the Sexual Assault policy, making sure the players have the health care insurance, making sure thif the time to do the internships. They arent crazy hard things to do. That we have another hearing, whether its six months from now or a year from now to check up on whats happening with these things whether theyre at the high school level. I know that senator tom udahl cosponsored his bill. I know theres a lawsuit thats going on, just your opinion of it, but if you could talk about whats being done. I think its a critical issue and most heavily identified. It occurs in virtually every sport. First of all, as i had mentioned in my opening comments, we created when i first came into the office, i was a business sprited to find there wasnt a chief medical officer, so when we
To reporters about this new Republicancontrolled Congress and working with them. Here is what he had to say. [video clip] weve come to a point where we have a chance to reverse a different problem a decades long erosion of middleclass jobs and incomes, and making sure that the middle class is the engine that propels our prosperity for years to come. To do that, we have got to make some smart choices, weve got to make the right choices. We have got to invest in the things that secure faster growth and higher paying jobs for more americans. I am being absolutely sincere when i say i want to work with this new congress to get things done, to make those investments to make sure that government is working better and smarter. We are going to disagree on some things, but there are going to be areas of agreement, and we have got to be able to make that happen, and that will involve compromise every once in a while. You saw during this lameduck period that perhaps that spirit of compromise may