Introduce our panel of witnesses. After that, senators will each have five minutes of questions. We have two panelists today. In two hours for the hearing we will end about noon. We will have an hour for each panel and i will and the first panel at 11 00. From smallpox to polio, we have learned that vaccines save lives. Yet, a troubling number of parents are not vaccinating their children. Last september, this Committee Held a hearing about the ebola virus. Our witnesses included a brave and physician who worked in liberia and contracted people a and contracted ebola. There was and is no cure. There was and is no vaccine. This produced a near panic in the United States. It changed procedures in nearly every hospital and clinic. I remember one chattanooga Public Health officer saying it is ebola all the time, every day. In response, congress appropriated more than 5 billion to fight the spread of the virus. The impact of efforts is that the number of people a cases are declining. At the
Philip millsteen family, roslyn p. Walter. Additional support is provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tish wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york. Good evening. Thanks for joining us. Senate majority leader harry reid and Senate Minority leader Mitch Mcconnell spoke again today in the latest efforts to avert a u. S. Government default, an event some warn could seriously damage the world which i. The deadline to increase the debt ceiling is now little more than 71 hours away. Today the head of the International Monetary fund issued a new warning about the dangers of a default. If theres that degree of disruption, that lack of certainty, that lack of trust in the u. S. Signature, it would mean massive disruption the world over. We would be at risk of tipping yet again into recession. Negotiations between president obama and House Republicans faltered yesterday, so the two Senate
Care act. Followed by the Supreme Court oral argument examining prayers before government meetings. Later, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau director richard cordray. Is now called the Mercedesbenz Superdome in new orleans where the new Orleans Saints play. Built entirely at public expense after hurricane katrina. When it hosted Football Games again, that was a national feel good story and rightly so. But the public paid for all the repairs and the leak put in a token amount per the public it is invested at about 1 billion. Owns the new Orleans Saints keep so most all of the revenue generated there. One reason people dont rebel against this is that they dont understand it is taking place. The second reason is that there they feel there is nothing they can do about it area it is largely based on inside heels and the most recent time there was a vote was in miami last year on whether to use public money to renovate the place where the Miami Dolphins play in the citizens of miami voted
Fourth year and the future years, they can actually utilize what is already being used in a local property tax or sales tax for these low income people. For these low income people. So, what i would ask, if the state chooses not to expand , what wouldto 138 you think the department would plan to handle be states rick states request to continue with business as usual . Senator, with regards to the specifics of the discussions thaten hhs and the state, is something in my current role i am not familiar with. What i can talk about is the philosophy of how to think about these issues in terms of medicaid and medicaid waivers. There are a couple principles. I think it is important starting the conversation to be clear about what the fundamental Core Principles that are essential to implementing our, whether that is the Affordable Care act or state waivers other states may be applying for. I think the second thing that is an important principle is flexibility. Differentates have situations an
That is important to point out. Im discussing changes that will be there for my generation. People will have to except that are Social Security and medicare will be the best in the world compared to other countries, but it will look different. It will look different because it has to and because we will work longer and live on her. Makee going to have to that change. That is a choice we will make. If we dont, all i can tell you is that these programs will not exist as we know them. Socialstion is not if security will be reformed. It will be, one way or the other. The question is whether it is performed in a way that is productive or distractive. Or whether they are reforms in a chaotic way. As you would expect, your remarks have generated questions on other topics. Week you rejected the assertion that human activity is causing climate change. Action taken to curtail this activity will destroy our economy. How do you propose that the country deal with the impacts these ships could have