Thank you everybody for coming. Please continue to enjoy your lunch. Im tim carney, im a visiting fellow here at the American Enterprise institute as well as being a the commentary ted tor at the Washington Examiner. Were here to talk about health care. But i want to ask a specific question about health care. And its a question that some people on the Free Enterprise side, the free market conservative or libertiarian side dont always ask. Kui, bono in latin, or who benefits. I think sometimes people on the right or right of center are uncomfortable with that question in policy debates because they say why should it matter who benefits . Because we see Elizabeth Warren will say a tax cut is bad because rich people benefit. But i think its actually a very important thing to talk about. One, it definitely influences our debates. If you remember in the 2008 campaign and the passage of obamacare, barack obama certainly thought it was very important to point out that he was battling, you kno
First of all, thank you for having me. What has surprised me about the process and it probably should not have been a big surprise but it was great to see it up close. The voters in the early states really do take this process very seriously. And so, that has been a very positive surprise in terms of the engagement of the voters in the early states. And i think of other americans could see that, they would be much more comfortable with the early state process we engage in. What surprised me on the negative was the fact that it seems like a kind of social media primary has been inserted ahead of the iowa caucus and the New Hampshire primary. In other words, the race got very nationalized very early. There is no invisible primary . That is right. To some extent historically, the early states really were the first indication in terms of what voters are thinking that things like what the dnc did with the debate rules and requiring candidates to have a certain number of small donors that ki
Thank you, everybody for coming. Continue to enjoy your lunch. Im tim carney, a visiting fellow here at American Enterprise institute as well as being the commentary editor at the Washington Examiner. We are here to talk about health care but i want to ask a a specific question about health care. Its a question that some people on the Free Enterprise side, the freemarket conservative or libertarian side dont always ask, who benefits. I think sometimes people on the right or right of center are uncomfortable with that question in policy debates because they say why should it matter who benefits . We see Elizabeth Warren will say tax cut is bad because rich people benefit. But i think its actually a very important thing to talk about. One influences are debates gif you remember in the 2008 campaign and the passage of obamacare, barack obama thought it was important to point out that he was battling the Health Care Sector, that he was battling the drug drugmakers or he was battling the in
Guest we know that will its happening because of variety of factors. One of which has to do with the Trump Administration authorizing a lot of whats called reinsurance in states, which funnels federal funds to state so they can use those dollars to help them lower premiums. That really helped to lower the premiums across the board. Host yesterday on capitol hill a hearing about the obamacare, the Affordable Care act, the tightal sabotage the Trump Administrations add tack on health care. Can you explain what the democrats who are in charge of that hearing were pointing to as sabotage . Guest the democrats have been very focused heading into 2020 to really bring forth obamacare, the Affordable Care act, to say that they are defenders of the law. Particularly its really popular parts, including rules protecting people with preexisting conditions, allowances for young people to stay on o their Parents Health insurance until the age of 26. They wanted to point out that the Trump Administra
With the free cspan radio app. Democratic president ial buttigieg,mayor pete is interviewed by president obamas chief of staff. [applause] [cheers] thank you. Gieg mayor, welcome back. You were here in february before you actually became an official candidate. I see you are playing bigger rooms now. Mayor buttigieg seems that way. Do you ever stop and say to yourself, how did this happen . Mayor buttigieg a little bit. At that time, you were essentially an asterisk. Mayor buttigieg well, maybe a little more than that. Plus re an asterisk were an asterisk plus. You are one of a flock of many, small town mayor, young guy, so on, and now you are a contender. Would have you learned about the country what have you learned about the country . What have you learned about yourself in the journey from here to there . Mayor buttigieg you arrive resenting something that is different if you are not like the others and you can get your ideas across, that anything can happen. We did not know. I beli