Was the voters in the early states take this process very seriously. That has been a positive surprise in terms of the engagement of the voters in the early states. If 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 that it seems like a social media primary has been inserted head of the iowa caucus and New Hampshire caucus. It got very nationalized, very early. There is no invisible primary. That is right. To some extent the early states , really where the first indication, in terms of what voters are thinking, but things like what the dnc did with the debate rules, requiring testimony of truth requiring candidates to have a certain number of small donors and all that, that encouraged the creation of this, as i save social media primary. Would you say the process by the dnc is unfair for you and others . Mr. Delaney i would not say it is unfair because they were very clear what the rule
Thank you, everyone, for coming. Im tim carney. Im a visiting fellow here at the american enter Price Institute as being the commentary editor at the Washington Examiner. We are here talking about health care and we want to ask a specific question about health care and its a question of the Free Enterprise side and the free market consentive or libertarian side dont always ask in latin or who benefits . I think sometimes people on the right or right of enter are uncomfortable with that question 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 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 know, the Health Care Sector. That he was battling the drugmakers or he was battling the insurers and
Cspan. Watch anytime on cspan. Org and listen free wherever you are using the free cspan radio app. Democratic president ial candidate and former maryland congressman john his life,lked about his career and why he is running. Or president congressman, youre the earliest to announce your candidacy. What is a surprise about the process and for you personally . Thank you for having me and it is great to be here with you. What a surprise me. What has surprised me is that the voters in the early states really do take this process very seriously. So that has been a very positive surprise in terms of the engagement of the voters in the early states. I think of other americans could see that, they would be much the comfortable with process we engage in. What surprised me on the negative is the fact that it seems like kind of a social media primary has been inserted ahead of the iowa caucus and the New Hampshire primary. In other words, this race got very nationalized very early. So there is no
Programming and actually providing what we would want to provide, which is real treatment on demand for everybody seeking it in a quick period of time and support for them afterwards. I am hoping some of what will come out of doctor blands work is a map of what would and you suggested maybe it is three or a total of double the step down beds. It doesnt solve Behavioral Health court problem. It is hard for us as policymakers to, you know, work and i assume this is true in the Mayors Office to come up with solutions if we dont have a real assessment of what the gaps are. It is true, i didnt focus specifically on justice involvement in this presentation. We could find out. There are experts that would know better than i. Supervisor mandelman we have that hearing. We will have a lot of conversations about the jail. It does send assessors to the jail. It is difficult even though they are in jail it doesnt mean be they are easy to find or sit down with. A lot of things get in the way of the
Questions. I can accept and it makes sense to me for the person who is seeking treatment, a homeless person, outreach worker says do you want to go to treatment and they say, yes, there is a relatively short wait. It sounds like that could be several days and supervisor stefani, that is not exactly treatment on demand. There might be work to do there. I am more troubled by the access to treatment for the justice involved population which we had a hearing on several months ago. What we hear from Behavioral Health court and drug court is that they have a very hard time accessing appropriate services, appropriate Treatment Services for people in james or in one of those people in james or one of those courts. Part of the disconnect may be the treatment we are relying on to meet the treatment on demand goals might not be the most appropriate place for someone in Behavioral Health court. I know there are some folks going to health right. Can you talk about if the overall picture is better t