Continues. Is tomoining us now daschle. Welcome. Talk a little bit about what you brought to the table as far as the creation of the Affordable Care act. Guest i had more of an advisory role. I have the opportunity to talk to my former colleagues and members of the administration. I wrote a book which laid out a lot of the principles. It was a very transformational time and it still is. Host give us your sense about problems with the Affordable Care act. Talk about the main problems and how they can be addressed. Guest i think the main problem is still the execution of the website itself. The fundamentals are to contain costs and to improve quality. There is no question we know we cannot continue with the Current System as it exists. We have 50 Million People uninsured. 25,000 people every year die because they have no insurance. We can do a lot better. This is a chance to address that in a meaningful way. It will take some time that we are getting there. We have to continue to be pati
Government of the people by the people and for the people that shall not perish from the earth. On this anniversary we want to get your thoughts not only on the speeches that were told that end, but what it means for our country today. Heres how you can do so if you want to give us your thoughts on the gettysburg address via twitter you can do so. As always, you can email us at span. Org. I hear some of the speech that was delivered back on november 19, 1863. It is by president lincoln. It is rather frustrated dedicated to the great task remaining before us that we take increased devotion to the cause that they gave their last full measure of devotion. Perhaps you have thoughts about these lines are presently can delivered back then. Social media is available to as well. Facebook is it with you can do so. We had a few people posting on this as we started this morning. Ourbook. Com cspan is facebook page. You can also tweak your thoughts to that cspan wj. The Associated Press takes a sp
Ets that live 202 5853880 you can also email us. Veterans only this morning. Your experience with the ba system. The congressional reporter for the military times joined us on the phone now to talk ulk about the situation. Why are their calls for the secretary to step down . Caller there has been a lot of controversy lately stemming from the allegations against administrators at the phoenix veterans hospital. There are allegations and reports that they were keeping two lists. actualt had veterans waitt times actual times. Cnn did a larger board large report that 40 veterans died waiting for care. Bunch from the American Legion have called for his resignation. Host why is that . Caller the legion said it is not this situation. There is a list of things that they are frustrated with from how he has lived at the department. Information,lic and to punish folks who have made mistakes. We have heard a handful of scandals over the last 69 months. There were some deaths in pittsburgh and probl
If you stlean report seen that report before . Im familiar with the report. Okay. No. And have you seen it . I have not. Okay. So, the two of you any answers you were giving really just based on speculation since you havent seen it involved with it; is that right . Yes. Thats correct. Okay. So mr. Olson was asking you about some of these recommendations inspect is from last spring. It was a snapshot on page 4 of that report. At the bottom where hef talking about evolving requirements multiple definition of success, et. Cetera. The part he forgot mention, which of the part also, i noticed they forgot to mention when a previous witness of up the part in the box in at the bold type at the bottom of the Current Situation bullet which say cms has been working to mitigate challenges resulting from program characteristics. Do you see that . I do. What does it mean to you . It means that recognize the risk and challenge of the program and they were looking at options or mitigation approaches t
For five straight weeks, gentlemen are yet according to a terrific piece in New York Times far few americans own stocks these days. Given the amazing run, you have to ask yourself, why did people leave the market in droves. Could it be people who dont know they own stocks and just have forgotten about them . Or is it people who stopped listening to all the incredibly smart commentators we hear, read and watch, who have endlessly told us that we should be fearful, that we should be cautious, that we should counter one foot out of the door at all times, or that were in big trouble, because all of our gains had to be wiped away, at some point we just dont know when. As i study the output over the weekend andal day today, i saul the you are negative themes that have kept people out of the this amazing move. It was a pretty horrific, frankly reality check that jibes exactly with what the New York Times piece said about the vanishes u. S. Investors. May i sigh fruitless debate over when the