In washington d. C. As part of the United States senate youth program, sunday night fa8 00 p. M. Pacific on e1cspans q a. On wednesday a panel looks at trends in Health Care Costs. Looking at the role of the Affordable Health care act in the slowdown of health care in the last few years. This was put together by the alliance for healthc reform and the kaiser foundation. Good afternoon. I am marilyn sarafeeney with the alliance of health reform. Along with senators carter and blunt, i would like to welcome you to todays briefing on the subject of Health Care Costs. I would also like to thankw3 our partner in this briefing, the Kaiser Family t foundation and we have with us today as my comoderator drew altman who is the founder of the kaiser foundation. Our Mission Today is to try to take some of the mystery out of Health Care Costs. Our experts are goingt to explain the trends, the prospects moving forward, what is driving Health Care Costs, and what policymakers and the Health Care Com
Or google or you want to hire real talent, you pay them more because you really need that talent, so that you pay them more to offset the employment tax. If youre working the lumberyard in oregon or somewhere, where theres a surplus of labor, the you dont pay them more to offset it, so the irony is that it ends up hitting the lower paid guy and the lower the struggling industry more than it hits the person whos in the consulting or technology industry. So reducing those employment taxes are have many benefits. For example, 24 Million People or 25 Million People working part time now could very well be brought into the workforce. You could find people that werent working to be brought into the workforce, so thats the good news. The question is, what are you going to use to provide the money to do that . And you know, i know the committee has looked at it. Its probably not possible. But who knows . They said tax reform wasnt possible in 86. You could take a dollar gasoline tax or you cou
This thing, and its going to be a lot more people caught. That definitely makes the daytoday difficult as health care workers, not knowing when is the end. Ultimately, its just you have to adjust, and we all have to adjust, its a new norm. And its not going to go away anytime soon. The war against this virus continues on the front lines, and it is not stopping anytime soon. Welcome to monday. It is meet the press daily and im katy tur in for chuck todd. Were awaiting another one of the president s press conferences on the coronavirus. It was originally scheduled for 5 00 p. M. , but it has just been pushed back to 5 30, and we should remind you, the white house has said that these appearances are due to their concern with poll numbers. It comes as the president is once again openly contradicting his own Public Health advisers. Yesterday, dr. Debra birx, the coordinator of the president s Coronavirus Task force, warned that the outbreak were experiencing right now is in some ways worse
Order. Questions to the Prime Minister. Question number one, mr. Speaker. Prime minister . Thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, today marks the 12 members of the tragic terrorist attack on new yorks twin towers. Im sure the whole house will wish to join in sending our condolences to all those who are affected by this aborted attack including the families of the 67 british citizens who lost their lives. These terrorists seek to divide us but they dont understand their actions only make us more determined and more united in our resolve to defeat them. Mr. Speaker, this morning i had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others, and in addition to my duties in this house, i shall have further such meetings later today. Im sure the whole house will wish to associate himself with the Prime Ministers comments on this anniversary. We ar are haunted of its imagesy see. Millions needing a day, children dying. I thank the Prime Minister for his leadership at the g20. Will he now prepare a con
Credits for americans who buy Health Insurance through federallyrun exchanges. And later, live coverage from the Brookings Institution as u. S. Trade representative Michael Froman and others discuss extending a law that adds incentives to african countries that trade with the u. S. Cspan, created by americas Cable Companies in 1979, brought to you as a Public Service by your television provider. Host senator mark pryors joining us on the communicators this week. Hes chair of the commerce subcommittee on Communications Technology and the internet. Senator pryor, your full committee recently approved tom wheeler to be fcc nominee. Senator cruz, your colleague, has talked about putting a hold on that nomination. Is there any word on that right now . Guest well, were working on that. Let me first say thank you for having me on, its great to be on the show, and also let me say thank you to cspan for all the Public Interest broadcasting they do. Its great. I know you dont belief this, people