Passage of comprehensive Health Care Reform would be a high priority. I repeated that goal at the beginning of this year and sai d i would give it my close attention in all of my energy. Two years ago, americans faced a judgment at the polls that the nations problems had been subordinated for too long to problems abroad. Working middle income families from a corporate downsizing, Defense Industry conversion, violent crime, college costs, and inflated Health Insurance costs all made americans ask us here in washington to focus on america needs. President clinton and the Democratic Congress responded with a budget that cuts the deficit and has contributed to the creation of more than 4 million new jobs in the last two years. And with legislation to reduce crime, improve college loans, broaden trade, speed up the introduction of new technologies, and the Economic Prosperity they promise. We also made a strong effort to reform the existing Health Insurance system so that every american cou
You are watching American History tv all weekend, every weekend on cspan3. In september 1994, Senate Democratic leader George Mitchell announced the end of efforts to pass a Health Care Bill that year. The press conference followed a year and a half long effort by the Clinton Administration and members of congress. Up next on American History tv, senator mitchells press conference followed by reaction from republican leader robert dole. It is about an hour. George mitchell at the beginning of this congress, i said the passage of comprehensive Health Care Reform would be a high priority. I repeated that goal at the beginning of this year and said i would give it my close attention and all my energy. Two years ago, americans made the judgment at the polls that the nations problems had been subordinated for too long to problems abroad. The pressures on working middle income families from corporate downsizing, Defense Industry conversion, violent crime, college costs, and inflated Health I
You are watching American History tv all weekend, every weekend on cspan3. In september 1994, Senate Democratic leader George Mitchell announced the end of efforts to pass a Health Care Bill that year. The press conference followed a year and a half long effort by the Clinton Administration and members of congress. Up next on American History tv, senator mitchells press conference followed by reaction from republican leader robert dole. It is about an hour. George mitchell at the beginning of this congress, i said the passage of comprehensive Health Care Reform would be a high priority. I repeated that goal at the beginning of this year and said i would give it my close attention and all my energy. Two years ago, americans made the judgment at the polls that the nations problems had been subordinated for too long to problems abroad. The pressures on working middle income families from corporate downsizing, Defense Industry conversion, violent crime, college costs, and inflated Health I
To order. Today the finance committee focuses its attention on what in my view is the biggest challenge ahead for medicare and the future of Americas Health care system. That is managing chronic illness. To understand why this is a growing issue, one need only to look at how medicare has changed over the years. When the Medicare Program began, in those early days i was codirector of the cancer, full head of hair and rugged good looks. Medicare was mostly about caring for seniors who needed to go to the hospital. If a senior slipped on the Kitchen Floor and broke an ankle for example and head to the hospital, they would get treatment and they would head home. In 1970, nearly 70 of medicare spending was for hospital care. Now that number is close to 40 . The change shows how medicare is very different than it was for four decades ago. Other than broken ankles or new money medical care is dominated by chronic conditions such as cancer, diabetes and Heart Disease. More than two thirds of t
For several years on the communications commission, also as administrator of the Rural Utility Service and now is head of pcia, the Wireless Infrastructure association which is what, mr. Adelstein . Guest this association represents the company that builds Wireless Networks, basically, the ones that deliver all of that content to your cell phone, your smartphone, your tablet. The big Cell Phone Companies are on there, at t, verizon, sprint, tmobile as well as companies that own and build the cell towers, the antennas that you find in Shopping Malls. All of the equipment thats behind the scenes that makes possible what you see on that little screen. Host so how many cell towers are there in the u. S. Right now this. Guest theres hundreds of thousands of them and, you know, the fact is its hard to keep up with the level of demand that we have for new infrastructure because of the demands that consumers are placing on the infrastructure we have today. Host what are some of the legislative