I had blue cross for years, and i had a really good Premium Payment that i paid every month and i had really good insurance. After this took effect, i lost my insurance and my premium went up to 600 per month. I think it is terrible and i hope that the Supreme Court does decide to go the republicansway. Frank in ohio, an independent caller. My question is, a lot of people are missing the fact that everybody wants the American People to have insurance, but nobody wants our economy to fail. Obamacare is going to take down our economy, and people dont understand that. We want people to have insurance but we want to live in a good economy. We talked about the impact of the courts decision. The administration saying that we dont have an authority for a plan b if the court rules against us. But in the wall street journal yesterday, the republican said they have a backup plan. That is one thing that the challengers say they are for. They say that it is not that they want to take people out of
Some of us still believe in battleships, and we are not sure that alaska should have ever been made a state. [laughter] senator king p request with some trepidation, mr. Chairman i want to associate myself with the senator from alaskas questions. The arctic is emerging as any normally important and strategic area. We have one heavy icebreaker and one medium icebreaker. The estimates are the russians have 710 icebreakers. That is just basic infrastructure. And the resources up there and the strategic implications are enormous, so i appreciate the senator raising the question. We have to put the discussion into context in terms of your budget. This chart, which im sure youre familiar with, is the last 50 years of defense spending as a percentage of gdp. Starting in 1962 at about 9 , today it is 3. 3 and headed down , at a time of increasing threat and payroll for our country. Often we get confused about the absolute dollar amounts, but a percent of gdp as a way of comparing apples to app
Prize winners and watch a portion of their grand prize video, heres a little bit more background on the competition. There were five top themes among the many entry this is year. Entires we received this uyea year. They were education, health, economy, equality and immigration. We received more than 2,200 entries from 45 states and the district of columbia. Students were able to enter as a team of up to three or individually. And there were four categories in which they could enter, broken down by regions at the high school level, High School Eastern states, High School Central states and high School Western states. Middle schoolers competed separately. In the end, 150 student prizes were awarded totaling 100,000. Now its time to announce the grand prize winner, a team of eighth graders from lexington, kentucky, were named the grand Prize Winners in 2015 for their video on the minimum wage titled the artificial wage. Their Cable Provider is time warner cable. Heres a small clip from th
Mentioned, all of a sudden thats when it became so rotten that we no longer are the people or the people could no longer put up with it. The Pivotal Moment wags when it accepted the deal that was moment was when it accepted the deal that was offered by russia which our european allies were not willing to do. That ignited this situation. Thats what turned the policy type of situation and perhaps the and perhaps the overturn of rotten government through a electoral process into instead the overturn of the rotten regime by violent demonstrations and nondemocratic means of overthrowing that regime. They could two years later could have kicked that guy out with a free election. They didnt wait. Let me ask you about ok. Lets hope what were doing now is aimed at trying to end the conflict that started in that more complicated way than black and white. What people are advocating that we send weapons and to ukraine, the defensive weapons would any of these weapons be under do we see any of thes
Every new congress in recent years, the Kaiser Foundation and the alliance have sponsored a series of briefings on a number of the most Important Health policy topics that are at the center of debate in congress. After todays briefing on the Affordable Care act, we will be conducting three more of these primers next month, not next friday, but the two fridays following that, and on wednesday april 1, on medicaid, medicare and healthcare costs respectively. Mark your calendars. We will see you back here. As for todays program, one might ask, why there is a need for a primer on outlaws, a few weeks of being five years old, and has been in the spotlight virtually every day since it was signed into law. Well, there are two fairly large reasons, one being this is a fairly complicated law, as some of you have found. With many different provisions and even without congressional action to amend it, many of those provisions have changed since its enactment. Secondly, bright people come and go.