On facebook, youtube, twitter and from axios. Com. With theollow along axios on twitter. We will unpack how the pandemic has changed the trajectory of healthcare and what is expected over the next four years. Is dr. Robertt blendon, professor of Health Policy at the school of Public Health. He is joining us from boca raton. Welcome. Thank you for having me. Theets Start Talking about Number One Health topic right now, the coronavirus. Lets talk about equities and disparities. Can you outline what are the best things we can do from a policy perspective to help reduce the pain of the pandemic and to reduce the inequities associated over the next few months . Dr. Blendon first i want to be very cautious. A number of things are done under an emergency basis over the next six months. A lot of like and hispanic americans could die. There are a lot of things we can do about race inequity that are really important. I am really worried about the next six months. Americansent black and latino am
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This week even if it has been embarrassing for republicans. The people who vote for this will have this vote tattooed to their foreheads as they go forward. They have to answer for the vote. Reporter the Trump Administration says if this bill fails, obamacare stays and the president will move on to tax reform. The president understands this is it. We had this opportunity to change the trajectory of healthcare to help improve put a Healthcare System in place and to end the nightmare. Reporter many republicans are concerned the way they vote on the plan today will affect them during election season next year where theyre up for reelection. At the capitol, Stephanie Ramos abc news. And action news will have continuing coverage of todays developments. John rawlins will be live at 5 oclock with what representatives go through and the intense pressure being put on them by the white house and their constituents. Well hear from speak paul ryan live in just moments and of course constant update
Guest as i said in the acknowledgments, a reporter from the New York Times called me up when she was switched over from Foreign Affairs to Public Health and said what i talked to her about the American Health care system and explained to her the system and she wanted to know if we could meet for tea and that was a bit ridiculous. You cant explain the American Healthcare system in an hour and at that time i said to myself wouldnt it be nice if there were 250 page book i could just give to someone that would explain the system. And when you look out there there is no such book and i always figured the reason is if youre a tenured professor or Health Policy person, its beneath you to write the book explaining the system. And if you are not on ten year trying to get tenure, you will never get it. So i wanted to fill that void. Then once i got into writing the book i begin to think began to think it sets up a platform for whats going to happen. Why dont i start making predictions about the
Rate if you are a passable entity and giving half your money back it is hard to grow your business, and equipment, grow jobs when you are giving half of it away. My. Is, your thoughts in terms of if we lower the rates and terms of pastors as well as my. Is your thoughts in seek secor what difference would that have in terms of growing the economy and creating jobs. Professor holtzeakin, could you expand on that . It is a bad tax policy that treats the same Business Activity differently. And that would drive you to organize your business on the basis of tax considerations, not business decisions. That is the hallmark of interference with the economy. In the work i have done on Sole Proprietorships partnerships, relatively small they are disproportionately sensitive to tax considerations, heavily reliant upon tax flow. Lowering taxes gives them greater cash flow. They can invest invest and hire more and so you see strong linkages between tax load toward those entities and capacity to gro