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Good evening everybody and welcome. My name is simon, im the executive director or of the ethics center. Along with our partners advance which is a network of australians around the world, the Globalization Program and the council of ethics and international fair, id like to welcome you all to the session within our program shades of red and blue. The reason why weve convened this session is because we think its essential to bring together for the first time people who are distributed across the political system in which in my country and i suspect also here there is very little by way of conversation and a lot of shouting at people. We are all facing issues of profound importance which we think theyre better addressed by allowing for principal disagreement where people of conviction in different perspective might come together and engage. The topics that we will be talking about during the course of this day, one of the most is going to be addressed this afternoon. Before i go to the
I just wanted to start with an brief opening comments to frame todays discussion. When it comes to health care, those on the right are often defined more by what they are again then by what they are for. The truth is there have a lot of plans that have been offered on the right of alternatives to obamacare. But there hasnt been any agreement on any single proposal. That may be about to change. A combination of the republican takeover of the senate, a looming Supreme Court decision in the white house race are putting more pressure than ever before on republicans to offer some sort of alternative to obamacare. Before they could get to any sort of agreement, there are some in the mental, philosophical disagreement that need to be worked out about how to get into the country into a more freemarket direction. That is why i wrote my book, overcoming obamacare. I looked at the flurry of plans that have been offered as alternatives to obamacare. I sorted them into three basic approaches. The f