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One of these National Book festival presents . Good. Keep coming back, we like you. Thank you so much. [laughter] well, welcome to the library of congress National Book festival presents, a vibrant new series of programs inspired by the National Book festival and meant to bring you into the heart of this historic, dynamic institution, the library of congress, your national library. This is a brand new effort through which we hope to spark conversations, engage, inspire and entertain you with some of the most diverse, provocative and notable writers of the day. In every program that we put before you, say from the childrens writer dave pilke to a conversation with the haitianamerican wonderful literary novelist [inaudible] to the program youve come to hear tonight, we mean to connect the works of living writers to a larger h ....
Minute. I am the interim director at Baylor University press. We are a small academic Publishing House attached to the largest Baptist University in the world in waco, texas. At baylor press, were very focused editorially. Almost all of the 40 books that we publish each year are focused on academic conversations surrounding religion. Melissas book is a natural fort for our list, and were proud to be the publisher of it. I suspect that for many of you Melissa Rogers needs no introduction at all. Shes served as special assistant to president barack obama and executive director of the White House Office of faithbased and neighborhood partnerships. She holds a law degree from the university of pennsylv ....
To the physician payment reform i think lance for the optimism to my belief that they will be avoided change the way that there going to get in such a way that help to close some of those even as new people become eligible. And, of course, we will also be bring in more people who better coverage throughout the lifetime. I think we have reason to believe that can make a difference and helping us of the people who are becoming eligible for medicare which also has an impact. The ben keating Preventive Care their entire lives, not even getting access to the kind of care they need to prevent hospitalizations. That will make a difference. Weve also made huge strides in quality of medicare. And the past few years reduce the admissions rate by 10 , reduced hospital record conditions by i think 17 . All of those things make me optimistic that we were able to Work Together to deal with ....