Good afternoon, everybody. I want to welcome you all here today. Im peter russo, ademocratdirec personal affairs at thecato institute. This is a capitol Hill Briefing entitled economics of Health Insurance reform. The repeal and replacement of the Affordable Care act dominated discussions on the hill in recent weeks and lawmakers are huddling in philadelphia to recourse for the damage done to the Health Market in recent years. When they state they dont have a plan and i suppose im being cheritiable here but democrats say they dont have a political viable one. There is some truth to that as any comprehensive replacement will require support from democrats. If there is a take no prisoners approach continues they will in an act of self fulfillment prevent the plan. But to add to the mix the president promised an outline of his own further complicated the endeavor, bun that might bind and unify existing offerings. Time will tell and we will see. The true libertarian position requires he no
Let me tell you about the project and a lot about San Francisco and by the end of this, youre going to feel like you have been buried about the new deal. I am only scratching the surface. I havent even gotten through it. Its terrific. I recommend that is supplementary reading. Homework assignment that you have to do that. I am going to tell you about the living new deal project and a lot of stuff that got done in San Francisco and various other places as well, too. We have to really learn from the last Great Depression. Because, in fact, we might be having another one soon. The Great Depression was photo. The Farm Security division which turned good photographers into great ones. Berkeley photographer dorothy alang. These give you an idea of just how apalling bad the great reh depression was. The best we have, as well as movies, its difficult to million how it was. We tend to look back through the safety net, which was created by the new deal. It was very difficult for young people to
Let me tell you about the project and a lot about San Francisco and by the end of this, youre going to feel like you have been buried about the new deal. I am only scratching the surface. I havent even gotten through it. Its terrific. I recommend that is supplementary reading. Homework assignment that you have to do that. I am going to tell you about the living new deal project and a lot of stuff that got done in San Francisco and various other places as well, too. We have to really learn from the last Great Depression. Because, in fact, we might be having another one soon. The Great Depression was photo. The Farm Security division which turned good photographers into great ones. Berkeley photographer dorothy alang. These give you an idea of just how apalling bad the great reh depression was. The best we have, as well as movies, its difficult to million how it was. We tend to look back through the safety net, which was created by the new deal. It was very difficult for young people to
We tend to look back through the safety net, which was created by the new deal. It was very difficult for young people to understand a time when there was no social safety net. When you lost your job, within a short period of time, you lost your home, food, everything. You were out on the street and your family broke up. It was an apalling time. One tow which some people would like us to return. Heres a guy himself, thats actually a light bounce off of fdr roosevelt. This was his chakra. This was march 4th, 1933. He made the statement and he made it, i didnt understand a long time. The point i was making, people were terrified. Because it seemed like the economy had no bottom and the banks were going down and there was no federal deposit dollars. So imagine a time when we actually had a president who told us we should be courageous rather than trafficked in fear. To his own advantage. Theres been a long war on the new deal. It was when roosevelt got started. Almost immediately, the mor
Let me tell you about the project and a lot about San Francisco and by the end of this, youre going to feel like you have been buried about the new deal. I am only scratching the surface. I havent even gotten through it. Its terrific. I recommend that is supplementary reading. Homework assignment that you have to do that. I am going to tell you about the living new deal project and a lot of stuff that got done in San Francisco and various other places as well, too. We have to really learn from the last Great Depression. Because, in fact, we might be having another one soon. The Great Depression was photo. The Farm Security division which turned good photographers into great ones. Berkeley photographer dorothy alang. These give you an idea of just how apalling bad the great reh depression was. The best we have, as well as movies, its difficult to million how it was. We tend to look back through the safety net, which was created by the new deal. It was very difficult for young people to