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good afternoon, everybody. i want to welcome you all here today. i m 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 don t have a plan and i suppose i m being cheritiable here but democrats say they don t 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 p ....
the w.h. omplt, the world health organization from which the u.s. has pulled its support and funding reports it received a record of more than 183,000 confirmed cases. that would bring the global total to more than 8.9 million cases, more than 468,000 deaths. those new cases are largely right here in the united states. we have over 2.3 million americans infected. about 120,000 souls have lost their lives here because of this. washington post reports that over two dozen states and u.s. territories have now seen their new seven-day case increase. a different story in new york city, now entering phase two of reopening as they call it, with offices, stores, salons, outdoor dining all open for business starting today. but under those very same strict safety restrictions. the biggest regions of our country continue to be in the southern and western portions, just yesterday, california, oklahoma, missouri broke their own state records for new cases in one day. florida has reac ....