I can assure you that the authors that we are featuring today are serious accomplished economist who is decades who worked to form this publication. The subtitle of the book to economist drink their way through the unfree world gives us the unconventional approach for a couple of academics. That subtitle did not surprise me though. I tend to run in to ben powell and bob lawson at economic or academic conferences around the country and around the world and inevitably had drinks in their hands, probably because we chat at the hotel bars and the like. But the conversation is always interesting, informative and fun. And that is also true of the new book. This is a light book about a heavy topic. So it is fortunate that we are featuring today on the birthday of the late freedman, one of the greatest economist of the 20th century and the champion of economic and overall human freedom. We were lucky to have known him and for some of us who work with him to a limited degree. He too would agree
To do what they want to do. If they like parts of the aca, they can keep it. Number one is wherever i go, health care is the number one concern. Specifically the cost of health care. People tell me it is broken and we need to modernize it and the next thing people tell me is how personal their health care is. We want to make sure patients and physicians are in charge of their health care. Give them choices to give them control and contrast that to what democrats are offering. They want to double down on the aca and they want complete control of your health care. They want to take away your Health Insurance. We want to do the opposite. We want to put patients and doctors in charge of their health care. Host one of the main concerns is this idea of preconsisting conditions. Guest i woke up in the morning and went to bed at night think about the best way to fix preexisting conditions. We talk about ways to fix preexisting conditions. I went in the white house to talk with President Trump
First district of kansas, he is a republican and also the chair of the Republican Committee task force and joins us this morning on washington journal. Sometimes from democrats republicans dont have a plan when it comes to providing health care aside from the aca to read how would you respond . Guest we do have a plan and this is the first chapter. We have been working with the white house all year long in this and very proud of what we have for solutions. Host when it comes to the specifics, what would you highlight . Does this work apart from the aca or alongside it . Guest each state will be able to do what they want to do. If they like parts of the aca, they can keep it. Number one is wherever i go, health care is the number one concern. Specifically the cost of health care. People tell me it is broken and we need to modernize it and the next thing people tell me is how personal their health care is. We want to make sure patients and physicians are in charge of their health care. G
The november 21 deadline. Later, jeff moore doc of the Washington Times talks about the Justice Departments investigation into the origins of the russia probe. Host it is the washington journal for october 29. The bill will vote on a the house will vote on a bill sanctioning turkey. Loseddoor Hearing National Security Council official who will express concerns about President Trumps ukraine phone call and thursday, presentmocrats will current procedures of the impeachment inquiry and. Stablishing new ones. Epublicans, 2027488001 democrats, 2027488000. And independents, 2027488002. If you want to text us about this coming up vote on thursday, 7488003 is how we will bring a resolution to the floor that confirms the Ongoing Investigation currently being conducted by committees as part of the impeachment inquiry including requests for documents, subpoena, testimony, and other investigative steps previously taken or to be taken investigation, this resolution establishes the proceedings for
Participants raised their hands and said yes. Thats an arguable position. There are arguments for and against that. But the first question you need to answer in this as in any other policy proposal is what is this going to cost. And there simply hasnt been very much interest or exploration in this question x. So thats why were releasing the two papers were releasing today and having this panel discussion, is precisely to get a sense of what it could cost us. Not definitive, these are estimates. Maybe theyll be different. Other people have other estimates. Wed love to see them, but nobody really has offered some concrete examination of what the consequences for taxpayers would be of these proposals. And so today were going to be, were releasing two papers to look at that. The first is a look at what the current cost to taxpayers are of, under current policy. The second is what the likely under a couple different scenarios costs would be. And this is a topic that needs to be injected int