From our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. I am lucky. One of those rare instances where a little boys dreams came true. Bud selig was the 9th commissioner and many said he was the most influential. On saturday, at the age of 80, he stepped down. He grew up in milwaukee where he rooted for the new york yankees. In 1970, at age 35, he bought the seattle pilots in Bankruptcy Court and moved the team to milwaukee. He called this his greatest proudest accomplishment. As commissioner he revolutionized the economics a grew revenue to 8 billion, playoff expansion and interplay. And also faced a number of challenges. Steroid use among some of the best players cast a wide shadow on the game. On sunday, bud selig and i spoke at Yankee Stadium. Heres that conversation. There are a lot of things we could do on sunday morning but to talk to you about baseball in this setting, in this stadium with snow on the ground. Ive been to the Yankee Stadium a lot since 1949, old yankees, new yan
Im lucky. One of those rare instances where a little boys dreams came true. Major league baseballs ninth commissioner, many say he was the most influential. On saturday he stepped down after 23 years on the job. He grew up in milwaukee where he rooted for the yankees. At age 70 he bought the pilots in Bankruptcy Court and moved the team to milwaukee. He calls this his proudest accomplishment. He expanded interleague play. He face aid number of challenges. Among some of the best players cast a wide shadow on the game. On sunday he spoke at Yankee Stadium. Here is that conversation. There are a lot of things we could do on sunday morning fwout talk to you about baseball in this setting, this stadium with snow on the ground. Ive been to Yankee Stadium a lot, ever since 1949. Never been here when there is snow covering the field. So this is a first. Growing up in milwaukee, you were a yankee fan. I was. Very strange, in 1945 the Milwaukee Brewers had an outfielder by the name of her shall
Think that we would be a lot more successful by now and for us they are doing it at the local level using the county stakeholders and we are very fortunate that we have the counties support to allow us to tap into these different resources but we have to replicate that acceptability in every county and in every city if it doesnt come topdown. Typically at the end of the four runs people leave more depressed than when they came. At times we have been accused of designing before in the floor in the program to make people more worried. I dont know about everybody else, but i at least am more optimistic and hopeful and i think that we should end this on an upbeat note so please join me in thanking our speakers and i look forward to seeing you again and i can promise you that it will be less optimistic. Plus a live picture from the Brookings Institution as we bring you a discussion this morning on the military Health Care System we hear from a number of Defense Department officials as well
To me that the connection between the military, the activeduty military and the va was terrible symbolized by the fact that we had incompatible electronic record systems. And that apparently have given up trying to harmonize billions of dollars in ten years at least. I wont get into a number, i will accept wholeheartedly the spirit of your question and answer it in a couple of different ways. The military Health System in the va system initially had Different Missions and the whole idea was after the Second World War and the words before now if you got ill or injured you are going to move on. That degree of of coordination at a time when health care was simpler served its purpose. Fastforward purpose. Fast forward to the 21st century and that is neither acceptable or desired because of the complexity of care. We have committed to harmonizing and working on that transition, and i cochaired the Health Executive committee with the under secretary of the va to work across some broad areas
When we are doing automatic adjustments . With that said i think it would be an improvement however we did it so if we to indexing when it came to when it came to individual parameters that would make sense as well. One thing i would notice we should be sure to index both the benefit side and the revenue side as in fact Peter Diamond suggests. To be critical of such an automatic mechanism would not simply be solvency. Our Current System would probably be made solvent. Congress will just get around to it later and focus changes on later generations. So the idea here is to spread the adjustment of properly and especially to share risk across generations but i also dont mean to suggest this is the way we will get to solvency from where we are today. Right now congress and the president do need to agree eventually a compromise. The point is we can build on these kinds of mechanisms and to compromise legislation so as to preserve the dealer has made an spread risks across generations rather