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seniors in the executive office building next to the white house and we will have live coverage of that at 11:45 eastern this morning. coming up live on c-span at noon, we will take you to the woodrow wilson center for a discussion examining the future of syria and the assad regime. as many as 300 people were killed in attacks last thursday. it is one of the bloodiest days in the nation s 17-month conflict at 2:00, more live coverage with a form on u.s. border security and ordered management strategies this afternoon right here on c-span. pandora personalize and that radio. panasonic has a wide range of products. you can think of it like a computer-controlled hot glue gun. a look at the latest in technology from a consumer electronics association technology fair on capitol hill tonight at 8:00 eastern on the communicators appear on c-span 2. the nation s governors gathered in williamsburg, virginia over the weekend for the national governors association ann ....
presidentow raúl, vice- joe biden talks about issues affecting seniors tomorrow. we have his remarks live on c- span-2 at 11:45 eastern. next, the national governors association annual meeting halls a session on innovative strategies to improve health care and lower medicaid costs. they discuss hospitals, quality of health services and emergency response teams. this is an hour and a half. good morning and welcome. nga healthir of the and human services committee or hhs committee. i d like to call the meeting of the health and human services committee to order at this time. i am pleased to be joined by my friend and neighbor governor quinn. i want to thank heather and william garner, the nga staff for their work in preparing for this meeting. the proceedings of this meeting are open to the press and to all meeting attendees. since taking office again, last year, my administration has been working to improve health outcomes for iowans and i know my fellow governors ....
good afternoon and welcome to the center for american progress. i am the president of the center. it is my distinct pleasure to welcome democratic whip steny hoyer here to the center. congressman hoyer has been a tremendous friend of the center over the last several years and we are honored to have him here talking about manufacturing and economic growth. since the founding we have been focused on how to ensure a strong and stable middle class because we understand that a strong and stable middle class is central to a strong economy. and it sounds like that is a basic fact, one that should not be in dispute. but as we see now in our national debate and discussion of how to foster growth, that actly, that issue, whether building a middle class is the central pillar of growth, is really a question. we have seen over the last year and we will see continually tover next several months that this question about how to build growth is central. and there are really two visio ....
is as close to socialized medicine as any rich country gets. the government pays for everything, owns most of the hospitals, and pays most of the doctors. but consider this. compared to americans, the britts have longer life span and lower infant mortality rate and a health care system that consistently ranks higher on every measure. all this and everyone s care is covered. no payments to doctors and no monthly charges from your insurance company, no copays, no fees, nothing. at king s college hospital in london the doctor here performs a liver transplant surgery with a live donor. a young man is giving part of his liver to his younger brother. the liver is cut in half with one part for the younger brother and the other part staying in the donor. the liver is remarkable organ and made of eight segments so you can take pieces of the liver and it will function perfectly well. reporter: this transplant costs tens of thousands of dollars but under britain s national hea ....