living will and that s the argument against obama care. the point about the regulation it was buried in thousands of pages of regulation. do we want our health care system run by people with regulation and based on the obama care bill? or a system in which people work it out with their own doctors. republicans should take a look at what the obama administration is doing. do advanced care plan predict that congress will pull the plug on it even though it makes sense it is a loser for . sets the stage for what is years long. several years long. five or maybe more of acontradiction for people for health care reform. they fund that aspect of medicare. you can t spend the medicare money on this kind of a advisory plan. they have done that before and
in the arcticle that you cowrote with a group financed in part by oil companies, you say this. this sumes that carbon is a problem and in need of regulation. we checked on your congressional website. on the website you said. i trongly everything should be on the table as we seek to reduce carbon and emission. chimate change is a serious problem. is carbon a problem. what is your solution . we want to do it in a reasonable way. our country is going to need 30 or 40 percent more electricity than we use today. we need all of the above. clean coal and natural gas and nuclear. something that has not happened. we need to regulate carbon. we don t have to regulate carbon to a carbon tax or cap and trade system.
on this, it might end up with a whole different conclusion about what the panels really are. go back to the regulation question, bill. because there is the fact as i suspect a number of us have living wills and do not resussitate things and washington journal said it was not the policy but the process of being forced to drop it out of the law and doing it through a regulation. a convincing arcticle that pointed out that states like arizona and indiana are in thitate medicaid rationing care and saying we are not paying for transplas because can t afford to do that. and the more will government will tell you if you have a
neutralitiy. it appears that the court of appeal in the district of columbia has indicated that the fcc lacks the authority to do that. so it remain to be seen how far it will go. there will be sparring but not all that much can be done by regulation. in this particular case your thoughts about the end of life counseling and part of being paid for in meetings between doctors and patients voluntarily and as a regulation when they had to drop it out of the obama care law. it was a myth about obama care. this is the famous death panel and what conservative call death panel. wall street editorial page thinks they are sensible and most people want the opportunity to plan for end of life as opposed to having a burrcrat or doctor do it for them. that s all it is. i think if there are hearings
they will do that again. they will yank the cord on that one. maura. pick up on bret. now they can t get things through the republican house. are you pessimistic as he is about the ability of the obama administration to get things done through that? there is a lot of tools at the disposal of the president that don t need congressional approval. you can get profound things done through legislation. right now you are hearing republicans in a big chorus saying the obama administration will do an end run and do it by regulation. maybe, maybe not. the country wants the