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welcome to the heritage foundation. i m the director for the center for free markets and regulatory reform. the heritage foundation. i would ask for those of you in the audience to please make that last little check now of your cell phones, to make sure that they won t interrupt proceedings today. and we will get started right now. the event today is really designed to celebrate the special report called a government policies that hurt the poor and how to address them. the united states is a very compassionate country and we have an awful lot of government activities that affect poorer members of our population in one way or the other. we have welfare programs, welfare spending of one kind or another that adds up to well over a trillion dollars tuesdays. that can be in things like health care, direct income supporters of one kind or another. we are not here to talk about those policies today. we want to talk about another set of government policies. those that are put ....
senator ben sasse republican u.s. senator from nebraska thank you so much for joining me. i m excited to discuss your book it s called the american vanishing adult and what i find striking about it as i was reading it i think the idea for this probably originated long before you even became usni. very nonpolitical and it s about how we are raising our kids. maybe you can tell us more about how you decided to write this book. guest: first of all thank you for having me. the book is 100% not about politics and it s about a whole bunch of upstream issues in our culture. more important than american politics and you are right by background i m a business turnaround guy but i m by training an american historian could i spent five years as a college president. eight years ago i led a turnaround at a college and i cared about this institution. it was in financial trouble. my grandpa went to the college and came back from world war ii and worked at this college. i grew up o ....
you decided to write this book and where the idea originated. the book is 100 percent not about politics 99% about policy but upstream issues prior to row politics and you are right my a background as a business turnaround private by trade i and a historian and spent five years as a college president starting in 37 years old so i was called to to a turnaround i carried cared about this institution i have family connections and my grandpa never went to college worked at this college after world war two and i grew up on this campus because of my family and it was in trouble. i knew nothing about student culture was restructuring of debt they gaf campuses operation and i got there in one of the things that cause me to lose sleep regularly is tooted culture so i have been in the senate to a half years i am one of five people that have never been a politician but this originates as a worry. you have a story of the christmas tree only have decorated that was a key reaso ....
to health care as a human right and not a privilege. mr. president, as you may or may not know, our current health care system is the most expensive bureaucratic and wasteful system in the entire world. and while the health care industry makes hundreds of billions of dollars a years in profit, and in many ways what our health care system is about is not about providing quality care to all of us, but to seeing how the insurance companies and drug companies can rip us off. the truth is that even today we have some 28 million people who have no health insurance. so our goal should be to say to those 28 million, we are going to provide health insurance to you, to all americans, not to throw 22 million, 23 million more people off of health insurance. mr. president, all of us recognize that the affordable care act is far, far from perfect. and what the american people want us to do in poll after poll is they want us to improve the affordable care act, not destroy it. the amer ....
good morning and welcome to the heritage foundation. i am the director of the center for free markets and regulatory reform. here at the heritage foundation. i ask for you please, those in the audience to please make that last little check on your cell phone to make sure that they will not interrupt the proceedings today. and we will get started right now. the event today is really designed to celebrate the publication of a new heritage special report called big government policies that hurt the poor.and how to address them. united states is a very compassionate country and you have an awful lot of government activities that affect poor members of the population and in one way or another.we have welfare programs, welfare spending at one time or another that adds up to well over $1 trillion. that can be in things like healthcare, directing supports of one kind or another. we are not really here to talk about those policies today. we want to talk about another set of go ....