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remarks from the president and ceo of the blue cross-blue shield company, scott serota, talking about the changing role of health care delivery and what issues providers, purchasers, and consumers face as the health care law is put into practice. this is about 45 minutes. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon, everybody. let me welcome you to u.s. chamber. it s my pleasure today to introduce our distinguished speaker, scott serota. scott is the president and chief executive officer of the blue cross-blue shield association. the blue cross-blue shield is a confederation of 49 locally operated blue cross-blue shield companies. the blue system insures nearly 100 million americans or roughly about one out of every three of us across the country. scott has been president and ceo since the year 2000 after serving two years as chief operating officer before that, and prior to all of that, he was executive vice president for system development, responsible for new busine ....
aradhana now a look at the prospects of the deal being reached by the deficit reduction committee to find least $1.2 trillion in deficit savings by the november 23rd deadline. this is about 40 minutes. we re back with senior congressional reporter with politico and this is the front page of your newspaper this morning deficit panel ponders endgame. what is the endgame? guest: the $1.2 trillion question i think. these guys who ve covered to come up with a $1.000000000000 reduction plan they haven t shown any progress toward that. as we ve seen the last couple of weeks the progressive offers are getting further and further apart. people are digging in ideologically. we ve seen democrats and republicans have brakes on their own site from each other. the congressman from south carolina who has run this panel said yesterday on fox news that democrats have not coalesced. clearly true republicans as well. so right now i think you ve got hope for the deficit panel you ....
about the new tennessee photo law is something i learned at that november 1st informational meeting in our county. the state directer of elections, the state directer of elections was in attendance and stated that out of the nearly 175,000 tennessee people who need a photo id on their license or are registered to vote and don t have a license, only 2300 have obtained the free photo. now, this law went into effect july 1, 2011, 175,000 approximately will need the photo, and as of november 1st, only 2300 have actually got the photos. i think you d consider that to be progressing at a snail s pace. i fear that many of these people will be denied their right to vote in the future. in conclusion, this voter photo law is, quote, a solution in need of a problem. thank you very much. tonight on the communicator, directer of voice of america, david ensor on how u.s. government funded news is changing. after that, remarks from the president and ceo of blue cross blue shield ....
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there s a presumption there that the fed is an independent agency, and it is up to a point. but we are a creature of the congress. susie: a congressional commission grills the former fed chairman, but alan greenspan says the financial crisis wasn t the fed s fault. tom: he s not the only one defending his role in the crisis. goldman sachs is telling its side of the story too. you re watching nightly business report for wednesday, april 7. this is nightly business report with susie gharib and tom hudson. nightly business report is made possible by: this program was made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by wpbt susie: good evening, everyone. alan greenspan said today of course we made mistakes . tom, the former chairman of the federal reserve was testifying on capitol hill about the financial crisis. tom: susie, he appeared before the financial crisis inquiry commission. and while greensp ....