Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/07/23/Top_Senate_Aides_Debate_Health_Care_Reform
A panel of Senate advisors and New School President Bob Kerrey debate how much the proposed health care reform bill is projected to cost American taxpayers over time.
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New School President and former U.S. Senator Bob Kerrey hosts a debate from the recording studio in the U.S. Senate to discuss the health care reform debate raging on Capitol Hill.
He is joined by three top advisors to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senators Edward Kennedy and Max Baucus, the Democratic leaders shaping reform legislation.
Panelists provide an inside look at the latest proposed legislative approaches to health care reform, including a public health care plan, reducing reform’s price tag, taxing employer-provided health care benefits, points of agreement — and tension — between the White House and Congress, and lessons learned from the Massachusetts model of universal coverage. – The New School
Bob Kerrey is president of The New School in New York City. For twelve years prior to becoming president of The New School, Bob Kerrey represented the State of Nebraska in the United States Senate. Before that he served as Nebraska’s governor for four years.
Kate Leone is senior health counsel to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV). She works on Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP, health coverage, and prescription drug and medical device issues. Ms. Leone joined Senator Reid’s staff in January 2005 after serving as counsel to the previous Senate Democratic Leader, Tom Daschle, and working as a senior policy advisor with the Senate Democratic Policy Committee.
Dr. John McDonough advises Senator Kennedy on national health reform and is an adjunct lecturer at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is the former executive director of Health Care For All, Massachusetts’ leading consumer health advocacy organization.
Russ Sullivan plays a leading role in helping the Senate Finance Committee, led by Senator Max Baucus (D-MT), to shape the nation’s tax system. Mr. Sullivan served as the committee’s chief tax counsel under former Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY) and as tax counsel and legislative director for then-Senator Bob Graham (D-FL).
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On 9.12.2009, we went to Washington DC to document the Tea Party protests against, well, a lot of things, including health insurance reform, the IRS, abortion, global warming, and our “socialist/communist/fascist/Nazi/Muslim” president, Barack Obama. Some of them called for a return to McCarthyism, while others called for Glenn Beck to run for office–indeed, it seemed the only thing that everyone agreed on was Fox News.
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Some users have pointed out that White House “Czars” existed long before Ronald Reagan. As it turns out, Donald Nelson, appointed under FDR as a “Wartime Production Czar”, was the first. The Republican Gov. of Colorado, John A. Love, was later appointed under Nixon as an “Energy Czar”. We appreciate this correction, though such an oversight does not dilute our point. The current outcry against Czars is merely alarmist propaganda perpetuated by Glenn Beck and the rest of the right-wing media.
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U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman highlights some key elements of the short-term unemployment insurance (UI) extension package passed out of the Senate and later signed into law in this week’s update. In addition to containing UI extension, the law extends COBRA (health care) coverage and includes a temporary fix for Medicare doctor reimbursement.
Bingaman also touches on the Keep Our Educators Working Act and the Taxpayers Bill of Rights, two pieces of legislation he co-sponsored and introduced this week, which aim to maintain public school instruction and protect taxpayers.
President Obama today suggested that the health care reform legislation for which hes pushing has been endorsed by the American Association of Retired Person.
We have the AARP on board because they know this is a good deal for our seniors, the president said.
At another point he said: Well, first of all, another myth that we’ve been hearing about is this notion that somehow we’re going to be cutting your Medicare benefits. We are not. AARP would not be endorsing a bill if it was undermining Medicare, okay?
The problem?
The AARP hasn’t endorsed any plan yet.
The country’s largest advocacy group for Americans over 50 issued a statement after the event saying, “While the President was correct that AARP will not endorse a health care reform bill that would reduce Medicare benefits, indications that we have endorsed any of the major health care reform bills currently under consideration in Congress are inaccurate.”
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/07/23/Top_Senate_Aides_Debate_Health_Care_Reform
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U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman highlights some key elements of the short-term unemployment insurance (UI) extension package passed out of the Senate and later signed into law in this week’s update. In addition to containing UI extension, the law extends COBRA (health care) coverage and includes a temporary fix for Medicare doctor reimbursement.
President Obama today suggested that the health care reform legislation for which hes pushing has been endorsed by the American Association of Retired Person.