Health Care and the Budget

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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[666norton420]

this is how all political debates should be!!

calm, rational discussion, points and counter points. no yelling/shouting, no red faces or deaf ears.

this is the first time in a long time that i've heard "with all due respect" from someone, without is being condescending and hollow!

hope the full video is long!

;d

[doctender77]

These are the kind of reasoned discussions i wish Americans at large were having. Instead the pundits have turned this into a battle of good vs evil.

[DocMcCrae]

Reid is a lying son-of a-bitch.

[hadenufnow]

Kill the Illegal HC TAX & JAIL Trojan Horse Mandate Bill nobody wants...

Kill the bill..

VOte em out..

nobody wants it...

[john51880]

They can not live off Illinois. Our democrats spent us into a blind stuper!

[john51880]

ok got you!

[InFromTheVoid]

I am for zero government regulation in the economy. I was just trying to say that if people want to blame the insurance co. because SOME of them make so much profit (some unjustly) then they should just boycott them instead of using it as an excuse to run to the gov. to fix everything.

[john51880]

you miss my point. I am not against for profit insurance. I just want to restructure how and when they interact with the medical community. They have serious ethical problems now and congress and the trial lawyers make sure it is not adressed. Tort reform and illeagal immigration are quietly blocked by unions and trail lawyers. replacing for porfit insurance companys with big government is not reform of any kind!

[InFromTheVoid]

I think I made that clear in my comment

[john51880]

Do you want to be cared for by doctors who are told how much care and to who they can care for? For profit is not the proublem-----You have no buying power. If your insurance company tells you what dr you can and can not go to or allowing the government to that the insurance companys place what is the difference? No Government option!

[john51880]

New entitlement----all you need to know! The will spend us blind and tell us to thank them for it. Vote the democrats out!