Obama's Plan for Health Care Reform - Christina Romer

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/06/08/Christina_Romer_The_Economic_Case_for_Health_Care_R...

Christina Romer, Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers to President Obama, discusses the details of the Obama administration's plan for health care reform. She names incentives for technological advancements and slowing the growth rate in health care costs as some of the reforms proposed by the economic council.

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Christina Romer discusses the Obama administration's integrated economic recovery strategy with particular focus on the importance of a healthy credit market in promoting U.S. recovery and future economic growth.

She says this package is important for stimulating job creation and investing in the U.S.'s infrastructure, but comprehensive economic recovery also includes the financial stability plan announced by U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, designed to open up the flow of credit that families and businesses depend on in the course of their everyday lives. - Commonwealth Club of California

Christina Romer is Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers. Romer was the Class of 1957-Garff B. Wilson Professor of Economics at the University of California Berkeley. Before teaching at Berkeley, she taught economics and public affairs at Princeton University from 1985-1988. Until her nomination, she was co-director of the Program in Monetary Economics at the National Bureau of Economic Research and served as Vice President of the American Economic Association, where she was also a member of the executive committee. She is also a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Romer is known for her research on the causes and recovery of the Great Depression, and on the role that fiscal and monetary policy played in the countrys economic recovery. Her most recent work, authored with her husband David Romer, also an economics professor, shows the impact of tax policy on government and economic growth.

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[turpincody]

find more money. give me more more more more money, yes yes please more money. for ummm oh i know healthcare and um living and um deading and um we'll save your soul too. oh we have gold for free oh but wait theres more folks we'll also talk in circles so you cant understand wtf is going on or who is doing it. yay

[TheNewMusicNetwork]

she's a lying sack of crap. jobs are going away.

[e01snell]

It "doesn't score" because healthcare reform is going to cost 2 trillion $ while our economy is in one of the most devestating recessions in US history and the US deficit growing by trillions of dollars every year. Obama can't even explain the bill and neither can Romer, who's speech made no sense at all. All this is doing is digging our country into a bigger hole.

[Wilone328]

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[jemjean]

If the U.S. has the best medical system in the world, then why can't I receive medical treatment for my condition? Why am I begging private organizations like NORD for money in order to have them handle my copays and pray they have the funding? I am disabled, making $8000 a year and would like to work part time. No. Why? Because my copay is $2000 a year and that's if the insurance company and providers all line up just right with the stars. Screw this system. It stinks.

[undermyvoodoo22]

I do not have healthcare coverage -not because I can't afford it.  I'm young, healthy and am making an economic decision to pay towards an education which will get me a job WITH HEALTH BENEFITS. I have choice and I have incentive. Why would they try to take that away from me?

I think it's wrong to take away my right to choose whether I need healthcare or not and whether I could like to pay for it or not.

[hellotommy]

Dr. Anne Doig, the incoming president of the Canadian Medical Association, said her countrys health care system is sick and imploding, the Canadian Press reported.

Do you think you might listen to her? We all agree the system is imploding, we all agree that things are more precarious than perhaps Canadians realize, she said.

Canada is returning to private care.

[Orlando416]

Says who? Do you live in Canada? Cause I do. I have three Family Doctors and i get to choose i which one i want any time and it cost me absolutely nothing. I have a friend who recently had a Motorcycle accident and underwent a number Major Surgeries, hes fully recovered now and it cost him absolutely nothing. All you need is your OHIP period!

[mpgenaw]

What income limitations will be set, congress is useless they only help themselves. I want a pay raise, while the economy is sinking.

[wylear]

The US is the richest nation on Earth, yet millions of people don't have health care insurance. If your mother, or grandmother, sister, brother, husband or wife was sick and dying and you knew that the medicine or treatment to save them exists but that you just can't afford it, how would you feel?