we are joined by alex propofol and ethan pollack. -- alex brill and ethan pollack. mr.rill, i want to begin with you. did the bush income tax cuts work? >> -- guest: i think.com depends on what the objectives were. it is hard to have forecasted today tremendously large surpluses. some of the surpluses would have been better spent giving back to the taxpayers. another objective of the tax code, lowering marginal tax rates. it was intended to encourage both additional labor supply and additional savings and investments. the question -- did it work? no question it did reduce the surplus. now we are facing -- increase the surplus. now we're facing debt and deficit. on the question of labour supply and investment of savings, it is hard to know what the rates would have been. but in general, tax rates to increase porges station in the labour market, particularly for women. there is every -- very strong evidence that lower tax rates make people save more prepared host: did it create jobs? guest: the tax policy itself does not create jobs. employers create jobs. there was a rec

welcome back to our bigger picture discussion of health care in america with me tonight ethan rome karen davenport ron pollack thank you all for being with us tonight ethan pain for this the whole where does the funding come from how do we make sure that the funding is there how do we make sure that we don't get to three four years down the road if ministration changes the republicans take control of the house pull the rug i mean it will what's the mechanism i mean the law paid for itself and in fact it created a budget it contributed to reducing the budget deficit the fight that's going on right now that relates to how we pay for health care is the fight to defend medicare and medicaid in the so-called fiscal cliff discussions the budget debate there is you know this week and next we are in this week right here in washington that we are all have about the so-called fiscal cliff the fiscal curve the showdown whatever you want to call it it's a debate over priorities it's a debate about what we want our country to be and for those of us who support medicare and medicaid who believe that health care is somethin

. >> our guests will also include ethan pollack. washington july want to spend every day at 7:00 a.m. eastern. >> on 17 bases in the united states, we have military run schools. the average cost to educate a child in that school per year is $50,000. almost four times what the rest of public education costs. the vast majority of our bases, we use public schools. we could take the money we're spending today and pay every public school system $14,000 per child and save billions of dollars per year. > >> this weekend, you can talk with tom coburn about the future of the republican party on -- join our three hour conversation for medical doctor, author, tim coburn. on c-span2. >> the president of the european parliament on of relationship between europe and the u.s.. from the johns hopkins university school of advanced international studies, this is an hour. >> i it is a great pleasure for me to be here with you today. i thank you for the kind invitation. and that kind introduction. i look forward to having a serious discussion and to li

discussions and i are ethan rome executive director of health care for america now karen davenport director of national health policy with the national women's law center and ron pollack executive director of families u.s. . say thank you all for joining you tonight great to have you all with me. first of all just a general question i'd like to toss out to all three of you one of the big problems with health care in the united states seems to be affordability part of that is the health insurance companies have been skimming twenty thirty forty percent off the top for a long time for. is america going is health care in america going to get more affordable let me start with you ron what is going to be more affordable and for individuals and families one of the things that people are going to really value is that people are going to get tax credit subsidies to make coverage more affordable so when people go into these new marketplaces called exchanges and they purchase insurance through these exchanges a very substantial portion they're going to get significant tax credits subsidies and that will mean the premiums that they have to pay out of pocket will be considerably