but bill frist has said it affects virtually every american so members of our committee that includezabeth warren, baldwin warren, baldwin, liberty sanders and rand paul and others we have a diverse committee. [laughter] we're all interested. we see the importance. we want to do the right thing. how to we know what to do? the big disconnect is between those of us who are elected and everybody else who knows what you do and how you get the two together. one person i thought of immediately and is billed for a style did not know anyone who understood both research and the united states senate better than bill frist. i am sure there is somebody who knows the senate better or biomedical research and nobody knows both. i asked to review the your leave help us design how to go about this and he said yes and he came up with the idea to work with the policy center. so all the parallel tracks are going and this is the house side track as we confer very carefully about your recommendations. i have a specific request to make of those who were working on this i will listen to the panel because i

al: bill frist, former senate republican leader and generally a supporter of the affordable health carect, said the president has to start to do now what he says he has failed to do, which is try to bring the parties together to fix parts of the law. are you going to do that, and what do you need to fix? sylvia: today the president is in tennessee. that's a big part of the conversation. tennessee is a state where we have seen affordability and quality move together in a bipartisan way. we've seen it move with the private and the public sector working together. he is there and tennessee to reflect that. we need to go there as a nation and build on the progress we've made, and focus on making sure people know how to use that care , how to access a doctor and understand the bills. and there are presented -- preventive services you can get without co-pay. with regard to the legislative issues, there are number we have articulated. we want to have a real conversation about the substance. in the current budget we expand the tax credits for small businesses to companies that have more employee

the nuclear option was first proposed in recent times by bill frist, a republican leader of the senate when george w. bush was president. he was subjected to the fact that the democrats were keeping president bush from getting his nominees, the nominees could not be confirmed. one of them, miguel estrada, the repeal -- they repeatedly tried to get cloture on his nomination and failed each time. president bush kept saying, my nominees deserve an up or down vote, a simple majority. 60 votes is unconstitutional. senator frist was threatening to invoke the nuclear option. at a critical moment, a gang of 14, seven democrats and some republicans, got together and worked out a compromise abated not have to do this. go forward a couple years, and now, the parties are reversed. the republicans are no longer the majority the democrats are the majority. the republicans are filibustering the president's nominations, the president senator reid is the leader, some nature read -- senator reid says, there is nothing else you can do. mcconnell opposed it. mcconnell is now the majority leader, but they

. >> and she pushed for it the senator, and bill frist, the representative from the area pushed for this mission in the year 2000. i and i guess miles was at the launch in 2006 january 19th. nine and a half years later. >> unbelievable. >> we get these pictures man. it's just fantastic, and so everybody, you know you go to school and what you say to kids what's your favorite planet and still my favorite planet is earth, but people will say pluto, so now we have pictures of pluto. >> of the dwarf planet pluto discovered 85 years ago. >> yeah. >> and his kids were there. >> that's right. >> adrian and -- >> that's okay if you can't remember their name. >> annette. it's all good. a lot of numbers running through my head today. we want to get about ten times the resolution 10.1 times the resolution that we had yesterday, and you can really see on pluto that it's this world with different geologic regions. i don't mean you have to be a full geologist to see there's different patches. we have nitrogen snow nitro snow and the dark regions seem to be very long chain carbon molecules like 150 car

. >> hunt: a.c.a., bill frist physician, former republican majority leader, says the president has to do what he failed to do which is bring parties together to fix parts of the law. are you going to do that? and what do you need to fix? >> so i think today the president is in tennessee and that is a big part of the conversation. he's there because tennessee is a state where we have seen affordability, quality move together, we've seen it move in a bipartisan way. we've seen it move with the private and public sector working together, and he's been in tennessee to reflect that, i think that's where we need to go as a nation and to build on the progress that we've made and to focus on things like making sure that people move from coverage to care, they know how to use the care, access a doctor understand the bills or if you're in the employer-based market that there are preventative services you can get without co-pay. >> hunt: what about legislative issues. >> there are a number we've articulated and we want to understand and have a real conversation about the this subject. we expand

bill frist. [ applause ] so with that i think i'm going to take off my jacket.eason we came to tennessee in addition to me just liking nashville and liking the state generally -- thank you, alan. is that tennessee has a history of innovation when it comes to health care. doing some very creative stuff. health care professionals, doctors, nurses hospitals and executives. working alongside nonprofits and the public sector to make sure that people are getting the very best health care they can. and also being able to control costs in a sensible way. and thanks to the affordable care act and the efforts of people like jim who took some very tough votes, we now have about 166,000 tennesseeans who have health care that didn't have it before. folks like kelly. [ applause ] in addition to the people who are able to buy health insurance through the exchanges, through the marketplaces that were set up through the affordable care act, i think it's important to remember that everybody who has health insurance benefited and continues to benefit from this law. even though a l

thanks to a former co-chair of the alliance board bill frist. >> i love a.r.c. i think they do great work. i think the answer to this problem is going to be found in private sector. it's not going to be found through a.r.c. >> i think you're referring to a.r.c. agency for research quality. they've done a great job in producing plain language summaries for consumers and comparing treatments. so, you know, i would hate to say our organization would hate to see that funding go away. we think they're instru meblgts in producing information for consumers and being able to compare treatments. >> we have just a couple minutes left. this will be the last question, as carnace used to say. i would ask if you would multitask by starting to fill out the blue evaluation form while you're listening to this insightful question. >> so my question goes to when i think of empowering stakeholders, i think about the expansion of hsas and other medical savings accounts. have you seen people making the phone calls and finding out their drug is half the price at walmart than it is at

bill frist, former republican leader of the senate, who spoke eloquently and forcefully about the helping families under these trying conditions. the reverend billy graham has written how it's christian responsibility to take this on for ourselves and spare our loved ones' uncertainty. a doctor published a brilliant book "being mortal," which quickly climbed to the best-seller list for "the new york times" and a 500-page report about dying in america that talked about the problems and opportunities to provide more choices and protect people's wishes. yesterday was another important landmark when the administration published a proposed fee schedule for next year in which they've assigned an activity code with payment for advanced care planning. now, of course this is merely a proposal and they're still seeking comment but it's a historic step forward for a decision that will be finalized this fall. it's another indication that we can and will do a better job of meeting the needs of american families under the most difficult of circumstances. we will make sure americans have all the informa