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alexander will cover his little bit of that in this opportunity. >> senator bingaman. >> let me just thank you also your testimony and follow up this issue on the redesign of the course is that dr. twigg has been talking about. it's allowed us to put in place a redesign of the first-year psychology course which has been very successful and students are better than they ever did. they are enjoying it. the obvious questions that occurs to me instead knowledge she has changed a lot of things and it seems to me were just now beginning to see the impact of technology in higher education. if you have a group of faculty from wherever, get together and design a course in introductory psychology or any other subject, why isn't that course appropriate to be offered online everywhere in the country at that point? i mean, why should university tennessee to a version of that coming university of mexico to a different version and university of iowa? i mean, if they want a change at a red nose and whistles, fine. but why aren't all of the schools in the country that are offering an introductory psychology using the basic redesigned cores. >> cannot surprise you to know i get asked that questi

alexander will cover that in his opportunity. senator bingaman. >> thank you for your testimony. but me follow up with this issue of the redesign of these courses that dr. twigg has been talking about. at the university of new mexico we have had a grant from your organization that has allowed us to put in place a redesign of the first-year psychology course, which has been successful, students are doing better, learning more, and enjoy in it. the obvious question that comes to me it is technology has changed a lot of things in our society and an -- me as technology has changed a lot of things in our society, and we are just beginning to see it in education. if you have a group of faculty from wherever designed a course in introductory psychology or any other subject, why is the course not appropriate to be offered online everywhere in the country at that point? why should the university of tennessee do a version, the university of iowa, -- if they want to change it or add bells and whistles, fine, but why are not all of the schools using nine basic redesigned course, dr. twigg? >> it might not surprise you to know that i asked the question often. there

dr. joe about the law's failure to reform medical liability reform. and how young doctors don't even realize they're practicing defensive medicine, ordersing unnecessary tests and driving up costs. we heard from gary alexander, president of pennsylvania's secretary of welfare, about how the law will cause state spending to explode in the coming years. while medicaid consumes 30% of the state budget now, if the law's fully implemented it will consume over 60%. pennsylvania won't be a state government, it will be a health plan that paves roads and funds schools on the side. we also heard from the owner of a local roofing company, he spoke about the difficult choice he will have to make in coming years about whether to keep providing insurance for his workers or to pay the penalty and cast them into the health care exchanges. we all know how much health care reform was needed. we've all heard the stories about individuals denied care that they desperately needed. we heard about the families who struggled to pay the bills when a child got sick. we all know someone who went without insurance because of the high cost of premiums. but this law did not fix what was broken. it didn't deliver the reform the american

alexander will cover that in his opportunity. senator bingaman. >> thank you for your testimony. but me follow up with this issue of the redesign of these courses that dr. twigg has been talking about. at the university of new mexico we have had a grant from your organization that has allowed us to put in place a redesign of the first-year psychology course, which has been successful, students are doing better, learning more, and enjoy in it. the obvious question that comes to me it is technology has changed a lot of things in our society and an -- me as technology has changed a lot of things in our society, and we are just beginning to see it in education. if you have a group of faculty from wherever designed a course in introductory psychology or any other subject, why is the course not appropriate to be offered online everywhere in the country at that point? why should the university of tennessee do a version, the university of iowa, -- if they want to change it or add bells and whistles, fine, but why are not all of the schools using nine basic redesigned course, dr. twigg? >> it might not surprise you to know that i asked the question often. there