secretary kathleen sebelius gets the fun things put in her lap.ut the whole business of how this law is going to be enacted interpreted is going to be very interesting. but this one i find kind of a surprise in a way. because it seems to be lumped into the same category as blood pressure tests or immunizations. which the law is pretty clear on that they should be free. and i guess the question --. >> immunize me against babies. the average woman would want to make sure that you understood that most women are fertile. and therefore the whole notion of protecting against that is in many ways the most important immunization you can get. >> i have a health savings account and i choose what services i consume and i pay for those out of pocket. my husband chooses what he pays for. and i would prefer -- and he doesn't. but i think having that choice element is important for people and once we encourage people to spend their own money they will make the choices accordingly. >> that is the problem. their own money. this is to enable people who don't have a

secretary of health and human services kathleen sebelius praised a recommendation that insurance companies be required to auvre free contraceptives to all women. she called the report historic and suggested it could become official policy. but there is pushback. chief washington correspondent jim angle has the story. >> the prospect of free government order contraceptives and even agents to induce abortion ignited a national debate. some are clearly pleased. >> the request for the study came out of the healthcare reform legislation i'm pleased that the secretary now has indicateed that the department will implement it quickly. >> reporter: the group naral pro-choice america issued a statement saying, "nearly one in three women find it difficult to pay for birth control. we are confident the obama administration will adopt the recommendations." >> feminist pork. it's a wish list. a dream list for feminists. >> reporter: conservative group ospose the move in part because it would require insurance companies to offer and employers to provide services to which they may moral liability, includi

smartphones, don't think ipad is something new, it's the independent payment advisory board and kathleen sebeliusin front of the house budget committee today to explain what this 15-member panel will do to keep the costs down and she insists and i talked to her the other day about this it's not about rationing care, it is about finding the best cost and alternatives moving forward. some democrats pushing back against this. we'll see how her testimony goes against today. >> you made a congressional thing into an ipad, independent payment advisory whatever you said. >>> the third straight day for congressional leaders and the president. what's going to happen? >> this is the octomob, the eight leaders speaking with the president once again this afternoon, they don't seem to find a way beyond the entitlements that democrats don't want to touch and the taxes that republicans don't want to add and the president says he won't sign a 30, 60 or 9 o-day extension of the debt ceiling, however he did say yesterday we all have to eat our peas and get this done so maybe that's something that's on the menu thi

and with -- with kathleen sebelius, with the correction -- discretion to spend that and send it down -- send the roots down, expand the defendency class, here's an example. one of those examples is this. they advertise that we need to do obamacare because we had so many people that had pre-existing conditions and they would be refused for insurance so when they were refused, they didn't have any way to get health insurance. and that it was a human tragedy. so these huge numbers of people that were uninsurable were going to be brought in to the fold of the new obamacare under the pre-existing conditions language that already is law. but a month or so ago they discovered that, in spite of how hard they tried to recruit people with pre-existing conditions, and i remind you we have 306 million people in america. and of those 306 million people, the numbers were supposed to be large, impressive, maybe not astronomical of those who had pre-existing conditions and could not buy insurance. and what they found were, they could find only 18,000 people in spite of them advertising pre-existing

satellite corp. 2011] [instrumental jazz playing] >> this morning on capitol hill, house secretary kathleen sebelius testifies about the medicare payment advisory board, created by the health care law, which makes recommendations on how to bring down medicare costs. live coverage from the house budget committee at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span3. also live on c-span3, transportation industry officials testifying about federal spending for the transportation security administration for 2012. that gets underway at 2:00 p.m. eastern. >> the c-span networks -- providing coverage of politics, public affairs, nonfiction books, and american history. it is all available to you on television, radio, online, and on social media networking sites. find our content anytime through the c-span video library. we take c-span on the road with our digital content bus. bringing our resources to your community. it is washington your way. the c-span networks -- now available in more than 100 million homes, created by cable, provided as a public service. >> "washington journal" is next. we will take your calls and look at t

it's up to kathleen sebelius, secretary of health and human services, to make a final decision. a heat wave that has been scorching much of the u.s. for days sent temperatures near or over 100 degrees again today. 17 states in the midwest and south were under heat watches, warnings or advisories, from texas to minnesota and the dakotas. on monday, newton, iowa, had a reading of 126 degrees. those are some of the day's major stories. now, back to gwen. >> ifill: and to new questions about nuclear safety in this country in the aftermath of the japanese accident. ripples from the earthquake and tsunami that devastated the japanese coast and triggered a nuclear crisis are still being felt more than four months later. radiation levels at the fukushima daichi plant are down, but thousands of nearby residents, kept away by a 12- mile restriction zone, still haven't returned to their homes. japan's prime minister said the disaster has led his nation to re-evaluate its heavy dependence on nuclear energy. >> ( translated ): i think that we should plan to take gradual steps to wean ourselv

. >> brown: this is an independent group, now kathleen sebelius has to consider these as part of a broader project she's looking at. >> that's right. this is one small piece. she's determining... first she's going to determine whether this will be part of this preventative health package that will be made available with no co-pays but she's also determining these seine whashl kind of things will be included in the essential benefit. >> brown: that's the important word, right, essential. >> essential benefits and there's a balancing act you need when you're creating an essential benefits package because every time you put a benefit into the package it makes a package more expensive, makes the premium higherment that's going to raise the amount that the federal government will have to pay in subsidies to people who will qualify for subsidies and what everyone will have to pay in their premiums. so you don't want to load that.... >> brown: but this may make premiums higher. >> exactly. that's why i've been resisting using the word "free." it won't be free, you just pay for it in your premiums

record for patient safety was recently highlighted when health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius and medicare chief dr. don berwick toured the hospital and gave it a glowing report for saving lives. >> they are getting levels of performance that most of the rest of us in healthcare can only envy. the vast majority of their patients are either uninsured or on medicaid and they are a very, very stressed population. and they are proving that kind of care isn't just kind of good enough it can be the best care. actually the best care in the country and they are showing the rest of us what's possible. >> reporter: one of berwick's chief goals is to reduce hospital acquired infections in all the nation's hospitals in the next few years starting next year medicare will start paying hospitals based on how well they do on patient safety. denver health started down that road a long time ago. >> it was about seven or eight years ago and i said to my chief of medicine, "you know, i can't stand ts anymore." we're doing things just like we did when i was an intern more than 40 years ago. we hav

[applause] >> health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius also spoke at this campus conference and she talks about implementing the affordable care act. this is 15 minutes. applause masse is -- [applause] >> hello, secretary sebelius. >> hi, everybody. how are you? [applause] >> first of all, we just want to thank you so much for taking time out of your busy schedule to be here with us today. we know that you have an incredibly busy job. and so we're just thankful that you're taking time to talk with us today. i guess we really want to thank you for not only being there to push and pass health care reform but implementing health care reform as well. i know thinking about our generation, we definitely benefit from two major provisions of the affordable care act. one is the dependent coverage where i know my parents are excited that i can stay on their plans. i'm 26. and also making sure that college plans come under the consumer protections under the affordable care act so we are so excited to have you here today. >> absolutely. so during this little quick break that we're about

when i came into office, the president instructed me and kathleen sebelius of health and human services to look at how we can improve safety. to put together a food safety group of what we found with the need for fda and usda to have the same philosophy as it related to food safety, which was a preventive safety, not vindication philosophy. but the passage of the food safety act, if properly supported, you'll see fda now has much more of a preventative circus, which is very similar to a usda is it doing for quite sometime. i believe that singular focus is probably the best thing we can do today to ensure a safer food supply. >> this audience ever asked, 70% of all antibiotics produced in the u.s. goes to farm animals. why can't the usda do more to reduce antibiotics >> welcome in the simple answer and the bureaucratic answer is that is the responsibility if fda. i would never acknowledge the fda is wrong. i think it is important for usda to work with farm groups and those representing an concerned about ever to make sure that we talk about antibiotics and judicious use of antibiotics, t

first of all, secretary for health and human services kathleen sebelius will be here.n is back in the conference this year. [applause] >> we have gene sperling and amy goodman. [applause] >> van jones is back in the conference. i think somewhere around my boss john podesta might be here. and we have the 42nd president of the united states bill clinton. [cheers and applause] >> don't you dare sneak out to visit during the breakout session. we have represented gwen moore, cecile richards ahead of planned parenthood. and a whole lot more. why are they all your? not because of the money because we can't afford to pay them a dime. not because they do have other educations because they'll be. they had because they know that and people are essential to making progressive change for reality. put another way, for the seventh year in a row of this conference most important person here is you. now, it sounds corny. i don't care. it's true. because you're the person who can leave your and make a difference. by finding the truth, by speaking the truth, to powerful interest, and by

host: we will hear from congressman ryan first and kathleen sebelius, hhs secretary, on the independenty board. >> if we simply give up 15 people the ability to unilaterally under pay providers, and we see where this is headed, what is going to end up happening is that providers are going to gut medicare. i don't know what you call that, but it is rationing under a different word. if you say, a provider, we will not pay anything close to what cost to provide the service, they will not provide the service. >> mr. chairman, first of all, ipab does not come into effect unless congress has not taken action. congress is in the driver's seat. ipab makes recommendations of the spending trends are on target -- >> it is a super majority vote to prevent that, though, correct? >> only if congress has not proceede -- preceded ipab. if congress has paid attention to the bottom line of medicare, ipab is a relevant and it never triggers in -- is irrelevant and never triggers in. guest: it is one of the big concerns. in the statute, it says that ipab is very constrained in what it may recommend, and th

kathleen sebelius will be testifying today. for more affirmation, go to c- span.org. in 45 minutes, we will talk about the 14th amendment section that deals with the debt and whether or not the debt ceiling is unconstitutional. what is your take? guest: the public debt should not be questioned. pensions and so forth. it sounds like they were talking about social security. they had an amazing vision for our country. but i think that we should not rest on some constitutional interpretation. we should use common sense and get to common ground or higher ground. host: could the president use that to raise the debt ceiling? guest: no, but i am not opposed to using it as leverage to get a deal. host: that will be our topic in 45 minutes. next, we talked to bill miller of the u.s. chamber of commerce about the business perspective. a news update from c-span radio. >> more on the debt talks from paul ryan, the chairman of the house budget committee. he says his republican party is vehemently opposed to tax increases because u.s. businesses have been put at a disadvantage with

later, on c-span3, how secretary kathleen sebelius is among those testifying about the medicare payment advisory board. this commission is mandated by the health reform law and would make recommendations on how to bring down medicare costs. live coverage from the house budget committee at 10:00 a.m. eastern. >> welcome to the chamber. i would like to extend my appreciation to stand and the campaign for free enterprise for organizing this event today and to all of the chamber staff members who have been working on it for such a long time. to inform our discussion today, the chamber has been holding these listening sessions across the country with small business entrepreneurs and local chambers and we have also commissioned a study with harris interactive. we did did this to find out what job creators were thinking, and what is going to take to expand businesses and hire more people. these main street businesses are telling us play and simple to start hiring -- they need faster economic growth, and we need a change in cost in washington. that is my message today as well. three years ago,

. >> health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius will be on capitol hill this morning to talk about medicare oversight. >> a >> we just left the british house of commons committee hold a hearing looking into phone hacking by british news organization. we will see now how the bbc news night is covering this story. >> entire immune system going into violent reaction. sadly the policy want to spy upon them, find rupert murdoch. >> if i was running that company right now with all of the problems and difficulties and the mess frankly that there is, i think they should be focused on clearing this up rather than on the next corporate move. >> the affliction spreads as of the news international papers are accused of invading the privacy of gordon brown and his family. "newsnight" has new details of how mr. brown reacted when rebecca brooks broke the story of his son's illness. >> it's happened at the moment mr. murdoch was poised to take an even bigger role in british life. and his ambitions. rumors swirling around news international this afternoon are to save, rupert murdoch might du

later, house secretary kathleen sebelius testifies about the medical payments advisory board. the commission would make recommendations on how to bring down medicare costs. live coverage from the house budget committee at 10:00 a.m. eastern. [applause] >> the u.s. chamber of commerce held a summit on the u.s. economy and jobs. >> welcome to the chamber. i would like to extend my appreciation to stand and the campaign for free enterprise for organizing this event today and to all of the chamber staff members who have been working on it for such a long time. to inform our discussion today, the chamber has been holding these listening sessions across the country with small business entrepreneurs and local chambers and we have also commissioned a study with harris interactive. we did did this to find out what job creators were thinking, and what is going to take to expand businesses and hire more people. these main street businesses are telling us play and simple to start hiring -- they need faster economic growth, and we need a change in cost in washington. that is my message tod

[inaudible conversations] at this house budget committee hearing today health secretary kathleen sebelius defended a provision in the 2010 health care law that gives more power to the independent advisory board. a panel that makes recommendations aimed at holding down medicare costs. under the law, those recommendations could become law unless congress overrules them. this is three hours. >> the committee will come to order. we will begin our hearing. madam secretary i know how excited you are to be here today. thank you for coming. we will begin with brief opening remarks and then i will turn it over to mr. van hollen. thank you madam secretary and her other panel of witnesses for coming to today's hearing on the future of medicare. for years, politicians in both parties have not been honest with the american people about medicare. the facts are clear. health care costs are skyrocketing and growing 8% a year. medicare spending is on pace to double over the next decade exhausting its remaining funds. 10,000 baby boomers are retiring every day is funeral workers are left paying into the pr

kathleen sebelius testified on a provision in the 2010 health care law ... week. the provision gives more power to the independent payment advisory board, a panel that makes recommendations aimed at holding down medicare costs she also -- costs. she also criticized a plan that would change medicare as it is currently structured. this hearing is three hours. >> the committee will come to order. we will begin our hearing. madam secretary, i know how excited you are to be here today. thank you for coming. all believe -- i will begin with some brief opening remarks. first of all, i want to thank you, madame secretary, and our other panelists for today's hearing. for years, politicians in both parties have not been honest with the american people about medicare. the facts are clear. health-care costs are skyrocketing, growing at 8% a year. medicare spending is on pace to double over the next decade, exhausting its remaining funds. 10,000 baby boomers are retiring every day as fewer workers are left came into the program. life expectancy was at 71 medicare was created.

host: we will hear from congressman ryan first and kathleen sebelius, hhs secretary, on the independent advisory board. >> if we simply give up 15 people the ability to unilaterally under pay providers, and we see where this is headed, what is going to end up happening is that providers are going to gut medicare. i don't know what you call that, but it is rationing under a different word. if you say, a provider, we will not pay anything close to what cost to provide the service, they will not provide the service. >> mr. chairman, first of all, ipab does not come into effect unless congress has not taken action. congress is in the driver's seat. ipab makes recommendations of the spending trends are on target -- >> it is a super majority vote to prevent that, though, correct? >> only if congress has not proceede -- preceded ipab. if congress has paid attention to the bottom line of medicare, ipab is a relevant and it never triggers in -- is irrelevant and never triggers in. guest: it is one of the big concerns. in the statute, it says that ipab is very constrained in what it may recommend