[applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome kathleen sebelius. >> >> thank you secretary kathleen sebelius. it is a great honor for me to be one of the guests here, not just as a guest from kansas, but to represent someone who is important to the nation and the world and to honor someone who is half of a true d.c. power couple. the diversity of kansas is proud to host the robert dole institute of politics, which honors and continues senator dole's service. he wanted to be an active place and k.u. has made sure it is that. it documents the political career of america's longest serving republican leader in the senate. public service is honorable to engage students in a robust discussion to make sure that the young people love the next generation understand that civility and schumer and the intellect are part of what we need in this to my purse. for that we will always be grateful. i have an opportunity to thank and introduce the chancellor of the university of kansas. i watched people screen a variety of candidates and feel that they had by friday deciliter they had at the universit

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but health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius said it was unworkable. the administration couldn't go forward because it would have exploded the federal deficit in the out-years. here is what she wrote in a letter. despite our best analytical efforts i do not see a viable path forward for class implementation at this time. you heard the liberal group insist the program should not be killed. the white house released a statement today saying we do not support repeal. repealing the class act isn't necessary or productive. we should be doing is working together to address the long-term care challenges we face in this country. it sounds confusing. what the white house was responding to was the republican efforts, were republican efforts to semily put in law what secretary sebelius was saying in policy. that they couldn't move forward with that because it was too expensive. back with the panel. mara, critics say that this eliminates roughly $70 billion in what the obama administration said were savings in the healthcare law over ten years. it shows that the la

health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius spoke out this week against the republican party, saying the gop wants to roll back women's health 50 years. in a speech before naral pro-choice america, secretary sebelius takes on the republican attempts to overturn the affordable care act and cuts to medicare, medicaid and planned parenthood, which she says, would undo progress women have made. she also says women have suffered discrimination by insurance providers. earlier this year, sebelius supported recommendations to require insurance companies to provide birth control to women cost-free. irene, do women need to be concerned about losing access to healthcare? >> absolutely. even in good times, women have limited access to healthcare because they are not fully employed, and so the very things that they depend on, medicare, medicaid, planned parenthood services are now under the knife according to the gop legislators in a fever cutting mood. >> well, they should be worried about obama care and the effect it will have on women's health and individual plans in and of itself not

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kathleen sebelius is the 10-year-old.lity is the parent. >> dana: one of the things that happened was that when they said it was paid for, this was, it gave comfort to lot of conservative democrats on the fence about obamacare anyway but they were told this would be a way to reduce the deficit in the long run. a lot of people including the cms acms actuary, person running medicaid services said it wasn't sustainable, but they rammed it through anyway. now you have this, supreme court about to look at it. andrea, some said this is the beginning of the end of obamacare. >> andrea: it is. it wasn't one provision to reduce the cost, dana. class act accounted for according to the administration almost half of official deficit reduction for obamacare. this is a big deal. with greg's tortureed metaphor this is what is confusing. obama promising to give kathleen sebelius the pony. even though they haven't figured out how to pay for it. your point, absolutely. we don't know what the supreme court is going to do in a couple of week

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>>to demonstrate the importance of getting a flu shot kathleen sebelius got her shot federal and localofficials urged chicagoans to get their flu shots now the store here at the dan ryan expressway are what walgreen's calls the health and daily living store with a nurse practitioner on site people can get vaccines and flu shots treating household elements or getting a sports physical ... the walgreen's ceo says that these new stores also an array of healthy foods offering. >>we are in places where there is not good access to fresh help the whole food. we are turning this location into a food oasis with expanded offerings of fruits and vegetables ... >>mayor rahm emanuel helped to win a commitment from walgreen's to expand its presence in chicago with the expansion of 50 of these types stores over the next three years the day's top business stories are next >>plus a popular children's show will introduce a new character >>and an easy and tasty way to incorporate more vegetables in your diet we have yummy recipe for butternut squash soup a seasonal favorites at liberty mutual, we know ho

[applause] >> thank you secretary kathleen sebelius.e of the guess here, to be a guest not just from kansas -- guests, to be here not just as a guest from kansas, but to represent someone who is important to the nation and the world and to honor someone who is half of a true d.c. power couple. the diversity of kansas is proud to host the robert dole institute of politics, which honors and continues senator dold's service. -- senatorle makes it-- dole's service. he wanted to be an active place and k.u. has made sure it is that. it documents the political career of america's longest serving republican leader in the senate. the archive contains 34,000 separate files with nearly 7000 documents and has welcomed researchers from as far as britain and france. tethe dole institute has featured 146 progress. there are forums, events, seminars for students all designed to bring more people into the civic and civil discourse that the doles have committed their lives to. we have posted president of the united states like george h. w. bush and bill

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get your flu shot message of secretary human health and services kathleen sebelius got her shot at walgreen'sm neighborhood health and daily living nurse practitioners offering vaccines and physicals. also providing a fresh fruit and vegetables and other foods part of an effort to serve the community. as part of the obama administration 1 gold is to really have people be able to access preventive care and an easy fashion without a lot of barriers walgreen's expecting to build or remodel at least 50 stores in underserved communities in the next three years. in the middle of one of the sunniest october stretches in more than a decade tom skilling delivering a few more 80 degree days to our doorstep. this one works. ooh, the price sure doesn't. i'm tired of shopping around. [ sigh ] too bad you're not buying car insurance. like that's easy. oh, it is. progressive direct showed me their rates and the rates of their competitors. i saved hundreds when switching. we could use hundreds. yeah. wake up and smell the savings. out there with a better way. now, that's progressive. part of my job is teachi

martha: there's a lot going on, the strange thing, kathleen sebelius came out on friday, she wrote a blog and in the blog, she said this, she said despite our best analytical efforts i do not see a viable path forward for class implementation at this time and she went on to say she doesn't think the program is sustainable, then the white house started backpedaling and said no, no, because they started to get heat from aarp and others who supported the plan, big supporters of the president, and trying to make it sound like they can pull it off. mary ann, what's going on? >> look, i think the bottom line here really has been the effort by republicans, senator -- senators and others to repeal it. that's the difference here. ignoring a problem doesn't make it go away. unless you're a republican running for clag in 2012 and that's your election strategy. so rather than trying to figure out how to pay for this and implement it when the economy is better, many republicans just want to eliminate it, and that's the fight you're having here, what president obama is saying is look -- >> martha:

. >> republican senator and others respond after kathleen sebelius said the administration could not benefit new benefit under the healthcare law because it adds too much to the deficit. >> it's incoon consequenceial to me after the health and human being services secretary coming out friday and saying we are not going to implement it. >> somebody in the cbo woke up to say you know what the republicans said about this a year-and-a-half ago was true. so they killed the program. now today they say it's not dead. >> they say the class program could not meet the legal requirement it not ask to the deficit. >> last friday, somebody in obama administration said we've got a nightmare on our hands and we can't let it get started. it will blow a whole in the budget. >> liberal supports of program argue it can and should go forward and miffed that the administration was dropping it. >> clearly one of the ideas is to have options. >> but then the white house told fox it does not support repeal, so is the obama administration killing the program or not? the democratic senator chuck schumer an ac

you have a beef with health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius who basically is saying, look, we are not going to get the names of people. the insurance companies and the hospitals and the doctors, they are going to pass along to our giant obama care data bank, conditions, but it's not going to be like chris cobach has lep lep prissy. that's what secretary sebelius says. what's wrong with that. >> there are a number of things wrong with it assembling giant database 200 million americans. every transaction, every prescription you had filled. every doctor's appointment. any condition you have. >> bill: they are not going to know it's you. >> they will assign a number to it but they have a date of birth. they have other identifying information. >> bill: no social security number they say. >> they will create a new set of numbers. the problem is somebody can decode those numbers if hhs ever does want to misuse that information, they can. secondly, there have been a history of government bureaucrats losing laptops, not just in hhs. >> bill: hackers and weeksers and all of this. no

in a partnership with health and human services, my partner kathleen sebelius, we're investing 500 million in early childhood education around the country as part of our raise to the top initiative. and we're asking the states to do two very important things: one, increase access particularly in disadvantaged is high quality. this glorified babysitting doesn't get us where we need to go. two days ago, with the application deadline, we had 36 days to apply, there's a huge amount of interest there, we're trying to significantly increase the quality and access for children in communities who need the most. we think this will help to transform what's going on in the early childhood space. >> very good, thank you very much, we're going to take a commercial break, but when we return, we're going to talk about how parents can get involved in their children's education. we're going to give you a terrible statistic: only 8% of teachers in the united states are hispanic, but 20% of the student population is hispanic. what can we do? we'll be right back, "es el momento". >> i am the future. [applause

health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius says they tried for 19 months to find a way to make it work financially, but simply couldn't. >>> an attack this morning on a u.s. base in afghanistan, police say those attacks were carried out by four insurgents just before dawn. all four attackers were killed. there were at least two civilian casualties. the taliban is claiming responsibility. >>> president obama is sending about 100 u.s. troops to africa. their mission is to help soldiers in uganda chase down the leader of the feared guerilla group, the lord's resistance army. the lra is blamed for horrific atrocities including thousands of apes, murders and kidnappings. >>> a federal appeal escort temporarily blocked key parts of alabama's tough immigration law, at least until they decide whether that law is constitutional. most notably, the move stopped public schools from checking the immigration status of students. but police will be required to check someone's immigration status when they are stopped or arrested if the officer assesses that they're in the country illegally

health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius telling congress she does not see a way to makehe program work. the problem apparently is not enough healthy people were signing up for the plan to begin with. well a renewed push today to figure out what's happened to baby lisa irwin. she is the infant who disappeared 10 days ago from her parents' home in kansas city, missouri. her folks have just posted home videos of her online apparentfully hopes that somebody will recognize her. they say somebody snatched their little girl from her crib. but police say they have no suspects in the case and today a private investigator announced somebody is willing to pay a lot of money for information about the girl's whereabouts. going to be $100,000 reward put up for the safe return and/or conviction of personal persons involved in this horrible crime. except he won't say exactly who is putting up all that cash. rick folbaum tracking. this is he live in our new york city newsroom. the source of that reward real solid a little mysterious. >> you could say that absolutely, trace. what we know

>> they did it when kathleen sebelius was governor very pro-choice and new that bill kline were sniffingaround. hasn't been proven but the allegation is that when she was governor she stepped in to cover up the documents that's the allegation. >> bill: does the state of kansas routinely shed documents after a certain amount of time. >> they do. but -- but the question here is whether you would ever do that when you knew. >> bill: there was criminal activity going on. >> there was a criminal investigation going on. that's highly unusual. there are rules. >> bill: so you, megyn kelly, think something may be wrong. >> i think something stinks. something stinks here. >> bill: do you really? >> i don't know who has got their fingerprints on it. one of the things i find highly suspicious is why didn't the department of health go to the d.a. he has been litigating over these documents and say don't argue over those. we destroyed them in 2005. why did they wait. >> bill: think were afraid the whole screation was going to blow up. >> you tell me. >> bill: watch her at 1:00. halloween edition. ver

kathleen sebelius said she could not do that. they tried hard. they'll let this subprogram go but they are going to continue to defend the overall law as good for the country. again, it emboldens republicans more than rallies democrats, i think. >> do you think there's any thought in the white house, a thought of regret they push so hard for health care first before securing jobs for americans? >> i don't think on the part of the president there is because he knows if you look historically, a president, even a to-term president, can't do anything as large as this law, this health care law, except in their first year plus in office. if he hadn't done it then, he never would have done it? >> really? you don't think had he been able to do jobs and secure that, that would give him a political platform in which to launch anything. >> not based on history. that doesn't mean it wasn't a mistake. the president might have had to make the choice -- look, jobs is such a big crisis i have to risk not getting this big promise, this big share of stream of the

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decisions made by secretary kathleen sebelius of health and human services concerning the sustainability. nevada, dawn on the republican line, you're next. > caller: i think your guests were not understanding when the "national journal" lady was speaking in so that kathleen sebelius could not put the program together. that is because the government is not an insurance company. the senate did not approve it, and the majority of the senate are democrats. so the blame game of blaming the republicans for everything does not like. -- does not apply. this government is supposed to represent republicans, democrats, and independence. i think a lot of your followers missed the whole picture from the beginning. host: what you think of the decision overall? caller they did not have that choice because our country is broke. how can we fund the program if our government is broken in debt? our big crisis right now is our debt crisis. all of these additions into the health care plan, which is to be adjudicated whether it is even legal. host: ill., randy on the democrats' line. caller: this program was

current senator pat roberts and health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius. he served as u.s. senator from 1969 to 1996 and from 1985 to 96 he served as the senate republican leader. this is 50 minutes. [applause] >> bob, the kansan's trusted you to represent them in washington for 35 years. and you never betrayed their trust. and many of us wish that you were still a leader in the united states senate, right? wonderful it would be to see senator dole working his magic in the united states senate today. i remember in 1983i had just got him elected to the converse for the first time. candidly i was looking over my shoulder left you wondering how bad and how hard senator dole would come at me in the next election in kansas, and it is interesting because our first vote, the first tough vote we had was the social security reform of 1983. and i've often thought back to that time comparative to today because the social security trust fund was bankrupt. they were saying the checks would be leaked by april or may, and everybody was a loner this -- a little nervous an

health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius told congress it could not be implemented in timehe program was expected to launch next year and said to have design and financial problems it was intended to be voluntary insurance plan for working adults supported by premiums rather than taxpayer dollars now to developing steer out of pakistan missile strike left three dead and several others wounded this morning. the missiles fired from u.s. drones hit a compound south waziristan just across the afghan border. the compound is reportedly a hideout for local extremist group with ties to both the taliban and al qaeda. are you just itching to go to cuba? now you can fly there from key west. >> i'm just itching. >> florida's southern most city. >> the doctor can help with you that. >> i'm so glad i'm sitting next to you. decades old travel ban to the communist nation 90 miles to its south. flights were green lighted to cuba and other cities in march but none as close as key west. the grinch who stole thanksgiving. coming after fire after banning all fall holiday ann foley is the princi

bill: kathleen sebelius says it's out, the white house, as you referred to -- that the white house is hedging on this. is it in or is it out? >> it needs to be out, and i am ready to vote to repeal it. we have a bill in the house, a bill in the senate. it's actually a bipartisan bill in the house, to repeal this entire portion of the health care law. but i want to repeal the entire health care law. i've introduced legislation to let everyone opt out, to let everyone have a waiver from the health care law so that they don't have to live under the mandates of this obama health care law. bill: one more thing, if the long term insurance clause that we're discussing today, it's known by the acronym class, if that is out, what does it do to the overall law? >> well, i still think the overall law is unconstitutional. i don't think that this government has a right to come into your home and tell you you have to buy a product, and the supreme court will be making a decision about that. >> bill: understood, but in the short term, on this particular provision, if it's not in there, how does it a

you have a beef with health and human services secretary kathleen se sebelius who is sayw we're not goingo get the namen of people. the insurance and the hospitals and the doctors are going to p pass along to a giant obama care data bank conditions but itt won't be like chris has leprosy. they won't know it's you. that's what secretary sebelius says. what's wrong with that?ng >> there are a number of things wrong with it. a they're assembling a giant database of over 200 million americans' medical conditions.cp they'll have every doctor appointment, every condition you have, every prescription you filled. they'll assign a number t.o it, about you they will have a date of birth and other identifyingfm information. >> no social security number.he >>y they'll create a new set of numbers. the problem is somebody can decode those numbers. if hhs wants to misuse the ca information, they can.ee secondly, there's a history of government bureaucrats losing laptops. >> and hackers and the wicky leaker -- wiki leakers and all i that business. i'm putting poin forward the pof view that they'll know w

we have just seen that the secretary of health and human services, kathleen sebelius, under the guise of preventative care, has not promulgated rules that will force everyone to pay for abortion drugs and not to mention sterilization. and this also tramples on the conscience rights of health care entities that do not perform or promote abortion. madam speaker, i believe this -- the protect life act is in the interest of the right type of health care for america. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from florida. mr. hastings: madam speaker, i yield one minute to the distinguished gentlewoman from texas, ms. jackson lee. . the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from texas is recognized for one minute. ms. jackson lee: i thank the speaker for yielding. it's unfortunate that we have to come to the floor of the house to discuss the personal decisions that a woman has to make and i can assure you that the question of choice, the question of abortion, the question of what one does to their body is not one that women make lightly. many occasions,

but on friday last week, secretary of health and human services kathleen sebelius came out and said despite our best analytical efforts, i do not see a path forward for class implementation at this time. and what accompanied that was a volume of analysis that had been done that essentially supports that conclusion, that it doesn't add up, you can't make the math work. i think that's something that hopefully my colleagues as what we know now will recognize that we ought to eliminate, we ought to repeal this class act once and for all. you know, something i tried to do as we were debating the health care bill almost two years ago now, i offered an amendment in december of 2009 that would repeal the class act believing at the time that it wasn't going to work, and we had plenty of at that time evidence to that effect. unfortunately, it was included a part of the health care reform bill to help pay for it. at that time it was estimated wyatt generate about $70 billion in revenue to be used to offset the cost of the health care bill or at least to put it in balance and claim there was some defic

could be the first domino of the whole thing collapsing because health and human services, and kathleen sebeliuso this, a key component to the health care plan, because we don't think we could pay for it. >> alisyn: right. it was going be to be able to give people who needed it, $50 a day in the event of illness or disability and it was going to be able to be used for even nonmedical events. and you need to say wheelchair access or something like this. this came out friday afternoon or friday evening. >> of course it did. >> alisyn: which is when, obviously, the administration doesn't want a lot of news coverage. >> mike: this is the element that ted kennedy wanted. >> alisyn: this is ted kennedy's pet issue and it's interesting, mike, because this is just what republicans have been saying, which is a lot of this is untenable. we can't afford it. this isn't going to work and so to give up this piece of this signature legislation as we head into campaign season. >> dave: right. >> alisyn: and the white house. >> dave: they had to give it up. rates would have had to have been jacked up so high, it

secretary kathleen sebelius said despite our best analytical efforts, i do not see a viable path forward for class implementation at this time, end quote. "the washington post" went on to say the obama administration cut a major plan benefit from the 2010 health care law on friday announcing that a program to offer americans insurance for long-term care was simply unworkable. the hill reported that h.h.s. officials acknowledged the class act fell apart simply because it was too flawed to salvage. politico said a stunning end to a financially troubled long-term care insurance program and a major setback to the health care reform law. even "the new york times" had editorialized it was too costly and would not work. and so, mr. president, this is good news for the american taxpayer because this is something that many of us argued the conclusion that inevitably people would come to when this was discussed and debated as part of the health care reform bill over a year ago. in fact, on december 4, 2009, i offered an amendment to repeal the class act. it was then offered as one of the pay-fors

speaker, last week secretary of health and human services, kathleen sebelius, announced despite her department's best efforts what is known as the class act is not fiscally viable and will not be implemented. the class act would have created a long-term care insurance option for employees, but you know what, it had been called a ponzi scheme of the first order. not my words. not even my governor's words. those are the words of senator conregard, the democratic senator of the budget committee. mr. speaker, this is another example of bad policy that was caused by the rushed approach to create and pass the patient protection and affordable care act. instead of focusing on reducing the price of long-term care insurance, the class act would have cost americans more money for the creation of yet another federal program. now, incredibly, the class act is being abandoned by the department of health and human services but the president refuses to let it go. we'll have a hearing on in my committee later this week, the energy and commerce. mr. speaker, we can do better. mr. speaker, we must do better. we n