so we're excited to have governor kitzhaber here today and i welcome him to the floor. [applause] >> thank you very much. wish us a statement on how far i've come or not come to actually taken a complement that being referred to as a policy while hero. thank you very much for inviting me to speak this morning and i particularly want to thank neera and the center for american progress to secure the waivers that were necessary to implement oregon's health care reform proposal. as you know this fundamental problem in our health care system is this huge and growing discrepancy between the cost and care and resources we have available to pay for it and also the fact we have embarrassingly poor population health statistics that show this huge and enormous expenditure of resources to as you also know, there were three strategies both public and private payers have traditionally employed to address rising health care costs. first is reduced we pay for health care, cut provider reimbursement. the second is to reduce the number of people covered in the third is to reduce benefit.

john kitzhaber talking about steps he's taking to lower health care costs. then a discussions previewing cases the supreme court will hear in the new term. it's followed by remarks from paul on the last supreme court term. >>> tomorrow's "washington journal" senator tom harkin efforts to avoid the fiscal cliff. the accusations that the president is engaged in so-called war and a recent washington monthly article profoils the consumer protection bureau. we talk to washington monthly editor in chief. washington journal begins live at 7:00 a.m. eastern time on c-span. next oregon governor john on efforts to reduce health care costs in his state using a coordinated care model where doctors are paid health outcomes not for each medical procedures. this new model is also part of the affordable care act. from the center for american progress, this is just under an hour. >> and the person that worked on health policy for over a decade, i'd say the governor dr. john kitzhaber helps -- a hero for the work he's been doing for decades. and we're particularly excited tod

. >> live to the center for american progress where oregon's governor john kitzhaber will talk about efforts to reduce health care costs in his state. this is live coverage on c-span2 just getting under way. >> today for him to discuss his innovations in the medicaid program, as many of you may know cap has devoted a lot of time and effort to the issue of lowering health care costs because we see this as an issue for the federal budget but also state budgets, employers, employees and basically an issue of america's competitiveness over the long term. and so we have devoted a lot of resources to looking at new ways for us to lower health care costs. and one of the great innovations or what stage during the two-day the governor will talk with his leadership in developing new innovations in the medicare probe and and choosing the medicaid program itself as a driver for reducing health care costs. this comes at a time when states are really struggling with rising health care costs, that is what putting pressure on medicaid budgets. and do his work is vital to the. cap about a month ago r

. -- kitzhaber. just a few years ago, the legislature was lobbed in partisan gridlock. they got nothing done, just like congress is today, and somehow in the past few years, you or your counterparts in the legislature were able to find a way to work together and create bipartisan support for things that seem like common sense but in today's congress and in yet's oregon legislature just didn't work out. -- -- yesterday's legislature just didn't work out. can you provide some insights to how you did that? >> i don't think it is robert science. it is having a -- rocket science. it is having a vision. there wasn't a lot of room to solve problems. we could not buy our way out of this. we were in a revenue reduction mode. i change it from how do we close the deficit and spend the money that we have in order to get different results. i ran on that. the day i got elected, i called the speaker elect and the co-speakers, the budget writing people out to the governor's house and i walked through what i had laid out. said what do you think? where do you agree? where do you not agre

so we're excited to have governor kitzhaber here today and i welcome him to the floor.applause] >> thank you very much. it's a statement on how far i've come or not come to actually take as a compliment being referred to as a policy hero. thank you very much for inviting me to speak before you this morning and i particularly want to thank neera and the center for american progress for the help they gave us last may to secure the waivers from cms that were necessary to implement oregon's bold health care reform proposal. as you know, the fundamental problem in our health care system is the huge and growing discrepancy between the cost of care and the resources we have available to pay for it. and the fact that we have embarrassingly poor population health statistics to show for this huge and enormous expenditure of resources. as you also know, there are three strategies both public and private payers have traditionally employed to address rising health care costs. the first is to reduce what we pay for health care, to cut provider reimbursement. the second is to reduce t