mr. edwards, you've seen this work, you have great experience in government. has this worked at the state level? state governments tend to do this a lot. the stimulus, for example, sent a lot of money to the states. did that work? do these 49 different job training programs which were created with good intention, had various states advocating for this and that job training program, does that work to give people the tools they need to go into getting skills so they can get on to a career path if they were in an obsolete industry that was gone. where i live we lost four auto factories since 2008. all my friends i grew up in high school with, the guys i knew from childhood doesn't have a sector they can work in that they got their training in and people are trying to go back to school to learn a new skill to get back on their feet again. does this approach work? did the 49 job training programs work? and then, mr. edwards, give me more examples about the canadian system. i think that's very intriguing. you write about how canada actually went after a lot of this

mr. edwards? >>> i mean, you're suggesting that because the wealthy are more powerful and they can pull more -- >> i'm not trying to suggest -- i'm just asking if the situation exists that each person had a vote and those -- that one vote counted without respect to their pocketbook, how would that be different than what we're looking at today? >> i mean, it's sort of like a political science question. seems to me the main reason why members of congress make decisions is because of the voters in their districts. actually it's not money. it's what they think the voters want in their districts. so i think we already have an equality between voters like that. >> then why do we need supreme court decisions that define corporations as individuals rather than individual people, human beings, having the power for that vote? >> i don't buy the line that -- i think someone mentioned earlier the idea that corporations have so much power in washington, more power than anyone else. i mean if that was true, why

mr. edwards. >> thank you for inviting me to testify today. i will discuss for reasons why corporate welfare is bad and i will talk about the real solutions the u.s. economic growth is unleashing an entrepreneur orship. we have trillion dollar deficits. right now we cannot afford corporate welfare or business subsidies. i estimate subsidies are about $100 billion a year. that is a small part of the total budget but a good place to start cutting. corporate welfare is unfair. the largest corporate welfare program is a farm subsidies. in my view they are like a reverse robin hud program. they take from average taxpayers and give to high income farm households. 25% above the u.s. average. farm subsidies and other business subsidies are unfair. they take from average people and give to higher income people. corporate welfare does not work. well meeting policymakers want to support businesses because they believe it will make them more competitive. i think they backfire. on energy subsidies we have been subsidizing energy for four decades and it has

mr. edwards' personal flaws that were his own undoing. unbeknownst to everyone at the time, john edwards with this story book marriage was secretly carrying on a salacious affair during the campaign. while he was still running for president, some of i had wealthy donors stepped in with cash to keep mr. edwards' mistress out of the public eye. they paid to fly her all over the country and put her up in hotels. they paid for her medical care which became important when it emerged she was pregnant with mr. edwards' child. in total, they shelled out $900,000 for the purpose of hiding john edwards' mistress during and eventually after the campaign. according to federal prosecutors, this $900,000 amounted to an illegal campaign contribution because it was meant to preserve his image as a family man and thus preserve his candidacy. he was charged with six counts of campaign finance fraud. john edwards denied that these were campaign contributions. his lawyer said that the money was used to protect not his presidential hopes, not his political rep

mr. edwards and congressman waxman. governor bush, please. >> governor ryan, ranking members van hollen. it is a joy to be here. i didn't come to criticize anybody, just for the record. i came to share my views. i'm not used to the 9:00 food fight that starts bright and early around in washington. i'm from florida where we don't start that way in life but it's great to be here. i'm here to talk a little bit about what i think is an important subject as we try to recover. the may job numbers were anemic at best. no one could be satisfied with that. we do have an l-shaped recovery and it's the first since world war ii where we've not had a robust recovery. there's a cloud over our country, i think, that relates to this growing pessimism that we can't restore the vitality of our economy in a way that creates opportunities, more and more people are becoming more dependent on every level because of it. i think it's important for this economy and for policy makers in washington to reflect on that and to figure out how togethe

mr. edwards. i want to ask on miscellaneous tariff benefits, getting international trade. ultimately, we should, you know, move to international trade agreements, get rid of all tariffs. you know, tariffs don't just hurt american consumers. tariffs hurt american businesses that use imported products. you know, you look at big corporations like general motors. i mean, they import an enormous amount of parts and other goods. so when we put tariffs on their production it hurts american businesses. so, i mean, you know, i'm not familiar with the particular, you know, bill that's in front of congress there, but, you know, tariffs are not a good idea in general. like taxes, they disport the economy. >> generally speaking, would these reductions on tariffs, on products that are available across the market, would you consider that to be corporate welfare? >> no, certainly not. you know, i'm proposing -- i'm proposing tax loopholes. i'm proposing -- i'm for getting rid of special deals on the tariff side. but i don't -- special deals for particular industries on tax and spending an

mr. edwards, if you had -- let's just say the existing tax code disappeared and you had a blank piece of paper in front of you. would you tell me your top three principles you would use as your guide in writing a new tax code? >> i would say economic efficiency, simplification, and visibility and transparency. so economic efficiency, the key is lowering marginal tax rates and the chairman's plan does that. lowering rates town to 10%, 25%. simplification. the tax code is usually complex, especially for business and small business. that is just a compliance tax on the overall economy that doesn't do any of us good. and transparency and visibility. i would take steps, for example, americans only see half of the social security medicare tax on their pay stubs every couple of weeks so they don't know -- they only know half the giant cost of social security and medicare. i would make that visible on pay stubs. so that's the type of thing i would do. i would say the most important thing, economic efficiency, lowering the corporate tax rate is the single most important thing we can and should do

mr. edwards, you've made multiple comments on this. . i enjoyed hearing your comment on some of the issues of how do we start the process that you see of working through the system here that it doesn't come down to this body to determining i like you, i don't like you type politics and tax policy. >> i think the most important tax re-fox we need in the united states is to lower our corporate tax rate. we now have the highest rate in the world at 40% with state taxes included. it the chairman mentioned canada. canada has chopped their federal corporate tax rate to 15% now. what is astounding. if you look at the canadian 15% federal corporate tax rate and our 35% tax rate, in both countries the corporate tax raises about the same gdp of reeve knew. they collect just as much we do with a rate less than half as high. there's been a massive reduction in tax avoidance in canada. biggest loopholes in our corporate tax code are actually not the legislated loopholes like the ones for the industry industry and the like. they're automatic loopholes

mr. edwards, thanks very much for coming. miscellaneous tariff benefits. something getting some attention here this week by way of quick introduction, these are reductions in tariffs on things that are not made here, that are generally available to the marketplace, and we're having some debate as to whether or not those are earmarks, tax subsidies. there's discussion whether or not miscellaneous tariff benefits are a subsidy similar to a tax loophole. i'd like your opinion as to whether you think mtbs are tax subsidies or tax loopholes. >> tariffs are taxes. i mean, they're taxes on international trade. ultimately we should move to an international trade agreements, get rid of tear riffs. tair reserves don't just hurt american consumers, tariffs hurt american businesses that use imported products. you look at big corporations like general motors, i mean, they import an enormous amount of parts and other goods so when we put tariffs on their production, it hurts american businesses. so, i mean, i'm not familiar with a particular bill that's in front of cong

mr. edwards. >> thank you for inviting me to testify today.uss for reasons why corporate welfare is bad and i will talk about the real solutions the u.s. economic growth is unleashing an entrepreneurship. we have trillion dollar deficits. right now we cannot afford corporate welfare or business subsidies. i estimate subsidies are about $100 billion a year. that is a small part of the total budget but a good place to start cutting. corporate welfare is unfair. the largest corporate welfare program is a farm subsidies. in my view they are like a reverse robin hud program. they take from average taxpayers and give to high income farm households. 25% above the u.s. average. farm subsidies and other business subsidies are unfair. they take from average people and give to higher income people. corporate welfare does not work. well meeting policymakers want to support businesses because they believe it will make them more competitive. i think they backfire. on energy subsidies we have been subsidizing energy for four decades and it has been boondoggl

mr. edwards? >> good morning. thank you for inviting me to testify. >> providing collaboration is the key to transforming patient care. since 2005 we have invested $2 million to provide models. we recognize there are single models and we believe there is no single health system across the country. our partnerships are designed to support all -- and are not limited to medicare or aetna members. we believe in quality improvement and we use low cost technology solutions. our provided collaborations provide a model that ties reimbursements and reductions in the total cost of care. it provides nurse case managers within participating provider groups. novahealth averaged 56% fewer admissions in 2011 compared to state wide unmanaged populations. new research is published frequently. active health management has registered nurses that applies research from the most eligible resources. in a randomized clinical trial, it was found to lower charges by 6%. regarding fragmentation of care delivery, people with diabetes or high

mr. edwards, if you could talk about that. congressman waxman, coming from the state of california talk about where it -- why can we allow states to be creative in finding solutions like that within the state? >> i love that deal because they overpaid. in this case, indiana least out a road that people from illinois and ohio pay disproportionate fares. the money was -- it was a very creative deal. around the world, this is commonplace. center-left, center-right, it does not matter. it seems as though this idea of public-private partnerships is very common. the united states has lagged way behind in this regard. this is an example of we must do it the way we were doing it rather than pausing for a moment and saying, are their best practices we could apply from other places? to allow states to be the laboratories would be a great idea. canada -- transformation has allowed them to whether these huge storms. far better than we did. there reforms and their pension obligations and the things they did to get their government back to

mr. edwards. >> good morning, thank you for inviting me to testify today. my name is lonnie reece and i am the chief medical officer at humana. since 2005, etna has invested more than 2 billi$2 billion to provide collaboration models, we recognize that the best single model will meet the -- we meet our provider partners at their current state of ready witness. our partnerships are designed to support all patient populations, qualified providers and insurance payers and are not limited to medicare or etna members. we believe that effective low cost technology solutions. our provider collaborations provide a model for health care improve and reductions in the total cost of care. our medicare advantage care management models provide health information technology and nurse case managers embedded with participating provider groups. for example by collaborating with etna, nova health in portland, maine, averaged 45% couper admissions in 2011 compared to state wide unmanaged risk adjusted unmanaged populations. active health management has a large team of board ce

mr. edwards, thanks for coming. by with quick introduction, these are reductions in tariffs on things that are not major that are generally unable to the marketplace. we're having debate now whether or not those are in moscow whether or not those attacks of these. they are some specific discussion as to whether or not miscellaneous tariff benefits are a subsidy similar to a tax loophole. i would like your opinion on what you think they are tax subsidies or tax loopholes. .. >> bill that's in front of congress there, but tariffs are not a good idea in general. like taxes, they distort the economy. >> generally speaking, would these reductions on tariffs, on products that are available across the market, would you consider that to be corporate welfare? >> no, certainly not. um, you know, i'm for closing tax loopholes, i'm for closing, i'm for getting rid of special deals on the tariff side, but i don't -- special deals for particular industries on tax and spending and tariffs are distortionary, but be it does strike m

mr. edwards, you mentioned humana uses different approaches to account for variation in practices and i want to ask about delivery of health care in rural america because that's obviously where iowa fits. could you expand on what humana does differently in rural areas, what challenges you have help can'ter and what you have found to be successful? >> a couple of things, recently we have partnered with a company called gencare. these guys opened so far 13 clinic based primary care centers that provide coverage to seniors and primarily low income in underserved neighborhoods and rural areas and this group will grow to add 40 centers over the next few years. second thing we have secreted in this rewards program called a pod. and what we have done is in rural area where is you have a small patient panel, we put a team together which includes a nurse practitioner to go into the office and to help them understand the disease management programs and the things that can be done to help serve the rural population. >> you just brought up nurse practitioners and i know it was in your written testimony

mr. edwards became very important. so there was a group that the congressman reached out to that became-- that were very influential in coming to these decisions. these were not a sort of peter rodino, john doar and that's all that was involved. there was a lot of discussion. a lot of i think memos and a lot of -- they used to pack every friday -- congressman went back to his district in newark. they'd pack a big binder with all of these memos and all of these thinking, and then he'd read them over the weekend and then all the discussions would take place with the various members. remember, this is the thing, he couldn't do this without a consent of his fellow members. he had to bring them a lot. he had to hold them at bay. in other words, let the process work, but at the same time, they couldn't feel excluded. it was pretty extraordinary today that they allowed this inquiry to go on so long, a lot of conversations within the committee, behind the committee room, in the congressman's office. there was constant outreach

mr. chairman. this has been a very interesting conversation. pull edwards, we've talked about tax deductions in subsidies a little bit. but one program that i have become aware of in my last 16 months since being in this office and visiting a number of the industries in my district, those that are in the food production area have made me aware of market allotments and something that i guess i really didn't know that much about until i had them educate me, but the fact that we in the sugar program have market allotments that to certain producers based on their history and their expected productions. and this has made it extremely difficult for new entrants to come into the market which they tell me really does cause a an unnatural high cost for sugar. and so, does the sugar program through these market allotments in your opinion provide a structural barrier to entry? >> yeah, actually the sugar program is something i've written about. it's an interesting example of corporate welfare that's basically off budget. it's a regulatory corporate welfare program. in

mr. edward r.row devoted his program to attack on the work of the united states senate investigative committee, and on me personally as its chairman. over the past four years, he's made repeated attacks on me and those fighting communists. of course, neither joe mccarthy or edward r. murrow is of any great importance as individuals. we're only important in our relation to the great struggle to preserve our american liberties. the senate investigating committee has forced out of government and out of important defense plans communists engaged in the soviet conspiracy. it's interesting to note that the viciousness of murrow's attacks is in contrast to our success in digging out communists. ordinarily i would not take time out for the important work at time to answer murrow. however, in this case, i feel justified in doing so, because murrow is a symbol, the leader and the cleverest of the jackal pack, which has always gone for the throat of anyone who dares to expose communists. >> what do you think?

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mrs. edwards in all of this. >> what i think is gross is there's four kids involved.ds from his marriage and her little girl reading about her mother, and telling her father that he's hot but keep it to yourself. why do you bring in the kids? >> you have seen the guy on youtube sensation screaming leave britney spears alone. well, leave america alone. we don't need to here it. raise your daughter far away from the spotlight. we don't need this. >> how much trouble is president obama in when you put together what he expect on thursday, and we have eric holder, contempt and probably the supreme court dumping healthcare and ruling against it, how bad is this going to impact the president's race? >> it's very bad and for two reasons. number one, when the healthcare ruling comes down and i don't know how far it will go toward the constitution but it ain't going to go his way. and he's wasted four long years while people are suffering. the things he's doing with gay marriage and immigration, no matter what side you are on it's cynical. we know you are doing this just to get

mr. edwards and how that affair began. >> reporter: new, intimate details are emerging about the six-yearair responsible for the very public ruin of john edwards' political career. edwards' mistress, rielle hunter, coming out with this explosive tell-all, what really happened, john edwards, our daughter and me. hunter sat down exclusively with "20/20" anchor chris cuomo. >> the assumptions are dark. rielle hunter, as in manhunter, destroyer of marriage. destroyer of john edwards. how do you want yourself defined? >> first and foremost, i'm a mom. rielle hunter is a mom. and i'm also a woman who fell in love with a married man. i'm not the first woman who's done that, and i'm not going to be the last. >> reporter: "people" magazine obtained these pictures and excerpts from her revealing new memoirs, including how hunter says elizabeth edwards reacted to learning about their affair. elizabeth requested all the tapes i had made of the campaign. she locked herself in a room to watch. on one tape she saw johnny walking into a room and his reaction to seeing me. she apparently told him that he

mrs. edwards, a witch on wheels who drove john to cheat.e in for that interview friday. >> she also suggests that they remain romantically involved. of course he is involved in quinn's life. find all of that out in the "20/20" interview this coming weekend. >> abc news exclusive. we'll be right back. >> great news about that child actor from the darth vader super bowl ad we told you about this little guy last week. >> such a a cutie pie. he checked into the hospital for heart surgery. he is going home as kabcs denise dadar reports. >> reporter: 7-year-old max page is heading home well ahead of schedule and first on his list. >> i'm excited about a lot of things especially having a milk shake. ♪ >> reporter: it appears max was perfectly cast as the mini-darth vader who uses sheer will to move objects. his power of positive thinking is what kept him going through eight surgeries that began when he was a baby. he was born with a lethal heart condition. this is the second time doctors have released his pulmonary valve. >> he kind of came in, sa

mr. peter edwards, president. senior vice president and chief medical officer at atena. care first blue cross blue shield, maryland. and, ceo of a medical group in northern california. please begin. summarize your statements and tell it like it is. >> [unintelligible] >> i do not know if your microphone is on. these are tricky. >> ok. thank you. my name is dana safran, vice- president at blue cross blue shield of massachusetts. i appreciate the opportunity to discuss the payment reform model that blue cross blue shield has been implementing since 2009. the model known as the alternative quality contract employees a population based global budget together with substantial financial incentives on a broad set of quality and outcome measures. rates of inflation on budgets are negotiated up front for five years. thereby creating much credibility in medical spending growth. the budget and quality targets are designed to accomplish our twin goals of significantly improving health care quality while at the same time slowing spending growth. the aqc is a corporate on a payment mo

mr. edwards, you've seen this book and have great experience in government.the stimulus, for the example, sent a lot of money to the states. did that work? to the 49 different job training programs the were created with good intentions and had various groups advocating for this or that job training program, does that work to actually give people the tools they need to go into getting skills so they can go on a career path they were in the industry that is gone. you know, where i live we lost four of zero factories since 2008 so all of my friends i grew up with a high school, the guys i know from my childhood, they don't have a sector that they can work in that they got their training in, and now people are trying to the back to school to get back on their feet again. does this approach work, does the job training work? and then mr. edwards, give me more a symbol of the canadian system i think it is intriguing you write about how canada actually went after a lot of the corporate welfare and cronyism. give me more anecdotes on that because i think there's somet

mr. edwards on those counts. fully expected another trial will not happen for the former u.s. r, former vice presidential nominee. that's not happening for john edwards. >>> other news we're following, president obama and mitt romney are gearing up for a head-to-head clash, duelling speeches just minutes apart in a state that's crucial to the outcome in november. romney had a tune-up today before a very receptive audience. cnn's national correspondent, jim acosta, is joining us with the latest. >> that's right, wolf. today was the pre-game to the main event tomorrow. duelling speeches at virtually the same time in the ultimate battleground state of ohio. and today was the preview of the battle to come. the campaign isn't getting down to brass tacks, more like brass knuckles ready to rumble over their economic plans. >> this is the most anti-investment, anti-business, anti-jobs series of policies in modern american history. >> just one day before romney and the president go head-to-head with duelling campaign events in the swing state of ohio, the republican contender met with s

i would have talked to edward about his interview, yes. >> mr. osbourne's evidence is that he asked for and obtained assurances. were you aware of that? >> i don't recall, but if george said that, i have no reason to doubt it. as i put into my evidence in 225, i remember the edward issue. i expect george did the same thing. >> how important was mr. osbourne's advice in relation to this process? were you reliant on him or forming your own judgment? >> we worked closely into he thought this was a good idea, but as we said, this was my decision and take full responsibility for it. i don't try to shuffle off any responsibility to anybody else. >> in paragraph 237 of your statement, page 04172, you say that you are sure that you would have discussed his appointment and that is his appointment with rebecca wade? >> to be clear by this time, this is may of 2007, would you have countered her as amongst your friends? >> yes. i think i would. as i say in the evidence, i can't recall when i discussed it with her. whether it was before, during, or after. i a

mr. mayor. my name is timothy edward doyle, social security number [unintelligible] in the ccap county adult limited assisted person recipient. my question is -- why has the fiscal figure not been tied to inflation or increased in the past 14 years? waxman name is richard. earlier i turned in a speaker card. >> ok. >> thank you. i want to have the department's attention. there are more smoke pot and flowers -- smoke pots than flowers in the square. recently the spacing was not fixed or replaced for the last week. i was going to speak about the congestion of traffic in stockton, but lots of speakers touch the subject. i went to the department of public works, who was supposed to monitor the sidewalks and streets. mainly these stores in stockton, they use the street as a storage area. they put boxes. many of those stores, they put the band's to facilitate their business. certainly, the goods are away from the premises. >> [inaudible] >> everyone is listening. we have many seniors walking the streets and buying this stuff. they are forced to walk on these streets to get by. mainly, mother with a baby c