if sebelius embraces the recommendation in full, insurance companies would be forced to provide at no cost planned "b" and drug called ella. >> ella in particular approved for emergency contraception can disrupt what the ama calls an established pregnancy. right, after implantation, which by anyone's definition is an abortion. because it's regulation under the healthcare law, secretary sebelius can make the decision without congressional approval but there is an effort in congress to pass legislation allowing those who object to opt out. bret? >> more on this with the panel in the online show. thank you. ♪ ♪ >> bret: in america's news headquarters tonight, republican 2012 hopefuls are crisscrossing iowa hoping to use earth caucus to propel them to the nomination. while tim pawlenty directed considerable attention to michele bachmann's rhetoric, her record, and even her health, the minnesota congresswoman is trying to stay on message. chief political correspondent carl cameron is in iowa with the story. >> reporter: returning to iowa lead-off caucus campaign trail, michele bachmann fac

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

sebelius where she starts. she starts with her father.i start with my three 6th graders, and as i listen to the list of everything happening, all these wonderful things that happened so far, this magical $250 check go out to the seniors before the election and this 50% discount now on name brand drugs, free annual wellness check, and all i could think of is who pays for it? that's my kids. that probably drives me here. it's interesting these three 6th graders started to read more. they read "animal farm," and it struck me in the mrs. sebelius's testimony about the ipab as a backstop or a fail safe, and i have no idea what that means. i think i know what it might mean. what i think it means is that it is a committee that is set up to do what the administration wants to do if congress will do it on their own, and all of her testimony i think was partially correct. we heard her talk about the process, about the ipab making recommendations on the growth rates, but the final decision goes to congress. what she didn't say was that ipab makes th

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 to embark upon we'd like talk about young people and health care because i think as a lot of people in this room just because you're young you don't care about your healt

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

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

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

secretary sebelius, nice to see you again. i want to talk about competition and the effect of competition, as it relates to health care. potential for competition to reduce cost depend on a fully informed, fully free negotiation on both sides? >> usually that is what a market strategy is. >> and with regard to medicare part d, i think virtually everyone had the same experience i did, that my constituents for a long time were extremely confused, and many are still confused about what their choices are under the prescription drug program. is that likely, assuming we were to enact the republican proposal, that this would be an enormous problem for america's seniors, to be in a position to intelligently repeat what the insurance companies approach to marketing is? >> what we have done in the past two years, and some of the medicare part b programs, and medicare advantage, is try to eliminate programs that have very little differential but just add more confusion to the marketplace, to do just that. yes, i think it is not un- compl

. >> 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

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

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

well, here's the question i would have asked secretary sebelius. gao makes reports about how to be able to save money in hhs. i am interested if ipab has the authority to be able to make recommendations that require supermajority from congress to change to giving to gao the capacity when they do a risk assessment on hhs and cost savings the authority to be able to make cost savings suggestions about that, and i'd like to empower the inspector general of each of these agencies to say when you find fraud or when someone rises up on the high-risk list, which multiple agencies are on the risk list for gao, i want to empower them the same way ipab empowers them, give them the power of law saying whatever recommendation you make about a reform, the department of energy, the epa, the department of treasury, whatever may be, let's empower the inspector generals in the gao when they make recommendations that they have the same authority as ipab. do you think that's a good idea? >> no. >> why? >> ultimately, i believe that the congress has the responsibility

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,

i'm on the budget can committee and today we had a hearing with secretary sebelius and when you talk about bending that curve, the republican plan and they toss it to the market for the shopping to be done by our senior community, there is no bending of the cost curve. they are saying sharpen the pencil to help our seniors. we have watched since the start of medicare, the private sector insurance costs have risen by over 5,000%. the track record on medicare, no administrative burden to speak of, no heavy one, no marketing budget, no wasteful expenditures, no high profit columns. we have seen back-to-back columns go out of sight for these industries. when we look at these and we say, you need to go back to the bank and borough and end medicare that is helping the insurance industry, that is like helping those who are looking for more business at the expense of containing costs and shedding a program that has worked for nearly half a century and that people have felt it should be there for their children and grandchildren. that is uniquely american. that is uniquely american and shows

. >> 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

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