. >> does that work simon lester. >> no it's not helpful or necessary.have standard unemployment benefits for people that lose their jobs so i don't think we need extra benefits for people that lose their jobs. people lose their jobs for all kinds of reasons. improvements in technology. we don't see the need for extra benefits. in a place like dalton georgia, the center of the american carpet industry, there's not a lot of other indust ris around there. are you to move or hang on somewhere else find a new job. does that transitional assistance at least help smooth the way to whatever it is you are going to end up doing next? >> right. yes, it could, in the same way that unemployment insurance would. i don't see the necessity of having it beyond what we do. i see the arguments, and it's a tactical position. i can accept it and see why people insist on it. yes, i believe in free trade and i can accept trade adjustment as a package that it is part of. i don't see the need for t axe a going beyond what we give people. >> is this an echo of n.a.f.t.a. the sit

. >> my name is simon lester. i'm here from the cato institute. thank you all for coming out today. thanks to those of you watching on the internet and as i understand it c-span2. we have what i think will be a very interesting and informative policy forum for you today on removing online barriers to medical care. this is sometimes referred to as at the le medicine or tele health. i expect to learn a lot from this forum myself. i was following the eu trade negotiations and i saw in one of the legal texted they released that germany had exclusively excluded tele medicine. this offenses me, it nowed me and i wrote a paper in response to that saying actually, in trade negotiations government should affirmatively try to liberalize cross border trade in medical services. but i realize if i were to hold a folz policy forum, it will be hard to fill my own office much less the forum and talk about telemet more generally and invite some experts on the issue. i think it's probably best to start with the basics and get into the nuances as we go along. for most people, medical care is something

. >>> anymy name is simon lester. thank you all for coming out today. thanks to those of you watching on the the internet and cspan 2. we have what i think will be an interesting and informative policy forum for you today on removing online barriers to medical care. sometimes referred to as tell medicine or telehet. i've written about a narrow aspect of the issue, about how international trade agreements address it. what happened was this. i was following the canada eu trade negotiations and i saw it in one of the legal texts they released, that germ n had excluded it from its commitment. they were saying we're not going to liberalize. this annoyed me, so i wrote a paper saying actually, in trade negotiation, governments should try to liberalize cross border trade in medical services, but i realized if i were to just hold a forum on that aspect of it it would be hard to fill my office, so i decided to broaden it a little bit and invite experts. i think we'll all benefit from their knowledge of the issue. this is a new topic for many people, so i think i

my name is simon lester. i'm a trade policy analyst at the herbert center for trade policy studies here at the cato institute. thank you all for coming out today. thanks to those watching on the internet and also i understand cspan 2. we have what i think will be a very interesting and informative policy forum for you today on removing online barriers to medical care. this is sometimes referred to as telemedicine or telehealth. i expect to learn a lot from this forum myself. i have only written about a narrow aspect, about how international trade agreements address it. basically what happened i was following the canada-eu trade negotiations and i saw in legal text germany had explicitly ex excluded telemedicine, we're not going to liberalize in this area. as a trader this offended me and i wrote a paper sort of in response saying actually in trade negotiations governments should affirmatively try to liberalize cross border trade in medical services. but i realize that if i were to hold a policy forum just on