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americans with a story about health care that involves anything as simple as lost test results, uncoordinated care, terrible service all the way to the type of harm my father and others suffer. what they have in common say system that doesn't serve us in the way anything else in life does yet arguably it's the most important industry there is. it serves medicare and medicaid. >> stephen: who do you want between me and my provider, a government panel, a death panel? >> no, what i would like to see is a greater role for patients as consumers. so what i'd like to see us recognize is that health care is no longer just about emergencies, getting hit by a bus but in fact integrated into our life in a lot of ways. >> stephen: it is. i have insurance. soon we'll have obama care. you know about that, right? >> i do. >> stephen: soon we'll have mandated insurance you have to buy into it. we'll be covered. what is is your beef? >> we're overinsured. >> stephen: over insured? what could you mean? i want to good in at a moment's notice for anything. >> absolutely and you should be able to. >> stephen: tha

in particular, unbalanced, uncoordinated and unsustainable development remains a prominent problem. >> reporter: observers say wen jiabao's biggest move was shifting the government's main priority away from economic growth and refocusing it on improving people's lives. wen said people face serious pollution in air, water and soil. and he said leaders should adopt effective measures to prevent and control environmental degradation. mpc members considered other business on day one of their congress. they went over china's annual budget, defense spending increased by more than 10% to about $120 billion. it's seen double-digit growth almost every year since 1989. but this was premier wen's day and he set the tone for the year ahead. now china's new leaders face the challenge of achieving the goals he laid out. xi jinping is widely expected to be confirmed as president next week. that would give him the top three posts in china. leader of the government, the military and the communist party. wen is likely to pass the job of premier to current vice premier li keqiang. our beijing correspond

currently the city effectively requires developers to go through what can be years of uncoordinated permit approvals in order to give the city a pedestrian safety upgrade. we should be making it easy for the developers to do this, but we make it hard. and once these permits are secured and the projects are built, the city requires the building owner to permanently indemnify the city for any liability relating to these public improvements that are public property and requires the developers to permanently maintain them. the combination of never ending process and unreasonable conditions after construction of these projects acts as a major deterrent for developers to actually build pedestrian safety upgrades and there are developers who don't want to even go through the process. this legislation will offer property owners a streamline process to make these improvements to gift them to the city with a maintenance fund and then to have the city take full responsibility for maintaining the public property going forward. fourth, the legislation includes an amendment to the fire code to ensure th

. -- with sealer packs, the super pacs, uncoordinated spending does not work very well. it is highly inefficient. this is how you will see the article consultants -- political consultants owning up to this. there was so much money going these arevision ads, public and super packs were buying ads in windsor, ontario because it would make it into the markets. saturated. it did not work well. coordinated spending can see thatfolks who cannot finance themselves can run campaigns. if you are an incumbent politician, you don't necessarily want situation in which both our teas are able to are able toies run far more competitive races. it is absolutely right. think about how much individual candidates have to spin. read about the quality of candidates you're missing out on when you only allow candidates that can raise a certain amount of money on their own. regulation that will give people who are the know how to work the system-- to give them more power would be a mistake. there is a room for finance reform. let's think about what we want to accomplish. >> i have a secret to te

with the sealer packs, uncoordinated spending does not work very well. it is highly inefficient. this is how you will see the article consultants -- political consultants owning up to this. these are public and super packs were buying ads in windsor ontario -- windsor, ontario because it would make it into the markets. folks who cannot finance campaigns.can run if you are an incumbent politician, you don't necessarily want situation in which both our teas are able to run far more competitive races. it is absolutely right. think about how much individual candidates have to spin. read about the quality of candidates you're missing out on when you only allow candidates that can raise a certain amount of money on their own. -- to give them more power would be a mistake. there is a room for finance reform. >> i have a secret to tell. i have never told anybody else. >> you can trust us. when summit came into see me to ask for for my boat or my position, in the back of my would think, that would be a good person to invite my next fundraiser. here is the point. it it defies the point --

the care is uncoordinated. the care beneficiaries balance between different care centers. we want to make sure that we are using the best of the medicare program eligible demonstrations, that control to states. rather, building a very powerful federal-state partnership stake the best of the programs i think really the goal should be to make sure that the beneficiaries have better care, more coordinated care, and reduce the duplication described during your first question. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. it is good to have the before the committee. i just want to start by what i think is important news, all you have been saying today. we have many challenges around health care costs. that has been our focus as we have looked at how to put in place health care reform that works for people, quality, the present cost and now we actually reduce cost and not just shifted around which is what the health care system has done. the emergency room, costs a lot more money. and how that we make sure what actually matches shifting costs. but you were saying right now that he wonde

because my father is uncoordinated to repair things. he teaches us how to build a shelf unit for the basement. forty-five years later, it is st hill thuse holding up the books. >> somehow they learned that life there is the survival of the fittest. and you have to shout really loud to get the point across. that is just part of the family dynamic which predates this. it is just the latest. >> well, as it was said by my grandfather is very loud, nobody ever has a better argument. you know, so yes. >> it's not just about anything. it is about politics in a. >> yelling about politics in our house, arguing about music and movies and food. pounding on the table, the slamming of doors, all of that. it is sort of like growing up next to an airport runway. where everyone has become accustomed to the noise. everyone shouted and argued about everything. >> probably the most famous argument i can remember was in 1966, we were living in chicago. about a block from the beach. it was a friday night. it was the middle of a big political race in october

many argue they are getting involved in a way that is uncoordinated and probably at the end of the day. fights between sunnis and shias and extremists versus secularists are brewing. with a little bit of u.s. leadership and talking a little bit and most americans wouldn't see this in "the daily news" other than the mass casualties see we now in syria is just by giving them some breathing space and then training and vetting opposition forces who are doing the fighting now. this is not the united states doing the fighting. it's just bringing those special capabilities and i argue if we know that they have put these chemical weapons into a position to be used, and they certainly have shown intent to use them and we have the capability to make sure that they don't use them, i would argue we have a moral obligation here. imagine a chemical exchange here in syria and what that would do, a, to a humanitarian crisis, i just don't think we should idly sit back. this isn't iraq. it's not afghanistan. this is much smaller, much more effective way to rally the arab league and make them more effect

the care is uncoordinated. the care beneficiary's balanced between different care settings and we want to make sure we're using the best of the medicare program, the best of the medicaid program so, in my view i do not believe the dual-eligible dem mop straights are ceding that control to state but is develop allege powerful federal state partnership to take the best programs, better benefits, more coordinated care for these beneficiaries. i think really the goal should be to macsure that the beneficiaries have better care, more coordinated care, and to reduce the duplication that you described during your first question. >> thank you, mr. blum, and thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you. senator stabenow. >> thank you very much, and welcome, mr. blum. it's good to have you before the committee. i want toment say what i think is important news, we all know we have many challenges around healthcare costs. that's been our focus as we look out how we put in place healthcare reform that works for people and also bri