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Speaker 1: in weekend this morning, as the Bank of Japan kept

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Speaker 1: its lunchist in this program on changed to make a

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Speaker 1: got a boost. As a result, will Central Bank also

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Speaker 1: pushed back the projected timing for reaching it's two percent

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Speaker 1: inflation target for a six time or for more. We're

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Speaker 1: joined by Kathy mat Suey Goldman Sachs, Japan Vice President

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Speaker 1: and chief Equity stretches to here in London, we still

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Speaker 1: have Richard turning Blackbrock. Cathy, great to have you on

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Speaker 1: the program. What do you make of the challenges for

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Speaker 1: the b o j What is their number one question

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Speaker 1: that investors want answered, is it inflation or is it

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Speaker 1: just simply well Governor Croda stay on after his term

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Speaker 1: ends in two thousand and eighteen. Well, I think the

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Speaker 1: top of mind question for many investors that we speak

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Speaker 1: with is UH, what is the kind of the endgame

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Speaker 1: for this so called yield curve control, quantitative easing framework

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Speaker 1: and asset purchase program. Of course, you mentioned the other question,

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Speaker 1: which is will Coroda stay on as central bank governor

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Speaker 1: number one question is how much longer can the Banque

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Speaker 1: of Japan sustain the current program? For what it's worth,

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Speaker 1: our view is because they've set their inflation target quite

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Speaker 1: yield curve control as well as the asset purchases that

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Speaker 1: they are currently executing. Having said that, we are also

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Speaker 1: of the view that there are some signs of UH

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Speaker 1: little bit higher, while not the two percent that the

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Speaker 1: But yeah, by again delaying the time for hitting their

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Speaker 1: effectively acknowledging that they'll need to continue easing for many

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Speaker 1: we don't know exactly how long that will be. And

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Speaker 1: again a lot will ride on whether KROTA stays or

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Speaker 1: that as more for longer UH. And so I think

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Speaker 1: quite aggressive stimulus program at least for the foreseeable future. Kathy,

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Speaker 1: good morning. I want to bring up a chart here.

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Speaker 1: Mr Janet yelling on animal spirit. The animal spirit Kathy

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Speaker 1: is evaporated. Nominal g d P, which was really on

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Speaker 1: I mean, is there any demand by society Kathy in

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Speaker 1: have you applies. Let me start by asking you to

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Speaker 1: But obviously, if you're talking about raising interest rates, but

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Speaker 1: from now. We have this uh, you know, disruptive president

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Speaker 1: the Federal Reserve, you know, puts on a brave face.

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Speaker 1: Nothing's going to change whoever your points. He'll just get

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Speaker 1: you know, institutionalized into the fat way of doing things.

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Speaker 1: But the President Trump does an enormous power to appoint

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Speaker 1: people can roll off with us with Harvard University, Good

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Speaker 1: morning everyone, Green on the screen features up one, Features

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Speaker 1: up eleven is David mentions Mr Drog will have a

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Speaker 1: sporting morning, will of course have his important press conference

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Speaker 1: in Q and a always a raft of headlines out

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Speaker 1: with Mr Drog. I want to get one monetary question

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Speaker 1: in before we talk about and celebrate my book of

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Speaker 1: the year, the Curse of Cash from last year, and

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Speaker 1: I've felt Rogueff you spend a lot of Matthew moments

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Speaker 1: on this strange word. Expectations are expectations different today because

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Speaker 1: of technology, because of speed of news, speed of transfer,

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Speaker 1: maybe because of a smarter household, of smarter consumer. Our

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Speaker 1: expectations different now than Obsfeld Rogueff of another time and place. Well,

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Speaker 1: It's tolerance of other people, it's other kinds of people.

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Speaker 1: And this is really the the success story of this country.

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Speaker 1: You have to appeal to that and help people remember that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Laureate Schiller in New Haven, Connecticut, within reach of Joe's

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Speaker 1: Pizza and two other good parlors. David Girl four dred

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Speaker 1: thousand dollars. All right, all right, there's nothing. There's nothing

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Speaker 1: like that within three zip codes where we're very true,

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Speaker 1: Professor Sheller. You you write about inequality and inequality of income,

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Speaker 1: and then you write about inequality of housing. This one

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Speaker 1: eventually have effect of pushing the others out. So you

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Speaker 1: might have lived in a neighborhood all your life. You

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Speaker 1: have a sense of identity with this neighborhood and neighbors

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Speaker 1: inability to afford housing and that uh, that also is

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Speaker 1: an inability to to have opportunities. You're no longer where

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Speaker 1: other low income people and you're just too far away

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Speaker 1: to make contact. So that that worsens an equality because

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Speaker 1: it harms opportunity, It harms feebla's ability to develop themselves

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Speaker 1: into something better. Well, let's do this. We are fortunate.

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Speaker 1: We have Robert Schiller with us of Yale University and

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Speaker 1: he is a Nobel Lord, the Laureate of Newport Beach.

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Speaker 1: Bill Gross is just published for Janice Anderson and Bill

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Speaker 1: FED and not so much, you know, the parlor game,

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Speaker 1: A We're gonna raise rates in December. Yes, no, maybe, whatever,

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Speaker 1: But let's come back and talk to Bob Schiller about

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Speaker 1: what the new orthodox should be for our economics. This

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Speaker 1: ten years on in the financial crisis, and again Bill

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Speaker 1: Gross just publishing on on the linkage here of finance

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Speaker 1: from Yale the Laureate of Yale University UH Professor Schiller,

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Speaker 1: Professor Gross of Janice Henderson publishes on our orthodox economics?

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Speaker 1: Are we beyond the efficacy of the Taylor rule the

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Speaker 1: efficacy of the Phillips curve? Have we moved on to

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Speaker 1: a new economics? From what Madigliani taught you at M

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Speaker 1: This is a fundamental problem that even the causes, the

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Speaker 1: causes of the secular stagnation are still not I mean,

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Speaker 1: have a secular stagnation disease which is more effective in

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Speaker 1: That makes it makes it difficult for Druggy and others.

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Speaker 1: How political is the fund Reserve right now? Well, this

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Speaker 1: answer that. It's a time, it's a time when we

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Speaker 1: and uh, maybe the most polarized since eighteen sixty or

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Speaker 1: eighteen sixty five. Uh, And so you know, the the

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Speaker 1: but unfortunately it's it's a time just of tensions and

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Speaker 1: it puts anybody in a position like that. I I

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Speaker 1: sympathize with Janet Yellen Um. What she's doing is very sensible,

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Speaker 1: but I can see that it's open to criticism. Let

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Speaker 1: Ken Rogoff on the show a few minutes ago, and

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Speaker 1: we were asking him during a break just about academic

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Speaker 1: life in Cambridge these days, talking about what he's teaching,

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Speaker 1: how much he's teaching. You had a lecture that you

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Speaker 1: American Economic Association on the importance of of humanities, and

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Speaker 1: I know that's been exerted by the Booth School recently.

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Speaker 1: Give us a process of that. Give us your your

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Speaker 1: argument here that we should be investing more in stressing

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Speaker 1: the importance of humanities. Complimenting this out of economics. Well, economics,

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Speaker 1: you know, in any academic field there's specialization, and economics

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Speaker 1: has has proven itself to be valuable in its present form.

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Speaker 1: But I think that we've lost something as well when

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Speaker 1: a different view of human nature. You know. It's not

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Speaker 1: because I think that, you know, it's not as if

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Speaker 1: It's not what not the way most people think, uh,

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Speaker 1: Bob Schuler, thank you so much. A couple of years back, Tom,

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Speaker 1: I was in New Orleans on a reporting trip and

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Speaker 1: Medical Center, which is a beautiful new building several blocks

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Speaker 1: away from where that old hospital stands, and I got

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Speaker 1: a tour of the new space from the chief medical

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Speaker 1: officer there, a guy named Dr Peter to Blue, if

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Speaker 1: I remember the name correctly, and it really was an

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Speaker 1: amazing space decorated with Chihuli sculptures and a really radical

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Speaker 1: sense of how you can take care of a lot

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Speaker 1: of patients, particularly patients dealing with trauma. Emergency room that

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Speaker 1: is partially responsible for the creation the building of that

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Speaker 1: structure is the Mayor of the City of New Orleans,

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Speaker 1: Mitch Lander, who joins us now on our phone lines.

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Speaker 1: Mayor Landra has been vociferous wighing in a lot about

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Speaker 1: the healthcare debate here nationally, and I wonder, Mayor, if

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Speaker 1: I could start by asking you what we could learn

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Speaker 1: about healthcare from how it's played out here in recent

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Speaker 1: years in the city of New Orleans. Well, thank first

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Speaker 1: of all, thank you for recognizing that Hospitals of Beautiful.

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Speaker 1: The gentleman's name is Dr pet who's one of the

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Speaker 1: great heroes. He was on the ground after Katrina, saving

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Speaker 1: a lot of people, and he's a great guy that

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Speaker 1: runs the trauma center, the emergency medical unit. You know

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Speaker 1: what's interesting is this is this issue across the country

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Speaker 1: of affordable characters played out in Louisiana, you know, Katrina

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Speaker 1: hit And when we started rebuilding our healthcare delivery system,

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Speaker 1: one of the things we had learned from our failures

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Speaker 1: earlier on is that you can't provide preventative care and

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Speaker 1: acute care in emergency room hospitals of public hospitals that

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Speaker 1: have no money to eventually break the state and make

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Speaker 1: We and we created primary care clinics in the Metromolin

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Speaker 1: to health care before now have access to preventative care.

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Speaker 1: What used to happen was for working folks, they used

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Speaker 1: there to get the ear ache, and the kids taking

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Speaker 1: care of get triage with the gunshot. Victims stayed at

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Speaker 1: you kept the cost down, you spread the risk. And unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: what's happened in Washington and they seem to be stuck

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Speaker 1: on on making the same mistake, which is not coming

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Speaker 1: up with a bipartisan approach that is broad based at

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Speaker 1: the country supports. There is an answer to this very

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Speaker 1: difficult question. And so I think on behalf of the

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Speaker 1: U S Conference of Management, we're asking is for leading

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Speaker 1: McConnell to step back for a minute, to go ahead

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Speaker 1: and create a bipartisan working group, get some smart pyres,

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Speaker 1: ipartisan groups, some governors, and then let's see if we

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Speaker 1: can have this thing out. Get it right. Mats, you

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Speaker 1: kill it to your senator, the doctor, doctor Cassidy, and

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Speaker 1: in paragraph six of your latest missile to Mrs to Washington,

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Speaker 1: you go into the economics of the ninth Ward of

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Speaker 1: your Louisiana, your New Orleans. Rather, the ninth Ward is

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Speaker 1: the people that nobody's talking about in this debate. What

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Speaker 1: does it mean for the people in the trenches at

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Speaker 1: the Baptist Community Health Services Center of the ninth Ward

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Speaker 1: of New Orleans, Hannah Pounds, Edward Lynn, the nurse, Robert Jemison,

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Speaker 1: what do what do they need from the politicians in

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Speaker 1: the fancy suits. Well, first, first, that's a great question

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Speaker 1: First of all, I want to thank because he's really

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Speaker 1: been trying hard, unlike some other senators to find some

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Speaker 1: common ground. Hadn't been able to do it yet, but

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Speaker 1: at least he has an open mind. One of the

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Speaker 1: things at folks in Washington, miss is what their words

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Speaker 1: mean when they hit the ground in a specific spot

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Speaker 1: in an American city, in a real neighborhood, affecting a

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Speaker 1: real person. So what you basically talked about it was

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Speaker 1: a clinic in the lower ninth ward. And of course

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Speaker 1: we have a bunch of these where these individuals are

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Speaker 1: not going to be able to get the kind of

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Speaker 1: to cost them their job, it's going to cost them

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Speaker 1: to lose their home, or are they going to get sick,

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Speaker 1: And if they don't have the kind of care that

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Speaker 1: political fight for people on the ground. This is a

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Speaker 1: life of death decision about how they're going to have

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Speaker 1: said when he ran, I want better health care for

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Speaker 1: more Americans for lower costs. That's what he said the

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Speaker 1: goal was. And I don't think we're moving there right now,

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Speaker 1: we're stuck in this. Are the Republicans going to pretend

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Speaker 1: a bill? Are the Democrats gonna do it? What the

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Speaker 1: mayors are saying is, look, get rid of all that

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Speaker 1: that ideologically bent talk, and let's get down to tactics

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Speaker 1: of how we're going to make sure that America can

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Speaker 1: be strong by being healthy. And the process that's being

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Speaker 1: using Washington is not getting us there. So now Senator

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Speaker 1: McConnell is in a position of saying, well, let's try

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Speaker 1: to go ahead and go back to the original House bill,

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Speaker 1: which is gonna make sure that thirty two million Americans

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Speaker 1: lose healthcare. And if we don't do that, you know,

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Speaker 1: let's go back to some place that's even worse than that.

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Speaker 1: I think we've got to scrap it, start over again

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Speaker 1: and find the answers to the things in the Affordable

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Speaker 1: Care Act that are broken. And every Democrat in America

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Speaker 1: that serving knows that the issues with the Affordable Care Act,

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Speaker 1: notwithstanding the fact that we have used that particular law

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Speaker 1: group of mayors that you're heading up now to. Mayors

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Speaker 1: medical services. So you were talking about Peter W's Hospital,

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Speaker 1: All of our first responders are engaged in it. So

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Speaker 1: given them our view about what their words mean when

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Speaker 1: And so that's why it's important for us to be

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