“Debates are what make America great,” Johnny Carson said on The Tonight Show 28 years ago this month. “The candidates stand before their electorate and reporters ask hard-hitting questions, and it's up to the people to decide which one evaded them more skillfully.”
We'll have our first chance to do that in this election cycle tonight, as President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney will match up at the University of Denver for the first of three presidential debates this month. On Tuesday, lawmakers and health policy experts prepared for healthcare to feature prominently in that discussion.
In a call with reporters, Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) and former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm centered on women's health and equal pay for women. Granholm said she expects “zero details” from Romney about his plan for the future, even though American women and their families deserve more than “vague platitudes.”
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The usually apolitical artistic sequence featured in the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games turned some heads among Washington policy wonks, this year.
Julie Barnes, director of health policy at the Bipartisan Policy Center, described some surprise about the sequence that lavished praise on the British National Health Service, during her opening remarks this week at a Washington health policy gathering on “Our Health Care Future: What's Next After the Supreme Court Decision?”
“It was a little surprising; a little different,” the former acting director of the health policy program at the liberal New America Foundation said.
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