Bill Gates: How state budgets are breaking US schools
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http://www.ted.com America's school systems are funded by the 50 states. In this fiery talk, Bill Gates says that state budgets are riddled with accounting tricks that disguise the true cost of health care and pensions and weighted with worsening deficits -- with the financing of education at the losing end. Follow us on Twitter at http://www.t... Read more
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- -: Bill Gates: How state budgets are breaking US schools
March 5, 2011 (about 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com America's school systems are funded by the 50 states. In this fiery talk, Bill Gates says that state budgets are riddled with accounting tricks that disguise the true cost of health care and pensions and weighted with worsening deficits -- with the financing of education at the...
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- -: 45 Years Ago Today...
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July 29, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/07/23/Howard_Deans_Prescription_for_Real_Healthcare_Reform Former Chairman of the DNC Howard Dean shares his support for a public option regarding health insurance. Dean contests that health care reform is intrinsically linked to economic recovery. "This is...
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- -: Using Tech to Fix Health Care - Douglas Holtz-Eaken
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- -: Medicare a Bad Precedent for Government Health Plans?
August 24, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/06/17/Health_Care_Reform_Long-Term_Fiscal_Impact Former Bush Administration official James Capretta lists some obstacles to successful government health care reform. He gives Medicare as an example of why costs have been driven so high. ----- What are the...
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- -: Can Cutting Off Wealthy Seniors Save Medicare? - J.D. Foster
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- -: End-of-Life Care: Weighing Ethics and Rationing Resources
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- -: How Will Healthcare Reform Affect Seniors? - Conchy Bretos
July 27, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Complete Premium video at: http://fora.tv/2010/06/22/Conchy_Bretos_Making_Assisted_Living_Easier Elder care expert Conchy Bretos predicts that, even though healthcare reform will drain money from Medicare, the quality of care seniors receive should improve. High quality patient care, Bretos argu...
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- -: Gov. Barbour: Forget Obamacare, Get Medicare Healthy
September 30, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/08/20/Uncommon_Knowledge_Politics_with_Haley_Barbour Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour crusades against Obama's treatment of entitlements, such as cutting $500 billion from Medicare and allocating it to universal healthcare. He describes his own successes ...
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- -: Jacoby: Entitlement Cuts Pose an Unrealistic Hardship to Elderly
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