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White House Forum on Healthcare Reform Comes to Town
Governor Schwarzenegger headed a White House event on healthcare reform today. Who got to speak? Who didn't? Did the Obama Administration learn anything? On our rebroadcast of today's To the Point, President Obama is in Turkey, building a bridge to the Muslim world -- including Iran.
By Warren Olney • • 1h 0m ListenOne of five White House regional forums on healthcare came to Los Angeles today, with Governor Schwarzenegger presiding. We talk with some of the participants and some who think they're "stakeholders" too but didn't get in. On our rebroadcast of today's To the Point, in Turkey, President Obama is reaching out to the Muslim world, including Iran. How important is that country as a US ally and a bridge to the rest of Islam? What is the “soft religious conversion” of young Muslims in the Middle East?
Banner image: (L-R) Herb K. Schultz, Senior Advisor to Governor Schwarzenegger; Kim Belshe, Secretary, California Health and Human Services; Steve Hill, Administrator, Health Care Authority, State of Washington; Dr. Robert Ross, CEO, The California Endowment
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In his first presidential visit to a Muslim country today, Barack Hussein Obama addressed a special session of the Turkish parliament. But his Muslim audience was much bigger than that. He told the parliament that the US “is not and will never be at war with Islam.”
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The Obama White House says it's in “a listening mode,” but as recently as yesterday, some invitees to today's Los Angeles forum on healthcare didn't know if they'd be asked to speak or allowed to ask questions. Was it an open window on the process of healthcare reform ? What are the prospects for single-payer?
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