Close to the breaking point

The Senate Budget Chairman Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) talks about the United States’ flawed healthcare financing system. Conrad says that the system is not working for consumers, employers, or tax payers and therefore needs to be changed so that low cost, high quality care is rewarded. (0:50)
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Senator Kent Conrad, (D-ND) the Senate Budget Committee Chairman, asks about the war funding request during a hearing on the 2009 Defense budget

Senate Budget Committee Chairman, Kent Conrad, says he is disappointed with the estimate of $70 billion for supplemental war funding for 2009. (0:47)
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Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, Kent Conrad (D-ND) gives an opening statement at a hearing on the 2009 Department of Defense Budget

Senate Budget Committee chairman Kent Conrad speaks about early administration estimates of the cost of the war in Iraq during a hearing on the Department of Defense Budget hearing. (1:07)
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