Pelosi: Massachusetts Results Do Not Reduce The Need For Health Care

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) says that the results of the Massachusetts election does not erase the necessity of affordable health care for Americans. (0:11)
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Cato Fellow: Massachusetts Health Care Reforms Forcing Coverage Changes

Michael Tanner, senior fellow of the Cato Institute, says people in Massachusetts who had health insurance and were happy with it are having to change their coverage because their current plan does not comply with the state's mandates. It is just one example of the lessons he believes the federal government should take from the results of Massachusetts' 2006 health care reforms. (0:23)
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Cato Fellow: Massachusetts Provides Universal Coverage But No Cost Containment

Michael Tanner, senior fellow of the Cato Institute says, “Massachusetts’ biggest mistake was that they made universal coverage the loadstone of their reforms. That the whole idea of whether or not this was to be a successful reform was did they get a piece of paper into everybody’s hands that said they had health insurance. They neglected the all important issue of cost containment.”
Tanner believes the federal government should consider problems like this before reforming the national health care system. (0:54)
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Pelosi: The U.S. Must Be First With A Clean Energy Act

by Christina Lovato, University of New Mexico-Talk Radio News Service

This afternoon Speaker Pelosi along with Congressmen Henry Waxman (D-CA), and Ed Markey (D-Mass.), released a draft of comprehensive energy legislation, known as the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009. Pelosi says that the U.S. must be first with the establishment of this legislation. (00:48)
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Foster: Barney Frank is not going to give up power to the French

by Christina Lovato, University of New Mexico-Talk Radio News Service


Today at a discussion titled, “The Implications of the G-20 Summit for the Political Sovereignty and Economic Freedom of the United States,” J.D. Foster, a senior fellow in the economics of fiscal policy at the Thomas Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies of the Heritage Foundation, spoke about the upcoming G-20 summit in April and how France's President, Nicolas Sarkozy is suggesting that Europe take the lead of the country and the United States follow. Foster said that Barney Frank (D-Mass.) would not allow that to happen. (01:09)
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Massachusetts Senator Marc Pacheco hopes for a new economy as the U.S. moves forward

Shelly Maxwell interviews Massachusetts Senator Marc Pacheco and talks about the U.S. economic situation and how it is a major crisis. Senator Pacheco talks about a need for better representation of the U.S. and why he feels America's image is a little tarnished. (29:05)
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