A group of Democrats in the CA assembly thinks nearly 400,000 UC and Cal State students should get public funds to help pay their living expenses. They say it would cost around $1.6 billion a year, but critics don't believe free tuition allows aid to go where it's most needed. Plus, the Congressional Budget Office releases its analysis of the proposed ACA replacement today; and more.
The week ahead in politics: CBO expected to score GOP health plan
What effect will the House Republican health insurance plan have on healthcare?
We should know a lot more sometime today. The Congressional Budget Office will release its analysis of the proposed ACA replacement. At issue, its effect on insurance premiums, extent of coverage, and quality of care. We'll look at the potential pros and cons of the Obamacare replacement.
Guests:
Lisa Garcia Bedolla, professor of education and political science at UC Berkeley
Pete Peterson, dean of the School of Public Policy and senior fellow at The Davenport Institute at Pepperdine University
Debating California Assemblymembers’ new ‘debt-free college’ proposal
College affordability has emerged as a major economic and social issue.
To that end, a group of California Assembly Democrats are proposing a general college aid plan that would cover tuition -- and also some living expenses -- for Cal State and UC students. It would also increase grants to community college students and cover the first year of tuition for full-time students, according to the Los Angeles Times.
The price tag, however, would be hefty. The program is estimated to cost the state $1.6 billion a year.
Guests:
Assemblyman Jose Medina (D-Riverside, Moreno Valley), chair of the Assembly Higher Education Committee who supports the proposal that will be announced today
Jessie Ryan, executive vice president of the Campaign for College Opportunity, a California-based non profit
Neal McCluskey, director of the Center for Educational Freedom at the Cato Institute
Legal experts debate constitutionality of federal government rescinding ‘sanctuary city’ funding
Nearly 300 law professors have signed a letter to President Trump, contending it's unconstitutional to cut federal funding to so-called sanctuary cities.
They argue that the part executive order on immigration that President Trump signed last week that will yank federal funding to jurisdictions who won’t rescind their sanctuary city policies violates the Tenth Amendment and is an overreach of the president’s powers.
Guests:
Pratheepan (Deep) Gulasekaram, professor of law at Santa Clara Law, where he specializes in constitutional and immigration law
Jim Copland, senior fellow and director of legal policy at the Manhattan Institute
Opting into a voluntary work wellness program could mean mandatory genetic testing under new bill
A bill introduced by the Committee on Education and the Workforce would impose new penalties on employees who opt-out of genetic testing under voluntary work wellness programs.
As reported by the New York Times, the bill was introduced by Rep. Virginia Foxx, (R-N.C.), chair of the Committee on Education and the Workforce. While Foxx argues mandatory genetic testing under these programs would help with company health care costs, opponents of the bill are criticizing the impact on patient privacy.
What do you think of the bill? Should genetic testing be mandatory under wellness programs?
*Note: We reached out to the Virginia Foxx, and the Committee on Education and the Workforce which introduced the bill, but did not hear back in time for our air.
Guests:
Reed Abelson, reporter for the New York Times covering health care; she wrote the recent article, “How Healthy Are You? G.O.P. Bill Would Help Employers Find Out”
Deborah Peel, MD, founder and president of Patient Privacy Rights, a group dedicated to ensuring that Americans control all access to their health records
With new anthology, noted historian A. Scott Berg wants Americans to remember sacrifice of World War I
To mark the 100th year of America’s entry into World War I, the Library of America is rolling out a volume containing stories and writings by American participants and observers of the conflict.
The writing of 88 men and women are collected in the book – soldiers, nurses, politicians, journalists – to provide a kaleidoscopic look at what happened from the outbreak of war in 1914, through the Armistice, and the Paris Peace Conference.
Noted historian A. Scott Berg, who edited the book, joins Larry to talk about these stories.
Guest:
A. Scott Berg, Pulitzer prize winning author of the biography Lindbergh (1998) and the National Book Award recipient for Max Perkins: Editor of Genius (1978); most recently, he is the editor of an anthology of American writing, World War I and America: Told By the Americans Who Lived It