This is a Cato Special Podcast. I'm Caleb Brown. The Cato Institute held a conference on health care reform June 17, 2009 that will be archived on the Cato website. Currently a vast array of resources

are available at health care dot Cato.org.

Opening the conference and framing the debate over health care

Cato founder and president head crane

first i wanted to announce that

uh... there is a new website health care dot kato.org dedicated to health care reform

from the Cato Institute's perspective and I urge you to look at that.

Also, we have a really interesting conference today and it covers a wide spectrum of issues dealing under the rubric of

health care reform so it should be an interesting day.

Not only is it a wide spectrum of elements of health care reform,

but it's also a wide spectrum of philosophical approaches to it.

We have real great diversity of views.

In fact, we had a small dinner last night

with some of the speakers and had some very stimulating debates and discussions and all very

civil I thought. So I'm looking forward to that today. Our disappointment is that the

administration was invited to send representatives to this conference

and they declined to do so.

It's interesting to note that when the White House hosted their summit on health care reform, they said they were going to bring people from across the political spectrum.

In fact, President Obama even said during his opening comments,

in this effort, every voice has to be heard every

idea must be considered and yet there were no free market approaches to health care

reform at that seminar. This one as I say is different and we do have a wide spectrum of views in the in terms of the speakers. We do not have a

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