tPF covering obamacare debate tonight at NYU

Tonight, on a cold, snowy, January night, David Fitzsimons of tPF will be attending a heated Obamacare debate at the NYU campus in New York City.  This is one in a series of "Intelligence Squared" US debates sponsored by the Rosenkranz Foundation.

As a backdrop, back in March, President Obama signed into law the Affordable Care Act, the biggest overhaul of our health care system in decades.  According to a recent Kaiser Family Foundation poll, 40% of the public would like Congress to expand or leave untouched the new health reform law, while 49% are in favor of repealing all or parts of it.  Can the new law reduce the deficit and expand coverage to millions of uninsured Americans, or, as its critics warn, will it actually increase the deficit and fail to control costs that are spiraling out of control?

tPF will be reporting on this healthcare slugfest in this blog quite soon.  Stay tuned for information on the debate and how we voted.

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