senator kyle doubts people died from lack of health insurance he doubts that
in the u_s_ people anybody is dying due to lack of health insurance let's take a
listen
to what he had to say in this was a david gregory it looks like david
gregory's actually understanding
what we in many other
critical
blogs in radio programs have been saying for some time which is
for the cost of the two wars that we've been fighting for years
the u_s_ could have had health care baat and paid for
absolutely and i think republicans aren't there basically living in a
fantasy world
if they can go on t_v_
and say americans are dining because of lack of health care take a listen to jon
kyl
edited it is it going to set a date to tackle the fact that there are more and
more americans who died because they don't have access to health insurance
i'm not sure that it's a fact that more and more people died because they don't
have health insurance
but because they don't have health insurance the care is not delivered in
the best and most efficient way republicans have a lot of good ideas and
all those amendments chris was talking about work technical amendments we have
very good ideas about how to tackle this problem one piece at a time and
basically regain the trust of the american people by taking one step at a
time rather than saying that we have to have a trillion dollar bill yes that
will hurt our deficit remember we just had the figures come out earlier this
week a one point four trillion-dollar deficit more than all of the last four
budget deficits combined ok is indeed a facts
nearly forty five thousand annual deaths or associate id
with a lack of health insurance according to a new study pump published
recently by the american journal of public health
that figure is about two and a half times higher
then estimate from the institute of medicine in two thousand two
i don't understand how senator john kyle
john mccain's colleague
and go on national television i mean i understand how you can do it i don't
know how you can do it
and
uh... and do it in any kind of relative good conscience go on national
television and say
it's not clear
that anybody is dying
because of a lack of health insurance
just don't get it and instead what he says
which almost sounds like the same thing to me is that people are dying instead
because
they're not properly taken care of in the health care's with the health care
system right because without having tried it
it's it's either obviously because they don't have insurance it's either a
complete
dissociation on his part meaning he's he's just he's he's completely lost it
here he has no idea what he's talking about
or its word games
or its amended games which we know is a favorite
among
many senators in congress before
the word games what is called something else and then it'll be something
different people are dying if you don't have health insurance you don't die
because you don't have health insurance but i think is a poor care you died
because you get that care because you don't have health insurance
okay yes of the state but scrap that study there off by forty five thousand
when they say forty five thousand annual deaths
they actually mean zero that was the truth
it would've been nice if david gregory followed up and ask jon kyl the backup
why he thinks americans are dying over health care
but at least yes the question
we can't we can fault them for that it's something at least
if even if not much and then we have arlen specter a new democrat
who's upset that the republicans on cooperating
let's take a listen to what he said former republican
arlen specter
the newly
transferred
democratic senator
on the republican side internal of apartheid obstructionism
you have a responsible republicans who have been in the senate like howard
baker and bob dole until forestry save republicans auto cooperate well they're
not cooperating
this something i've always kind of like those that they've
but i feel much much better about him now if his sewage
from republican to democrat
wasn't
maybe not a hundred percent but ninety-nine point nine percent motivated
politically
to win re-election in the senate and if you remember it didn't look good for our
arlen specter in the republican primary for twenty ten in in pennsylvania
so he switched to the democratic side to be able to skip
that republican primary
knowing that he has a lot of support from independence and from some
democrats him
if it i entries which had n_f_l_ at all like it wasn't
politically motivated
and it is true he's always been somewhat of a more moderate republican but but
he's backing it up now we've you know
connelly i mean how much of it is is uh...
this him dealing with the hospital
but i don't know if you just
but there are politicians i guess it's really i i guess that we shouldn't be
singling out arlen specter everything anybody does politically motivated in
washington d_c_ but
matter now now on health care
what is the public want well it's still very very clear
that the public wants the public option
fifty seven percent of americans in a new washington post poll support a
public option for health care reform
interestingly enough they care more about the public public plan than about
whether the finish legislation had bipartisan support
so all of the talk about this has to be a bipartisan bill
which others agree with
it would be great if it was
people done actually care about that nearly as much as they do about just
getting a public option
him and and what we said a couple of weeks ago there is more support
four
a
rather have with these wasted
it's easier to find people who believe in u_f_o_'s
that it is to find people who oppose a public option whether us fairly not when
they're asked
would you
the l ko with losing your private insurance
if the government puts in place of public option that's not a fair poll
i think anybody other than republican pollsters would say that is not a fair
paul republican pollsters would say
no it's fair because that would that would happen
but i think most
reasonable people can agree that's not a fair way to do a poll all fair pay if we
look at their polls
there's overwhelming support for public option
now if you watch the recent
speaking of public option and fox news specials if you watch the recent glenn
beck doctor special
you would think hey
almost every doctor
doesn't want to public option
there against the state against what they're calling obama care
doctors are against just about everything at brock obama wants to do if
you believed the glenn beck program
and we've talked about
what doctors where the vast majority of doctors are are in favor of well but not
about two years
no i mean here for a new in in the real world yes what does this glenn beck
doctor special he is they have this kind of stadium style seating he stands the
move big of a big room surrounded by doctors most wearing white lab coats
i can imagine they were really coming right from their offices especially
since many of them came from all over the country of course athletic put on
the lab coats
many doctors don't even use those white lab coat anymore and they're in their in
their practices one
i can remember the last time i went to a doctor that actually came and wearing a
white lab coat
nor cannot be outta endless you just had
a number of i'd procedures you've seen a lot of doctors are yes very you think
it's some point will actually we we have the same eye doctor i think he actually
does use the white lab coat
uh...
you know i can't really remember polly hannah
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