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let's get right into it there's just so much to cover
the health care summit some said
the health care summit led by president barack obama
was going to be
the catalyst that finally got his reasonable health reform
and move things forward others said
it would be political theater
barack obama said he didn't want it to be political theater
unfortunately i don't know how much was accomplished at this health care summit
let's start from the beginning
lamar alexander's main concern was that this not turn into a situation where
brocco obama just uses reconciliation and we'll talk about what that is and
what that would mean to get health care reform through
and my request is this is
is before we go further today
that out
the democratic congressional leaders in you mister president renounces idea
of going back to the congress jamming through a bipartisan
i mean all the parts
little use process we call reconciliation
uh... your version
of the video
you can say that this process has been used before and that would be right
but it's never been used for anything
like this snot appropriate
too used to write the rules for seventeen percent of the economy
so we hear the reason we we hear this being said
reconciliation has been used
but it's never been used for something is
as health care reform more on that later
there were a lot of members of congress and one of them in particular
buat so
started bringing up the suggestion of what about just having catastrophic care
catastrophic care is usually like an extra
backup insurance that
goes above and beyond what your normal insurance would cover if you have
something requiring over twenty fifty eighty thousand dollars in one instance
that it would cover aka catastrophe literally and this is one of the most
interesting exchanges that's been circulating from the event and brock
obama turns it around says
if you only made forty thousand a year
would you be ok with just having catastrophic care
paying for everything all of your normal visit to normal care take a listen
video
aleve among won't let me just
that there's one thing i've got i've for their number issues as usual for
i've got that significant difference with
as an interest of
would would you be satisfied upriver member of congress who said catastrophic
care you think would be better health care for christmas amazing is that a
change that we should make it
i think i think actually we would we really focus on it you have more
assisting in the game because and especially if they had a a savings
account once a week having to put their money and i would say we're spending the
money out of that would you feel the same way if you're making forty thousand
dollars
for you had
uh... that that was your income
because that's
the reality for a lot of folks amid
it is very important for us
when you say to lessen
to listen to that former the tom mentioned i will
for some of the folks who we get letters from
because the truth of the matter dot is there not premiums of any place
stolzman okay
it's a great point it's fantastic
that a congressman who makes
is that a hug maybe one or a hundred nearly five thousand dollars a year says
you know what what if we all just had
we pay for everything other than the big big deals
and we carry catastrophic care insurance which is relatively inexpensive maybe a
thousand bucks for the year
that's an option if you make enough to pay
for all of your prescriptions
and all of your doctor's visits throughout the year and then hey you're
insured in case there's a major medical catastrophe if you make forty thousand
dollars a year
meaning you take home
far less than that
you can't pay for all of those things
something brosser might be oblivious to how much of how much he sings actually
cost and what the average income is right i mean that the other thing is he
might even be basing it on
maybe if you made forty thousand here
and you have the co-pays he has
you could afford it
but that's not the reality the reality is if you're paying the full cost of
health care and you make forty thousand a year
just catastrophic care insurance is not enough for the average person
just imagine if there's not something something that's not quite big enough to
fall under catastrophic care but bigger than normal write better than you have
to work out the details of what catastrophic
into you know exactly and obviously the lower the threshold is the more you're
going to pay because the more likely it is that that insurance will kick in
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