alex from connecticut line one welcome to the program alex
vote
doing great
you here art
him a conservative and i was listening to talk about health care bear commodity
my question you is
why at the government the answer the
the solution to the people not having health care coverage
identifiable because people combined with my wife shelley
make around two hundred fifty thousand why in my responsible directly
responsible for the help of some other person
well first in the first instance the reason why the government has a meeting
with this is that
which you may or may not know is that when a government runs a health care
program bike medicare
it is somewhere between twenty and twenty two twenty five percent
more of fishing
three percent of every dollar spent in medicare
now goes to administrative costs the rest of it ninety seven ninety six
percent
actually goes towards providing health care
in the private insurance industry
it's closer to seventy five percent goes towards providing a health care
and twenty five percent goes towards administrative costs
that's the first most obvious answer
it can be done much more efficiently by government
the second ah... ah... answer i don't necessarily agree with the premise
uh... that you are directly responsible right now i get news for you
right now your directly responsible right now our government's our
government with our tax bill
not just what we spend per capita but our government spends more than anne
government in the western industrialized world
on health care
already
when somebody goes into an emergency room because they don't have health
insurance
you pay for it and i pay for
act up but w already contributed to the system
all
well i need
you're asking me why should you pay more in taxes why are you going to be parekh
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in my income why am i going to be packed directly are going to be an increase in
my taxes so somebody in texas two weeks twelve cheeseburger today can go get
health care
well i am mike directly responsible for that
well i don't know i mean uh... because we live in a
uh... in a society and that is part of the social contract and they look i was
against the uh... rack war why my directly responsible for killing iraqis
uh... when i was against this war from the beginning
you're not directly responsible here as i have heard tax dollars have gone in to
pay for weapons
that killed the iraqi
uh... civilians
can you answer that question today
your very view art director oracle
going over at the
your tax dollars or direct the responsibility rests mike in the exact
same way that is exactly what use is the fact that your tax dollars to go
providing your fellow citizens
with health care
despite the fact that you're already doing that
uh... also is that the fact that my tax dollars went to work towards killing
people
uh... but this is one of the things that as part of being a remember of a society
uh... what may be for the best of society or or our leadership the terms
that we don't necessarily all subscribe to it
i don't
thirty-year that your tax dollars what's your own national security
i'm telling you exactly what he has a religion or national security
when you pay for health care because it's bankrupting this country
we spend it more of our g_d_p_
uh... than any western civilization
on health care
we spent two point two trillion dollars a year half of that he spent by our
government and uh... the fact matters you paid for in one way or another but
we can make the system far more efficient and you just was that this
because you have a problem
with your tax dollars supporting your fellow citizens
but frankly look you know i don't know what you do for a living i don't know
what your wife does for a living but you're obviously doing well in this
country eureka year if you're in the two hundred fifty thousand dollar range you
represent the top uh... fifteen percent of this country answer you're obviously
getting extreme benefits are living in america and so you should pay your dues
one way or for character support for college
you know it's not a lot of time
worker and everybody knows a lot of people were crying amina this delusion
and i i appreciate the call alex but i gotta go i'm up against a break here
but the fact of the matter is the conservatives like to believe that they
have made it completely without the help of society this guy drives on roads that
were paid with tax dollars i don't know if he's a ah... stockbroker body uh...
benefit from the existence of the s_e_c_
uh... he's got kids obviously silly benefits
from the existence of the f_d_a_ will be should make sure is food is not poison
in these kids don't die
are presume he doesn't have with the diarrhea and that's because
the e_p_a_ make sure that he's not drinking water that is a
for bacteria
there is that the idea that they would pay any taxes they help someone else
no problem with the kills innocent civilians
but there is at the idea that somebody weeds cheeseburger this uh... would
somehow get health coverage
there is a despite the fact
that is far more efficient way of paying for did you already paying for