the health care options
in the health-care proposals that are going through congress right now there
but basically three options
one is single-payer and that's what uh... liberals addresses will put forth
that has almost no traction because it's not like
liberals uh...
control the house of the senate
or the presidency i thought well brock obama was the most liberal senator in
the country what happened
single-payer is the more liberal option but it is almost nearly completely dead
effective forgot about it
after a lot of pressure from progressive groups
while it was nowhere in congress
visit democrat and a real progress of from california
all right let's have hearings on civil pair
let's introduce other as an option
now that is the government
basically
doing health care is a he was on the western european countries estate
doing canada
and are providing it for everybody
uh... now
there's that allow for some private companies as well i guess it depends on
how you structure for example in germany are there plenty of private insurance
companies
that also are involved in quite knows why she was a very lightly
uh... the second option
is
some sort out their proposal with the public option honestly what that is in
the same and the third option
is no public option at all for this simply
the system we have now
with a cover everybody
morgan extent
uh... coverage to the forty six million people that are uninsured
and we hope
through some of the efficiencies
that we're gonna push and that will be some efficiencies
that we lower-cost a little bit
and that we do some uh...
evidence-based testing of what works and doesn't work it out there to st
as president bob was mentioned
and that that also lowers cost a little bit
but if you ask me
it is that option
does not go nearly far enough to please this is a pretty much as it is
it will certainly add cost in covering more people
i get why you want to cover those people but it's not a lower cost very much
now that leaves us with the option in the middle
which is the public option
you might allot of people might be hearing about this now but not know
exactly what it is
all it is is
the government saying hey you know what
ninety a private insurance through your different h_m_o_s p_p_o_'s etcetera
were also to provide an option for you even by insurance through the government
that you have to pay for abortions you have to pay a premium like you wouldn't
private interests
better compete with private insurers
if it's not as good as private insurance
where somebody it won't work
birthdays part of the regular free market
s compete within that market
why do it then what are its advantage well s four
your futaba livan's
one of his
uh... it has no marketing costs you know how the different shirts companies have
to market use they all come here do by-product is better etcetera etcetera
the government doesn't have to do that the same delighted like you know like
you don't like what i had to any market was a lot of money that way
number two
uh... it doesn't have to make a profit so doesn't have to act ten twenty thirty
percent
on top of
what it cost them it's just simply
gives you what the medicines
roughly twice and others
some overhead forget a lot of this an online including this one of my top four
reasons why the public eye to make sense
uh... there's lower overhead through for example medicare which is run by the
government
as overhead on average of two percent
a regular private insurers
has about twelve percent over
so that's another layer of savings that you get on top
and of firmly it has to negotiation leverage this is the government and will
i'd be a very very large
project covering a lot of people right
uh... it will be able to have more
leverage with at the drug providers
for example
or the doctors a saturday get the best possible price for the people who signed
up for that kind of assurance
now finally
why is it your people before part of this
because that's just an option
if you don't like it you don't have to buy it
now why do i want this
this month i want to cover
about forty six million uh... americans that are on a church are among you who
are interested in covering this people
but honestly between you and me well more interested in
is getting lower health care costs
begins joan alts
sometimes quite literally
we need to be covered
and we need to be covered in it semi sensible way america spends much more on
health care that any other country the world
and as far as the quality of health care
thirty-seven
obviously we're doing something wrong
the way that we handle it
purely through private means
has not worked
i can't imagine det
the
free-market and private industry would have a problem of competition right
right
of course have a problem with competition because those guys they're
very comfortable milking the system
for all that money
they don't want any competition in fact
hits since they have no argument it is a public option
the only argument they're left with is what
the lead on the part of the senate which become upset over the weekend
in a program on fox news
when wallace has to pay
while you can sustain a public option he said
because the private insurance people
will not be able to compete with a government option
so you're in reading
that the public option would definitely be less-expensive more efficient and
delivered back
what does a lot a lot
as well but that's what so why do we can see it
because of course are golden party is not interested can ideology
as they show during the bush years
they're not interested in conservatives most
they're interested ends on my lebowski
i think that the money from a private insurance companies
the republican party has become just uh...
long auto
arm of lobbyists it is
it just uh... uh... away that lobbyists are actually in the government
so they want to protect the rich and the private insurance companies and
corporations
to the heart most now
i wish that were the case tight looking isn't there because he was in fact i've
got
articles of durable goods
were quoted in
to see what her argument was
came up you know what their argument made a little bit of sense or didn't
make sense i cannot them but they don't even have an argument their argument is
this option
is true book
that give the american actors but your health insurance costs
maybe not c_b_s_ the public option
the only people that country again said of the people that are in those health
care companies
and the people that they pay
the lobbyists
and republicans and some sectors dept so-called centrist democrats
of hinduism because you really have to watch for it is going really even a
republican votes
but you need it
democrats on this
supposedly in the middle
on this filling in this direction
anybody comes to you with a proposal you hear about a proposal that they say
although we've got some pretty good options but we're not going to the
public option
that is there not for you there for the corporations
don't believe the height anything any
now beginnings
can see there's a coke and i think it would give the public option is kind of
irrefutable
how about
we deal with a trigger so it's not normally included but at the private
insurance companies don't be certain markers
then they'll be
that will bring in the politics you know
what are you for your and others to make senselessly right off the bat
so it's a way of trying to kill the bill
and then there are a lot of people who are going to try to kill it
and they're not gonna put a flight out there and say hey you know what i get
paid until this bill
because i want you to pay more in hell pictures of course in organ the medical
affairs
with it in a sense that it is
visit ono we're concerned about government bureaucracy
and you know workers is concerned that the government's going to take over this
intended for you and your doctors effect already saying it
jane jim angle who's a reporter from fox news
talking with uh... it's just that
at anchor for fox news
we'll talk about all the edited it between you and your doctors in the
single-payer saw single-payer
your doctors are still quite in this very important in a sentence
the hospitals
our private doctors are private big drug companies are private
they also compete
okay it's a private
all it is is a public
insurance
so you know how you how you buy private insurance and then you go to doctors
etcetera etcetera
the republican sure is
that cost cheaper head is more efficient and that works better
you go to the same doctors
you know your doctor
they're not going to be seeing you in your doctor
content liberals are they were meeting between you and your doctor
has not been this trip
he says that you know the program is and that's not what it is and it's not
single perry
if you ask me
i'm actually not in favor of single-payer
i know i know a lot of liberals in progress is art
i like this option a whole lot better you don't want because we'll find out
maybe there's something we can't anticipate maybe there's a reason why
the public option isn't aware here i'll give you a possibility right uh...
they're gonna assistance the government
they're not gonna exclude more people
they're not going to exclude people with pre-existing conditions
now gently that's a great thank mighty deficits into the cost a little bit
they'd like
so it might get a look what we're there are some things about the stress is
better
or private insurance get act on top
then this is how they do it in germany
for example i have public insurance but
uh... you know to keep the cost and perhaps doesn't cover some things that
pops with your
can i get
supplemental private insurance to cover that
absolutely
so we get a system wait we have true competition true free-market true
capitalism
and we see what works best
i prefer that together okay the government loans at or leave it in the
hands of these
private industry which we know has not run effectively at all