Interview with Ron Paul 7/19/2007 health care part1

[Z0mbeSlayer]

I just don't see how you couldn't support this man.

[hadenufnow]

hey rat 16 i neebs you to PAY for MY HELF CAYA NOW man...jes PAY for da HELF CAYA and forkey dover all da PAYCHECKS wid da money to da man dat picks yo pocket an makes you think you like it man...now smile when i tole you dat man...it all be worf it man,,,all be worf it...

[jnerat16]

just wondering, but im going to bet anyone posting againt his ideas have not taken basic economics classes? anyone? hah, ill quote winston churchill. "captitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings, socialism is the equal sharing of blessings". Please educate yourself without bias and realize we are all better off working on bettering the whole. Or please move to a nation that allows you that you produce notihing and take everything from the rest , how is that accepted? yeash

[hadenufnow]

Kill the 3000 pg Illegal HC "TAX & JAIL" Trojan Horse Mandate Bill devoid of any health care..

Kill the bill..

Vote em out..

Nobody wants it..

[KenMacMillan]

He's a Libertarian in Republican clothing :)

[MrObamaHATESwhites]

Yes but he's not a necon. He under stands the principles of a republic. The founding father framed a republic, not a democracy.

And to the republic for which it stands.

[nero8289]

Well do you belive in reality?

[snkpliskin23]

End the GoP Insurance Corporations Book of Death Version Of HealthCare

[SweetLou6000]

fuck this shit i cant take it anymore what will we do people?!!!!

[tsti95j]

i think this is a good film for health care

[callouschristian]

Last I checked doctors charge minimally for medicare patients but if they know insurance companies are paying, they charge at least twice as much more. Profit greed driving quality down, prices up, and turning the most industrialized nation into the nation with the highest infant mortality rate among other sad statistics...the only thing it does well is enrich a few people. Highjacked by greed - a rape of the free market and the American People collectively.

[theporksicle]

Why should someone have to pay for another man's healthcare? Its up to individuals to buy their own, those who can't will be covered by charities. Its not the government's job to involve itself in the medical business, its job is to protect citizens from aggression and foreign invasion.

[catndryer]

SICKO the movie was full of lies and exagerations.................b­ut Health Care IS broken. Here is how you improve Health Care.............make the Legislators in Washington buy their own insurance on the free market........not through any government group.................THEN....­THEY'LL DO THE THINGS IT TAKES TO MAKE IT FAIR FOR EVERYONE.

[aretlev]

@catndryer

I think they'd throw a massive hissy fit over that.

[pluto4847]

@catndryer

And I take it you have travelled to some of these other countries to see how their healthcare works. I'm an American and I was treated for free in England. I'm not a liar. If I was a liar, I should be dead.

But the British NHS saved my life so I suggest you shut your pie hole and stop the Fascist Republican lies.

[LokiMythos]

Kaiser! Holy Frack! why is Paul talking to these scumbags!  NOOOOOOO!

[callouschristian]

An interview with Ron Paul by Kaiser (well at least they're honest about the identities here). Calling medical care an "entitlement". This is crap. So is Ron Paul. People die of preventable disease, we bail out every company Ron Paul sits on the board of, money he's NOT entitled to. He's even worse than the parties and if you don't believe me research which state has the most uninsured children. He is a waste of air.

[wurmschen03]

Ron Paul is the best Superhero u can ralise.

[TheFreedomly]

Yes! He is useful in cartoons, child's magazines and animation. There, he is the best superhero... laughing...

[robshaps]

Learn how to write and maybe people will listen.

[TheFreedomly]

I 'm not a native speaker, so i am not forced to write and speaking the way you wait me to do. besides at this page from youtube is not an english class, neither i am at english class, otherwrise i would accept your advice in a good mood, so here it is a debate about Ron Paul. The important it is the comunication and comprehention among people and many people write incorrectly in the internet, i am not the only one. Give advice for other people too.

[zaboomafoo25]

whatch that video (France: 'Best' Health Care?)

[jacedarkside]

RON PAUL'S GOT IT ALL!!!!

[vanitycult]

I'm sure it's been mentioned before, but isn't it interesting that he's being interviewed by Kaiser?? hmmmmmmmm

[charlz108]

not really because the KFF have not been affiliated with Kaiser Permanente since the 80s. They are related only in name due to their founder, but they are two totally different organizations that are not financially tied. The KFF is actually a respected health policy thinktank and is not as some people may erroneously assume, a voice of the healthcare industry.

[HotStew]

I repeat, your health is not some cellphone.

There must be quality control and people must have some kind of security from medical bills.

Ron Paul tries to make health care profitable and forgets its purpose.

Every human should have access to medical facilities affordable with their pocket size. There is no space gamble around here. Act now or drown.

[BansheeXYZ]

We pay 20% in welfare tax now per employee for our entire life to finance high costs that can only exist in a system of forcible appropriation. A servicer will charge as much as he can to the public credit card for a procedure in our system, there's no competition, limited funds, or voluntary transaction holding him to a lower price. We now have 60 trillion in unfunded medicare promises. We are Madoff with a printing press and we will collapse from this ponzi scheme socialist model.

[HotStew]

Sure, free market just works on its own. That's why 90% of all desktops run Windows. Don't we have enough religions already? Ron Paul acts if the free market is his and doesn't deem it necessary to give us proper proof that it's truly a better alternative.

Socialist this, socialist that, anti-communist FUD really worked on you guys in the US.

[KennyEazle]

Yeah, 90% and DECREASING. Why? Because other great products. HOLY SHIT what is that? Competition on a free market! Dipshit

[HotStew]

No it's not. It's because Microsoft screwed up BIG time with Vista. I repeat 90% after such a blunder is a signal that free market doesn't JUST work. Because your school needs you to run MS Office, because the company you're working for runs Windows anyway and it's easy to sync, or because the calculating program for you business is only available for Windows. That's the level of dependability one single company could build up. Oh, you swore too? Sorry, your credibility just went down to zero.

[KennyEazle]

OK, I just looked it up. Windows has shrunk down to 88% from last year. Also, Macs are going up, even in a bad economy (you'd think they'd go down because they're so expensive). That proves that in a free market, if you have the talent and drive, you can succeed.

Also, your Windows example is one of the most extreme cases. What about something simple like landscaping companies? The people who do the best job at the best price are the ones who get the most accounts.

[BloodJunkie11]

ron paul gets his ideas from the constitution, which is why I think he is one of the best politicians out there.

[sayanythingkicksass]

i dont agree with paul on many things but on most things especially medicine hes spot on

[1Natecore]

what issues do you disagree w/ Dr. Paul?

[sayanythingkicksass]

foreign policy but like i said especially when it comes to the economy hes so spot on its scary

[MrToiletIAmTheShit]

His foreign policy and economic policies go hand in hand...if you disagree with one but agree with the other, you are contradicting yourself.

[sayanythingkicksass]

untrue i support free market principles but i also believe it IS the governments job to protect the constitution and our lives but theres nowhere in the constitution saying about how we should conduct foreign policy

isolationism worked with the founding fathers because this thing called the airplane wasnt invented yet

[MrToiletIAmTheShit]

So you're saying Dr. Paul is an isolationist? If so, that's clearly wrong. The world hates the States more than ever now because of all their meddling in world affairs. Trade, talk, and be diplomatic with all and avoid unnecessary conflict that makes you neo-isolationists because no one will like you. That's Ron Paul's take on foreign policy: end the empire and protect soveriegnty for the betterment of all Americans.

[sayanythingkicksass]

he himself called himself an isolationist because thats what the founding fathers where based on(which they where) but you said im contridictory which im not im just saying you can still belive in a small government with a capable military

[DreadLaw2]

No he doesn't! He has specifically used words stating he does not believe in isolationism, he believes, like your founding fathers in non-interventionism. If not attacking everyone is isolationism, then bring on isolationism!

[BansheeXYZ]

There's a difference between pacifism and isolationism. Only attacking when attacked makes sense. Not attacking when attacked or attacking without being attacked are both stupid.

[mohanaturo]

The World Health Organization's ranking of the world's healthcare systems revealed that France was no:1.

It's no wonder because 40% of the French people use Homeopathy.

The French are the highest consumers of Homeopathy in the world.

The U.S.'s flawed healthcare system which is predominantly Allopathy, ranked at no.35 way below 3rd world countries such as Colombia, Chile, Dominica, Costa Rica and Singapore.

[MrToiletIAmTheShit]

LOL Singapore is NOT a 3rd world country...it has one of the strongest, freest economies in the world.

[TimLoganKnows911623]

One payer system is the only way to go.

Private health insurance is a private tyranny that only exists in United States. It's a rather barbaric system that tells you you're health is only worth what you can afford.

People in United States should get behind, and support, HR 676. If you don't know what it is learn about it! GM & Ford are going bankrupt because of the rising cost of health care. If United States had single-payer system, the companies wouldn't have to worry about it.

[timbrewolf1]

I appreciate Ron Paul's philosophy. I do wonder, however, what the difference between "corporate" health care and "free market" HC would would be. n-e-1?

I also have this for Dr. Paul's consideration. The Constitution DOES place the government in charge of fostering the Arts and Sciences and acting for the good of the people. Seems to me that Dr Paul would cast out the baby with & the water in the interest of free markets. Media & medical control exclusively in private hands mite b a bad idea.

[therealsylvos]

"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;"

All that talks about are copyright laws, nothing more.

[coillockspiral]

I am from the UK, though I have lived in the US for about 10 years. The national healtcare system in the UK is not perferct, and we sure do complain about it, but it's a hell-of-a-lot better than that 3rd-world health system in the states. I like the states, but the country is behind the developed world in healthcare. It should be a right.

[1Natecore]

but what about people that smoke? Should they receive tax payer money for health care? Or how about people that eat too much, lay out in the sun too long, drive too fast and all the other risky behaviors that come w/ freedom?

[baihongso]

hey i just redid my profile :)

[freedomfighterone]

Cut back on military spending and NASA, and start producing more products in America, and there will be enough money for healthcare.

[gallowswood]

Should NASA be a free market space agency? What about the military...should that be free market? Healthcare? NO! Things that matter should never be left up to shareholder interests.

[itzahazylife]

so basically ur saying, things that matter should be left up to the federal government?...well, let me ask u something...how good a job has the federal government done with managing all of it's programs and bureaucracies?..when u give the government control over the marketplace, they completely ruin it, yet, the most important things should be left to them?...government isn't reason, or eloquence...it is force...it should manage as least as possible

[gallowswood]

So basically you are saying that you wouldn't mind companies like Enron, Lehman Brothers, and Worldcom running the US Navy, Army, Air Force and Marine Corps. Or maybe Washington Mutual, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. No thanks. The military is part of the federal government, and should remain so. And Healthcare is too important to put in the hands of profiteers.

[1Natecore]

have you ever read the US Constitution?

Do you know that the federal reserve bank is a private company?  Look at what that has done when private companies take over specific roles of the federal government.

It would be a problem if those private companies took over specific roles outlined as mandatory for the Federal Gov't in the Constitution.

[greenplanet2400]

The Federal Reserve is NOT a private company. It was established in 1913 through the Federal Reserve Act. It is a government entity with private components. The US president appoints the chairman.

[nordbergsongs]

It is owned and operated by 7 private banks throughout the world and it has no legal obligation to share its operations with any US (or other) government. Simply because the government signed something into existence does not mean that it is part of the government. That's horrible logic.

[MrToiletIAmTheShit]

Exactly right. Bernanke doesn't say crap to the House Banking Committee (of which Ron Paul is a member) when he's forced to sit in a meeting with them...why? Because he is above the US Government.

[MrToiletIAmTheShit]

The Federal reserve is used to cause as much debt to each country as possible, giving the elite bankers (ie. Rothschild's, Rockefeller's, etc.) as much power as possible. The Fed is the reason the States has this crisis, and it has all been constructed on purpose...why? It's just one more move to create one global government, which would be run by the bankers and would give them ultimate power.

[Seahorse1776]

Government controlled health care is not only totalitarian but an act of state aggression upon the sovereign citizen who alone has the right (using their own money) to choose what medical advice and treatment to get without state interference, oversight or funding. Socialized medicine just like any other state controlled entity brings about higher prices and lower quality, such as waiting 3-5 months for a MRI and up to a year to see a specialist. I should know, I live in miserable Canada!

[vengencefrom1979]

not being one who wants to pay the government 2 dollars to make a buck, and just throwing this out there, what is wrong with local hospitals handling local health care.

its a system practically in place already.

local hospital collects payments from local residents. local hospital provides local health care. if there was 50,000 residents paying into the local hospital just $50/month that equals what?

[PreservingLiberty]

I think many people make flawed assumption thinking that because he is for less government intervention than he is supporting the status quo. Remember everybody, the idea of freeing up the market is a reformation of the current government-controlled insurance corporations which give health insurance in America the veneer of a free-market industry.

[cmsgt8hewett]

he is the best presidential candidate

[JamiLinn]

KAISER IS A CORPORATE GIANT.

THEY ARE THE BIGGEST IN US.

THEY ARE MAKING BILLIONS.

NOT ONLY ARE THEY DUMPING PATIENTS THAT CAN'T PAY THEY HAVE THERE REHAB PLACES WHERE PEOPLE ARE OVERDOSED AND DENIED MEDICATION.

Ask any one that works in other hospitals

in southern California.

It would be on the QT or they lose their jobs.

My friend was one of their victims as a paying Kaiser patient paid by Boeing Company.

He was an Engineer at Boeing so this happens to high paying customers too.

[JamiLinn]

KAISER IS A CORPORATE GIANT.

THEY ARE THE BIGGEST IN US.

THEY ARE MAKING BILLIONS.

NOT ONLY ARE THEY DUMPING PATIENTS THAT CAN'T PAY THEY HAVE THERE REHAB PLACES WHERE PEOPLE ARE OVERDOSED AND DENIED MEDICATION.

Ask any one that works in other hospitals

in southern California.

It would be on the QT or they lose their jobs.

My friend was one of their victims as a paying Kaiser patient paid by Boeing Company.

He was an Engineer at Boeing so this happens to high paying customers too.

[kevinbell12345]

Good talk, good video. I learn a lot. Also there is a site called pubspa that has many useful information about the health care.

[soccom8341576]

I like your structured response.

[thrillrock86]

My comment beginning with "The American People" should be the last one read not the first, sorry about the mix up.

[thrillrock86]

The American People didn't have the right to vote for their senators during this time of our history, it wasn't until 1913 and the 17th Amendment that this part of the electorate was granted to the people. With all of this being said, it seems that Ron Paul has an extremely rosy, and over-simplistic nostalgia for the past while showing a tendency to over represent the wealth of the nation and under represent the methods in which the wealth was created.

[thrillrock86]

Ron Paul has been receiving a lot of attention lately, and why not he's well spoken and talks a lot about the constitution, the fed, the war and so on. He talks about the prosperity of early America before we had an income tax thus conceding that the income tax, regulation, and fiat money are responsible for the economic decline.

[thrillrock86]

Although I agree with the private fiat money part, I can't help notice the oversimplifications of his overall thesis. The greatest level of prosperity and economic equality was during the post New Deal period between the 1940s to the late 1970s.

[thrillrock86]

Many reforms and regulations of the New Deal were intact during this period esp. the legal recognition of labour unions. There were many inequalities at that time but it was generally a time of great opportunity for upward mobility, esp. when compared to early America. Lets take a close look at early American history. The first 130 years of American history was a time of great prosperity but was also a time of great inequality.

[thrillrock86]

It was a time of technological innovation but carried tremendous social cost. Many businesses thrived in a more laissez-faire economy primarily because the lack of regulation created an atmosphere of indentured servitude and the exploitation of working people who had very little rights. Consider the fact that only white male property owners were allowed to vote, no blacks, no natives, no women, not even white males who met the age criteria but didn't meet the property requirements.

[thrillrock86]

True they did have the right to peaceably assemble to redress their grievances but business interest were quick to squash dissent and strikes with goons, thugs, and sometimes the local and federal govt. offered support with the national guard and other troops to break up strikes. This was an era of slavery, indentured servitude, extermination and subjugation of native peoples, the theft of their lands, and the expropriation of it's natural resources with exploited under compensated labour.

[thrillrock86]

The electorate was systematically handed down to the broader society as a response to the longterm organized dissent on the ground, however it still failed to address many of the labour issues including child labour until many years later. Many sweat shop conditions that we consider deplorable were the norm in this country at least until the progressive era.

[huskiedenman]

what an idiot

[YorkieRick]

Thanks For That

[odetomy]

Health care should be a RIGHT, not some rich folks' privilege (because they were lucky enough to not have tragedies happen to them and can somehow save money). Life doesn't work that way. If this system goes through, we are all screwed, even the folks who think they have nothing to worry about. Tragedy and health knows no class.

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Dennis Kucinich 2008!! If you care about health care check out HR 676 Bill and see SICKO!

[buzziefunny]

Health care should be a right...and housing...and food...and a job...please, give us all everything we used to go out and get for ourselves...and while your at it, tell us how we should live in our houses, what food we should eat, where we should work and how...and what we can say, think, and do...please, it would be so much easier on everyone if we were all simply told what to do in exchange for our "rights"...

[odetomy]

Buzziefunny, that is the same kind of bull that Republicans have been feeding us all these years. I'm not talking about anything but health care. The government should be FOR the people BY the people. As unselfish as it seems, we do have to look out for each other with some things. If we did not, there would be no police, fire dept, library, or U.S. Post Office.

[roddack]

You have no RIGHT to take the products of my time energy and effort by the threat of force.

[odetomy]

One has to think of things like natural disasters and tragedies that are outside our bubble world, that would cause a person to lose his status in society. That could take him to the poor house and keep him from affording health care. If we had tax-paid universal health care, he wouldn't have to worry about that.

[roddack]

But you do not have the right to take my property from me by threat of force from the government.

I am sorry but health care is not a right. Its something that if you value then you will spend time energy and effort but if you value other things over it then you not pursue it.

[buzziefunny]

this falls right in line with Ron Paul's views...he advocates liberty and freedom, well, with liberty and freedom, comes personal responsibility...

i know plenty like me with only a HS education that have gone out, got great jobs, with great benefits, and are doing well in life...we did it because we saw what we wanted, and weren't afraid of putting out the effort it took to get it

[odetomy]

What happens when you come down with some major medical crises, and either you great insurance denies you, or you "health savings" account gets drained? Do you want the buzzards to eat you, to be drowned, live cremation..what? Because, guess what? You've now become a burden and can no longer take personal responsibility.

[odetomy]

I don't say this to be cruel. But you people really need to think about that. Who's going to take care of you when you can't take care of yourselves? That's why I want single-payer universal health care.

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Dennis Kucinich 2008!! If you care about health care check out HR 676 Bill and see SICKO!

[brittniebob2]

This is the only problem I have with Ron..

:(

[Seiku]

Educate yourself on Austrian Economics.

[DorothyDix]

The only solution I heard was "health savings accounts." What do you do if you don't make enough for a "savings account?" Who among the middle class can 'save' enough to take care of being hit by cancer? I did NOT hear a reasonable response to HOW he would fix the mess of health care. I just don't get what his idea is. He says 'do it wisely.' OK. What does that mean?

[prexis]

Well, you need to take the rest of his stances into account. His stance works as a whole... the constitution works as a whole.

At a very simple level and excluding philanthropic funding, first off the middle class essentially gets at least a 20-40% raise just be not being hit with income tax and other taxes he's looking to abolish.

saving even a portion of that could help subsidize costs.

[melioped]

Good explanation, thanks for posting this video so that my friends who visit my you tube can come here as well and see it and learn from Dr. Paul the wisdom. Thank you!

[organmaster1969]

Ron Paul hates everything that America stands for. The guy would be more disastrous than Jimmy Carter was. Ron Paul would rather talk and negotiate with terrorist organizations than support legislation protecting the civil rights act or something defending children and families against child predators. In addition...like all libertarians...he wants to legalize drugs. Ron Paul is a drug addict himself if you ask me.

[jdoser]

Dude you are smoking crack! Ron Paul does not do illegal drugs.  He fights for your right to be yourself. He actually reads whats the terrorists say rather than spin it.

Seriously do your homework man.

[SpartanSteve63]

And he doesnt want to legalize all drugs, he wants to limit the governments hand on the restriction of drug use for medical reasons. If you need to take marijuana for medical reasons, which is legal, you have to get the governments permission to do so. He is saying its not the governments damn business to tell us what we put in our bodies. If they (govt) care about our heath so much, then they should illegalize cigarettes.

[organmaster1969]

Reads what terrorists say? The guy doesn't even believe they're terrorists...remember...it's our fault we got attacked because we were bombing Iraq for ten years?

[oracleofmist]

He does call them terrorists and addresses the issue for why they exist. The occupation of their lands helps them justify acts to hurt us and/or get us out of their land. Their acts are that of terrorism, but their motivation is because of our occupation of their land

[skipperiffic]

Organmaster, Which is better, Beating a child for doing something wrong or sitting them down and explaining why what they did was wrong? Why are some drugs legal and others not? Is marijuana inherently worse than nicotine or alchohol?

[skipperiffic]

Organmaster, Is it better to hit a child who has broken the rules or to sit them down and talk it out? Why are some drugs ok and others not? Is marijuana inherently worse than nicotine or alchohol?

[bohemianowl]

I could afford the best health insurance if I didn't have to pay income taxes. You people clamoring for socialized medicine aren't looking at the BIG PICTURE.

The thing thats contradictory about liberals is they want big nanny-state to take care of them healthwise but leave them alone on other social issues.

BIG GOVERNMENT = MASSIVE CORRUPTION

You can't have both Liberty and Security. Choose one!

[bohemianowl]

Ron Paul wants to eliminate personal imcome tax. He wants to abolish the FED which has been scamming us out of trillions of dollars for the last 90 plus years.

Imagine how different our world would be without having to work for these slaveowners half our lives.

watch "Fiat Empire" or "America Freedom to Fascism"

[ErikLiberty]

Health care is not a right. No one has a right if it places a burden on others. Therefore there is no such thing as a right to own a slave. You have the right to print a book, but not to make everyone buy your book, for that puts a burden on them. Likewise, no one has a right to use the govt. to force others to pay for the burden of their health care. It is immoral to do so.

[odetomy]

ErikLiberty, that is the most selfish thing I've ever heard! A lot of things are funded by our taxes, that YOU as well as all of us are BURDENS on. Like fire department, police, schools, etc. A selfish, self-governed world doesn't work. Things happen to people that can't be helped. Turning our backs is not the answer.

[roddack]

So your solution is to force people to help at the point of a gun?

[dholt777]

you lost our vote we need National Healthcare-it is good enough for veterans and We are veterans in fact it was good in the military-get real

[Lualaba]

Other candidates spout off fantastic campaign promises. Paul tells ya straight up from what he's seen from the inside over several decades. The Doctor knows.

[hapet02]

Note the words on the back wall: Kaiser Family Foundation. For those that don't know Kaiser is a insurance company. The interviewer fails to ask questions pertaining to how Ron Paul's plan will cover the 48 million uninsured. For-profit insurers have been deceiving Americans since the early 1900s. Connect the dots and vote for Dennis Kucinich.

[GeorgeHowkins]

Great point!

[jvb98s]

That's because they recognize that Dr. Paul has no intention of covering the 48 million with no insurance. I am in the middle class and I have no insurance. Nor do I want medical insurance. Why should you be taxed to buy me insurance that I don't want?

[Jimraynor45]

Good answer jvb98s. Dennis kucinich plans to take away the profits of healthcare companies. Without profits, these health companies will have no incentive to innovate, lower costs or do much of anything? Remind of you the soviet union? Its a failed idea, and the health care systems in europe and canada cannot be sustained. There running out of money and it threathens to undermine their economies. Vote for Freedom.

[oldschoolmd]

ok i just watched the video over medical care so we young people are just shit of luck for medical care right i laughed when he said just save a little money to pay for it what world do u live in moron it costs almost 4 dollars for a gallon of milk where i live and avg paying jobs left here in my area pays 6 an hour i have to work almost an hour for a gallon of milk politicians are so out of touch with the real world its sad

[hapet02]

You stole my words. Check out Kucinich, you will be surprised he is not the "stereotypical" politician.

[danberkeley]

Check out Ron Paul, you will be surprised he is not the "stereotypical" politician.

[hapet02]

Our private sector is not stable enough for healthcare. The free-market is a great system for other products, however. But when our own healths are at stake a single-payer universal healthcare system is the answer. Just look at the statistics, countries with single-payer univeral healthcare often have the highest satisfaction with their own system.

[Jimraynor45]

Not stable enough? The dogs in the street are laughing at you. Other countries's health systems cannot be sustained. There is a strike of dentists in one of those countries. In canada, people are making illegal private hospitals just so some people can get their health.

[danberkeley]

well, in that case we should have a universal food program. lol the Gov has been providing healthcare for 40 years and they still cant provide coverage for everyone... what makes u think that dumping more money on the problem will make anything better?

[danberkeley]

"Our private sector is not stable enough for healthcare"

sure, but only because the gov has intervened for decades and has screwed things up...

[hapet02]

Healthcare is the single most important issue in the 2008 election. United States is the only Western industrialized nation with out universal healthcare. The private sector is not stable enough for healthcare. Our own health is at stake here. Kucinich is the only canidate who coauthored the HR 676 bill, a bill that was supposed to lead to a more healthier and prosperous America through single-payer, universal healthcare.

[joserivera409]

Ron Paul 2008!

[krugar67]

Has anyone noticed that no one can bring up dirt on Ron Paul ?

[hapet02]

It's out their. Anyone can bring up dirt on anyone; humans make mistakes.

[nateles]

I will be adding this video to the DVD available at ronpauldvd dot com, the next go around, or on the next DVD produced. Excellent!

[nateles]

Get your Ron Paul DVD, with 3 1/2 hours of media coverage (interviews and debates) at ronpauldvd dot com. ;-) Ron Paul is awesome!

[NortonYorksterdam]

Gravel/Paul either way America WINS!

[DenverDave2]

Ron Paul makes all the arguments for a single-payer approach, but not the conclusion. Paying for a single-payer approach through the tax system eliminates entitlements. We can talk theory all we want, but the Single-payer approach is the only alternative being presented to subsidizing the for profit health care industry dinosaur to cover everyone. If Ron Paul wants to keep Medicare - why not have it cover everyone?

[urlastkiss]

take the corperations out of it and make it more affordable. free isn't the answer, but perhaps substidized is. you don't want your country to go broke after all :)

[danberkeley]

what?

[IceBerg3588]

The ABC debate was rediculous. Paul has the most complete answer to the healthcare crisis (he is a doctor...), and yet Stephanapoulis didn't let him speak.

[SIERRAHPBT]

beware of pencil neck geek greeks who support hitlery!

[richrdroma]

Bring it, Paul!!! Hope everything goes well on ABC on sunday.

[vidmanx0]

I disagree with Ron Paul when he says that nobody is happy with the current system. The pharmaceutical companies are thrilled with the current state of the health care system.

[AtterseeSommer]

I don't give a damn about the pharmaceutical companies.

[wally28601]

would you leave those who come to depend on the heath care "the disabled" out in the cold in a few years?

[orenbus]

Great Job! This video has been added to the lineup at FreeMe (dot) TV

[null13373]

Michael Moore needs to listen to Dr. Paul

[callouschristian]

I'm sure he does and that's why Sicko was such a good movie. R Paul is simply pushing a broken system from which he profits. Since when is it ok for profit making organizations to change their prices depending on who's paying? That is not free market enterprise. That is lying cheating and stealing and Ron Paul thinks it's just fine when the medical industry does it and you pay. That is also the "free market" lie that put republicans in the hole.

[tonybonez]

Thats the problem, we have had government intervention in the health care system for years now, so the government tells drug companies and others, dont worry about pricing, we will pay no matter what.

If there was a free market for health care allowed to operate, then it would drive prices down very fast. Look at the fields for lazer eye surgery, they have shot down so fast because they operate in the private sector

[MIT2004]

Hey i have hear ron paul state that government didint get involved in health care until 1963. However i want to know where i can find that information. An article,newpapper, or a documentary? I am doing research but cant find it. HELP ANYONE

[Katfish1989]

Nothing is free, but it will become much more affordable if freed up from corporate and government control.