Richard Epstein, Opening Remarks

[MrBuddickman]

Doesn't use a teleprompter. Lol. This guy s a genius!

[MrRebelHays]

YES this is exactly what i'm talking about GREAT opening 5 stars!!!! wow nice job

[leereyno]

This is what a real intellectual sounds like. Notice he doesn't use a teleprompter.

[MSimky]

This guy is all ideology and no facts. No matter what the question is, no matter what the facts show, his answer is always: less regulation! Ta Da!

Do a little research. Government run or government regulated healthcare systems around the world are more efficient, less expensive, and more effective than the healthcare system in the U.S. Look at Europe, Canada, Japan, Taiwan.

Markets have never worked for healthcare. Only ideologues disagree.

[myhipsi]

@MSimky

you're partly right, a fully government run health care system is more efficient than a mixed system (like the U.S.). However, a fully free market system would be exponentially more efficient than both, and more importantly, sustainable. Costs would come down dramatically and innovation would explode.

"Markets have never worked for healthcare" - You'll be proven wrong when wasteful, inefficient public systems around the world collapse in the next decade or two. Mark my words.

[EasyEs]

@MSimky Poor look at the numbers. First of all they are not the same systems. These systems don't create of develope health care they just ration it. Second health care is a blanket term of little use. If you are looking at individual services that are the same the market delivered services are by in far cheaper and easier to acess. Americans spend far more on cars and homes as well. You are looking at data with out understanding where it comes from.

[MrApples6]

Ron Paul with a law professorship. I've lived through and paid for junk bond/m&a scandals, S&L deregulation and collapse, Enron, and AIG/Lehman/citibank bailouts - and that's just my life. Deregulation leads to two things: monopoly power and speculation. Combined, it leads to too big too fail, which means I have to get out my checkbook every 8 or 9 years to cover the tab. What fool, 3 or 4 times burned, would listen to such obvious tried and failed notion.

[Offatwork]

@MrApples6

The problem is that this thought process entirely backwards. By and large, monopoly power does not correlate with deregulation. What DOES correlate with deregulation is higher risk. And, in the same light, greater levels of monopoly power correlate with lower risk. So the notion that a government can tackle monopoly power and risk is an, all-together, a contradictory statement. A mere political talking point used to "rally the troops."

[runawaymotor]

@Offatwork Never thought of it that way.

[Americaisgreat123]

I've seen this PBS program a number of times and this is one of the few times where I have most certainly been pleased with the choices for who argues for the right. Epstein is a fine legal scholar who can hold his water against any challenge and Armey is a good economist that served us well in the Congress.

[Questfortruth86]

This man is brilliant.

[PatMarine]

I adore Epstein.

[tim84k10]

Who said anything about governing "humanity"? Perhaps that's the problem in the first place. Government has no reason to govern "humanity."

[snowtrot]

He is quite simply a genius.

[Rms869]

Richard Epstein is so unbelievably brilliant.

[dalecampbl5]

richard epstein sounds like George W. Bush and we all know how George W. Bush turned out

[snowtrot]

Epstein is a libertarian with a genius iq. Far from Bush. Are you saying that Bush is (or at least acted anything like) a genius or a libertarian during his tenure?

[dalecampbl5]

true he might have a high IQ, but high IQ is not a guarantee of being able to govern humanity...leaders also need high EQ...besdies he's been bought out by the insurance of whatever this video, i forget, i haven't watched in like a month.

[tabber87]

LOL!

He's nothing like George W. Bush, whether it's the eloquence of his diction or the clarity of his thought...