Health Care Behind Closed Doors! Congressman Van Hollen

[TheRealMikeSmith]

Rising health care costs are BECAUSE of government intervention. More intervention will just make things worse.

60 years ago, 90% of the hospitals were private. There was more access and you didn't need insurance to get your foot in the door. Insurance was only for extreme cases, like heart transplants.

Now the government controls 90% of the hospitals, prices are skyrocketing and you can't do anything without insurance.

[llandshark]

Throw that joke of a congressman out of office.

Your double talk is a joke!

Can't wait to see you working at McDonald s.

Peace

[DoniGuzzo]

Kind anyone kindly refer, or address the person whose pretty much in charge of C-SPAN??? Thanks a million.

[whoo689]

that would be brian lamb.

[DoniGuzzo]

@whoo689

Thinks, I'll look into it...

[afferch]

Behind closed doors,this is what they call transparency, B.S. we are screwed.

[ThunderDog97]

Health Reform for the good of pharma companies and insurance companies.

The losers are the citizens of America.

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[ic300x]

haha

Hope you americans dont let these guys dig your hole any deeper then it already is.

Ben Franklin:

"I have given you a republic,

that is, if you can keep it"

think the NWO will be

complete Dec 21st 2012?

your wrong, its already complete and theres nothing you can do to bring it down

[2007omi]

A real healthcare reform would be to cap the fees of doctors, pharmaceutical companies and insurance companies. Then the average American could afford healthcare.

[cowboy1165]

"Caps" do not work. have you learned nothing from the past. Roosevelt, Carter. Caps create shortages and unproductive research. We need unhindered competition, and failure must not be rewarded.

[2007omi]

There is still unhindered competition with caps. I have to compete with other companies in pricing in my business, so can the healthcare industry.

[justonefirefly1]

bullshit - I was awake the past 8 years when bush/cheney murders were in control and they were the biggest liars in the known history of the world.

[cowboy1165]

OK, then then this would be the second....Does it matter. Who looses in the end?

[justonefirefly1]

No one could ever screw america as badly as the republicans have in the past 20 years

[cowboy1165]

Then obviously you went back to sleep after the 2008 elections. Way to stay alert. News flash....It has and is about to get allot worse.

I don't know what else to tell you firefly, but take off those rose colored glasses.

[wdcsucks1]

YOU LIE!!!

[jcNOVA88]

Ron Paul for FREEDOM! Youtube Ron Paul and get with the r3VOLution!

[RyandocDO]

I support limited government and decreases in taxes.

[joshuag5732]

I support health care reform and the public option.

[cowboy1165]

Now tell us why...

[joshuag5732]

A public option will force the insurance companies to compete. It will give some real protection to consumers and keep the health insurance companies from gouging us.

[TheRealMikeSmith]

No, it will give the government option an unfair advantage because it will be subsidized. Like the post office- it's prices are low because it's a legalized, subsidized monopoly. When they don't make budget, they just steal more from the taxpayer. This leads to inefficiency and poor service. Why strive for improvement when you know you're the only choice and have a bottomless budget? If FedEx and UPS were allowed to compete fairly with the USPS, the USPS would go out of business in a month.

[joshuag5732]

How is it stealing if you are getting your mail delivered. Fed Ex and UPS do very well. The point is that we have an option. If you don't want to use to the post office to send packages, use UPS. If you don;t like UPS use FED Ex. The competition keeps the prices low. We can choose any of these services. But health care is not like the mail. If you don't get a letter on time its not the end of the world. If you don't get medication, you can die.

[TheRealMikeSmith]

How do you think the USPS can operate in the red decade after decade? Because when they don't meet the budget, they get money from the government, and where does the government get money...? UPS and Fedex would be even better and cheaper for us if they were allowed to use our mail boxes. But the government has made that a federal offense.

Health care is not exempt from rules of economics. Left to the free market it would become better and cheaper like computers, phones and all other tech.

[joshuag5732]

No it wouldn't. The companies would get so large that they would gouge people. Health care IS exempt from the rules of economics because it is something we need. Its not like you can just choose not to take your medicine because you can't afford it one week. We are physical beings and our bodies break down. Big pharma and the health insurance companies are taking advantage of that. IT's a life or death situation.

[TheRealMikeSmith]

So why isn't food more expensive? Everyone needs food to survive. By your logic, milk should cost $100 a gallon.

The fact is, 90% of the hospitals are controlled by the government. We are where we are now because of government. How will more government make things better?

[joshuag5732]

Because I can survive without milk. I don't even drink milk but if i did i have a huge selection of suppliers. But if i had cancer i couldn't survive without chemotherapy. The insurance companies and big pharma know this and they exploit it. They keep getting bigger and more powerful and our choices become less and less.

[TheRealMikeSmith]

Insurance companies have to charge more because the government has outlawed risk-pooling and competition over state lines. Again, government intervention is the problem.

Milk was just an example, you dolt. You can't live without food, and yet the giant food conglomerations are not holding you hostage with high prices.

[joshuag5732]

I went a whole winter without going to the store for food because my family jarred vegetables and we got three stags for meat. There are people who live like this all year round. If you get a deadly illness, you have to go to the doctor or else you die.

The insurance industry is not regulated as interstate commerce. It is governed by state insurance commissioners. i have no problem letting them operate over state lines if they are willing to be regulated as interstate entities.

[joshuag5732]

But they refuse to be.

[imbubba56]

So many words...so little content. After a while you mind just starts to wander. Bullshit artist.

[Orhuxley]

It's like when Madoff claimed the system was set up in such a way that corruption could not exist.

[MrMP81]

6:57

What a joke

People knew about the bailouts and stimulus, more people opposed doing them than being for them and the politicians still did it anyway.

[AfricanMadman]

Heh, like what they're doing now with the so~called "Health Care Reform" and so to be Cap & Trade....

[im1greatman]

I love watching people LIE to me. NOT!

[JohnRaytheon]

Roberts face always looks like he is desperately holding in a fart.

look

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