Sen. Franken Delivers Major Speech on Health Care (Clips)

Sen. Franken delivered his second speech on the Senate floor. The topic was the urgent need for comprehensive health care reform. As the Senate prepares to bring a health care reform bill to the floor, Sen. Franken delivered his first speech on the issue to define his priorities as he participates in this debate.

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[Stealth42o]

Sorry Harv, we spent over 700 billion in one year on a bloated defense budget. However giving everyone in this country the right to see a doctor would cost a 7th of that a year.

Moral country my ass. Hypocrites, no wonder the world cannot stand America.

[jvry8c]

funny thing is that every time i have ever talked to a Canadian they really are not sure what the fuss is about and tend to like there system. In addition you can receive private insurance in Canada. I'm at a major loss why so many people are opposed to a public option.

[HayateAce]

Al Franken, pushing America to ruin, one bullshit social program at a time....

[rightsman123]

Yeah, MN is leading the way in Healthcare Reform. That's why the illegal immigrants have been taking advantage of our system at the tune of 185 million dollars. Thanks Frank, but keep your rhetoric.

[mstaff657]

Simpleton Franken

[sensodyneuser]

@mstaff657 cmon man youre not seeing the big picture. I see all these flamers to ideas that seem entirely just to me. I know the insurers have all the money in the world- what is their problem that they cant play fair and still have most of the money? By the way to my mind these guys have no obvious ideas that anyone could look at and say- yeah- thats why they earn 100,000 or 500,000 a year. Its one of the flaws of Capitalism that you can just be a lackey and earn that much

[mstaff657]

you may need the title Simpleton as well.

[sensodyneuser]

It is not a free country. Everything about living in America is either taxed or sold. If you buy into a health insurance plan (a socialist idea by the way) then you have a bit of your income taken from you (a tax) each paycheck. For them to arbitrarily turn around and say- no you cant have this, you cant have that- for arbitrary reasons- just because its your turn to need help- then they better be in dire financial trouble or else its unfair.

[mstaff657]

It is a free country

if a health insurance company does not want to insure those people they should not have to.

If I ran an oxygen supply store I sure as hell would not sell oxygen to Al Franken.

Simpleton Al Franken does not tell us how many insurers do not cover those patients , bet money there are lots of insurers that do cover them. The dink is a LIAR.

[russkie69]

Al Franken is a genius! God bless you!

[f1nK3L90]

increased consumer coverage in the medical industry will create an enormous amount of wealth. the healthcare industry is going to become so efficient because of infrastructural advances (like information sharing) that we'll have free health care in twenty years. even doctors will be unnecessary as the surgery industry is more automated; people will do all their own physicals at home with easy tests. this year, self-AIDS tests were handed out in waiting rooms with 99.5% accuracy (sciencenews-org)