Robert Reich: What An Honest President Would Say About Health Reform

Follow us at twitter.com/verumserum. Former Labor Secretary and Obama adviser Robert Reich speaking at UC Berkeley on Sept. 26, 2007.

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[Benschachar]

This whole video could be titled: The Truths the Media Refuses to Acknowledge About Universal Healthcare. I just wish the UHC debate could be more balanced so that the people could at least be better educated about the sacrifices they will be making for UHC but instead the MSM smears anyone who disagrees (like they did with Palin and death panels, even though its a basic economic fact that with unlimited demand and limited supply rationing will exist and some will die as a result.

[jimmmmie]

European-style death panels will replace the "right to life" spelled out in the Declaration of Independence.

Because we are no longer independent.

We are all children of Daddy Government.

[Wong Yu]

The USA has the highest per capita GDP in the world. It stands to reason that the USA spends more on health care because health care is kinda important. The USA also invents and furthers medical technology more than all other nations combined. If people like Reich got a hold on the medical system 60 years ago, we would be dieing from easily curable diseases, bacterial infections, treatable viruses like HIV/AIDS, and medical technology would be a joke. How would government be more efficient?

[Quasimoto44]

Sick midget! The Napoleon of the West.

[littleschue]

Well, praise be to Allah. Thanks to the SCOTUS, we're one step closer to Robert Reich's dream of turning Granny into Soylent Green.

[springhollow]

bomedley. do you think that the other countries do what Reich is saying? Is that how they lower their health care costs?

[bomedley7]

When taiwan put in their health system in 95 they used the us as a system not to copy

[bomedley7]

Ok lets be real we spend 17 percent of our gdp on healthcare and other countries spend 10 to 12 percent whos fooling who private health insurance companies in us are a inefficient joke wed save billions by a single payer system hundreds of thousands of americans died last year because of no coverage

[brendaduffey]

What about "old" healthy people?

[IKeepRight]

When the bill comes due, all the young people who were so excited about Obama transforming healthcare are going to realize they're the ones who have to pay for the bulk of it. By then it'll be too late. Notice how you don't hear any parents saying "yeah! I get to pay for my 25 year old son's healthcare!"

[jasonc32amg]

Let's go full Sparta...in which case this midget would have been smashed against the rocks at birth.