Matthews: Where Do They Get This Stuff From?

Chris Matthews talks to Michelle Bernard and Rick Hertzberg about Sarah Palin's last ditch fear mongering on the campaign trail, socialized medicine, who the terrorists would like to win the election, the mistakes made by the McCain campaign and how the polls are looking.

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• Sarah
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• Medicine
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[bennygale]

Let us have socialized medicine now.

[OzStone]

I want socialized medicine.

[larry149]

Yeah but we also get healthcare every now and then in the uk. And I wouldn't trade it for a thing

[ugboy1]

Oh my, how evil socialized medicine is!!!! Interestingly ALL America's friends and allies have it: Canada, UK, Germany, the whole of western Europe and yet statistically they live longer than Americans. Stop this fear mongering if a public option is socialism then America is the only country advanced country in the world that is not socialist yet that doesn't translate in a higher income for Americans, better standard of living compared to the mentioned countries.

[ilayasaravanan]

i am sure every american would have some experience where your insurance comanpy will not cover a particular medicine. or will not pay for a certain medical situation. do you have any idea why that happens? that is because the hmos and drug companies can get away with doing that.

[ilayasaravanan]

where do you get your details from??the new administration has clearly laid out the ways by which healthcare will be paid for. it all depends on how efficient your system is. now how big your population is.

Further with the current system, the drug companies and hmos exploit the numerous loopholes that are therfe in the law, not to mention the inablilty of the common American to fight these million dollar companies because it turns out the judicial system in very expensive as well.

[ilayasaravanan]

your argument does not have a lot of substance to it. higher the population lower the possibility of universal healthcare working??

[NotSoOldHippy]

They get their hate in their Christian churches.

[rell127]

i liked how he said what would she know lol

[traceurjason]

So your point isn't that socialized medicine is bad. It's that YOUR government is just too incompetent.

[klugyboy]

And when have you ever had an experience with socialized health care.  And why would it lead to bad doctors. Most doctors here in Spain lead a somewhat double life...one foot in the public system and another in their own private practice with private insurance. Most public hospitals are large teaching centers and are fairly academic, not unlike university hospitals in the States. My family and I are 100% covered and also have private insurance, our choice. I sleep easy at night.

[drew8269]

socialized medicine would kill people....bad doctors with no alliance to the patient only to the gov......visit a a veterans hospital and you will see how great the gov. does when they run medicine