Richard Epstein: No, You Won't Be Able to Keep Your Current Healthcare

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/09/17/Richard_Epstein_Breaking_Down_Healthcare_Reform

Law professor Richard Epstein criticizes healthcare reform proponents' claims that Americans who are already insured will be able to keep their current plans. This promise, he fears, is a "giant sham."

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Richard Epstein, professor of law at The University of Chicago, discusses the current proposal for healthcare reform.

He points out inconsistencies in what is been promised and what is in the bill, and makes suggestions for a more efficient health care system. - Columbia Law School

Richard A. Epstein, the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, is the Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Epstein is also, as of 2007, a visiting professor of law at NYU Law School.

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[libertyplayground]

"our lack of universal health care is a huge drain on the economy"

economically ignorant... healthcare isn't an abstraction. It has to come from somewhere. It has to be produced.

[TheNilesLeshProject]

Well despite looking like a dead ringer for Gilbert Godfrey, this guy nails the one tell tale sign that the health care bill is a scam

Namely that Obama is pushing a bill with out clearly defined boundries. Much like Hope and Change: believers get excited with hope and assume that the change will be the exact type that benifits them best individually.

However, without clear definition nobody in congress or the public knows which bill they are approving

The Ol' invisible ink Plan ? ? ?

[Rekopaa]

how does he speak without a single umm or uhh or like? its amazing.

[nabilhentabli]

@jhip87 (sorry, my whole response didn't fit in just one comment) Also, "competitive public option"? An oxymoron if I've ever heard one XD If public means "provided by the government", and competitive means "with many producers in the market", how the hell are you supposed to have a single provider, yet allow competition? What's the government going to do, compete with itself? Think about what you're saying before you post.

[nabilhentabli]

@jhip87 Wow. You just said it's fine and dandy to lie to the citizens of your country if it's "what's best for them". "Best", according to whom?? The absolute evil of that statement, and the fact that you had the audacity to state it explicitly, as if it's not big deal, is mindblowing.

[100CommonCents]

hahaha he looks drunk. but i have read works of his. i like him a lot...

[beth779100]

It takes a brillant man to point out a simple truth.

[MrApples6]

Huh? This guy has never in his professional life ever (1) been without a prominent university healthcare plan for himself and his family; or (2) actually had to manage/negotiate such a small business plan for his employees. He has no idea what he's talking about. Reality is, as a business owner, is that you pay through the nose, with little choice or competition. Period.

[rumco]

NHS runs enormous debts. Also, quality of the service provided is not of high standards, one has to wait quite a bit (understand months) for certain procedures. Not so long ago people were waiting outside dentists in a queue.

[hasatum]

Ah, so the ends justify the means do they? So much for the moral high ground. I suspect that if a conservative had made the same argument you just made, you'd be far less charitable than you are being to Obama. Honestly. How do you expect an object a politically neutral observer to take you seriously? How indeed is anyone on either side of the aisle supposed to treat an administration seriously that promises reform and then twists every campaign promise it ever made? Why should we trust a liar?