Robert Reich on Health Care Reform October '09

Robert Reich explains where the fight for health care reform stands and how we can help make it happen.

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• Health Care Reform
• Public Option

[Xenypoo]

You're the typical Liberal that accepts the word of politicians KNOWN to say and do anything for power, because it's easier and less likely to make yourself look thefool in public, than to take a short time to study and do the math. You outright reject facts in Socialist countries of the DEAD who otherwise shouldnt be because their personal bodies were controlled by the government. Didn't you ever wonder why the citizens of these countries are so POOR? Little $ they make GOV takes for UHC!

[strategicspace]

I consistently recommend Robert Reich's videos, because they are clear, current, and honest. When our President says he will provide a public option for less expense, I believe him. His commitment to keeping the public option from adding to the debt is solid. The principle of insurance companies losing customers if they don't offer a wider range of plans is a solid argument in favor of a public insurance option. Any reform short of a public option is just window dressing, courtesy insurers.

[kstaros]

Medicaid, which is a government run program, has something like a 3% administrative cost margin, whereas private insurers are somewhere in the ballpark of 25-30% - I can look up more exact numbers if you wish. There are private insurers with very low administrative costs - Kaiser Permanente, for example, which would be able to compete with the a government run public option. Other private insurers will offer smth that is perhaps more expensive, but better in quality and people can choose.

[TruDatMat]

Wait a minute. Did the government establish a public option for the telecom industry? No, it just made the private sector more competitive. The government has no idea how to compete in the free market. That's because it doesn't have to. It TAKES taxpayer dollars, FORCES its way into a market, and makes it HARDER for entrepreneurs (aka society's productive) to do business.

Look at public schooling. Don't you think the government has an advantage of private schools because of taxes?

[samkurz]

We need a public option or our country will not

be able to move out of the stone age. How can

we sit an watch people go without medical insurance.

It works great in Australia. I know because I have

family in Australia. They really don't understand why

some Americans would be against this. I think I know.

They don't care and only care about themselves.

[susanlarissa3228]

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[flowerpower6161]

I guess enhancement smoker thinks $50 Billion is nothing. Typical liberal thinking.

[Dewdaahman]

if shorty was a foot taller he would never have fit into the New World Order "migets rights" form.. he's a traitor..

[EnhancementSmoker]

wow...

the CBO says even if you eliminated 30% of all tort claims, rates would only go down 0.04%...

48/50 states already have tort caps...

tort reform is a good idea but its not everything...and statistically its really nothing...

you repubs can screech that shit all you want but to anyone that knows better...its simply bullshit...

[lebadraub]

death panels exist now - they're just run by the insurance companies and called 'preexisting conditions' and 'policy payment limits'.