 The supposedly fair and balanced news network Fox News decided to do a segment about Bernie Sanders and specifically talk about his Medicare for all plan and The name of the segment is the Looney left. I Mean have they just even given up the facade that they are fair and balanced in any way? Because if you have a segment called the Looney left, I think it's safe to say you are officially Just owning the fact that you are the Republican Party Propaganda wing But nonetheless the host of this segment Steve Hilton. He's British. So he's talking about this from the position of Authority you should you know believe what he's saying because he comes from a country with socialized medicine and he knows what he's talking about So you should take him seriously above all else The problem is he gets the most basic detail about his own health care system Completely wrong completely backwards and there's a lot of other stupidity that you will hear in this segment So let's watch it and then I have quite a bit to say this week presidential candidate Bernie Sanders announced a new Extreme version of his health policy. It would nationalize one eighth of the US economy What would be the biggest act of economic centralization in the history of the world Medicare for all is tonight's Looney left All right, so I just want to look I know something about this. I was at the UK I worked in the UK government the National Health Service Which is a mild version of what Bernie Sanders is proposing here. We tried to reform it It's to centralize it to bureaucratic. We failed that I just want to focus not on the idea and wouldn't it be not yes I'm all for universal coverage. I've said that many times. They're different ways of getting there through the marketplace This just think about the operational thing here, right? He published this bill. This is about Setting a budget. This is what they literally mean for every hospital in America every medical practice is gonna have a budget Set by the federal government They're gonna be paid on a quarterly basis by the federal government every single one. It's insanity I think we're past insanity at this point with some of the policies that are coming out of the left I mean who who cares you don't need your private health insurance What I'd like to know is, you know, you have medicare eligible candidates on the democrat side Are they on medicare? Because if it's so great, they probably should be steve But more importantly these elected officials have these catalac insurance policies that go on for a lifetime So instead of medicare for all why aren't they campaigning for my health care for all because they're getting supreme health care This is getting more and more crazy by the day. We're talking about putting 20 million seniors off of their advantage program We're talking about 181 million people losing their private health insurance killing over a half a million jobs And decreasing the amount of income into families. It's it's insane I believe at the core of this It is further in the competition of who can give out the most amount of stuff to win the democrat primary That's what this is really about who can promise the most amount of stuff to win votes It is so beyond realistic. It's almost not even worthy of even analyzing the policy similar to the green new deal But unfortunately it is deadly serious because it's now gaining traction in the u.s. Senate We're supposed to treat a complete national takeover It's something that 108 million people have private health care that have millions of jobs Of course not but what is serious is the democrat party has no principles. They just want power Well, it's whatever they need to do to defeat donald trump think about the most modest last fork here Well as a canadian someone was born raised canadian. I do not want universal health care in any way It's such a it's such a Spectacularly bad idea that it's past the california legislature three times and even governor jenny brown vetoed it saying there is no way we can afford it if you can't do it here good point Okay, well that was um, certainly something wow, so I don't even know where to begin. Let's just take it from the top The guy from the uk Literally said that what bernie sanders is proposing with medicare for all goes further Than the uk's national health system. He says quote the uk's national health service Is a mild version of what bernie sanders is proposing Do you know anything about your own health care system in the uk? Doctors and nurses are literally government employees. Is that what bernie sanders is proposing here? No, it is not but what medicare for all is Is a compromise between an entirely for-profit system and an entirely nationalized System where the government is the single payer and doctors are still independent We're not going to nationalize independent hospitals We're not going to do that We are going to be the single payer who will act on the behalf of every single american. That's what that is It's the compromise. So to say that the uk doesn't go as far as bernie's plan is So wrong the opposite is actually true now to be from the uk that doesn't give you any legitimacy because you can still say very crazy things But the point is that we want to make health care Free at the point of service and there are a number of ways to do that. There are health Systems like the uk there are single payer systems like canada and hopefully the united states And there are even private based systems that are heavily subsidized and covered like in france And that's an oversimplification But there are various ways to do this the point is we make health care free at the point of service But this dunce literally said that what bernie is proposing Goes further than a national health system. I mean, it's in the name national health system The difference is obvious between single payer and national health system Is bernie sanders proposing to Make doctors government employees No, he's not now. I'm assuming that steve hilton is just dumb and didn't know that But if you honestly want to present yourself as a serious person, you have to get Basic details right, especially if you're going to pitch yourself as the guy who knows about uk health laws so Wow Also, he says for every hospital in america. It's going to have a budget set by the federal government They're going to be paid on a quarterly basis. It's insanity Okay, first of all again bernie sanders is not Nationalizing hospitals like I genuinely don't think he realizes this. He's not nationalizing hospitals They can still be privately run But the difference is that instead of us individually Negotiating prices and paying bills the government is going to do that on our behalf and if they pay quarterly Why does that why does that matter? Currently if let's say you get hit with a $100,000 bill for a surgery You're not going to be able to pay that off. You're going to have to make monthly payments You may have to file bankruptcy So it may be years before they get that payment the hospital could be out of that money So how is our current system preferable? He knows nothing and he calls it insanity. How is that insane? You're insane because you don't know what you're talking about Now additionally katrina pierce says this is getting more crazy by the day We're talking about putting 20 million seniors off of their medicare advantage programs We're talking about 180 million people losing their private health insurance Again, these people they're they're talking about something that they clearly know nothing about Do you even know why medicare advantage exists? What medicare advantage does is it fills the gaps left open? By medicare currently so what bernie sanders wants to do is he wants to close those gaps improve medicare And then expand it so medicare advantage will no longer be necessary So if you don't need medicare advantage because those holes in our current medicare system are closed, then that's Good, that's a good thing Nobody just likes having medicare advantage because you know, they think that the operator who you talk to if you call Is lovely. It's a necessity. She also says that people are going to lose their private insurance Well, you're not losing anything if you're gaining more stability if you're gaining More care if you can see any doctor and go to any hospital and you're not restricted to Whoever is in your network. So these people are saying things really confidently Which makes them more believable, but they're completely wrong They're getting it exactly backwards and it's fucking looney to me Now charlie kerke says this is about who can promise the most amount of stuff to win votes No, it's actually about promising to use our tax dollars more wisely because it's not free If we're getting Back what we invested in the economy whenever I pay my tax dollars I'm expecting a return on that because our tax dollars Is an investment we're pooling resources to make society better But currently under the administration who you constantly suck off and shill for charlie All they're doing is using our money for more wars to give tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires So if you want to talk about freebies, don't pretend like that's something that is unique To democrats and bernie sanders Even if you're going to bind to this notion that what he's proposing Qualifies as freebies in the first place Republicans promise free stuff all the time. What do you think tax cuts are? What do you think increasing that military budget is it's freebies to defense contractors What do you think oil and gas industry subsidies are it's freebies? So you need to be clear about where you stand. You're not necessarily inherently against freebies You just don't want freebies going to the poor you want it to benefit the rich because as mlk says What the right wants is socialism for the rich and rugged individualism for the poor That's what you're about So we can't have freebies only the rich can have freebies and again That's if we buy into this idea that what we're getting is freebies because it's not free If my tax dollars funded that's not free if you go to the store and you buy an xbox for example It's not free because you use your money to pay for that So in the same line of thinking if we are still using our money our tax dollars to pay for health care It's not free. Is it we're just actually having our tax dollars be used more wisely Instead of blowing up brown people in the middle east of north africa But these are smear merchants. They're liars and this is fox news Now I love how they brought on the canadian to talk about how horrible canada's health care is And she didn't say specifically why it's bad. She just said well. I'm a canadian and it's bad Okay, well what specifically is bad about it because I know a canadian who Thinks canada's health care system is better than the united states david dole So he basically Cancels you out But if I had to guess if she were to go on to make an argument She'd say something something wait times and then I'd respond by saying well We have wait times here and then she'd respond by saying well, it's worse And then I'd respond by saying well, how many people die in canada because of wait times and she'd respond by saying kiles And before I continue to talk more about the token canadian I have to note here because I forgot about this So katrina pierce says that medicare for all would lead to 50 000 jobs being lost and then Charlie kerr comes in and he says it's gonna lead to millions of jobs being lost. Well, how much is it? certainly I think that it's important that we do a just transition so people in the insurance industry They don't lose their jobs, but if let's say hypothetically speaking, there's no just transition And people end up losing jobs, but we get medicare for all. Is it worth it? Fuck yeah, it's worth it because losing your job is not as bad as dying because you don't have health insurance These are two Very different things here. Both of them are bad, but one of them is exponentially worse So let's do what we can to make that transition a just transition And bernie sanders is sensitive to this fact as is pramila jaya paul who is proposing the house version But they're trying to fear monger because whatever they can possibly throw against medicare for all They just hope it stakes. They hope that some argument against it Resonates now back to the token canadian She alludes to the fact that this probably can't work because in california jerry brown wouldn't even sign it in his very deep loose day except it never got on jerry brown's desk And jerry brown probably wouldn't sign it because he's a corporate democrat And it was killed before it got to his desk by another corporate democrat but what we need to do is be very clear about the difference between state run single pair and National single pair even though states should be moving towards their own version of single pair Logistically speaking it is easier to do that at the federal level Because if a state like california acts as the single pair in a market where they're still private insurance If that means that they'd have to forego federal subsidies to become the single pair It is a lot more complicated now. That's still no excuse They should still be trying to do what they can to move towards single pair But is it more difficult at the state level? Yeah, it is because we live in an environment where california doesn't exist in a vacuum It exists among other states So it's easier and this is why it makes more sense To talk about single pair in the context of it being implemented At the federal level because that's just more logistically feasible because you have so many different dynamics at play here That it does make it more complicated for states to implement it now again I'm not saying that they should get a pass for not implementing it because you better be damn well trying To get your own version of single pair in the meanwhile But for the most part if we're going to talk single pair it just makes more sense logistically to do it nationally But again, these are all bad faith actors making bad faith arguments against medicare for all because they're on fox news They're rich and they don't care They don't care and going back to charlie kirk real quick one last thing I want to say he rails against freebies, but he's not returning the freebies the free money He's taking from right wing billionaires who are funding his shitty organization That's supposed to be appealing to millennials, but only reaches boomers on facebook. I mean These are all people who are failures who are only propped up and successful because of right wing money So as much as they love the free market They benefit from right wing socialism. It's their own kind of condensed version of socialism They just don't want socialism for you and I they want Rugged individualism for you and I and socialism for them. So that's all I'll say about this lots of wrong things said Steve hilton um as someone who's british He really shouldn't know at least the basics when it comes to their national health system He really should because it's embarrassing to think that medicare for all goes further than the britain NHS that's honestly stupid