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Flag on questioning joe bidens memory? >> look, i definitely was not saying that. >> reporter: the third democratic primary debate also highlighting a divide on health care. >> i know that the senator said shes for bernie, well ive for barack. i think the obamacare worked. >> reporter: as the moderate and progressive wings of the party battled it out on the best approach. >> i wrote the damn bill, if i may say so. and tend to eliminate all out-of-pocket expenses. all deductibles. all copayment. ...

Going all in on medicare for all. and theyre doing it amid signs that hes lost some ground in recent months. >> it is increasingly understood that our healthcare system today is dysfunctional. all right. all over the country people know it is a failed system. and yet people say well, maybe we could do this, maybe we could come up with a 500 page program and well cover you if your income is this or that and only this deductible and that copayment. question, why cannot we, the most powerful, wealt...

>> sandra: the longest economic recovery on record. the president isnt pleased with the actions of the federal reserve and thinks theyve stunted growth. you heard him yesterday leaving for virginia, lets see a large cut he suggested. its anticipated that it will be a quarter point. well see. >> bill: all right. okay. >> we can go down the road that senator sanders and senator warren want to take us, bad policies like medicare for all. or we can nominate someone with new ideas to create universal...

Another guy cant have his dental surgery at the end of the month because he doesnt know if hell have money for the co-payment because he has to save and pay some power bills. im going to be faced with similar things. i need to talk to my creditors and say hey, were furloughed. cant make all my payments if were getting zero paycheck. if this continues it wont be good for anybody. its not going well for a lot of peopl people. >> im glad youre able to shed some light on to the reality of this situa...

Year. the disaster has been fueled in part by medicaid, the federal program that provides medicalle care for poor and disabled americans. medicaid recipients typically pay a small co-payment for medical expenses and medicines. that includes opioid painkillers. according to a new report released exclusively to e this show by the homeland security, they can pay as little as $1 to receive 240 opioid painkillers. those pills can be resold on the street for $4,000. of course that creates a huge incen...

Been fueled in part by medicaid the federal program that provides medical care for poor and disabled americans. medicaid recipients typically pay a small co-payment for medical expenses and medicines and that includes opioid painkillers. according to a new report released exclusively to this show by the senate homeland security committee a medicaid recipient can pay as little as $1 to receive 240 opioid painkillers. those pills can be resold on the street for $4,000 and, of course, that creates ...

Single-payer program. >> its an idea pushed by the left. single-payer national health insurance where the government pays all the bills directly to doctors, hospitals, drug companies. >> if you look at the financing of a single-payer system, what you find is it saves money if its done right. >> the sales pitch: no insurance companies, no waste, no middleman. lawmakers in new york, new jersey, rhode island, and massachusetts are all trying to push through single-payer bills this year. last week t...

Of a single payer system, what youll find is it saves money if its done right. >> no insurance companies, no waste, no middleman. >> why every other country in the world pays 2/3 less. >> several states proposed them this year. one passed in the california senate that would make every resident legal or not eligible for coverage, no premium, no co-payment, no deductible. >> the lure of that simplicity. the idea of single payer of the government running everything will be there and i think a lot o...

Well continue to fight to preserve womens access to contraceptive coverage. charles when i talked to steve green, the president of hobby lobby they said they dont want to be in the examination room. thats the whole thing. democrats across the board many of them vowing action saying hey we dont like what the court did and weve seen the legislative body sometimes respond with a measure they think will overturn it. >> its a question of who is changing the status quo. when you have the expansion of ...

To remain part of the requirement for any health care plan? and not only is it required in the health care plan it is one f of the few things that every health care plan has to provide free, without a co-payment. if your child has an ear infection you have to do a co-payment. if you want to purchase antibiotics, but if you have a mammogram or contraception or sterilization or any of these or things that are anointed as being needed, i am always struck by this things we need, by settled science, ...