have the floor. there it is. what he pointed out is why do we end up spending twice as much per capita as anywhere else in the country? this system is designed to make billions of thrashdollars of pr for the insurance companies. we pay to more the incredibly complex hundreds of plans we currently have with these guys if they got their way, would be even more plans and bureaucracy going to the insurance companies. medicare, the administration of medicare wants approximately 2%. so if we are serious about moving to a cost effective universal health care, yeah, we have to take on the insurance companies. they do not play a role in playing health care. our money should be going to doctors and nurses, and hp
that i call medicare for all. you know in order to do anything you need republican support. i want to play you what minority leader said today about working with republicans. if republicans abandon cuts to medicaid, abandon tax breaks for the wealthy, and agree to go through the regular order, the door to by partisan ship is open right now. republicans only need to walk through it. a lot of republicans are saying that doesn t sound like by partisan ship. that sounds like setting conditions in order to get something done. the last poll that i saw on the republican proposal had the support of 12% of the american people. the american people do not agree about throwing millions off of medicaid in order to give tax breaks to the wealthy. i think all the senator is saying is stop talking about tax breaks for the rich, stop talking about mass i cuts to
premiums are too, prescription drug prices are off the wall. so what we need to do is at least three things. number one i happen to believe we need a public option in every state in the country. if people don t get the private insurance coverage that they like or they need, we should have a public option available. number two i believe that we should lower medicare eligibility from 65 to 55. number three i think we should substantially lowerle cost of prescription drugs by allowing pharmacists and distributor to import lower cost drugs from canada and other countries. also to have medicare negotiate prices with the pharmaceutical industry. those are three ways that we can improve the affordable care act. longer term, and i m going to introduce legislation to do this, we have to join the rest of the industrialized world. and guarantee healthcare to all people as a right to a much more cost effective and simple system
the wall. we need to at least three things. number one, i happen to believe we need a public option in every state in this country. if people don t get the private insurance conch that they like or that they need, we should have a public option available. number two, i believe that we should lower medicare eligibility from 65 to 55 and number three, i think we should substantially lower the cost of prescription drugs by allowing pharmacists and distributors to import lower cost drugs from canada and other countries and also to have medicare negotiate prices with the pharmaceutical industry. those are three ways that we can improve the affordable care act. longer term and i m going to introduce legislation to do this, we have got to join the rest of the industrialized world and guarantee health care to all people as a right through a much more cost effective and simple system that i call medicare for all. you know in order to do
it s good, they shouldn t be punished for not wanting to get everybody an insurance plan? is this pitting employees against some employers of obamacare? i love john and highly respect charles. i think you are giving the government too much credit. i don t think they re smart off. that would be conniving and conspiratorial. they re not that smart. i think it s a complete understanding consequence. they screwed up from the get-go. as you all know, nancy pelosi said it. no one read if thing. no one knew this was going to happen. every day we get a new revelation how this thing will fall apart. all right. mark. weigh in here. how is it going to fall apart? you are are adding new enrollees to obamacare. let s remember, too, you are taurk u talking about target having 10%, even if they have signed up in the first place, most when you think about part-time, high school students, college students are in their parents health care the vast majority are getting it from their spouse or