sanders.senate.gov to get the information. jake, if you have heard disease, if you have diabetes, and you don t have any health insurance, there is a likelihood that you will die. and what they said is one of the studies said if you throw 23 million people off of health care, up to 28,000 people, nobody knows the exact number, 28,000 people a year will die from that decision. so what we re talking about is a disaster you bill, and second of all what i would say, jake, is there s something really weird that when you have the ama, the doctors, you have the hospital associations, you have the aarp, you have all of the health care organizations who know something about health care, opposed to this bill, leader mcconnell still refuses to hold hearings to hear from doctors and
and they listed a dozen different studies. people can go to my website, sanders.sena sanders.senate.gov and get that story. if you have cancer, have diabetes and you don t have insurance, there is a likelihood you will die. and one of the studies said if you throw 23 million people off of health insurance, which is what the house did bill up to no one knows exactly the number up to 28,000 people a year will die from that decision. so what we re talking about is a disastterous bill. and second of all i would say, jake, there s something really weird where you have ama, the doctors, and the hospital associations, all of the health care organizations who know something about health care opposed to this bill.
specifically for obamacare in arizona, your state? in arizona, you combat it a couple ways. you combat the fact that expansion of medicaid added 40,000 people, many of them children, to the roles of arizona. that s a net plus for providers, for hospital associations across the state. that s one. two, the fact that the premiums rose and that private insurance companies left the marketplace, i think that was one of the fixes that many of us felt were vital to obamacare, to provide anything from lowering the eligibility on medicare so that more people would be eligible to providing a public option that would make it competitive and keep costs low, modelled after medicare. those were the kinds of solutions that could have been fixed. but the fact that private insurance companies after consolidations and movements to unify, we lost many of them, but i really believe that obamacare,
so when we hear an estimated 200,000 computers crippled worldwide, more to come, what are we supposed to do? how can we protect ourselves first of all? heather, this boils down to the way that this malware works, the way this weapon works, it is a version of a digital nuclear weapon, speaking of north korea. it works because people click on links that then deliver the payload pair this does not insert itself, so we are going back to the traditional tactics phishing for me of to send you an email, have you click on the ing the ransomware come it delivers this nsa tool called internal blue that is now going through as a worm and mapping of the rest of the networks and this is why this spread like wildfire. heather: how or why were countries not prepared for this? i ve been doing a series of keynote speeches to hospital associations. in fact, i just got an email
in health care right now. that s about 1.5 million gain over the past few years. wow. so, it s just a reminder that this sector of the economy is about a fifth of the economy, it amounts to 15.6 million jobs. and we know that some of the hospital systems and especially the university hospitals have been adding facilities, adding jobs, all kinds of different jobs, many of them well paid, because they have this new bunch of customers, paying customers who have health insurance. it will be really fascinating to see how that affects the tweaks and not tweaks, the big, big scalpel they re taking to health care in washington. medical associations, hospital associations, insurance associations are all concerned at a maximum, but at a minimum, they re watching closely what s happening. the aarp has been against this reform effort from the very beginning, actually, saying what this amounts to is a tax, an age tax on seniors. and a lot of women s groups are upset, because if you re tal