over again for our kids, never had the experience of having to say, oh, gee, i need that prescription, but i don t have the money for it so i won t buy it or have had to get all of our health care through hospital emergency rooms. the notion that it s somehow an outrage that the government which already and rightly provides health insurance, the rest of america that can t afford health insurance to get everybody covered, the notion that that s an awful and evil thing that threatens socialism, that s a terrible idea. cruz s spokesman says being on his wife s plan means it s no cost to taxpayers. but between the government subsidies for employer-sponsored insurance and goldman sachs getting $10 billion in t.a.r.p. money, aren t we still paying for cruz s insurance in a round-about way? anybody who has employer provided health insurance does benefit from a big tax break.
wages. and, three, they re jointly negotiated. they re not just provided by the employer. and, four, finally, unions have been carrying more than our share of the cost of health care because we have provided health care for all of our members, which has helped to fund health care for uninsured people who show up in hospital emergency rooms. is this the exercise of union clout within the administration? no, no. we don t like obamacare, we want significant changes. this is part of that pressure. make some changes. no, it s not. it s not part of the pressure. the president originally refused our appeal. this is just common sense, that the members of congress, particularly democratic members of congress have picked up, it s a totally different deal than a blue cross deal or an aetna deal. these are health and welfare
often what we think we know is not so. that s what i learned in my years of consumer reporting. i wrote that book about it. now, since then i ve got six crack researchers here on the stossel show so the myths keep coming. for example, a full moon makes people crazy. lots of americans believe that. people working in hospital emergency rooms say oh, yeah, we got more accidents, more action the night of a full moon. cops tell me when the moon is full, people are crazier. the truth, over the past 20 years dozens of studies have searched for a full moon effect but have found none. no effect on people s behaviors. the tides, yes, but people, no. so why do so many people believe the moon makes people craze? because our memory plays tricks on us. our brains look for patterns, and when we find them, we remember that. if something happens on the
but so has the reaction to these kinds of bills outside of republicanland and outside of guyville. the new texas antiabortion bill to radically reduce access to abortion and women s health care in texas of course lit up state politics and a good part of national politics, too. the texas bill brought thousands of people to the state capitol in austin to protest and rally and give testimony. people filling the state capitol rotunda inside. spilling on to the lawn outside. all while senator, state senator wendy davis stood for 11 hours to filibuster the antiabortion t.r.a.p. law that had been shoved through in the first special legislative session called by governor perry for that purpose. when the bill s supporters were thus forced to explain themselves, the bill s own sponsor ended up saying things like this on the record. you have hospital emergency rooms. we have funded what s called rape kits that will help the
national politics, too. the texas bill brought thousands of people to the state capitol in austin to protest and rally and give testimony. people filling the state capitol rotunda inside. spilling on to the lawn outside. all while senator, state senator wendy davis stood for 11 hours to filibuster the antiabortion t.r.a.p. law that had been shoved through in the first special legislative session called by governor perry for that purpose. when the bill s supporters were thus forced to explain themselves, the bill s own sponsor ended up saying things like this on the record. you have hospital emergency rooms. we have funded what s called rape kits that will help the woman, it s basically cleaning her out. and then hopefully that will alleviate that. that s not what a rape kit