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Cost effective for them to put their people in the exchange and pay the fine. >> correct. >> rather than -- and then youre talking about -- >> well, that would be -- you mean people who would drop below the 50 level? >> no, no, no. companies that decide its more cost effective to not provide the insurance. >> yeah. >> to get those people back into the exchange and pay the fine so that -- >> right. >> so thereby they lose -- >> for companies with less than 50 employees who are not currently cover...

Pinochios. and think about this. if as was pointed out by senator johnson sick people sign up. and well people look you want and say thousands for deductibles that i will never reach. i will go and pay the penalty for the first few years and as a result of that, insurance companies will raise premiums and as they do that, fewer people will sign up in the out years and that is a spiral of death for the whole plan which is what president obama wants. he wants a single payer system like the uk and ...

Single pair system -- single payer system could make sense. >> a heavy lift. i would have preferred sicking payer or public option. >> obamacare is a step in the right direction but far from something that will work. >> people will work beyond insurance. >> absolutely, yes. >> im all for a singling payer system. >> i happen to be a proponent of single payer. >> we cannot get to university heck -- universal healthcare, which i believe is a core democratic value and imperative for our country. >> ...

Young people and healthy people end up paying more for something they dont need as often. as older people and sicker people. thats not one of them. thats, core to any insurance, national insurance system or nonnational insurance system we can conceive of. >> carl, it becomes very clear in your piece that you prefer, you would prefer a single payer system. certainly, as i would. many others would. your problem in this market, at $30 t you c $30,000, you cannot afford $1,800 in premiums. and then ...

Rob ford, it is the season moving on, colin powell is chimeing in on health care saying he supports a single payer system. powell made the remark at a breakfast of prostate health providers. he says, in part, quote, i dont see why we cant do what europe is doing, what canada is doing, what korea is doing, what all these other places are doing. i think universal health care is one of the things we should rally be focusing on and i hope that will happen. critics of a single payer system argue it w...

This is the wrong way to go about it. >> i have to ask, my friend, republican rich galen, weve been friends a long time. are you saying that perhaps we should have a single payer system? >> no. im on a single payer system because i have medicare. so for me, yeah. so far, so good. but, no, i dont think it has to be single payer but i think having a program that is so complicated that they dont have any idea how to administer it 3 1/2 years on tells us theres something wrong with it. im not saying...

I were pals and want a single payer system where the federal government provides health care for a fee, based upon income. this is what we want. that is why were doing obamacare thing. why doesnt he just be honest about whot goal is? >> what the president developed is not a single payer system. he wants that. >> this is for profit, bill, its not not. >> but they dont want it to be for profit. this is the first step. >> youre looking at the author of a bill that would provide for not for profit h...

A single payer universal health care plan. >> single payer health care plan. universal health care plan. thats what i would like to see. as all of you know, we may not get there immediately. >> the public option is not your enemy. it is your friend, i believe. let me say -- address an illegitimate concern being put forward by those who are claiming that a public option is somehow a trojan horse for a single payer system. >> so is obama care just a way to transition the country into a single paye...

A single payer universal health care plan. >> single payer health care plan. universal health care plan. thats what i would like to see. as all of you know, we may not get there immediately. >> the public option is not your enemy. it is your friend, i believe. let me say -- address an illegitimate concern being put forward by those who are claiming that a public option is somehow a trojan horse for a single payer system. >> so is obama care just a way to transition the country into a single paye...

Want to keep are going bankrupt. >> go ahead. >> its not about what i want to keep. its what people, individually want to do, called freedom. the government should have been start. >> we have selective memories. when bush was president tried to roll out medicaid part d, fraught with problems. democrats said work with him. >> what they should and should not have is toxic. >> its going to backfire. >> politically. >> 2007 president obama said it is a single payer system in 10 years. this is just t...