outside analysis. wall street journal said a healthy man, aged 40 non-smoker is going to have to pay more if he wants individual insurance. of course, that is a very small segment of the american population. is it fair to tell employers you have a year delay to get it together but individuals, january, should it be the latest law? new law, we talk about businesses, small businesses in particular have seen their policies and will continue to see insurance policies increase. that is number one. number two all insurance policies are going up. this is reform within the context of a for profit system. the insurance companies are walking off to the bank. the consumers are getting it. the problem is what we re going to do is going to say people that are sick and don t have insurance
the public and this is outside analysis. wall street journal said a healthy man, aged 40 non-smoker is going to have to pay more if he wants individual insurance. of course, that is a very small segment of the american population. is it fair to tell employers you have a year delay to get it together but individuals, january, should it be the latest law? new law, we talk about businesses, small businesses in particular have seen their policies and will continue to see insurance policies increase. that is number one. number two all insurance policies are going up. this is reform within the context of a for profit system. the insurance companies are walking off to the bank. the consumers are getting it. the problem is what we re going to do is going to say people that are sick
ready with a new trade agreement that will even be worse like nafta on steroids. we have to do something about the trade deficit which has created a threat of undermining the american economy because our trade deals, never have human rights, workers rights or environmental policy principles. is why corporations have gone abroad, taken millions of jobs out of america. i don t know why this isn t a debate in this election frankly. what about entitlements? how do you cut them? and do you do so? do you have to do so to ensure the survival of medicare? look. medicare part b that was where a big giveaway, billions of dollars to drug companies. you want to save medicare? have not for profit health care in america. the president s health care, the limitations i think of it are that it doesn t properly restrain insurance companies from continuing to raise their rates. the only way you do that is to have a not for profit system.
very difficult. you have to hold things together. you want to reward people doing good things. how do you reward them? how do you measure it? the benchmark, all of the things we talked about has to be different. i bring up the whole issue for profit. what is happening in philadelphia right now is ridiculous, moving to the charter system, and many soft charter systems are not that good, okay? some of this just about malfeasance, a public system being he eroded by this am for profit. and even in the profit system this is the one we just don t i need another three hours. i don t think we ll give me weekends with alex witt times. that s a place where we have disagreement about what constitutes excellence for students and for teachers, this idea of objective standard and testing being thrown around as a
that bank of america is, do they need institutions that are not in such pain? guest: look, what they ought to do is target the government. the government is the one who gives the bailouts to the banks, it is not the bank s fault but the government s fault. bank of america operates in a profit system because government is the one would protects their losses by giving bailouts and subsidies, so, if occupy really wants to get to the problem they ought to come here to washington, dc, and occupy the white house. neil: do you think, i thought it would happen in france last weekend, when sarkozy was shot down, he was relatively meager on us austerity and it was rejected by the french voter and that is the message of occupy wall streeters cool it on cutbacks and cool it taking away anything. give me more, if anything. so, are they speaking for more people than you think? what did you think? guest: well, look, the