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Been fueled in part by medicaid the federal program that provides medical care for poor and disabled americans. medicaid recipients typically pay a small co-payment for medical expenses and medicines and that includes opioid painkillers. according to a new report released exclusively to this show by the senate homeland security committee a medicaid recipient can pay as little as $1 to receive 240 opioid painkillers. those pills can be resold on the street for $4,000 and, of course, that creates a huge incentive for black market sales which, unfortunately, are common thousand people charged wit...

Single-payer program. >> it's an idea pushed by the left. single-payer national health insurance where the government pays all the bills directly to doctors, hospitals, drug companies. >> if you look at the financing of a single-payer system, what you find is it saves money if it's done right. >> the sales pitch: no insurance companies, no waste, no middleman. lawmakers in new york, new jersey, rhode island, and massachusetts are all trying to push through single-payer bills this year. last week the california senate passed single-payer legislation that would make every resident legal or not e...

Of a single payer system, what you'll find is it saves money if it's done right. >> no insurance companies, no waste, no middleman. >> why every other country in the world pays 2/3 less. >> several states proposed them this year. one passed in the california senate that would make every resident legal or not eligible for coverage, no premium, no co-payment, no deductible. >> the lure of that simplicity. the idea of single payer of the government running everything will be there and i think a lot of conservatives are worried if the republicans fail to replace obamacare with a system that's bett...

We'll continue to fight to preserve women's access to contraceptive coverage. charles when i talked to steve green, the president of hobby lobby they said they don't want to be in the examination room. that's the whole thing. democrats across the board many of them vowing action saying hey we don't like what the court did and we've seen the legislative body sometimes respond with a measure they think will overturn it. >> it's a question of who is changing the status quo. when you have the expansion of the entitlement state that the government delivers how health care delivers who gets what kin...

To remain part of the requirement for any health care plan? and not only is it required in the health care plan it is one f of the few things that every health care plan has to provide free, without a co-payment. if your child has an ear infection you have to do a co-payment. if you want to purchase antibiotics, but if you have a mammogram or contraception or sterilization or any of these or things that are anointed as being needed, i am always struck by this things we need, by settled science, and science is not that easily settled. >> it is one of these things in the united states, at least ...