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Insurance companies are not in the business of making you healthy. they're in the business of making money. a lot of people are actually in favor of medicare for all until they realize that it de facto eliminates private insurance companies and some study suggests that within four years, a single payer system would eliminate all known private insurance companies. but i think she is on a route in her presidential campaign to have a bernie sanders-like movement for healthcare reform in the united states and we have room for that conversation. >> kat, you think she has to clarify what she's talki...

Tax everyone completely, you can't come up with $3 trillion. isn't it cruel to dangle this in front of people as if it's possible? >> capri: this won't be the first nor will it be the last time that politicians or those trying to be elected put something out there that sounds great on paper, sounds great in a 30-second ad, but isn't necessarily possible old plausible when it comes implementation. i have spent the better part of my adult life and health policy. i'm a licensed social worker, i trained in hospital systems, free clinics, and i authored the prior authorization reform law for health...

Nate lerner, who is behind the push of the beto o'rourke 2020 bid, tweeting, "i will not only boycott the run for independent, but stand outside every day protesting. his ego and selfishness is disgraceful." and he's not alone in his starbucks boycott. >> guy: i can't think of a bigger waste of time than standing outside a random starbucks to protest a political decision of the guy who used to run the company. that's beto's brainchild? that's somewhat worrying. the one thing i found intriguing about this schultz thing is, you know who is one of his top consultants in this potential? bill burto...

To care in most states. and in medicare where medicare advantage also exists. that is a managed care system. we can't just blew the system u up. >> melissa: it wouldn't work. even if you blew up the system and you took away insurance companies, you still can't give every human being every health care possible -- every treatment possible, right when they needed, unless the doctors are going to work for free for the hospitals are going to give away stuff for free. or somebody's going to be doing it for free. >> harris: would you want it for free? >> katie: then there is no doctors. >> guy: the g...

Democrat to support bernie sanders' medicare for all bill. the program is implemented would carry a very hefty price tag fo. all of you out there, a study released over the summer by george mason university estimate it would cost more than $3 trillion per year. that's about three fourths of this year's entire proposed federal budget. do the math. sanders and his supporters claimed the short term costs would eventually be offset by a more efficient system. we have we heard that before? house democratic caucus chair, kind of talking about it when he asks if he supports harris' proposal. >> i thi...