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congress, i had to pay first dollar, and we give family a $20,000 standard deduction for health insurance. let s say you make 60,000 a year, your tax able income is only 40. if you signed the policy that costs $15,000, which is going to ask crowd to shop, not have the government tell you what to buy but to shop fine what s in your bin, let s say it cost 15, you still get the $155,000 detailable. we allow you to buy this sounds great. what are democrats saying? they say republicans are doing squat. well, they re absolutely wrong about that. i heard that intro with the president, and he said this four years ago, and i wrote him a letter, and said, i will be glad to go over this line-by-line and share ideas that actually work, and in tennessee we have gone through a failed healthcare experiment called tenn-care. haven t heard a word yet. i spoke to the president in the
you a talk with you now. this is fox news, and if it were cnn, i understand that, with that, we cannot do that. thank you, sir. republican congressman phil roe joins us live, a doctor, congressman, i know that you are opposed to the legislation, what is your problem and what don t you like about it? well, i think, greta, you had dr. price on just before and i think one of the things i bring to the table it is i m the only physician, really person that has had to deal with the plan, similar to many aspect of the plan they potentially will pass, tenn-care and what we did in the state, you and i talked about this, we had a managed care plan, that compete for your business, it was first dollar coverage and sounded good and what happened, in ten years in our state is we tripled the cost of the plan and the other thing,
conditions and the no deny ability of insurance, is exactly what massachusetts is trying do and listen, my hat us off to tennesseemassachusetts for trying to do it, but it is failed system and didn t work and if you budget so many dollars for health care, what happens is you end up rationing care. and one of things we thought we d do in tennessee was increase quality and access, what happened was, what did we get for all the money we spent? we were 50th out of 50 states for prescription drug use, had the most of any state in the union and were 47th in health costs and what is occurring in massachusetts, they cannot afford the care. congressman, when i was walking over to the house today i ran into, outside the u.s. capitol, you were going to the u.s. senate, what were you doing at the senate? was that planning? what did you learn? can you give us behind the scenes. i sure can, we were going for a conference, a very short