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The charts is health inequality, people of below average incomes forego care because of cost. when you hear america doesn't ration, remember that graph. we ration but do it by income. if there's a silver lining, those who have access to health care, it's fairly effective. american doctors do a good job warning patients about health risk and encouraging exercise. but some americans are simply refusing to listen. refusing to use the most powerful effective treatments the american medical system ever developed and refusal to take these medications doesn't just hurt them but hurts everyone, outbre...

More an obviously the government will do more for the poor, indigent and veterans. as typically the case, government overpromised and is set to underdeliver on the present path. >> can i go along with the catastrophic as way to start with the preventive, but with the nags henational healthcare budget and we're the only country that doesn't do that, how do you help get past the fear that every time this is talked about, the other side screams rationing. you see the whole thing with death panels that is total phony bologna but it takes a bite on democrats for trying to do something that you thin...

Only way to make it work is to ration health care. >> greta: don't we ration it now? some people are on medicare, some have better medical care than others. don't we ration? >> very good care. very good question. in medicaid, which is the program for poorer people, we pay doctors even less than we do in medicare. and guess what? those are probably the last people in the waiting room to be taken care of, if the doctor gets around to them. a lot of people say that care is being rationed to some extent in the medicaid program because we don't reimburse the hospitals and the doctors enough. so why...

Ration health care. >> greta: don't we ration it now? some people are on medicare, some have better medical care than others. don't we ration? >> very good care. very good question. in medicaid, which is the program for poorer people, we pay doctors even less than we do in medicare. and guess what? those are probably the last people in the waiting room to be taken care of, if the doctor gets around to them. a lot of people say that care is being rationed to some extent in the medicaid program because we don't reimburse the hospitals and the doctors enough. so why would they want to do that wor...

Sustainability of justice in health care. >> doctor, thank you for the kind of work that you have done and what you have said. it's an inspiration hearing you, and it's also, i have to say, depressing that you are not where you should be. the same thing happened to peter diamond, by the way, also up in massachusetts, a nobel laureate economists that was able to be a federal reserve governor, and we need you and him and we don't have it now. i want to make two points and get your response. one on rationing. the idea that the current system doesn't currently ration is nuts. we ration on price. y...