Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/09/16/The_Future_of_Health_Care_The_Candidates_Plans
E. Richard Brown, founder and director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and a health advisor to the Barack Obama 2008 Presidential campaign, summarizes Obama’s plans for health care reform.
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Health care is a major issue in the current presidential campaign. Candidates Barack Obama and John McCain have laid out very different visions, and each believes his plan is best for our nation’s citizenry.
Come learn about each plan from the top policy advisors of each candidate, and take the opportunity to ask your own questions and get answers – The Commonwealth Club of California
Dr. E. Richard Brown is a professor at the UCLA School of Public Health and the founder and director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. He received his PhD in sociology of education from the University of California, Berkeley.
Dr. Brown has studied and written extensively about a broad range of issues and policies that affect the access of disadvantaged populations to health care. His recent research focuses on health insurance coverage, the lack of coverage, and the effects of public policies, managed care, and market conditions on access to health services, particularly for disadvantaged populations, ethnic minorities, and immigrants. Dr. Brown and the Center’s studies of health insurance coverage, uninsurance, and eligibility for public programs have been used by California’s governors, legislators, and advocates in crafting health insurance legislation and programs.
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4:05: “sets up a …
4:05: “sets up a regulated market so that the market functions effectively” Since when is a regulated market a market that runs effectively? Anyone with any economic sense can tell you regulation produce loss aka an ineffective market. The current health care system is no good and the purposed health care plan sucks just as bad. In my opinion establish a system that uses free market economic strategies and simply let the market forces take effect.
Simple, “people” …
Simple, “people” will have to pay a few percent more taxes and they hate that, completely not caring for the hundreds of thousands of lives this plan might save.
“You may not like …
“You may not like to think this, but we do have large enemies. ”
Yes and they already have crossed the borders, not some islamists in Iraq or Afghanistan.
I work and have my …
I work and have my own insurance. When I was unemployed I had no insurance and dealt with it.
Why should people be given health insurance?
it doesn’t change …
it doesn’t change the fact though that people should have healthcare, republicans make a lot of good points; but other than now possibly being not the best time for the public option to go become avaliable I think at some point it should be.
What’s wrong with …
What’s wrong with this? This is the best plan I have seen so far. Insurance CONglomerates should be abolished. They now take 40% off the top so if your child needs a kidney it’s not going to happen unless you work for the government. Insurance companies pocket 1 TRILLION a year and deny one Trillion in health coverage. This is sick.
stupid democrats i …
stupid democrats i mean how blind can people be
Below is a list of …
Below is a list of the Democratic Senators that voted against the “Public Option” and the healthcare lobbying money that they received in 2008. My source is Open Secrets. Remember, this in ONLY 2008.
Max Baucus: $1,991,965
Blanche Lincoln: $1,104,186
Kent Conrad: $951,328
Bill Nelson: $608,559
Tom Carper: $572,307
Vote these greedy out of office when their term is up! They are in bed with the lobbyists and don’t give a about their constitutents.
Wow…to bad we …
Wow…to bad we cant out source this to! we should let Wallmart handle this one! put 2 chiness doctors in every store! the Federal Goverment F@cks up everything it touchs! we need a strong economy first! that means Jobs! Not some plan that has more loop-holes for shady people to exploit like medical SS. they cant run what they have control over as it is!
here is the flaw …
here is the flaw with that : healfh insur, doesnot fall under that plan the 10 amemdment gov . only has the power the the staqtes give them
In conclusion: I …
In conclusion: I think this will be great because it offers much more competition. instead of 10,000 business chosing plans you have 1,000,000 people chosing a plan. Also people will not mind the government helping them out with catastrophic problems (if they are insured in the first place), what they do have a problem with is paying for people who are illegal, or abuse the system. Pre-existing is covered, as is people who lose their job. There also needs to be something done about malpractice
… this way, the …
… this way, the employees can spend the money on healthcare if they want, or save it for something they want, they dont need to be told what to spend it on. this way they also don’t lose coverage when switching jobs.
5. if you have a condition which can bankrupt you, say, a massive surgury or cancer or something, the government will cover it, or a huge portion of it to make it affordable for you.
3. if you have a …
3. if you have a pre-existing condition an insurance company can not discriminate. ex. if i pay $100 dollars, the person who has a pre-existing condition will pay a caped increase in pay, maybe $125 or something, that is it, and that will be determined by someone who knows more than me lol.
4. (this one i think is important) because businesses no longer provide healthcare, the savings they have (approximately $12,000 per year per employee) will be passed on to their employees (cont’d)…
here is one thing …
here is one thing that i think might work. let me know what you think plz…
1. Companies are no longer allowed to give healthcare benifits. they cant do it. period.
2. everyone is individually insured, they can go anywhere for their insurance, chose any type they want. shop around. its all shown on the internet, just like car insurance.
I think my mother …
I think my mother was thinking of me when she put me on Medical :3 Imagine how great all those kids in Nevada or Washington might feel when they can finally start feeling better too? When they’re parents wisen up and put them on whatever healthcare might make their children LIVE.
“One who has not …
“One who has not tasted bitter does not know what is sweet.” They don’t appriciate what they have, so how can they appriciate something better when offered to even commoners who work for a living like you and me?
You know that’s not …
You know that’s not true. YOU HAVE TO KNOW THAT’S NOT TRUE, otherwise, you honestly did NOT read up on the healthcare reform. And you are only listening to what, Fox News? We might have open borders, but not open citizenship, and the public healthcare option ONLY COVERS CITIZENS. Besides, regular hospitals HAVE TO TREAT ANYONE THAT ENTERS THEIR PLACE OF WORK. That’s right, they legally CANNOT turn away someone in need, whether or not they’re citizens. We already do it, and pay for it
It’s to covere …
It’s to covere anyone in the country that CANT OTHERWISE BE COVERED. Do what you like, but for those of us that don’t want to die of the flu because we can’t afford 2 shots and a salene injection with our two jobs while we go to school, we’d still like an option. kthx
Article 1, Section …
Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution states: “The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and GENERAL WELFARE OF THE UNITED STATES; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States”. So there it is! Congress is authorized to enact health care legislation that ensures the GENERAL WELFARE, and is authorized to levy taxes to fund it. End of Discussion!!
im not against anti …
im not against anti terrorism in our country, protecting us is vital to the countries survival clearly but we cant afford keep trying to fix some other up country right now, its just not realistic, we had no probable cause to go in there in the first place to be honest. they have issues there, we can help a little but no amount of behaviorism via battle is going to change there messed up perception of reality any time soon and isreal can handle itself, very easily, they have a supurb army
I wouldn’t call it …
I wouldn’t call it bullshitting. The dems have finally admitted that the surge worked and that significant progress has been made, despite Harry Reid telling our soldiers who are putting their lives on the line that the war was lost. Just look at all the terrorist acts that have been performed globally and those that have been foiled due to taking a proactive rather than reactive approach. You may not like to think this, but we do have large enemies.
i cant its all gone …
i cant its all gone, but this link will take you to a site that keeps an updated scale of how much has been spent and currently being spent, its almost at a trillion now
we spent trillions …
we spent trillions on the war in iraq? show me the money!
so? in europe they …
so? in europe they work under the government and they work harder, the more they cure the more they get paid, where here its the opposite, they charge rediculous prices and sometimes try to keep you unhealthy as long as possible so that they can get more money, not all of them are like that but there are some and our system of healthcare isnt helping that problem
but its ok to spend …
but its ok to spend trillions of dollars in iraq just bullshiting around?