Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/09/16/The_Future_of_Health_Care_The_Candidates_Plans
Daniel Kessler and E. Richard Brown, Health Advisors to the John McCain and Barack Obama Presidential campaigns, respectively, discuss why neither candidate supports a single-payer insurance system for the United States.
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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
Daniel Kessler is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. In addition to his Hoover appointment, he is an associate professor at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, where he teaches courses on economics, public policy, and the health care industry. Among his recent publications are, with Mark McClellan, The Effect of Hospital Ownership on Medical Productivity, forthcoming in the RAND Journal of Economics, and Designing Hospital Antitrust Policy to Promote Social Welfare, which appeared in Frontiers in Health Policy Research. He is the holder of a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.
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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This is all soo …
This is all soo incredibly paltry to even argue about.
So, do you have …
So, do you have some better thing to spend money on ?
taking competition …
taking competition out of the market is the stupidest thing that could be done.
getting government out of the healthcare industry completely is what needs to be done.
Better healthcare …
Better healthcare and life expectancy is not strong related in modern countries. Its rather lifestyle. Just cut millitary spendings and you are there. USA healthcare is like a medieval feudalist crap 20% can die because they are poor. What if your children had to pay thousends of dollars for learning the basic ABC? Its medieval
bourgeois style of thinking. Oh Im rich, the others… And I call it a shame.
utter bullshit..
smh
utter bullshit..
smh
When in the Course …
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for ONE people to dissolve the political partys which have disconnected them from another, & to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate & EQUAL station to which the Laws of Nature & of Natures God ENTITLE them, a Decent Respect to the opinions of HUMANKIND requires that they should declare the CAUSES which impel them to the separation.- from ForProfit InsuranceCannibalism!
help sue Medicare …
help sue Medicare and make them offer a plan for everyone (a public option!) Send me your Name, address, statement that you have applied for medicare and were denied, and you will be a named plainitf. No cost to you.
People prefer their …
People prefer their existing health insurance because they do not understand what a single payer system is. The issue is very complex and can’t be readily articulated. For this reason, opponents of the single payer system can easily use scare tactics and misrepresent what it is. If someone could actually explain in detail how a single payer system would work, there would be more support for it. Reforming health care is not like gaining civil rights. The issue is not so clear to people.
Pzifer just got a …
Pzifer just got a 2.7 billion fine, for fraud, you want more of the private sector?
They will pass the bill on to americans, you will be the ones paying the 2.7 bil. Who else can they turn to? Who else can YOU turn to? they have a strangle hold on you, you have the worst care, for the most money, 8% in Europe, 16.9% here, the difference is, you die earier! Does early death relate to good health care?
“The US has the …
“The US has the best health-care in the world, best modern treatments in medicine and surgeries.” LMAO, you really belive this ??????? Why not even one country in the world copy it, if is so good ? The truth is US system is the worst of all developped country cause full concurrence dosen’t work: you never chose to be ill o.o. Minimum public insurance is a necessity. You may pay a private one if you want more… Toyota went to Canada cause their system cost less…
Cobra is very …
Cobra is very expensive. Remember for some, it was a benefit that was much cheaper or even ‘free’ when they held their job. It might work to AUTOMATICALLY be enrolled in the EXISITING public aid program when fired and have Cobra as an OPTION. If you want to pay and have the ability to pay for this interim insurance then go ahead. We have wonderful ‘state of the art ‘ not for profit clinics in existance presently for the poor. Why not expand enrollment to more ?
The US has the best …
The US has the best health-care in the world, best modern treatments in medicine and surgeries. Canada’s HC system is on the verge of “imploding”. The incoming president of the Canadian Medical Association says this countrys health-care system is sick. Canada is in the process of switching back to Private Care.
File under: ObamaCare of the Future.
*sigh*
Compassion, get …
Compassion, get over it .
Actually, it is the …
Actually, it is the law that Cobra be offered to you when you lose your job or quit unless (you lost it for just cause–as in stealing from your employer, violence, drug use, etc.) It is the law that your employer provide you witht he opportunity for COBRA and you are allowed 18 months to keep it unless you are disable, then it is 27 months.
You failed to …
You failed to address my fundamental point regarding the apparent lack of any process of cognitive dissonance taking place within your mind! Instead, you chose to simply reiterate your paradoxical statement, given your views. I will ask my question again: Why would you want to fix Medicare/Medicaid? For if you believe the the Public Option, which is essentially a modest expansion of Medicare, is tantamount to socialism, or will lead to socialism, then why would you want fix Medicare?
A Government Option …
A Government Option regarding health care is very bad for Americans because all roads lead to Socialized medical system. Obama supports a “Single Payer System” like they have in Canada, the health care in Canada is sub par and imploding says top Canadian health care officials. If you want to give all Americans HC you will need to make Insurance companies compete state to state you will need tort reform to stop frivolous lawsuits against Docs that will drop HC costs dramatically. NO GOVERNMENT OP
Conservatives Now …
Conservatives Now Outnumber Liberals in All 50 States, Says Gallup Poll
Monday, August 17, 2009
Palin spoke out about the death panels and Obama took them out. Reagan Conservatives believe the Government option must be removed from healthcare reform or all roads lead to Socialism, Sarah Palin is an honorable, honest voice for real America. Conservatives are deep considerate thinkers from all walks of American life, the shallow, narrow minded selfish liberal ideology is sinking w/ Socialism.
Why can’t we expand …
Why can’t we expand the existing ‘public aid’ and not for profit clinics and allow an increase in enrollment? Perhaps when you lose a job you get enrolled automatically and have the CHOICE to pay for Cobra if you so wish to. Hire more providers for the existing clinics, expand hours, give incentives for specialists to join, build more clnics in communities. This creates GOOD jobs at the local level. Insurance will have to compete harder and provide better policies to attract customers.
Why would you want …
Why would you want to fix Medicare/Medicaid? They are just the sort of socialist/government programs you were decrying in your previous statement. You are contradicting yourself! If you truly believe what you purport to believe, which is of course patent nonsense, then you should be demanding that our government dismantle the socialized medical insurance institutions, i.e. Medicare/Medicaid, that already exist! Incidentally, Obama is not even supporting a comprehensive single payer system!
You won’t here the …
You won’t here the dems breath a word of truth because power is the cure. They want to control the masses, Teddy Roosevelt first proposed national health insurance in 1912, FDR proposed it again in the 1930s. Harry Truman proposed it again in the 1940s. They’ve been waiting along time for this progressive power holy grail issue, healthcare is the way to pure Socialism, Reagan was warning of this as far back as the 60s. Oh, let’s not forget Hillarycare.
Why are they pushing it so hard?
Interesting. I’ve …
Interesting. I’ve been listening to both sides on this for some time now, and I have never heard anyone say what you are suggesting. Can you please site a politician who has said anything like, “they WANT to die”? I’d love to know. Many thanks.
Today you go to the …
Today you go to the doctor, if you’re diagnosed with a serious illness you discuss treatment with your doctor and you decide how to move forward. Under the Obama plan you stand in front of a Board that will tell YOU how to be treated. On this board will be bureaucrats like a labor union rep (SEIU thug) why would you want to give your life away? You are still free! Snap out of it. Try fixing Medicare, Medicade and tort reform first.
Well said Col Cowboy
Well said Col Cowboy
It is kind of …
It is kind of amazing some people think health costs are like buying a car or any other commercial proposition (eg: all the insurance co-sponsored posts on Youtube, by varying “people”). You can plan to buy a car or a house: it’s your own responsibility and your money allocation–but you can’t plan a medical affliction. Not the same. I simply note one anti-health plan person on Ytube had her two fave videos as a) a revolver shooting into a tank, and b) a clip of Milton F’man on “Greed”. True!
More racist lies. …
More racist lies. Poverty is NOT a result of “choices,” it is a result of a SYSTEM that allows selfishness and denies equality. A person from a family in poverty will probably also be there, will be in substandard schools, have crummy health care…NONE of which he chose. If he’s black he’s FAR more likely to be harrassed by cops and arrested (even if he’s a Harvard Prof) and THAT isn’t choice.
Poverty isn’t chosen, rich people CHOOSE to put themselves above others and deny opportunity.