Robert Reich speaks directly on what the ‘public option’ is and why it is so important to health care reform.
Robert Reich Public Option Video
January 31st, 2010 
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January 31st, 2010 My Health
January 31st, 2010 My Health
Robert Reich speaks directly on what the ‘public option’ is and why it is so important to health care reform.
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LOL–a real world Wesley Mouch
hammered you must be! Riech talking about health care is like Palin talking about foreign policy. The fact is Public Insurance gets everyone covered but increases costs and rations care. This is why individuals from the 23 countries seek treatment in the US. It also with result in increased taxes and legislating behavior. (sin taxes) and a doctor shortage. The left often makes a moral argument for the uninsured. But will you accept a inferior system to insure the uninsured?
Yep, call the Jewish guy with dwarfism a Nazi. Stellar grasp of history there, moron.
@Hortzy1 it works pretty well in 23 countries and has for more than 30 years! i agree that Reich is missing the point here, but you don’t need to lie to discredit him.
His comments in the video are highly partisan. Get your competitive kicks supporting your favorite sports team, and stop letting partisan hacks divide you. There is no solution that is good for all Republicans and bad for all Democrats. The reverse is also true. Less demand and more supply is what lowers prices. We need more doctors, more nurses, better lifestyle approaches. Break out of this shameful Democrat/Republican gulag!!
Most on the right are suspicious because they know that simple changes in law can do the same thing, yet this approach is not attempted.
Democrats have vast majorities in many states, yet their insurance commissioners are not changing anything either. Republicans did not change anything when they held majorities. File anti-trust suits. Break down state restrictions. Force ins. companies to have standard packages that are identical company to company so we can get competitive quotes.
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I guess France, Japan, Spain, Norway and a dozen others aren’t a part of the real world. The American Journal of Public Health estimates 45,000 Americans die each year due to insufficient health care. What kind of developed nation are we?
And btw, Time Magazine called Robert Reich one of the most Influential Cabinet Members of This Century; One of the Top Ten Business Thinkers according to the WSJl. I suggest you read his blog some time so you don’t sound so misinformed&incoherent.
Just another Berkeley Propeller Head spewing theory. Public Insurance does not work in the real world it is a path to Bankruptcy. Christine Romer another Berkeley academic now running Obama’s economic council, how is she doing in the real world with the Stimulus etc., Utter failure!!
Call a Canadian doctor and see what he/she says about public insurance. The only criteria it meets is getting everyone insured, the real world tells us costs increase and heath care gets rationed.
Great video.
why not just END the anti trust exemption?!?
you lie!
Are you telling me the the other 254.2 Million Americans aren’t better off because they have insurance?
Complete bull. Who are those companies? Are you trying to say that private insurance companies’ objective is to serve the good of man and not allocate profit? Really? Can you say that to the 45.8 million uninsured Americans?
Then why would government limit competition by granting monopoly to large insurance companies within their own state by erecting state health code. The answer is not more government control. I agree that the current system needs reform. But no one has talked about a free market solution.
Complete bull, non-profit insurance companies aren’t that big, and private for-profit companies have monopolies over large regions of the united states, places where people don’t have an alternative to the over-priced, care that can be dropped for the littlest thing.
Complete bull. If the goal is to create an option that will benefit the public and in long term, self sustaining, what is the added incentive to have the government create it in the first place? If you want to make a point of removing the profit incentive, there are at least two major private insurance companies right now that operate like a charity.
You’re putting words in my mouth. I never it doesn’t work. I didn’t even say anything close. I said it is another a massively over budget gov’t project. It currently still issues benefits but, it is on pace to be bankrupt in 2010. If you were spending more money that you were taking in, would you consider yourself to have a reasonable budget?
Where did you hear medicare doesnt work? because that ideoligy is flawed at best…..
agreed unemployment is the major concern right now. not health care. if we had employment we wouldn’t be worried about health care as most companies offer health insurance. of course one wonders if this isn’t on purpose at this point.
It’s weird to hear people defending private insurance companies against competition from a public plan. Are they in love with their insurance companies? I sure am not. Especially since my rate went up an outrageous 18% this year (on top of increases in previous years of up to 30%). The system we have now is clearly broken. Versions of the public option work in every other Western democracy. I’m all for it.
No matter what happens we will pay more for heath care anything the government touches works out that way. IF the government really wanted to fix health care they would be fixing each of the problems with our system. There not and not going to. WE will pay more and more and more.
I may or may not be. Who cares? On the other hand, since you appear to accept his ramblings here as gospel, I challenge you to refute (from any reliable source) anything at all from my post.
They call it a Public Option
Arent they all Public?
To me, a Public Option should be something that we as Americans are guaranteed…not have to Pay For! It makes me want to go out and marry a Canadian! Who is the Government to tell us what is Affordable? It should be every citizens right to a Guarenteed Public Heath Plan- just like Obama originally wanted! But just like everything else – he gave up on his promises..
Those us who are intelligent are in a state of shock at how stupid most of you are. I guess my time getting an engineering degree and a law degree made me lose sight of how stupid you hillbillies are.