This is my response ......
Good interview. I hope the video is up soon.
Where? F&F east coast?
I smell a rat. He provided a glowing endorsement of government regulation and seemed to play class warfare politics.
Literally EVERY subject of public policy covered by the politicians and press is substantively mis-represented to the public.
In the wake of 9/11/01, the Feds said that the only way to get professional-grade security is to federalize, and voila, TSA. Stupid decision, and obviously so at the time it was made. So too with health care - federalizing any part of it is stupid.
What I saw of the interview appeared to be an utter joke. They guy RAVED about medical care in every other country BUT the US. When Gretchen asked him why so many others come to the US for care then, he responded, ‘well, ARAB SHEIKS come here but others can’t afford it’!
The guy struck me as a loser libtard.
In the big picture, I hope his book brings some sanity to the health care debate, but my guess is that it will only strengthen public support for obama's and the demonrats' momentum to pass something.
There seems to be conflicting perceptions of this interview on this thread.
What? The guy I saw was a proponent of gubmint single payer health care.
Did I miss something?
...and by the way, what kind of headline is yours that says this idiot ‘blew away’ the American healthcare system???? Good grief. We’ve got THEE BEST healthcare in the world and that guy had to reluctantly admit that RIGHT BEFORE saying only Arab Sheiks come here for it.
WTH, why post a vanity about a Fox nuz program and then provide no links?
I noticed he mentioned Canada’s long lines, didn’t say anything about the UK either.
It’s not about health care...it’s about control. Bottomline.
Barf Alert?
HIs main claim was that "government health care" in other countries was most often comprised of private insurance, private hospitals, and private doctors. His most telling point was that insurance countries here charge 20% overhead costs, whereas in France (for instance) the overhead is 4%.
His other claim was that only in the United States is the healthcare different for the wealthy than the poor. Apparently, in France the President receives the same health care as anyone else - otherwise it would be "immoral".
I'm quite skeptical of his claims, myself. MRI machines and all the other trappings of high-tech medicine cost a lot, everywhere. So does a top-notch medical education.
This is my response ......
Here’s some text from PBS:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/sickaroundtheworld/etc/notebook.html
http://denverdemocrats.net/node/3215
Candidate for State Representative, HD3: T.R. Reid
I firmly believe that health care should be a right, not a privilege, for every American – and I’m convinced Colorado can lead our country toward that goal
**calendar of events at link
Dude, TR Reid is a shill for single payer. You should check out his Frontline special:
http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/Frontline_Sick_Around_the_World/70098734?trkid=1211018
He goes around the world checking out different systems, and anytime he sees something that seems better in the foreign land he blames it on “America’s corporate profit motive.”
Never once does he question anything else about our system, such as how we let doctors limit the number of doctors we train here (that certainly isn’t a corporate profit motive maneuver!). The reason I bring that example up is that there are a couple of the countries he visits where he is amazed that they have almost zero wait time for all medical services, and that feat is clearly directly related to provider numbers and almost nothing else.
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