Former Labor Sec Robert Reich's Stunning 2007 Confession on Health Care

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IT7Y0TOBuG4 ^

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Also I'm going to use the bargaining leverage of the federal government in terms of Medicare, Medicaid to force drug companies and insurance companies and medical suppliers to reduce their costs. What that means, less innovation and that means less new products and less new drugs on the market which means you are probably not going to live much longer than your parents.

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Total transcript below:

Bill Clinton's former Labor Secretary, Robert Reich, in 2007 speech at UC Berkeley: "What An Honest President Would Say About Health Reform"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IT7Y0TOBuG4

Reich: "I'll actually give you a speech made up entirely, almost on the spur of the moment, of what a candidate for president would say if that candidate did not care about becoming president. In other words, this is what the truth is and a candidate will never say, but what a candidate should say if we were in the kind of democracy where citizens were honored in terms of their practice of citizenship and they were educated in terms of what the issues were and they could separate myth from reality in terms of what candidates would tell them":

"Thank you so much for coming this afternoon. I'm so glad to see you and I would like to be president. Let me tell you a few things on health care. Look, we have the only health care system in the world that is designed to avoid sick people. And that's true and what I'm going to do is that I am going try to reorganize it to be more amenable to treating sick people but that means you, particularly you young people, particularly you young healthy people...you're going to have to pay more.

"Thank you. And by the way, we're going to have to, if you're very old, we're not going to give you all that technology and all those drugs for the last couple of years of your life to keep you maybe going for another couple of months. It's too expensive...so we're going to let you die."

"Also I'm going to use the bargaining leverage of the federal government in terms of Medicare, Medicaid---we already have a lot of bargaining leverage---to force drug companies and insurance companies and medical suppliers to reduce their costs. What that means, less innovation and that means less new products and less new drugs on the market which means you are probably not going to live much longer than your parents. Thank you."

WHAT A STUNNING & DAMAGING CONFESSION, BUT WILL THE DRIVE BY'S REPORT IT?

[ozark hilljilly]

BUT WILL THE DRIVE BY'S REPORT IT?

No, of course not. But we gots the innernetubes, for now anyway. This needs to go viral, STAT.

[MrDem]

My, my, my... so it’s not all about what is best for Joe Citizen after all.. SHOCKING!

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

I can’t believe this isn’t pinned in Breaking and splashed all over Drudge.

[Clioman]

What the politicians don’t understand is that most of us really are “citizens who can separate myth from reality.” That means whenever we see a politician’s mouth moving, we run his words through our BS-detectors, and as a result, we hear something like Reich’s confession instead of what the politician wants us to believe.

I marched in Washington in September, and I’ll keep marching, and protesting, and writing, speaking and VOTING until we throw the bums out. It’s not that they lie that angers us, and it’s not that we know they’re lying that angers us. It’s that they know that we know, and THEY DON’T CARE that angers us.

[KarlInOhio]

"Thank you. And by the way, we're going to have to, if you're very old, we're not going to give you all that technology and all those drugs for the last couple of years of your life to keep you maybe going for another couple of months. It's too expensive...so we're going to let you die."

Can we give a name to the government officials who decide which individual patients won't get an expensive treatment and will therefore die? Could we call them "Death Panels"?

[kevkrom]

Can we give a name to the government officials who decide which individual patients won't get an expensive treatment and will therefore die? Could we call them "Death Panels"?

Nope. Because if we did that, we'd be labeled as some kind of hick rubes, or something. Or so my elite masters tell me, and of course they know best.

[sportutegrl]

What I don’t understand is if the truth is so bad, (and it is), then why do they insist on pushing it through.

[GBA]

Robert Reich? I'm surprised at this admission, but it's great he said it and that it was recorded.

He shows that the demonrats know exactly what they are doing, despite their Utopian proclamations otherwise. That's probably why they have exempted themselves from what they are trying to do to We, the Masses. I hate the demonrats and the spineless rinos who join with them.

[listenhillary]

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