... AND WITH INSURANCE FOR ALL?
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 25 October 2019
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Thom faces off with conservative group Job Creator Network's Dr. Scott Barbour on whether Medicare for All, or for-profit health care is most likely to bring Americans the medical care they need to live long, healthy lives.
And then, Progressive congressman Mark Pocan updates us on the current status of legislation that could affect the who gets- and doesn't get- care.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | Alex Lawson will be with us for taking your questions about Medicare. |
| 0:20.0 | On the line with us right now is Dr. Scott Barber. |
| 0:22.0 | He is a board certified orthopedic surgeon, a fellow On the line with us right now is Dr Scott Barber. |
| 0:22.6 | He is a board certified orthopedic surgeon, |
| 0:24.6 | a fellow with the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgery |
| 0:27.2 | and advisor to the Job Creators Network Foundation's Health Care for You Plan, their website. creators network |
| 0:34.0 | plan their website job creators network |
| 0:37.0 | dot com |
| 0:38.0 | twitter handle is job creators |
| 0:40.0 | us USA |
| 0:41.0 | dr bar welcome to the program. |
| 0:43.0 | Thanks for having me on, I appreciate it. |
| 0:44.7 | My pleasure. |
| 0:45.6 | So you guys are pitching this new quote personalized health care |
| 0:50.1 | end quote frame and what I don't understand is why do you hang so |
| 0:56.4 | tenaciously to the idea that we should be paying for-profit corporations and the billionaires who own them money to insert themselves |
| 1:08.1 | essentially as bankers into the middle of our health care decisions. |
| 1:11.6 | You've got a Dollar Bill McGuire, the former CEO of United Health Care, |
| 1:15.8 | the largest of the health insurance companies, took 1.6 billion dollars in compensation. |
| 1:21.3 | Every penny of it by saying to somebody, no, you can't have that operation or no, we're not |
| 1:26.0 | going to pay for that treatment because you have a pre-existing conditioner or whatever. |
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