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To the Point

Health insurance and the presidential campaign

To the Point

KCRW

News

4.4583 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Get ready for more debate about health insurance as Trump runs for re-election. Democratic hopefuls are debating reforms while Republicans accuse them of “socialized medicine.” What does that mean? What’s the difference between “Medicare for All” and “Medicare for America?” You may need to know.

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0:00.0

Today, after almost a century of trying, health insurance reform becomes law in the United States of America.

0:07.0

Tonight I am also calling on this Congress to repeal and replace Obamacare.

0:16.0

Health care!

0:19.0

Senator John McCain, stunning the chamber, turning Health care. Where we will? Health care. Where we will.

0:21.9

Senator John McCain, stunning the chamber, turning the thumbs down on the repeal bill,

0:27.0

prompting an audible gasp.

0:28.8

Unbelievable complex subject. Nobody knew that health care could be so complicated.

0:33.3

If you like the plan you have, you can keep it.

0:35.9

If you like the doctor you have, you can keep it. If you like the doctor you have, you can keep your doctor too.

0:39.6

What we're all looking for is the lowest cost way to make sure everybody gets covered.

0:45.9

In America today, one of the leading cause of bankruptcy for American families is the inability to pay a hospital bill.

0:52.8

That's just simply wrong.

0:53.9

The function of a

0:54.9

rational health care system is to provide health care to all people in a cost-effective way.

1:01.7

I think Medicare for all is one of the possible paths. I think the fastest way to get there

1:07.4

is to ensure that people who have insurance that they like through their employer

1:11.0

are able to keep it. The Republican Party will soon be known as the party of health care.

1:16.8

We can start with Medicare for all who want it by making some version of Medicare available

1:22.8

on the exchanges for people to opt into as part of the pathway to Medicare for all.

1:27.7

Hello again, I'm Norman Alney.

1:29.2

Healthcare is guaranteed to be an issue in next year's presidential campaign for a lot of good

1:34.3

reasons.

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