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The Derrick Ashong Experience 2/27/2010 - Hour 2
… ve got a health care system that type ..... companies health insurance companies ..... reform the health care system I think it ..... Security Medicare Medicaid that are ..... to reform health care system is the fix Medicare . And the ..... They passed Medicare . Advantage program which …
laws. Which basically means that you -- collusion. Among. The insurance companies health insurance companies to get together. And raise prices or managed daycare at such a way that you will have effective. Competition where somebody undercut the rest. Additionally. In some states but could you don't have the ability Google crossed. You know other states across state lines that fine could proposals. You have some states with little water to really viable options. If we want to look at a way to reform the health care system I think it's evidently. Useful to see what other people are doing. Now that has been happening with the proposals that are currently on the table. And the reason why I personally. Don't believe in the single Payer system is because our government has already created some significant entitlement programs. Social Security Medicare Medicaid that are now a fundamental part of the fabric of society which I believe we should keep. Which we already have to
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Deadly Spin on Healthcare in the United States
… care went for health insurance and socialized ..... take the lower Medicaid Medicare payment and ..... Involvement in health care system when we really ..... enables the the Medicare program to set ..... thirteen 1490 Medicare covers 44 million …
what I thought about a public option for. Health care went for health insurance -- and socialized medicine. My. -- you know whether it was -- a lot of these people are the -- and of -
New Congress, Unemployment and Rep. Gabrielle Giffords
… Canada have with their health care system mind you they spent ..... we have quote quiz Medicare which everybody apparently ..... industry. It helps beat health insurance companies that helps ..... like we're gonna cut Medicare to. They they did ..... problem is you cut Medicaid and have a lot of elderly …
it does to a lot for the private industry. It helps beat health insurance companies that helps the medical device may -- a question these different people benefit the medical device manufacturers are beefing about certain -
The Derrick Ashong Experience 2/06/2010 - Hour 1
… my question players that. Medicare I can't vote here what they ..... reform Social Security. reform Medicare Medicaid health care system . reform our tax system prosecute ..... eliminate it was done. for Medicare . So you can make these types …
good idea however the biggest entitlements we know we have that have Medicare . Medicaid Social Security. Right these are things that are mandatory elements of government spending and for those listening who don't know what weproblem not a -- possibly -- reform Social Security. -- -- reform Medicare Medicaid -- health care system -- -- -- reform our tax system prosecute. You deal with waste in the Defense Department and things of that nature in.really fascinating. And I know that you've got some interesting ideas about Medicare Medicaid reform also. About reforming the tax code. At I would really really love -- you could stick with us for a few -
Understanding Healthcare
… ten years would go used to expanding Medicaid for the uninsured. And lower income ..... sliding scale for insurance through new health insurance exchange so who pays for that. How ..... a way to tax people with the in the health care system so people with with. Do the gold premiums …
trillion dollar price tag over ten years would go used to expanding Medicaid for the uninsured. And lower income people and to help people who can't afford it. Pay on a sliding scale for insurance through new health insurance exchange so who pays for that. How how well work pat if that's what all the argument is right now who can actually pay for them you know. There's on the one hand -- the original bill said that would may be able tax. -- the real wealthy wealthy and then that we're sort of pulling back on that now and say well maybe there's a way to tax people with the in the health care system so people with with. Do the gold premiums in there was an article that Goldman Sachs they had been very expensive and -
The Derrick Ashong Experience 3/27/2010 - Hour 1
… wind of bringing down the cost of health insurance that's good for the company. The ..... is no requirement for people to get health insurance later. what happened and is. It ..... because. Now we're diluting the health care system to the point where people like me …
these reforms that are gonna wind of bringing down the cost of health insurance that's good for the company. The government is for the first time seeing -- -- to subsidize the cost of people whothe first couple years there is no requirement for people to get health insurance -- later. -- what happened and is. It immediately with some angels by Rick you know no. Notes limit. On benefits andyour mind. Hi Garrett. I'm self employed so I cannot afford my health insurance my husband didn't. It in and managing and has negotiated. It felt better at night and a half. Acting as well past -
? The Derrick Ashong Experience 4/24/2010 - Hour 2
… money or resource is health insurance that is done through ..... actually get access that Medicare . They don't have ..... hands off a Medicare . Medicare the government program ..... should take over the health care system but that's not what …
a country like West Africa and you have money or resource is health insurance that is done through your university. Harvard which was mine. -- you can go to the hospital did IPs that -- arm -
The 2012 Presidential Campaign
… problem break looking at Medicare Medicaid retirement security ..... s say about this Medicare issue. You know if ..... market reform its health care system and health care industry ..... you're saying that Medicare is is gonna grow it …
power. Kind of looking at long term problem break -- looking at Medicare Medicaid retirement security all of these issues which are basically in 20372030. Like the clock. Like country can no longer afford Q -- -
Healthcare Around the World
… countries because health insurance is treated as a ..... America. Selling health insurance because they will ..... going out of the health care system . Into somebody ..... have decided that health insurance paying for the system …
issue. The people. You know they they. -- place the -- for health insurance in the runner's magazine you know or the bikers magazines and they get healthy in people right. In those countries because health insurance is treated as a charity it's it's a non profit endeavor. At the end of the year an insurance company that haswhen He retired this is an incredibly lucrative field and America. Selling health insurance because they will only sell to people already healthy and then. You know they employ armies of underwriters to deny claims and all the other countries they have to -- every claim that's money going out of the health care system . Into somebody's pocket. Yeah that's what I would say it's providing profits to investors and that's. If that's you you're making a very good -- that's why all the other countries have decided that health insurance paying for the system has to be non profit but let me make this point. In in the other countries in most -
Consumer-Driven Health Reform
… that they can buy health insurance . And let them ..... insurers. Run the health care system . Don't need ..... employers to buy their health insurance let's get back ..... They could afford health insurance but they've made …
them smart and make them wealthy -- so that they can buy health insurance . And let them change the market. It's a debate we've been having in this country forward decades. And -- let the flowers -- side is. Gaining more and more momentum. And the background to it is to say you know when governments were big institutions. Big insurers. Run the health care system . Don't need. Don't really improved quality in fact what they do is they ration health care that put people on waiting analyst.stand on their behalf by governments and their employers to buy their health insurance let's get back to. Let them -- what they want. This is market driven health care. Consumer driven health care and whatDollars which is the mean income the United States. They could afford health insurance but they've made the decision not to buy it. Three quarters of them however pork. And you know it's outrageous that a
