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balance i will health care reform
the efforts on before
you know this is a very questionable things that there were too far to now is
residency on your mind
from uh... the
third district of kentucky
there's only on the floor in the interest
yeah good to be witnessed it's very bad news
uh... so
let's all of the summer on the heels comments today announced that
the public options this week ago shovel
basically anything in the wall street journal that he owns one of the
negotiated away
uh... one weeding out those cuts
well we were we actually were talking with rum deplore while ago he came up to
their own and talk with uh... the democratic caucus in said
was not one of the land that
you remember what reporters that you with um...
with did not say what he was uh... labor characterized in that
that president obama has uh... we've committed to a public option and that's
where they're going to proceed so we're taking him
and his word peg i mean they are
the uh... has been found out that i think would be almost impossible to get
a bill uh... out of the house without a strong public option on that uh...
we're committed to that we think it's
incredibly vital to uh...
to creating the kind of competitive environment in which um... weakened
provide not only provide coverage for everybody but can
put include some control over coffee maker health care affordable
i resent publicly stated uh... molecules and go off the reservation or easy
accidents is all things is uh... the real white house says
well i don't know i mean one that they've been consulted about the white
house
the most popular planet divers
and band their willingness to canada for
the congress on the detailed let me know they they want to that broad
principal of the mutt
uh... draft legislation and i think that film the way it should be a very
appropriate
but at some point when you get to a a
fundamental
element of a major reform package bottle them enough of the most important thing
that congress of public and the congress will ever do
how do you really can't
leave room for doubt coming and in a pocket knife
uh... very very strong on taking forceful and make sure that
not just a house members but also
book
the leadership of the planet understand that he infielder tomorrow
and build the special interests and will work their arm
they're on their way and i
that that the real live here
centel's versace's come out and said that's a lot of progresses democrats the
senate
will not vote for plan does not have the public options this week on the line in
the sand you mentioned earlier that you think you could get passed the house
either is that
didn't close alliance and for house democrats as well
i would prefer that the media print recruitment that it worked out very very
*** this
the package outweighed means which is not more than uh... energy commerce
energy cation labor
all three chairman are are strongly in favor of the the public option philippa
speaker that out all of leadership in it
for growth and talk of uh... with about eighty members said tonight a paradox
august meeting
that they would not support to their you know that there is what they want to
support a single-payer option
that they could they will vote for anything unless thursday a m
with a little but
the finger of what will bust public option of they put it
and the blue dogs who represented tonight
still they want to make sure
that the public option mistrust that everybody's on a level playing field but
they did not express opposition to a public options so i think that uh...
return possible for you to come out of the house without water
then they'll be it what what i'd know you probably
repeated many many times on the part of your show
but affair and all the time the option do you know
the option of the alternative to a public option disrupting the insurance
companies to fix the system
and that the something i don't think anybody in this country is going to do
you know this is sauce here one of his staff ulcer bill is so important
the *** one no matter what
and that you know you got a strike a deal at some point if it means a deal
without a public out so be it
uh... and
that if used to rely on the sand and say say you know what that we're not gonna
have a without a public option that you might not have one period and the best
too dangerous a game to play another school flood is failure of the public
option didn't even really reform the system to get people half a loaf that
might be worse than the local
artisan you have higher bills
anyway and higher taxes 'cause of universal coverage and and people really
get disenchanted
which of those schools of thought are you more and inclined towards
uh... i'm happy to have to get that you're up
you play the the the command of extremely well on the options sub
if we don't have a public option
and we do dressed up move toward universal coverage all you're doing
here's telling millions of military into billions of up because i work with new
customers
into the private sector where the insurance companies continue to be can
continue to do everything that they've got
the bases
that if we if we give them all the new customers that they will not
you know that they would
seafood they haven't process of of waiting for a pre-existing conditions
and medical history engender a probable things but we know
their history of trust
that they will find ways around that and
and the insurance market in britain is not a very competitive market
they're like twenty-five faced with one insurance company controls more than
half the business in that state emancipated kentucky
wellpoint has fifty nine percent of all the private insurance and study so
that's not a very competitive environment and and the insurance
ministry of the only one
other than major league baseball is exempt from anti-trust laws
well can we expect the competitive environment ***
to provide the kind of coverage we want the kind of cost
uh... containment that we have to have
uh... and multiple that competition and you know when
play fair competition can come from
miserable public option so
i think there is a real ref yen
and for the fate of getting a bill in doing something that i was only going to
make the problem worse
and it's going to force of it
some point
to undo an even bigger problem s
democrats the play deposits of this
this is a little wrong by starting out with the public option which in fact was
actually a compromise already away from single-payer health care
and catherine
staff whether they don't think you're right
well you're right on point uh...
i think we've made a mistake and i'm a i'm a co-sponsor of a characteristically
seventy six by the way
and and i think that no matter what we do know eventually we're gonna end up in
a fingerprint single-payer system but i think you're right we we've got to let
you know if the people we made this proposal which is really a hybrid system
look like the extreme liberal position
and the status quo as being um... um... carava reasonable alternative in some
people's mark
but not most people back to the polls show overwhelming support seventy
percent or higher for public option but i think if we have left the fatal player
out
exited on the table might that be debated
and that's what about and what we're looking at now would have been a very
very attractive compromise for virtually everyone
with ourselves and others in the third district that's interesting
uh... resident of finally uh... are you worried that if of obama administration
compromise on this
again
away from public option and into a system like the trigger that won't work
in your opinion that it isn't indication did they will compromise over and over
again on critical issues and that we've got a raw four years ahead in terms of
compromise too many common mises with the right wing in this country
well you know i would
relief
that that uh... the fear of modern although
it's kinda hard to put this
debate in that
in that context because this be a good thing the most important issue we will
ever have to do it
so i think if you compromise on the most important thing did you ever have to do
it
and and and they're going to compromise with state and all sorts of area that we
work through the development how we pay for it in
coverage in
that up until four but if you could if you compromise on the fundamental
structure
which ip
making sure that there is competition to bring our product and that that
consumers have a choice
of the private between kept private
and a public option
uh... unless we do that
and uh... i would think
there is a good through there would be fun to have a credibility gap of regroup
or to make a credibility gap
compare that with report card
the food up into a ball of legislative and i think that the food
wimbledon intrinsic dignity of the u_s_ o'connor cara got conduct of the masters
fifth of the most important thing will do
well depicted really are
and um...
you know compromise at that place but not here when you're dealing with
something that affects
every one of the american people and applied to the future of our economy
characterised
uh... you've got to do that you've got to do the right thing that popped the
route you really can't compromise
unless you believe that a couple of the most effective poultry
for the american people don't feel that way the president doesn't feel that way
and i don't think leadership in congress feels that way
sausage on the steps from kentucky very clear on this
baby so much for joining some interest