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moving on to health care i will have speaking of embarrassing and speaking
about health care
i'm
absolutely at this point ready to say that what's happening with health care
is is
if it's not yet it is a complete embarrassment and what i mean is this
with sixty votes in the senate that the democrats have been this is not a
compare criticism of the conservatives
this is a criticism of the of the so-called liberals
who are
not even mentioning the possibility of a single-payer plan
and our begging pretty pretty please can't we just put in
some washed watered down version of a public option
absolutely pathetic with sixty votes in the senate
it will be an embarrassment if no public option gets through
it will literally just be embarrassing this is the way it's looking right now
bill clinton said it won't be as bad as what happened to it and he and hillary
clinton in nineteen ninety four
i believe that it would be far worse because they'd the democrats did not
have sixty senators they didn't have sixty votes
in nineteen ninety-four now they do
if they still can't get this done with sixty votes in the senate
it doesn't matter
he said
it will be an embarrassing this out disaster no matter what conservative
news outlets tried to tell you not only do they have sixty votes in the senate
they have the support
of the american people
yes you can find
biased skewed leading question polls that don't make it completely clear that
a public option as long as it doesn't replace
fight by necessity
private plan that you have
should be included
just last week we set it's he's here to find people
who believe in u_f_o_'s
than it is to find people who
lou are
to the public option
on what planet
with the democrats be able to get anything through forget about single
payer forget about even a reasonable public option just like oh this watered
down
piece of crap public option that it seems like it's going to be the only
option that's left is what would get through on what planet could you get
something through if you can't under the circumstances if you the democrats
overwhelming public support
that that they were
legitimate polls and sixty votes in the senate
and increasing
horribly increasingly costly
horrible healthcare disaster
right you know i i agree it's embarrassing referred to democrats and
for the administration put it's much worse for the american people
ancillary economy
and unfortunately i think you know
won't perhaps once the service public option eventually becomes available
and you know turns out to work rather well
may be dead by the way the best-case scenario
if it passes
we're not talking about anything good happening soon by any means
which i predicted
but well ya you know
and speaking of embarrassing on this term of health care
montana senator max baucus we hear a lot about him he is the senate finance
committee chairman the senate point man on health care reform
annual article in the montana standard finds that senator baucus has received
more campaign money from health and insurance industry interests
than any other member of congress
so we know that many members of congress receive money
and are paid
in campaign contributions from some of these companies
them the point person on health care
in the united
states max baucus
is the guy
who has received the most money
from those same companies in industries that have the biggest interest in
preventing
reform
ultimately ultimately we really don't know what's going on behind the scenes
in terms of of money and donations and bribes and uh... and all that i mean
you know we talked about how powerful the insurance companies are
uh... you know something you may never happen just because of that or the
article said in the past six years nearly one fourth of every dime raised
by bacchus and his political action committee
has come from groups and individuals associated with drug companies insurers
hospital so on and so forth slightly looked into this
there's many websites which will show you the specific contributions of
different companies in industries
the top contributors to max baucus over the years have been
edgy
aetna
a new york life insurance three
big contributors
health insurer insurance companies with all sorts of different types of
insurance
the top industries that have
provided money for max baucus is campaigns
insurance
pharmaceuticals
health products
professionals
incredible there's no question that these are large donors to many senators
i i'm anticipating email saying
look at who donates to any senator i get that
but the point is
not only is he the point man for health care
he is also the guy who has received the most from these companies
it's incredible to me it really is incredible but john ensign who's also in
the senate finance committee
if you think that other than max baucus where in good shape with the senate
finance committee
using news alert we're not
we're not in good shape in the senate finance committee
there have been a number of amazing statement including from republican
senator from nevada john ensign he tried to make the case
and morning in lewis this is
it's going to take it getting back down to a lower level of intellect in
understanding
but even then from one where we're at which is already were operating attn
a_d_m_ ameet mediocre level to say that that per se the most
ends and try to idea of
that the u_s_ system is the best in the world and he bristled at data that the
country lags in halting preventable deaths
compared to other industrialized nations
he argued that the comparisons are unfair
and here's why
they include deaths from auto accidents and we know the u_s_ has a lot of cars
and gun violence which shirt unique
cultural
factors and he goes on if you think is that general statement is a little bit
this is what he literally said
when you take into account cultural factors
the fact that we drive cars a lot more than any other country
and were much were much more mobile
if you take out accidental deaths due to car accidents and you take out a gun
deaths because we like our guns in the u_s_
you take out those two things you adjust those
and we actually are better in terms of survival rates
it's incredible what he's saying is
he's proud of these cultural factors he's proud he's ok with having a kind of
car accident deaths
they we really like our cars and we really like to be mobile in the u_s_ and
he says it's ok that guns kill thousands of people because
we like our guns that's essentially what he says
that's great we can we can sqn alter statistics in any argument anytime we're
talking about a numbers it's like if i said for you
listen louis peer your for the uh... the aids in africa lobby okay let you know
what
if you take out the fact that so many people in africa died of aids because it
will come on
we don't have the money to treat them all
eight isn't really that big of an issue in africa we just have to take out the
all the people that we define of the money to treat they don't really count
to the death paul
exactly
a poor who would allow something like that to be studi
said in the senate finance committee
and not be
undertaken cyrillic taken it seriously anyway and that you know what
let's say we do what john ensign is saying and we remove
those two crucial parts of the of deaths in the u_s_ car accidents
and gun deaths
the u_s_ is still only seventeen
in in avoiding preventable deaths still not great
so my great don't know
any other areas where people in the u_s_ would accept being seventeen
nockard certainly not the best and lastly if you need even more evidence
that there's reason to be concerned about the senate finance committee which
at this point we don't
that's making so many decisions about how health care reform here's one this
is the same committee that voted for fifty million dollars for abstinence
only education
orrin hatch said
it works even though congress is own research the research that his employer
has done
is just pop and just plain old common sense show you
that abstinence only education does not work and i won't even i won't even
insult our audience by boring them with the obvious tutsis dicks about it
it's incredible the senate finance committee
to meet at the seams
it's troubling it's troubling to me the senate finance committee and its scary
to me that day in max baucus are in charge of reforming health care for the
u_s_
well i don't know what to say about it itself expired