Author of the health care expose americans bitter pill. But first i would be amiss if i didnt all right, here we go. Hey, welcome to the daily show 2015 in the house. 2015 is just hours old but all eyes are looking ahead to 2016. 2015 means its 2016 decision time. 2015 is really the start of 2016. laughter [bleep] cheers and applause jon i buy my novelty glasses by the decade. So but you heard rate. The race for the white house is officially begun. Our Nations Highest Office up for grabs in a freeh for all most thrilling ritual of american politics in tonights mockup 2016 t begins who has got first . Former virginia senator jim webb became the first person in either party to announce an exploratory committee. laughter jon okay. Jim jim webb. Charlottes brother jim. laughter well hes in first. You know what i mean. At least hes coming in clean blank slate no way they can take jim webb down this early really that fast, they got him, already . They got him down. Questions swirling around democratic prospect for president and payment his wife and daughter got for the polit call action committee. Were talking about 90,000 over some 12 areas but it was paid to his close relatives. His daughter does have a Web Marketing firm. She redid his web site and helped with some of the web 2016 material. laughter jon i believe i have a clever repost for that. So you are saying jim webb is embroiled in a scandal involving his web site. laughter the most ironic fall from grace since senator melvin dickpictweet. laughter you know when he was done that wasnt a thing. And as he got older, they hey dickpictweet he is like oh i should really see what this is all about. Obviously it hurt his career much to his apparent disdain. So not that we need other options for president , but please tell me we have other options. Independent vermont senator Bernie Sanders is hinting that he mate try to fill that void. Hes not yet a democrat officially but he has visited iowa four times. laughter jon visited eye way four time its and judging by his hair, he ran there. laughter i got two words for Bernie Sanders what did dow, go to the barber and say give me the doc brown. I mean come on run for president old man. I will own you sanders. I will own you. Come on keep them coming president alcan datas are like pringles, once you pop, you cant stop, give me more. Look at chrisistie from my home state. People in new jersey will tell you he probably spends more time in iowa than new jersey. Over the past year he has spent 152 days or 4 2k of his time outside of new jersey. Jon 42 , that is rude. Em leigh for a governor who made the rest of new jersey spend 42 of our time on the George Washington bridge. Not that we mind you keeping a little distance. You can stay out of the state, christie as long as you keep it respectful. Governor chris chrisyear was back in the cowboys owners box last night. Jon i assume the phrase back in the cowboys owner boxes is some sort of slang for snorting crystal meth out of a cowboy hat because that would be more preferable that sitting next to jerry jones. The favor rit Football Team was hosting the detroit i will objects in the playoffs. When the cowboys made a late come back there is the governor going for the high five with dallas owner jerry jones. Jon mother [bleep] you lead a state that half giants fans, half eagles fans and you are groping the owner of the dallas [bleep] cowboys . Why dont you just break a copy of born to run over the head of Hurricane Sandy victim you backstabbing piece of [bleep]. cheers and applause jon not only do we not want to see you hugging jerry jones. I dont think jerry jones wants to see you hugging jerry jones. Look at him try to get away. Trying to evade the tackle. All right. I guess thats it. Theres been a great deal of speculation as to whether i would run for president. laughter jon no there hasnt. laughter i mean i dont know maybe we run in different circles but i have not been hearing hearing any huckabuzz. Besides you already have a good job on fox news, right. Tonight im going to do more than just say good night. Im going to say goodbye. This is the last edition of huckabee on the fox news channel. Jon no wait dont go. laughter if you leave who will they have to represent the aggrieved White Christian conservative viewpoint okay i get it. I guess you can go. Im not going to make a decision about running until late in the spring of 2015. But the continued chatter has put fox news into a position that just isnt fair to them. Jon nobody is talking about it youre the only one ooh the phone is ringing off the hook. Youre lake a guy breaking up with someone without didnt realize that you two were ever going out in the first place. Its not fair to you, for to us go on like this okay. Enough of the rants you wont make it past the second pram ear debate. When does the 2016 headliner come on. For the democrats all eyes are on Hillary Clinton this weak she teased her supporters with this email entitled announcement. Jon omg omg this is t this is it the least surprising surpass in the world is fanl leigh here what possible other announcement could Hillary Clinton, the woman everyone in america knows is going to run for president give she knows it we know that we know that she knows that we know, oh this delicate dance of seduction and denail has gone on for so long. I dont know if america can take another minute, just make the announcement. This email entitled announcement that turned out to be a fundraising letter for her familys foundation. laughter jon what the did you just fly all your supporters down to jamaica get down on one knee in front of all of us pick up a quarter and walk away . Well assuming hillary is in we can get rid of the other candidates cluttering up the joint. Thank you. There is just no one else with that kind of political brand recognition. Jeb bush will actively explore a president ial run. Jeb bush acting more and more like a president ial candidate. I guess the constitutional scholars treating his brother like george can stanza and doing the complete opposite . That wab pretty good governing principles, is that what he is doing . He resigned from all of his corporate and nonprofit board positions. Jeb bush has cut his consulting ties to barclays the Big International british bank now quitting as the director of tenet healthcare. He continued his resignation frenzy. laughter jon you know its becoming harder and harder to tell difference between someone running for president or joining a cult. Im afraid that if i want to live in the big white house i have to renounce all my earthly ties. laughter so all of these people, apparently vying for the most powerful position on the face of this earth and how are they displaying their qualifications. Oh theyre quitting their shows and resigning everything they were ever a part of in any way, or faking us out, im going to run, im to the going to run. And i want to tell you something, that is why i jon stewart of the daily show, is throwing my support behind senator melvin dickpictweet cheers and applause only pizza huts new menu finally gives crust the flavor it so rightfully deserves. Get any one of ten new crust flavors for free. Like, toasted asiago. Salted pretzel. Or honey sriracha. For a limited time carry out a large two topping for 7. 99. Only at pizza hut. Who cares what it holds, if it cant hold your gaze . Who cares how tight it can turn, if it cant turn heads . 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You know i remember i think it was last month seth rogen and james franco movie was open to one nasty review. The interview portrays a plot to assassinate kim jungun. Sony pictures the studio that made the film has been the target of a large scale hack. The hacker its threatened to launch 9 11 style attack on theatres that screened the moveyear. The company dee allegedly targeted by north korean tackers hacker, sony initially canceled the moveyears release. Well this messes a lot of things. When you start messing with our blooep wlooep holiday releases the cinematic delights we partake in to avoid having to talk to our family you have stepped on a landmine. The first penalty issued by the white house after the hack on sony pictures. A new set of sanctions. Jon boom Merry Christmas mother [bleep] pou sanction pou applause the question now is what shape these sanctions will take. Perhaps we could restrict transfers of cash and cattle. Sanctions include the elicit activities of nrt considerian diplomatic personnel nrt korean banking relationships elicit sanctions of new trash and travel restriction. Jon we already did it maybe we could stop north consideria from smuggling arms into states will now have new authority to inspect cargo and stop north korean arm smugglings and proliferation. Jon [bleep]. We did that one. Why dont we stop north korea from smuggling fancy treats in like our specialty. Sanction aimed at north koreans elite which may snuling el exotic food or cigarettes. laughter jon all right so, we already have sanctions so tough nobody there can get lung cancer. What new punishments are even left. The big sanction here is barring the north korean entities from the u. S. Financial systems. One is the rgb, this is nrt koreans kgb. Another one is a big arms dealer for 9 nrt coriance and the third another Trading Corporation with tied to its defense industry. Jon i just want to interrupt there. So in all the sanctions we had on nrt korea north koreas kgb and arms dealers were still allowed to use our Banking System . laughter jon not that on average they didnt make our Banking System less evil but still still north korea ask our worst enemy on earth and they are still allowed to use our atms. North korea is already the world capitol of having no capitol. If we are sending a message about this sony hack, we got to make kim junguns place in his very tiny yet expensive feet. The white house has made it clear this is just the first round of payback for the cyberattack. President obama still considers whether to place north korea back on its list of states that sponsored terrorism. Jon you made the list buddy. That goes on your permanent record. Good luck kim jungun getting into oberlins premed program now. laughter jon not sure what the state sponsored is going to accomplish here either does that mean isis has to wear uniforms that say north korea on them, is that shall did i guess our anger anger is no surprise. These hackers violated our privacy. They read our emails. What kind of a country does that. New documents from ed snowden and they show that our government has been illegally reading our emails. The government is spying on our emails. The emails of tens of millions of americans. Why was the u. S. Government reportedly reading their emails laughter jon touche but at least when we spy on us we have the decency not to leak [bleep] about angelina jolie. Monsters. Well be right back. [music crowd noise] [boom] [ringing sound] taxes are your year, only much simpler. Intuit turbotax. You wouldnt do half of your daily routine. So why treat your mouth any differently. 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The book is called parkers bitter pill. So last time you were here you had written this sort of incredible article for Time Magazine which was an old, back in the old days a magazine people would buy on the newsstand. Exactly. Jon but it detailed an awful lot of inherent cost fluctiations in our system that were not being addressed. Is this the fleshed out version of that . I think its much more. It uses the saga of the fight over the Affordable Care act o billionacare to tell the story obamacare to tell of a dysfunctional government trying to fix a dysfunctional healthcare system. And you can imagine what happens. Jon blind leading the blind. So you come on, you write this really revealing expose about the medical system. You come on the program. How much later, a little bit later you find yourself in the hospital. Right. As i was finishing the reporting for the book. Literally on the last day of enrollment on the exchanges for obamacare which a lot of my reporting i was told by a doctor during a recent checkup that i needed emergency open heart surgery. So obviously i figured this guy was trying to charge me me revenge. But it turned out to be true. I had this thing called an aneurysm i had no symptoms. I felt fine. I worked out the day i had a checkup. Jon in your heart an aneurysm in your heart. Yeah its like a bubble in your heart. And if it burst, you dont go to the emergency room youre just dead. Jon why do you think president obama was trying to kill you . I thought a lot of bad things. And i think he was just up set with what was going to happen with the book about writing about the about the web site didnt launch why it didnt launch, how he was told it wasnt going to launch. Well but he went ahead anyway. I think thats probably most of it. Jon so the nsa at night miniatureized blew a bubble in your heart. I hope it was my nassal system. Jon exactly there are too many ways to get in there. Thats right. Jon settle down. You got that. Jon fantastic voyage. Has the Affordable Care act done so some of the problems in there is we as a nation could not collectively bargain for drug prices our drug prices are unreasonably high as compared to the rest of the world. Our standing on Health Care Spending on health care was enormous compared to the rest of the world. Have we addressed that . Well the whole reform was supposed to do two things. It was supposed to get more People Health care. One of the scandals is we are the only developed country in the world where people cant get health care. And it was supposed to cut cost. The good news is it got more People Health care. Its bad news is that the taxpayers are paying for that health care by paying the same exorbitant prices and allowing the Drug Companies socalled nonprofit hospitals and medicaldevice makers to make the same exorbitant profits that are not seen anywhere else in the world. So were all. Jon it has not controlled the prices. But yet it just created a whole bunch of new customers for this ridiculous nonfunctioning marketplace. Jon but doesnt the fact of that drive down the prices of the health plan . No, why would it. They dont have to. They have no market controls. Its not a free market. There is no one in this audience, you or i who can be any kind of a savvy customer getting health care. Jon but yet hasnt Health Care Spending gone down there 2014 . The rate of increase has slowed slightly. Jon thats something. Thats something. Jon the rate of increase. But it is 965 pages of the Affordable Care act. I am there there isnt anything in that bill that does anything to address the high cost of drugs the profits made by nonprofit hospitals. Jon those are the deals they made to get it passed. What i have read is that the higher deductibles for these policies, the fact that people now will have to go more out of pocket with higher deductibles has caused people to think twice about the types of care that were more routine, that they slowed their spending in that regard. There is no evidence. That is a nice thought and the second part of that nice thought is it may cause people who dont have the means not to get the health care they need. But you know the problem with health care in the United States is very simple. The prices are too damn high. Like that guy who ran for mayor said the rents too high. The prices are all too high. And. Jon you just wrote that guys next mayorral campaign. Thats right. I hope. This law does nothing to deal with that. But it does do a very good thing, which is it gives people from the treasury the money to go buy health care at those same ridiculous prices. Jon right. And does it not alleviate the spending though on emergency room care where people without insurance would be a flood, when they were unable to get insurance . Well, what happens now is because they have insurance the hospitals can collect more money from them because they can collect it from the insurance companies. Jon so they are doing that. All the hospitals are making much more money. Jon all right were going to come back you have a nice pitch for that. We will come back. Well come back. Americas bitter pill is on book shelves now. Steven brill. Well b can 7up ten pack full 7up flavor into only 10 calories . Well if you can pack this much irony into one moment, then yes 7up ten can pack full 7up flavor into only 10 calories. Thats the power of ten. Also packed in these brands. 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