private company because 2 thirds of all americans, 217 million people are covered by private providers but if kamala harris is elected president those providers could disappear and all 217 million could have their care managed by uncle sam. for people who like their insurance they don t get to keep it? the idea is everyone gets access to medical care and you don t have to go through the process of going through an insurance company. reporter: everyone would have a government run plan instead, medicare for all which goes further than the last democratic president s initial picture. if you like your healthcare plan you ll be able to keep your healthcare plan, period. the republican chairman in iowa says this talking point fires up the far left in your liberal home state of california but this plan would prove disastrous for iowans and midwesterners and it is not just republicans taking apart this policy proposal. to replace the entire private
democrat because he doesn t like congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez s idea of a 70% tax rate, calling her misinformed. and finally, the man who hasn t decided whether to run for president has just hired former obama aide bill burton as communications advisor, the same bill burton who argued in 2016 that jill stein running as a third-party candidate would help make trump president, but now says if howard schultz runs, it would be a more serious effort than jill stein. shannon? shannon: all right, trace. thank you very much for the update. another issue for kamala harris, health care. she says she has no problem eliminating all private health care plans but at what cost? correspondent peter doocy takes a look. odds are if you are watching this, you have health insurance through a private company, because two-thirds of all americans, 217 million people, are covered by private
providers. but if kamala harris is elected president, those providers could disappear, and all 217 million could have their care managed by uncle sam. for people out there who like their insurance, they don t get to keep it. listen, the idea is that everyone gets access to medical care. you don t have to go through the process of going through an insurance company. everyone would have a government-run plan instead. medicare for all, which goes a lot further than the last democratic president s initial page. if you like your health care plan, you ll be able to keep your health care plan. period. the republican chairman and the first in the nation caucus date iowa, says senator harris perhaps this talking point firen california but this plan would prove disastrous for iowans and midwesterners, and this time, it s not just republicans taking part of this policy proposal. to replace the entire private
patient needs. that will get worse here if we have medicare for all. there is a huge bureaucracies that will come along down the pike. you will get rid of the employer-based healthcare system, a job incentive. a job killer. it s giving an entitlement to people who maybe wanted to take a job because it gave them health insurance. bill: 56% of the u.s. population has employer-based healthcare insurance. 16% others are covered by a private insurance that they have paid for on their own. it s 217 million americans. that is a fundamental overhaul of our healthcare system in america. what does that cost? it will cost $31 to 32 trillion in transition costs over 10 years. bill: how do you get that number? urban institute. a middle of the road group. it is not a slanted number. that s transition costs not to mention what the bureaucratic costs will be going forward and not to mention displacing people from the doctor they are used to. another cost no one talks about.
i mean, you name it,, nobody is against the idea of helping our soldiers and sailors. we can t do enough. frank siller i think will go down in history as one of the great americans for the military military. beautiful man, gave up his fur furrier business, devotes himself full time to helping. you re going to be on that list too. talk about the pressure that you left in the aftermath of that attack. you were running this city. it was your job to kind of pull us all out of that. well, one of the vows i made to myself as i was standing there watching my firefighters walk up that building and knowing they were going to die, that i was going to take care of their families and i was going to get new yorkers to take care of their families. and my charity, the twin towers fund, raised $217 million. we gave every penny to them. frank has raised even more. they ve already been taken care of. so now we re moving on and have been for 13 years to helping the soldiers. we re still at war. we st