Available podcasts. Thank you for joining me today. I have to tell you, i thoroughly enjoyed your book. I had the opportunity to read it and its obviously a timely subject. Obviously very important subject. Very. As you made know, im a pharmacist currently the only phenomenon pharmacist in congress so health care is something that is extremely important to me. Also important to the american citizens. I think everyone would agree we. They thought it was interesting you start by start off the book with the premise the Health Care System is broken, and if we look at the polls i think the polls would indicate that. Almost 70 of the people in america say that the Health Care System is broken. Right, well, i really think that health care is going to be in the number one domestic policy issue in the president ial election. In a recent poll, just came out from gallup that said 35 of the American People polled weighed health care as extremely important as one of the issues and we have seen in t
That. 70 percent of people today say the Healthcare System is broken. Right. I really think it is the number one domestic policy issue and in our recent poll from gallup said 35 percent of American People pulled Way Healthcare is extremely important and 53 percent of americans support singlepayer with no coverage but now 65 percent support the public option which is a Government Insurance plan to compete against the private insurance and that is what i call a steppingstone approach. You would think the proof is in the pudding if you look at the last election cycle two years ago, i guess one year ago, my party, the Republican Party was ousted as the majority in the house many people would make the argument the reason why is healthcare. Many of us campaigned on repeal and replace unfortunately we did not get that done for ago that showed at the ballot box. It was unfortunate because in the house and the senate to say it is access to obama care and it is a disaster turning the Healthcare
Medicare for all, medicare is going broke. Medicaid is consuming the state budgets so lets start to get to the bottom of this because of all the other things going on in this country, this is also it involves our health and physical health as a nation. Sally you are president ceo of the Pacific Institute to Research Center a fantastic organization and written a lot and you still write a lot on the subject of health care. Starting from the beginnin beginning, what is singlepayer health care quick. That is a very important point because a lot of people have no idea what it means it means the government is the only provider of health care. All private coverage, private insurance is all band under a singlepayer system and the government provides what is considered medically necessary for the population. Mark all private health care goes away. All Employer Health care goes away. Right. Right. Mark than the government takes over health care. Only two other organizations one is the Veterans A
Medicare for all, medicare is going broke. Medicaid is consuming the state budgets so lets start to get to the bottom of this because of all the other things going on in this country, this is also it involves our health and physical health as a nation. Sally you are president ceo of the Pacific Institute to Research Center a fantastic organization and written a lot and you still write a lot on the subject of health care. Starting from the beginnin beginning, what is singlepayer health care quick. That is a very important point because a lot of people have no idea what it means it means the government is the only provider of health care. All private coverage, private insurance is all band under a singlepayer system and the government provides what is considered medically necessary for the population. Mark all private health care goes away. All Employer Health care goes away. Right. Right. Mark than the government takes over health care. Only two other organizations one is the Veterans A