Care system is broken and the polls say that 70 percent say it is broken. Right. I do think healthcare will be the number one domestic policy issue in the president ial election. In a recent poll that just came out from gallup that said 35 percent of the American People polled rate healthcare as extremely important as one of the issues and we have seen 53 percent of americans support singlepayer but now 65 percent are supporting the public option which is a supplemental Insurance Plan to compete i call it the steppingstone approach to government run healthcare. Host they say the proof is in the pudding if you look at the last election cycle two years ago, my party were ousted as the majority in the house to make the argument regarding healthcare and many of us campaign on repeal and replace and unfortunately we did not get that done and that was shown at the ballot box. Exactly. Donald trump won the presidency to say we will repeal and replace obama care and it is a disaster turning th
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
Took over the Canadian Health care system in 1984. No private coverage is allowed for anything considered medically necessary. Most things are medically necessary in health care. A couple of things that arent, cosmetic surgery if i want to make myself look younger, better, lasik surgery for your eyes. The prices have gone down, not gone up because the government isnt involved. In canada in 84 the government took over. I worked at the Frazier Institute where we started a project called waiting your turn a guide to hospital waiting lists. And in 1993, the first year, the average wait time from seeing a primary care doctor to getting treatment by a specialist, in 1993 that wait was 9. 3 weeks, just over two months. Today last year, 2019, the average wait time had increased to 20. 9 weeks. Thats over five months. And 608,000 canadians cross the border every year and pay out of pocket for getting mris, ct scans, orthopedic surgeries, hip replacements, heart, you know, valve replacements, th
Into the president ial election in a recent poll and then to be extremely important for co but 53 percent support single perry lined a single payer but now 65 percent support the public option and then to call that steppingstone approach. But then the proof is in the pudding look at the election cycle a few years ago so to make their reason for that so they campaigned on repeal and replace. And then the house and the senate and then to turn it upside down and that will be the issue and then to have a Cohesive Strategy to educate why to have a marketbased Health Care System not controlled such as the federal government. But senator coburn said five years after president obama legislative achievement went into full effect many lowend income people have been forced into plans with as high as 12000 deductibles. Obama care will turn ten mard this year i thought for sure it would be overturned but it wasnt but senator coburn is absolutely right. The American People do not like obama care and
Booktv Monthly Program with bestselling author naomi klein. Her books on economics and Public Policy include no logo, the shock doctrine and the recently published on fire, the case for the Green New Deal. Thanks for joining us in our studios in new york on booktv. We are in midtown manhattan were branding and marketing is a big business. Let me begin with your first book. What did you learn about nike, microsoft, starbucks . Guest its great to be with you and have this time. It came out at the very beginning of 2000, so almost exactly 20yearsold. I was researching it for years before that. It was a period a lot was changing in the corporate world and you had the first kind of fullblown lifestyle brand which is an idea that we all take for granted now but these were companiesco that for the first time were declaring that their Business Model wasnt to sell products but so ideas and the lifestyle of belonging that they could then extend into kind of selfimposed branded cocoons and they c