thank you for your question, senator. if i didn t express myself in a way to make myself understood, i apologize. there are no doctors exiting the public system in canada. and, in fact, we see a net influx of physicians from the united states into the canadian system over the last number of years. how many canadian patients on a waiting list die each year, do you know? i don t, sir. but i know there are 45,000 in america who die waiting because they don t have insurance at all. john, isn t there a rule in the courtroom never ask a question unless you know what the answer is going to be? this guy got cold cocked by this woman. she just nailed him on his two main points. the canadian system is no damn good and ours is great. your thoughts? there is a television show i m familiar with called hardball that was hardball right there. and he got knocked out of the park. look, the debate over health care has always been filled with canards and a lot of no-nothingism. and there is n
canards and a lot of no nothingism. and there is no doubt that a lot of republicans look at he has refused to acknowledge the fact that almost every industrialized country in the world, including canada, have better health care systems than ours and better by the measures that matter in terms of mortality rates, in terms of the cost per capita, in terms of life expectancy. all those things are true, and they ve always been true. it s why there has always been an imperative one way or the other to have a better health care system. and the affordable care act act may have flaws, but it s trying to move news the direction of where every other rich country in the world. and canada is a scapegoat, but it is true by lchl every metric a better health care system than ours. i want your reaction to what we just saw. a lot of people watch this and say that s how you argue, you get the fax and you fight the fiction. and that s what i was going to say. you push back with facts and against hype
between nonrecovery. and i know that you re a free market guy and believe in the power of incentives. their incentives are very much in that direction. well, let me ask this question. i disagree. guy, let me say this. given what both jim and krystal have said, and about the canards you want to demythologyize or deconstruct, on the other hand, are you going to actually deny that out of their own mouths, when they ve indicated that their very first, you know, if you will, responsibility was to keep obama from becoming a second termer, then obstructionism is an easy assignment after that, because their goal is to roll back anything he does. out of their own mouths they say that. how can you not acknowledge that? let s address that point by point. first of all, i reject the entire premise. i believe that virtually everyone in this town both parties, look at 25 million americans out of work or giving up, are suffering. paul krugman called america s
they have a great incentive to do everything they can to stand between now and recovery. i know you re a free market guy and believe in the power of incentives. their incentives are very much in that direction. let me ask this question. i disagree. guy, let me say this, though. given what jimmy and crystal have said and what you just said about the canards you want t demythologize. do you believe, out of their own mouths, they indicated, their very first, if you will, responsibility was to keep obama from becoming a second termer, that obstructionism is an easy assignment after that. their goal is to road block anything he does. out of their own mouths. how can you not acknowledge that? first of all, i reject the entire premise. virtually both parties look at 25 million americans out of work, underemployed, having given up looking for work. they re suffering. paul krugman called the current american condition a depression. everyone in this town wants to
i know you re a free market guy and believe in the power of incentives. their incentives are very much in that direction. let me ask this question. i disagree. guy, let me say this, though. given what jimmy and crystal have said and what you just said about the canards you want to demyth demy demythologize. do you believe, out of their own mouths, they indicated, their very first, if you will, responsibility was to keep obama from becoming a second termer, that obstructionism is an easy assignment after that. their goal is to road block anything he does. out of their own mouths. how can you not acknowledge that? first of all, i reject the entire premise. virtually both parties look at 25 million americans out of work, underemployed, having given up looking for work. they re suffering. paul krugman called the current american condition a depression.