need to get the costs down. i was a doctor on the mexican border. people would come across the border legally and illegal. the fruit pickers the vegetable pickers paid cash for their healthcare. their wages were enough to afford every day healthcare. the first answer is to get the costs down by de regulating things. you think people were dying. we agree the unit cost per visit per task per operation are too high. if you it s bad and i am too old. the costs are higher in the united states than they are in countries. all these other countries who had universal systems free market works for many things,
we call for 676. you say we t group. it s a moral duty. we believe and i think many believe most americans believe that healthcare is a human right it is one of those things that you live in america all healthcare insurance, everybody wants insuranwould have insuran automatically. it sounds good. canada has a universal healthcare system they have people waiting 2-3 years for a primary care doctor. the problem is in canada for example you have to wait 6-9 months for a cat scan. there s no place i can t get you a cat scan in an hour in america. we caught mary lehey one of the former medical executives from canada sneaking across the border to come to mayo clinic which is for cash.
the costs are already going up accordling to reports claims costs are up 32 percent. i never understood how you could have it cover more people and have it cost less. the president has compounded the problem under the government mandates that you have to buy government approved insurance which isn t necessarily the insurance that you think works for you and your family in terms of what you want or need or can afford. you have to buy a very expensive level of coverage because it has to cover so many things. many of them are thing aren t necessarily right for you or your family. every policy must cover preventative care, mammograms, colon no, sir copy breast-feeding support and counsel elling. everybody has to pay for that even if you don t want it. everybody has to pay for government mandated insurance which has a long list of things they have to cover. of course the rates are going to
go up if you have to buy a lot of things that you don t want. what would you do about the poor. without government won t the poor suffer? we need to make sure i wanted to focus on getting rates of insurance down so people could get the care they need from a doctor they choose at lower costs. i don t think it helps any one when the cost of care and the cost of insurance continues to go up under the president s healthcare law. the other problem you are exempt if you run a business and you have fewer than 50 employees. i hear businesses saying i am not going to expand. i have 49 workers that s it. the federal reserve said one of the big drags on the econo in this country, the reason people aren t expanding or businesses aren t expanding people aren t being hired is because of the uncertainty as well as the mandates in the healthcare law. part of it is the number of 50 employees or fewer they are not
that s our show tonight. no and now john stossel. parts of our healthcare delivery system need fixing. they are blockd from their jobs they get health insurance from their jobs. no one knows how much things cost even doctors don t know. as a result things cost more. obama care doesn t address those problems. it is supposed to solve all kinds of other problems. you have turned, mr. president, the right of every american that has access to decent healthcare into reality for the first time in american history. yipee. obama care promises to help the uninsured and lower costs. maybe it will. it is early yet. i am skeptical obama care is creating new problems. orthopedic surgeon john berasa.