being told to expect next year if we do nothing will be even higher than this year. that means it spirals to correct you on that one. there are many analyses that say this was the corrective year on premium increases and now you ll have a stable market going forward. we have had three years of this that s not what we re hring from the insurers. why would humana pull out if that s the case? they may have their own budget and merger reasons. there are a lot of other business decisions. they were the sole insurer in the area. they were a monopolist. if you are a monopolist, you probably don t want to give it up unless you can t make money in a monopoly. is health care a right or a privilege? not from the government. so if you say that health care is a government granted right, then we as citizens are giving the government too much power over our lives. if we are saying we want this to be a government-granted right,
it is insurance companies. every american who has filed a claim has the experience of fighting with the health insurance companies to make sure that they get what they are entitled to. doctors have to spend half of their lives arguing with the insurance companies as to whether or not they can prescribe the medicine their patients need or provide the therapy that their patients need. huge amount of waste. that is why we need a simple system. and, as americans, we re going to have to make a very fundamental decision. very simple. is health care a right of all people? is it or not? ted doesn t think it is. i do think it is. and that if we agree, and i think most americans do, that it is a right, how do you provide health care to all people with high-quality in a cost-effective way. i happen to believe that medicare is a popular program. it works well, right now you get it at 65.
that change. and to an african-american president. in that interview about reagan, obama noted that reagan put us on a fundamentally different path because the country was ready for it. it remains unclear whether the country was ready for obama s vision. the most dramatic bet he made was health care. he spent the first few years of his presidency and all his political capital on passing it. and i would argue that even if trump finds a way to repeal and replace it, it remains an historic achievement. obama did what seven presidents failed to do. he made health care a fundamental right. it is the signature achievement of a consequential president. but presidential legacies also exist above and beyond laws and policies. we remember john f. kennedy for the energy, vitality, elegance and intelligence that he brought to the white house. and in that sense, obama has left an indelible mark. he and his family occupied the
and to an african-american president. in that interview about reagan, obama noted that reagan put us on a fundamentally different path because the country was ready for it. it remains unclear whether the country was ready for obama s vision. the most dramatic bet he made was health care. he spent the first few years of his presidency and all his political capital on passing it. and i would argue that even if trump finds a way to repeal and replace it, it remains an historic achievement. obama did what seven presidents failed to do. he made health care a fundamental right. it is the signature achievement of a consequential president. but presidential legacies also exist above and beyond laws and policies. we remember john f. kennedy for the energy, vitality, elegance and intelligence that he brought to the white house. and in that sense, obama has left an indelible mark. he and his family occupied the
police acted stupidly. the president of the united states says what anybody in washington would say, it was stupid to arrest one of the most famous professors in the world in their house for being in their house. there was a very different response on the right. this president has exposed himself as a guy over and over and over again who has a deep seeded hatred for white people or the white culture, i don t know what it is. this guy is, i believe, a racist. he didn t say anything about the race of the police officer, about the race of the professor. obama apologized. i could have calibrated those words differently. he invited the police officer to the white house for a beer. black moral witness falls signed. if the president can t talk about this without being sent to the wood shed to be on equal