i think the question is this. this was s.t.a.r.t.ed by abraham lincoln after the civil war, and at the time it made sense. now that we have such the country is so much larger, the medicine is so much dispersed in areas in the country where there is other expertise, the budget for the v.a. s 85 billion a year, the number of patients is 6.5 or so. do the math. that s almost 10,000 a year per patient. why not have each of those vets get a voucher for $10,000 to purchase private insurance and to go anywhere but of course an administration like this would never even contemplate that. but it is a question. if these problems are systemic and chronic, and they are from the bureaucrat inning structure of a government-run system. why wouldn t you contemplate voucherizing and privatizing it? here s the thing. wait lists are often part and parcel of government run health care systems.
he said you could keep your doctor and you can t. here s grandma, loses her doctor, fantastic. thank you for the preview of 2014. i want to point out what a lot of democrats will point to, ezra klein underlined, 9 had% of hospital executives think it will make care better and reduce the per patient operating cost within their particular hospital. if there s any group of people that should know what this law will do and have a good sense of what it will do, it s hospital executives and i think that poll means more than people out in the world saying, i think this is going to be horrible because they ve been overaffected by the negative messaging and demagoguing from the right. the other thing to point out, we talk about death spiral if they don t make this march by march 21st and what have. we have an economy with there are multiple companies and millions of new consumers coming in. 40 million people coming into the mall. if you are the company that
what is sure to be a heated election year debate. meanwhile, our out-of-control health care costs continue to climb. no other nation spends more than 12% of its economy on health care. america spends 17%. what is more, we don t benefit from the huge price tag. the standard measurement ranked 29th in the world. our mortality rate is twice that of sweden and japan. so what is our problem? in this hour in a time magazine essay, we will take you around the world to find out what lessons we can learn from others. we ll visit great britain, taiwan and switzerland to find out what those nations are doing right and what they are doing wrong. we will also show you some really interesting innovation going on back here in america. in one of the most poorest and crime-ridden cities in the nation. first, let s talk about the one thing americans are certain is bad. government-run health care across the atlantic in great bitten. is the nation s health service an evil death panel as some s
what is sure to be a heated election year debate. meanwhile, our out-of-control health care costs continue to climb. no other nation spends more than 12% of its economy on health care. america spends 17%. what is more, we don t benefit from the huge price tag. our healthy life expectancy, the standard measurement, ranks only 29th in the world behind slovenia. our infant mortality rate ranks 30th. it s more than twice that of sweden and japan. so what is our problem? in this hour in a time magazine essay, we will take you around the world to find out what lessons we can learn from others. we ll visit great britain, taiwan and switzerland to find out what those nations are doing right and what they are doing wrong. we will also show you some really interesting innovation going on back here in america. in one of the most poorest and crime-ridden cities in the nation. first, let s talk about the one thing americans are certain is bad. government-run health care across the atlan
america spends 17%. what is more, we don t benefit from the huge price tag. our healthy life expectancy, the standard measurement, ranks only 29th in the world behind slovenia. our infant mortality rate ranks 30th. it s more than twice that of sweden and japan. so what is our problem? in this hour in a time magazine essay, we will take you around the world to find out what lessons we can learn from others. we ll visit great britain, taiwan and switzerland to find out what those nations are doing right and what they are doing wrong. we will also show you some really interesting innovation going on back here in america. in one of the most poorest and crime-ridden cities in the nation. first, let s talk about the one thing americans are certain is bad. government-run health care across the atlantic in great britain. is the nation s health service an evil death panel as some say? let s take a look. during america s debate over health care reform, critics said britain s govern