would allow private insurance to continue to exist. clarify, bennet is defending the existence of private insurance as an option. bernie sanders doesn t want that at all. bennet s argument is that this would create competition which would allow the public to choose a public option over private insurance which is an entity making a profit. a practicing physician and vice president of payer and provider integration at johns hopkins medicine. she served in the obama administration as director of policy for the office of intergovernmental affairs and public engagement. good to see you. this is tricky. you can get tripped up on the words and the technicalities of all of these things. in general, everybody on the democratic stage wants us to move more toward what other countries in the world have, and that is a system in which everybody either has coverage or gets health care paid for. right, absolutely, ali. and just keep in mind just like
by his own admission and a lot of somewhat skeptical of the report we got last year about things like his weight and so forth. remember, that was dr. ronnie jackson. \dr. jackson is no longer his official white house physician, he got a new job title recently called the chief chief medical officer at the white house. that s supposed to make him a policy adviser on opiod abuse rather than a practicing physician overseeing his health. will that be his responsibility. there will be a team of doctors at walter reed that will do this kind of thing, a specialist that will look at each and every aspect of the president s health. you can be sure that we ll be looking for it and asking for it, and there s going to be a lot of pressure on the white house to release at least some information, whether we ll get the same kind of lengthy briefing that we got from dr. jackson last year, that was quite exuberant about the president s help, that i m not sure about. thanks to all three of you.
than most states. virginians react negatively to a photo like that which is mind boggling. i m sure the governor is under a lot of pressure. we have a hard time understanding this. we think of the whole thing as bizarre and we are just observers. imagine if you re governor and in a matter of hours, this started late yesterday afternoon, in a matter of hours, everybody you know is talking about your resignation. i am sure it is mind blowing. and david, he s a pediatrician, studying to be a pediatrician at the time. if you are black and if you are a patient or perhaps any number of your children were to be treated by dr. northam at the time and now learning of this, you know, a very short space between being a practicing physician of all people and
protections so people who need these protections pay a lot more. other protections to disappear including caps, bans on annual or lifetime limits. important if you have a chronic or term call illness. they can charge more based on age, gender or profession and young people would not stay on insurance policies until they re 26 years old. there s a lot that could go wrong here. joining me is a doctor, who s a practicing physician at johns hopkins university. good to talk to you. thank you for being with us. great to see you. this ruling one day before the end of the obamacare open enrollment period for 2019. millions of people signed up or renewed coverage for next year. for people who get their insurance in some fashion through the affordable care act, what does this mean? as of today, nothing has changed because the ruling did
it absolutely not free. part of what the government pays as gpsd goe gross domestic product goes up. 170 million people get their insurance right now through their employer. guess what their employer does? they take a tax deduction. they don t pay taxes on it it s an incentive for jobs. this thing is a job killer. if you get rid of 170 million coverage and there is more choice, more competition. again, no competition here, no choice. so prices will not go down. and, again, there is no incentive for getting a job. steve: doctor, as a doctor, you want to make sure everybody has healthcare. most people in the united states pay for their own one way or the other. what s the number one thing that concerns but single payer which this essentially is or free healthcare for everybody? steve, you just already said it. as a practicing physician, i like the idea of everybody being covered with catastrophic insurance so if they went to the emergency