saying about people being in your network or not in your network and the fact that under medicare for all everyone would be in everyone s network, we found that first hand we spoke with a mother here in new york. now, new york in comparison to other states we visited has great health insurance, less than 5% of new yorkers are uninsured, compare that to texas where millions of folks don t have health insurance. but even here we met a mom who has a 3-year-old who has an autoimmune disease. they were 15 months in and out of hospitals, went to a hospital where they were like we take your insurance but this dr. doesn t. so she spent she quit her job to fully take care of her son and navigating this entire bureaucratic system. so say what you will about medicare for all, it s expensive, it s a socialism, whatever it have it s simpler. and someone like this mother in a state like new york who has health insurance said to me, no, no, i believe in a statewide medicare for all. there s a bill
in nine 93 as bill clinton s administration arrived promising a rude and branch making of a health care sector less complex than today s, they were warning about an insistent upon ignorance. the great strength of political sn could be servetives at this time and for a generation is they are open to the thought that matters complex. liberals have gotten into a reflexive pattern of denying. it breeds political recklessness among deniers and despair among people who know things. next year with the most complex problem returner most in many voters minds, denial might pro dr produce a president s re-election. let s take his larger point about health care, the medicare for all debate and what it may mean in 2020. do you believe that is a problem
sensible, doesn t have to be huge revenue package together, but to go after our infrastructure, people would respond to if tt. because as we ve been saying, you re getting something that affects me. flint, michigan can t get tap water. infrastructure is tangible and something everyone understands immediately and it s a blue collar issues. yeah. and that s from that point of view, it may seem modest compared to medicare fora a all but it s a winner in a lot of the states. there s no such thing as an election poll. on election tday there are 50 elections. talking about national polls isn t what matters. what matters is where do voters in pennsylvania, michigan, florida, north carolina, and wisconsin go in november. you write the winning democrat will need to make trump s presidency seem insignificant rather than monumental. what you to mean by that?
students have understand the complex sit ties. when it comes to health care for me at least, it means we could feel our way out of this by a step by step approach that gives more and more people a public option, the right to buy into medicare, and medicaid. see where that leads. maybe that leads to a system that s maybe mainly government funded. but you don t need to do it root and branch. you can allow people more and more of a public option and be careful as we go down a path and hopefully go down the path while listening to people on both sides. bill cassidy, our senator here in louisiana, say republican but i think he s trying to be thoughtful about this. you know, rev, far from the halls of congress there are people who are concerned about health care and three of the things that concern them are the cost of health care, access to health care, and the uncertainty of getting good health care. and when you walk around, you
side effects could include a payroll tax, progressive incomtax, tax on the wealthy and the government my final lib able to negotiate drug prices with pharmaceutical companies. the vague pharmaceutical companies. that was a clip from the special airing this sunday entitled red white and who? it s hosted by francesca. it takes a closer look at the debate over health care in the united states and joining us now is francesca, journalist and comedian. great to meet you. thank you. thanks for having me. you you really nailed the details of those random shots drinking the smoothie. yes, getting kissed by a dog. sitting in a bathtub like that weird cialis commercial. lots of flowers. you did get to serious matters on the question of medicare for all and you sat down with bernie sanders who we were talking about. let s take a look. for argument s sake let s say that i like my health insurance. good. i like the logo, i like the billing system, i like that they