that i agree. i think choice is probably more politically popular and the medicare for america model and nor doable. there s two things to keep in mind. a lot of people have bad health insurance and don t like the status quo. there s status quo bias but let s not overlook the fact there are tens of millions of americans who don t like their insurance. who lose their insurance every year. if you lose your job, you lose your insurance. there s a tremendous amount of churn in the labor market. my employer, this place, has changed over who our insurer was i think at least once, maybe twice in the time i ve been here. so i ve noticed. yes, exactly. so there s a certain amount of churn. the other thing i ll say about this, and i think this is where the biden versus sort of warren-sanders debate is most intense and eventually we ll get to a debate with them all on the same stage. is this question of status quo bias and what we re trying how comfortable people feel. because it s
let me just to respond to, that i agree. i think choice is probably more politically popular and the medicare for america model and nor doable. there s two things to keep in mind. a lot of people have bad health insurance and don t like the status quo. there s status quo bias but let s not overlook the fact there are tens of millions of americans who don t like their insurance. who lose their insurance every year. if you lose your job, you lose your insurance. there s a tremendous amount of churn in the labor market. my employer, this place, has changed over who our insurer was i think at least once, maybe twice in the time i ve been here. so i ve noticed. yes, exactly. so there s a certain amount of churn. the other thing i ll say about this, and i think this is where the biden versus sort of warren-sanders debate is most intense and eventually we ll get to a debate with them all on the same stage. is this question of status quo bias and what we re trying how comfortab
the government, to me it s about wheth whether they trust the government, what s new or old. what s remarkable to me about the aca, having covered it, it was under water when it passed. it was under water for a very long time in the early parts of, you know, its implementation. now it s, like, plus 10%, plus 12%. they couldn t even get it repealed. the tangible thing, if you try to repeal medicare tomorrow, you lose 95 votes in the senate, right? like, it s less about government, more about, like, the concreteness of the thing that people have. i think that s right, i think it s primarily status quo bias. one other big point i want to make about this, i think democrats have gone off in a very weird direction about making this entire debate about private insurance. you can reform the health care system to have universal health insurance and to have lower costs and to have more comprehensive coverage in a dozen different ways. some of them have private insurance included. some of them
lose 95 votes in the senate, right? like, it s less about government, more about, like, the concreteness of the thing that people have. i think that s right, i think it s primarily status quo bias. one other big point i want to make about this, i think democrats have gone off in a very weird direction about making this entire debate about private insurance. you can reform the health care system to have universal health insurance and to have lower costs and to have more comprehensive coverage in a dozen different ways. some of them have private insurance included. some of them don t. we saw kamala harris come out with one that would have a long transition which i don t fully understand but would eventually have a private option within a public system. the idea that it all has to be revolving around this question of do you abolish private insurance seems to me if you look at international systems, many of which do this better in all kinds of ways, to be wrong. how do you guarantee univ
conditions, doing away with the ability of young people to get haack on their parents insurance policy why he think that s makes any sense, or yes thinks that is good politics is beyond my comprehension. i will tell you what we are going to do. and i think we are moving aggressively and effectively. our antidote to what he is talking about is to have the united states drawing every other major country on earth through a medicare for all single payer program guaranteeing health care to every man, woman and child in the country. if there are not two different approaches to health care, that what trump is proposing, that i have not seen differences of opinion. i want to follow up on that. one of the reasons, i ve watched a bunch of health care fights. i watched the aca fight. if there is a common line in them, it is status quo bias.