More Americans are struggling to pay their medical bills. The cost of health care is rising, and there are different views on how to fix it. Republicans say government-run healthcare is not the answer. Democrats, meanwhile, continue to push for a universal healthcare system.
medicaid is possibly one of the closest ways in which america gets to a universal healthcare system. but i want to go to the cruz amendment, the idea that bare bones shurps policies that doesn t cover essential health benefits are going to be sold. which means in theory, and i m making the number up, somebody could sell you or me an insurance policy for 10, 20, 50, hundred dollar bucks a month with very little coverage. and that s what healthy people will buy, which means the sick people will be in what is essentially what was before obamacare a high-risk pool or uninsurable. right. and even one more point on that is that the premium kind of tax credits that we talk about, in this version of the bill you will actually be able to use premium tax credits to pay for those catastrophic plans that do not coverage essential hell benefits. so, i mean, think about that. it s exactly set up first of all, the tax credits aren t that
tremendous reversal. in 2009 they were chasing democrats around, including me, yelling about obamacare. in 2017, they re saying huh-uh. do not repeal it. let s fix it. do you think there s a public expectation of some sort of government run healthcare? well, i do think that we should have a public option, a medicare-like plan that people could buy in places where there s only one insurer or insurer don t want to be so there actually would be a plan. i personally, i am for medicare for all kind of system. i think it would be the most efficient. maybe sometime we ll get there i hope sooner rather than later. but the meantime, i think there are ways that we could satisfy most of the republicans. we could satisfy trump who by the way, at one point said he was for a universal healthcare
the most revealing. we read yesterday harry reid s comments, talking about, this isn t good. but a pathway to single pay or universal healthcare system. that s the whole goal from the beginning. sure it was. we didn t like what was in the president s law. they were happy that it would destroy the existing form of employer based insurance and ehaven tly in order to fix it, the only remedy offerable would be a single payer european or canadian style system. if you notice the only part, only significant part that the president delayed so far, have been related paying for it. so the signing people up for it part will still go ahead. it maintains data even though there are problems with the irs that will force it. if it blows up the existing insurance system, harry reid will have the answer which was, it s okay, because on the other side of that will be what the left wanted all along which is a