ali, would it make more sense to fix the affordable care act and, briefly, what would those fixes look like? it would. anybody who tells you the affordable care act is perfect, it s not. first of all, it did virtually nothing on the cost side of the equation and as wendall implied and it was said i ve had a lot of republican congressmen tell me the same thing, they didn t design this american health care act with the idea that they talked a bunch of people who had a steak in the game. they talked to insurance companies and lobbyists and that s why this exists as it is. a real good health care system to be fixed needs to have all of the other constituents involved. this can t just be legislation for the insurance companies. so there are real fixes you can give to obamacare, but you need to actually want to fix it, not repeal it. and be able to pass it through the house of representatives where it has the freedom caucus which is like get rid of all of it. wendall potter and ali v
those out, insurance will be pretty cheap. i would personally insure people if i could guarantee not to pay forny of those things on the list. so is just i m a market guy, joy, you know that, i m a capitalist, i m a business reporter, i love capitalism, this makes no sense. and wendall, what would insurance companies do if you completely deregulated the market. ? would they ever insure somebody s child, let s say, who had spina bifida? would they insure an older person or sick person willingly? no, and that s a fallacy, this free market thing. they don t want to insure people who need access to care. this i went the healthiest and the youngest so, no, they would not. it s just absurd. the whole idea of the free market working is just a fallacy, as ali said. and even the notion of competition is a fallacy as well, too. the more insurance companies you have, the less market power any one of them has to negotiate
with doctors and hospitals. ali, would it make more sense to fix the affordable care act and, briefly, what would those fixes look like? it would. anybody who tells you the affordable care act is perfect, it s not. first of all, it did virtually nothing on the cost side of the equation and as wendall implied and it was said i ve had a lot of republican congressmen tell me the same thing, they didn t design this american health care act with the idea that they talked a bunch of people who had a steak in the game. they talked to insurance companies and lobbyists and that s why this exists as it is. a real goodealt care system to be fixed needs to have a of the other constituents involved. this can t just be legislation for the insurance companies. so there are real fixes you can give to obamacare, but you need to actually want to fix it, not repeal it. and be able to pass it through the house of representatives where it has the freedom caucus which is like get rid of all of it. w
those out, insurance will be pretty cheap. i would personally insure people if i could guarantee not to pay for any of those things on the list. so it s just i m a market guy, joy, you know that, i m a capitalist, i m a business reporter, i love capitalism, this makes no sense. and wendall, what would insurance companies do if you completely deregulated the market. would they ever insure somebody s child, let s say, who had spina bifida? would they insure an older person or sick person willingly? no, and that s a fallacy, this free market thing. theyon t want to insure people who ed access to care. this i went the healthiest and the youngest so, no, they would not. it s just absurd. the whole idea of the free market working is just a fallacy, as ali said. and even the notion of competition is a fallacy as well, too. the more insurance companies you have, the less market power any one of them has to negotiate with doctors and hospitals.
to putin today, but we are not sure whether putin claimed that he informed the president that the plane was down is correct. shepherd. thank you, wendall. a spokesman from the prorussian separatist in donetsk said they are not capable of bringing down a plane in cruising altitudes and can only hit planes at 13,000 feet. and anal sift said the defense expert told the bbc that shooting down a plane at 10,000 meters or 33,000 would require a long range missile guided by radar and unlikely downed by a portable missile that has a shorter range. the only possibility is a aircraft taken down by