the developed world. it s one of the only wealthy industrialized nations that doesn t have to wider set that would go beyond obamacare and what would cost more, what many european companies use, universal health coverage. there s also the anxiety about choices that affect people s lyes. after a certain age, no one s immune to it. it s also come through in our culture, in film. his heart is useless. he s going to need a transplant or he ll die. we got insurance. there are no provisions in your policy for a procedure of this magnitude. not one [ bleep ] md will write me a script. maybe this will help. i sold my life insurance policy. what you mean you won t cover me? i m covered through my hmo. if you feel you re being treated unfairly, these are our appeals procedures which you have every legal right to
two or five or 10 million americans but roughly 35 million americans, people who didn t have health insurance up until these changes. it also changed the rules. so something that a lot of people care about, if you ever find someone in your family goes through this, finding they have a preexisting condition, what they use to discriminate against people. a whole other stuff i m not going to list off because we only have so much time wham obamacare did not do is crack big pharma s grip. while some made changes, big, controversial at the time, it didn t break through that barrier, and there are a lot of reasons for that. cutting drug prices is something that many different democratic politicians have talked up, and frankly some sort of less traditional libertarian republicans although not the mainstream republican leaders.
that is more fair, more equitable when health-care access is a can i just raise no, i got to go doctor. vi one more thing, but it pertains to you. chai, my dad s also a doctor. they always think they re moderating. dr. emanuel, i mention you had provide more societal value more than chai or myself. that s just a fact. does that apply to both of your brothers, neither of whom do public health work? the floor is yours. i love my brothers and they contribute a lot to american society. let me just say one other thing, which is we are now 13 years past the passage of the affordable care act. we have been waiting for a republican plan that would be the alternative, and i can tell you, you know, chai mentioned crickets, we have had crickets. we have had no coherent plan that is both going to get us to expanded coverage, lower costs,