HRC refuses to answer whether single-payer would lower health care costs. (Video)

[antigop]

Around the 4:30 mark she is asked, "In a perfect world, do you believe that single payer would ultimately lower health care costs?"

http://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2016/01/17/sotu-tapper-hillary-clinton-full-interview.cnn/video/playlists/sotu-highlights/

[Fantastic Anarchist]

1. HRC Refuses to tell the truth.

More at 11.

[lewebley3]

10. No Sanders refuses the truth: He does have vote for his health care plan

[Fantastic Anarchist]

15. Get over yourself and quit trolling me.

[onecaliberal]

2. She can't answer, her insurance overlords would abandon her in an instant, and she can't have that.

[riversedge]

3. Interview is from PRIOR release of Sanders so-called 'plan' on late Sunday. She talks of

the only plan he had out at that point were the Legislative proposals (which had not been scored by COB-Congressional Budget Office)




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[antigop]

4. it doesn't matter. She DIDN'T ANSWER THE QUESTION. nt

[riversedge]

8. She sure did. You just do not like her answer.

[antigop]

9. SHE. DID. NOT. ANSWER. THE. QUESTION. Thanks for the kick. nt

[peace13]

5. That right there...

...she is not concerned about Americans spending more than they can afford on health care. Her halting manner here tells me that she is not being truthful. Why do her supporters not demand more from her?

[pinebox]

6. Well well......there's this

Oooooooops!

[Recursion]

7. Easy: "maybe"

It all depends on the implementation.

If medical provider lobbyists write it, it will cost much, much more than we pay now.

[dsc]

11. she gives an answer

and the answer is maybe. To take an example where it most certainly didn't lower costs, Medicare drugs. The only way it will lower costs is if providers are squeezed which means hospitals will close, doctors will leave some areas, and some people will have either less health care or less convenient health care than they do now (others will benefit greatly).

[antigop]

13. SHE. DID. NOT. ANSWER. THE. QUESTION. Thanks for the kick. nt

[arcane1]

14. Yep, that's exactly why other countries have failed so miserably at this.

[dsc]

16. they make tradeoffs

frankly I don't think they are bad tradeoffs but they are tradeoffs none the less. Canadians do wait longer for some elective procedures than we do. Brits have fewer MRI machines and hospitals per capita than we do. There are many marginal hospitals which might well close under a public system. Unless you make those kinds of decisions, and they are not outlined at all in Bernie's plan, then the cost of a single payer system would be at best only a little lower than what we currently have.

[arcane1]

17. It would make a HUGE difference to those of us with little to no insurance.

Fretting over "cost" means nothing to the people locked out of the system today.

[dsc]

18. the cost matters a whole bunch

especially to those of us whose employers currently provide our insurance. There are tradeoffs. We should acknowledge that.

[arcane1]

19. My employer provides insurance, and I can't afford the copays if I get sick

If "cost" is such a horrid thing, why do we spend more than any other country, and get so much less for it?

Our current system sucks and we can do better.

[arcane1]

12. She's the Great Defender of Insurance now.

Protecting your precious premiums and copays from that evil socialism!!1

[Uncle Joe]

20. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, antigop.

[antigop]

22. you're welcome, Uncle Joe. nt

[senz]

21. She deflected & launched into her anti-single payer talking points.

She also ridiculed Bernie's having introduced single payer legislation nine times -- as if it were a silly thing to do. For me, it demonstrates his honesty and sincerity; what he says is what he believes. Clinton can never claim that for herself.