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Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you welcome to Stuff you Should Know

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Speaker 1: from House Stuff Works dot com. Hey, and welcome to

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Speaker 1: the podcast. I'm Josh Clark with me as always as

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Speaker 1: Charles W. Bryant and with Charles W. Bryant, and I

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Speaker 1: is our colleague and healthcare reform guru Molly Edmonds. I

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Speaker 1: think it would be and me. She was gonna say that, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: saw that coming. Yeah, well he's not the first person

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Speaker 1: to do that, Moll. You can send an email to

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Speaker 1: Stuff podcast dot com. You shouldn't an email, Molly. Thank you.

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Speaker 1: I'm here to keep you on track on all things

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Speaker 1: grammatical and healthcare format anything else. Yeah, that's good. That's

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Speaker 1: that's enough, right, perfect. So for those of you just

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Speaker 1: joining us, you should probably go back and listen to

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Speaker 1: the first two podcasts that we released in this special

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Speaker 1: Stuff you Should Know Healthcare Reform Sweet and this is

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Speaker 1: number three of four or Yes, we talked about what's

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Speaker 1: wrong with healthcare in the US, and the first one, right,

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Speaker 1: we talked about Obama's proposal just straight up facts, and

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Speaker 1: then this this one we're gonna talk about myths yes,

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Speaker 1: both from the left and the right. So you know,

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Speaker 1: who are fans of MPR. Say right, if you're libertarian,

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Speaker 1: let's get started, kids, you wanna. I think one of

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Speaker 1: it's a myth? And I agree with her. Well, you know,

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Speaker 1: the thing about it is is would you you may

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Speaker 1: And that is the position we are in right now

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Speaker 1: how are we going to pay for it? That's another

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Speaker 1: that insurance plans have to cover to be considered valid

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Speaker 1: insurance plans. Right, the minimum coverage right. So there's a

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Speaker 1: big debate about a lot of things that be covered,

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Speaker 1: like mental health, how much will that be covered? Abortion

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Speaker 1: is the big one that is dicey because no, you know,

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Speaker 1: no um anti abortion person wants to pay for someone

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Speaker 1: else's abortion, right. So how the House is compromised on

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Speaker 1: this is that help promers can choose whether to provide it.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't necessarily have to be one of these essential benefits,

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Speaker 1: but it can be. And if you do get an abortion,

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Speaker 1: the thinking is that you would pay not with these

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Speaker 1: public subsidies that are available to people, but you'd have

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Speaker 1: to pay out of pocket for that unless it was

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Speaker 1: one of the abortions that's defined as um you know,

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Speaker 1: in the gray zone. The rape sort of abortion Senate

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Speaker 1: Senate Finance Committee bill as it stands now prohibits funding

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Speaker 1: accepting cases of rape, incest, or endangerment to the woman's

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Speaker 1: life right. And that's I mean, that's the bill. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's the plan that a lot of like Congress people

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Speaker 1: for example, have The government alright currently pays for abortions

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Speaker 1: under those qualifications. And also the Finance Committee bill, which

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Speaker 1: is just released yesterday, And but you said it's not

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Speaker 1: the final version. Right, it's his mark, so it'll still

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Speaker 1: go through the Senate Finance Committee. It's the chairman's mark.

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Speaker 1: On abortion, they continue to say that the bill would

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Speaker 1: prevent abortion coverage from being included in a minimum benefits

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Speaker 1: package and uh in the health insurance exchanges where you

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Speaker 1: shot for the coverage, but the plans in exchange could

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Speaker 1: include uh, they could offer abortion coverage as long as

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Speaker 1: no government subsidies pay for it. And still the coverage

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Speaker 1: would be funded through member payments, which are segregated from

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Speaker 1: the federal money. So that's what the Finance committees. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so that's consistent with how the House had it as well.

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Speaker 1: Is it um? And basically the thinking is that any

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Speaker 1: given area, you should be able to choose one plan

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Speaker 1: that has abortion covered in one plan that doesn't. But

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Speaker 1: they would be I saw this in your article too.

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Speaker 1: They would be um, the same plan except one covers

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Speaker 1: abortion and one doesn't, okay, But everything else is the same, okay,

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Speaker 1: and they'd be the same price, I imagine, right, I

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Speaker 1: would think, So, yeah, what for the total plan, the

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Speaker 1: total bill. If you're in the marketplace, those insurance marketplaces

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Speaker 1: we were talking about, you should have a choice of

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Speaker 1: a plan that has abortion and a choice of planet

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Speaker 1: that you would have, like a premium abortion pro plus

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Speaker 1: and then premium no abortion plus plan right next to

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Speaker 1: each other, and they should be the same the same cost,

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Speaker 1: just to give people a choice. I thought you talking

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Speaker 1: about the total bill, because to Senate finance bills about

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Speaker 1: a hundred and fifty billion dollars cheaper. Do you remember

478
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Speaker 1: how when we went into the market place and we're

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Speaker 1: looking at all those insurances there, I get it. So

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Speaker 1: you can be pro choice, choice, You can have the

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Speaker 1: choice to have the plan that has the choice. My

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Speaker 1: mind is melting all over the table. All right, um, guys,

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Speaker 1: can we talk about something that President Obama loves to say.

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Speaker 1: It's usually the first thing he kicks off with, if

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Speaker 1: you like your insurance plan, you can keep that plan.

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Speaker 1: Molly Edmond says that that is not necessarily true if

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Speaker 1: you start looking down the road and read between the lines, right,

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Speaker 1: you know. The thing is is, when um Obama went

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Speaker 1: out the summer did his town halls. I think that

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Speaker 1: if he had a nickel for every time he told

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Speaker 1: people that if you like your plan, you can keep it,

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Speaker 1: he would have enough to find healthcare reform. Right. But

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Speaker 1: I think if you were paying attention to the speech

494
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Speaker 1: he made, the famous speech to Congress, you will notice

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Speaker 1: that that phrase did not appear in the speech because

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Speaker 1: I think he's realized that he can't promise people that

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Speaker 1: their plan will stay exactly the same under these reforms.

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Speaker 1: We're saying you can keep it, though not necessarily that

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Speaker 1: would be the exact same plan that you're keeping. Well,

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Speaker 1: but that was how he was sort of pitching it is,

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Speaker 1: if you like your doctor, you can have your doctor.

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Speaker 1: And the fact of the matter is is that your

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Speaker 1: plan is going to change, all right, to build in

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Speaker 1: these consumer protections. So that's a great change. You know,

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Speaker 1: you won't be able to be dropped by insurance company.

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Speaker 1: They can't just discriminate for pre existing conditions UM. And

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Speaker 1: then your plan will have about five years probably to

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Speaker 1: come up to speed with all these other plans. It'll

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Speaker 1: be grandfathered into that minimum set of benefits we were

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Speaker 1: talking about UM. But you know, in that marketplace when

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Speaker 1: they start UM competing for all these uninsured customers, we

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Speaker 1: don't know what current plans will have to do to

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Speaker 1: stay financially viable. Right, They may have to slash services,

514
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Speaker 1: they have to slash services. That kind of stuff happens anyway,

515
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Speaker 1: though your insurance plan probably isn't the same today as

516
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Speaker 1: it was five years ago without all this government competition,

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Speaker 1: that's true. And the thing is, if you don't know

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Speaker 1: how your plans change over the five years, you may

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Speaker 1: not notice how your plan changes when this happens to right. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. Well, first of all, it didn't have

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Speaker 1: insurance five years ago, But I couldn't tell you what

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Speaker 1: it looked like last year. You know, you're living in

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Speaker 1: the mountains. That is the in my car, Okay. I

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Speaker 1: mean the only way you're gonna know is if you

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Speaker 1: go to the doctor and all of a sudden they

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Speaker 1: don't accept your insurance, or if something that used to

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Speaker 1: be covered um isn't covered anymore. But that's just so

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Speaker 1: speculative right now that it's impossible to say one way

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Speaker 1: or the other whether you know things will be the

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Speaker 1: same or not. I think a lot of this, from

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Speaker 1: what I'm reading, is like the outlines in place, But

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Speaker 1: who knows how all this is going to shake out.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes you have to wonder if we have to believe

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Speaker 1: the best about people are the worst about people. Well

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Speaker 1: that I think what it comes down to, I keep

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Speaker 1: running across you mentioned, um that this whole thing is

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Speaker 1: a ror check test or the public option is a

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Speaker 1: Rorschach test. And really what it comes down to is

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Speaker 1: can you trust doctors to not skinch on healthcare when

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Speaker 1: they're being paid and bundles skinch skinch you okay if

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Speaker 1: it's not it is said, I love it? Yeah. Um.

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Speaker 1: Can you can you trust that the government panels won't um,

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Speaker 1: you know, stifle innovation like it does, undercut the insurance

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Speaker 1: company so much or they can't stay in sure? Can

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Speaker 1: you trust Obama that this isn't really a planned to

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Speaker 1: ultimately create a single payer system? Right? And can you

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Speaker 1: trust individuals to take it upon themselves to like doctor

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Speaker 1: Royson is a big advocate of to to take on

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Speaker 1: preventative care, the burden for health is on the patient

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Speaker 1: as much as is the doctor or not. I don't

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Speaker 1: think that mindset is clear to a bunch of Americans. Well,

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Speaker 1: but I think that that's what they're using as an excuse.

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Speaker 1: I mean, someone who would be against a big public

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Speaker 1: option or really subsidized health care would say, this person

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Speaker 1: got themselves into this mess because they smoked or their

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Speaker 1: overweight or so on, and so looking at just what

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Speaker 1: the mistakes of one person made is like not seeing

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Speaker 1: the forest for the trees. So all these pieces are

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Speaker 1: working together in a way that we can't isolate blame

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Speaker 1: at anyone. But that's what this discussion has turned into.

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Speaker 1: Saying that you know, the worst is going to happen

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Speaker 1: about these people, agreed. And actually, when we spoke to Royson,

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Speaker 1: if I can bring them back again, um, he said

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Speaker 1: that apparently basically us not caring at all about our

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Speaker 1: health is costing this country me more than any other

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Speaker 1: sector of the health care of health care spending. Um.

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Speaker 1: He put it like this, of all healthcare costs are

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Speaker 1: caused by chronic disease that is caused by four factors tobacco,

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Speaker 1: food choices, and portion size, physical inactivity, and stress. So

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Speaker 1: we can reinvigorate primary care by paying physicians to teach

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Speaker 1: these things because what gets paid for gets done, and

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Speaker 1: what gets done gets taught well. So in fact, we

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Speaker 1: have a tremendous opportunity of paying physicians to do this

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Speaker 1: and saving a huge amount of money. In fact, if

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Speaker 1: all we do is a program, um, and I'll go

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Speaker 1: to the exact bill, it's called take back your health.

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Speaker 1: That does this for five diseases coronary disease, type two diabetes,

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Speaker 1: metabolic syndrome, breast cancer, and prostate cancer. We save after

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Speaker 1: paying for it. We save one point nine trillion over

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Speaker 1: ten years. So clearly, as Royson pointed out, Molly, you

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Speaker 1: are right. I mean, it comes in very large part

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Speaker 1: comes down to us changing our perception about our own

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Speaker 1: health and taking responsibility for him. Right, let's do one

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Speaker 1: last one, you guys mind, since we're not doing listener mail. Okay,

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Speaker 1: let's do it, Josh, are we moving towards socialized country

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Speaker 1: this one? Well, do you know the definition of socialized country, CHUCKA.

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Speaker 1: I do not, Josh, go state owned and operated industry.

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Speaker 1: So not only is the government paying your bills, they're

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Speaker 1: hiring your doctors and running your hospitals. So that's what

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Speaker 1: Britain does. And then there's also a fear of a

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Speaker 1: single payer system, which, um, you know, Obama has a

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Speaker 1: few choice quotes that people like to pull up saying

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Speaker 1: that he would like a single payer system. Right, that's

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Speaker 1: what Canada has, where all the bills just go straight

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Speaker 1: to the government, no questions asked, hi Wan, Right, doesn't

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Speaker 1: one actually let's say that, because we're gonna talk about

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Speaker 1: healthcare systems from around the world in the next one.

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Speaker 1: So most countries have some form of single pair, but

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Speaker 1: whether um, we've been promised a uniquely American system because

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Speaker 1: we are a uniquely American country too late at this point,

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Speaker 1: don't you think. I mean, even if we wanted to

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Speaker 1: switch to socialized medicine, we couldn't do it now. I

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Speaker 1: think you could over the course of May. But you know,

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Speaker 1: we're certainly not there with these proposals. There's no need

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Speaker 1: to fear these specific bills as any sort of move

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Speaker 1: towards um single pair or socialized medicine. Well, I think

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Speaker 1: one of the concerns though, is that this uh this

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Speaker 1: public option uh is will eventually run the other insurance

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Speaker 1: companies out of business and then we'll have a de

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Speaker 1: facto single payer system because the only man left standing

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Speaker 1: will be the public option, right is that is that

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Speaker 1: one of the fears the concerns that that is a concern. Um,

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Speaker 1: the public option is so in the air right now,

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Speaker 1: that would be hard for us to making a sort

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Speaker 1: of conclusion my whether that's a myth or not. You know,

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Speaker 1: the thing that just came out this week. Um, the

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Speaker 1: Senate Finance Committee one that's can get all marked up.

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Speaker 1: That went for co ops, so we know how will

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Speaker 1: a co op work in this system versus what would

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Speaker 1: a public plan be? So that right now is is

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Speaker 1: such a shadowy thing that I think we should have

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Speaker 1: avoid speculating on it. Okay, agreed, agreed. No, we don't

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Speaker 1: want to stir up any more fierce as the whole

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Speaker 1: point of this podcast was to allay them pretty much, right,

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Speaker 1: or at least say no, you're running. You should be

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Speaker 1: scared out of your mind. Here's my guess. I don't

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Speaker 1: think they could do anything to put every insurance company

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Speaker 1: out of business. No, that's what I think. I think

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Speaker 1: the one of these call me in ten years, if

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Speaker 1: there are no more private insurance companies in America, They'll

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Speaker 1: buy you a beer. Really, yeah, anyone out there? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: of course I'll be dead, and ten years you will

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Speaker 1: be because they've rash in your healthcare. Exactly. You faced

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Speaker 1: the death panel. No, I want to live. You signed. Sorry, guys,

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Speaker 1: that's about it, right, you got any more myths you

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Speaker 1: want to cover? I know him? Illegal immigrants? Yeah? Oh,

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Speaker 1: you thought you were getting away without talking about this. No,

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Speaker 1: this is a big one. As I saw actually in

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Speaker 1: the House bill. It's it's basically says, actually, it does say,

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Speaker 1: if you're born in the United States and you're not covered,

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Speaker 1: not necessarily the people who are you know, um, that

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Speaker 1: we're not talking about him necessarily. But the children of

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Speaker 1: illegal immigrants would be covered under that language, right, So,

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Speaker 1: I mean that is technically correct that illegal immigrants would

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Speaker 1: be covered. Well, no, their children will be covered, right,

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Speaker 1: but they themselves, the children would be considered illegal. No,

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Speaker 1: they know, if you're born on American soil, you're an American.

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Speaker 1: thought that if you're born on American soil, you're American citizens. Okay,

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Speaker 1: So technically they wouldn't. It wouldn't cover legal immigrants, does

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Speaker 1: it in any other way? Well, the way it was

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Speaker 1: explained to me is that illegal immigrants would not be

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Speaker 1: too much Um, need for proof about where they were

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Speaker 1: to be in order to get these subsidies. Um, but

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Speaker 1: as possible, they would be able to enter the exchange

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Speaker 1: I mean, there's nothing that would keep them out of

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Speaker 1: the market place. I want to pay. Then, welcome to

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Speaker 1: to stay. Welcome to the game, right, Molly. I am

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Speaker 1: looking forward to your second career as a diplomat. Seriously.

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