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blankfistThe thumbnail image is great. Look how pissed the doctor on the far left of the screen looks while Ron Paul is talking. Haha.
I thought this was a fairly good debate, although I wish the news would have longer debates. I'd like to hear these three go in a bit deeper into the subject.
NetRunner@8:39, Ron Paul says the fear about "death panels" is justified(!), though thankfully he avoids calling them that.
The only other argument I hear from Paul in this is that Medicare costs too much. The counterpoint to that argument was given (Medicare focuses only on the elderly), but the other thing to look at is that Medicare cost inflation has been slower than private insurance inflation for nearly 40 years.
Really though, I think the House plan (summarized here and here) incorporates aspects of what all three of them talked about.
The part Paul would like is that the "exchange" is national, and effectively allows cross-state competition for individual private insurers.
The public option is meant to appease single-payer folk, since it will look a lot like single-payer except for the eponymous part -- it won't be the only payer.
The summaries I linked don't mention anything Dr. Ornish wants, but the bill does include incentives for preventative care (a mandated $0 deductable for checkups/preventative medicine, IIRC).
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siftbotThis video has been flagged as being at least 10 minutes in length - declared long by NetRunner.
deathcowyeah yeah Dr. Ornish.. people exercise and eat right and costs drop... can we get back to the problem now??
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