Special Reports & Tweets - 20130820_SpecialReport_Alex
Aired: 2013-08-20
Duration: 02:53


=== Government Mandated Product Purchase (02:53) ===

[00:00:00]  Alright sir, how would you rate President Obama's job performance?
[00:00:14]  Overall, very well.
[00:00:16]  On a scale of 1 to 10?
[00:00:17]  Yes.
[00:00:17]  Right now?
[00:00:19]  I'd give him a 7.5.
[00:00:21]  I'll give him a 6.
[00:00:22]  Any particular area that you're impressed with?
[00:00:26]  He speaks in complete sentences.
[00:00:27]  How do you feel about Obamacare?
[00:00:30]  Well, I think sometimes it doesn't benefit me personally in terms of the changes that are made, but I think it benefits people on the whole.
[00:00:40]  I don't have health insurance.
[00:00:41]  I don't look forward to paying premiums that I don't pay now, but hopefully the fact that we all have to sign up, those of us uninsured, will make those premiums a lot more affordable and I'm going to join just because I think all the wrong people want me to sit on the sidelines and not join.
[00:01:00]  Having Obamacare will probably make the healthcare that they do give not as high of standards.
[00:01:08]  There's some strict premiums and guidelines with Obamacare and we actually see employers actually cutting the hours of their employees so they can't benefit.
[00:01:15]  Well, at least in some fields where workers are short, let's hope that it becomes one of those carrots.
[00:01:24]  And what do you ladies think about married couples having increased premiums?
[00:01:27]  So if you get married, your premiums are going to increase.
[00:01:30]  Yeah, I don't understand what his intentions are with that.
[00:01:33]  We see about 60% of doctors say they'd rather retire early than go through all the hoops of implementing Obamacare.
[00:01:39]  How does that make you feel?
[00:01:40]  I think it's just going to take a cycle or two to really be able to prepare for this.
[00:01:46]  I think it's kind of scary looking into the future and realizing all these people who have worked their way up into these positions.
[00:01:54]  And if you see them backing out, you kind of wonder, like, yeah, I don't know that much about the situation myself.
[00:02:00]  And if these people who are knowledgeable of the information and know what's going on, if they're backing out themselves, it kind of makes me worried.
[00:02:06]  Where there is a gap, the market will fill it.
[00:02:10]  So if those doctors retire, then we'll have more strip malls having Doc in a Box.
[00:02:16]  And some people are against Obamacare just because the fact that the government is now allowed to make you buy a product or service.
[00:02:23]  We just want you to go ahead and get this health care.
[00:02:24]  Would you be for that?
[00:02:25]  If everyone had some basic coverage, I think it benefits the society.
[00:02:29]  And on that buying a product or service, we see a small town in Georgia now has a city ordinance forcing their residents to purchase firearms, to own firearms in their home.
[00:02:39]  How do you feel about that?
[00:02:41]  There's a lot of people shouldn't have access to firearms, so I think that's absurd.
[00:02:45]  Now does this cross any lines as far as the government making you own a product or service?
[00:02:51]  To me that's a totally different situation.