Special Reports & Tweets - 20141121_SpecialReport-2_Alex
Aired: 2014-11-21
Duration: 04:48


=== Misleading Americans About Health Insurance? (04:33) ===

[00:00:00]  Thanks for watching!
[00:00:25]  30 million more people and has a promise of lowering premiums.
[00:00:28]  Pretty good statement.
[00:00:29]  We're not finished getting all of our reports back from CBO, but we'll have a side-by-side to compare.
[00:00:38]  But our bill brings down rates.
[00:00:40]  I don't know if you have seen Jonathan Gruber of MIT's analysis of what the comparison is to the status quo.
[00:00:48]  Did you mislead Americans about the taxes, about keeping your plan, in order to get the bill passed?
[00:00:51]  He didn't help write our bill.
[00:00:53]  I don't know if you have seen Jonathan Gruber of MIT's analysis.
[00:00:57]  I don't know who he is.
[00:00:59]  He didn't help write our bill.
[00:01:00]  And so, with all due respect to your question, you have a person who wasn't writing our bill
[00:01:07]  commenting on what was going on when we were writing the bill.
[00:01:11]  Did you mislead Americans about the taxes, about keeping your plan, in order to get the
[00:01:15]  bill passed?
[00:01:16]  No, I did not.
[00:01:21]  I just heard about this.
[00:01:22]  I get well briefed before I come out here.
[00:01:26]  The fact that some advisor who never worked on our staff... A lot in that room was thinking about, well, how could... talk about, well, how could we make this work?
[00:01:34]  And Obama's like, well, you know... I mean, he's really a realistic guy.
[00:01:37]  He's like, look, I can't just do this.
[00:01:39]  He said... Some advisor who never worked on our staff expressed an opinion that Uh, I completely disagree with.
[00:01:47]  Next time I see him is, um, summer 2009.
[00:01:50]  Uh, the, um, the big issue there is, uh, that he really wants to make sure moving forward on cost control.
[00:02:00]  I think it'll, it's fair to say that there was not a, a provision in the healthcare law that was not extensively debated, uh, and was fully transparent.
[00:02:11]  Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage.
[00:02:14]  And basically, you know, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever.
[00:02:18]  But basically, that was really, really critical to getting the thing to pass.
[00:02:22]  And to me, the most important piece, and in some sense the piece I guess I'm most disappointed that Doug and I disagree on, is the Cadillac tax.
[00:02:28]  Okay, economists have called for 40 years to get rid of the regressive, inefficient, and expensive tax subsidy to the employer provided health insurance.
[00:02:36]  No economist would ever set up a health system with a tax subsidy employer provided health insurance.
[00:02:43]  It's a terrible policy.
[00:02:45]  Turns out politically, it's really hard to get rid of.
[00:02:47]  And the only way we could take it on was first by mislabeling it, calling it a tax on insurance plans rather than a tax on people.
[00:02:53]  And we all know it's really a tax on people who hold those insurance plans.
[00:02:56]  And the second was to start it late.
[00:02:58]  Started in 2018.
[00:02:59]  This is one guy.
[00:03:00]  I don't know who this guy was.
[00:03:01]  All I know is that it's important for people to have health insurance.
[00:03:04]  And if you guys are saying people shouldn't have health insurance, I don't know where you're coming from.
[00:03:08]  Are you that cruel?
[00:03:11]  The fact is I think it's actually Republicans who haven't been particularly transparent or even honest about the true impact of those.
[00:03:17]  Well, it is Republicans who have been less than forthright and transparent.
[00:03:23]  It's not true.
[00:03:28]  And one more misunderstanding I want to clear up.
[00:03:32]  Under our plan, No federal dollars will be used to fund abortions.
[00:03:38]  And federal conscience laws will remain in place.
[00:03:42]  Now... What's wrong, McRubber?
[00:03:45]  You can diffuse it, right?
[00:03:46]  Are you kidding me?
[00:03:47]  Look at all this crap.
[00:03:48]  There's like a million wires in here.
[00:03:50]  More like a three-wire guy.
[00:03:53]  MacGruber.
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[00:04:10]  They've turned them into their own symbols.
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