Do people in Texas support medicare for all? Cenk Uygur interviews Beto O'Rourke, a progressive congressman from Texas who refuses to take corporate money. Watch the full interview here:
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Beto will beat Cruz! Yes!
It seems crazy that the US has a ‘healthcare’ system based on profit. I consider myself to be blessed to live in a civilized country.
NFL Superfan I’m an English man living in Norway.
And the US is the country producing advanced drugs and techniques in healthcare.
” All these countries have better healthcare than we do.”
Not true. They are on par with the US.
I’m just happy we didn’t have to think about costs when my wife got sick recently and my daughter has had serious health problems. There is MORE than enough to worry about. I’m just happy that money isn’t one. I sincerely feel sorry for non rich Americans
First lady Princest Ivanka you live in the states?
If you talk with a plurality of Texans, many will tell you single-payer is the only option (and this is is places like Tarrant and Parker counties).
As much as I love this guy, unfortunately, I don’t think a progressive can win in Texas. Although I sincerely hope he does!
Madhur Khullar Texas is simply tfg.. 🙁
IgnarHusky420 Cannabis Sessions Maybe man, but again, I hope not…
Progressivism will be the death of America.
I live and was born and raised in San Antonio Texas and I and everyone I know wants single payer Medicare for all.
PipsKay add me to the list
Pedro Ordonez
Well, you’re gonna have to vote Bernie to get it!
Alexander Jones not the people I know, we do want more weapon’s laws and no one I know wants that stupid Berlin wall
Robert Alan I don’t feel oppressed by real Texans as you say..because real Texans look after each other and want people to be able to get their rightful care they should be able to get by right
Robert Alan oh I see well I believe there should be a constitutional right health care if we have a right to bear arms we should have a right to healthcare as most counties do..no one in a great country like ours should go bankrupt juat because the sought healthcare..no one
No we wouldn’t say ‘cojones’. That’s not a common word in Northern Mexico/border. An El Pasoan is likely to say ‘huevos’ cause if you’re gonna use bad words, you’re likely to be as crude as it can get.
Beto has my vote!
I can’t wait to cast my ballot for O’Rourke!
Well I’ve lived in the RGV for most of my life and I’m currently in El Paso. And at least in these 2 areas of Texas, I can say that most people do really like Medicare. As for Medicare-for-all, The number is slightly less, but it’s still really popular. If I’m still in El Paso when it’s time to vote, I’m voting for him.
O’Rourke Cosponsor Medicare for All already what are you waiting for?
It’s a senate bill, he can’t cosponsor it since he’s in the house.
there’s a bill in the house too, that he already stated on his facebook page that he refuses to co-sponsor.
He doesn’t support Medicare for all in the House because it would completely abolish private insurance, and the funds for the system can only to go public or non profit institutions. Bernie’s bill still allows for private insurance for those who can afford and want to step out of the system, and funds from the program in Bernie’s bill can go to privately run institutions like Medicaid and Medicare do now. That’s his objection to it.
When are you gonna interview Aron Ra. He’s running for state senate in Texas where it’s illegal for an atheist to run for office?
dragon8me2 This has an actual shot at beating Ted Cruz
dragon8me2 that would be unconstitutional.
Mmm. Beto sexy af.
This guy is bloody brilliant, i love his lateral thinking and also his ability to detect in advance what the other side might say
That’s how we roll, in El Paso.
Single payer is easy to put in to place. Just pass legislation that out laws profiteering on healthcare. Yes private Health Insurance Companies may go out of business, however they have already made billions. They will be just fine as long as they practice financial responsible.
Oh yeah, it’s easy — just undermine capitalism and the economy.
Robert Alan Uh yeah, it was really sad when they shut down Auschwitz, all those fine guards now unemployed!
A young Bernie!☺
Genuine question as a supporter and recipient of medicare for all in Australia. How does the public option work in terms of funding? Wouldnt it just be the less well off that want to buy into it which would cause an increase of load on the system without a proportional increase of tax coming from those people. Seems unsustainable to me. Universal medicare on the other hand where the wealthy have to contribute makes perfect sense to me. Willing to be educated on this
To be clear, we do not have a public option. There are interesting ways that we can implement that if inclined, but I’m not sure that we’re more inclined to do that over Medicare for All in the current political environment. We want Medicare for All. BUT, since you asked, right now Medicare only covers old people, so we already have a hugely popular system here that pretty much covers the large portion of the population that is not as well off. We also have Medicaid, which only covers the very poor, so it also largely covers people that are not well off. If our public option combined those two programs and let companies be able to buy in, which many would certainly do because it would save them money, then that would probably improve everything overall because more well off people would now be mixing into that system.
The way medicare for all is intended to work would be you pay say $3,000 a year in extra taxes, BUT you don’t have copays, deductibles and the overhead is about 2% compared to the nearly 17% of current insurance companies. Further people would be able to buy supplemental insurance for things like elective procedures such as breast enlargement.(at least that’s how I would run the handling of unneeded elective procedures). Also as it comes out of your taxes, assuming the republicans don’t steal all the tax revenue meant for the system, everyone in the country should be covered.
Christian, I think that believing the overhead would remain at 3% and would not increase exponentially as more workload was taken on is a bit naive.
+nexus1g it would likely increase to maybe to 5% in order to handle the larger volume BUT most of the overhead these for profit insurance companies have is because of things like CEO pay
That’s hardly true, Christian. CEO pay is a drop in the bucket to their revenue. In fact, the reason that the current system only has a 3% overhead is because the system reimburses private companies who take on all of the management work. Having such reimbursement programs actually increases operating costs because of required government reporting for reimbursement. It’s beneficial for them overall, but it does add additional overhead.
Wow a caring congressman!
Oh yeah, he will totally get elected without pac money. Of course that will happen.
I’m from Texas and I went to his town hall. I asked him about his vote for trumps military budget and he gave me a basic corporate bullshit line that furthers the war machine. He’s the opposition to change, not change
No one wants you here, Marxist.
I’m from Texas and I support Medicare for all
More incremental garbage.
Tl;dr Beto supports the public option not universal healthcare or medicare for all.