Gibbs Can't Name Countries Where Single-Payer System Works

[toomuchtime_]

RealClearPolitics - Video - Gibbs Can't Name Countries Where Single-Payer System Works

You've got to feel sorry for Gibbs having to clean up all the bullshit Obama lays out there.

 

[driveby]

That douchebag never has a direct answer for anything except softball questions .....

 

[Oddball]

I absolutely love Gibbs.

The more inept and incompetent nincompoops this administrations trots out to speak for it, the better.

 

[toomuchtime_]

I absolutely love Gibbs.

The more inept and incompetent nincompoops this administrations trots out to speak for it, the better.

Is he any relation to Baghdad Bob?

 

[Oddball]

You'd think, wouldn't ya??

 

[Annie]

RealClearPolitics - Video - Gibbs Can't Name Countries Where Single-Payer System Works

You've got to feel sorry for Gibbs having to clean up all the bullshit Obama lays out there.

LOL! He's claiming that others in countries that have this, which he can't name, 'like this', just like Americans like ours. Ok. So why change?

 

[Political Junky]

RealClearPolitics - Video - Gibbs Can't Name Countries Where Single-Payer System Works

You've got to feel sorry for Gibbs having to clean up all the bullshit Obama lays out there.

Unfortunately, President Obama isn't asking for single payer, only a choice of your private plan or public plan.

 

[Sinatra]

RealClearPolitics - Video - Gibbs Can't Name Countries Where Single-Payer System Works

You've got to feel sorry for Gibbs having to clean up all the bullshit Obama lays out there.

Unfortunately, President Obama isn't asking for single payer, only a choice of your private plan or public plan.

Ah, while planning to tax private health benefits eh?

Now why would Obama want to do that?

He wouldn't be herding everyone into the public plan would he?

Nah............

 

[Sinatra]

RealClearPolitics - Video - Gibbs Can't Name Countries Where Single-Payer System Works

You've got to feel sorry for Gibbs having to clean up all the bullshit Obama lays out there.

LOL


There is only one other person in the country who stumbles and bumbles more when away from a teleprompter than Robert Gibbs.

He also works at the White House....

 

[Oddball]

Uhh...aaaannnd..uuuuhhh...

 

[toomuchtime_]

RealClearPolitics - Video - Gibbs Can't Name Countries Where Single-Payer System Works

You've got to feel sorry for Gibbs having to clean up all the bullshit Obama lays out there.

Unfortunately, President Obama isn't asking for single payer, only a choice of your private plan or public plan.

If a single payer plan is not what he is aiming for, then why was he defending it when he spoke to the AMA?

 

[MaggieMae]

RealClearPolitics - Video - Gibbs Can't Name Countries Where Single-Payer System Works

You've got to feel sorry for Gibbs having to clean up all the bullshit Obama lays out there.

Unfortunately, President Obama isn't asking for single payer, only a choice of your private plan or public plan.

If a single payer plan is not what he is aiming for, then why was he defending it when he spoke to the AMA?

He'll always defend a universal plan, but also realizes that it would mean dismantling the entire existing system at a time when there's already too much upheaval in the economy. This may come as a surprise, but a majority of Americans WANT HEALTH CARE REFORM. Here is a consolidation of ALL the polls on the subject:

Health Policy

 

[Oddball]

RealClearPolitics - Video - Gibbs Can't Name Countries Where Single-Payer System Works

You've got to feel sorry for Gibbs having to clean up all the bullshit Obama lays out there.

Unfortunately, President Obama isn't asking for single payer, only a choice of your private plan or public plan.

If a single payer plan is not what he is aiming for, then why was he defending it when he spoke to the AMA?

Because he's lying out his ass.

 

[AllieBaba]

Unfortunately, President Obama isn't asking for single payer, only a choice of your private plan or public plan.

If a single payer plan is not what he is aiming for, then why was he defending it when he spoke to the AMA?

He'll always defend a universal plan, but also realizes that it would mean dismantling the entire existing system at a time when there's already too much upheaval in the economy. This may come as a surprise, but a majority of Americans WANT HEALTH CARE REFORM. Here is a consolidation of ALL the polls on the subject:

Health Policy

A "consolidation of all the polls on the subject"...

REALLY?

 

[Epsilon Delta]

He couldn't answer that? Man, that's pretty inept. He could've said just said "Canada" or "Australia," or the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany if he wanted to get tricky, cuz those aren't exactly single-payer, but they're kinda close.

 

[toomuchtime_]

Unfortunately, President Obama isn't asking for single payer, only a choice of your private plan or public plan.

If a single payer plan is not what he is aiming for, then why was he defending it when he spoke to the AMA?

He'll always defend a universal plan, but also realizes that it would mean dismantling the entire existing system at a time when there's already too much upheaval in the economy. This may come as a surprise, but a majority of Americans WANT HEALTH CARE REFORM. Here is a consolidation of ALL the polls on the subject:

Health Policy

A single payer plan does not necessarily provide universal coverage and universal coverage with low costs and excellent health outcomes can be achieved through a multi payer plan using only private insurance companies, as it is in France, Germany, Japan and other countries. Voters say they want health care reform unless it will raise their costs or taxes or the national debt. In these cases, they are slightly opposed to it.

From your link,

"Would you be willing to pay more -- either in higher health insurance premiums or higher taxes -- in order to increase the number of Americans who have health insurance, or not?"

41% willing
54% not willing

The majority of voters believe needed health care reform can be achieved without spending more money.

"Which comes closer to your opinion? If policymakers made the right changes, they could reform the health care system without spending more money to do it. To make any real reforms to the health care system, policymakers will need to spend more money, either by raising some taxes, taking from other programs or increasing the deficit." Options rotated

60% no need to spend more
34% will need to spend more

Apparently, everyone is in favor of health care reform until you tell them what it will cost, and then most are not in favor of it.

 

[toomuchtime_]

He couldn't answer that? Man, that's pretty inept. He could've said just said "Canada" or "Australia," or the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany if he wanted to get tricky, cuz those aren't exactly single-payer, but they're kinda close.

Germany does not have a single payer system. In Germany, France, Japan, Switzerland, Belgium, the Netherlands and other countries, the government negotiates with private insurance companies to determine what coverage will be offered and what the premium will be, and the people purchase their insurance coverage from the private insurance companies in much the same way we do, but the government provides more generous subsidies to those who can't afford to buy it on their own. The single payer system is found only in Canada and some newly industrialized countries such as South Korea and Taiwan. Here is an excellent resource on the subject.

FRONTLINE: sick around the world: five countries: health care systems -- the four basic models | PBS

 

[Epsilon Delta]

He couldn't answer that? Man, that's pretty inept. He could've said just said "Canada" or "Australia," or the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany if he wanted to get tricky, cuz those aren't exactly single-payer, but they're kinda close.

Germany does not have a single payer system. In Germany, France, Japan, Switzerland, Belgium, the Netherlands and other countries, the government negotiates with private insurance companies to determine what coverage will be offered and what the premium will be, and the people purchase their insurance coverage from the private insurance companies in much the same way we do, but the government provides more generous subsidies to those who can't afford to buy it on their own. The single payer system is found only in Canada and some newly industrialized countries such as South Korea and Taiwan. Here is an excellent resource on the subject.

FRONTLINE: sick around the world: five countries: health care systems -- the four basic models | PBS

Thanks for the link. I was aware that it was multi-payer, but that it has many elements of single-payer systems. Anyway, South Korea and Taiwan, add those to the list. And thanks for the correction. = )

 

[manu1959]

they did this in hawaii....gues what everyone did......dumped their private care and the taxes that went with it .... signed up for the govt subsidized care and overwhelmed the system and it crashed....

 

[Annie]

they did this in hawaii....gues what everyone did......dumped their private care and the taxes that went with it .... signed up for the govt subsidized care and overwhelmed the system and it crashed....

But this time will be different. We have Obama leading us...