Healthcare Policy Debate Analysis

It's interesting that you just brought up that, uh,

Congressman Rogers is, is weak

on policy, 'cause he just did the same thing for you.

He called you a policy lightweight.

On the issue of healthcare in particular, he was, uh, making the case that, uh,

Medicare for All plan would strip people of their existing plans and, uh,

drive debt up. I wanted to give you a chance to respond

to that.

What did his healthcare book say?

Did you read it?

Uh, I don't have it in front of me. I apologize.

He didn't write a healthcare book.

He couldn't write a healthcare book.

Lightweight.

I actually write my ideas out. So here's what Medicare for All would do.

It would guarantee all of us healthcare from the moment we are born to the moment

we pass, God willing, at 120 years of life after a long, healthy

life, in our sleep.

You wouldn't lose your healthcare if you turn 26, or get a job,

or lose a job,

or turn 65, or get married, or get divorced.

All ways you can lose your healthcare.

We would not have $225 billion of medical debt, and there

wouldn't be medical bankruptcies.

And because you would have a single payer who guaranteed all of us

care, it could negotiate down prices for all of

us.

What people like Mike Rogers don't wanna admit to you is that you get taxed by your

healthcare company with every paycheck.

That money goes right off the top in a premium.

Healthcare, health insurance eats first.

The attorney general just today suing Blue Cross Blue Shield, 70% of our

entire insurance market, 'cause they're a monopoly,

and they raised our premiums

15%. You know who he took money from?

Blue Cross Blue Shield.

He will hide behind the fact that he was a mediocre legislator to say that

some kind-- he's some kind of heavyweight.

But at the end of the day, all he did was take the paper that a big corporation

pushed him and try to pass it into law, so that on the back end, he could go and

make $14 million advising the very same corporations that

paid him off.

Not a serious person. And if he was such a heavyweight,

he would've talked about

policy, but he didn't. You know what he talked about? Me.

Talked about my mom.

I mean... I mean, I, I, I don't know what says,

"I have nothing to say here,"

except for pointing at somebody and being like,

"But your mom." Not a serious

person. Not a serious person.