Did he seriously trot out the old "if you like your doctor/plan, you can keep your doctor/plan?" What a crock!

I was thinking this too. I'd ask him, "How is that plan different from Obamacare? Obama said the same thing and that made a lot of hardworking people upset when it turned out to be completely untrue."

Was a complete, intentional lie.

I seem to remember another prominent democrat saying that before. All lies

Yes, he DOES think we are that stupid.

Sure you would keep your plan, at first.
Then you lose it when the insurance companies go out of business because they cannot compete with a Government service backed by the unlimited funding power of the US treasury.

I can't believe he used that same Obama lie though lol.

Obama is going to sue him for copy right.

lol! thats Gay Barry's signature move!

I got to keep my doctor, however every year since, my coverage has gone down, copays have gone up, deductibles have gone up, prescriptions have doubled, however premiums have stayed right about the same from the premium plan to $hit. I literally had the same surgery on the same shoulder, by the same doctor, 2 years apart. The first one cost me $300, plus anesthesia, where the second was well over $3000 plus anesthesia and other smaller charges from different groups. I don't want the government having any part of anyone's health insurance!

Beta O'dork is talking to students who his handlers are just vapid enough to believe they don't know or don't remember O'bama's lying about healthcare so he gets a pass because it sounds cool, Beta is cool, voting for him would be cool and so we are cool...ah to be young and stupid.

Liberals will fall for it...again...because they desperately want to believe in that utopia.

dems permanent mindset is 'for thee, not for me'--which is why they fall for it every time and are completely astounded when the bill arrives.

Yes!! He did trot than one out! I'm sure not following for THAT one again!

Why yes. Yes, he did.

Hmmmm, seems like we've heard that before, right?

Those people think it's free, boy they will be shellshocked.

Hey, kid. I'll promise you anything you want if you just get off my back. When sixteen year olds, illegal immigrants and felons can vote I won't need you anyway.

What are Beto's policies? Who cares?!?! He has a skateboard - and it's AWESOME!
(with apologies to Tucker Carlson)

He has 420 policies, actually, he just can't remember them all right now

Gary Johnson had 420 policies also, but then he couldn't remember where Aleppo was, and we saw how that worked out for him.

Yep that's exactly the point. It'll eventually destroy insurance companies and what we'll be left with is government run healthcare. These kids don't realize that but for all of us who actually pay attention/ dealt with fallout of Obamacare, we sure do.

Canadian here, just a little bit of info for those of you who don't know about public healthcare; yes businesses do provide insurance on top of the medical. It doesn't destroy insurance carriers, it just changes the way you are insured. What you will lose is your current options that you have with privatized healthcare, once the government takes over it will move to control the entire healthcare system in every state and make it difficult for private medical business to continue practicing as they are now. Rates will go up to purchase medical treatment outside of public means and you will start losing medical staff since they won't be paid as well. "Free" Medicare or medical costs my family about $750 per month between the fees I pay to BC medical, taxes and our extended insurances. Tax rates have just gone up and more fees are being added so I expect we will have to drop our extended benefits soon because they are becoming unaffordable. Be wise and don't go with government handouts, while it looks nice of the surface you end up with moth holes in your wallet where your money should be.

PS Fair warning to all of my American friends, Beto is Justin Trudeau 2.0, you can be guaranteed that the only thing in Beto's head is his ego. I doubt he'll get far in the USA mind you I said the samething about Trudeau.

I think you might need to be telling Democrats this. Here we're mostly conservatives or at least leaning right of center and have no interest in the government mandating people's health care, and that includes the current "Affordable Care Act" which even with subsidies for lower-income families is anything but affordable.

I do if that makes you feel better, I know it's mostly righties here, it's part of the reason I read the articles, atleast I can get a daily dose of sanity. I also know there are the leftist trollers who lurk waiting to make fools of themselves so I just left my bit of info for them and I figure it's just as good for you guys to know as well, it gives you more ammunition to combat the attempted take over. To be honest I haven't even scratched the surface of how our healthcare system works and the fact that it has become a burden on the tax payers back that seems to be imploding, nor have I touched on the fact that our taxes are taxed multiple times over to support an over-inflated poorly run healthcare system.

And note that Canada has a) has a population just over 1/10 of the US and b) does not have near the immigration woes that the US has. These two issues alone will have a dramatic downside impact to the ability to even meet the Canadian model.

Yes I would hate to see the bloated whale that would become in the US :O Although I disagree with the immigration problem, we do have a rather nasty one at the moment, Trudeau has and is accepting those people who are being rejected by other countries (including the USA) to immigrate to Canada without proper vetting, they are now creating "immigration zones" for new immigrants (particularly muslims). You know that's going to go well *eyeroll*

That's a really good point.

Absolutely agree John, we need more options here.

But why should there there be insurance companies at all they are mostly overhead especially in the US current system?

You really like kool-aid, don't you?

What kool-aid, im pretty sure that it is correct that the insurance systems in the US is not very well optimized. Is that what you disagree with? Where in the system is the overhead that makes US cost 80% to 120 % more than other modern high quality health systems in developed industrial nations, except Switzerland where the US is only about 25 % more expensive, and that in all these system there a better access to healthcare for all citizens. Ps. These numbers are backed up by several reports, but you are not questioning those are you?

Exactly! Kudos to you sir. You have a functioning brain.

Also: Medicare receives a twenty-five percent cross-subsidy from the private market. Under this plan, either the government would have to significantly increase its reimbursements to providers up front, or the initial group of people leaving the private market for "Medicare" would result in a greater cost-burden shifted onto a smaller group of people in the private market triggering a private market death spiral... After which the government would have to significantly increase its reimbursements to providers to keep the healthcare system afloat.

It makes sense if the end result is we are on a single payer system.

I Denmark we have public health and we have private insurance sometimes through the employer some times we make an extra insurance our self, some "non essential" procedures are not covered completely. So it actually do makes sense/

Ok then take Germany or France. No it is absolutely not absurd, the size doenst matter, actually probably larger size is helping rather than hindering.

Europe has more citizens than US. And nearly all countries has some kind of public health system. Including France, which on the last research i looked into was a number 1.

What do the ethnic distribution has to do with anything.
IF you lift as many people and demographics out from the "poor" class
Then you would also not have such an issue.

US has had many years to mix demographics and is pretty succesfull in some places larger cities. You all Americans how many are new immigrants f.ex.
Is see no hurdle tha cannot be climbed here.

1. Affirm that the size in population is a problem?
2. Affirm that mixed demographics in general is a big hurdle to the public health system?

That kid was talking WAY over Francis's head with that question. Need to dumb it down a few levels.

Is it really fair to expect Beto to provide a sound answer while he was busy imagining himself running the student over?

Sadly... dumbing it down wouldn't help a whole lot with Beto.
There's 2 answers that politicians typically give:
1. A 'non-answer' which is effectively what most try to ... skirt around the issue and answer to something similar enough to appease the crowd.
2. Deflect to go off to another overall topic with either a question or some statement that the crowd can use against the person posing the question.
He wouldn't be able to answer the question correctly... so there's no point in trying to give an answer that would come back as possibly being wrong.

The song "The Sidestep" by the governor of Texas in the musical "Best Little Wh0rehouse in Texas" nails it in a funny way. You can watch it on youtube

But as far as i can see Beto gave an ok answer. So your bullet points are more general and not applicable in this instance.

Asking democrats real questions, no future in journalism.

I can't wait till a real sick gutter rat like Kamala Harris tears into him. The self-loathing whitey won't know what to do! Oh those debates will make me laugh and vomit at the same time.

Put her resume on ZipRecruiter - promo code HIREHERBEN!

I'm pretty sure she's already on someone's payroll. Those questions were professionally prepared.