TDS Time Machine | Healthcare

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Speaker 10 Americans like freedom. We don't like being told what to do, whether by a king or the government.
And that's why things like seatbelt laws or having to get rid of slaves

Speaker 10 was met with so much resistance. Well, guess what?

Speaker 10 Now they're coming for your health care.

Speaker 11 Obamacare will change your health care. And you need to understand how.
Some businesses could get hit with a 40% additional tax on your health care plan.

Speaker 11 Please get the Obamacare survival guide today.

Speaker 10 Thank you.

Speaker 10 Dr. Kvorki and lookalike.

Speaker 10 Who I thought was dead.

Speaker 10 Listen, it's clear from this guy's tone that Obamacare will destroy all that we once held dear in this country by requiring health insurance from employers for the 15% of Americans who don't currently get that.

Speaker 10 If you have more than 50 employees, the Act requires companies to give health care to all their full-time workers or pay a penalty. No way around it.

Speaker 10 Or maybe there's two ways around it.

Speaker 10 Chuck, replay that airtight Obamacare requirement that I just mentioned. The Act requires companies to give health care to all their full-time workers or pay a penalty.

Speaker 10 I don't remember wearing a yachting cap when I said that the first time. Anyway, there's an out for employers.
They can pay a penalty, which amounts to $2,000 per employee.

Speaker 10 Now that sounds like a lot of money until you compare it to how much it currently costs employers to insure their workers, which is about, I don't know, $10,000 per employee.

Speaker 10 So if you're a corporation, you could do the right thing, the moral thing.

Speaker 10 Spend about $10,000 to give your employees health insurance, or you could save about $8,000 and tell your employees to go f ⁇ themselves.

Speaker 10 What do you think they're going to choose?

Speaker 10 But what if I don't want to spend any money at all? Well, that's where the other loophole comes in. The law only applies to full-time workers, people who work 30 or more hours a week.

Speaker 10 Guess what?

Speaker 15 Basically, a lot of employers are saying we don't want to pay for these health care benefits, so we're going to move full-time workers to part-time workers.

Speaker 16 Luke Perfect has worked at a Subway franchise in Maine for a decade, but he recently was told his hours would be cut to 29 a week.

Speaker 16 Luke's boss, Lauren Goodridge, who owns 21 subway franchises, says it's all because of the new health care law.

Speaker 10 Sounds like that guy's working on a new slogan for Subway.

Speaker 17 After years of arguing, a presidential election, a Supreme Court ruling, 41 attempts at a congressional repeal, and now a government shutdown, the health care debate comes down to two sides.

Speaker 17 The boring substance of Obamacare supporters like Ann Philip and the punchy spunk of conservatives like Gina Loudon.

Speaker 6 We are offering quality, affordable health coverage for millions of Americans across the country.

Speaker 18 Obamacare is dangerous. Obamacare is a Ponzi scheme.

Speaker 6 There are over 41 million people who stand to benefit this fall with the new health insurance options that are coming.

Speaker 18 Obamacare is bad for America. Obamacare is more like Obama doesn't care.

Speaker 19 See, you were so much better than them at reducing complicated ideas into meaningless phrases.

Speaker 18 Well, as we like to say in the conservative movement, we can explain it to you.

Speaker 20 We just can't understand it for you.

Speaker 21 Well, that's very condescending.

Speaker 22 Yeah.

Speaker 17 With only three months until the law kicks in, all that matters now is who has the clearer message.

Speaker 6 Starting October 1st, the health insurance marketplaces are going to launch. They are going to be required to cover the essentials.

Speaker 6 You can't be denied because of a pre-existing condition like asthma or even cancer, and financial help is going to be available.

Speaker 19 They are offering millions of people affordable health care.

Speaker 21 I'm still trying to figure out what you're offering.

Speaker 18 Our side has a plane and it's called the free market. The private system has worked really well for a really long time.

Speaker 21 You know, normally I do these interviews and I just

Speaker 21 ironically nod and agree with whatever the person is saying, but I don't know if I can with that one.

Speaker 21 Let me try. Let me try it.
Back into character.

Speaker 22 All right.

Speaker 21 You think the existing program is working just fine?

Speaker 18 Yeah. Rarely ever is a non-free market option the real answer.
I mean, unless you want your annual breast exam to be taking place with the TSA, I guess.

Speaker 3 No,

Speaker 9 I can't do it. I can't stay in character.

Speaker 9 I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

Speaker 7 That's just bullshit.

Speaker 17 But who's right and who's wrong? The only way to settle this major policy debate is, like we always do, with commercials.

Speaker 24 We are all kinds of people.

Speaker 25 We are New Yorkers.

Speaker 26 Everyone deserves affordable health insurance.

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Speaker 28 Is that pro-healthcare or anti-healthcare?

Speaker 3 It's it's it is pro-that's how you're selling New Yorkers?

Speaker 29 Yes.

Speaker 21 You don't suggest health care in New York, you tell them. And this is how.

Speaker 10 Hi, I'm Harvey Keitel.

Speaker 30 Buy some insurance, New York. We've got botulism, Ebola, all three types of hepatitis, and that's just a six trade.
Log on and sign up, you ass.

Speaker 30 Because if you don't, I'll come out there and grab your little

Speaker 30 heads and beat.

Speaker 27 That's the short version.

Speaker 21 He goes on like that.

Speaker 17 And not to be outdone, the anti-Obamacare forces have released their own type of ad.

Speaker 5 It's a little different. Let's have a look.

Speaker 32 Effective.

Speaker 21 I'm assuming it's a metaphor.

Speaker 7 Well, sure.

Speaker 21 She's not actually going to get raped.

Speaker 18 I think metaphorically, Obamacare is going to do some really ugly things. When you've got government in your exam room, I have a problem with that.
It's not the place of government.

Speaker 18 This is a private affair, obviously.

Speaker 17 It is a private affair.

Speaker 21 Just throwing this out here:

Speaker 17 are you

Speaker 34 pro-choice?

Speaker 18 Am I? It depends on what issue you're talking about. I think the government should uphold the Constitution, which guarantees a right to life.

Speaker 21 Okay, I get it. So it's Uncle Sam, stay the hell away from my vagina until we want to do certain things with it and then get up all in my vagina.

Speaker 17 This healthcare debate is so confusing. Seems like there's one message for the healthy, one for the sick, one for the young, and one for the old.

Speaker 13 So I found a spokesman who could embody all these demos and made my own commercial.

Speaker 35 Hello, I'm Johnny Knoxville. And as someone who understands how young people behave, I know that right now you feel in bedsome.

Speaker 35 But now I'm older and a father. I realize everyone should be covered.

Speaker 10 Absolutely.

Speaker 35 Because you never know when something unexpected.

Speaker 36 But then again, you're young.

Speaker 9 Maybe you opt out of it.

Speaker 35 What's the worst that can happen?

Speaker 35 But if you do opt out, then responsible adults have to pay when people do stupid

Speaker 35 Why can't it be single payer coverage?

Speaker 37 Oh, it'd be so much easier.

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Speaker 10 Earlier this week, we talked about how the official launch of Obamacare was marred by web glitches and long delays.

Speaker 10 But there was another major obstacle to Obamacare's implementation, total dickishness.

Speaker 10 You see, Obamacare, for all its well-documented issues and problems, is still a well-intentioned attempt to get people who have not had health insurance in this country health insurance.

Speaker 10 Medicaid has traditionally covered people up to this income level. Obamacare was going to cover them ostensibly down to this income level.

Speaker 10 So it's going to be like a little gap there, about the size of an iPad, except instead of an iPad, it's about 8 million people living just above the poverty line.

Speaker 36 So

Speaker 10 to provide health insurance for this nation's, you know, that creamy center, the federal government was going to give the state governments money to expand their Medicaid program.

Speaker 10 For three years, the states would pay for this program. I think the number was

Speaker 10 zero.

Speaker 10 And after that, they would pay up to 10%, I think, by the time it was 2020. So, what a great deal, but wouldn't you know it?

Speaker 27 26 states declined to go to that expense.

Speaker 10 26 states? Holy, that's like

Speaker 10 a third of

Speaker 36 a little more than

Speaker 10 26 states.

Speaker 10 It must be a pretty eclectic group with many different reasons to explain why they would turn down federal money to bring health care to their working poor. Or maybe there was just one reason.

Speaker 27 All of those states have Republican governors or legislatures that are controlled by Republicans.

Speaker 10 Which makes it really hard not to see this as just the latest example of that hit game show sweeping part of the nation. What do you hate more, poverty or Obama?

Speaker 10 Brought to you by spite.

Speaker 10 Spite!

Speaker 10 The emotion that makes you turn down millions of dollars that would go towards health care for the working poor because you hate the president. And Arby's.

Speaker 36 Arby's.

Speaker 7 Technically, it's food.

Speaker 10 Now, of course, I imagine...

Speaker 10 Of course, I imagine that the states, when asked why they didn't accept the Medicaid expansion, don't probably list spite as the answer.

Speaker 10 So let's see what their reason is. You there, governor of the state in this nation that has the most uninsured children out of any other state.

Speaker 39 Medicaid expansion is, simply put, a misguided and ultimately doomed attempt to mask the shortcomings of Obamacare. To expand this program is not unlike adding a thousand people to the Titanic.

Speaker 10 That's true. That's true.
That's really true. If the Titanic had crashed into a hospital.

Speaker 10 But hey, you know what? Everything's bigger in Texas, especially tumors. What about you, Mississippi? You, Mississippi, or as you're also known, the 49th healthiest state in the Union.
Mississippi.

Speaker 41 Of all the states in the country that should be embracing some of the changes coming from Obamacare, your critics would say Mississippi should be at the front of the list.

Speaker 41 Peter, the problem is it is the worst system of delivering health care known to man. No, it's not.

Speaker 10 Listen, it's not perfect. A lot of things we'd like to change.
But it is not the worst system of delivering health care known to man, as anybody knows who's been a patient at Enema Hut.

Speaker 7 Enema Hut.

Speaker 10 Because there ain't nothing wrong with you that can't be cured by some rectal irrigation.

Speaker 10 Now, you're probably thinking, John, this is so abstract with these numbers. Can you show me what you're talking about? Maybe with an example from the show me state, Missouri.

Speaker 42 45-year-old Bertha McIntyre needs daily medication. She does not qualify for Medicaid in Missouri because her family income is too high, about $1,200 a month.

Speaker 10 Well, ain't she fancy?

Speaker 10 What with her clothes and shelter?

Speaker 10 See, that woman is considered too rich for Medicaid, but too poor for the Obamacare subsidies to have an effect. Yeah, that's how much sense this all makes.
So why not expand Medicaid, Missouri?

Speaker 3 Republican State Senator John Lamping argues Missouri faces tough choices.

Speaker 44 The entire cost of Medicaid in Missouri is one-third of Missouri's budget. We can barely afford to be in the Medicaid program as it exists today.

Speaker 10 Boy, that is a tough choice. Should Should we, as a state, accept 100% of this program's expansion costs from the federal government for the first three years, or I don't know.

Speaker 10 But it is a tough choice. What are some of the tough choices your citizens are making?

Speaker 45 Am I going to take food out of a child's stomach, or am I going to do without going to the doctor?

Speaker 24 Which would you choose?

Speaker 10 And here's the best part.

Speaker 10 These governors and legislators who refuse to accept federal dollars to expand Medicaid for people like that nice lady, all but three of those 26 states they represent already take more money from the federal government than they contribute in tax dollars.

Speaker 10 They are already burdens on the systems. I believe they're referred to by those Republicans as moochers.
Moocher states.

Speaker 10 And if statehood was health care, Mississippi and Missouri would be rejected as having that as a pre-existing condition.

Speaker 10 So you may be thinking to yourself, well, so what do these uninsured people do for health care? Well, Republicans actually had that covered in the last presidential election.

Speaker 10 Not sure how that worked out.

Speaker 13 Well, we do provide care for people who don't have insurance.

Speaker 24 People, if someone has a heart attack, they don't sit in their apartment and die.

Speaker 24 We pick them up in an ambulance and take them to the hospital and give them care.

Speaker 10 Historical footnote is right.

Speaker 10 You can always always go

Speaker 10 to the emergency room. You can always go to the emergency room when you're having a heart attack.

Speaker 10 And apparently they think that's the fiscally responsible option rather than expanding Medicaid because unlike Obamacare, we all know ER visits are free.

Speaker 36 Just one little problem.

Speaker 46 When the uninsured end up here in the ER, their costs are passed on to paying customers.

Speaker 46 That means insurance companies end up paying more, so they raise rates and fewer people can afford health insurance.

Speaker 12 The impact to our hospital district is $52 million a year. Had we expanded Medicaid, we would have got that $52 million from the federal government.
Instead, we're getting it from local taxpayers.

Speaker 10 Got it? Medical care for the uninsured has already ballooned the cost of the system. This is an attempt to gain control of those costs.
So if you have a better answer, Republicans, let's hear it.

Speaker 10 But don't make your plan, what do we need food stamps for, when we already have DynDash.

Speaker 47 Obamacare was designed to do more than just eliminate jobs. It also gives states the option of taking federal funds to expand Medicaid for their working poor.

Speaker 47 Luckily, 19 states were smart enough to say no, leaving just a few million people without coverage. Ashley Landis of the South Carolina Policy Council explains why it was the right call for her state.

Speaker 2 First of all, the costs of Medicaid are going to skyrocket. It's It's not a question of whether this is a great plan.
Even if it were, we can't afford it.

Speaker 33 It's eventually going to cost how much?

Speaker 2 The idea is that the federal government will fund 100 percent in the first

Speaker 33 zero dollars. You guys can't afford zero dollars?

Speaker 2 With $17 trillion in debt at the federal level, and even if we stop thinking about the money for a minute, does any plan that starts with my congressman had a great idea

Speaker 2 ever turn out to be a great idea?

Speaker 48 I mean, like

Speaker 23 civil rights,

Speaker 23 voting rights.

Speaker 13 I'll give you those.

Speaker 22 Clean air, clean water.

Speaker 47 That's Medicaid expansion advocate Dr. Harry Hyman, obviously struggling with the question.

Speaker 48 Federal highway system.

Speaker 48 Okay, I'll immunizations.

Speaker 22 Name one more.

Speaker 48 Expanding Medicaid.

Speaker 22 Aha!

Speaker 48 Not good. Expanding access to...

Speaker 48 Quality health care is not good. Mammograms, colonoscopies, PAP smears, not good.

Speaker 23 Okay, okay.

Speaker 33 So even if this Medicaid expansion could save people's lives.

Speaker 5 We can't afford it.

Speaker 48 The Congressional Budget Office looked at the cost of Obamacare over 10 years

Speaker 48 and showed that it would reduce the federal deficit.

Speaker 33 And you trust the Congressional Budget Office to estimate the budget of Congress.

Speaker 47 And he's not the only one who drank the Medi-Kool-Aid. In states that have rejected it, the majority of citizens foolishly want the expansion.
Ashley Landis explains.

Speaker 2 I understand that we're not delivering the most popular message here, but certainly low-income families who are really struggling are going to be hard-pressed to understand all of the nuances.

Speaker 33 They're just so busy being needy, they don't know what's going on.

Speaker 47 I decided to talk to these misguided Medicaid wannabes who are selfishly hoping for help.

Speaker 34 I have environmentally induced asthma and don't have any way of getting a test done.

Speaker 50 My wife has degenerative disc disorder.

Speaker 33 I know you feel like you want Medicaid, but Medicaid expansion hasn't been approved in your state, and it's a good thing. It's better for America.

Speaker 52 That seems like the most ridiculous thing to say.

Speaker 50 How is it better for America for people who have treatable conditions to become permanently crippled?

Speaker 33 We can't afford it.

Speaker 50 And your wife

Speaker 33 should just sit and then

Speaker 1 take it easy.

Speaker 33 It's hard not to seem like a total ass

Speaker 33 when you're saying this stuff to people.

Speaker 2 I do know that doctors don't turn away patients in need.

Speaker 33 Asthma guy, I just checked.

Speaker 54 You can probably get treatment.

Speaker 22 Okay, you're good.

Speaker 34 I try to go to the walk-in clinic.

Speaker 22 It doesn't work.

Speaker 34 So instead, I've been in the emergency room seven times in the last two years. Who picks up that bill? You're asking me to live my life in the emergency room.

Speaker 47 The problem is, it's hard to talk about this stuff with the real people actually affected by it. Luckily, I had an idea.

Speaker 22 Way better.

Speaker 22 Way better.

Speaker 50 It's easier if you can pretend what you're saying doesn't affect real people.

Speaker 33 Exactly, Smiley Face.

Speaker 47 You hit it.

Speaker 22 But we are.

Speaker 33 We're real people. I was talking to Smiley Face.

Speaker 52 They're taking an ideological stand at our expense.

Speaker 33 All right, no kitten would ever say that.

Speaker 47 Problem solved. So bravo, Texas, Tennessee, Florida, and all the others who stood up to the 5 million working poor desperate for help.

Speaker 54 But just in case you ever have doubts, this is for you.

Speaker 49 Hi, I'm Al Magible.

Speaker 33 Medicaid expansion is a horrible idea, but don't take it from me.

Speaker 24 I'd love to have treatment for my asthma, but I know that there's more at stake.

Speaker 34 I'm not gonna say that.

Speaker 13 Rejecting Medicaid expansion is good for all of us.

Speaker 23 But it's not. Okay.

Speaker 3 Well, actually, America can afford it.

Speaker 33 Okay. I want you to just say what I fing tell you to.

Speaker 52 You want to be in this or not?

Speaker 33 We have to keep Washington out of his health care.

Speaker 34 I want Washington and my healthcare.

Speaker 27 Oh. Watch.

Speaker 3 You want to see how it's done?

Speaker 7 Hi.

Speaker 33 I'd like to have treatment for my wife's degenerative bone disorder thing, but I realize there's more at stake.

Speaker 9 Degenerative bone thing?

Speaker 24 You are such an ass.

Speaker 24 You know that?

Speaker 55 One of the effects of Obamacare is that insurance companies have to cover women's health care needs, including contraceptives. But not everyone is happy about that.

Speaker 3 Why should the taxpayers, why should everybody else have to pay for an individual's sexual choices and decisions?

Speaker 12 Women ought to pay for their own birth control.

Speaker 46 They are helpless without Uncle Sugar coming in and providing for them a prescription each month for birth control.

Speaker 55 Thankfully, Republican legislators are taking action. So far this year, they've launched close to 40 attacks on government-mandated contraceptive laws.
And it's only March.

Speaker 55 And they took a week off for President's Day. Yet defenders of the contraceptive mandate, like women's health advocate Elise Hoag, contend that women's sexual health care is a medical necessity.

Speaker 53 Women Women use oral contraception birth control pill for all sorts of reasons, from regulating our cycle to endometriosis to avoiding unintended pregnancies.

Speaker 55 Slut bags.

Speaker 53 We believe that women and humans do have sex, and sex has consequences.

Speaker 55 Tramp virus.

Speaker 29 Excuse me, I just had something in my throat.

Speaker 55 It was a

Speaker 29 it wasn't. It would never be.

Speaker 20 That's disgusting.

Speaker 55 And it's disgusting the amount our society spends annually on sexual health care. $819 million on Viagra, $782 million on Cialis.
Oh, wait, no, those are for men, though, right?

Speaker 53 The existing system is absolutely a double standard. Medicare has spent $172 million on penis pumps in the last five years at $360 a pop.

Speaker 55 Wait, Medicare funds penis pumps?

Speaker 43 Yes.

Speaker 55 That's right. Medicare provides penis pumps at a cost of $360 apiece, which has never been debated once.
Not once, never.

Speaker 55 Oh my God, that's incredible.

Speaker 53 I know, right?

Speaker 43 This is what we face every day.

Speaker 55 So for less than a dollar a day, a man can restore the glory of his erection?

Speaker 43 That's amazing.

Speaker 55 She just didn't understand understand that women's selfish desire for sexual health in gynecological exams pales in comparison to men's need to deal with erectile dysfunction.

Speaker 43 I would like to see a public debate about the discrepancy.

Speaker 55 Well, let's do that.

Speaker 32 There is no question at all that Medicare should definitely cover penis pumps. It's worth every single penny because it improves men's health when they're feeling well about their lives.

Speaker 55 These are hard-working American penises. I mean, should we really be abandoning them at the end of their careers?

Speaker 5 No.

Speaker 55 That's right. Sexual health expert BD Cohan knows the importance of keeping seniors from getting a one-way ticket to Softy Town.

Speaker 2 The vacuum penis pump, which is a fabulous, fabulous device.

Speaker 32 that gives men basically incident erection.

Speaker 2 It takes a little bit of doing it.

Speaker 22 Oh wait, wait, okay. Okay.

Speaker 28 I think I have a bit of a problem. Oh Jesus.
Okay. Okay.
We have a situation.

Speaker 55 Cohan clearly understands the benefits of these devices, but with so many non-believers out there, the question is, how did the funding even go through?

Speaker 22 What?

Speaker 3 Can you see it?

Speaker 53 Statistics show that probably some members of our Congress have a vested interest in having penis pumps covered by Medicare.

Speaker 55 What would all these gray-haired old Rip Van Winkles possibly have to gain by not raising objections to penis pumps?

Speaker 2 Oh, yeah, no, I get it.

Speaker 55 Regardless, the benefits of these miracle devices are obvious.

Speaker 32 Penis pumps save lives for many, many men.

Speaker 20 Some of these penises belong to veterans.

Speaker 32 And the veterans, they deserve. They have given us so much.

Speaker 55 So ladies, if you're feeling unfairly singled out by these challenges to the contraceptive mandate, take comfort in the words of the greatest generation.

Speaker 55 I want to talk about your penis pumps and how they fit into your life. The importance of the

Speaker 20 penis pump

Speaker 28 in your life. Okay.
Okay, which one of you is doing that?

Speaker 20 Who's doing that?

Speaker 42 You?

Speaker 28 Is that you?

Speaker 2 Okay, this, no.

Speaker 6 Okay, guys?

Speaker 55 This is so not cool.

Speaker 6 This is very disgusting. Okay, everybody hands up.

Speaker 55 Hands on the table, please.

Speaker 6 Hands on the table. Oh my God.

Speaker 7 How are you even doing that?

Speaker 49 For years, television pundits have been doing important work sounding the alarm about Obamacare.

Speaker 40 We're going to be six to ten months from now in a massive fiscal crisis.

Speaker 49 Come on, you can do better than that.

Speaker 10 Obamacare literally may kill you.

Speaker 49 Good, keep going.

Speaker 17 The worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery.

Speaker 49 That's what I'm talking about. And now that the law is here and in effect, let's see what this storm has brought.

Speaker 10 Every day, the experience with Obamacare is improving.

Speaker 37 The law will cost $5 billion less than projected.

Speaker 48 We have the lowest monthly uninsured rate that we've ever had.

Speaker 37 Even better news, premiums are lower than expected.

Speaker 49 Stop, stop. That's not like slavery at all.
Evidently, there's some problems with the problems with Obamacare. And now only 36% of Americans support repeal.

Speaker 49 To get America to fall back in hate with the law, I'd need help. I sat down with Obamacare critic Betsy Death Panel McCoy.

Speaker 51 It's been a tough road for critics of this law.

Speaker 14 If people aren't behind repealing this, how are we going to get them on our side?

Speaker 5 I'm wondering.

Speaker 50 Just turn this off for a second.

Speaker 49 But she was

Speaker 49 too upset to talk about it, I guess. So it was up to me to find a new doomsday diagnosis to stop Obamacare.
Nurse Janet Runbeck.

Speaker 54 I lost my job as a direct result of Obamacare.

Speaker 49 Yes, Obamacare will murder your job.

Speaker 22 That is gold.

Speaker 51 Nurse's job, killed to death by Obamacare.

Speaker 14 Can you look to that camera and just tell me how heartbroken you are?

Speaker 54 I am so thrilled to have lost that job.

Speaker 39 Wait, you're happy about losing your job?

Speaker 54 I ran a free clinic in a janitor's lunchroom. Obamacare came along and my patients were for the first time able to get insurance to take care of their health care needs.

Speaker 49 I can spin this. Sick patients tyrannically removed from a janitor's lunchroom, tragically receiving health care.

Speaker 54 There is nothing tragic here. Nobody is calling me to ask for free health care anymore.

Speaker 51 Because of Obamacare.

Speaker 54 Because of Obamacare.

Speaker 51 But I said that in a negative way. You're saying it in a happy way.

Speaker 54 Yes, I am. It works.

Speaker 49 Maybe a visit to the former clinic/slash janitor's lunchroom would help the tears flow.

Speaker 49 Joined by the former medical director, Dr. Mary, we toured the state-of-the-art medical facility, equipped with all the dirty cups and random trash patients could ever need.

Speaker 28 This is where our optometrists and ophthalmologists would do diabetic eye checks.

Speaker 51 And Obamacare has kicked people out of this room and into fully staffed hospitals.

Speaker 28 Yes. Getting somebody's diabetes under control can prevent renal failure and dialysis and kidney transplants.
It can prevent blindness.

Speaker 28 It can prevent massive infections with hospitalizations and amputations and all that kind of stuff.

Speaker 14 How does that math work?

Speaker 28 Those things I just talked about, the complications cost a lot more than a month's worth of insulin and a few blood tests.

Speaker 49 Whatever, lady. I was at least going to walk out of here with a sad group hug.

Speaker 54 No sad hugs. We're happy.

Speaker 25 Very satisfying. It's fine.

Speaker 44 Give yourself a hug.

Speaker 14 I'm doing that, thank you.

Speaker 49 I'd had enough of the uninformed opinions of healthcare professionals. Time to go to the horse's mouth.
The former patients of the clinic who are now living the nightmare that is Obamacare.

Speaker 51 Raise your hands if you think Obamacare will destroy America.

Speaker 19 Okay, I see what you're doing.

Speaker 14 Don't raise your hands if you think Obamacare will destroy America.

Speaker 1 With Obamacare, I've got a great doctor and everything seems to be working in my direction now.

Speaker 39 My experiences have been excellent.

Speaker 49 They were giving me nothing, obviously biased by their personal positive experiences. Little consolation for Janet Runbeck, who remains tragically jobless.

Speaker 14 So you're probably spending your days doing nothing now.

Speaker 54 No, actually, I have moved on. Now I can go elsewhere and do other things that are needed by other people.
I'm working on causes such as human trafficking.

Speaker 14 You moved on to human trafficking? Obamacare forces nurse into sex slave trade.

Speaker 49 That is great.

Speaker 54 That's not exactly right.

Speaker 49 Luckily, to be an Obamacare critic, this is us, this is Obamacare.

Speaker 51 Being right is not a job requirement.

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