Ron Paul on Larry King August 18, 2009

Why can't anyone on mainstream TV except Dr Paul, Peter Schiff, etc. understand what inflation is?? It drives me nuts to hear them get it wrong over and over and over again.

The cost of medical care, or cars, or whatever, CANNOT rise faster than inflation. It is not possible. Inflation is the expansion of the money supply. The EFFECT of inflation is rising prices. It makes no sense to say the effect is rising faster than the cause.

They do not mean to say that the price of medical care is rising faster than the price of something else such as food or consumer electronics. They simply do not understand what inflation is. The effect of inflation is not distributed uniformly. That's a well known fact which none of these mainstream talking puppets seem to understand.

I think Ron is making a mistake in pitting himself against something like an Obama plan. He understands that we have nothing like a free market system. He understands that our third payer system and crony capitalist system has created a disaster that makes coverage unaffordable for millions of Americans. This interview sort of makes him seem like he's defending the status quo against Obama. In fact all we'd be doing is trading one disaster for another. It's not like we're losing something that is so great if Obama got his way.

Medicare is bad. But they operate with 4% overhead. The rest goes for care. When Paul rips on Medicare he makes it seem like he's defending the so called "private" part of our medical market, which isn't private at all. It's crony capitalistic. And it's worse than Medicare. They take between 20 and 30% of the payment as overhead and the rest goes for coverage. And what the hell are they bringing to the table? What value do they offer? It's as if when you bought food you had a different person write the check and you then wrote them a check for what they paid + 30%. It's a ridiculous system.

Of course Obama got into office by working for these insurance companies, so I don't expect anything to change. He'll talk about it, but abandon it, and we'll retain our ridiculous over priced system just like Paul says. These people make millions of dollars doing nothing and they like it that way, which is why they buy off politicians and prevent themselves from having to compete in a market where they'd really be required to bring value. But Paul should never put himself in a position where he appears to be defending the so called free market part of our healthcare system.

.. Well, I was watching Bill Maher with utter frustration because he never has a conservative that can actually defend against his panel of left winger, bleeding heart pinkos and they were showing the line of people (this exact same place and exact same flight doctor on Larry King) waiting for medical care in Inglewood California and then he showed ONLY the crazier of the anti socialized medicine protestors who had medical insurance and displayed us like we are rich heartless ass holes. Well, the funny thing about the majority of the people in line for the free care was that they were like 90% (give or take) ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS!!!!! I WANTED TO PULL MY FREAKING HAIR OUT!!! Nobody asked them to come here and I DAMN sure aint going to have my tax payer dollars, pay for their medical, dental, educational and YES, their yearly prison fees! more than 30% of the population of our prisons are filled with Illegal immigrants and in certain parts of California, over 2/3rds of children of illegal immigrants will become violent gang members and will end up in prison or end up dead or selling alot of drugs. I dont care if what I am saying is politically incorrect because political correctness is what is killing this country. It really pissed me off and they never mention that part in any of these shows about those "free clinics", yet if there was a vote done today, less than 17% of the population would vote yes to having tax paid medical care for illegal immigrants and yet more than 48-52% of congress would vote yes!!! Isnt there something wrong with this picture (referring to how out of touch the government is)? Thanks

Ron Paul 2012

not a right.This is the premises of Dr. Paul departure on this debate.
How to more efficiently & cheaply deliver quality health services to the people in need of them. That is the issue.
Dr.Paul carefully pointed out that corporate raiders along with government have monopolized this market for the past 40 years.Add to this the Obamacare initiative now and the fascist model will be complete.
It is all about control of the masses.Not the least about health care for ordinary Americans.
The trouble is -how do you dismantle a system where powerful corporate lobbyists control the laws and regulations passed in Congress?
Get rid of career politicians! Re-take Congress!

“A Government Big Enough to Give You Everything You Want is Powerful Enough to Take Everything You Have — Thomas Jefferson”

I like Larry King. He lets his guests really speak. The other two guys next to Dr. Paul are ignorant but Larry is fair and gives them all equal time. Good interview.

I also suspect that CNN is now behind Fox news and MSNBC in ratings. They need more conservative guests like Dr. Paul. This is also a sad comment on our society that people rather hear confirmation of their beliefs rather than objective news, that includes present company. The neo-con conservatives run to fox to confirm their world view and the liberals run to msnbc. This leaves cnn in a distant third place.

He says if you leave it to the goodness of man, people will not help people get healthcare... implication is that the government will.

But who makes up government? man...

If you don't trust in the goodness of man then why would you give man the power of government?

Ron Paul's Convention Speech

An employee of Obama and some right wing doc is not gonna over-do Ron Paul!

When the charity doctor mentioned that state laws prevent doctors from crossing state lines...this would have been a good opportunity for RP to bring up medical licensing which allows the government and doctors to monopolize healthcare and deny free entry. Licensing restricts the amount of doctors available in an attempt to limit supply and push up doctors wages. Freedom would allow people to go to certified doctors if they so choose but uncertified doctors would also be allowed to practice medicine and compete.

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xD

Even people have a price on their heads or whatever part including their souls. The question remains can the government do a better job fixing anything given the trend of indifference to the Constitution and the people they represent.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdQKetTLXm8&eurl=http%3A%2F%2...

Does anybody have a video showing Obama's promises (pre-election) and all the actions which proved he lied?

Typical: Larry puts up 2 guests on HIS side of the issue, and 1 on the side of the issue that Larry is against, gives 'an equal 66%' of the time to his side of the issue, and interrupts repeatedly the 33% of the time devoted to the side Larry is against.

going on TV with the good Dr. He makes both these guys look like Beck & Mr. Ed. When he states that medicaid is "broke" the knucklehead to the left interprets broke as "broken" but "not out of cash". The system is broken help! government! help! Come fix it! FEMA where are you?? Government is the problem not the solution.

9/11 was an inside job .....time to get some answers..RP 2012

Wow, what unbelievable SPIN!
Volunteer Doctors and nurses charitably helping the less fortunate is BAD,
But Government taking control by steeling from people is GOOD!
Dear Lord God help us!