Rand Paul on Glenn Beck

Last year total health care spending was $2.4 trillion. Medicare and Medicaid alone spent $800 billion or 33% (counting the states' share of Medicaid). THat doesn't count the VA and all of the smaller government subsidized and managed care. Government already provides over half of all health care delivered in the US now, which is the sole reason that it's so expensive. Obama's plan will merely expand what already exists. We need to change the present system - by getting government out of it entirely.

Tom Mullen
author of A Return to Common Sense: Reawakening Liberty in the Inhabitants of America

Switzerland has managed healthcare too but government only pays 24% of the costs (US government pays 45%) and 99% of people is covered. The main difference is that swiss government does not force employers to provide insurance. And in Netherlands private insurances pay 1/3 of the costs, like in America, but 99% is covered as well. It means that even this managed health model can be handled MUCH better.

Ironically, while many centre and northern european countries (even the swedish!) are privatizing hospitals and introducing co-payment and vouchers and other pro-choice consumer policies, America could nationalize healthcare.

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Great interview! But i have to take issue with Charles Paine he says 90% are happy with our current health care system. Now that's BS, we don't want gov run health care, but the system we have now is in trouble they should talk about solutions of how to make it better. Such as what Ron and Rand Paul have mentioned. Get the goverment out of health care all together.

Its not enought for republicans to only talk about the danger of goverment health care, they need to offter alternative solutions as well. ie. tax credits, etc.