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Zeke Emanuel: Scrapping the Health Care System

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Zeke Emanuel Describes the Guaranteed Health Care Plan

04 min 36 sec

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NIH bioethicist Zeke Emanuel outlines the ten elements to his Guaranteed Health Care Access Plan, which includes decreasing the incentive for employer-based coverage by taxing benefits and phasing out Medicare.
Zeke Emanuel: Single Payer System is 'Impossible'

04 min 40 sec

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Zeke Emanuel believes the single payer health care system is the "most radical reform on the financing of health care" because it relies on an outdated fee-for-service system, and does not "encourage quality of care."
Zeke Emanuel: Phase Out Medicare and Medicaid

01 min 55 sec

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Zeke Emanuel says Medicare is a "very good program," but continues, "it is unsustainable from a fiscal standpoint."

He argues the program offers little to insurance companies because it segregates those who are 65 and older.
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PwlM

Posted: 09.28.09, 07:35 PM

He is trying to sneak in VAT tax back door.

James Allen Holder

Posted: 09.24.09, 11:02 AM

I agree, Emanuel's arguments are predicated on biases that can be easily challenged.

BlueBerry Pick'n

Posted: 07.30.09, 07:18 AM

impossible: if you're USING HEALTHCARE AS A PROFIT MARGIN... then all that ' healing & community care ' is just a burden upon humanity's incessant desire to turn everything into a profit centre commodity! this man must be a nuts to stand up in a public space & tell people that WHAT EVERY OTHER DEVELOPED NATION ON EARTH IS TOO HARD FOR AMERICANS ... but then, Americans are too freaking stupid to convert to Metric, too.... Spread Love, ... BlueBerry Pick'n can be found @ The Jeff Farias Show streams FREE & LIVE Mon-Fri, 6-9pmEDT "We, two, form a Multitude " - Ovid. " Violence can only be concealed by a Lie, & the Lie can only be maintained by Violence. " ... " Any man, who has once proclaimed Violence as his Method, is inevitably forced to take the Lie as his Principle " – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. " - Voltaire ~~~ " Silent Freedom is Freedom Silenced "

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