obamacare reform

(applause) the vice president:thank you all. let them celebrate a little bit. audience:fired up! ready to go! fired up! the vice president:thank you. mr. president, i thinkwe got a happy room here. (laughter)

it seems ridiculous to saythank you all for being here. ladies and gentlemen, to statethe obvious, this is a historic day. in our business you use thatphrase a lot, but i can't think of a day in the 37 years thati've been a united states senator and the short time i'vebeen vice president that it is more appropriately stated. this is a historic day. and history -- history is notmerely what is printed in textbooks. it doesn't begin or endwith the stroke of a pen.

history is made. history is made when men andwomen decide that there is a greater risk in accepting asituation that we cannot bear than in steeling our spine andembracing the promise of change. that's when history is made. history is made when you allassembled here today, members of congress, take charge to changethe lives of tens of millions of americans. through the efforts of those ofus lucky enough to serve here in this town, that'sexactly what you've done.

you've made history. history is made when a leadersteps up, stays true to his values, and charts afundamentally different course for the country. history is made when a leader'spassion -- passion -- is matched with principle toset a new course. well, ladies and gentlemen,mr. president, you are that leader. mr. president, your fierceadvocacy, the clarity of purpose that you showed, yourperseverance -- these are in

fact -- it is not hyperbole tosay -- these are the reasons why we're assembled in thisroom together, today. but for those attributeswe would not be here. many, many men and women aregoing to feel the pride that i feel in watching you shortly,watching you sign this bill, knowing that their work -- theirwork has helped make this day possible. but, mr. president, you'rethe guy that made it happen. and so, mr. president, all ofus, press and elected officials, assembled in this town overthe years, we've seen some

incredible things happen. but you know, mr. president,you've done what generations of not just ordinary, but great menand women, have attempted to do. republicans as well asdemocrats, they've tried before. everybody knows the story,starting with teddy roosevelt. they've tried. they were real bold leaders. but, mr. president,they fell short. you have turned, mr. president,the right of every american to

have access to decent healthcare into reality for the first time in american history. mr. president, i've gottento know you well enough. you want me to stop becausei'm embarrassing you. but i'm not going to stop foranother minute, mr. president, because you delivered on apromise -- a promise you made to all americans when wemoved into this building. mr. president, you are -- torepeat myself -- literally about to make history.

our children and ourgrandchildren, they're going to grow up knowing that a man namedbarack obama put the final girder in the framework for asocial network in this country to provide the single mostimportant element of what people need -- and that isaccess to good health -- -- and that every american fromthis day forward will be treated with simple fairnessand basic justice. look, the classic poet, virgil,once said that "the greatest wealth is health."

the greatest wealth is health. well, today, america becomes awhole lot wealthier because tens of millions of americans will be a whole lot healthier from this moment on. ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united statesof america, barack obama. the president:thank you, everybody. thank you. thank you, everybody.

thank you everybody. thank you so much. please, have a seat. thank you, joe. the vice president:good to be with you, mr. president. the president:today, afteralmost a century of trying; today, after over a year ofdebate; today, after all the votes have been tallied --health insurance reform becomes law in the unitedstates of america.

today. it is fitting that congresspassed this historic legislation this week. for as we mark the turning ofspring, we also mark a new season in america. in a few moments, when i signthis bill, all of the overheated rhetoric over reform willfinally confront the reality of reform. and while the senate still hasa last round of improvements to make on this historiclegislation -- and these are improvements i'm confidentthey will make swiftly --

-- the bill i'm signing willset in motion reforms that generations of americans havefought for, and marched for, and hungered to see. it will take four years toimplement fully many of these reforms, because we need toimplement them responsibly. we need to get this right. but a host of desperately neededreforms will take effect right away. this year, we'll start offeringtax credits to about 4 million small businessmen and women tohelp them cover the cost of

insurance for their employees. that happens this year. this year, tens of thousandsof uninsured americans with preexisting conditions, theparents of children who have a preexisting condition, willfinally be able to purchase the coverage they need. this year, insurance companieswill no longer be able to drop people's coveragewhen they get sick. they won't be able to placelifetime limits or restrictive

annual limits on the amountof care they can receive. this year, all new insuranceplans will be required to offer free preventive care. and this year, young adultswill be able to stay on their parents' policies untilthey're 26 years old. and this year, seniors who fallin the coverage gap known as the doughnut hole willstart getting some help. they'll receive $250 to helppay for prescriptions, and that will, over time, fillin the doughnut hole.

and i want seniors to know,despite what some have said, these reforms will not cutyour guaranteed benefits. in fact, under this law,americans on medicare will receive free preventivecare without co-payments or deductibles. that begins this year. once this reform is implemented,health insurance exchanges will be created, a competitivemarketplace where uninsured people and small businesses willfinally be able to purchase affordable, quality insurance.

they will be able to be part ofa big pool and get the same good deal that membersof congress get. that's what's going tohappen under this reform. and when this exchange is up andrunning, millions of people will get tax breaks to help themafford coverage, which represents the largestmiddle-class tax cut for health care in history. that's what thisreform is about. this legislation will also lowercosts for families and for

businesses and for the federalgovernment, reducing our deficit by over $1 trillion inthe next two decades. it is paid for. it is fiscally responsible. and it will help lift adecades-long drag on our economy. that's part of what all of youtogether worked on and made happen. that our generation is able tosucceed in passing this reform is a testament to thepersistence -- and the character -- of the american people, whochampioned this cause; who

mobilized; who organized; whobelieved that people who love this country can change it. it's also a testament to thehistoric leadership -- and uncommon courage -- of the men and women of the united states congress, who've taken their lumps during this difficult debate. audience member:yes, we did. the president:you know, thereare few tougher jobs in politics or government than leading oneof our legislative chambers. in each chamber, there aremen and women who come from

different places and facedifferent pressures, who reach different conclusions about thesame things and feel deeply concerned aboutdifferent things. by necessity, leaders haveto speak to those different concerns. it isn't always tidy;it is almost never easy. but perhaps the greatest -- andmost difficult -- challenge is to cobble together out of thosedifferences the sense of common interest and common purposethat's required to advance the dreams of all people --especially in a country as large

and diverse as ours. and we are blessed by leadersin each chamber who not only do their jobs very well but whonever lost sight of that larger mission. they didn't play for the shortterm; they didn't play to the polls or to politics: one ofthe best speakers the house of representatives has ever had, speaker nancy pelosi. audience:nancy! nancy! the president:one of the best majority leaders the senate has ever had,

mr. harry reid. to all of the terrific committeechairs, all the members of congress who did what wasdifficult, but did what was right, and passed healthcare reform -- not just this generation of americans willthank you, but the next generation of americanswill thank you. and of course, this victorywas also made possible by the painstaking work of members ofthis administration, including our outstanding secretary ofhealth and human services,

kathleen sebelius -- -- and one of the unsung heroesof this effort, an extraordinary woman who led the reform effortfrom the white house, nancy-ann deparle. where's nancy? today, i'm signing this reformbill into law on behalf of my mother, who argued withinsurance companies even as she battled cancer inher final days. i'm signing it for ryansmith, who's here today.

he runs a small businesswith five employees. he's trying to do the rightthing, paying half the cost of coverage for his workers. this bill will help himafford that coverage. i'm signing it for 11-year-oldmarcelas owens, who's also here. marcelas lost hismom to an illness. and she didn't have insuranceand couldn't afford the care that she needed. so in her memory he has told herstory across america so that no

other children have to gothrough what his family has experienced. i'm signing it fornatoma canfield. natoma had to give up her healthcoverage after her rates were jacked up by morethan 40 percent. she was terrified that anillness would mean she'd lose the house that her parentsbuilt, so she gave up her insurance. now she's lying in a hospitalbed, as we speak, faced with just such an illness, prayingthat she can somehow afford to get well without insurance.

natoma's family is here todaybecause natoma can't be. and her sister connie is here. connie, stand up. i'm signing this bill for allthe leaders who took up this cause through the generations --from teddy roosevelt to franklin roosevelt, from harry truman, to lyndon johnson, from bill and hillary clinton, to one of the deans who's been fighting thisso long, john dingell. to senator ted kennedy.

and it's fitting that ted'swidow, vicki, is here -- -- it's fitting that teddy's widow, vicki, is here; and his niece caroline; his son patrick, whose vote helped make this reform a reality. i remember seeing ted walkthrough that door in a summit in this room a year ago -- one ofhis last public appearances. and it was hardfor him to make it. but he was confident that wewould do the right thing. our presence here today isremarkable and improbable.

with all the punditry, allof the lobbying, all of the game-playing that passes forgoverning in washington, it's been easy at times to doubt ourability to do such a big thing, such a complicated thing; towonder if there are limits to what we, as a people,can still achieve. it's easy to succumb to thesense of cynicism about what's possible in this country. but today, we are affirming thatessential truth -- a truth every generation is called torediscover for itself -- that we

are not a nation that scalesback its aspirations. we are not a nation that fallsprey to doubt or mistrust. we don't fall prey to fear. we are not a nationthat does what's easy. that's not who we are. that's not how we got here. we are a nation that faces itschallenges and accepts its responsibilities. we are a nation thatdoes what is hard. what is necessary.

what is right. here, in this country,we shape our own destiny. that is what we do. that is who we are. that is what makes us theunited states of america. and we have now just enshrined,as soon as i sign this bill, the core principle that everybodyshould have some basic security when it comes totheir health care. and it is an extraordinaryachievement that has happened

because of all of you and allthe advocates all across the country. so, thank you. god bless you, and may godbless the united states. all right, i would now like tocall up to stage some of the members of congress who helpedmake this day possible, and some of the americans who willbenefit from these reforms. and we're goingto sign this bill. this is going totake a little while. i've got to use every pen, soit's going to take a really long time.

i didn't practice. (the bill is signed.) we are done.

obamacare program

there's a conservative attempt todismantle obamacare the mitch mcconnell justsigned onto and this is a that there's basicallythis risk pool created for insurance companies by obamacare andit's funded by taxpayers in this thing sunsets by the way in 2016 theassumption is the by then we won't need it but you know just for the roll out someinsurance companies depend you know depending which statestheir opportunity what plans they put together

may end up with some with more oldersicker people and fewer younger healthy people andthey might lose money on obamacare and other insurance companies might make ahuge profit on obamacare and so this this kinda risk pool for the insurancecompanies was set up so that if insurance companies lose money will cover them and you know one otherconservative comments about obamacare is that this you knowthis is %uh there's a hundred different moving parts in this thing but it which is true and it's why ithink you know hey

just medicare part e single-payer let'sjust offer everybody in america medicare and the easy way to do that by the wayis to simply amend obamacare to at a public option to it because thenyou can't choose medicare or you can choose your health insurancecompany miss after also present obama campaigned on in 2008 but in any case and they're saying let'sjust do it legislatively do away with this risk pool which of course is gonna cause insurancecompanies a sacred relic

we are playing this game anymore youhave to have our back or were not guaranteed profitability and you to actually i mean that you know there's a there's apopulist element to this that might actually cause it to work because peoplegenerally 8 sure its companies and what the republicans are saying is why our tax dollars making sure that theinsurance companies don't lose money now the easy answer to that is that because obamacare is a republican plan

it was developed by the heritagefoundation or institute or whatever they call it and it was put into place by mitt romneyin massachusetts republican governor it is a republican plan it was first proposed by richard nixon the democratic plan was always medicarefor everybody harry truman in 1947 proposed that everybody becovered by a national health insurance program single-payer thats always been the democrats plan

obamacare as a republican plan but itwas put forward by democratic president in an in a time when republicans you know had a why at the time it passed i don'tthink they had control has represented but they had basically control the senate in as muchas they could told us you think they could block things and so they're allthese compromises made to get enough republicans to vote forthis thing plus there were these conservative comes in %uh the max baucusis

up the world who had to be mollified and so you know we ended up with therepublican health care care plan for as a national health careplan and because it's republican health care plan it uses private companies in makes money for them and guarantees thema prop so the republicans now ur saying you knowwe know the problems with their own plan if we pull out this this guaranteedprofitability peace which is only going to be in effect forthe first two years

while those program kind of adjustsitself right is presumably after two years the healthinsurance companies will no and this is apparently our tomassachusetts to after the in the two years the health insurance companies allknow okay here's what we should separate saidhere's where risks are yours you note the years was gonna sign up they just you know it all been all thenow you can do the math so people acting out the first two yearsyou crash obamacare and believe it or not this is this isthe new thing that that

their trying to do at the same time thatthey're trying to do that this is the the absolute strangest thing mitch mcconnell well he's while he'strying to do this he is his running television ads back inkentucky same that he that match helps get health care for people hisparty at this is %uh the sky whispering awesome these days i don't have much of a choice butsomething i can't i can't at the nl someone like stop allies match

got a whole is guys whispering kors hesays you know i work with radioactive materials i got throat cancer mitch mcconnell pass legislation thatthat to you know actually provided 250,000 a cash payment anybody gotradiation from working with this materials up mcconnell also ignored the plant onthe dangers of the plant's and you know he was i mean there's justthere's a really sordid story behind this thing but net now at this guy is the mcconnellcampaign is same

you know mitch got me health care government funded healthcare is getting even at the joint okobamacare anything i gotta cuz he worked at this factorthat was handling radioactive for is the kinda weird that at the same timethat you're trying to dismantle my health care program for the countryyou're running an ad in your home state talking about how your the champion ofgovernment-funded health care welcome

very strange will be back its 28 test you're listening to the thom hartmannprogram call 866 987 thoi em and should we consider same you know it's time rickles economic islikely appeal slavery

obamacare pre existing conditions

fiscal year... which begins in july. will thousands of connecticut residents with 'pre-existing conditions' suddenly become 'un-insurable?'that's the big question as republicans in congress move ahead this week with a plan to repeal

"obamacare" even thoughthey "do not" ...yet have a plan to replace it.chief political correspondent mark davis joins us live with more... good evening. democrats around the country are staging events calling attention to the best

parts of the affordable care act.... and hoping to garner public support for moving more slowly on the repeal. 3 60 year old gaye hyre of west haven was

diagnosed with breast cancer seven years ago. it was a time when her husband has lost his job and they had lost their insurance. her treatment was covered by the connecticut 'charter oak' plan which was eventually absorbed by the

federal 'affordable care act,' 'obamacare.' [hyre] "i am a breast cancer survivor and if the 'affordable care act' is removed i will be uninsurable." repeal would mean the protections in the aca, like

no refusal of coverage because of pre-existing conditions, would be suddenly gone.[hyre] "should i be so unfortunate as to have a recurrence; bascially i would lose my home and i won't know where to go or what to do." there are

thousands of other connecticut residents like gaye that would be in the same kind of uninsurable health care crisis if the congress moves ahead with repeal without some sort of plan to replace it. [hyre] "it's

terrifying, i think it's foolish and i think it's something that we all have to stand up against." [brunetti] "my medications cost upward of 250 thousand dollars a year and that's before i set foot in the doctor's office for exams

and tests." colleen brunetti of west hartford has "pulmonary hypertension," a rare lung disease. without obamacare, insurance companies could again impose annual limits on how much they will pay.[esty] "repeal and

no 'replace' is a disaster. it's wrong. it's sloganeering. it's shameful and it's dangerous." [blumenthal] "this week begins the battle and that's why we are here today to say no to the republican effort to 'make

america sick again." democratic senators from around the country are scheduled to take to the senate floor in washington starting at this hour... in speeches denoucing this move.

and with events like this one in hartford today in hopes of holding off the repeal until until a suitable replacement is also on the agenda. in the senate, democrats will need to convince 3 republicans to join with them to stop the

repeal effort. live, from the hartford newsroom, mark davis, news 8.

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butch matthews is a 61-year-old formersmall business owner from little rock arkansas this is a guyi used to wake up at 4am every morning to deliver cannedbeverages to retailers this was before he retired in 2010 he's a lifelong republican and he washeavily skeptical all the affordable care act when itfirst passed but and his health care situation is amazing so get this he wasself-employed between 1997 and 2010 meaning he had to purchase his own planon the individual market

and anybody who's ever done that knowshow hard that is a knows how expensive it could be so he chose a blue coat blue cross blueshield plan for himself and his wife that charged 250 dollars per month a premium and had a two thousand dollardeductible okay that was the plan when he first gotinto it but the price of his policy overtime kept rising but even as his policy started to cover fewer ofhis costs eventually he had to pay 1000 in sixtynine dollars per month

with %uh ten thousand dollar deductible do you believe that you're paying over athousand dollars per month and then when you getting all thehospital you still have to pay the first ten thousand dollars that is the worst insurance i've everheard of and by the way i can even cover ismedication or as doctor's visits sweeping over a thousand dollars a monthto get nothing in return nothing in return what stunningly badpolicy and won a stunningly idiotic health care system we've set up right

but and by the way this guy needed but surgery in 2006 too so we had tofrequently be involved with the health care systemhe said quote i do not work now i'm 61 and we do haveassets saved up but still to come up with a over athousand dollars per month but i want a blue cross blue shield buti could not change it anything else so i was locked and well that allchanged once obamacare state-level marketplaceis open to the public on tuesday and matthews knew that at hisincome level

the law would help him pay for insuranceso get this his new coverage will cost him absolutely nothing per month in premiums nothing now why is that willunder obamacare middle-class families in poor families %uh the poor get extended medicaidinsurance they rose that level of income for medicaid and the middle class gets up subsidies so when you factor in all his federalsubsidies for all the different purposes

at he has a deductible %uh only 750 anypays 0 per month and by the way this is themid-level silver policy that he paid out about a bare-bones policy a which also offers a significantlybetter benefits package a doctor visit will no longer cost himabout a hundred and fifty dollars it will cost him 8 dollars now how much when you calculate everythingup when you add everything up how much is his overall savings per year13

thousand dollars so what would matthewstell other americans who are skeptical about obamacare quote i would tell them to learn moreabout it before they start talking bad about it be more informed actually check thefacts about it i still am a very strong republican but are more arm so happy that this camealong we had more expense on medical care than everything else put together sothis is gonna be

a great help for us well mister matthews you might wannareconsider the whole being a republican thing but wow what an amazing personal storythis iz i don't know how the republicans canargue against this all-volunteer is not perfect by anystretch of the imagination in fact we know according to the factsaccording to the study is that if we copy the best health caresystem in the world the french system which is privatehealth care providers

but public a coverage via tax dollars isfully funded by tax of dried up the best in the world single pair would be better medicare forall would be better we know that right but this is definitely better than thesystem that we had and butch mathews is living proof ovett look in the system beforehand 45,000people die every year in the united states because they didn't have accessto basic health care okay obamacare dresses that to a largeextent not nearly enough but it's better than what we had therepublicans need to stop arguing

for apush statically irrational position

obamacare overturned

this episode of crashcourse is broughtto you by squarespace. hello. my name's craig, and this iscrashcourse government and politics, and today we're gonna really figure out why the presidentis the most powerful man in the world. okay, not really, i guess, obviously, the reasonhe's the most powerful person in the world is he leads what's currently the most powerfulnation in the world, and he can't really take credit for america's global position. besides, there's a good case to be made thatthe richest man in the world is the most powerful, and if we're talking cultural influence, thenwho's more powerful than kanye? according to kanye, no one. but rather than go downthe rabbit hole of power and the secret cabal

that actually runs the world, let's talk aboutthe powers of the president that are not in the constitution, at least, not literally. [theme music] so the constitution lays out a specific limitednumber of expressed powers, but the president's able to do a lot more than what the constitutionsays. expressed powers are sometimes called 'formal powers', but the president also hasinformal powers that do not appear within the written text of the constitution. sometimesthe powers he has are implied by the wording of the constitution, while sometimes, they'reconsidered inherent in the office of the presidency, which means that they flow logically from the ideasin the constitution. a little confusing, right?

well, maybe the thought bubble can explain. let's start easy with an expressed power,which is not the same as an espresso power, which is what i'm currently running on. theconstitution says right here in the text that the president is the commander in chief ofthe army and the navy. this also implies that he can and perhaps will lead the armed forceswhen the nation is at war. it also implies that he can command the air force, even thoughit only mentions the army and navy. so far, so good, but what about when the nation isnot technically at war? remember that the constitution gives congressthe power to declare war as a check on presidential power, but the president still has the inherentpower to use troops even when congress hasn't

actually formally declared war. logically,if there's an immediate threat to the us and congress doesn't have the time or the opportunityto declare war, the commander in chief must be able to use force. so this power is saidto be inherent in the office. the problem is that once you grant that the presidentmust have the power to use troops, how do you limit him? what sorts of threats are soimmediate and dangerous that the president should have free reign to send troops? otherthan martian invasions or taco tuesday riots, obviously. if you look at most of the timesamerica has sent troops into conflict, especially during the 20th and 21st centuries, it's beendone with him acting as commander-in-chief without a formal declaration of war. we senttroops to korea, vietnam, afghanistan, and

twice to iraq without congress declaring war, andthese are just the big ones. we're not even gonna talk about grenada and panama and all the other smallinterventions, so is there any check on this power? after vietnam, congress tried to put on thebrakes by passing a war powers resolution, which requires the president to get authorizationto use troops within 60 days of when he first commits them, or else he has to bring thetroops back. this sounds like a pretty powerful check, but in practice, congress always authorizedthe president to use force. thanks, thought bubble. sometimes i use force without being authorized. the president has informal powers in foreignpolicy, too. formally, the constitution says the president has the power to make treaties, receiveforeign ambassadors, and appoint ambassadors

and ministers. the president has developedthe power to negotiate executive agreements, which are nowhere in the constitution. executiveagreements are, well, they're agreements between the us and foreign nations that look liketreaties but aren't formally treaties. they can come with treats, though. brownies. cookies.trade concessions. the most important difference between an executiveagreement and a treaty is that the agreements don't need to be ratified by 2/3rds of thesenate, but they become valid with only a majority of vote in both houses. this makesthem easier to pass than a formal treaty and explains why presidents prefer executive agreementsto treaties. lately, there have been some very importantexecutive agreements, like the general agreement

on tariffs and trade or gatt that has morphedinto the wto, and the north american free trade agreement, better known as nafta, 'cause if itwere a treaty, it'd be naftt, and that would be nafty. although it isn't mentioned in the constitution,the president is effectively the chief executive officer or ceo of the us. where does thispower come from? formally, it's in the faithfully executed clause in the presidential oath ofoffice, but more practically, it comes out of his power to appoint judges, ambassadors,and other ministers. sorry, judges and ambassadors, but when it comes to executive power, it's theother ministers that matter here, because they're the cabinet secretaries and other heads of administrativeagencies that make up the bulk of the government. the president chooses agency heads that agreewith his policies- at least he hopes they

do. so his appointments shape the politicalagenda. but more importantly, in appointing the ministers, the president assumes an inherentpower to direct them and their agencies on how to implement laws. this makes since. asanyone who's ever worked for a boss knows, once you're hired you're sort of expectedto know what your boss wants and to do it. this power to direct agencies and how to executelaws is enormous. it basically directs the way the government acts. the president has pretty limited formal powersover congress. other than convening special sessions, and the veto, and the state of theunion address, maybe, he can't do all that much to influence them. i mean congress usuallymeets without the president telling them to and he almost never vetoes bills. but thatdoesn't mean that the president doesn't have

a big informal role to play in the legislativeprocess. the president can attempt to set the legislativeagenda by making recommendations for laws that he'd like to see passed. this is sometimescalled the legislative initiative, and in practice it usually means that executive branchofficials will actually draft the legislation they want and give it to congress to refineinto something they can pass. this is what happens with big agenda items like the affordablecare act. you may know it as obamacare. or the dodd-frank act, which, despite being namedfor its two congressional sponsors was actually written with a lot of input from the whitehouse. i should note here that even though it mightlook like the president is usurping legislative

power, congress often gives its power to thepresident willingly, because it wants to avoid responsibility for unpopular policies. hesaid it. i didn't say it. he said it. also this is pretty limited power for the presidentbecause he can't force congress to pass anything, even if he wrote it and says "please, please,please, please, please." and because a president's ability to move the agenda decreases as hispopularity decreases. there's another legislative power that the presidenthas that is probably the most important one. he can give executive orders. these arepresidential directives, or rules, that have the force of law. executive orders can beoverturned by actual congressional lawmaking, or by supreme court decisions. these executiveorders allow the president to circumvent the

legislative process and act unilaterally.ideally the president and congress should work together, but c'mon! sometimes the presidentdecides to go it alone. 'cause they're... they don't work together that often. thesedays anyway. some really important policies have been madeby executive orders, including desegregating the military and the creation of the environmentalprotection agency. but executive orders may not be as durable as a law passed throughthe normal channels. if the next president in office disagrees with the order as a presidentput in place, he or she can get rid of them just as easily as his or her predecessor putthem in place. the other informal power the president hasis kind of obscure, but also pretty important.

the president can impound the funds that congresshas appropriated for certain programs or projects if he doesn't want them implemented. moregenerally, under his power to execute the laws, he can order the bureaucracy to implementpolicies in a certain specific way. or sometimes not at all. although this can get him in totrouble there's one last inherent power i'll mentionthat the president currently has and that's executive privilege. there's probably more,but no president has asserted them yet. basically this is the president's ability to keep informationsecret by claiming that it's too important to be revealed, usually for reasons of nationalsecurity. there's a check on executive privilege though. it can be overturned by a court orderas happened in the landmark supreme court

case u.s. vs. nixon. there they court orderednixon to turn over tapes of his conversations with aids that might have related to the watergatescandal. so even though the president isn't given aton of power in the constitution, the president is pretty powerful. this is especially trueduring war. even if that war hasn't been declared. and this is a point you should remember. youshould remember everything i say, but you should remember this too. congress and theamerican people are usually willing to defer to the president on military matters and the inherentpowers of the commander in chief are enormous. often increased presidential power has beenthe result of a president seizing the initiative and expanding his own inherent or impliedpower. and once a president has established

an implied power, the next president's veryunlikely to do away with it. oh, please, more power? no thank you. but just as often as presidentsimply their own powers, congress willingly hands over more power. and that's what we're going totalk about in the next episode. thanks for watching. crash course government and politics is producedin association with pbs digital studios. support for crash course us government comes fromvoqal. voqal supports non-profits that use technology and media to advance social equity.learn more about their mission and initiatives at voqual.org. crash course is made with the help ofthese commanders-in-chief. thanks for watching.

obamacare outline

gerald friedman's joining us he'sprofessor of economics at the university of massachusetts amherst landed graduateall minor and he has eight unique piece in dollars and sense dot or which talksabout what would a potential single-payersystem actually look like a spars uh... what would it cost we're with themoney come from and uh... would it be communist socialism like we hear so muchuh... in uh... mainstream corporate media the professor friedman i think agood place to start would be before we talk about how such a system would befunded uh... what it would cost which yououtlined in the paper don't you

you're well of course you've got the lot left with pendingtheir that back at the bottom line with bending down event in seventy eight dollars out of the peopleof the bells what are it arm which i think that may be bar people that he cannot be spent a lot ofmoney and helped get the proper we get pretty it

belt that we can't are here well what band and we could probably get erectile or spending less money that's at leastthe experience of amply other there okay but what will you tell you when yousay we're spending we could spend less than seventeen dollars what potentiallywhere do you see a dropping or something it marburg alll but we could brookwood empathic they'vebeen built

billion dollop which would get if i would spend the gapsomething like well well that abdullah plop out that at that point outwitted or that's about these thingsthat with order directing but what about cutting problem well yet for example it gets kind of american don't laptop on and they're like that that concededsix you well

well another hampers samples so american don't have health insurance at somepoint of view alm or really inadequate help private healthinsurance that would be a fit barb it doesn't cut their for so as a percentage of g_d_p_ growth forworked for comparison

does the u_s_ spend uh... how how toother countries at the same level of development is the u_s_ spent as apercentage of g_d_p_ on health care about eleven sat which is really interesting withoutsystem uh... a lot of people talk about theortho if uh... private just a bit bonham well yaar pop-up book i helped her went employmentand that's why it actually we've had a major change thereare all before that would be dot

four years ago most employees they'd stop chart with done whenloopholes repeal park which was a community its why am we're everybody in the air your stable property of but what the step that we fragment of so that you know it hundreds of hebron playing on off thebike doesn't at the pump

canada what time that we would keep you readthat directly will private competitive are what prompts aspen habitat want about but universal single-payer system the walkway at the age proper at that or that they've been trying to work withthem because they've been that's not

uh... instead i would spend a good productsthat have been that that spending the products m_-eleven that's that's definitely add that thoseare those of the numbers i think we need to be looking at which you won't hearabout when this is discussed when when the main criticism of its too expensive you don't hear those numbers for you not not not to know that was just a bitwombat go what property opal aren't entered the debate here are

like expecting rolled thereafter andarmada then in the united states drugs on withspending more and more bodies every all the repair i think the bigger increase lifeexpectancy what less money here well let's let let's let's assume wecould agree that the system would work better which not everybodywould concede to us but for the purposes of this conversation let's assume we canat least agree on that then the next optical people like to talk about iscost and when you outline this i think

is one point three five trillion cost you breakdown exactly how this would bepaid for what's the biggest component because people assume hey my taxes onincome mergers going to go up and uh... you know it's it's class warfare etcetera how would you actually pay for the system well first of all it it would be paid well act this type ofmost unbearable or where the or eventful at

that opened the or or on although or that indeed ninety-five alert them aren't they would be than significantlywet arm finding open term than that at that off of the bering village program willbe outlawed looking went act or

financial transactions veto a tax write but opened which is a good thing to do anything apulp and paper it out if the defendant expected help yet out but it was the captain rebukeposting skillrich prevention albrecht looks financial it yet that late q correct that uh... soto compact

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will be expanded carpet or where or or people that uh... all help capture in this eventakes into consideration the fact that if people had coverage that they weren'tpaying for each individual visit you might see increased utilization rightthings people put off they would no longer put off you even considering that in the costare you not irr they're worried about in uh... hilton's that arm about what a prophetic people thatare open to not

bill scripture that albeit barb baap it incurable spend from doctor golden did you get this they don't get it fifteen twenty percent of people winhelp people well or sc it bub can grow so when we got only lower when we lookat the bottom line if we take into

consideration the additional taxes beingpaid as well as the savings to people from not buying health insurance everybody up to the fore to the top fourpercent of income earners correct me if i'm not would have a net gain in disposableincome by the amount that they would save is going to be far outweighed bythe additional taxes they would pay on health care for health care e about that

hailed accident with the arrow wait butnot that sick and it thank you both looking what i think this would be a major step birthing rate globalctg of up the fire that that or with yet aren't we credits huge transferable well and info

all off their chin people uh... ako since i was just looking at isthat this different recession damp on although include that with are with property at port well not what ninety-three but or wellexpo are and we're certainly familiarcriminally with those numbers the next discussion of course which we don't havetime for today but will have you back

for is will this more likely happen underindividual states single-payer systems but will it happen under expandingmedicare et cetera a but not that no time for that today unfortunately thearticle is a dollars and sense dot lord we've been speaking with gerald friedmanhe's professor of economics at the university of massachusetts amherst uh... great police in really a pleasureto speak with you and all in your practice now joining us as well so uh...carlos the both are really asked opal

uh... at the bar thanks professor thank you very much

obamacare originally republican idea

obamacare, or the affordable care act is a law than was enacted to ensure that every single american, regardless of age, sex or race has access to affordable health care. the idea was headed by president barack obama, and resultantly it’s named after him. essentially, obamacare is supposed to represent a medium between a fully fledged market based healthcare system, and a government owned nhs esque system that still allows people to choose their own health package, but also prevents people from being abused by the system. obamacare supposedly does this by offering people discounts on government sponsored healthcare plans, and expanding the medicaid system to ensure people who can’t afford healthcare are provided with it. as well as this, there are certain rules that insurance companies must follow to prevent people from being mistreated by the system. for example, people can no longer be refused insurance, or forced to pay huge premimumes simply for having a pre existing condition. the issue with obamacare is that some argue it has caused insurance premiums to skyrocket. many argue that this is indicative of the whole idea, obama simply wants to redistribute the cost of healthcare from the poorest to the middle classes, who are forced to pay more. however whilst there are some that argue obamacare has done too much, some argue it has’nt gone far enough.

people like vermont senator bernie sanders, who argue for a single payer system say that obamacare doesn’t protect enough people and that a fully fledged nationalised healthcare system like the systems in canada and the uk, would do just that. yet president obama continues to insist that he passed obamacare in its current form because he wanted a system that would appeal to both sides of the political argument and that he didn’t want to cause more division in the country. still the argument rages on. if you liked my video, then please like, share and subscribe. thanks for watching.

obamacare legislation

i greet you in the love and the light of theinfinite creator. bill clinton says americans are �gettingkilled� by obamacare. by admintam. in a staggering moment of honesty caught ontape, former president bill clinton admits to a group of voters in michigan that obamacareis a complete disaster and is wreaking havoc on the middle-class and �small-businesspeople.� per the video published by the ny post, clinton says that obamacare is finefor those who are eligible for subsidies but admits that that hardworking �people whoare out there busting it, sometimes 60 hours a week, wind up with their premiums doubledand their coverage cut in half and it�s

the craziest thing in the world.� �you�ve got this crazy system where allof a sudden 25 million more people have health care, and then the people who are out therebusting it, sometimes 60 hours a week, wind up with their premiums doubled and their coveragecut in half and it�s the craziest thing in the world. �on the other hand, the current system worksfine if you�re eligible for medicaid, if you�re a lower-income working person. if you�re already on medicare or if youget enough subsidies on a modest income that you can afford your health care.

�but the people getting killed in this dealare the small-business people and individuals who make just a little bit too much to getany of these subsidies.� per the hill, the comments from bill comeat an awkward time as obama is set to deliver a �major speech� in florida touting theastounding success of obamacare. moreover, the comments seemingly contradicthillary on the issue as she has largely embraced obamacare on the campaign trail while suggestingthat small modifications may be needed to �fix� certain components of the legislation. if you listen to the madness long enough,every once in a while the talking heads will slip and actually speak the truth.

though, as always, we�re sure bill willbe pulled off the campaign trail, in short order, and reprimanded for his moment of honestybefore being re-released into the wild with new talking points singing the praises ofobamacare�s many �achievements.�