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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/09/16/The_Future_of_Health_Care_The_Candidates_Plans

Daniel Kessler and E. Richard Brown, Health Advisors to the John McCain and Barack Obama Presidential campaigns, respectively, discuss why neither candidate supports a single-payer insurance system for the United States.

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Health care is a major issue in the current presidential campaign. Candidates Barack Obama and John McCain have laid out very different visions, and each believes his plan is best for our nation’s citizenry.

Come learn about each plan from the top policy advisors of each candidate, and take the opportunity to ask your own questions and get answers – The Commonwealth Club of California

Daniel Kessler is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. In addition to his Hoover appointment, he is an associate professor at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, where he teaches courses on economics, public policy, and the health care industry. Among his recent publications are, with Mark McClellan, The Effect of Hospital Ownership on Medical Productivity, forthcoming in the RAND Journal of Economics, and Designing Hospital Antitrust Policy to Promote Social Welfare, which appeared in Frontiers in Health Policy Research. He is the holder of a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.

Dr. E. Richard Brown is a professor at the UCLA School of Public Health and the founder and director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. He received his PhD in sociology of education from the University of California, Berkeley.

Dr. Brown has studied and written extensively about a broad range of issues and policies that affect the access of disadvantaged populations to health care. His recent research focuses on health insurance coverage, the lack of coverage, and the effects of public policies, managed care, and market conditions on access to health services, particularly for disadvantaged populations, ethnic minorities, and immigrants. Dr. Brown and the Center’s studies of health insurance coverage, uninsurance, and eligibility for public programs have been used by California’s governors, legislators, and advocates in crafting health insurance legislation and programs.

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President Obama calls for the House and Senate to vote on health care reform and says he will do everything in his power to make the case for reform. March 3, 2010.

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President Obama visits Glenside, Pennsylvania today promoting his health care plan and points out that most people in DC are more worried about the political score instead of results.

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I’m a former Obama supporter. I’m just totally fed up with reversal after reversal and lie after lie from President Obama on health care.

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Keith Olbermann calls out Sen. John Thune, Sen. John McCain, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and other Republicans – whom he argues “owns” the insurance industry – as well as a few Democrats, too – specifically the “Blue Dogs” – in a “Special Comment”.

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Hi, I’m Andy and I did all the damage I could being a spokesjerk for Blue Cross Blue Shield.

Now it’s time to move on to the next hugely irresponsible, profit-driven monopoly.

Tell me where I should work next: http://facebook.com/sickforprofit

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Kathleen Sebelius, HHS Secretary, and Nancy-Ann DeParle, Director of the White House Office of Health Reform, answer your questions about health reform and insurance companies.

Duration : 0:21:47

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March 4 (Bloomberg) — David Cordani, chief executive officer of Cigna Corp., talks with Bloomberg’s Mark Crumpton and Lori Rothman about President Obama’s proposed overhaul of the U.S. health-care system.
Cordani says the plan is “light” on reducing costs. Cordani also discusses today’s meeting between health-insurer chief executive officers and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. (Source: Bloomberg)

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Moments after a brief speech by President Obama, RNC chairman Michael Steele, in an interview with CNN, says that delaying the vote on the President’s health care reform bill, which he calls “a risky experiment”, is necessary.

“I agree with the President that it’s time to do something different,” Steele said, but “this isn’t the different we want.”

Kyra Phillips says delaying the vote on the bill is not smart, because currently, “It’s costing us up the wazoo.”

“Do you know how much that wazoo is?,” Steele responds.

At the end of the interview, Steele says he’s “happy” with his current medical insurance – then admits he isn’t even sure what his actual insurance plan is! “Blue Cross Blue Shield – I think…”

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After Thursday’s bipartisan health care summit, what’s next? CBS News Chief Political Consultant Marc Ambinder gives his take. Plus; Wyatt Andrews previews his exclusive on disabled veterans being denied benefits.

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