Senate Proceeding on Oct 22nd, 2009 :: 8:58:55 to 9:00:00
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Sherrod Brown: be in reality not to prove out. mr. brown: i w what senator whitehouse said that you can also look -- you can look another place and you can see how in very quantative and very s example comparisons -- that medicare versus private insurance and we know the

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Speech By: Sherrod Brown

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Sherrod Brown: of bureau -- we know the cost of bureaucracy, the cost of marketing, the cough of huge profits and the cost of high executive salaries and private insurance means that they have 15% absolute minimum -- more than 20%, 25%, sometimes 30% in costs.

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Sherrod Brown: medicare is a public plan. the private insurance companies really don't compete very well with medicare in terms of measuring them for administrative costs. so whether you look at workers' comp plans when there is a public option, whether you look at workers' comp plans in wyoming where it is single-payer, or you look

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Sherrod Brown: medicare, you can see that this argument they make that government can't do anything right is pretty introng headed especially when they're afraid that government does things so officiately they're going to run themut of bisms so it really is, which is it? we know the public plan can coexist side by side with the private plans and make the private plans a lot bemplet i