Senate Proceeding on Nov 10th, 2009 :: 0:28:25 to 0:31:00
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0:28:07 to 0:28:27( Edit History Discussion )

Sherrod Brown: and your family's and you can spend it at the public option. you can spend it with blue cross, you can spend it with aetna, you can spend it with any insurance company, private, public option, whoever is doing business in the exchange, you can take your subsidy and go and spend it there. you are not tied to the public

0:28:25 to 0:31:00( Edit History Discussion )
Speech By: Sherrod Brown

0:28:28 to 0:28:48( Edit History Discussion )

Sherrod Brown: option by your subsidy. mr. brown: that's exactly right. k you, senator whitehouse. senator whitehouse and i -- and our staffs -- wrote the language in the health, education, and labor pension committee on the public option. and the whole point was to create a level playing field. as senator whitehouse says. so if you -- if you're low income, if you're lower to medium income, you're making making $30,000, $40,000 a year.

0:28:49 to 0:29:09( Edit History Discussion )

Sherrod Brown: you have a couple of children, you and your spouse, and you are required under this bill to buy health insurance or you, obviously, choose to, you -- you will get subsidy from taxpayers, from the government to help pay for this insurance, and you take those subsidies and as senator whitehouse said, you have a choice. can you go to wellpoint, can you

0:29:10 to 0:29:33( Edit History Discussion )

Sherrod Brown: go to aetna or you can go to public option. the public dollars will follow you into any one of these. the public option gets no special treatment. the public option gets no special taxpayer subsidies. the public option special government infusion of dollars. the public option gets what every other -- any one of the private companies. senator whitehouse said it can be a private company, it can b

0:29:34 to 0:29:55( Edit History Discussion )

Sherrod Brown: for profit, it can be a not for appropriation, a co-op of some sort. it's all a level playing field so people can decide which one of these they want to go into. i thank senator whitehouse for his question. the second myth, after five years i won't be allowed to purcha private insurance. this is not too different from the first myth that we see out there that -- that there's going

0:29:56 to 0:30:16( Edit History Discussion )

Sherrod Brown: to be some forcing of people into public insurance. again, into the public option. when senator staffs and i wrote this language for the health, education, labor and pension, it was written in a way, not just going into the insurance exchange, but five years from have the option. can you choose a private

0:30:17 to 0:30:37( Edit History Discussion )

Sherrod Brown: for-profit or not for profit insurance company or choose a public option. and that's the way this language will continue to be. so that's another one of those myths out there that really scared people. because some people are very distrustful of government in this country. i understand. but i think that the experience of medicare has shown that government in

0:30:38 to 0:31:00( Edit History Discussion )

Sherrod Brown: care, government has been a pretty good delivery vehicle for people getting insurance. in 1965 half of america's insurance had no health insurance today. 99% plus of americans have health insurance and it really is because of medicare. but -- so we know government can deliver but we also are not telling people they've got to have