Senate Proceeding on Nov 10th, 2009 :: 0:39:45 to 0:41:50
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Sherrod Brown: over our health care to the profit-making private sector for things that you can't negotiate on, for things that aren't elective. you don't want to buy a bicycle. you don't have to buy a bicycle. they have to come to you on price. if you need a heart transplant, there's not a lot of negotiation. we turn that over to the profit sector, and as a result we have

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Speech By: Sherrod Brown

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Sherrod Brown: the worst quality and cost of any country. mr. brown: i would point out when he said the only country in the world, not every country in the world has a government health care system. it's not that every country o many of the successful health care systems are necessarily socialized medicine or public -- public health care plans. but what they have when they use

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Sherrod Brown: private insurance in other countries, they're private insurance private insurance. they don't have all of the bureaucrats in this business model at the beginning from keeping people from getting denyin payment for those plans. what senator whitehouse said about the doctor, myth that we hear so much is

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Sherrod Brown: related to rationing of care -- the myth of rationing of care, and that is exist between doctors an patients. that's what we're seeing with private insurance now you don't see that with medice. you don't see that with -- mr. durbin: morning order -- mr. brown: i ask unanimous

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Sherrod Brown: consent for two more mr. alexander: if we could add an equal two minutes to the republican side. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. brown: the fourth myth is that health reform will interfere with doctors an patients. that's what we see now. we see the doctor and the patient -- the doctor puts his or her secretary or nurse on the line -- or the doctor herself

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Sherrod Brown: calls the insurance company to beg them to cover this because -- and i've heard doctors say, i'll pay -- i'll pay it out of my own pocket if i can't get this covered with the insurance company. so all of these resources in this the patient's family time, the doctor's time, the doctor hiring all of these people, the insurance companies hiring all

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Sherrod Brown: of these people to prevent you from getting insurance, the insurance companies from getting all of these people to stop you from getting reimbursed for your expenses, all of that goes into did -- what? it's waste.