Charlie Rose

winter  03/25/2010 09:57 PM Report

Colin Powell would make a great Health Care fraud czar. He'd find it, cut off its head and kill it.

doodahdaze  03/21/2010 07:14 AM Report

Well, good ole Lester Holt of NBC News just explained in plain layman detail EXACTLY what the new law WILL DO (at least somebody FINALLY did it). EVERYBODY, rich, poor, and everybody in between gets the shaft. LMAO! What a Crock!! .. Except for those who love to play in paper-work (to you all, Congratulations! AGAIN!! you always win, no matter what; don't you?.).

One good thing we'll all get out of it, No more rejection for preexisting conditions (at least until the attorneys find the loopholes) (more fun and games for society's leeches)(It doesn't matter, Repugnantcan or Demagogcrat, Congress takes care of their own) (ALWAYS). Reminds me of 'Professional Wrestling' meets 'Revenge of the Nerds'. And 'Erkel' is President now, except when he drinks the formula that turns him into, 'Stephaun Er-Kell'. LOL

West  03/20/2010 09:46 PM Report

Food stamps do not control the cost of food. His vouchers will not control the cost of healthcare.

esantoro  03/20/2010 07:53 PM Report

Not bad for a Republican. He spouts the talking points with a bit of contextualization and nuance that I never knew was possible from that side of the isle. However, unless both sides can bench their ideology and really consider what's best for this country from the ground up. The way I see it, Republicans are much more wedded to their ideology than are the Democrats. Just look at the last thirty years.

jerseyjim  03/20/2010 12:59 PM Report

I wonder if some who posted here have lived the last few decades in a cave. How do you think America can afford this new entitlement?? Have you seen what happened in England and Canada. Chronic double digit unemployment, rationing, no advances in medical technology and limited access to things we take for granted like a Cat scan.

Hey but it's FREE. Real free huh.Boston already did this experiment and already sees longer waits, an exploding budget and higher costs.

This isn't insurance reform. It's a take over of health care and no one can point to a large society where this has worked. At its start, in 1966, Medicare cost $3 billion. The House Ways and Means Committee estimated that Medicare would cost only about $ 12 billion by 1990 (a figure that included an allowance for inflation). This was a supposedly "conservative" estimate. But in 1990 Medicare actually cost $107 billion. In 2008 the program cost $468 billion. The 2009 Social Security and Medicare Trustees Reports show the combined unfunded liability of these two programs has reached nearly $107 trillion in today's dollars.

Why are we doing a new entitlement when we can pay for the ones we have. To save Obama's reputation? Give me a break. He doesn't care about anyone but himself. Look how the program doesn't go into affect till after his reelection campaign. This is a fiscal disaster. This isn't about Democrats or Republicans, it's about the future. These hack politicians promise you security and take away your liberty. Wake up!

doodahdaze  03/20/2010 08:04 AM Report

the only negative effect to having the public option, is that the insurance guys, instead of making their typical $170-$230 thousand dollars a year, they'll have to settle to only making $110-$170 thou.. and they might have to work a little harder for it. .. the poor babies

Which makes me wonder, just WHO is affecting the Repugnantcans behavior. hmmmmm

doodahdaze  03/20/2010 07:44 AM Report

If the Repugnanticans had all these GREAT ideas to fix the inequities in the 'healthcare system', then where the hell were they when they had the majority and the President.?. I trust this guy as much as I trust Obama; which means, I'm sure he means well, but he's full of shit. The 'public option' is NOT socialism; AND it will NOT make the insurance companies disappear. That incredible Repugnantcan rhetoric is the main roadblock to REALLY controlling costs without negatively affecting quality. And it's just as much the Demogodcrats fault as it is the Repugnantcans fault, by mixing it up with so much CRAP (it's unbelievable all that shit they want with it). Obama screwed up by trying to bulldoze a big unorganized mess, in typical political fashion; he should of kept it small and to the point. As usual, both parties playing their typical political games, wasting everybody's time because they're the only game in town.

Pentalobus  03/20/2010 01:06 AM Report

Paul Ryan is the one who should be president, not Barack Obama.

Paul Ryan for president in 2012!

katekeim  03/19/2010 09:02 PM Report

Disappointing. Charlie, you let him make the same speech we have heard him (and other republicans)make before and then let everything he said stand as if it were all fact. Your job was to ask him the questions we nwwd to hear his answers to. Like, how his system of vouchers and all will be less expensive? And since insurance companies will still be calling all the shots, how will it all suddenly be only between the doctors and patients?

You just sat there nodding as if that were obviously so. The only way that can be so would be thru the single-payer system which Ryan rejects.

I had begun relying on you to give us in-depth smart enjoyable discussions. This one was a waste of time.

robdverity  03/19/2010 06:02 PM Report

The proof is an the need to disabuse us (and yourself).

REMant  03/19/2010 12:18 PM Report

I agree with him about the insurance cos, but vouchers will not really solve the cost problem either, which is a matter of the disparities in wealth our deficits and monetary policies create. I also agree that they probably do not have quite all the votes, because they rarely do in cases like this and try to get up a head of steam and give an air of inevitability with announcements like this. He is IMHO proof that the Republicans are not all wastrels.