Charlie Rose

rsherryd  08/06/2009 08:13 AM Report

Now, this SAME team of people want YOU to turn in your own American neighbors if they tell you the truth about this healthcare bill. READ THE BILL PEOPLE!!!! READ IT. DON'T TAKE MY WORD FOR IT. READ THE BILL. UNLESS YOU ARE PHYSICALLY PERFECT, HELL WILL BEGIN FOR YOU THE MINUTE YOU SIGN UP FOR IT. IF YOU HAVE EXISTING COVERAGE WITH YOUR EMPLOYER, YOU HAVE ONLY 5 YEARS TO KEEP IT - then you MUST get on the government healthcare plan. DOES THAT SOUND LIKE YOU DON'T HAVE TO GIVE UP YOUR EMPLOYER PLAN TO YOU?????? THEY ARE NOT TELLING YOU THE WHOLE STORY......READ THE BLASTED BILL!!!!

rsherryd  08/06/2009 08:10 AM Report

Gee...single payor? It didn't work in Britain. It didn't work in Canada (long lines for ER and very long weeks of waiting for a doctor visit), so why should I believe the same won't be true in America. This current healthbill is a joke for the elderly (end of life counselling?????) and pre-existing conditions.

CONTRARY TO WHAT THESE PEOPLE ARE TELLING YOU - I READ THIS UGLY BILL. IT IS AN ATROCITY AND AN ABOMINATION TO ALL AMERICANS. SHAME ON YOUR PEOPLE FOR NOT READING IT AND BELIEVING WHAT THESE PEOPLE SAY. SHAME, SHAME, SHAME,

misericordia el  11/11/2008 11:42 PM Report

What a family. I want to see the rest of them, AT DINNER!

james mccarty yeager  11/10/2008 10:10 PM Report

My calculation is that the amount of political capital expended on achieving universal single-payer healthcare does not much exceed the amount necessary to obtain any change at all. Therefore I hope the new Congress will go ahead and work for the least-costly, widest-service solution, which is single-payer, without automatically compromising backward to satisfy the insurance and pharmaceutical companies.

Ramesh  11/10/2008 12:32 PM Report

These assertive guys are going to tackle health care - great, they have my support then. We need fighters to reform health care. They may be the folks to do this. One question about their plan - why do we need 5 to 8 insurance companies? Why not a single payer government option and 2 or 3 private options? That would be more manageable?

Also, whatever universal coverage plan has to be basic and not filled with goodies in order to be affordable. Better to let the public know up front to avoid future disappointments.

Have at em Emmanuels.

vivian waldeck  11/09/2008 06:58 PM Report

is it possible to get a print out of the charlie rose - emanuell brothers conversation for my daughter who is hearing impaired? thanks.

Ryan M  11/09/2008 05:48 PM Report

i think the explanation is that they are all very intelligent and had parents with enough money to send them all over the place and get educated and connected. and some luck. healthcare?

Rejoicing  11/09/2008 04:20 PM Report

This was a great program to watch in the context of Rahm's recent appointment. I can't deny being a bit suspicious about his reputation and gangster-like persona, but this conversation helped create a wider portrait of this extremely powerful figure. Thanks Charlie!

Alex Weinberger  11/09/2008 11:20 AM Report

The appointment of Rahm Emanuel as White House chief of staff is reminiscent of Justice Arthur Goldberg resigning his JFK-appointed seat on the Supreme Court in 1965 to serve as LBJ's lapdog as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.

Ambassadors, like the White House staff, serve at the pleasure of the President.

Justice Goldberg, 57 years old at the time, may have hoped eventually to get re-appointed to the Court so he acquiesced to the request of a very persuasive president with a then overwhelming electoral mandate. His surprising resignation from the Court to serve in the executive branch demonstrated how a politically astute president can de-fang a potentially contentious powerful force in another branch of government without a head-to-head confrontation.

Could it be that Obama took his cue from LBJ, one of the 20th century's most cunning political tacticians? While LBJ may have needed liberal justices on the Supreme Court to prevent interference with his Great Society programs, he could not long abide an analogous potential check to the unconstitutional extension of executive power that a war conducted solely by executive fiat requires.

President Obama will need a cooperative Congress to implement his very progressive agenda. Emanuel, a strong, independent congressional leader with a rapidly growing power base of his own, would never again be as compliant as now with the wishes of the president-elect. There will never be a better time than now, for Obama, basking in the glow of his wildly popular mandate, to co-opt the legislative arm of our government by neutralizing what would likely be a most obstreperous check to his executive power. Welcome to the White House, Mr. Emanuel. Too bad about the power you had to give up to get there. Nice move, Mr. President.

sds  11/06/2008 06:07 PM Report

hi,

If it was not for Zeke I would not be here right now.

I will never forget the days talking with him.

One small room in Dana.

Even when he told me he didn't really want to do patient care (and he was really good at it).

These gentlemen (and obviously their family) are what makes this world wonderful.

thanks,

sds

voicefromthegrandstand  11/06/2008 03:33 PM Report

Congratulations to Rahm Emanuel for his appointment as Chief of Staff to President-Elect Barack Obama. Maybe the brother Ezekiel will share his experience and expertise as Surgeon General; being an oncologist may qualify him to heal the cancerous condition of our society in America, including the healthcare system itself.

Sherry  10/15/2008 10:08 PM Report

This program began to make me want to read and hear what these guys have to say about this country's health insurance situation. I hope these guys will be able to help make something good and great happen!!!

Ato  10/07/2008 01:45 PM Report

I agree with Oba Olayinka's comment, I would love to have heard more from the brothers. Maybe I can ask my boss to try and make a documentary about their family.

Laura Lauder  08/19/2008 09:28 AM Report

Loved it. Zeke, you're amazing. The plan needs a political champion and Obama can/should be the flag bearer once he is elected.

Rahm, you lead our party with passion and eloquence, and we owe the House gains to you and Nancy for your tireless work.

Ari, i haven't met you, but your clients are the best in the business, and you make us think about issues from new perspectives.

Kol hakavod to each of you. Thanks for what you do.

Steve Abramson  07/04/2008 01:10 PM Report

Dr. Emanuel's healthcare is perfect for what ails us. Paying for vouchers with a dedicated VAT would simultaneously remove a disincentive for employment and work to level the playing field with 135 trading partners who use VATs, and therefore have a competitive advantage over the U.S.

Everyone wants universal healthcare and everyone would be able to pay for it this way, which would be progressive, i.e., those who consume more would pay more. And, it would collect from the 15 million illegals who flood our emergency rooms for free care, as well as the underground drug traffic (as they spend to consume goods and services).

What group (organization) will champion this solution and work to make it a reality? Hopefully, McCain and Obama will study this one.

cerna kalin  06/30/2008 01:11 AM Report

When will you re-run the show with the Emanuel brothers??????

Pia Stern  06/24/2008 08:05 PM Report

I very much enjoyed this interview. However, I am very curious about the sister, who is only briefly alluded to at the beginning of the interview and then not referred to again. How did she do with 3 highly competitive male siblings and what is she doing in *her* life?

Shaft  06/20/2008 12:44 AM Report

This was an interesting conversation among with three brothers who were too comfortable with each other. A med doc, a politician, and a businessman are all different in terms mind set, yet they all have common denominator that allows them to communicate freely. When I and my brother grew up together, we used to compete with almost everything and now we do not have the level of comfort these three brothers have amongst each other.

->> One point I agree with Rahm is that an immigrant culture does push people to achieve, because America is by far the greatest country on Earth and the means to achieve are available and people coming from anywhere do see that potential and try harder that the average American born and raised in the the US to make "it." I also agree with him on the part he says as a politician has direct access to making tremendous change in the lives of many. Many people, even those savvy politicians do not know the core definition of politics. Many dissapointed people would define politics as a collective lies, and others define politics as a source of corruption and war. However, Politics includes Finance (trade, tax, revenue, income, jobs) to Science (space, research and development, life-sciences, chemicals) to Art (music, drawing, archetect) to History (past, contemporary, anticipation of the future on the basis of present and past) to Geology (geography, mining, earth sciences) to Environment and Family. All those issues affecting everyone daily, and POLITICS is a process by which the lives of many is guided by decision makers. Unlike anyone specific profession, a politician has to be informed at all times on all those different sectors mentioned above. Of course, everything is relative based of the political party spectrum one espouses. Everything I wrote above fits more so with progressive politics, you know who practices progressive politics. :wink: :wink: ->> Thanks for this nice and enjoyable conversation, it lasted too soon.

Oba Sekou Olayinka  06/19/2008 06:36 PM Report

Excellent show with the Emanuel brothers. Frankly, I wish you'd given them the entire hour and discussed the subject of "family" strictly. You can't please everyone, however. keep up the good work.

Suzanne G  06/19/2008 10:37 AM Report

As an ardent Democrat, I knew of Rahm Emanuel from previous TV appearances; however, this interview with his brothers was personal and heart warming. What those brothers share makes me wonder why one of my sons is a passionate Democrat and the other an equally passionate Republican. My only criticism of the interview was that such vigor resembled THE VIEW in that the three talked over one another. Fortunately, TIVO allowed me to play back and get nearly everything said,

Shalom Freedman  06/18/2008 01:27 AM Report

This kind of conversation shows why Charlie Rose is the best. He brings out the best his guests have to give. He shows a sympathy and understanding of them. The Emanuel brothers were quick, humorous, and intense. It was a pleasure to see brothers who get along with each other in this way.

The Healthcare issue will as Rahm Emanuel realistically indicated not be solved strictly along the lines of his brother's plan. But the plan itself and the whole mindset of striving to do good for others- makes one respect the Emanuels as a family.

Jen  06/17/2008 07:59 PM Report

Great interview Charlie. Love to see how extraordinary people grew up and learned to be themselves. Francis Galton would have enjoyed this one. Thanks.

TABS  06/17/2008 04:12 PM Report

Sounds like a good family to be from. However never underestimate the influence of a Father and Mother who are highly intelligent(well educated),highly motivated, has a relatively high paying profession (MD) and has sound/well balanced family values and/or principles. With those attributes going for you, it is for you to screw the pooch and blow it..

william blackmon  06/17/2008 03:41 PM Report

i enjoyed the family side and appreciate charleys ability to let the interviews flow. bright guys, good insight and the political observations of Rahm on his brothers suggestions valid. sad but valid. forget shame its the genes. clearly

Carol J  06/17/2008 02:19 PM Report

To Charles P. Rose, I agree with those who were disappointed with your conversation with thee Emmanuel Brothers. I wanted to hear about healthcare and not about their family. Next time you state your priorities, please keep them in the order that was stated. If you had wanted to talk about their family, then you should have spent an hour in conversation. It is important to me that I get the best health care at a cost I can afford. I do not have all the money you haved but I do like my doctors and so they have worked with me and my crummy insurance (employer generated).

TAKE CARE.

Marilyn Carpenter  06/17/2008 01:47 PM Report

I LOVED your interview with the Emanuel brothers! I could hardly wait to share it with my hubby, who fell asleep early. Frankly, I did not care that the conversation was less about healthcare than it was about family. The obvious affection and respect. The appreciation for caring parents whose expectations and example set a standard their children sought to meet. The banter between siblings who were part of an extended family. On many levels, this was a wonderful illustration of "family values" at work. Thanks for letting the dynamics of a special moment unfold. There will be many opportunities to talk about healthcare in the months to come.

margaret diamond  06/17/2008 12:43 PM Report

I agree with the first commentator that this was more a case of grandstanding than what the title had suggested - not up to my Charlie Rose expectations.

Richard Russell  06/17/2008 03:21 AM Report

I do not doubt that this three gentlemen, Rahm, Ari, and Ezekiel are fine men, but this misrepresentation in regard to what the topic of health care outlined is a horrible waste of my time and energy. This was political grandstanding without direction. Charlie, you are definately slipping.

flummoxed  06/17/2008 12:41 AM Report

To RE Mant: Huh?

RE Mant  06/17/2008 12:05 AM Report

You said at the outset that you were going to talk mostly about the health care plan, which you did not do. Indeed you cut it off in mid-sentence. As for the rest: shame is the most significant factor after genes, I think, but you should not confuse success, which shame is concerned with, with good. The most successful ppl, in this country at least, are nearly always first generation college grads, and from colleges with the lowest rankings. This should not exculpate kids higher up the social ladder, who go to the best colleges, but seem to take up most of the middle-level positions, however it does seem to me that those who are most sucessful are the ones who most seek success above all other things.