host: this is chris pope, a senior fellow at the manhattan institute, talking about issues related to health care. guest: thanks for inviting me. host: the manhattan institute, what positioning does it take on issues of health care? with health care, the cost is a big issue and a big part of my job is to try and figure out new policy solutions to reduce cost to people. host: one of the issues that has come up as of late is this idea of medicare for all. what you think about it. ? assumption ofn buying everything for everybody. ultimately that just fails to engage with the real essence of the issue which is health care is all about trade-off. host: tell us why. guest: the recent piece was about the medicare program traditionally. if you think about existing medicare benefits, there are big gaps in medicare benefits. medicare part b which covers outpatient drugs does not have an out-of-pocket cap. people are potentially exposed to tens of thousands of dollars of out-of-pocket cost which is why seniors by medicare gap plans. cost is quite substantial on prescription drugs, in many cases

. >> this is chris pope. he's a senior fellow at the manhattan institute talking about issues related to health care. what positioning was the manhattan institute take? >> we're a center right think tank. the cost of health care is a big issue that people are concerned about. a big part of my job is to really try and figure out new policy solutions to reduce costs for people. >> one of the issues that have come up as of late is this idea of medicare for all. what do you think about it on its face? >> it's assumption that why don't we buy everything for everybody. that's essentially what the claim amounts to. i think ultimately that fails to engage with the real essence of the issue which is health care is all about tradeoffs. >> you write it's not all it's cracked up to be. tell us why. >> in this recent piece it was medicare program traditionally. if you think about the real existing medicare benefit, there are real big gaps in the medicare benefit. medicare part b which covers physician services and outpati

host: this is chris pope of the manhattan institute, talking about health care issues.hattaninstitute.org is the website. the house is in at 9:00 this morning. we will hear from delegate stacy plaskett of the virgin islands, here to talk about among other things, the mueller report, disaster aid and other topics. all coming up on the "washington journal." ♪ >> sunday night on q&a, watch our october 20 18 interview with yale university historian joann freeman on her book, the field of blood, violence in congress and the road to civil war. >> scores of congressmen got into a mass brawl. it in of itself is dramatic. guys throwing punches, it is a massive encounter. what was interesting to me was people at the time look at it and what they saw was a group of urban nerves and southerners, lots of them armed, running at each other in the house of representatives and several of them said this does not look like a normal congressional fight. this looks like north against south. this looks like a battle. that is striking. indeed it certainly did look like a battle and it is not

host: this is chris pope, a senior fellow at the manhattan institute, talking about issues related tolth care. guest: thanks for inviting me. host: the manhattan institute, what positioning does it take on issues of health care? with health care, the cost is a big issue and a big

. >> this is chris pope.senior fellow at the manhattan institute talking about issues related to health care. what positioning was the manhattan institute take? >> we're a center right think tank. the cost of health care is a big issue that people are concerned about. a big part of my job is to really try and figure out new policy solutions to reduce costs for people. >> one of the issues that have come up as of late is this idea of medicare for all. what do you think about it on its face? >> it's assumption that why don't we buy everything for

coming up thursday morning, we'll look at the future of health care with chris pope of the manhattan institute. and then virgin islands democratic delegate stacey plaskett, a member of the house oversight and reform committee talks about the late thoennes mueller report and efforts to hear from key trump administration figures. be sure to watch c-span's "washington journal" live at 7:00 eastern >> in a speech to the american law institute, attorney general william barr talalked about nationwide injunctions, saying -- issued by federal courts. this is 25 minutes. [applause] a.g. barr: thank you very much. thank you very much. i'm honored to address a.l.i. this is my first time before this group. and this is actually the first sort of set piece speech i've

this is chris pope, a senior fellow talking about issue res lated to health care, good morning to you. >> thank you for inviting me. >> first the manhattan institute, what is it and what position does it take? >> the cost of health care is a big issue that people are concerned about and a big part of my job is to try to figure out new policy solutions. >> one of the issues that came up as of late in the presidential race and other aspects is an idea of medicare for all, what do you think about it on it's face? >> i think it is almost an assumption of why don't we buy everything for everybody. i think that just fails to engage with the real essence of the issue. health care is all about tradeables. >> you wrote a recent piece saying it was not all it was cracked up to be. >> if you think about the real existing benefit, there are big gaps in the benefit. medicare part b that covers physician services doesn't have an out of pocket cap. that people are potentially exposed to tens of thousands of dollars in out of pocket. and in medicare part d the cost hairing is quite substantial. some

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