host: john webster who agrees with you sent us this tweet. guest: let me also say this. the concept of single payer is not a friendlngey idea. 15,000 doctors in this country support the single payer system. they are sick and tired of being told what to do by the private insurance companies. doctors are spending between two and three weeks just arguing with insurance companies about the kind of therapy that they can prescribe. people go into medicine and they go into nursing and they want to practice their profession. they want to work with people, not screamed at insurance companies, which prevents them from doing what they were trained to do. host: senator bernie sanders is our guest. j r joins us on the phone from kansas city. caller: you know what? in canada, they have a 10-year patent right. in america, we have a 20-year patent right. why doesn't congress do something about that? you're getting these companies the right to charge us as much as i can for medicine for 20 years. and then the other thing is, i have been aa nephew who just bee a cover procter. his educati

economic crisis that we have got to address and that is why we need real health care reform this my john websterwho agrees in sending a tweed say regrettably are doctors and insurance companies are thieves and any national health care like other developed countries. >> guest: let me also say this. the concept of a single-payer is not a fringe idea. you have 15,000 positions in this country, 15,000 who supports eight single-payer system. we have the largest nurses organizations in this country that supports single-payer, there are sick and tired of being told what to do by the private insurance companies and of a study that came out where doctors are spending between two and three weeks just arguing with insurance companies about the kind of therapy that they can prescribe. uses are doing the same thing. people go into medicine and nursing and want to practice their profession, they want to work with people, not screaming and insurance companies which prevents them from doing what they were trained to do. >> host: senator sanders is our guest, j.r. from kansas city is on the phone. >> caller: eve

. >> john webster who agrees with you is sending in this tweet saying regrettably our doctors and insurance companies are seized. we need national health care like other developed countries eklund also say this. you know, the concept of single pay is not a new idea. you have 15000 physicians in this country. 15000 who support a single-payer system. we have the largest nurses organizations in this country that supports single-payer. do you know why? they are sick and tired of being told what to do by the private insurance companies. there was a study a few weeks ago where doctors are spending between two and three weeks just arguing with insurance companies about the kind of therapy that they can prescribe. nurses are doing the same thing. people go into medicine and go into nursing they want to practice their profession. they want to work with people, not scream at insurance companies. which prevents them from doing what they were trained to deal. >> jr on the phone from kansas city. good morning. >> caller: a few things i would like to talk about if i could. watching c-span i found out, we