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another thing about the medicare and on, i am on medicare medicare, i have to pay 20% of whatever myill is because i do not have enough income to go into another program that will pay a partial amount on that 20%. doctor.'t go to the i don't go to the hospital because i can't lose everything i have over medicare. so stop with the medicare nonsense and tell the truth about the borders. host: that is charlotte north carolina. health care one of those discussions taking place yesterday and the other about gun control, especially towards beto o'rourke. >> how would this work. >> if it was a weapon designed to kill people on a battlefield. if the high-impact, high velocity round when it hits your body shreds everything inside your body because it was designed to do that so you would bleed to death on a battlefield and not get up in one of our soldiers. when we see that being used against our children and that the mother of a 15-year-old girl shot by an ar-15 and that mother watched her bleed to death over the course of an hour because so many others were shot and there weren't enough amul

in backing medicare, jfk and lyndon johnson avoided the opposition of insurance companies because medicare would cover only those people that private insurance could or would not, the elderly. in one of his speeches, lbj returned to the theme of freedom from fear. with medicare, he said older citizens will no longer have to fear that illness would wipe out their savings and destroy lifelong hope of dignity and independence. medicare did take a page from truman's book because it was built on social security administrative structure, a program that was familiar and popular. it also made it harder to attack. the ama did try once more. famously, they hired ronald reagan to record a speech in which he insisted medicare would lead to full-blown socialism and the end of freedom in america. this time around, the ama lost. but as nancy told us, the fear of socialized medicine and power of the medical profession, hospitals, and the insurance industry shaped how the medicare program was designed. providers could charge whatever they wanted. the fear of provider backlash led to the absence of budgetin

. >> medicare for all is the most cost-effective to providing healthcare. i wrote the damn bill. >> bernie wrote the bill, i read the bill. a bold idea, i think it is a bad idea. >> the president from vermont -- >> to buy in. >> tell me what you said a few minutes ago. >> it is becoming unwatchable, democratic primary -- >> every time something good about barack obama comes up -- every time somebody questions, he says that was the president. >> i stand with barack obama all eight years, good, bad and indifferent. >> yes, your ak-47. >> el paso, god love you for standing up in the midst of that trend. >> this is a crisis. >> people on one side and the money on the other, the only way to win is to bring them together. >> i want to be in the fight to fix it in america. ♪ ♪ hit me with your best shot ♪ hit me with your best shot ♪ fire away ♪ >> certainly something is going on last night. rob: we are going to spend the next hour talking about it. jillian: it is friday, 13 september. todd: thanks for starting the day with us. 2020 candidates bringing the heat to

together, they allegedly billed medicare for nearly $2.1 billion in false claims.this is one of the largest fraud schemes, and it's so large because these tests are so expensive. medicare reimburses at such a high rate. >> reporter: a cbs news investigation earlier this month discovered how the scheme sorked. seniors, like ken and judy johnson, were targeted. tar were attending an art festival, when recruiters offered a free genetic cancer test if they would submit to a cheek swab and provide their medicare number. >> i have had colon cancer. >> reporter: so this was like a blinking neon sign "step in." >> uh-huh. >> reporter: six weeks later, $19,000 worth of charges were billed to their medicare accounts, and yet for nearly a year they received no test results. >> it hits me that we have been taken. >> totally unreasonable, total outrageous, totally wrong. >> reporter: medicare pays the >> reporter: medicare pays the otb processing the swab, as long as a doctor has signed a test order. so recruiters partner with willing labs and doctors who certify the tests are

. >> the option i'm proposing is a medicare for all -- medicare for choice. the president -- my friend from vermont. >> a young councilman -- play the radio, make sure the television -- make sure you have the record player on at night, the phone -- make sure the kids hear words. i'm the vice president of the united states. >> sean: hate to say it, i don't want to see his medical records, he looks like he's aged 20 years since he reft office. i don't know why. biden's performance was so bad some of the other democrats on stage actually questioned his state of mind. uh-oh, they went there. take a look. they do not have to buy it -- >> you just said that, you just said two minutes ago they would have to buy in. you said they would have to buy in. are you forgetting what you said two minutes ago? >> it will automatically be enforced. >> are you forgetting what you said two minutes ago? i can't believe that you said two minutes ago that they had to buy in. and now you're saying they don't have to -- you're forgetting that. >> there are moments that you listen to j

the idea of simply applying medicare for all does not work with the current medicare system, let alone what it would look like in the future. let us give markets a chance. hurt and went to the local hospital, they got massively price gouge. was that because there is so many uninsured and homeless people at the ski resort? no. couching is because they do not have to -- gouging is because they do not have to show prices. if airlines build you after the flight they would be price couching you. it is absolutely correct that everybody will not use pricing information. -- pricinge price information. my mom does, and when she price shops and that small fraction of people who compare grocery store to grocery store keep prices in check for everyone else. proxy shoppers will cut the waste because -- attributed to , and employers want to see those prices. an employer in boston had their employees delivering their babies at different hospitals, and the price ranged for an uncomplicated labor and delivery from $7,000 to $41,000. if i'm an employer and paying for these, i would like the women delive

aetna medicare solutions.ld be as easy as saying alexa, i would the political contribution. amazon will make donations from any participating presidential candidate. what could go wrong here? >> a year ago, i got one in my closet, underneath suitcase and a bunch of quotes. imagine donating to trump and you hear this -- you're the corbel. no. it does not work for me. i can't believe anybody would do it. >> you've got to give technology shot out. >> no. people who are older, disabled, maybe don't have mobility this is an amazing advancement. maybe you start with ordering a pizza before you get into that. >> you can do that but they probably would get that wrong, too. the bigger issue would be being hacked or having contributions going to the wrong person. >> i like it for me but i think it's a brilliant idea for the company because there's hundreds of billions of democrat and republican donations. >> that's it, thank you for watching us. see you next time. >> iran's supreme leader approved the strike on saudi oi

. >> the option i'm proposing is medicare for all -- medicare for choice. the president thinks my friends from vermont. as a young councilman. play the radio. make sure the television -- excuse me, make sure you have the record player on at night -- the phon, make sure the kids hear words. i'm the vice president of the united states. >> sean: i don't want to see his medical records. he looks like he's aged 20 years since he left office. his performance was so bad some of those on stage questioned his state of mind. yeah, they went there. take a look. >> you just said that. you just said that two minutes ago. you just said two minutes ago they would have to buy in. you said they would have to buy in. are you forgetting what you said two minutes ago? are you forgetting already what you said just two minutes ago? i can't believe that you said two minutes ago that they had to buy in and now you're saying they don't have to buy in. you're forgetting that. >> there are definitely moments when you listen to joe biden and you wonder but i don't know -- look. >> sen

we learned many never received lults, and their medicare -- results, and their medicare accounts areands of dollars. jim axelrod spoke to one of the doctors involved in the scheme in part two of his report. jim was just named cbs news chief investigative correspondent. >> woohoo! >> congratulations. >> thank you. >> hello, big kahuna. >> good morning. good morning. we want to tell you about the other parts of this scheme. the doctors and laboratories these recruiters are partnering with to bill medicare. according to government estimates, they are potentially siphoning hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars from medicare. >> traditional care is their primary insurance -- >> reporter: the golden ticket for this scam. cbs news went undercover. this woman recruits seniors who will hand over their saliva sample and medicare cards for a genetic cancer test. >> i went on, and i googled senior living facilities. also church groups. >> reporter: she says she makes more than $200 per senior, and that some recruiters are pulling in more than $10,000 a month. >> the genetic testing is thousan

>> we are talking medicare but it is not medicare.son talked about expansion of medicare but most of the democrats want to eliminate the private pay system which the medicare system utilizes. when talking about the massive overhaul of healthcare you have to talk about the overall cost associated. as proposed by joe biden would cost $750 billion. jillian: another poll before i go back to you, democratic support healthcare options, 83% public option, minor changes to obamacare, it is fair to say some people want to hear more from these candidates on how they plan to pay for this. >> they want to hear more on the exact plan but the reality is polls show overwhelmingly republican, democrat, independent, over 2 thirds of americans want to expand medicare. that is a clear message. american voters want the public option for medicare. they want to expand medicare and have increased coverage. jillian: what poll are you looking at? >> your paul, 2 thirds of americans want the public option. there is not a public option. that is an expansion of

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and non- medicare. we do not have the financials on the medicare site. you won't see the dollars when we get to that population. and then, i will not read all of those notes. any questions i'm more than happy to respond to. claimants for our perspective, still using $50,000, which is still an industry-standard in many ways, although it does not take much to wrap up $50,000. >> some of our key observations starting on flight three, no surprises on drugs. specialty drug costs continue to increase. thirteen of our top 15 are in fact, specialty drugs. three of our top of those, in the, or top we do weather and traffic every 10 minutes. 12018 on global sales. that is how predominant those drugs are. a new drug in our top 15, is something called -- for psoriasis. we are seeing on our active early retirees, about 83% dispensed generic and medicare, right behind his 82% of those being generic. yeah, high cost claims continue to trend up slightly. 45.9% of total spend results from high cost claims, the next slid

the option i'm proposing is, medicare for all -- medicare for choice. if you want medicare, if you lose the job from your insurance company, from your employer, you automatically can buy into this. you don't have no pre-existing condition can stop you from buying in. you get covered. period. and if you notice, nobody's yet said how much it's going to cost the taxpayer. i hear this large savings, the -- my friend from vermont says you're going to give back, got a cut in wages because you got insurance. they're going to give back that money to the employee? >> as a matter of fact, they will. >> let me tell you smug. f something. for a socialist, you have a lot more confidence in corporate america than i do. >> george? >> go ahead. >> all right. two points. you got to defend the fact that today, not only do we have 87 million people uninsured and underinsured, you have to defend the fact that 500,000 americans are going bankrupt. you know why they're going bankrupt? because they suffered a terrible disease, cancer, or heart disease. under mill ledy legisla

pero la verdad es que es el acceso a la saludtenemos que hablar lo que significa medicare para todosde salud que los canadienses otros paÍses grandes en el mundo, y no quiere pagar tanto como otros paÍses y ello garantizan la salud a todas las personas bajo el programa de salud para todos, no tienen que pagar nada de su propio bolsillo y no se van a robar las primas que la gente quiere sea eficaz el sistema y el medicare para todos le va a ahorrar dinero en el programa de salud. george: cenador usted dijo en el discurso de apertura que quiere representar a los que estÁn en el medio. kamala harris: pienso que ustedes lo saben yo no estoy de acuerdo con alguno de los propuestas y me permiten voy a responder algunas de las propuesta de mi compaÑeros, primero que nada cenador o deje bernie sanders hemos peleado valientemente para bajar el costo de los medicamentos, para que vengan de paÍses menos caro como de canadÁ, para reducir el costo luchando para permitir a 43 millones de personas de mayor edad que negocien a amy klobuchar: cuando se tratan de las de cobertura mÉdica yo sé lo que q

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our reimbursement is the worst state for medicare. >> thank you for asking. the question, if you're out of hereshot, the question is critical access medical facilities and the risk of losing medical providers especially in rural areas bass the reimbursements have not kept up. i believe with need to adjust reimbursement rates to reflect the fact there's an added benefit to having care in underserved area. secondly a new designation -- reinforce the designation of a rural emergency medical center that has the ability to qualify for certain kind medicare funds. their, we have to incentivize more providers. why win i've proposed a public service loan forgiveness program to be expand, there's ways to get your student debt french for doing something in the public interest and that should apply to people who are providers of services who are hard to obtain in ural -- ural areas and we have to do a much better john of mental health care in this country, especially rural areas. the take beaut it like its just affects a few people but every family, every workplace, eve

the medicare bill, more than $21,000. >> it's just pure greed, pure, pure greed.had nothing to do with taking care of the community. >> reporter: while genxee is headquartered in denver, the company does events through web entities that hires recruits throughout the country. this documents she shared with us show in her less than three months on the job recruiters with for genexe swabbed more than 2300 seniors. >> these swabs get lost. i'd find them in the garbage. >> reporter: this sounds like a complete mess. >> it was. so there was an old refrigerator, and was -- >> reporter: wait, the refrigerator where the swabs were stored wasn't in a lab? >> no, it was in an office next to people's hamburgers. >> reporter: in the lunch room? >> people were waitth for these tests and would never get them. >> reporter: she said recruiters were promised up to genexe management cashed in. we thought someone at the headquarters might know what happened to the johnson's test results. >> ken johnson. this is my wife judy. the general counsel, a man named david baladina came to gre

. >> medicare for all. costs are going to go up for wealthier individuals and costs are going to go up for giant corporations. >> i wrote the damn bill, if i may say so. to eliminate all out-of-pocket expen expenses. >> he didn't answer the question. this is about candor, honesty, big ideas. let's have a big idea. the tax of 2% the senator is talking about, that raises about $3 billion. guess what? that leaves you about $28 billion short. >> we need to be clear about what medicare for all is all about. instead of paying premiums into insurance companies, and then having insurance companies build their profits, by saying no to coverage, we're going to do this by saying everyone is covered. >> while bernie wrote the bill, i read the bill. and on page 8 -- on page 8 of the bill, it says that we will no longer have private insurance as we know it. i don't think that's a bold idea. i think it's a bad idea. >> the problem, senator sanders, and that damn bill you wrote, and senator warren backs, is it doesn't trus

about 40% of medicare beneficiaries are choosing medicare advantage plans.ether they want to be involved in a fee for service direct government program. the other thing private insurance does which i think is not very well understood, david, is private insurance companies right now i run basically the entire medicaid program. be,rnors, like i used to contract with private companies, to offer consumer choice, but deliver the benefits through private companies. so the notion that somehow in a four-your period of time we will totally wiped out private insurance companies rolled into health care, i don't think is very realistic. david: clarify one thing for me, if you could, madam secretary. if you look at the democratic candidates, it sounds like everyone wants to get as quickly as we can to universal coverage. can we get there without a single-payer system? is that possible? kathleen: sure. we could make everyone eligible for medicare, have it look like medicare does today, which is , andnment ultimately pays the benefits are delivered in a variety of ways. pe

senator warren was against medicare for all until 2017. and i was surprised biden didn't raise that. i think that's a legitimate question. people change and grow. but that's another modification. >> there's another thing, paul, there's way too much prose and not enough poetry here. so biden will be better on the poetry, which is, this is a fight for the soul of the country and this is how we're going to take the fight to donald trump and this is what this moment needs. i don't think he's at his best and he's not going to get better despite some terrific people prepping him just constantly on defense, around policy, and trying to find his inner progressi voice. because he doesn't have one. he can try to build on obama, that's never going to be his strong suit. and he seems to me to just be trying to jam in facts and figures. because it's a policy debate and he's not doing enough of wha, ws the big picture here? i think what we're missing here and why there's zbdissatisfacti with the field, you're ultimately voting for the qualities of someo

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now, what is medicare for all? what does it mean? and i should tell you -- i wish i could tell you i invented this idea. i did not. we stole a lot of it from other countries, often from canada, and this is what it means. what it means is we are doing away with all premiums in this country. neither you nor your employer is going to have to pay a monthly premium. we are doing away with all copayments. when you walk into the doctor's office, you're not going to have to pay a copayment. we are doing away with all out-of-pocket expenses. we are doing away with the fact that when you leave the hospital, you will not have to pay a nickel. not a radical idea. that is exactly what goes on in canada. you get a heart transplant in canada, you leave the hospital, you do not pay a nickel. that should be the case in america today. [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: well, people say, "well, bernie, that is very nice, very expensive. how are you going to pay for it?" we are already paying for it. every premium you are paying a month, you pay, what,

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a cbs news investigation unco r uncovered a massive medicare frauheme tgeting seniors. jim axelrod spoke to those involved. >> it's the golden ticket for this scam. cbs news went undercover to find out how the process starts thp this woman recruits senior who is will hand over a saliva sample and medicare cards for a sample test. >> i googled senior living facilities. also church groups. >> reporter: she says she makes more than $200 per senior and that some recruiters are pulling in more than $10,000 a month. >> the genetic testing is thousands of dollars. it can be anywhere from $2500 to $10,000. >> reporter: medicare pays the lab processing the swab as long as a doctor has signed a test order. so recruiters partner with willing labs and doctors who certify the tests are medically necessary. >> we are essentially the blowing people into the labs. >> reporter: once they have secured the saliva sample, they shop it around to labs. >> reporter: bob thomas is a former federal prosecutor who now represents whistleblowers in ongoing health care fraud cases. he says scammers

with medicare. taking those savings and applying them so we can expand coverage for seniors all across america and to get additional care and additional support while lowering the cost for people across the country, as they are having conversations around the kitchen table about what matters most. i'm proud to be here today as a reminder of the work we did in 2018. we flipped some receipts across -- so many seats across the country and exceeded expectations on the number of seats we would pick up. because the american people want to bring about the positive change, including lowering prescription drug prices. that's what we have enforced here today and we are eager to get to work to deliver this and thank the speaker for bringing this to the stand. >> and thank you for delivering that message for the people agenda by lowering prescription drugs. people say how can healthcare and that issue or some other part of the 2018 discussion. it is because it's what matters to the american people. we had 10,00

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you had medicare for all proponents versus those who want to tweak obamacare. what does that tells about the jauna: i think it tells us quite a lot. one of the things that i've notid on the campaign trail with these democratic candidates, particularly talking to democratic v is when you ask about the issue of healthcare. the first thing thatth often com up on people's minds but when you ask about the details of dicare for all. they say they support medicare about tlut i ask them details and they might not necessarily be full be where senator bernie sanders and elizabet warren are but they might support incrental asures, too. it's clear that voters are not necessarily fleeing to either extreme. i think most people seem to be pollin and anecdotally somewhere in the middle. residentwe saw vice biden embrace the obama legacy of obamacare. is that enough?is anne: i think he went beyond that, directly at the big question which is how in the world this thing going to be funded and he went directly to bernie sanders on that and he made, i think, a -- that was one of hi

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medicare would be there for them. i watched democrats with medicare for all, bankrupt medicare. more than half of all the democrats in congress today -- they have cosponsored that bill. not only am i fearful that the debt is out of control, because every society has collapsed when they overextended themselves, i have watched the democrats expand it further. i watched republicans, when they were in the majority, what they had control over in discretionary spending, actually spend less in eight years than what the democrats spent eight years before. if we are given the majority and the opportunity one more time, i promise we will not allow the democrats to stop us again. we came one vote short in the from entitlement reform. we have the ability with the republican senate and presidential to change it once and for all and make america stronger. announcer: vice president mike pence spoke to house republicans gathered in baltimore for their annual retreat. this is about 40 minutes.

, and because it is medicare for all who want it versus medicare for all whether you want it or not,have to put forward the boldest change for the american health care system since medicare itself without polarizing the american people or asking folks to accept something they don't want. i think my plan will be better but i trust you to figure it out on your own, so i will not order you to take it. we will put it out there and make it possible for every american to have access to medicare if and when they are ready. [applause] picture a you to presidency where when you turn on the news, your blood pressure goes down a little bit instead of up a little bit. that is what we are shooting for. [applause] that doesn't mean shrinking from the things that we believe in, because i'm also going to be appointing people who share my vision about what has to happen in this country. i will appoint ahead of the epa who believes in protecting the environment and will do something about climate change. [applause] i will appoint a secretary of education supports teachers and who actually believes in