scott atlas here at the hoover institution. "in excellent health" setting the record straight on america's health care". dr. atlas thank you for being on the tv. >> is a pleasure to be here. opposing slavery influences her husband to switch to the antislavery republican party and holds the first white house easter aid goal. wife of rutherford -- rutherford b. hayes and we continue our series with comments and questions monday night live on c-span and c-span three and also c-span radio and c-span. . .

. >> doctor scott atlas, one of the major factors in the affordable care act is the marketplace that is going to be created where people can shop for insurance and there will be some more competition. is that a step in the right direction? in a okay, you're talking about the health insurance exchanges, which have turned the markets around on the government website. in general i would say that the idea and concept of the exchange is very good. but the problem is the implementation, the execution of that idea -- when you look at the health insurance exchange that is set up under the affordability care act, there are some major problems that are so bad that they cannot possibly function well. i will go through the three basic problems. the first problem is that there is this minimum essential benefit coverage. okay, so it sounds exceedingly attractive. but the problem is when you look at those, there is such an enormous comprehensive list of medical benefit, the price and the policy to cover all those things -- it is unnecessarily high, and it eliminates those buying insurance policies

scott atlas of the hoover institution to discuss his book, in excellent health, he argues that the u.s. health care system is much better than the world health organization and others would have you believe. he also takes a critical look at the patient protection and affordable care act, commonly known as obamacare and another alternative like the single-payer system. this is about half an hour. >> setting the record straight on america's health care. that is the name of the book. the author is doctor scott doubtless, m.d. he is a senior fellow here at the hoover institution on the campus of stanford. doctor, what works about the american health care system when you look at it in the larger sense? >> what really works is what the book is about. and that is the actual medical care, availability and access as well as implementation or introduction of

scott atlas and the name of the book is "in excellent health: setting the record straight on america's health care." we thank you for being here. >> tweet us at booktv.com. >> the situation in afghanistan was just we talked about those parties today. the president, from much of the 1970s was a vacuous modernizer. and he was very quickly running the ground aground and the whole country rose up against him. it has completely wiped out the old afghanistan that was on the 60s and 70s. >> revolutionary islam. christian carillon 1979. >> we argue that our economy needs to be more responsive to the system. >> this is about an hour. up with. >> hello, my name is gar alperovitz. i'm professor at the university of maryland. we are much more interested in doing activist work in washington. bob was a very liberal congressman. so i have a checkered career. i came out of politics and history and economics and i have written this book. i should say that i'm really pleased to be here. it's a small bookstore that has a backbone in america. >> this book is part of the title. the question is what is faci

scott atlas, also a senior fellow here at the hoover institute on the campus of stanford. dr. alice what works about the american health care system when you look at it was a larger sense? given that could take up the entire interview. what works really is in essence of what a lot of what the book is about the actual medical care both the availability or access as well as implementation or introduction of diagnostic and therapeutic treatment of diseases. in fact, a lot of the impetus was declared by the background information that people don't really have despite what it has been said about the health care system. the bottom line it is both superb access and quality of care. . .