the third medical plan is united health care. united health care administers the p.p.o. city plan for active and early retirees as well as the medicare advantage p.p.o. for medicare retirees. the health service board approved a rate of 10% for active and early retirees, and the cost impact of one design change contributed to this increase. the health services board approved one design change for 2020, unites health care p.p.o. this reduced the out-of-pocket maximum, expected to have minimal financial impact to the plan which will benefit families using high levels of care. the united health care p.p.o. advantage has a rate increase of 16.5%. there are no planned design changes. the 10% of this rate increase is due to the federal insurance tax. the rest of the increase is tax and utilization. we had a medical second opinion service and is going to allow this to expire in december. the health plans are now supporting the membership in seeking second opinions within their plans. the vision benefit, the basic vision benefit remains the same. there is a 4.3% increase for the

united health care growing by about 5.25%. now that the administration's efforts to tackle pbms have failed or at least the administration's backing down here, the crusade to lower drug prices will probably laser in on drug makers. the big pharmaceutical names. they are on a little bit of life support today. we do have everybody down here. lily, merck pfizer, bristol-myers squibb and mylan down as well. investors anticipating pressure applied directly to those companies might hurt any kind of acquisition of the biotechs because we see big pharma saying let us buy some of these biotech companies. it's easier to buy than to start generating that stuff themselves. >>> we have a double threat at this hour for oil, but oddly, crude is moving in the opposite direction. on the lfeft side of your scree, the louisiana gulf coast rushing to prepare for tropical storm barry. on the right side of your screen, we've got still photos of the united kingdom tanker, british tanker, and the iranian boats menacing it yesterday, as tensions conti

of the united health group says medicare would destabilize health system and limit the agility of doctors to practice medicine at their best. we do get the leat earnings from united health carettom of the hour. we're going pay attention to comments from executives on this. smg we'll get that just before 6 a.m. eastern time. civil unrest in puerto rico. forcing cruise ships to cancel stops to island. tracee carrasco has details for us. how's it looking tracee in >> calm is being restored in puerto rico after a night of heat demonstration police firing tear gases and rubber bullets to are move protesters calling for resignation of governor ricardo after release of hundreds of pages of private mnlszs in which he allegedly used homophobic misogynistic language causing royal caribbean to cancel stops in two of the cruises effecting hundreds of passengers. san francisco is pulling its proposed ipo tax from the november ballot the measure would have increased taxes on companies that enter the public market like iewb or and lyft, but opponents argue the plan was too broad and would have unintention fallly hit all stock base compensation of companies based in the city. city will inst

east right now the dow industrials, still above 27,000 at 27,016, u 116 points a lot of those, united health careesponsible for about half of that gain s&p down about a quarter point the oil market is closing for the day. >> phillips 66 taking a big step as forecasters say tropical storm barry could become a hurricane, threatening louisiana's coast, idling a refinery in the evacuation area. meanwhile reuters reporting that pbf energy and valero do not currently plan on idling their refineries on the gulf crude oil production has already been cut by 53% due to the tropical storm in total, 191 production platforms have been evacuated. oil prices as you can see flat, but closing above $60 a barrel kelly, back to you >> seema, thank you very much. >>> the global battle over trade is front and center again today. the u.s. is holding a strategic alliance with india in washington comes on the heels of the president's tweet earlier today. joining us now is john chambers. he is chair of the u.s./india strategic partnership forum. and former ceo of cisco systems. >> john, welcome >> it's a pleasure to be w

plans and contribution rates for the calendar year 2020, and those -- those plans are with the united health care, blue shield and kaiser. and there are i believe compelling reasons why we ought to get this before the board for action prior to the august recess. however, back in april, this board of supervisors unanimously passed a resolution calling on kaiser to settle a contract with its mental health clinicians and those workers, those kaiser workers are out on strike today and i believe in solidarity with those workers and in the view of our past expressed support for those workers we should continue this for one week to our next budget committee and i so move. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. i think that we will not have the presentation today then. any members of the public like to comment on item number 15? >> this type of treatment that people with mental disabilitie disabilities -- that's seen by kaiser hospital, though it's not under your umbrella and jurisdiction, if you want to address that issue and because their hospital location is on the premises of the city and county o

health care system. and health care for some in the united states since 1930, 2012. as well as the co-edited volume, patients as policy actors. she has published many articles dealing with various aspects of the health care system to the origins of copayments and deductibles. the work has been supported by the national endowment for the humanities. the american council of learned societies. and she has received broad recognition in many ways. in 2015 she gave the commencement address at the school of medicine in chicago. it is with great pleasure i introduce first, professor tomes. please come to the podium. tomes: thank you for that nice introduction. we think of health care primarily as a commodity, a set of products and services that should and must be delivered according to market-based principles. through our deeper service system, medical providers break down into component parts and charge for each service separately. in each stage of care, it is accepted and encouraged someone will make a profit doing so, building a robust profit into care supposedly drives th

so united health care certainly not immune from that. you have between united health care and you said this earlier, boeing and caterpillar, those three stocks alone account for all of the dow's losses. as an addendum, both unh, the one we have been talking about, and anthem, are, many analysts saying, competing to buy another company call magellan so the calculation is oh, if your costs are going higher, is it really the right moment to be fighting over magellan. back to you. stuart: good point. at this moment in time, should you be doing that. >>> ups, how about this, they are introducing sunday delivery. in other words, they will be delivering packages seven days a week. is this -- the stock's up 7.5%. that's a nice gain. susan: it is. stuart: but they are really taking on amazon with this, aren't they? >> i think this whole industry is in upheaval, right? because consumers want immediate gratification, so everyone in the industry is trying to figure out how to make that happen, and really, it's all preliminary to drone delivery. we ar

health care products and services. as a result medical care in the united states is embedded in our broader consumer culture, leading to our custom of referring to patients as health care consumers and doctors as health care providers. some of you will or all are likely thinking, of course, that is how modern medicine works. think that way? in fact, no. investigate other advanced capitalist democracies and you discover they do not market ties health care to the extent the u.s. does, nor do they refer to patients as health care consumers. i now get invited to speak abroad precisely because people in these other countries are consumer -- are curious about u.s. health care. avoidy to find out how to -- over the past two years i spent a lot of time in the netherlands about a capitalist a nation you will ever want to find, and they are baffled by two traits of the american way of medicine. of marketinge use and advertising and the resistance of getting citizens health insurance. one of the most distinctive traits of american health care is its heavy reliance on marketing and advertising. if you watch network tv you are fami

united health care -- away from the banks and j&j, united health out what they modest beat. -- with aields roll over. an inflation experiment fails. tom porcelli on chairman powell's terminal value. until october, or 31. lords and tories will do what it takes to keep parliament running. prime minister johnson placed his levers. the president speaks to the converted and says the congresswoman should go back to mogadishu, north dakota state, or maybe the swath called the university of minnesota. this is bloomberg "surveillance," tom keene in new york, nejra cehic in london. this is a huge deal, the politics and polarity of your united kingdom and america, it is extraordinary. nejra: it is sending the pound on the move in the u.k. boris johnson saying that theresa may did's brexit -- dead brexit deal needs to be junked. the pound moved higher. so many being -- conflicting messages. tom: buried in the news flow as well is the idea of a $1 trillion deficit. this is the g7 meetings in france. who do we have? is maria there? nejra: yes, and we just caught up with belmar now -- bill morneau.

health care. they will talk about the economy. yes, do we disagree how to get there? do we disagree on our health care proposals? yes, we do. but are we unitedxpanding access to health care? absolutely. you see a democratic party who is united, worried about helping people. there was a recent poll came out talked about people in michigan are really upset by donald trump's tweets. if donald trump wants to tweet all day and put racist attacks out there, then he is not going to win a state like michigan. they want to know how are you helping them. connell: that is kind of part of the debate. let me bring up something from "axios," some data they put out quote, dominant storylines out there online. what they found was, in the data they released at least, elizabeth warren, bernie sanders, we talked about, they get far more attention talking about student debt cancellation. free college, than joe biden and senator harris seeing for their issues. there are some kind of disconnect between the issues that get attention online in the twitterverse as we call it, versus so-called kitchen table people care about? i bring that up, you say the president's

care act in the form of the texas vs. united states court case really threatens health care for millions of americans. what would it mean for your friends, the patients and families that you've spoken to, if protections for people with pre-existing conditions are eliminated? mr. morley: in some cases, it might limit their access to medications and to lifesaving infusions and to cancer treatments and it could -- i mean, it very well would mean death. mrs. maloney: what about if medicaid was eliminated, what would that mean? mr. morley: medicaid expansion. a lot of theme would lose coverage and access. mrs. maloney: what would it mean to the parents of medically fragile children who have reached out to you if the entire affordable care act, what would happen to them if the affordable care act was eliminated? mr. morley: i honestly don't know but i do know they experience just even if that didn't happen, they experience an incredible deal of stress and this -- this even having to focus on that has caused them undo stress and it's stress, as we all know, if we have a chronic illness so it's stress upon st

i have been buying united health care because the stock had fallen something like 25% from its december high, but even now down 13% from its highs. trades at about 18 times forward system the real name to own, the levered one would be cigna, trading at a 40% discount to anthem, absurd, and they have the express skrip as a pbm the stocks are attractive, though and very under owned that's the real key here. >> big moves in yields, ten year at 211 lots with stephanie to come over the next hour. focus in on the big stories, bob is on record watch at the exchange, steve liesman has highlights, elon moye, kayla tausche big technology and josh lipton news on microsoft >> dow at a record high, let's not quibble. s&p and nasdaq knocking on the door dow, january we hit, now at 27,000 the three stocks that mattered, biggest contributor visa the dow is a price weighted index. the price moves what is moves the index. visa contributed 420 points of the dow's 1,000 point rise since then the other second most important one, microsoft, contributed 350 points of the move in the dow jones industrial avera

tone for the evening was the argument that this should be something that is nationalized health care in the united states should be nationalized according to sanders and also warned but the other candidates on the stage more moderate in the party the democratic party seem to believe that this could cost the democratic party the white house and 2020 so really expose not just the tensions among the candidates tara but also the fact that there is a deep divide within the democratic party itself of the more moderate members of the liberal sort of mindset in the united states and then the more further left progressive wing we saw the starches in health care also the war in afghanistan the border security and even on the issue of race so it was a very heated debate and it is expected that round 2 that will take place in the coming hours will be equally combative and as you say kimberly around jubal featured joe biden will be trying to fend off both come to harvest and cory booker so just talk us through what we can expect and tonight's debate. yeah well there was a really sort of a knock out moment to u

care from millions. that's why in my first day in congress i introduced a resolution that put the united states house of representatives on the side of the people to protect our health care. mr. allread:00 i was honored to be join in that might by many of my colleagues here today. my home state of texas has the highest uninsured rate in the country. in my home of dallas county, one in five people don't have health insurance. if this attack succeeds, this lawsuit will send us spiraling backwards and harm hundreds of thousands of texans. the fight to protect pre-existing conditions is personal to me. my mother is a breast cancer survivor. my wife and i just celebrated the birth of our son who is 5 months old, those are both pre-existing conditions. i told the story many times, but two years ago on the day the house voted to repeal the affordable care act, i met natalie, a young mother, who was spending her final weeks fighting cancer to advocate, to protect the affordable care act. with it the vital protections for people with pre-existing conditions like hers. natalie was fighting so future mothers like her would be able to know their children so that they wouldn't h

with things under the most hardships of things things that we have problems with in united states education and health care and other things that we actually have problems with we could learn a lot regular people if those exchanges are listening and i want people to really understand the details of that right like if you're a foreigner who wants to come to the job they get a visa from us embassy and if there's no in the sea in your country. because of cricket attacking u.s. workers around you have to go and pay lots of money to go to a 3rd country and get a hotel and now because of the new hostility towards cuba the acceptance rates are visas have been dropping and dropping and dropping so people are paying all that money and then getting denied because they're cuban spies allegedly. the news areas and now everybody oh it's the entire i love it like the cuban spies has been one that i think we should look out for because that's going to be the new narrative. is an old narrative that's being brought back and right. exactly which is you know we're even seeing that being made fun of in a way in our in our in

however, the obamacare has had countless issues since its enactment and has harmed health care for citizens across the united states. republicans have been saying for years that we need a fix for this program to decrease the premiums, stabilize the market, increase access to care and to protect those with pre-existing conditions. now my colleagues across the aisle have decided to abandon this and chase after a single payer system which would further increase health care costs on taxpayers and decrease access to care for people who need it the most. in west virginia, enrollments in our exchange has decreased while many are now enrolled in employer insurance due to the booming economy, many have cited high deductibles as a reason for going uninsured. we need to solve this problem and a single payer system is certainly not the solution. has the a.c.a. lowered monthly premiums for americans? >> no, they have not. >> in fact, how much of premiums gone up for americans on average since this law was enacted? >> it's been significant and it has been a range depending on the part of the country that they are in. it's

health care is a human right, not a privilege. cheers and applause] senator sanders: and together, e come together to end the international embarrassment of the united states of america, our great nation, the wealthiest and most powerful nation on earth, today we come together to end the embarrassment of america being the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to every man, woman and child. we will end that embarrassment. . it is not acceptable to me that we end up spending almost twice as much per capita on health care as do the people of any other nation while at the same time our life expectancy continues to go down and our health care outcomes lag behind other major countries. frankly, i am sick and tired of talking to doctors who tell me about the patients who died you because they came into their offices too late because they ere uninsured or underinsured. and let us be honest and acknowledge that under the dysfunctional health care system we have today, 30,000 americans every year are dying because they don't go to a doctor when they should because they lack health insurance or they are underinsured with high deductibles and

they say they were motivated by money, often offered work in the united states, residency, health careings like that. they say they were have various different sectors and they were operating as consultants in the nuclear industry and all different walks of life. and it's something the iranians are pointing to in their official media and saying the americans may say and they're the ma lined but it's the united states that are carrying out the spy missions against us and they know very well that that will strike a cord in iran and people in iran are very aware that in the past the u.s. has made them part of operations. in the persian gulf region, with brittain and iran of a seizure of an oil tanker, 200 nautical miles north of here, that's where the ship is being held by the islamic revolutionary guard. we've just had the first images of the 23 crew members. they're on board and safe. they look like they're in relatively good spirits. it's part of a huge geopolitical chess game to which there is no clear ending. we're waiting for british officials to announce what next steps they're goi

health care is a human right, not a privilege. and together we come together to end the international embarrassment of the united states. our great nation. the wealthyiest and most powerful nation on earth. today we come together to end the embarrassment of america being the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to every man, woman and child. we will end that embarrassment. it is not acceptable to me, nor to the american people that today some 87 million americans are either uninsured or are under insured. it is not acceptable to me that we end up spending almost twice as much per capita on health care as do the people of any other nation, while at the same time our life expectancy continues to go down and our health care outcomes lag behind other major countries. frankly, i am sick and tired of talking to doctors who tell me about the patients who died because they came into their offices too late because they were uninsured or underinsured. and let us be honest and acknowledge that under the dysfunctional health care system we have today, 30,000 americans every year are dieing because they don't go t

managed care, united health adding a lot to the dow today after trump said he'll kill a proposal that would have overhauled rebates collected by middle men in the healthcare industry. the middle men between the insurers and the drug companies. and meanwhile, lots of worries about pharma. this is what drove the nasdaq lower. traders and investors fear the companies that will pay the price directly will be the drug companies. liz: coming up, president trump is praising mexico for doing a good job at the border while here in the u.s. i.c.e. is preparing to deport thousands of illegals. tropical storm barry could make landfall as a hurricane as early as tomorrow night. louisiana in a state of emergency. a lethal storm surge now threatening the gulf state. new orleans suffering flash flooding right now. the storm is cutting the gulf mexico oil output by more than half. we have a jam packed hour just ahead. those stories for you coming up. hey, who are you? oh, hey jeff, i'm a car thief... what?! i'm here to steal your car because, well, that's my job. what? what?? what?! (laughing) what??

health care. i think in the united states, you have to look at what we do here. affirmatively there is enough money in the system that we can provide coverage for everyone. the money is not getting out to the families like it should. >> good morning. my question. we must pass it before we know what is in it. i think the democratic party is responsible for everybody. i feel that we should be able to go wherever we want to go to get medical attention. >> the goals of getting more coverage for everyone are good. the way it was done, i think it has been proven to be a failure. the reason, primarily we put everyone into the same wrist will. assurances about risks. to try to coverage the high cost individuals in the same risk as everyone else, that clearly is not going to work. we limited the ability to assess risk in the marketplace. that is why i mentioned the high risk individuals, about five percent of the population a roughly 40 percent of the overall cost. that is why republicans proposed legislation that would help fund high risk at the state level. to make sure

now on health care, today oral arguments begin in the texas versus united states and the fate of our ue to this nasty, cruel lawsuit led by president trump's department of justice. if the court -- >> we do have sad news to share with you. we have just learned that self-made billionaire, philanthropist, former presidential candidate ross perot has died. he was 89 years old. you will know him for his two runs for the prez dense in 1992 and 1996. wolf blitzer has a look back as his remarkable life. >> ross perot was already a mega successful businessman when he came on as a presidential candidate in 1992. his folksy manner -- >> the situation got so bad, i decided i need to get into it. >> and his laser like focus on the economy. >> we have got to stop sending jobs overseas. >> made perot one of the most successful presidential candidates in u.s. history. he won almost 19% of the vote in 1992. from the beginning, perot's campaign struck a cord with those seeking a third-party candidate. he threw his hat into the ring on cnn's larry king live. i will not run as a democratic or republican

bureaucracy of health care which has been made worse by the affordable care act , but congress does hear the opinions of physicians. as far as health care and access to health care, in the unitedom, about 10% of people have private health insurance coverage and they get quick coverage and about 90% are on the national health service and they don't have any choice and they have long waits. oursbelieve a country like , as wealthy as ours can find a way to cover everyone and make sure everybody in this country has good health care coverage that they can afford and have access to quality health care. host: is health care a privilege or right? guest: right now it is more of a privilege around the world. states,d, in the united a country like ours that is wealthy can find a way to make sure the people have adequate health care coverage. if you look at the rest of the world and you compare us to the rest of the world, we are very privileged in this country to have access to affordable health care. in the unit states, you have to look at what we do here and i believe there is enough money in the system that we can provide coverage for everyone. districty is just mal- did. distributed.

not providing health care, you know, for the vast majority of citizens, and i'll go on the record -- since this is an opportunity -- i think that all americans and people living in the unitedshould have access to health care, at least at some level. and particularly children. >> okay. how much is diet a part of this, do you think? >> huge, and i could lose ten pounds. >> okay. how can the public get involved with the art of -- and science of well-being which is coming up at the commonwealth club? >> it's really simple. you can register at www.commonwealth.org. you'll see aimen yu of all the pramtz. the cost to attend is very nominal. every talk, by the way, is going to be live audio streamed, free of charge. >> awesome. >> some of them will be live video streamed. the commonwealth club is a cultural icon in the bay area and we do everything we can to involve the public. >> doc, appreciate you coming in. look forward to your series. certainly this is a subject -- what we need, more mindfulness and calm in our lives, i think in general. thanks for being here. >> you're a good example, larry. >> see me after the show. might be another story. thanks. >> thank you. >> announcer

he promised our veterans access to the real-time, world-class health care that you earned in the uniform of the uniteds, and thanks to president trump, leadership, we reformed the v.a. and now veterans' choice is available to veterans all across america. cheers and applause] and this president promised to give the men and women of law enforcement the resources and the respect that they deserve every single day. and he's done it. [cheers and applause] and that includes the courageous men and women of customs and border protection and i.c.e. [applause] under president trump's leadership, i'm proud to report we made historic investments in border security. thanks to his strong stand, mexico's doing more than ever before and apprehensions at our southern border are down by 28% in just the last few weeks and we've already started to build that wall. cheers and applause] [crowd chanting "build that wall!" ] vice president pence: oh, we're building it. and this president has actually appointed more conservatives to our federal courts in the last two years than any president in american history, and they are

health care system. >> a health law expert at georgia state says the system has flaws. >> it's really the worst consumer experience. >> and we pay a lot for it. the unitedas the most expensive health care in the world. around 3 1/2 trillion dollars a year. >> people should not be forced into financial ruin, into bankruptcy for one reason, because someone in the family became ill. >> in 2016, his was a lone vote. but many democrats are getting in line behind bernie sanders. >> i'm with bernie on medicare for all. >> how does this plan differ from what senator sanders is proposing? >> i think they're very similar. >> in a single pare system, everyone would be automatically enrolled in a government-run health care plan. >> it would cover hospitalizations, hearing aids, dental and vision. there would be some co-pay for brand name prescription drugs but a litmus test is starting to take shape. will it also eliminate private insurance as we know it? >> who here will abolish their insurance in favor of a government-run planned. >> during the debates in june, only a few candidates raised their hands. >> anyone who has their employer-based insurance can keep it.

that all illegal immigrants should get taxpayer-funded health care in the united states. position that will play well in the midwest. it's not a position that will play well in the rust belt. it's not a position that's going to play well anywhere. i think the president's team is smart to take advantage of that and to drive that point home. see you when you saw pete buttigieg kind of struggle. you're giving him a binary choice, he is kind of talking around the edges of it. >> steve: what do you say? they've already embraced the position. >> harris: and he's in indiana, that's midwest. >> dagen: pete buttigieg's comment seemed like he was debating president trump and all the other democrats on the stage. that he was trying to come out as the best choice. i was sitting at home going, "you got to take on all these people on the stage with you tonight and the people the next night." >> jessica: i thought mayor pete had a stronger debate night last night. >> harris: he had more talking time. >> jessica: i thought that it will work to better, as well. when you look at where the

health care system. the system has fundamental flaws. >> it's really the worst consumer experience. >> and we pay a lot for it. the uniteds has the most expensive health care in the world. around 3 $1/2 trillion a year. >> people should not be forced into financial ruin, into bankruptcy for what reason? because someone in the family became ill. >> in 2016, his was a lone voice. many democrats are getting in line behind bernie sanders, who has long called for a single pair system. >> i'm with bernie. >> how does this plan differ from what senator sanders is proposing. >> i think that they're very similar. >> in a single pair system, everyone would be automatically enrolled in a government run health care program. >> it would cover office visits, hearing aids, dental and vision. there would be co pays for brand name prescription drugs. but a litmus test is starting to take shape. will a single pair system also eliminate private insurance as we know it. >> who would abolish their private health insurance in favor of a government run plan. >> harris later said she misinterpreted a question. >> anyone who has their ememployer

broadly are the ones carrying the health care, large caps, secular growth, somewhat defensive i call like the anti-health care health care stocks, names like abbot, thermo, unitede are the names that are driving health care higher the rest of the space, including pharma is tough. >> because of politics >> yes, i think drug pricing in particular, and then just not knowing exactly how health care reform is going to play out post 2020 is the other driver. >> so if the president is reelected next year, does health care bounce or is this as you implied earlier, both parties are going to -- >> he has been just as aggressive against drug pricing and health care, i shouldn't say just as aggressive, he's probably the least of all evils, but both sides grae agree on th, and the kamala harris plan is overhauling our drug care or health care over ten years, sanders over four years. i don't think he'll be able to do it over four. >> it's crazy that the bar in the democratic party is whether or not you want to keep prooiiv insurance in business. how did we get there >> kamala harris is pushing the medicare advantage, and we see the biggest pop in humana over a percent. i thi

health care system. >> reporter: a health law expert at georgia state says it has flaws. >> it's the worst consumer experience. >> reporter: and we pay pore it. the united states has the most expensive health care in the world. around $3.5 trillion a year. >> people should not be forced into financial ruin, into bankruptcy for what reason? because someone in the family became ill. >> reporter: in 2016, his was a lone voice. but many democrats are now getting in line behind bernie sanders, who has long called for a single payor system. >> i'm with bernie for medicare for all. >> how does this differ from what senator sanders is proposing? >> i think they're very similar. >> in a single payer system, everyone would be automatically enrolled in a government-run health care program like medicare. >> reporter: it would cover doctor's visits, hospitalizations, including hearing aids, dental, vision, these candidates say. there would be some co-pay for brand name prescription drugs. a lit must test is starting to take shape. would it also eliminate private insurance as we know it? >> who here would abolish their private health insurance in favor of a governmen

health care system. >> a health law expert at georgia state says the system has fundamental flaws. >> it's really the worst consumer experience. >> and we pay a lot for it. the unitede most expensive health care in the world. around $3.5 trillion a year. >> people should in the be forced into financial ruin, into bankruptcy for one reason, because someone in the family became ill. >> in 2016 his was a lone voice. but many democrats now get in line behind bernie sanders who has long called for a single payer system. >> i'm with bernie on medicare for all. >> how does this plan differ from what senator sanders is proposing? >> i think that they're very similar. in a single payer system everyone would be automatically enrolled in a government-run health care program like medicare. >> it would cover doctors visitors, hospitalizations, but also hearing there would be some copays for brand name prescription drugs. but a litmus test is starting to take shape. the question is will a single-payer system also eliminate private insurance was we know it >> who here would abolish their insurance for a government run program? >> reporter: sanders and harris along with new york c

health care system. >> reporter: a health law expert at georgia state says the system has fundamental flaws. >> it's really the worst consumer experience. >> reporter: and we pay a lot for it. the unitednsive health care in the world. around $3.5 trillion a year. >> people should not be forced into financial ruin, into bankruptcy for what reason? because someone in the family became ill. >> reporter: in 2016 his was a lone voice. but many democrats are now getting in line behind bernie sand who are has long called for a singer payer system. >> i'm with bernie on medicare for all. >> so how does this differ from what senator sanders is proposing? >> i think that they're very similar. >> in a single payer system, everyone would be automatically enrolled in a government-run plan for health care. >> reporter: it would also cover hearing aides, dental, and vision. there would be copays for brand name prescription drugs. but a litmus test is starting to take shape. question is, will a single payer system also eliminate private insurance? >> who would abolish their private insurance for a government run plan? >> reporter: only warren and harris raised their hands. harris later said she misin

health care. mika and i have friends in canada who come to the united states to get health care and to get proceduresbelieve in universal health care coverage. but, man, it reminded me so much of the 2016 debates when donald trump would just say something and everybody would cheer and applaud. they were applauding at a utopia that's not going to exist in the united states of america, and yes, yes, twitter, america, that comes from a former republican congressman, but a former republican who wants donald trump to be beaten every bit as badly as we do. >> that's for sure. that was the exchange last night between senator bernie sanders and congressman tim ryan over the medicare for all bill. congressman ryan of ohio joins us now. >> congressman, thanks so much for being with us. >> thank you. >> i just have to ask, and again, obviously, i think the democratic party should provide universal health care, but they need to provide choice as well to union members and other people, working class americans. what goes through your mind when you go on stage and bernie sanders says, we're going to give everybody

. >> we don't have a health care system in the united states. care system in the united states. this man has reached into the psyche of the american people and he has harnessed fear for political purposes. i'm going to harness love for political purposes. i will meet you on that field. and sir, love will win. just because you have a younger body, doesn't mean you have old ideas. >> it's all about love. that does it for me. enjoy your foouurth of july holiday. you can catch me mornings. "hardball" with chris matthews starts now. . >>> showoff. let's play "hardball." good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. tomorrow we celebrate the high human standards of our founders. we hold these truths to be self of evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their create were certain unalienable rights, tha

united states history. it is a step forward. it's not the ultimate step. we need to continue to get actual universal health care in this country, but it is important because we have set a template for other states to follow now. even without federal action. where we can provide a state-sanctioned care system for people in my state. i hope others will follow us. >> let me get your reaction to the president's environment -- environmental speech yesterday. i don't know if you read it or if you heard it, but he said he has now given the country, in his words, a clear direction to focus on environmental challenges. this is a signature issue for you. >> well, look, donald trump is for environmentalism like he is for feminism, basically. he has the worst record of any perhaps politician maybe in world history. we don't know. but i think this is really interesting. i haven't heard other people comment about this. i think what donald trump did yesterday was to demonstrate a path to victory to defeat him because he understood by going out and just trying to cover up his tracks on this horrendous environmental record, he'

and what bernie sanders believes is that this is a problem with the system in the united states that the american health carets reliance on the pharmaceutical industry is part of the problem. he promises if elected president, he's going to turn that around. to your point, there are some in canada concerned with the idea of sanders promoting the importation of drugs from canada into the united states, and it could hurt the system here in canada. sanders response to that criticism is that he's illustrating a fine point. it's about fixing the system in the united states. he doesn't believe that this is something that can be sustained for a long term. people coming over the border and buying the drugs. he wants to make the situation better in the u.s. >> ryan nobles, thanks so much. >>> the cnn democratic presidential debates just a few days away. two days, in fact. two big nights. ten candidates each night. the first is on tuesday, july 30th with progressives bernie sanders and elizabeth warren and then wednesday, july 31st, see the rematch -- potential rematch between joe biden and kamala harris. the cnn debat

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