Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) tweeted that if you can t afford medical care, you have a right to demand that your doctor provide it. But is there any limit to this right? Is there a limit to the amount of money you have to spend on medical care? Or can you demand that the government foot the bill for your doctor's services? Alex Blumberg explains why the government should provide free medical care for all Americans, no matter how much they can manage to afford it, and why the market is the best solution to the problem of providing medical care to the poor and sick. The New York Times' Opinions editorials and opinion piece by Ben Shapiro explain why this is a terrible idea and why you don't need a government mandate to get medical care. The answer is that you do not need government to provide it, you need a free market in the form of rationing it or confiscation of wealth to pay for it, which is what the government provides. And that's what we should be focusing on, not the other way around: the free market. The market is good at some things, and it's bad at others, but it's better than the government-sponsored medical care is the worst thing you can do for poor people, because it doesn't actually provide them with access to care, and they don't have a say in what they can get it through the market-based pricing and supply and supply, which means they won't get it, they have to work for it through a government-based system like the market, and the government does it through taxes, they'll just have to buy it through their own profit incentive and confiscate it through government handouts, not by the market price, like they do it by their taxes, like you do it through wages, rather than through their wages, not through their taxes. But that's a good thing, right? And it's also worse than the market? Yes, it's worse than you'd think. And, as most honest advocates will admit, as the most honest advocate will admit: as the market generates an over-demand, it generates a better choice, and quashes individual liberties, and supply through profit, and demand, not supply, and therefore, they don t have to pay back the more of what you get back through profit through supply, you either have to get more of it, either by getting more of that, or you get it back, or they get a better life.
00:01:18.000I do not have a right to steal your wallet or hold up the local bakery to obtain it.
00:01:21.000Theft may end up being the least immoral choice under the circumstances that doesn't make it a moral choice or suggest that I have not violated your rights in pursuing my own needs.
00:01:31.000But the left thinks that declaring necessities rights somehow overcomes the individual rights of others.
00:01:36.000If you're sick, you now have the right to demand that my wife, who is a doctor, care for you.
00:01:42.000Do you have the right to demand that the medical system provide life-saving care forever to the tunes of millions of dollars of other people's taxpayer dollars or services?
00:01:50.000How exactly can there be such a right without the government rationing care or using compulsion to force individuals to provide it or confiscating mass sums of wealth to pay for it?
00:02:01.000Rights that derive from individual need inevitably violate individual autonomy.
00:02:06.000In response to my tweet, my colleague New York Magazine's Jesse Singel wrote, quote, free markets are good at some things and terrible at others and it's silly to view them as ends rather than means.
00:02:27.000Just as Ruth Bader Ginsburg said at one point, she would model new constitutions on the South African constitution, which guarantees, quote, everyone has the right to have access to health care services, including reproductive health care.
00:02:38.000The state must take reasonable legislative and other measures within its available resources to achieve the progressive realization of each of these rights.
00:02:45.000That's what the South African constitution says.
00:02:47.000But the World Health Organization ranks South Africa somewhere near the bottom of the globe in terms of medical care.
00:02:57.000And if you treat it differently, that's stupid.
00:02:59.000To make a commodity cheaper and better, you need two things.
00:03:02.000Profit incentive and freedom of labor.
00:03:04.000The government destroys both of these things in the healthcare industry.
00:03:07.000It decides medical reimbursement rates for millions of Americans, particularly poor Americans.
00:03:11.000This, in turn, creates an incentive for doctors not to take government-sponsored health insurance.
00:03:16.000It regulates how doctors treat with patients.
00:03:18.000The sorts of training doctors must undergo.
00:03:20.000So, what's the solution for poor people?
00:03:44.000Well, not to declare medical care a right, certainly not to dismiss reliance on the market as some sort of perverse cruelty.
00:03:49.000Markets are the solution in medical care, just as they are in virtually every other area.
00:03:53.000If you treat medical care as a commodity, that means temporary shortages, and it means some people won't get everything we wish they would have.
00:03:59.000But that's also true, but worse, with government-sponsored medical care, as the most honest advocates will admit.
00:04:05.000And whereas government-sponsored medical care requires a top-down approach that violates individual liberties, generates over-demand, and quashes supply, markets prize individual liberties.
00:04:55.000True soullessness is depriving people of the choices they require because you're more interested in patting yourself on the back by inventing rights than by incentivizing the creation of goods and services.
00:05:06.000In healthcare, we could use a lot less virtue signaling and a lot less government.
00:05:09.000Or, we could just read Bernie Sanders' tweets while we wait in line for a government-sponsored surgery, dying, presumably, in a decrepit chair.
00:05:23.000All righty, so there's a lot to get to today.
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00:05:57.000So, we'll get to all of that in just a second.
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00:07:46.000When CNN begins a news tsunami by running a story about how U.S.
00:07:50.000intelligence officials have briefed President-elect Donald Trump and President Obama about these rumors, these intelligence reports that suggest that Trump has been working with the Russians and that the Russians have what they call kompromat, which means they have, I guess, they have some compromising information on Trump and that they're going to blackmail Trump, essentially.
00:08:26.000The FBI is investigating the credibility and accuracy of these allegations, which are based primarily on information from Russian sources, but has not confirmed many essential details in the memos about Trump.
00:08:37.000The classified briefings last week were presented by four of the senior most U.S.
00:08:40.000intelligence chiefs, that'd be DNI Clapper, FBI Director Comey, CIA Director Brennan, and NSA Director Mike Rogers.
00:08:47.000So, basically they present these supposedly classified documents to Obama and Trump, including allegations that Russian operatives claim to have compromising personal and financial information
00:09:01.000I mean, Trump is being briefed on the fact that the Russians now have all this dirty info, and maybe this explains why Trump is so warm toward Russia all the time.
00:09:09.000Now, to skip forward in the story for a second, CBS News appears to now be blowing this out of the water.
00:09:14.000They now say that this never happened.
00:09:18.000intelligence official with knowledge of the preparation for the meeting with Trump said that Trump was not briefed on the two-page addendum to the dossier,
00:10:08.000I mean, they say things like Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen, was in the Czech Republic meeting in Prague with Russian agents to get information on Hillary Clinton.
00:10:15.000They say things like Trump is deep in bed with Russian business sources and that they've paid him lots of money.
00:10:21.000It says that Putin has been cultivating Trump as an asset for years.
00:10:24.000And of course, the most trafficked allegation, and the reason I'm making pee-pee jokes today, I'm not enough of a man not to make
00:10:52.000Stayed in Barack Obama's suite, the one that he used to stay in with Michelle Obama, and then proceeded, because he hates the Obamas, to hire a bunch of Russian whores to come in and have a golden shower party, to pee on the bed in front of him, because that's how much he hates the Obamas.
00:11:12.000And so this thing is flying around the web, Golden Shower is trending, and Ben Smith releases this statement trying to explain why it is that he even put this thing out, because he himself says in the report, they say that this stuff is unverified, we don't know how to check it, there's no way to check it, we're going to put it out anyway.
00:11:28.000Screw it, we're putting it out anyway.
00:11:30.000By the way, it had already been run by a bunch of other people, including David Corn, David Corn of Mother Jones.
00:11:37.000He said, I accurately characterized the memos.
00:11:40.000This is important stuff, but did not publish details.
00:11:42.000Even Donald Trump deserves journalistic fairness, but not from BuzzFeed.
00:11:46.000So Ben Smith writes, as you have probably seen, this evening we published a secret dossier making explosive and unverified allegations about Trump and Russia.
00:11:54.000I wanted to briefly explain to you how we made the decision to publish it.
00:11:57.000We published the dossier, which Ken Bensinger obtained through his characteristically ferocious reporting.
00:12:03.000It's not ferocious reporting to just release a document.
00:12:05.000So that, as we wrote, Americans can make up their own minds about allegations about the president-elect that have circulated at the highest levels of the U.S.
00:13:39.000It's where all the cave trolls hang out.
00:13:41.000And 4chan releases a statement, basically, or people from 4chan saying that they have actually created this stuff from whole cloth and they sent it to an anti-Trump operative named Rick Wilson, a Republican named Rick Wilson, and Wilson gave it to the intel community so they trolled the entire intelligence community.
00:13:57.000There's no evidence that this is true.
00:13:59.000Other than a couple of people on 4chan saying some stuff, there really is no evidence that this is true.
00:14:58.000If you think the Russians don't gather information on people, that'd be crazy.
00:15:03.000So, now we finally get to the Donald Trump team response.
00:15:08.000And Trump has been handed the ultimate gift, just this massive gift by BuzzFeed, because
00:15:13.000Imagine it had just been the CNN report that said that there were reports that he had heard about all of this and that the intelligence community was checking it out and that's all we knew.
00:15:21.000Well, then he'd have some questions to answer, wouldn't he?
00:15:24.000But that's not all that happened, right?
00:15:25.000Instead, you get this BuzzFeed report that very quickly people start going through and debunking.
00:15:30.000So, for example, Michael Cohen, who is the lawyer for Trump and is mentioned in this compilation of supposed intelligence on Trump, he immediately tweets out and he says, no, I've never been to Prague.
00:15:41.000And then that's confirmed, that he's never been to Prague.
00:15:43.000USC says that he was actually at USC on the date that he was supposed to have been in Prague.
00:15:47.000CNN comes out and says, oh, it was a different Michael Cohen.
00:16:03.000So, what is the President-Elect's response to the BuzzFeed and CNN reports, and will he talk about them at 11 o'clock today at his press conference?
00:16:14.000Well, I mean, the BuzzFeed memo is total, complete garbage, is what it is.
00:16:21.000Look, BuzzFeed themselves said it was garbage.
00:16:25.000The New York Times wouldn't even print the document because it was unverifiable.
00:16:52.000One of the basis of this entire report is that a guy named Michael Cohen, who works for the Trump Organization, went to Prague and had a meeting with Russian agents.
00:17:03.000He'd never been to Prague in his life.
00:17:05.000I don't know what it says about the report.
00:17:07.000In fact, the coach of USC Baseball in Southern California said, wait a second, he wasn't in Prague, he was with me in Southern California with his son.
00:17:39.000By doing that, they allow Trump the ability to come out and say, everything that we've ever heard about Russia is untrue, there's nothing going on with Russia, all of this is crap, and the media's out to get me.
00:17:50.000Seth Meyers had on Kellyanne Conway last night, and he asks her about the Russian reports, and Kellyanne Conway slaps him around a little bit.
00:17:56.000Meyers has her on, he's grilling her, but what she's actually saying is true, because NBC News came out and said that it was not addended to the document and it wasn't mentioned during the oral briefing.
00:18:05.000So, she's actually telling the truth here, and Seth Meyers is just refusing to believe her.
00:18:10.000And this is what's happened in our politics, is that if there's a bad story about Trump, everybody who doesn't like Trump immediately leaps to believe it.
00:18:16.000If there's a good story about Trump, everybody who likes Trump immediately leaps to believe it.
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00:21:21.000If you are trying to tell people that you do not have associations with Russia, nor do you trust them, nor are you in their pocket, it's probably not a wise move to quote them denying the report.
00:21:31.000Okay, there are lots of reasons to deny the report.
00:21:33.000You should know whether the report is true since you are the subject of the report.
00:21:36.000Quoting the Russian intelligence community that just said that they don't spy on people, that's not your best tack.
00:22:27.000President Trump, who is the President of the United States because you were elected in a presidential election as the President.
00:22:36.000Also, typical tactics of the Nazis did not include leaking damaging but false information to the press.
00:22:42.000Typical tactics of the Nazis included murdering your political opponents, imprisoning millions of people, and then systematically killing them.
00:22:50.000Also, invading foreign countries for no reason other than you needed some more room for Germans.
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