I agree with this actually. In reality, 8 billion people wouldn't be alive here on earth if there were no vaccines. We likely couldn't now have over 2 billion. This is reality. So, the overpopulation of the planet (which could also cause human extinction is caused primarily by vaccinations. However, enough people in the U.S. have been to college and are capable of critical thinking for themselves. In the 1950s this wasn't true so doctors lorded over everyone and treated everyone like imbeciles. But, that isn't true any more so when doctors try to tell everyone that they are ignorant, I just think doctors have a real ego problem and don't want anyone to question what they think. Whether it is political or medical everyone has a right to think whatever they do. And if doctors become Nazis about forcing people into believing things then they become the problem and not the solution in this day and age of enlightenment.
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Price says states should decide whether vaccines are required
HHS Secretary vows GOP health care bill is 'so much better' than Obamacare
Story highlights
- Tom Price has been a key player in GOP leadership's efforts to sell their House health care bill
- The Health and Human Services secretary is answering questions about a new CBO report
(CNN)Health
and Human Services secretary Tom Price -- a former congressman and a
longtime critic of Obamacare — forcefully defended the House Republican
plan to repeal and replace Obamacare on Wednesday night, even as the
legislation continues to face fierce backlash and bleed support.
"We
believe strongly, strongly, that the plan we put together is so much
better than the one that's there now," Price said a special CNN town
hall event moderated by CNN's Wolf Blitzer and Dana Bash.
A
physician by training, Price is now responsible for selling the
Republican Party's controversial plan to overhaul the Affordable Care
Act to his former colleagues in Congress and the public. Throughout the
hour-long town hall, he fielded emotionally charged questions on topics
ranging from funding for Planned Parenthood to whether the new plan
would allow parents to choose whether they vaccinate their children and
how patients would pay for addiction treatment.
One
statement that Price had to stand by was his recent promise that nobody
will be "financially worse off" under the Republican proposal. After an
audience member named Teresa Caliari expressed concern that older
Americans would see their premiums hiked under the GOP plan, Price was
asked whether he could ensure that Caliari wouldn't be hurt financially.
He demurred, saying simply: "I don't believe you'll be worse off from a health care standpoint."
In
recent days, GOP congressional leaders and the White House have
furiously tried to assuage a range of concerns voiced by rank-and-file
Republicans to ensure that they have the 216 votes needed for the bill
to pass in the House.
Conservative
Republicans, in particular, have been outspoken in their criticism.
Some have asked House Speaker Paul Ryan to vote on a "clean repeal"
Obamacare bill first -- and then turn to the task of replacing the law
through separate legislation.
Price,
however, knocked that suggestion down on Wednesday, saying that would
pull the rug out from under too many Americans. "We could just be
repealing it. But the fact of the matter is, that would leave many
Americans behind," he said.
On
whether the GOP bill would be approved in the House despite the claim
from House Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows Wednesday night that
there were enough votes to tank it, Price said Republicans would pass
the bill by trying to "listen to the principles that the American people
have told us are dear to them on health care."
Also
complicating matters for supporters of the House Republican plan is a
new analysis from the Congressional Budget Office this week that
predicted that the House GOP bill to repeal Obamacare would result in some 24 million more people being uninsured by 2026 than under the current system.
Price -- like he has done repeatedly as have others in the administration -- downplayed the CBO's findings.
"They
do a pretty good job with numbers -- coverage is not their strong
suit," Price said. He also stressed that the CBO only took into account
the House GOP bill while ignoring other steps Republicans plan to take
through administrative and legislative actions.
"What the CBO looked at was just one-third of the plan," he said.
The
CBO report also said the proposal would cut the federal deficit and
average premiums would drop after a few years, but highlighted that some
of the most vulnerable demographic groups including the elderly and
low-income people would face steep premium hikes.
Price
has been a key player in GOP leadership's efforts to sell their House
health care bill to skeptical members. Having authored a repeal and
replace bill when he was in the House, the HHS secretary has been making
the rounds on Capitol Hill in recent weeks. Speaking with Republican
lawmakers in both chambers, Price has sought to assuage widespread
concerns about the changes to the health care system that GOP leaders
are pursuing.
But that task has
only grown more difficult in the aftermath of the CBO report. Moderate
Republicans have grown even more wary of supporting a House bill that
would lead to millions losing coverage -- particularly as it appears to
have no chance of getting through the Senate.
Another
sticking point is what will happen to Medicaid. Thirty-one states opted
to expand Medicaid under Obamacare, and many Republican governors and
senators hailing from those states oppose changes that would weaken the
program.
In an emotional question
to start the town hall, a man who said Medicaid saved his life and kept
him from financial bankruptcy asked Price why he supported a plan that
would sunset the Medicaid expansion in 2020 given that so many -- like
himself -- had found care on it.
Price
said it was wonderful the man had received the care he had, but "that's
not necessarily true for everybody." Price argued that the program was
"having extreme difficulty" providing care and that one out of every
three physicians won't see Medicaid patients.
Price also insisted that giving individual states more freedom would help "save money."
"(Are you) going to treat healthy kids who need quality health care the
same way you're going to treat a disabled individual or an older
individual?" Price asked.
Wednesday's
CNN town hall highlighted a full range of concerns and questions that
patients have about how the new GOP bill may affect their own coverage.
John
Brogan, a former Marine, recovering addict and now an addiction
recovery specialist, specifically asked Price how he would fix the
opiate epidemic.
While Price
assured Brogan that the epidemic was a "high priority," Bash followed up
to point out that the House repeal and replace plan would not require
Medicaid to cover opiate addiction treatment.
Price
argued that the treatment didn't necessarily need to come through
Medicaid and that his goal would be to give states more flexibility to
fix the problem.
Another emotional
question for Price came from a woman named Katie Needle, who said she
would be "devastated" if Planned Parenthood were defunded. Needle wanted
to know how low-income women could continue receiving health care
services if the organization they depend on is defunded through the
Republican legislation.
Price
responded that the bill has tried to address widespread concerns about
federal tax dollars being used to perform abortion services. He also
promised that the GOP legislation would "increase money for women's
health services."
One provision in
the GOP bill that has drawn fierce scorn would allow health care company
executives who make more than half a million dollars a year to get a
tax break. Asked about this by Bash, at first Price questioned whether
that was actually in the bill. When Bash doubled down, Price argued it
was just undoing a provision in Obamacare that unfairly targeted health
care executives.
"I think the previous administration singled out health care executives," Price said.
"That
doesn't sound like America to me," he said, adding that individuals in
one sector of the economy shouldn't be treated differently than another
sector.
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