These are congressional hearings, not court rooms. Research the different jobs and authorities that each branch of our government has and you will understand
Dalton Barrett lol..great comment, unfortunately I think most people's eyes "glaze over" when it might be time to accept that they "don't know what they're talking about".. TH-cam has been great in getting more people involved/aware/talking about politics...but it sure has exposed an unfortunate 'truth' about our population.
Lol @@eddyspagetti9899, the point you and Dalton both "glazed over" over was the fact that Scott only asked *if* people "get into trouble" as a result of these "interrogations", not *who* performed those prosecutions. Your pretentious comment just exposes an unfortunate 'truth' about yourself.
If you've ever gone to the mechanic or the doctor, you recognize that we have to have a certain amount of trust in other people so that we don't spend our entire lives trying to learn everything from scratch. And that makes our society possible. To take advantage of that necessary trust, and to mistakenly think that it's because you're smarter than everyone else, is something only a delusional piece of shit would do. A delusional piece of shit who would break down the whole basis of modern society. And that my friends, is what is sitting there answering those questions.
His "personal opinion?" No, it was his f-ing behavior. He literally lied and bragged about it to get a law passed that used force on people. And you tried to lie about it too. What the heck is wrong with people like you?
You're an asshole if you don't see how Issa handled this...he behaves like an attorney and doesn't allow him Gruber to answer the questions and then answers questions himself dismissing the expert. You're obviously biased!
If Trump has absolute legal freedom of speech to threaten to kill or imprison or hurt judges and police officers and politicians then so does every single other person who was born without their prior consent, no matter if some judge or jury or court labels them a "criminal" or a "convicted criminal" or a prisoner. ALL prisoners are prisoners of war. Sorry, judges, cops, etc the well-being and freedom -- freedom from suffering in prison -- of animal rights activists and climate warriors and worker unions is infinitely more important than the law or nationalism. Judges and prosecutors and lawyers will have NOTHING to whine or complain about when EVERYBODY ELSE takes the law into their own hands and puts THEIR freedom and what THEY think is FAIR above what some cop or judge says "the law" is. @tareewoods2434
So in the U.S. they have aggressive hearings about cost shifting and the cost models of ACA (which admittedly is hardly better than the former mess). - European countries after WW2 ALL adopted (or expanded existing) healthcare systems leaning heavily in the direction of non-profit, for public welfare - and of course for everyone. (Even the nations of the Warsaw pact which were poorer had public healthcare for everyone). Even nations that just stopped being mortal enemies (Germany, France, UK for instance) agreed on one thing: healthcare is on principle a terrible fit for the free market (complete imbalance of power between consumers and providers, natural monopolies) AND the usual incentives in a capitalistic system are toxic in the area of healthcare and produce inefficiency - and a hassle for the patients. Fast forward 70 years: per capita healthcare expenditures in those wealthy nations in USD: starting with 4,200 to 6,000, with some outliers * - the U.S. has 9,200 (World Bank 2014). * USD 3,900 for the UK but their main player the NHS got their already lean budget cut over 10 years by the conservative Tories - the system is clearyl underfunded now - but I think with 50 % of the U.S. per capita expenditures it would work like a charm. And Norway and Switzerland have costs like the U.S. (but with high living costs which of course mean also higher wages - a major factor for healthcare costs. That said: they are rich nations with excellent healthcare and everyone has it. Especially the Swiss have a reputation of paying their healthcare staff, incl. nurses, therapists very well, for that reason they attract a lot of staff from Germany). On top of that most of these nations have an older population on average (so the U.S. should beat them on demographics). AND their life expectancy and infant mortality is lower. (Child mortality is an indicator of how the system works for low income people.) P.S.: I am lucky enough to live in one of those wealthy nations. Healthcare insurance is just not an issue. No one even thinks about it. Everyone has it, when you get sick or need an appointment you expect - and get - treatment or a date. Same as everyone else - meaning if they want to cut that, the whole country would get the pitchforks. No "divide and conquer" between those with good and not so good policies, the old or young, those who work full or part time. (Also provisions for people that have no job, for instance stay at home parents, people who take a sabbatical, etc.) The insurance agency (or agencies) is public and non-profit - so they have no incentive to deny treatment. Their role is to facilitate the functioning of the whole system, collect the money and take care of the payments to those who deliver the services. They negoatiate: with non-profits (almost all hospitals) and with for-profit actors (doctors are like small entrepreneurs, the 70 - 80 % that have a public contract have many regulations and a negotiated price list. The powerful multinationals - the pharmaindustry - have an equally powerful counterpart to deal with. The patients do not get an invoice. You pay your mandatory affordable contribution (wage deduction, it is matched by the employer). It is affordable (as % of the wage). it covers dependent family members and it covers everything (even very costly procedures). No one cares about pre existing conditions or current illnesses. It does not matter. And these insurance costs are known in advance - no costs when you need treatment, no unpleasant financial surprises when you already have a health problem.
@@noakhstrelec8478so? it's almost a hundred years after that and by the looks of it Europe did much more with much less so to say, doesn't exactly speak for the US now, does it?
That's the problem in our great country, these politicians and contractors that lie, steal and cheat suffer no consequences. The problems just die out and go away!!! Totally wrong!!!!
*If you look back at all the Congressional hearings and Oversight committees* and realize maybe 1% of the issues get any resolution then why have these? What good does it do? For example over 20 years ago Government Reform CONFLICTS OF INTEREST AND VACCINE DEVELOPMENT--PRESERVING THE INTEGRITY OF THE PROCESS One paragraph "Gee, this is all going to be public eventually, it's going to be out there. Her employer had grants of $75,000 from American Home Products for rotavirus, $404,000 from NIAID, a number of grants for rotavirus, NIH, $355,000 for rotavirus, $55,560 fee from Merck for rotavirus vaccine, Wyeth Lederle, $10,420 fee for rotavirus, and $5,400 for Norwalk virus vaccine. Come on!...." Was there reform? No! Now its the same with Dr Fauci and Pfizer. Nothing gets fixed, it's all about money, greed and power. If we only had a President that fixed things oh, yeah I forgot, they just get rid of the best ones, can't do your job in Washington and survive!
I’ve really begun to see a pattern with representatives and senators asking people questions. They, more often than not, ask a question that incriminates the person they’re asking, and then that person begins the answer by defending themselves and then the representative or senator cuts them off. I’m not saying everyone is innocent in these things, I’m saying that congress’s push to bring justice ends up having a paradoxical effect.
Dont answer they will use everything you say against you. And the rest pretend thier right even thoygh they know you are the one thats right. Just say fuck em
Maybe Trump should build a wall and let the west coast be it's Own Country! Your stupid if you think the rest of the nation should take care of your DRUG, LAWLESSNESS, and HOMELESS PROBLEM! Blame the RIGHT PEOPLE!!! PELOSI, HARRIS, SHIFT...can't fix their own districts, why does America even listen to their "COVER UP"!! Kente Cloths were worn by SLAVE TRADERS and KINGS (who had slaves)!!!
"In criminology, state crime is activity or failures to act that break the state's own criminal law or public international law. For these purposes, Ross (2000b) defines a "state" as the elected and appointed officials, the bureaucracy, and the institutions, bodies and organisations comprising the apparatus of the government. Initially, the state was the agency of deterrence, using the threat of punishment as a utilitarian tool to shape the behaviour of its citizens. Then, it became the mediator, interpreting society's wishes for conflict resolution. Theorists then identified the state as the "victim" in victimless crimes. Now, theorists are examining the role of the state as one of the possible perpetrators of crime (Ross, 2000b) whether directly or in the context of state-corporate crime." -Wikipedia
@@Pahpita the Republicans did not sign up for Obamacare because it puts the government between you and your doctor. Republicans do support private insurance for individuals, which Obamacare literally destroys private health insurance coverage except for the very rich, the Republicans failed at setting a plan for all Americans to acquire , with government help from tax breaks and exemptions for people below a certain income threshold to buy their own health coverage, without government interference. Two wrongs still do not make a right.
+Bev Cutter You really are naive. Obamacare is a huge flop. My deductibles sky rocketed! Your solution? Punish the rich and middle class?? What incentive are we giving the wealthy and middle class if they are working hard for YOUR children to get check ups??! How is that justified?!?
Bev Cutter You are running on humanitarian crap. "What about me and the poor?!" Boo hoo. I didn't work hard and invest so I could save the world. I'm a charitable person. But being forced to do something continues to cause the people who actually work hold resentment and hate for the system! Obama was incredibly deceitful and dishonest about his failure. I don't appreciate the notion that just because you got yourself out of bankruptcy, Obamacare is a success! It's not. The people who spend their life at home, not working, and reaping benefits off the back of others, and totally oblivious to the corruption that took place to get Obamacare passed is sad. But I'm sure the rest of us here will sleep better tonight because you got to see a doctor. (Sarcasm)
Bev Cutter No. I'm a person with logic. You don't further in life because you have to consider everyone's feelings. That is not how the real world works sweetheart. If that hurts your feelings, go pop another Prozac. How are you ever going to be "self reliant" if you are sitting on TH-cam all day bitching at the very people who have assisted in your assistance, THEY are the problem and are selfish?! The audacity of the modern liberal, entitled mind disgusts me.
Bev Cutter And who the fuck are you to demand that I pay for your mental health issues?!?! How dare I insist you be responsible!!! Good god you live in fantasy land.
+Bev Cutter I don't know. Who hired you? The TRUTH is that Obamacare is corporatism--corporate fascism, if you don't understand that economic system then look it up. There are still just as many uninsured people as there were before this disaster. And it penalizes the already financially struggling population in the middle of a record unemployment and economic slump which has been going on for years now--those who simply cannot afford to pay the rates are facing $695.00 government fines for not having private insurance. Those who lost their affordable insurance or had their work hours cut to below 30 hours are also being massively financially penalized. And those who are unfortunate to have policies with $6,000 deductibles per person in their family essentially don't have insurance for the first 6k they spend in a year. There were individual changes that could have been made to health insurance in this country without creating an unsustainable system that threw people off their insurance in the middle of cancer treatments, or causing them to lose their doctors, without enriching the private insurance industry whose stock prices have soared and brought them windfalls undreamed of in the form of a steady revenue flow from the federal government via the taxpayer. What they should have done was expand Medicare/Medicaid, but instead they reduced payments to providers to the point where some of them have had to drop Medicaid/Medicare patients entirely or face going broke, further restricting access to health for the people who need it most. Every poll in the land shows Dems don't stand a chance to win in 2016, considering they can either nominate a criminal or an aging lunatic going around telling everyone that his plan is to raise taxes on everyone, while Trump's plan is to allow people earning below $25,000 a year as a single person and families earning below $50,000 a year to pay NO federal taxes, while at the same time going after hedge fund managers and other %-ers by closing the loopholes that allow them to evade taxes.
I know this is old as hell. But because justice is never served at these hearings. Nobody is ever held accountable. 4 years later and it's still the same old Dog and Pony show
Gruber? Why did you say what everyone in congress was thinking? Why did you let the American people know how we feel about them? You can lie to the people, you just can not tell them and quit outing us in congress.
When will Justin be served? Is there such a thing anymore. Remember these crimesso if ever you end up in court, hour lawyer can get you off referring to their desckskons o. Letting criminals go. We have the most corrupt people in government and we need to get rid of them.
So funny with the dems. Only they can say one thing to the public and the opposite thing in private, and still say with full confidence, that their work was 100% integer.
How is microphone use regulated (if at all) during these kinds of exchanges? If either person speaks do they both have their audio received or does either party's speaking over one another play on both? I don't know the context of this brief clip, but either Gruber has nothing else to say once the Chair starts speaking or his mic is cut off abruptly after each statement by the Chair, it seems...
Medical costs only went up......none went down......only people that live off the govt handouts got a deal. Why do they always tell you how transparent they are, Democrats so very sad.
Depends on your personal definition of the word "afford". As I (and majority of Americans) see it, its _not_affordable, even if that means we're able to pay the high premiums. We don't agree with the prices, yet who's determining them and why isn't there an attempt to work with the people on bringing costs down?
Isaac your response to his responses should be that was not the question. Answer the question. I asked the ... answer that question not the question you want to answer or I will hold you in contempt of congress. DO IT!
Why in the world do they call in experts when the Rep already knows the truth of the matter, irrespective of what the model shows? Certainly, call for a second opinion. But this time do it in good faith.
Darrell Issa is as dirty as they come - check his political background and you will be amazed at the corrupt things he has done and the horrible pain he has inflicted on people to please his ego.
And California has decided that even if the federal penalty for not having Obamacare is gone, California will continue to charge its citizens so it can fund illegal immigrant healthcare.
Not that im involved with political affairs, as im usually not, but...Tom hanks is actually related to Abe Lincoln. That wouldve shifted this whole hearing...
A republican getting honest answers to his questions. They are not prepared for that. He sits there and tries to make this guy look stupid and this guy answers all of his questions like he should. Issa is stupid. Typical.
Agreed, Colossal Douche. The fictional character "Forrest Gump" had a developmental-condition. Calling him the ultimate "successful idiot" shows amazing insight into his complete lack of character and integrity. It is no wonder that such a person could exercise such an outstanding amount of disrespect and lack of decorum in the public forum.
does anyone ever get in any trouble after these interrogations??? I dont understand this
Absolutely not there Democrats
Scott Austin they are like on the middle school debate team. elect other middle schoolers
These are congressional hearings, not court rooms. Research the different jobs and authorities that each branch of our government has and you will understand
Dalton Barrett lol..great comment, unfortunately I think most people's eyes "glaze over" when it might be time to accept that they "don't know what they're talking about".. TH-cam has been great in getting more people involved/aware/talking about politics...but it sure has exposed an unfortunate 'truth' about our population.
Lol @@eddyspagetti9899, the point you and Dalton both "glazed over" over was the fact that Scott only asked *if* people "get into trouble" as a result of these "interrogations", not *who* performed those prosecutions. Your pretentious comment just exposes an unfortunate 'truth' about yourself.
If you've ever gone to the mechanic or the doctor, you recognize that we have to have a certain amount of trust in other people so that we don't spend our entire lives trying to learn everything from scratch. And that makes our society possible. To take advantage of that necessary trust, and to mistakenly think that it's because you're smarter than everyone else, is something only a delusional piece of shit would do. A delusional piece of shit who would break down the whole basis of modern society. And that my friends, is what is sitting there answering those questions.
Dude, he said his model was open to scrutiny, including yours. It's not his fault you have shit for brains.😣😣😣😣
Well put
''I'm sorry, your question was so long I forgot the first part of it
boy can he not answer questions
Green Thark. Would do better if shifting was correct on Republicans
He answered every question.... What concerned you about his answers?
He was panicking.
Fight or flight mode.
They sound so offended about his personal opinion I don't think Congress is genuinely interested in the data.
His "personal opinion?" No, it was his f-ing behavior. He literally lied and bragged about it to get a law passed that used force on people. And you tried to lie about it too. What the heck is wrong with people like you?
Yes taxes were imposed most heavily on middle class tax payers.......perfect Mr..Issa
@Virginia Campodonico You are correct, and it is DISGUSTING!!!
U obviously have never looked at the tax brackets
Perfectly wrong.
*Gruber could have saved everyone five minutes by just answering "Yes." to "Are you stupid?".*
Exactly...Stupid is as stupid does...end of story.
But that was the exact opposite of his point...
He can't think that fast he needs longer for his brain to function.
You're an asshole if you don't see how Issa handled this...he behaves like an attorney and doesn't allow him Gruber to answer the questions and then answers questions himself dismissing the expert. You're obviously biased!
----> True. ... "He's stupid" .... is the excuse Trump gets away with.
If Trump has absolute legal freedom of speech to threaten to kill or imprison or hurt judges and police officers and politicians then so does every single other person who was born without their prior consent, no matter if some judge or jury or court labels them a "criminal" or a "convicted criminal" or a prisoner. ALL prisoners are prisoners of war. Sorry, judges, cops, etc the well-being and freedom -- freedom from suffering in prison -- of animal rights activists and climate warriors and worker unions is infinitely more important than the law or nationalism. Judges and prosecutors and lawyers will have NOTHING to whine or complain about when EVERYBODY ELSE takes the law into their own hands and puts THEIR freedom and what THEY think is FAIR above what some cop or judge says "the law" is. @tareewoods2434
TRUMP 2028 BABY
#MAGA2028 BTCHES
The Affordable Care Act is a sham.
So in the U.S. they have aggressive hearings about cost shifting and the cost models of ACA (which admittedly is hardly better than the former mess). - European countries after WW2 ALL adopted (or expanded existing) healthcare systems leaning heavily in the direction of non-profit, for public welfare - and of course for everyone. (Even the nations of the Warsaw pact which were poorer had public healthcare for everyone).
Even nations that just stopped being mortal enemies (Germany, France, UK for instance) agreed on one thing: healthcare is on principle a terrible fit for the free market (complete imbalance of power between consumers and providers, natural monopolies) AND the usual incentives in a capitalistic system are toxic in the area of healthcare and produce inefficiency - and a hassle for the patients.
Fast forward 70 years: per capita healthcare expenditures in those wealthy nations in USD: starting with 4,200 to 6,000, with some outliers * - the U.S. has 9,200 (World Bank 2014).
* USD 3,900 for the UK but their main player the NHS got their already lean budget cut over 10 years by the conservative Tories - the system is clearyl underfunded now - but I think with 50 % of the U.S. per capita expenditures it would work like a charm. And Norway and Switzerland have costs like the U.S. (but with high living costs which of course mean also higher wages - a major factor for healthcare costs. That said: they are rich nations with excellent healthcare and everyone has it. Especially the Swiss have a reputation of paying their healthcare staff, incl. nurses, therapists very well, for that reason they attract a lot of staff from Germany).
On top of that most of these nations have an older population on average (so the U.S. should beat them on demographics).
AND their life expectancy and infant mortality is lower. (Child mortality is an indicator of how the system works for low income people.)
P.S.: I am lucky enough to live in one of those wealthy nations. Healthcare insurance is just not an issue. No one even thinks about it.
Everyone has it, when you get sick or need an appointment you expect - and get - treatment or a date. Same as everyone else - meaning if they want to cut that, the whole country would get the pitchforks.
No "divide and conquer" between those with good and not so good policies, the old or young, those who work full or part time. (Also provisions for people that have no job, for instance stay at home parents, people who take a sabbatical, etc.)
The insurance agency (or agencies) is public and non-profit - so they have no incentive to deny treatment. Their role is to facilitate the functioning of the whole system, collect the money and take care of the payments to those who deliver the services.
They negoatiate: with non-profits (almost all hospitals) and with for-profit actors (doctors are like small entrepreneurs, the 70 - 80 % that have a public contract have many regulations and a negotiated price list. The powerful multinationals - the pharmaindustry - have an equally powerful counterpart to deal with. The patients do not get an invoice.
You pay your mandatory affordable contribution (wage deduction, it is matched by the employer). It is affordable (as % of the wage). it covers dependent family members and it covers everything (even very costly procedures).
No one cares about pre existing conditions or current illnesses. It does not matter. And these insurance costs are known in advance - no costs when you need treatment, no unpleasant financial surprises when you already have a health problem.
that's a lot of words to tell me youre an ignorant naive American
Europe only literally adopted there health care systems because of the Marshall Plan and the money the us have to rebuild them
@@noakhstrelec8478so? it's almost a hundred years after that and by the looks of it Europe did much more with much less so to say, doesn't exactly speak for the US now, does it?
That's the problem in our great country, these politicians and contractors that lie, steal and cheat suffer no consequences. The problems just die out and go away!!! Totally wrong!!!!
*If you look back at all the Congressional hearings and Oversight committees* and realize maybe 1% of the issues get any resolution then why have these? What good does it do? For example over 20 years ago Government Reform CONFLICTS OF INTEREST AND VACCINE DEVELOPMENT--PRESERVING THE INTEGRITY OF THE PROCESS One paragraph "Gee, this is all going to be public eventually, it's going to be out there. Her employer had
grants of $75,000 from American Home Products for rotavirus, $404,000 from NIAID, a number of grants for rotavirus, NIH, $355,000 for rotavirus, $55,560 fee from Merck for rotavirus vaccine, Wyeth Lederle, $10,420 fee for rotavirus, and $5,400 for Norwalk virus vaccine. Come on!...." Was there reform? No! Now its the same with Dr Fauci and Pfizer. Nothing gets fixed, it's all about money, greed and power. If we only had a President that fixed things oh, yeah I forgot, they just get rid of the best ones, can't do your job in Washington and survive!
after talking, talking talking i was waiting for him to say 'sorry,can you repeat the question'
I’ve really begun to see a pattern with representatives and senators asking people questions. They, more often than not, ask a question that incriminates the person they’re asking, and then that person begins the answer by defending themselves and then the representative or senator cuts them off.
I’m not saying everyone is innocent in these things, I’m saying that congress’s push to bring justice ends up having a paradoxical effect.
It is done purposely, they already have their minds made up so the questions are loaded
Dont answer they will use everything you say against you. And the rest pretend thier right even thoygh they know you are the one thats right. Just say fuck em
HOW about no conjecture allowed only the truthful facts or go to jail. Enough is ENOUGH !!!
I see a whole bunch of wealthy politicians . WEALTHY CIVIL SERVANTS !!!!! Time for a revolution. Long live the western world.
Shutup
Maybe Trump should build a wall and let the west coast be it's Own Country! Your stupid if you think the rest of the nation should take care of your DRUG, LAWLESSNESS, and HOMELESS PROBLEM! Blame the RIGHT PEOPLE!!! PELOSI, HARRIS, SHIFT...can't fix their own districts, why does America even listen to their "COVER UP"!! Kente Cloths were worn by SLAVE TRADERS and KINGS (who had slaves)!!!
Everything odd to be questioned and re-examined.
You can't ask questions of a lier because all you will ever get is lies they just tell one to cover another a vicious cycle
"In criminology, state crime is activity or failures to act that break the state's own criminal law or public international law. For these purposes, Ross (2000b) defines a "state" as the elected and appointed officials, the bureaucracy, and the institutions, bodies and organisations comprising the apparatus of the government. Initially, the state was the agency of deterrence, using the threat of punishment as a utilitarian tool to shape the behaviour of its citizens. Then, it became the mediator, interpreting society's wishes for conflict resolution. Theorists then identified the state as the "victim" in victimless crimes. Now, theorists are examining the role of the state as one of the possible perpetrators of crime (Ross, 2000b) whether directly or in the context of state-corporate crime." -Wikipedia
Ive worked for 3 Fortune 500s (one being a fortune 100) over the past decade and health care has only gotten considerably worse. It’s insanity
This is the same guy who hid on his roof from voters as they questioned hi
Darrell Issa! Ain't he the car thief??
Politicians don't pay taxes. WE pay them with tax money. Whatever taxes they think they are paying is delusional.
Remember always, Obamacare passed both Houses of Congress with not one Republican vote FOR it.
It's scary to think that no republican believes in public healthcare, even if the approach happened to be wrong.
@@Pahpita the Republicans did not sign up for Obamacare because it puts the government between you and your doctor. Republicans do support private insurance for individuals, which Obamacare literally destroys private health insurance coverage except for the very rich, the Republicans failed at setting a plan for all Americans to acquire , with government help from tax breaks and exemptions for people below a certain income threshold to buy their own health coverage, without government interference. Two wrongs still do not make a right.
His model is wrong, I have maintained two insurances for the last two years, and now pay more than I use too significantly.
+Bev Cutter You really are naive. Obamacare is a huge flop. My deductibles sky rocketed! Your solution? Punish the rich and middle class?? What incentive are we giving the wealthy and middle class if they are working hard for YOUR children to get check ups??! How is that justified?!?
Bev Cutter You are running on humanitarian crap. "What about me and the poor?!" Boo hoo. I didn't work hard and invest so I could save the world. I'm a charitable person. But being forced to do something continues to cause the people who actually work hold resentment and hate for the system!
Obama was incredibly deceitful and dishonest about his failure. I don't appreciate the notion that just because you got yourself out of bankruptcy, Obamacare is a success! It's not. The people who spend their life at home, not working, and reaping benefits off the back of others, and totally oblivious to the corruption that took place to get Obamacare passed is sad.
But I'm sure the rest of us here will sleep better tonight because you got to see a doctor. (Sarcasm)
Bev Cutter No. I'm a person with logic. You don't further in life because you have to consider everyone's feelings. That is not how the real world works sweetheart. If that hurts your feelings, go pop another Prozac.
How are you ever going to be "self reliant" if you are sitting on TH-cam all day bitching at the very people who have assisted in your assistance, THEY are the problem and are selfish?! The audacity of the modern liberal, entitled mind disgusts me.
Bev Cutter And who the fuck are you to demand that I pay for your mental health issues?!?! How dare I insist you be responsible!!! Good god you live in fantasy land.
+Bev Cutter I don't know. Who hired you? The TRUTH is that Obamacare is corporatism--corporate fascism, if you don't understand that economic system then look it up. There are still just as many uninsured people as there were before this disaster. And it penalizes the already financially struggling population in the middle of a record unemployment and economic slump which has been going on for years now--those who simply cannot afford to pay the rates are facing $695.00 government fines for not having private insurance. Those who lost their affordable insurance or had their work hours cut to below 30 hours are also being massively financially penalized. And those who are unfortunate to have policies with $6,000 deductibles per person in their family essentially don't have insurance for the first 6k they spend in a year. There were individual changes that could have been made to health insurance in this country without creating an unsustainable system that threw people off their insurance in the middle of cancer treatments, or causing them to lose their doctors, without enriching the private insurance industry whose stock prices have soared and brought them windfalls undreamed of in the form of a steady revenue flow from the federal government via the taxpayer. What they should have done was expand Medicare/Medicaid, but instead they reduced payments to providers to the point where some of them have had to drop Medicaid/Medicare patients entirely or face going broke, further restricting access to health for the people who need it most. Every poll in the land shows Dems don't stand a chance to win in 2016, considering they can either nominate a criminal or an aging lunatic going around telling everyone that his plan is to raise taxes on everyone, while Trump's plan is to allow people earning below $25,000 a year as a single person and families earning below $50,000 a year to pay NO federal taxes, while at the same time going after hedge fund managers and other %-ers by closing the loopholes that allow them to evade taxes.
They lied, we know it!
I think Congressman Issa asked a rhetorical question --- asking a Democrat is he or she is stupid? Does that question really need to be answered?
Me: Sibling, don’t come in my room. Ever.
Sibling: *Goes in my room anyways and messes it up making me fix it*
Me: 0:32
I will NOT insult Forest Gump, Gump got the Metal of Honor for Bravery! Guber the snot gobbler gets a duuuncce hat!
Actually he received the medal of honor.
this pisses me off!
Looking back, why didn't they charge him with fraud? They had his statements.
I know this is old as hell. But because justice is never served at these hearings. Nobody is ever held accountable. 4 years later and it's still the same old Dog and Pony show
Gruber? Why did you say what everyone in congress was thinking? Why did you let the American people know how we feel about them? You can lie to the people, you just can not tell them and quit outing us in congress.
When will Justin be served? Is there such a thing anymore. Remember these crimesso if ever you end up in court, hour lawyer can get you off referring to their desckskons o. Letting criminals go. We have the most corrupt people in government and we need to get rid of them.
So funny with the dems. Only they can say one thing to the public and the opposite thing in private, and still say with full confidence, that their work was 100% integer.
"Are you stupid?" NO!! That is my brother, I'm CRAZY. LOL! I"m Larry and this is my brother Darrel and this is my other brother Darrel."
The Bob Newhart Show is my brother my other brother Darryl. LOL
How is microphone use regulated (if at all) during these kinds of exchanges? If either person speaks do they both have their audio received or does either party's speaking over one another play on both? I don't know the context of this brief clip, but either Gruber has nothing else to say once the Chair starts speaking or his mic is cut off abruptly after each statement by the Chair, it seems...
how about more uproar for bank bailouts than for something like this.
I paid way too much under that plan.
Where is issa at now? I'll have to look that up.
Is everyone in Washington rude?
Sidewinders...most Demobrats are...
@barbara young - no just criminal. Some are quite polite!
He should have paid back the 4 million as it was a disaster
Why isn't Gruber fired already
Bro this was 8 years ago
Wait a minute, when do the prank phone calls start?
Medical costs only went up......none went down......only people that live off the govt handouts got a deal. Why do they always tell you how transparent they are, Democrats so very sad.
"People like me are paying more."
People like you and me can afford to pay more. Average Americans pay less.
Insurance for me and my daughter are $1,100 a month.
What are you talking about people paying less??
Depends on your personal definition of the word "afford". As I (and majority of Americans) see it, its _not_affordable, even if that means we're able to pay the high premiums. We don't agree with the prices, yet who's determining them and why isn't there an attempt to work with the people on bringing costs down?
how do you answer, "are you stupid", correctly assuming you are in fact stupid?
by saying yes
by saying i dont think so like he did
plea the 5th ..that's a no-brainer :p
You think health care was expensive before Obamadon'tcare? WAIT TIL IT'S FREE!
It’s lit love this beat
Just let him be stupid to get your answer.
Smackdown!
Isaac your response to his responses should be that was not the question. Answer the question. I asked the ... answer that question not the question you want to answer or I will hold you in contempt of congress. DO IT!
Why in the world do they call in experts when the Rep already knows the truth of the matter, irrespective of what the model shows? Certainly, call for a second opinion. But this time do it in good faith.
If he didn't know what he was saying then WE are the ones who are stupid since WE paid him and MIT over 4 million for his "intelligence"
Patient, heal thyself.
My wife was paying 165 a month now she gets to pay 520. Thanks OBUMA
Anyone here from FBE
Thank you, Mr. Issa. You sir, ARE AWESOME IN NAILING THIS LIAR AND PROVING THE DECEPTION.
Darrell Issa is as dirty as they come - check his political background and you will be amazed at the corrupt things he has done and the horrible pain he has inflicted on people to please his ego.
Stupid is stupid does. Like playing with rain
God Damn you Mr. Gruber !
And your pay? Your finance?
Show_your numbers!
Fake!
Show your own!
Grinders models corrupt and a disaster at best
And California has decided that even if the federal penalty for not having Obamacare is gone, California will continue to charge its citizens so it can fund illegal immigrant healthcare.
prometheus5700 you need to be legal or a citizen to be allowed to get healthcare . Please do your proper research sir.
@@karlagarcia1851 You are incorrect. Do your research, xir.
Not that im involved with political affairs, as im usually not, but...Tom hanks is actually related to Abe Lincoln. That wouldve shifted this whole hearing...
tangible?
this man lost reelection.
Destroyer007
Thank God! He was a nightmare.
I used to pay $100 or $150 now I pay $250 for insurance. I don't know why.
Rohit Venkata let's go back to the old pre Obama care
Rohit Venkata the insurance ceo need a raise
But you can’t do an independent analysis, is what he basically said. Sounds like a cover up
C Span is the only real news
God help us all if Issa is given any position of authority again. What a jerk.
KEK! ACA is still around.
Honoured WIFE ... 24 HEUERS HOTEL AVOCAT
How did I end up here
Absolutely BRILLIANT! Glad he's running again!
Issa has criminal record too.
BS
The premiums are indeed rising. Don't people read newspapers?
my uncle wrote forrest gump forrest gump is not stupid stupid is as stupid does normal people
Eiza you should be investigated did you do some crooked things when you're in Escondido Maybe I'm Wrong
Cool Beat!
2 great quotes! Forrest gump "Are you stupid" & "didn't in reality" Haha
Were going to dismantle ga. Under martial law . Everybodys ass will be audited since they want to harrass people
YES. You are !
A republican getting honest answers to his questions. They are not prepared for that. He sits there and tries to make this guy look stupid and this guy answers all of his questions like he should. Issa is stupid. Typical.
What he initially said was the truth but Obama ignored it. Later Gruber tries to make Obama look better.
2009-2010? This is 2019 soon to b 2020? My point is!
In reality costs went way up
I'm sad Darrell Issa represents my state.
Why, it was pretty reasonable questioning considering the opposite effect occurred from his model.
Coming from FBE (React).
... What the heck?
Poindexter is still with us...
Darrell Issa is badgering the witness, your honor!:)
This isn't court.
Issa is a very smart guy. And can anyone tell me who the good-looking girl behind him is? Is that his daughter?
Agreed, Colossal Douche. The fictional character "Forrest Gump" had a developmental-condition. Calling him the ultimate "successful idiot" shows amazing insight into his complete lack of character and integrity. It is no wonder that such a person could exercise such an outstanding amount of disrespect and lack of decorum in the public forum.
You can't bullshit Darrell...
just be normal
Gunny Hiway has got it EXACTLY RIGHT!!! Semper Fi from TX :)
just be normal this is giving me a headache this is lethargic questioning
It's a downright shame that this liar is not in prison for his part in forcing the so called "Affordable Care Act" on us.
Aftef these many years some people aren't still informed
Something tells me deejo 2 is unvaccinated
I have an electric car!
Mr. Gruber, Ph.D? What am I missing here?
No wonder Issa loves Ball Park Franks.....