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...rationing that is very stringent and sort of makes you wait for months before you can get your cancer treated or you can never get your knee replaced, right, all the horror stories you hear from the British model or the Canadian system that people who are opposed to reform always trot out. Or, alternatively, you just have this bloated system in which we don't even try to make it rational, we just sort of live with what we have. And what I'm trying to suggest is, is that there's this huge space in between where...
...this. The truth is we've actually, I think, provided more guidance than has been advertised. I mean, if you think about how we've moved this forward, we didn't simply put out some broad principles; we were fairly specific. We said we need to have insurance reform, and that's going to include things like preventing insurers from dropping people because of preexisting conditions. We said that we are going to need to expand coverage; that an insurance exchange that would provide people a menu of options was an important mechanism to expand choice and help to deliver...
...health-care-reform players...
...what I want? I mean - Well - yes. I mean, here's what I've tried to say. Here's how I've described it, and this is the truth as I see it: There is nothing that - there is nothing that would make you healthier that health reform would prevent you from getting. What we are interested in doing is giving doctors and patients the ability to sort through what's effective and what's not, and not purchase things that don't make any improvements in your health...
...will say that this has been the most difficult test for me so far in public life, trying to describe in clear, simple terms how important it is that we reform this system. The case is so clear to me. And when I sit with our policy advisors - we had somebody here sitting right there this morning who is a medical expert, worked at McKinsey for a while, he's now working on our health care team - and he just ran through: We pay 77 percent more on prescription drugs, we're paying $6,000 more per individual on health...