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Title: Town Hall Debate - Health Care: Is health care a privlege... View count: 3659 Rating: 5.0 (8 ratings) Description: http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library/vidLink.php?b=1223430914&e=1223431134&n=001 SEN. MCCAIN: I think it's a responsibility in this respect, in that we should have available and affordable health care to every American citizen, to every family member. And with the plan that -- that I have, that will do that. But government mandates I'm always a little nervous about. But it is certainly my responsibility. It is certainly small- business people and others. And they understand that responsibility. American citizens understand that. Employers understand that. But they certainly are a little nervous when Senator Obama says if you don't get the health care policy that I think you should have that you're going to get fined. And by the way, Senator Obama has never mentioned how much that fine might be. Perhaps we might find that our tonight. SEN. OBAMA: Well, why don't -- why don't -- let's talk about this, Tom, because there -- there was just a lot of stuff out there that -- MR. BROKAW: Privilege, right or responsibility? Let's start with that. SEN. OBAMA: Well, I think it should be a right for every American. In a country as wealthy as ours, for us to have people who are going bankrupt because they can't pay their medical bills -- for or my mother to die of cancer at the age of 53 and have to spend the last months of her life in a hospital room arguing with insurance companies, because they're saying that this may be a preexisting condition and they don't have to pay her treatment, there's something fundamentally wrong about that. So let me, let me just talk about this fundamental difference. Tom, I know that we're under time constraints, but Senator Tags: c-span, debate, town, hall, health, care, Author: CSPAN |
