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Tufts Health Plan CEO James Roosevelt, Jr., on the benefits of the health-care Law.
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It is amazing it is vague about it more than eighty years since he came on the stage.
Franklin Roosevelt still commands a lot of -- quoting -- praising.
And just a lot of storytelling of people missing the man who Harlan and -- are the end of the Great Depression.
And Republicans say they are -- big government whatever your position.
The family as an iconic name.
And an iconic member of that family joins.
Even though he's hopelessly wrong on a lot of social issues he's dangerous developed junior and in all seriousness he's a great guest he's.
The grandson of course of the former president and.
A total land president and CEO apologized to loud noise -- you're used to that they're what are your data long.
And they're -- supporting -- run on me a lot.
And that they say they have a lot of common with the help win student.
Well so it's my -- their -- -- it right right right and that so we have Massachusetts.
Have lived Romney care.
And you know what it works.
The argument that Mitt Romney says it makes it's different than what this spreads -- and has done is.
It's efficient it doesn't -- Medicare.
It's not a tax boondoggle but he said.
Well obamacare is also efficient it does not raid Medicare part and it's not a tax boondoggle.
Obamacare is modeled on -- -- of what we've done in Massachusetts.
But of course it's flexible it's will be a little bit different in every state around the country.
-- -- -- a steady or the -- -- Democrat -- -- house right now he is among those by the way is gonna be -- a lot of these things about healthcare and all the rest.
But you know there are a lot of unexpected developments -- this out -- right I mean their allotted TVs in the bottles we have not produced.
So there's a lot health -- health care is not a simple subject it's complicated.
But Obama -- close the doughnut hole so that seniors.
Don't have to pay out of pocket for prescription drugs anymore.
It gets rid of the real real enterprises are starting soon I'm not aware acts as the charges not aware of surprises it's been analyzed.
Up and down -- let me let me refresh your final night you sell assets over 250 -- you're gonna be taxed at that you're gonna -- editors of the effects of that.
That the -- did -- came first.
-- -- from now.
Well it's very responsible it does -- -- it's not like what happened under George Bush on the prescription drug benefit.
Which had no pay for it has the pay for -- And they compute out so that people save money on things like preventive care no co pays and deductibles no higher premiums for women are for -- -- another -- pluses and minuses -- when you see these surveys -- doctors who were bombed out of worried about the regulatory burden.
Or patients who are concerned about how this will transact out -- much ado about eleven.
I think they should talk to her colleagues in Massachusetts.
Who know that it works it to -- us it's scary at first because it is complicated.
Once you know how it works it's very successful.
-- -- Roosevelt let me ask you -- Does it probably on any level.
Dad we always talk about the good of government what to do but no one ever gets to thrashing out the cost to do her good they're great number of examples of out.
The mother and father run of the did you beautiful children here to say thank self care business -- the little girl was saved.
But no one talks about the taxpayers who are saddled.
With -- now having to pick up the thirty million uninsured navy for perfectly altruistic reasons but that -- -- -- really considered to taxpayers this room is all.
-- -- for those are gonna get a benefit but not for those -- the paperwork.
Well fortunately at this convention.
We're hearing lots of specific -- here last week in Tampa and I have not well I'd not heard anything about the debt not a word and nothing I actually have I -- I've heard talk about the Congressional Budget Office analysis the chose obamacare.
Actually reduce the death.
All right but I'd -- sixty trillion the debt level weak growth not exclusively this president's book -- far do not talk about this.
But it's almost as if it wasn't even real well we know that we went from.
Virtually no publicly.
Held that at the end of the Clinton administration.
To nearly ten trillion of debt at the end of the Bush Administration.
Two wars tax cuts for the wealthy tax cuts equal to the -- -- 75 year shortfall in Social Security.
And.
Well hello and catalog product that was that we had about 53 and go to the bush administration's yeah right we brought up to -- -- in this guys did it quadrant.
But you're right it's a bipartisan problem but don't you think -- to be addressed more meat -- in this room.
I think it is being addressed I think that is being Indiana have another conventions -- don't -- no actually I happen at back at.
No I don't I don't have mild -- convinced male but I -- they're talking but I don't have but it going on video and assuring it.
I've been going to be you know here Democratic Convention we have lots of forms and panels open to the public and we've been talking about that.
On your -- -- if you were to come back listed that should look at his nominee look at -- ticket.
-- look at its debt would instead.
Well I think -- say they said much the same to me what I had to get us out of a terrible financial mess.
And that's what Barack Obama has been doing building for the future not just for short term building out from the middle instead of building from the top down -- Jerusalem media -- by the crowd thank you have no problem getting into restaurants of that -- -- deal I don't use doctors have to -- He's saying I deserted island -- -- thank you very much -- rooted.
