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Mark Pocan: “The very first program was on Medicare Advantage, which…”

Featuring: Mark Pocan, Democratic | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 2

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Congressman Mark Pocan Discusses Universal Healthcare with Dr. Speaker A and Trade Expert Laurie from RethinkTrade

Published | Video Starts at 19:02

Now company CEOs are making the decisions about people's lives and quality of their life and they don't know nothing about it. Yeah, interesting when you said that about 65, because now we did a The very first program was on Medicare Advantage, which brings us all back to the private insurance and the profit and the pre auth and all the rest. But so what countries get it best if we were to look around the world, who are some of the countries that just seem to understand that healthcare is as basic as fire protection and education? (19:02–19:15)

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Asserts that Medicare Advantage involves private insurance, profit motives, and pre-authorization processes.

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