Rudy Giuliani

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burni thompson __PUNCT__ you know i realiz that health_care is what you focus on now and what a big_issu in thi countri health_care is __PUNCT__

how would your health care differ from what we have now __PUNCT__ and certainli from what __PUNCT__ god_forbid __PUNCT__ hillari_clinton offer __PUNCT__ mayor giuliani __PUNCT__ well __PUNCT__ it would differ from hillari clinton in that it wouldn't be social_medicin __PUNCT__

it would not go in the direct of the govern run everyth __PUNCT__ there be major govern_mandat __PUNCT__ and __PUNCT__ you know __PUNCT__ a law that you have to have health_insur and if you don't you go to get fine or you go to get penal or you go to get tax __PUNCT__

it would go in the direct of make health insur much more afford by encourag privat purchas of health insur by creat a veri big tax exempt of __MONEY__ for peopl to bui their own health insur __PUNCT__

whatev thei pai for it __PUNCT__ if thei pai less than that __PUNCT__ thei get to keep that as part of a health save_account which would allow them to set up a veri high deduct if thei want to drive down the cost __PUNCT__

and if you think of it in term of free_market market_econom __PUNCT__ which is the onli wai to reduc cost and increas qualiti __PUNCT__ if we had __NUM__ or __NUM___million_american who were bui their own privat health_insur instead of onli about __NUM__ the cost of health insur would go down __PUNCT__ thompson __PUNCT__ absolut __PUNCT__

mayor giuliani __PUNCT__ and a lot of peopl could afford it __PUNCT__

i mean __PUNCT__ the peopl who don't have health insur ar not the poorest __PUNCT__

thei have medicaid __PUNCT__

thompson __PUNCT__ right __PUNCT__

mayor giuliani __PUNCT__ peopl who don't have health insur can bui other thing __PUNCT__

thei can't bui or don't want to bui_health health_insur becaus it either too expens or thei don't see the incent __PUNCT__

well __PUNCT__ if you make it a lot less expens and you creat a health save_account that can give them equiti __PUNCT__ and you make it portabl __PUNCT__ and you allow them to bui it from other state so you get a lot more competit __PUNCT__ all of a sudden you go to see the cost of health_insur go all the wai down __PUNCT__

mayb the easiest wai to sai thi __PUNCT__ burni __PUNCT__ is we go to solv thi through privat action __PUNCT__

she go to solv it through social_medicin __PUNCT__

thompson __PUNCT__ absolut __PUNCT__

i mean consum driven health_care is what we need __PUNCT__

i mean it becom such a polit footbal __PUNCT__ mr __PUNCT__ mayor __PUNCT__

i mean the insur_compani ar grab for the ball __PUNCT__

the hospit ar grab for the ball __PUNCT__

the govern is grab for the ball and meanwhil patient and doctor have been forgotten __PUNCT__

mayor giuliani __PUNCT__ that exactli right __PUNCT__

it should be the individu in the system who have control of it __PUNCT__ mean the patient and the doctor __PUNCT__ the health_care profession like the doctor __PUNCT__ not the health care economist __PUNCT__ not the health care bureaucrat __PUNCT__ not the hillari govern_bureaucrat who ar go to run it __PUNCT__

and bewar of a mandat __PUNCT__

bewar of anybodi that sai we go to mandat health_care __PUNCT__

everi place thei tri it __PUNCT__ i in new hampshir now right next to massachusett __PUNCT__

thompson __PUNCT__ that wa my next question __PUNCT__

mayor giuliani __PUNCT__ thei mandat health_insur in massachusett __PUNCT__

now in fair to mitt_romnei __PUNCT__ he now sai that he would not do that __PUNCT__

in other word __PUNCT__ he wouldn't do what he did in massachusett for the rest of the countri __PUNCT__ which show that it wa a mistak to mandat health_insur __PUNCT__

thompson __PUNCT__ uh __PUNCT__ huh __PUNCT__

uh __PUNCT__ huh __PUNCT__

you know i wa talk to my uncl __PUNCT__ mayor giuliani __PUNCT__ and he right by the wai __PUNCT__

he right to sai we shouldn't mandat health insur given what happen here in massachusett __PUNCT__

it becom that much more expens and there even an issu of __PUNCT__ just think of thi __PUNCT__ if you mandat someth and you requir that peopl have to bui it __PUNCT__ don't you by that veri act in a privat economi __PUNCT__ don't you make that more expens __PUNCT__ thompson __PUNCT__ increas the cost __PUNCT__

mayor giuliani __PUNCT__ of cours __PUNCT__

thompson __PUNCT__ absolut __PUNCT__