Bill Clinton: “I want to make sure everyone who's listening to us understands this. I mean, I understand it very well, but I want to…”

“I want to make sure everyone who's listening to us understands this. I mean, I understand it very well, but I want to make sure all of you do. For awhile, she was on public assistance. If you're not employed and you're on public assistance, you're eligible for health insurance from the Government under the Medicaid program. In almost every State in the country, the Medicaid program reimburses doctors at less than their cost of providing the service. And it's a paperwork hassle, so a lot of doctors don't take Medicaid patients. You can understand it from the doctor's point of view. But when you see a young woman with a baby like that, it makes you sick; it makes you want to cry. So what she's asking is, ``Okay, I had insurance, but nobody took me anyway; how are we going to fix that?'' The answer is that under our program people on Medicaid would be covered under the same plans that people who are privately employed would. So, for example, we would put Medicaid folks in with others into these big buying pools, and they would get exactly the same services on exactly the same terms. And because the doctors would be reimbursed in exactly the same way, the physician might not even know whether the person was on public assistance or had a job, because the plans would be the same. And what happened to you, ma'am, would not happen again in the future if this plan were to pass. And I think it's quite important. Mr. Anschutz. We're glad that question came up tonight. Thank you in Topeka. Go up to Omaha. Ms. Carroll. Thanks, Wendall. Mr. President, Tuesday in North Carolina we talked about the cost of health care reform for service industries, specifically restaurants. Here with me now is this gentleman, the CEO of Godfather's Pizza. He has some concerns about that. Small Business”