Sharron Angle: 'Nothing Wrong With Our Health Care System' (VIDEO)

Tea Party-backed candidate Sharron Angle, who's vying to unseat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in Nevada, says "there's nothing wrong with our health care system."

Angle made the assessment in an interview with local ABC affiliate KTNV earlier this week.

"I think we get confused a little bit," explained the Senate hopeful. "Our healthcare system is the best in the world. There's nothing wrong with our healthcare system. Our doctors are the best."

When pressed to further explain her position, given that there are millions of Americans who lack access to the highest quality coverage, Angle didn't waver on her stance.

"The access is not what is being denied," she said. "It is the cost that has become prohibitive and that's what we need to address."

Over the course of her campaign, Angle has made a habit of railing against health care reform legislation that was enacted into law earlier this year.

"Only the supreme arrogance of Senator Reid would believe that he has a divine right to rule over mere mortals by ramming through Obamacare," she recently charged.

In response to Angle's latest criticism of Reid over the health care issue, the Nevada Democrat's camp said, "Sharron Angle is trying to hide her extreme and dangerous agenda from Nevada voters," and added, "The reality is that it's Angle's own words and long-held beliefs that are coming back to haunt her."

Nevada boasts an 18 percent rate of uninsured residents -- a figure that stands above the national average. A recent study from Trust For America's Health estimated that 19.1 percent of children in the state are uninsured, a statistic nearly double the national average and higher than in any other state.

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Comments

[FTBUTAME]

01:43 PM on 08/18/2010

Fed Govt to rescind approval for the use of breast cancer drug,
Avastin. Ooooops, I guess the Death Panels begin.

But this can't be because Obama, Olbermann, Biden, Pelosi et al
assured us that there would never be Death Panels.....
No Death Panels - In their own words.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5HgfwPtxLw&feature=youtube_gdata_player

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3128RlPg4A&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Wow, who would have thunk it??????

[NVEd]

04:30 PM on 08/11/2010

A July 17th interview in Wall Street Journal states that Sharron Angle's husband Ted Angle is a 35 year veteran of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. If that is true he is probably a retired federal employee who is covered by the Federal Employee's Health Benefits plan and she is probably covered as his spouse. I am guessing and don't know this for a fact but if she is covered by the FEHB she has some of the best health insurance in the nation. She has a rather different view for the rest of America.
Link to WSJ article:

http://online.wsj.com/article/NA_WSJ_PUB:SB10001424052748704682604575369093396496532.html

[Doing the right thing]

03:47 PM on 08/11/2010

Where does this person get her information from????

"Angle in wonderland"?????

[den1953]

02:59 PM on 08/11/2010

Maybe Sharon Angle should realize that America has a excellent mental heath care program and perhaps she should check into it!

[wooper]

02:32 PM on 08/11/2010

You speak with fork-ed tongue pale face.

First you say there is nothing wrong with our health care system, then you say costs are prohibitive.

Let's see...It's the best system in the universe but millions of people can't afford it.

And I thought, according to Republicans, that it was the Democrats who were the elitists.

Seriously, anybody who supports her train of thought should be ashamed of themselves. And anyone in Arizona who is in the lower or middle class who don't have insurance or could lose it when they lose their job or start a small business and have to pay for individual insurance really don't have their own best interests at heart.

Reid may not be the best politician for Arizona, but this loony lady makes him look like Thomas Jefferson...oops...that's right...some of you far righties think Jefferson was a liberal...How about John Adams (not to be confused with Sam Adams).

[BryDem]

03:02 PM on 08/11/2010

He may not be good in Arizona, Be he's pretty good in Nevada!

[Kiffanik]

02:24 PM on 08/11/2010

Who told her our healthcare is ranked amongst the best in the world?

[den1953]

03:03 PM on 08/11/2010

If i can remember correctly America is ranked either 4th or 14th in the world i am not sure which it is but not even close to first!

[Aaron Tessoni]

06:25 PM on 08/11/2010

37th according to the WHO who studied health care in 191 nations.

[emrogers]

02:15 PM on 08/11/2010

I love when she contradicts her self in th same sentence. "There's nothing wrong with our healthcare system it's just prohibitively expensive."

[den1953]

03:01 PM on 08/11/2010

By my calculations Harry Reid should save a bundle on this election he needs to do nothing but keep her talking!

[mw21]

02:05 PM on 08/11/2010

Time to say a few things that my right-wing friends will certainly take exception to. (surprise...)

Health care is a finite resource. So, is it "the best health care system in the world" when the resources are disproportionately allocated to the rich--just because they are rich? Is it fair and/or right and/or moral that the rich can get a facelift (or two) or a tummy tuck or a butt realignment when the poor cannot get prenatal care? Somebody needs to say these things much louder than it is being said. Market-driven decisions have no business in the world of health care or education or police protection or fire safety. These essential social programs make our country more secure. Only government can/will address these things. Government is the answer. The for-profit motive in health care is the real problem here and we all know it. Insurance companies and so-called health care "providers" are the ones who want to ration your health care--they already do. We all know this! Nobody, NOBODY, should have a problem with government provided health care. We may have the best doctors in America but have a very poor health care system. We pay too much for too little and Sharron angle has no clue.

[artsavant]

02:46 PM on 08/11/2010

Right on!

[OGSal]

03:17 PM on 08/11/2010

Excellent answer!!

[spud62]

01:58 PM on 08/11/2010

She must be overmedicated

[mw21]

01:42 PM on 08/11/2010

"Access isn't the problem. Prohibitive cost is the problem." Is she so dense that she doesn't understand that in a for-profit system cost IS access? And yes, that is a rhetorical question.

[emrogers]

02:17 PM on 08/11/2010

Sorry I didn't see your post first - my thoughts exactly. That woman is an id... - oh, that bus is full, gotta come up with a new one.

[Christi-Kiki Neal]

01:36 PM on 08/11/2010

Sharron Angle---walking, breathing evidence of our severely broken education system.

[nini516]

01:12 PM on 08/11/2010

Sharon visit a couple of emergency rooms across America!! Visit some seniors in America who have to spend their retirement $$ on medications they can't afford. Check out a few shelters, check out the homeless. How out of touch can you get. DANG IT!!

[PWM]

01:07 PM on 08/11/2010

Let's use the CIA FACTBOOK, a very "conservative" source of information.



Life Expectancy:

Out of 224 nations, the US is 50 with a life expectancy of 78.11 years, which is behind Bosnia and Herzogovina. Canada is 8, France is 9.

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2102rank.html



Infant Motality Rate:

Out of 224 nations, the US is 180 with a death rate of 6.26 deaths per live birth (US does not count stillborns as livebirths). Cuba does better than us, as does a number of nations considered third world.

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2091rank.html

[mw21]

02:06 PM on 08/11/2010

But I thought we had the best system. After all we are America...

[S-Man]

12:42 PM on 08/11/2010

I think "Dr." Paul is forcing her to do bong hits.

[Christi-Kiki Neal]

01:38 PM on 08/11/2010

She would be more enjoyable and tolerable if she was stoned.

[S-Man]

01:46 PM on 08/11/2010

:-)

[SocialistCanadian]

12:40 PM on 08/11/2010

This woman may be a complete joke and an embarrassment to the founding fathers but there was one thing she said that actually made sense, America does have a good Health care system, in theory.
In practice, it is the insurance companies which are one of the owners of the Republican Party that are preventing people from getting affordable health care, not focusing on the millions without Health care coverage, there are millions more with Health care coverage that are terrified to use it cause of high premiums and hidden costs not covered.
Up here in Canada we have lost numerous doctors over the years because it is more profitable and much less work to be a doctor in the states then in Canada

[Lindsay Schutz]

01:41 PM on 08/11/2010

Yeah I get it's more profitable to be a doctor here in the US instead of in Canada because they can make 6-figure salaries without having to deal with a whole bureaucratic system...Is it really less work though to deal with several different bureacratic layers (the insurance companies) than to deal with just one system?

[Lindsay Schutz]

01:43 PM on 08/11/2010

D**n, I just contradicted myself..I meant to ask "isn't it easier to deal with one entity (government run insurance) rather than a multitude of insurance companies?"..

[SocialistCanadian]

04:15 PM on 08/11/2010

I don't deal with them directly nor they me, I have a government issued medical CareCard, with it, I walk into any clinic or hospital and I get to see a doctor, I also have extended benefits through a insurance company and find it is more annoying to deal with them then anything.