Peter Robinson interviews Paul Ryan on fixing Washington

Here’s a 47-minute interview with the Republican candidate for Vice President.

Topics:

• health care reform
• patient-centered health care
• patient choice
• price and quality competition
• reducing costs
• empowering states
• education reform
• separate health care from the employer and attach it to the worker
• the root cause of rising health costs
• the moral hazard caused by government spending “makers vs. takers”
• fixing dependency on the government by changing incentives
• how Republicans can get votes from Democrats and Independents
• how far is America from becoming Greece?
• is the debt crisis avoidable?
• the importance of the 2012 election
• reforming Social Security

Best quote: “we need to kick this thing upstairs to the American people” (on letting the people decide instead of government).

H/T Rocking With Hawking.

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