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The last time I had insurance the claims adjusers had Sarah Palin accents and nothing was payable. It was a PPO with $5,000 deductable. You had to use a network doctor. None of the doctors took new patients. The CEO of the company is one of the highest paid in the country. My friends in France go the doctor when they want for a tiny co-pay. The care is excellent.
Are people in your area required to use health insurance companies? I live in Ohio and it’s my choice to buy into a health plan. I have one from my employer that covers most things, I pay for the rest. It costs me a couple hundred buck a pay period. I’m not forced into the plan and I know it’s a for profit entity like any other corporation…so what’s the big deal?
I love people who blame trial lawyers for problems in the medical field. Have you ever done any research into how few med mal cases are successful these days? Very, very few of these cases are even filed anymore, and even fewer are successful. Why? Because state laws make them almost impossible to win. If you want to find someone to blame, blame the malpractice insurance carriers who are charging premiums and deductibles so high doctors can’t afford them. It’s the insurers who are getting rich.
Hilarious video and oh so true, to quote an earlier commenter. Here’s the final verse of my Raging Grannies comment on American medical care [sung to the tune of 16 Tons]:
If Canada, Europe and Japan
Also Sri Lanka and Thailand
Could figure this* out, what’s wrong with us
Too polite and quiet, we don’t make no fuss!
*nationalized healthcare
LOL! Hilarious but oh so true.
I have worked for a health insurance company and now I work at a physicians office.
Pretty neat to see both sides of an issue.
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haha this was good!
The President and congress have great healthcare. I don’t hear any complaints from them and yet I see tons of insurance company assholes telling us we would not like it. Keep it as is. Take your nickel a post crap back to the insurance companies. Change is coming for the better. I would rather stand in line and get healthcare than get none.
The problem is the third party. Whether it is an insurance company or the government, he who pays controls the transaction.
Right now, the insurance company controls a lot of transactions, but not under threat of criminal sanctions. If the government controls health care transactions, your care and choice will suck, and it can put you in jail.
Don’t get why people support a government which screws up pretty much anything it touches in charge of health care.
The system needs a lot of work, but universal is not the answer, I spend time abroad and those sytems are generally counter innovative. One thing is for certain your taxes will go way up.. Get rid of the curruption and kick-backs would be a starting point.
The video is hilarious.
breaking away from the free market is a bad idea for anyone with any ambition…why go to college and grad school and residency for an average salary…
I think you’re mistaken. The only docs with those are doctors who do not take insurance and only take cash. Don’t confuse physicians with hospital administrators, insurance companies, and sleazy lawyers who will sue any doc for anything. These are the people who are hurting both doctors and patients.
The reason we don’t have universal healthcare? The doctors would be forced into a 2 million dollar homes instead of a 4 million dollar home. 2 cars instead of 4. 2 vacations instead of 4 a year. Their lifestyle would take a dive. They would have to double their rates to make up for their losses. Therefore putting the burdon on the patients. Greed in America is alive and well. Gotta love it.
I enjoyed this thoroughly!
socialism isn’t banned by the constitution.
Deregulation means more control of our lives by wealthy corporations. Mass accumulation of wealth is enforced by the state through the police and military. democratically voted upon regulation is good for not only the masses of people, but good for business.
Like any form of gambling, insurance companies need to be regulated. Their bookies (umm…sorry, I guess they call them actuaries) set the odds, the government is supposed to regulate the house cut…supposed to. Kinda hard when the house is called upon to adjudicate the very thing gambled upon. “Oh, sorry, your boat hasn’t sunk, it’s just sitting lower in the water.” Yeah, lower in the water…by 100 fathoms.
all evil will be gone by 2012 so let them enjoy few more years;modern medicine is clueless about diseaes anyway so I dont really understand people going to MDs
America’s Social Security system is projected to be solvent for another 46 years. How is that failing?
Further, we have socialism already in this country:
There’s no fire company that won’t put out your house fire unless your bill is paid – our fire departments are socialist.
There’s no school that won’t accept your kid because you haven’t paid your bill – our schools are socialist.
The same goes with the roads, bridges, the police, national defense, etc.
Thank god for socialism!
This may be the best video on Youtube right now. 5*.
It’s true though, why play fair when the American people already bend over for you? To do list for America: New President (!!!), new health care system, new foreign policy (!)… in fact, why don’t we just replace all of ‘em? Last I checked, the “Democratic” Congress hasn’t done jack either. A few extra pennies for minimum wage? Wow, great.
If Congress had any kind of power and/or decency, they’d have already passed universal healthcare.
uhmmm…. Google german retirement or french, both systems are failing. if America’s falling now, Europe fell a long time ago.
my point isn’t that the system we have is great, it’s very much broken. The way to fix it though is not socialism, that would be MUCH more expensive and isn’t allowed by our constitution. We need DEREGULATION and government to stay out of health care, that is what started this mess in the first place, but we only remember our experiences. Canadian’s healthcare sucks
Total crap. Insurance is one of the most heavily regulated industries in the country. Socialized medicine? Try suing the government when THEY ***** you.
Well i would think that this video should have made it the most popular video on YT by now, since i doubt very many could disagree with it.
Are you F’ing retarded? Stupid american. Socialism is working RIGHT NOW in Germany and other European countries. Poor america, falling down just like the Roman Empire. How does it feel to be a washed up has-been?