Busting Healthcare Myths: US Vs. Other Countries (Must-Read Article Linked)
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@Slayerfan84 Not to mention it stresses the sick making it harder for them to recover.
if i could favorite this video more than once, i would.
@victor6888 Really considering that offer. LOL
Rome wasn’t built in a day, we will eventually get there. America is primarily a country for the rich at this point. Even those I would consider wealthy (200k+ a year combined salaries) have quite insane debts to pay off. More so than those of us in the 30k-70k brackets usually. There is a lot of things wrong with our system currently, and most people believe helping others is a bad thing. Much of the bad wrap comes from welfare abuses(which do exist).
Come to new zealand or australia our health care is FREE!!!!!! hell in australia they pay you $4000 each time you have a kid
You don’t increase supply, you don’t lower the price.
1. Increase amount of doctors practicing by subsidizing medical school tuition and increase numbers of medical school
2. Increase number of hospitals.
3. Purchase rights of usage to 30 expensive but necessary drug from pharmaceutical companies.
@sawsee28 Not in UMURIKA, we love money over other humans, sad but true
i didnt know mri cost that much O.o
I get everything for free in Canada so I dunno how much it costs…I didnt veen know u could get bankrupt from healthcare. isn’t health above money in importance O.o?
Fellow Malaysian I see. As far as I’m concerned, the best healthcare in the world is back home, in terms of level of service for the absurdly low cost.
Beats the NHS, beats all the other universal coverage systems, and don’t even compare it to the one in the USA.
in malaysia government hospital,
u only pay RM10.00(usd 3.00) for diagnose & prescription drug,x-ray,mri,and more.
our system is corrupted… the U.S people dont care… Why ! how is the goverment making us not care!!!!!!!!!!!!!
hopefully when all the rightwingers die out (the younger generations tend to be more liberal) we can have true reform
As long as private companies own the system, prices will be outrageous
This is why a lot of people go to other countries, sometimes less reputable ones, just to be able to afford certain medical lifesaving procedures.
@1000Demons Yeah I mean a true socialized healthcare system might not work in the US but a hybrid system or a social insurance system might work though.
@1000Demons The thing is most Americans are unfortunately too distracted to care they rather watch what freakin Oprah is doing or watch fox news than stand up get rid of the corruption and these corporate bastards and their whores the politicians who would whore themselves to the highest bidder.
well fuck me i already knew that the insurance companies and republicans were makin big money but damn reading that article put it in there for me. we really are one of the smartest countries but we obviously have very little common sense and forsight and completely full of greed! come on guys we are just about the equivalant of a 3rd world country in our health care i think we should ( as much as it hurts to say it) try to be canadian
Or lets us suffer and die. I was homeless at 18 because my dad couldn’t get his gall bladder removed until it almost killed him. He was in ICU for 9 months and was permanently disabled. I think the gall bladder surgery 10 yrs earlier would have been fiscally more conservative!
I don’t even want to talk about the fact that I can’t get insurance due to preexisting cancer I had and Lupus I have. I can’t see a doctor to see if I still have cancer!
Im half black and FYI the racial composition of tea parties in my state are roughly the racial composition of the state.
but now the republicans are the ones that are guility of those thinks that the democratic party was guility of in the past. look at the tea baggers . there whole movement is based on white pride and racism & so is conservatism of today. KKKonservatives. i have read your comments you lack alot of facts which is very common for republicans. LOL
I also agree with Bill Maher.
I think that what we eat plays a big part re: how much we go to the doctor.
Some illnesses ABSOLUTELY need medicine. That’s one thing. But others are LIFESTYLE ILLNESSES.
Change your lifestyle. Get more sleep. Drink more water. Eat more healthily. Your immune system will strengthen, and you won’t have to use as much of that medicine that drives the illness into your body (rather than letting your immune system beat it) and you’ll need less trips to the doctor.
@archiebunkerville:Re:the rich evil conservatives, I don’t think “stupid” is the word. I think “evil” and “corrupt” might be better choices. They know what they’re doing.
I’m not from your country, but I do agree with you in that they should not do it.
I agree something should be done about it.
Question is: where’s the revolution? The common people?
I see tea party protests and town hall meetings.
I NEVER see a Marie Antoinette-style guillotining.
COME ON, people! Take your country back!!!
ct’d: I say this coming from New Zealand.
New Zealand has quite a highly socialized healthcare system. It’s run by ACC – Accident Compensation Corporation – which is paid for BY YOUR TAXES.
Now, to visit a GP (general practitioner) your bills are subsidized, but you do have to pay something.
If you have to be seen after hours, it’s by and large FREE.
FUCK any system that makes its residents pay needlessly!
The Japanese medical system is actually pretty good. I say that as a guy living in Japan.
It doesn’t have a true socialized healthcare system – we have to pay into a system – but it’s a hybrid system, and it works pretty well.
We pay a certain amount of healthcare. 70% of my medical bills are taken care of.
I have to pay into the system, but even if I’m running behind on my payments, they STILL cover me.
Japan looks after its residents!!!
I haven’t paid a cent for my medicare in my entire life, save for prive dentist visits. All covered in taxes. That includes the medicare for my broken limbs, surgeries and the subsequent hospitalization etc. There’s been a lot of it.