Why We Need Government-Run Universal Socialized Health Insurance
A cartoon explanation of why we need a public health insurance option. Now that the health care bill has passed, my friend Andy Lubershane (the animator) has made another video about a topic near and dear to my heart: Climate and Energy. Please check it out here: www.youtube.com Animated by Andy Lubershane. More comics at www.earthlycomics.blogspot.com Note The data in this cartoon is supported by this report: www.ourfuture.org which includes a lot more detail on current proposals for a public option.
OMG! This video was serious? I was totally convinced that this was a total joke.
Guess what profit does. It forms competition. Competition leads to development and more users of the service. Govt run will kill competition, and all quality that was still somehow left with private companies.
Along with several things in this video that were just wrong, this video was way to simple in describing how we need government healthcare. There many other factors contributing to “both” sides of the argument. This video failed to even make me question my side.
Education, Fire, Police are run well??? Most states are broke or going broke and can’t hire any teachers, firefighters or police because of that greedy evil thing that comes along with all gov run agency’s, UNIONS. The unions only look out for there PROFITS and give their members unsustainable benefits, screwing the tax payer as bad as the evil insurance companies. Not to mention all bureaucratic waste that goes along with it.
And guess what! The countless people organized to meet the food needs of New York City residents don’t spend their energy out of deep concern for the well-being of each and every grocery shopper’s tummy. No, they do the impossible out of their own desire to be served when they spend the money they earn. Oh!! What evil capitalists! Banish them from medicine!! Better that people suffer from the miscalculations of bureaucrats than my delicate sensibilities be offended!
Yeah cause the Goverment does a great job on everything else too.. right?
Think of how New York City residents’ need for having a reliable supply of healthy, affordable food is met. Every nook and cranny of that massive city at this very moment is stocked full of a staggering quantity and variety of quality, affordable food. It’s remarkable that we take for granted that this is handled with amazing finesse on a daily basis with no bureaucrat making sure it’s all done “fairly”. That’s how medicine should be done. Socialists are economic Neanderthals.
The problem with Canadian medicine is producers aren’t paid according to how much their products are actually valued by consumers, factoring in how much it costs for them to produce and taking into account alternative uses for scarce resources used for production that might be more valuable to consumers. Bureaucrats are incapable of solving this heady equation in real time for every conceivable medical product. However, free markets do this with finesse.
I bet the people that put a thumbs down on this video are the same people that are the 14 percent of the adult americans who literally think obama is the anti christ! LOL
@grexample You are entirely correct, the major problem with the Canadian system is that goverment underpays for services, resulting in a lack of incentive for the market to add capacity. The low payents are do to cuts that were made to funding in the 90s which allowed the goverment to start running surpluses and paying down debt. The result is that Canada now has the lowest rate of debt to GDP in the G8, but we have paid a price for that.
@grexample You did read the paper right? None of the costs they refer to are dollar costs and their recomended solution … the Obama plan.
This is so true government regulation of health care is the main cause of the health care industry’s upward spiraling costs. The FDA, EPA, Medicare, and a host of other bureaucracies have created mountains of regulations that have led to the deaths of thousands and even millions of people who were denied needed treatments and resources. The cost of creating new treatments is also out of control because of this regulation.
Yeah, sorry, but like most liberal views on health care, this video abounds with gross oversimplifications. Most government services are socially contractual in nature, meaning their costs are met with a like compensatory return in services: public safety, etc. Mandating health insurance works in completely the opposite fashion: for the sake of billions in new industry revenues, the healthy are forced to buy more coverage than they need simply to pay for the irresponsibility of the unhealthy.
If this party calls “reform” capitulating on every manner of real cost control and systemic change, then I’ve revoked my membership. I honestly don’t know how the dem’s can villainize republicans and the industry when their own bill hands the healthy and the youth to them in a tidy handbasket, ensuring another $50+ BILLION annually in new insurance co revenues. And why? Simply to reallocate the astronomical costs of a suicidally unhealthy country.
Have a nice trip, see you next fall!
Correction to previous post.
does NOT have to be bailed out ever so often.
Correction to previous post.
does NOT have to be bailed out ever so often.
Did you know that insurance was invented by capitalism in the first place. This is why your analogy does not make sense. Socialists would rather just take over something rather that create a better structure that will entice people to come to their service through competition. We will be stuck with a public system that makes our health decisions for us rather than the people having the ability to choose a more competitive plan, that can fund itself and that has to be bailed out every so often.
Did you know that insurance was invented by capitalism in the first place. This is why your analogy does not make sense. Socialists would rather just take over something rather that create a better structure that will entice people to come to their service through competition. We will be stuck with a public system that makes our health decisions for us rather than the people having the ability to choose a more competitive plan, that can fund itself and that has to be bailed out every so often.
I am American and our medicine is freaking awesome. Forgoing an office visit because you’re not sure it’s worth the money is called efficient use of scarce resources based on optimum knowledge. You know better than anyone else what’s going on with you, how you’re feeling and how much it’s worth for you to take time off from work and get looked at. The right and responsibility of maintaining your body properly rests with yourself. You’re not entitle to slaves.
It was the 5th case that year. Any entrepreneur would see an opportunity there. Apparently no bureaucrat did or they didn’t care. Too bad your government doesn’t allow supply to meet demand naturally. No! No! No! We can’t have that. ‘Tis better that women in labor be flown 325 miles to have their babies than we soil ourselves with the stain of living amongst profiteers. You’re right up there with radical Islamists in my book . Fucking ignorant looney bins.
@grexampleTHey were flown by Air ambulance you twit. You are not going to fly from Calgary to Vancouver by Air Ambulance. And again, you do realize that for profit hospitals turn away paitents all the time. The difference, your country has 10x the population we do. Therefore, the next closest hospital is maybe 1/2 hour away in a different city for most States. While in Canada, it 3 hours or more. Therefore, it makes sense to make deals with border cities then ship someone off 3 hours away.
@grexampleTHey were flown by Air ambulance you twit. You are not going to fly from Calgary to Vancouver by Air Ambulance. And again, you do realize that for profit hospitals turn away paitents all the time. The difference, your country has 10x the population we do. Therefore, the next closest hospital is maybe 1/2 hour away in a different city for most States. While in Canada, it 3 hours or more. Therefore, it makes sense to make deals with border cities then ship someone off 3 hours away.
@grexample You do realize that the U.S. have more of a shortage of family docs then we do, with actually more Americans than Canadians not having a family doctor. And even ones that do, many forgo seeing them due to cost. Please research before making yourself look silly.
What you don’t mention about the 3.2 million, nearly all of them have access to walk in clinics, so a GP is almost always available to them. If they aren’t, emerg is. How do I know that. Because I LIVE HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
People certainly shouldn’t have a say in what my private insurance company does to the extent that those people are not personally involved with my company and to the extent that the insurance company is not violating contracts mutually ageed on by the company and its policy holders. Of course, to the extent that people work for insurance companies and people buy its policies, they certainly DO have a say in what the company does. You are the one full of crap.
The word is “irrigating”, you stupid idiot. Take your 3rd-grade vocabulary and piss off!Good thing we have a Harvard grad running the country and not somebody like you or your beloved Sarah Palin whose just as stupid as you.