Former health insurance executive Wendell Potter addresses some of the main criticisms of single payer health care, which Republicans and President Trump have been demonizing during the midterm election campaign
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The brotherhood needs an audit from a REAL GRAND MASTER !!!
Stunning to learn that we still have 30 million people uninsured!
In Canada not even the most far right wingers want to scrap our health care system.
Republicans hate universal healthcare for Americans but have no problem giving away American taxpayer's money to Israel so they can have their socialism and universal healthcare.
always with the wait time and innovation something thats rare and expensive no matter what but the whole point is so people go to the doctor more and stop breaking down
The Uk a socialist country!I wish!
The largest single payer health care system currently is 100 million people, we are 5x that size. And Brittans single payer is by all standards a failure. The poor literally die waiting for treatment in hospitals that are falling apart, while the top 20% simply buy private health care. If you somehow think scaling up their health care system (which is what is being proposed) that we wont end up with complete crap health care for the bottom 80% while the top 20% buy private health care, i would beg to differ. All of the best health care professionals would leave the free system in order to make more money in the new private system that the the top 20% would create.
Trump only lies, lies, lies….
Single payer would also allow government funded studies to look at alternative healthcare that have have shown great promise but lack the funding to do the studies to fully document the care and create the protocols to broadly implement them.
Cronic care under the current system only treats the symptoms of a problem vs the cause of the problem. As an example you broke your arm and we’re only treated with pain killers without resetting the arm. Alternative healthcare has show great promise in treating heart desease at far lower cost with better out comes than current accepted treatments.
* SHOULD MONSANTO PAY FOR THE WORLDS HEALTHCARE*? When the Roundup runs off into your Wells, springs, rivers, ponds, oceans? How long will this poison damage our environment? What percentage of the population has consumed this poison? *Who Paid Who Off To Approve Poisoning the Population?? Should All Profit and Assets of MONSANTO be confiscated and directed towards healthcare?
Wanna more Wealthcare
Single payer would allow poor Americans to live longer. This is a cost that the elites have decided not to bare. It also allows the American system to bankrupt the non elites and keep them in the servant class.
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As a British American, I am dumfounded by how ill informed the citizenry are over this and frankly, most issues that affect them, most important among them, health care. The U.S. is the only developed nation that has a FOR PROFFIT, multi payer system. 62% of bankrupcies are due to medical bills including those who had 'insurance'. It's a fucking rip off and Americans pay far more, pet capita, then any other nation. I suppose the oiligarchy want things to stay the way things are.
Tell that old bastard with the prostate cancer sign to drop dead. I'm a 60 year old male. No prostate cancer treatment until all children have vaccinations and women have breast cancer treatment.
I didn't know attacking single payer can be considered a serious threat for us to mount such an offensive! This is just legitimizing his baseless and contradictory to himself, allegations (on which the majority were unanimous for some time now, so the PR aspect was already won)!
Anyone who thinks that we don't ration health care here in the U.S. is dead wrong.
In countries like Canada, at least they ration based on urgency (otherwise known as "triage", which is logical and prudent), so that anyone with a medical emergency will be seen right away while someone who, say, needs cataract surgery may have to wait some weeks…but nobody is turned away and nobody goes bankrupt because of it.
Here in the U.S, it's a much more dire and inhumane system: care is rationed based on ability to pay. It's kind of like the life boats on The Titanic; if you are fortunate enough to be able to afford a first class ticket, space is guaranteed for you on the woefully inadequate number of life boats available, but for those poor folks in steerage, it's "sink or swim, motherfuckers!"
I have to wait 6 months to have a filling replaced and a cracked tooth repaired at a clinic in Oregon. No crowns. Germany has free single payer as a right; as do all industrialized nations.
97% of chemo patients die – oncologists who prescribe chemo receive a $5,000 kick back – chemo kills. Cannabis cures all cancer but still on schedule 1 – phuck Nixon & Trump.
hahaha….ummm…govenment doesnt solve this problem, the free market does.
As an older person, I must say I am sick of this same damn theater decade after decade after decade. Always the same baal dung from the judases running the country.
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Trump moronic meglomaniacal goofball President unhinged paranoid delusional behavior lies as easily he breaths and just as often.