We revisit Wendell Potter’s whistleblowing testimony that exposed how the insurance industry is more interested in pleasing Wall Street than in people’s care, and asked him if these abuses continued after the passing of the ACA–Wendell Potter on Reality Asserts Itself, hosted by Paul Jay
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We need to understand that Obamacare was really Romneycare, a right-wing program.
One solution to civilise prices,
down 20 or 50 folds ?(( NATIONALISE ))
or keep offering your neck to
pharmacetical and private insurance
VAMPIRES … so simple,
Why do you feel so obligated toward thoses
lifes and trillions sucking giants.
do you owe them your own life ??
Totaly puzzling !!
They are spinning you to death.
In the last segment (4/7) Potter speaks of the 17 year old..
I found this moving news clip, from then
https://youtu.be/3h4KzRf2wzM
of Wendell meeting w the girl's family, hearing them out, grieving w them & apologizing.
The 1st I heard of the concept of
'universal health Care' was when
I was in a waiting room at the hospital,
began chatting with a NEWLYWED couple,
from the UK here (Niagara Falls)
for their HONEYMOON.
The Mrs. had suffered a catastrophic
compound fracture in her leg-
BOTH Mr & Mrs were obviously
suffering from SHOCK,
(hushed monotone speech, bug eyed & grey faced)
over our DRACONIAN system-
Charging for care!?! They said the bill
(so far & they were only 3 weeks into their ordeal) EXCEEDED the COST of THEIR HOUSE,
+they were having to pay for (atleast 3) more MONTHS to stay in a hotel, (ongoing treatment & she was unable to fly (across the Atlantic in a non medical plane)
Her injury was incurred from a fall
off a balcony, but consulting a US lawyer
they were told SUING for the medical costs would take years, PLUS to sue for the costs, they'd have to PAY THE MEDICAL COSTS 1ST,
Only THEN COULD THEY SUE
to be REIMBURSED for their PAID medical costs
but even then,
suing any big hotel (w high paid lawyers)
was not a 'sure thing'….
Great way for foreign visitors to
experience FIRST HAND
how EXCEPTIONAL America really is!
4:51 69 % of the non-elederly persons got their coverage from the workplace now it is down to 56 %. Whole companies are purged from the pool (they are not officially denied coverage, the prices just skyrocket so that they cannot affor them anymore). That would explain the practice that smaller companies fire a worker when he OR a family member needs costly treatment – else the rates of the company will go up and also the rates for all other employees).
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Our democracy is set up for the stomping out the copper colored natives , now it’s saying Wall Street pure raciest greed is how it’s been planed to be , funny how there not going to put that on real news , Like black Wall Street, or red lining . Look at the bigots who own this shit , top guys make way to much money 💴 then point at us to pull up out boot straps. This whole place is drunk with hypocrisy and greed , have we really as a people gone shit to stop this , no we don’t. We put our heads down and go I got to work no time , then when it’s like it is we go ohhhhh mannnn this sucks , our representatives sell out time and time again, back to work don’t do shit it’s to late all big greed wins over poor people ohhhh joy
I was denied surgery to walk right again. I lost the appeal too. I guess it’s an elective now. I just have to keep reminding myself that these are the sacrifices us sick and injured people need to make for corporate profits.
The current US health care system takes the entire cost of health care for the poor and places it on the backs of a struggling middle-class, exempting the wealthy. So according to this gentleman, This is the same wealthy that earns tons of money on Wall St.
(This system that came out of the Heritage Foundation was designed to fail as a lesson that socialism is bad..)
Why is healthcare seen and treated as a commodity? Why is it acceptable to charge too high for a service that clearly doesn't need a middleman, but supervision auditors, and good administrators? What good has these health insurances done to the poor and the lower middle class population?
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