Take the corporate profit OUT of healthcare

[newmac]

Run time: 02:13 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhX38MIOUCU   Posted on YouTube: March 13, 2009 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: March 14, 2009 By DU Member: newmac Views on DU: 2339

 
Its time to make it happen now. Demand it from Obama; and hold his feet to the fire. He can make it happen.

[quidam56]

1. We need a cure for health care in America

See what is deemed, defended and supported as THE ACCEPTABLE STANDARDS OF HEALTH CARE in East Tennessee where Profit Care comes way ahead of Patient Care. http://www.wisecountyissues.com

[Why Syzygy]

2. k/r

Sorry ass insurance corporations. They claim a license to kill.

[Delphinus]

3. HR 676

Single Payer Universal Health Care, aka Medicare for All.

Insurance companies exist to make money - period. If that means saying no, so be it.

Take insurance companies out of the equation. No profit on my health!

[AllyCat]

23. If it means you die, so be it. Seriously. They don't care if you die

just don't stand in the way of their profits! Insurance companies need to die a quick, painful death. And the "100,000 people" employed by them, well, they can find other jobs just like the rest of us are doing. Since sitting at a desk working to steal money from people through insurance premiums and then working to deny care so someone else can get the profit isn't A JOB, there really is no issue here.

[stlsaxman]

4. That is not what the article says at all.

I know you meant the headline as the solution and i agree 1000%, but your editorial headline is misleading nonetheless.

[proud2BlibKansan]

26. And that matters because?

[stlsaxman]

27. Because i thought the video would say what the headline SAYS it does.

No one in the video says anything about removing the profit motive from health care.

[Pharaoh]

5. Profiting from the suffering of others

Capitalism at it's best :patriot: :sarcasm:

K&R

[SlingBlade]

6. K & R

Keep the message out there

Health Care Is A RIGHT !

[midnight]

7. I don't know why people with healthcare are dying and are being

denied payment for treatment? Get these coroporate killers out of our treatment plans-NOW.

[Hepburn]

8. Health Care should NOT be a "for profit" industry.

The asshole insurance companies benefit from DENYING services and doctors are rewarded who have the lowest costs involved.

Fuck that shit! :mad:

[Hulk]

9. I'm sure the right wing neocons would label this young woman as ....

...some sort of lazy liberal that chose NOT to be covered, or some other equally bull shit reason.

I am so ashamed of this country when it comes down to what we do for the poor and needy, let alone those of us that have the basic needs met. England, France, Canada, Scandinavia, and other leading first world nations take care of those less fortunate than the wealthy. Our nation simply lets them die on the streets. Pathetic...and nothing has changed much.

[defendandprotect]

16. Yes . . . yes . . . and this would be a good step in trying to provide for the homeless . . .

Imagine we have had homeless in America since the Reagan years!!!

[howmad1]

20. But, but......

....look how long it takes for the English, the French, the Canadians and Scandinavians to get to see a doctor. Don't you people listen to the rethuglican arguments against national health care? What, you want this country to become a "communist" nation? :woohoo:

[GreenTea]

10. Universal Health Care for all NOW - If the republicans want to....

call it so socialism, so be it, but it's all coming out of our tax dollars...

The republican would prefer to have the twenty time larger bloated cost of our military budget that our tax dollars are paying for instead Health Care for all....selfish war mongering bastards!

[youngharry]

14. Republicans

Give single payer heath care to all except Republicans as they don't believe in it. You would be surprised how many would become BELIEVERS after that.

[debbierlus]

11. Kick & Recommend - Stop PROFITEERING off people's healthcare NOW

Cut the leeches loose from the system.

We do NOT need them.

[krister]

12. This is a Christian nation!

Health care and insurance are both wastes of money when prayer is free.

Trying to avoid or reverse illness is denying your fate so it makes sense that it would lead to punishment.

I suppose the Republicans are just more aware of this.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

21. Actually, the Republican position is

"Yes, we should be charitable, but it should all be private, and to force people to pay for social programs through their taxes is theft."

Yeah, how many $10,000 hospital stays are they supporting through their charitable contributions?

[NJCher]

13. oh and the frosting on the cake is

in this country, you lose your job, you lose your health care.

How unspeakably cruel is that?

Oh yeah, COBRA. The monthly price is so high, most unemployed people cannot afford it.

I am so freaking fed up with the "legacy" left to us by republicans.


Cher

[defendandprotect]

17. Until we get Single Payer Health Care for everyone . . . we should demand that

unemployment insurance also pay the costs of COBRA ... !!!

[defendandprotect]

15. Didn't watch the video . . . but anything the Congress does for itself . . ..

it should also have to do for the public --- from health care to raises!!!

Let's pass some laws that say that --- !!!!

Come to think of it . . . do they pay FICA . . . if not, they should!!!

[subterranean]

18. What's even worse...

Someone probably got a bonus for denying that woman's claim.
Only in America.

[november3rd]

19. call white house with healthcare reform suggestions

How about SINGLE PAYER UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE FOR EVERY AMERICAN FROM BIRTH.

Get the for profit insurance companies out of the healthcare provision service!

[Althaia]

22. for-profit health insurance has a business model

based on denying service to its paying customers.

Why is this acceptable? In any other business, it would be fraud.

[Liberal_Christian]

24. WE DON'T HAVE TO WAIT AS LONG TO SEE A DOCTOR SO IT'S OK! WE HAVE THE BEST HEALTHCARE IN THE WORLD!!

... and if you believe that, you've been drinking conservative-cool-aide.

Seriously, has anyone heard any other rebuttals than "my tax dollars shouldn't go toward other's health" and "in those other county's you have to wait too long to see a doctor" to universal healthcare??? because those are the only other two I've heard and they're pathetic.

Sean Hannity said "Healthcare in Britain is a joke" but according to the World Health Organization, the US's healthcare is ranked 37th in the world (that's pathetic ESPECIALLY for an industrialized country), we have 46 million people who don't even have health insurance, ours costs the most, and we have the health mortality rate of a third world country but all of this is okay because our rich get a little richer and we don't have to wait that long for a doctor.

...so how do we the best healthcare in the world again? Because I still haven't heard the answer.

[knixphan]

25. K&R

[on point]

28. Let the Marketplace work

I would love to see a single payer government system set-up in parallel with the existing system. Then watch all the customers move to the new system and leave the old system dying on the vine. End of argument.

I mean the the marketplace is supposed to provide choice right?

[Liberal_Christian]

29. Holy shit. That's genius.

I know it's obviously easier said than done but it has to be possible; Don't force the people to adopt a government market system like a communist regime but allow for a choice between private and government. Is that possible?

[specialed]

30. absolutley.

That is in essence what the obama plan is. To offer up the current govt. plan on a subscription bases.

[Liberal_Christian]

31. huh. never thought of it that way.

Makes sense but I guess the only right-wing complaint would be the golden oldie "not my tax dollars" to someone else's choice in healthcare.