The US Healthcare system is the most expensive in the world. Yet fewer Americans can afford it, more are sick, people are getting poorer and health insurance companies are getting richer. Health Ranger Mike Adams talks to RT’s Lauren Lyster about the controversy. Follow Lauren on Twitter: twitter.com
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As soon as doctors realize they are not GOD, and quit working for the pharmaceutical companys, re-learn how to actually “doctor” people without relying purely on DRUGS and price their services more in line with what they actually do, then maybe I’ll put my faith back into the medical industry. Until then, holistic healing will work better for me than drug company lackeys( doctors).
@Verderer : Ah, it really gladdens me to hear such a sensible and rational comment. And I am NOT being ironic or sarcastic, but dead serious. When you listen to these ridiculous people who still believe the US is the greates country in the world. when in fact they are lagging behind badly in almost EVERYTHING, from education over infrastructure to maybe the most important thing: health care. Just silly blathering by badly informed people.
@Verderer uhhh the reason is that UK and Europe had good health care because you live off the “backs of our defense budget”. Yes it’s true we still have military bases in all over Europe which is why the many Europeans justified lower military spending. That’s why Europe flourished because of it as we “protect” Europe.
If the U.S. military bases were to pull out of all Europe, prepare to see your taxes go higher as you pay for your own defense instead of having our bases in Europe.
All Obamacare did was increase the profits for the healthcare insurance companies. If Obamacare was wht it should be the insurance companies would have fought it every step. We need a healthcare system but not run by a healthcare insurance company that works only for profits. Obama has sold out again.
@jeAh7 The problem is that most Americans are too brainwashed by their political and religious leaders to be able to think objectively. On top of all that, the educational system is geared towards forcing people to believe that there simply is nothing better in the world that could even come close to the system that’s in place in the US and anything that might sound better is automatically labeled as communism or socialism by people who wouldn’t even know what that is.
@Verderer I live in the former “Eastern Block” I get better healthcare and treatment than the US… and free.
@daviieth My mother suffers from multiple sclerosis with complications which requires on going treatment & medical supervision & without the UK NHS I don’t know what she would do – the service she gets is fantastic! I do not begrudge one single penny of my taxes and NICs deducted from my monthly salary. I broke my collar bone playing rugby & received excellent treatment, my only dealing with the NHS so far. Britons/Europeans have NO reason to fear becoming ill or bring injured in an accident.
The people of the UK and most Western European countries have a better standard of overall health than do the Americans, and they also have a higher life expectancy and lower infant mortality and an overall quality of life than does the USA. Britons and other Europeans are granted more holiday (vacation) time away from work, and more statutory holidays than than Americans, so all in all life is less stressful over here than it is in the USA, which is so backward in many ways.
I would never live in the United States of America for various reasons but I suppose the issue of Healthcare in that country is the most significant one. I consider myself very fortunate to be a British citizen living in the UK, which automatically makes me a citizen of the European Union. Excellent Healthcare facilities in both the UK and the EU is universal and funded by taxation making it free at the point of issue. No Briton or European ever lives in fear of becoming ill as in the USA.
@Hammersley1967
our utilities for the most part here have always been private. in fact electric, cable, and fixed telephones usually have monopolies in the areas they serve. so not only do we have private companies providing those services we have no options as to providers.
@jeAh7
Yes, the notion and practice of limited government and laissez-faire economics has been taken to the extreme in the west…
In Australia, our utilities were sold off during the 80s…
The result? Exactly the opposite of what was promised by the privatising these essential services…
Increased cost and poorer customer service…
@Hammersley1967 so many of our politicians feed us the lie that govt has no role in the solution to these kind of problems with health, education etc. they keep telling us to go to the private sector for services. i think that the country is slowly starting to realize that reaganomics and the policies of excessive privitization is disastrous to the middle class.
When it comes to healthcare, the US is still stuck in the dark ages.
@mardi06 actually asia and here in europe we are more advanced technologically and culturally
and in asia and all of europe we have have universal free healthcare
@jeAh7
So I’m learning…
IMO: Stems from the problem of Libertarian fundamentalism…
Freedom is not an end in its own right…
It is merely ONE principle amongst a plethora of other political principles (e.g. Communitarianism) that can (hopefully) contribute to social harmony, prosperity, and individual happiness…
@Hammersley1967
problem is the U.S. is controlled by the rich minority. The majority of us americans HATE this system.
Hope in the USA begins in the USA heart. The poverty everyone is experiencing is because USA is World Heritage listed and construction there is to be stopped. USA and its streets as they are in the present state are billions of years old and very likely some of the oldest streets and buildings in the world, ever. Health for a person of the USA begins with a little chinese, indian or eupean food shop. It may be smelly and yuky today and you might only taste the stuff and throw it out.
But the next time you walk past, you might notice that theres some ‘chinese’ or non english speaking tourist walking past buying expensive american perfume and taking it with them. That maybe a week later there will be a foreign choclate bar, and it will be very heavy. Sanity for a person of USA begins with realising that USA does not have a military. That the twin towers were millions of years old. Time barriers have been crossed. NEW compact cities must be built for reorganization. Arabia?
Breeding must be stopped as everyone prepares for a very very long time for Gods heaven on earth. The USA is the heart of both South and North America. Canadians probably arent really even supposed to be in Canada and will probably be moved out eventually. I love you USA, hang in there and just remember, those little foreign food shops bring the medicine. I can’t wait to go to USA when the chocolate bars are made from gold!
NEW compact cities must be built for reorganization. Arabia?
Healthcare should be based on clinical need not ability to pay.
The U.S insurance industry is ONLY interested in profits. They have ZERO regard for the common good. To know more, just Google ‘Death Bonds’ and read why corporate America vehemently opposes universal healthcare. Most Americans are unaware of how much they are being conned because vested interests slyly portray UHC as ‘interference in basic freedoms’ and ‘intrusive government’. The public fall for this hook line and sinker. They have yet to wake up to the fact they are being screwed big-time.
oh jee we hebben allemaal naar michael moore zitten kijken lees ik!!!! hahahahaaha…wat n kutland zeg dat amerika…wat nou american dream?…het is meer n american nightmare….maarja ze zijn ook niet anders gewent daar…ze noemen het niks voor niks de u naait het steeds van amerika!!!!….USA THE UNITED STATES OF ASSHOLES!!!!!
children are dying in the usa just because the parents have not a good insurance. This is sick and the american people have to wake up and don’t be affraid of your’e gouverment. In CUBA they have better health care and that is a poor country
BUT THIS IS HOW I SEE IT IN GUANTANAMO BAY THEY HAVE BETHER HEALTCARE THAN THE VICTIMS OF 9/11 AND THERE FAMILIES? AND THE BEST TO COME ITS FOR FREEEE HAHAHAAHAHAHAH LMFAO
HOW DUMB CAN A NATION BE
BUT THIS IS HOW I SEE IT IN GUANTANAMO BAY THEY HAVE BETHER HEALTCARE THAN THE VICTIMS OF 9/11 AND THERE FAMILIES? HAHAHAAHAHAHAH LMFAO
HOW DUMB CAN A NATION BE