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  • @MIKEL0352 1st learn to spell. 2nd no, I'm not leaving my home just because you want it. 3rd in 4 years, Obama has gotten us 10.4 trillion dollars more debt.

  • obama gonna save us all, all white people needs to move out dis a black wurld nows

  • DOES ANY FUCKING ONE REALIZE THAT TECHNICALLY WE PAY FOR THE HEALTH CARE THROUGH OUR TAXES??????!!!!!

  • "WHY do people stereotype us as being stupid?!" I don't know America, I don't know.

  • Filthy retarded imred hick repyblicans blocking universal health care. SO GLAD I DONT LIVE IN AMERICA!

  • Is it any wonder that 50,000 Americans die every year for no other reason than they have no regular access to healthy care (thought that was, of course, not a factor in this specific death, but the atrocious bill goes to show how unaffordable health care is).

  • Holding empathy & sympathy for the peoples tragic Loss

    Yet considering how Tea Party Americans eat up Corporate Disinformation

    And are lead like Stupd Servile Sheep to work aginst their own Interests

    Perhaps it is FAIR to say, that on the whole the Americans people recieve

    the kind of medical care that they deserve

  • God help you socialists who would steal another mans liberty.

  • This is the way the middle class are treated in this country, $30,000 for 5 minutes, we do need socialized medicine. Do away with this medical mafia we have in this country too, just because someone wears a white coat and goes to school longer than average, shouldn't give them special rights (to be the only ones to proscribe meds). Hows that been working for the average citizen.

  • They don't need to worry about him coming back--ever. What assholes!

  • Welcome to the "land of the free"America!!Fuck America!!!!!!!

  • just forward the bill to his permanent address. thats what my cousin did regarding his son and the hospital had the nerve to call him to say the cemetary sent the letter back the hospital. bunch of dumb assholes.

  • People are fucking monsters.

    I feel ILL for this father. I actually want to cry. Someone should be reimbursing HIM and let him take some time off work to mourn.

  • Hahaha, so hilarious. I'm laughing because the only other option is to get angry.

  • For this amount of money I would be demanding that they resurrect him from the dead. The magnitude of this sin really does make one feel sorry for the Americans who have to suffer under this farce of a health system.

  • This is fucking inhuman, any person with goddamn heart can see that America's Health Care is as effective as a blind service dog.

  • thank god he died, otherwise it would be a big 30k

  • yup i went to the ER once with a severe throat infection and sat in the Waiting room for over 5 hours. Then finally got called in. the Doc sat me in a chair in the hallway. told me to open my mouth, glanced at my throat, said "ew!" and wrote me a script for antibiotics. Whole thing took about 30 seconds. later i got a bill for 7000 dollars! Part of the bill was a "presence" fee, where they charged me for WAITING in the ER per hour.

  • Most of you are missing the point. The insurance companies are just middle men. It doesn't make much of a different whether insurance companies or government pays, because its just pooling together of tax payers' dollars. The problem is the COST of health care. Why does 5 minutes in the emergency room cost 30 thousand dollars?

  • @Castaril well one of the reasons heath care costs are so High is because of private insurance companies. In Canada we don't have those high price problems, not that we pay out of pocket anyway. There is a difference if your insurance comes form the government or a private company, one just wants you to get health the other is looking to make a profit even if you suffer or even die because of it.

  • @fireflygirl246 No you are uneducated and ignorant. Insurance companies pay out over 90% of their revenues back to the people who payed in, just like a casino. The rest goes towards covering salaries and administrative costs. Government would work the same way, pooling together of resources, but the fact that you think government can do it more efficiently is laughable. The source of high costs is the health care itself, not the middle man (insurance companies).

  • @Castaril EXCUSE ME, I'm going around and calling you uneducated and ignorant, so why don't we start by growing up a little please. The insure ace companies post billion dollar profits and people are being rejected for treatment that need it. So right there I am correct, the insurance company is make a choice to treat you or not based on there profits. Government dose not worry about that if you need the treatment you get it. to be continued.

  • ... What is laughable is that the USA is the only western country that dose not have a universal health care system, Canada and the UK have done it and 99% of people that use these systems like it better then private insurance. So apparently the government can and is doing it better, medicare anyone. One (of many factors) that has lead to such high prices is doctors and hospitals taking advantage of the insurance companies by inflating there prices, because the insurance is paying for it.

  • Sorry the kid died. That doesnt mean people should work for free.

    Something is wrong with you people.

  • @NMFSE

    $30,000 for 5 minutes is a rip off not free.

  • ridiculous, i'd say all u americans need to get to the white house and hold the biggest protest in your lives, this is completely immoral

  • @simpleJb This is every day shit in america man. You don't protest something your used to. Very few people in America are aware of rights that some people living in true social welfare states take for granted. I wish we took them for granted but we don't, we can't, we don't have them. Where can we get them? What can we protest? Theres nothing unconstitutional about this it is just backwards and immorral.

  • for 5 minutes that is robbery and the hospital should be charged for the crime

  • USA you have some serious issues to confront! come on guys get your act together get these corporations out of your pockets and souls..

  • ... and still people protest the universal healthcare bill.

  • WTF!!!!, HE DIED AND THERE FUCKING STILL TAKIN MONEY FROM THIS POOR GUY

  • It's all about suffering these days. These corporations are satanic in nature. They like it when we suffer.

  • Plain f'ing stupidity period.

  • Holy fucking shit, That is a fucking disgrace to the human race!

  • wtf!

    america

    wtf

  • $29,000 for 5 minutes? Okay lets base that on an hour shall we. $29,000 x 12 = $348,000 an hour x 24 hours = $8,352,000 x 365 days a year = $3,048,480,000

    That's right folks Three BILLION, fourty eight million, four hundred and eighty thousand dollars a year.

    Hospitals are open 24 hours a day 365 days a year. This is just one hospital. The entire budget for NASA in 1960 was 3.2 billion dollars. Something is very wrong with this world.

  • How come no one is mad at the government and at the people's litigious nature for making health care costs spin out of control like this?

  • People an there comments...the Kid was 18+...the parents cannot be held for the bill. His debt died with him...

  • Dear United States of America,

    Do like what we did 40 years ago and please adopt a universal health care program, I promise that if you do you will never ever ever regret it.

    Sincerely,

    Canada

  • @cloudofawesome Amen

  • @cloudofawesome Why should they? They are coming to you now instead are they not? :)

  • @cloudofawesome Yes, a healthier population is a more efficient population. Encouraging economic growth and making the world in general more wealthy.

  • @cloudofawesome Which, of course, is, in a way, a sadly humorous thing - the fact that most everyone living in countries that do currently have universal health-care knows, beyond any reasonable doubt, that all of those same Americans who are railing against it now, if it were to somehow be adopted tomorrow, in ten years time those very same people would be taking to the streets in protest and anger if any politician dared to even hint that they were considering doing away with it.

  • The health insurance companies in this country are corrupt I agree.

    But did anyone of you notice that the murderer Quran Jones is black? Why is it when a white guy murders a black its a "hate crime" but the standard doesn't hold when the situation is reversed? Am I the only one who notices this?

  • @mamaluigi3 It should be. Blacks are equally as racist as we are. And, I believe it was a hate crime since New Black Panthers want to see white babies dead on the street. And, they hate seeing the face of a cracker and a cracker whore. A cracker whore is a white girl dating, engaged or married to a black man. Watch the New Black Panther vider. Right from the New KKK leaders lips. New Black Pathers is the New KKK.

  • Remove profit incentives from our Health Care system already!

    This is a crime against Humanity!

    Time to Socialize/Nationalize Health Care, Education and Energy!

  • why does americans put up with that healtcare system.

  • Zionist Federal Reserve + Zionist Bankers + Zionist Lobby Groups = Corrupted America!

  • OVER 29 THOUSAND!!!!!! For 5 freaking minutes. If I ever got stabbed just dig a hole and shove me in it screw going to the hospital... just put me in the woods somewhere funeral bills are messed up too (I hear cremating is not so bad). Jesus Christ that is crazy. Bloodstains on the mats and sheets = $500. Ivy $500. Doctors + nurses $14000. Man I still got to make up where $14000 more comes from. :|

  • Empathy? This is 21st Century America.

    This is what we get for being semi-literate, self-absorbed, writing letters to "inner children" (and other Noo Age distractions), and not keeping an eye on the thieves. During the health-reform riot in Congress, nobody heard about non-care.

    A Doctor

  • I feel for this man, god bless his son, fuck the USA

  • I fucking hate this world sometimes. This is shit.

  • Rich ass dumb mother fuckers!! Dont they make a enough fucking money...now they can rape us too!!!

  • You feel strong with that language fallenboyz? It's not helping anything...

  • ARE THIS MEDICAL PEOPLE OUT OF THEIR FUCKING MINDS? ILL KILL THEM INSTEAD FUCKERS. i tOLLALY HATE THEM. this is my little brother account by the way.

  • ONLY IN AMERICA !!!!

  • What the fuck kind of person are you?

  • If you think "Universal Health care " is the answer to this, your dead wrong. When my father died of a heart attack, we got an itemized bill that listed one of the medications at $5,000 per injection. An injection of about 5cc. That was 1998.

    If you think that things will get better when government beurocrats are in charge, you'd better wake up and see just how badly run the VA hospitals are.

  • Universal health care now! i agree

  • @aladrink : you´re hypocrate ...

  • No medical treatment should cost $29K for 5 min in the hospital.

    Is that really value for ones money?! Would you pay $200 a month for cable TV and only get 4 channels 5 days out of the month? Would that be a good value?

    Health care is out of control in this country. If you ever lived out side America you would understand this.

  • Where's the empathy in this country?

  • My dad is a doctor and he would never treat patiants that way.

  • Sorry, empathy is not cost effective.

  • @TimLivelyUnearthed Thank god we have the NHS

  • This is soo soo sad! I cannot believe this is happening, oh wait, I can! I was in the emergency room one time for Bronchitus and all they did was give me an aspirin and a prescription, I paid for the medication too, and the bill came out to: $1200........I could not believe it! I am so sorry for these parents......what a shame America has become.....I am so depressed with this new Senate debate too........It is a sham.......UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE NOW!!!

  • Senator Luygur (Rep.)

    said today,

    Lets put Health Care on Hold.

    and talk about the Afghanistan war.

    These freaking republicans cant do 2 things at once.

    And i know its just a bad excuse. for them.

    I am fighting for the Health Care.

    Even as I am a person whose insurance are covered till I die,

    Then I wont be like a selfish republican, I will fight for those who are less fortunate.

  • I couldn't agree more!

  • Son? Sorry, I know my parents, and guess what asshole? Your not them.

    The bitch ranting about the US has nothing but US products in his face. Your probably on a cheap ass Dell (USA) using Windows (USA). There is probably an American car in front of your trailer, if you can even afford a car. Face it, your a slave to the US. You know it.

    So once again, go fuck yourself cocksucker.

  • You clueless ass motherfucker.

    I give up a lost cause like your stupid ass, go fuck yourself you cocksucker.

  • Ah, i see you finally cured the lol problem you were having, my little slave. Good pet, you are doing my bidding. Still need to work on the spelling tho, you inbred idiot.

    Yup, your whole existence is at the USA pleasure. We own you in the trade dept, economics, culturally, hell look at your profile. Nothing but AMERICAN entertainers.

    Didn't know we took orders from a city. Oh, you in your simple mind were trying to say we take orders from Israel, right numskull?

    OWNED again. (lol)

  • Oh yeah LOL is not punctuation.

    Guess that's canadian education for ya.

  • Whatever you (lol) socialist twat, (lol)when your country (lol)counts on the (lol)big stage, you (lol) let me know (lol).

    You exist at the USA pleasure, remember that.

  • Oh look, the US's hat speaks.

    Go club a seal while drinking your shitty beer, Cuntnuck.

  • IN-HUMAN !!!!!!

  • This is horrifying.

  • this is totally

    appalling....

    totally.......unbelievable....­.

    shut that hospital down...

  • We have the best health care in the world...if you can afford it!

  • Terrible error for one thing. Total computer error ~ However, the $29k in 5 minutes is exactly whats wrong with the un-regulated health care system here in the States.

    If youre from outside the USA reading this, know that that is exactly the problem, and we as citizens cant do anything.

    Health care costs in this country are basically 5 times anywhere else and its totally because no legislation has protected us, sadly, and greed rules when prices are not regulated. Agreed?

  • At least Americans have guns to remedy such injustices.

  • $29,000 for 5 minutes. I'd rather die.

  • He did die...His parents got the bill!

  • A lot of Californians are paying tax money for that university. I doubt that the medical staff won't get paid if the parents don't pay the bill.

  • UC Davis...

    A State of California University Owned Hospital.

  • W. T. F.  Horrible, outrageous.

  • and happens often

  • my got i hate fascist scum like you..

  • Go to isra-HELL then!  I despise antifa scum like you!

  • i sympathize with the Palestinian people.

  • So do I. And I despise what the Israhellis are doing to the Palestinians.

  • you are about the stupidest person ive ever seen on you youtube..

  • Sho' nuff, sho'tuncoolone#2. You bees da smartest manboon ah ebber did seed! Yassuh!

    Habs yo'self sum waddymellonz an' chill, bruva!

    14/88!

  • totally insane system for a modern democracy. The last thing you should have to worry about is money when it comes to healthcare. In my country it is free. People in between 18 and 65 pay contributions through taxes, but it's really minimal. I earn an average wage and I think I pay about £8 a week, which goes towards pension contributions as well. don't listen to all the anti-socialist crap your government are saying against it, free healthcare works.

  • i agree with you, but the insane part is that yours isnt free either, its just more efficiently planned, you pay for it with taxes..in the US we have to argue with idiots whose basic premise is that it should not be efficiently planned.

  • Yeh, I guess calling it 'free' isn't the best description. All I meant is that it's free when you need medical attention. basically though, it's a very minimal payment and completely indiscriminating. I just think state run is better because you don't have to beg and barter with an insurance company to get your bills paid after. I hope you do get social healthcare system in place, I think it will change a lot of lives for the better. keep the pressure on your government! :)

  • just wanted to add to your conversation, that it ends up being cheaper since the population takes on the total cost and divides it among themselves .. therefore you actually save money.

  • @muzzatube . And here's the doozy... Note how they said their "Automated System" sent out the letter. All over the world automated systems have taken over actual jobs in order to save money. And yet the consumer has seen nothing but increases in fees for these automated systems. Everything is FUBAR

  • @lordbeaker

    With all due respect, the computer doesn't do anything on its own onless is told what to do through the KEYBOARD !

    Whatever medical servives they offer can be kept as records untill the hospital's clerk tells the computer what to do with it .

    It's a human error .

  • Says the sand nigger bitch. Don't confuse me with the sad existence you lead, asshole.

    And why says i'm 33? Assume much, shit for brains?

  • you people aren't civilized. Money is the only thing that matters in the US. I thank god I don't live there.

  • @Kufukahn: The fact that you dragged a totally irrelevant reference to negroes in your response to my message says alot about the level of schooling you've completed. Of course, you did so because you don't really have a good comeback to my original point, which is that Americans care more about the stupid dollar than they do about real, live people. The US used to be widely admired in the world, but increasingly it's not anymore. Oh, and fuck off.

  • That is why we have lost all of our Rights...because sheeple care far more about 'security' than they ever did about freedom. Welcome to the United $nake$ of Ameriqaeda, the land of the un-free, the slave, the taxed-to death, the outsourced and the terrorized by the State.

  • It's the GREEDY Americans that only care about money and not human life, okay? I'm not part of the insanity that's happening here. So please don't blame all Americans.

  • ridicuous, absolutely absurd

  • fuck these insurance companies.

  • Racism?

  • americunt healthcare, best in the world..if your the top 1% of the worlds income holder

  • Especially if someone's a wealthy Jewvandal! We have an africunt-Jew-Ameriqaedan-Kenya­n as king Ape now and the Jewdogs and their race-traitor armed thugs, the pigs and Ameriqaeda letter terrorist agents run the shit show now!

  • never mind

  • it has got to be an error... even Americans can not be that mean...

  • Lol, 5 min in an E.R, 29 000 dollar.. nice.

    Did he steal some anti matter from the MRI room during those 5mins ?

  • The doctors need to get paid. But... in America you are not paying the cost of healthcare. What you are paying is the cost + someone's profit. Think about it. Then think some more. Then tell me if human lives should be treated in the exact same manner as getting your car washed or buying a pound of sugar. By that I shall measure your humanity.

  • The USA is a great country but your medical system is just horrible!

    Regards from Sweden

  • when they will have taxes as high as Sweden their health care will be fine. I wonder why Ikea's founder doesn't live in his homeland anymore..? :)

  • not capitalism.......corporatism you dumb shit

  • The love affair with capitalism continues at...

    Learn what capitalism is you clueless ignoramus....

  • Michael Moore = Stupid White Man

    Fraud after fraud, that self professed Stupid White Man just keeps punk-ing his bottom-feeding dupes, over and over, and over yet again.

  • Can you say Health Care Reform?? The pricing by hospitals is what needs to be reformed. I would love to see how they justify the costs on that bill. I doubt that they could justify much more than $1000. That is why insurance costs so damn much.

    Excuse me Sir! That Q-tip is fifty dollars and the used one is forty-five.

  • $30,000 for five minutes is ridiculous, also no need to call any patient indigent. By that hospitals standard almost everyone would be indigent, I mean who can afford to pay $6,000 a minute.

  • This should certainly put some rational in those fears you son of ignorance 78fin.

  • @zionfire2

    Americas dangers are pretty much within America I think. If there would be healthcare and education for everyone the population wouldn't elect hatemongering republicans to the senate or for president. Then also there wouldn't be another Iraq war.

  • Malik Nidal Hasan ObayMao believer killed 13 and wounded 30 honorable innocent Americans at their home base in Ft Hood Texas. I heard he shouted God is Great as he opened fire. I also heard he was pissed off that Obama is moving to slow in his support of Islam. Another Islamic terrorist Obama voter, typical America hating Democrat. And now ObayMaos congress pushes this Fing death bill though with the cover of fire. Stand up America, do what you can to stop these extremists. Fight the Bill!!!

  • wow you hear lots of things

  • Republicans would probably blame the son for getting beat up and dying.

  • I guess you gotta be illegal to get any true justice in this country.

  • Greed breeds monsters.

  • what a pitiful "apology" if you can call it that, a statement released to the media, not to worry, just a clerical error, it happens.... blah blah blah

  • That's not the point. Its the insensitivity of sending a bill to the parents of a murdered child.

  • Palfium66 Just like insensitivity that sent me my dads hospital bill, yet died in their care.

    You do just like I did, throw it away.

    problem solved.

  • Christ you Americans are such drama queens! It was a mistake and they apologised...what next ...are they going to sue? After all money speaks loudest in the good ole US of A

  • Michael why don't you give trying to help the failed US and come help us out with our domestic problems in Brazil? We could use your knowledge.

  • This is a systematic issue, not just UC Davis' hospital. I can't believe conspiracy theorist and Christian extremist nut-jobs are controlling this debate on healthcare. Jesus was not a capitalist, and certainly would not have charged you 30,000 dollars to watch you die. This is complete backwards.

  • And Moore, you've spent your life trying to help a country full of retards. I can sense your frustration and don't blame you if one day you quit what you're doing. You are one of the greatest Americans in my mind.

  • 29 grand, WTF!?

  • achzdck:

    People in cardboard boxes can find work.

    They refuse to to work.

    Why are you bitching at the rest of us? Why are you not out there buying them food and giving them shelter or finding them work?

    It's easy to bitch at the rest of us, shut up and go do something about it.

    I believe in live and let live, Do what you want.

    Just leave me alone and don't expect me to solve your problems.

    A lack of planing on your part will never be an emergency on my part.

    Good luck

  • I'm not trying to bin inflammatory, but from your statement you seem to have a shallow grasp of the seriousness of the problems in society. No, not all people are capable of working. Its simply a fact. There are much more serious problems than laziness or whatever you may attribute it to. Ignoring these issues wont improve things for society, of which you are a member, and therefore will not improve your own situation. Just sharing my thoughts with you. Good luck.

  • I will agree with you on the fact that we have many more issues than the shallow broad brushing I gave the subject.

    My point is that this problem is due to a lack of responsibility.

    I will say that my comment before could have been made in a different forum.

    I will say this in closing,

    I can not solve the issues in society, I can point out things I have changed or what I believe are problems.

    The Gov. is the problem.

  • @TheProud1488

    use your money to go to college, get some education

  • Try the reply button asshat.

    I did use my money to get an education, you might try the same thing.

    What you want to do is use MY money to pay for YOUR medical bills.

    FUCK THAT. Ain't gonna happen.

  • University of Phoenix, I assume. What year?

  • Florida State 96', actually.

    So, how was Jerkwater Community College where you got your degree in basket weaving? Or were you just the janitor there?

    Now practice for tomorrow "Would you like fries with that?".

  • UNC Chapel Hill, actually. Haven't graduated yet, but I'm working hard towards that basket weaving

  • @TheProud1488

    Obviously you didn't learn much in college. America is in a sad state, guided by irrational fears and greed. Really hoping for a change.

  • what if the police don't come or fire man because you don't have insurance???

    nice vocabulary you have. also bow down to insurance companies that hold your life and care in their hands, eventually you will get sick/hurt so your time will come to feel the pain, like these people.

    michael moore tries to do good, what do you do?

  • Health care cost approximately $2.5 trillion per fiscal year. Just under 20% of GDP. 50 cents of every dollar spent goes to administrative cost and profit for insurance and drug companies. Medicare has a 3% administrative cost and no profit. Under a single pay system you would pay less by almost half Numbers don't lie.

  • LOL.

    No where on earth is there a Government run Health care system that is under budget!

    Cash for clunkers is just dealing with cars and only cars, 2 sets of prices.

    Not only are the dealers still waiting to be paid, the cost per car is over 20k.

    That is what we will get with Gov run health care.

    No hurry to pay and no worries about cost.

    You can spend your cash anyway you want, why do you think you are entitled to my cash too?

    50% less, and you think you'll get the same service, Laughable LOL.

  • this is not about fuckin cars dude. this is about peoples lives.

  • I don't know which is more disgusting, them sending a bill, or the collectivists using his death to try and propagandize support for a unconstitutional public option.

  • Yes, it`s a shame that this hospital would even ask anything from this family. Pretty low down!!! I guess the ones who killed him will be rewarded with free room and board, cable tv, free clothes and shoes, free college degrees and oh yes, free HEALTHCARE!!!!! Yes, only in AMERICA The Land of the GREED!!!

  • this is the gop dream rich getting richer no middle class. do you now any poor gop voters me either

  • Are you so jealous of people who are rich, that you would want to take what they have?

  • @Silveracity

    It' not taking if it's what have democratically been decided.

  • Do you mean like when the Maine voters rejected a law allowing same-sex couples to marry?

    Do you think everything is okay as long as it's done democratically?

  • @Silveracity

    No I don't think it's ok. But I believe if everyone has a right to education and healthcare we will have a population that is not making decision based on irrational fears...

  • When someone goes to the emergency room, they give you the best care and they don't worry about payment until latter.

    Did you want no bill for anyone who dies in the hospital?

    If you would rather have the taxpayer pay all medical bills, it's because you either dont pay taxes, or you think the bill will be spread out so much among tax payers you wont notice it, right?

  • Well it works fine in the uk =]

  • The U.K, being just about bankrupt, has led the Bank of England to begin quantitative easing for the first time in its history. (that I know of)

    Thats an example of a system NOT working.

  • The UK isn't 'just about bankrupt', but it is suffering from spending billions of pounds bailing out banks.

  • You mean the U.K can't be bankrupt because they can always print up money into existence?

    If you and I could do that we could never be bankrupt either right?

  • What a waste of life you are.

  • Could you be a little more specific with your criticisms please?

  • So you think the American systems works by making people pay for there AIDs and cancer pills.. do you have any idea how much that costs the stress it creates in which does not help the persons health. how uk have not got it perfect by far I'm not saying that but we got a damn shit better then America and you can say shit that you like about fact is a will live longer then you

  • (So you think the American systems works by making people pay for there AIDs and cancer pills)

    Yes, the health care system works because the services provided to ill people are paid for by someone. Nothing in life is FREE! When doctors and drug companies are no longer paid, services will no longer be provided.

  • the health care system doesn't work because the services provided are necessary and people are making a profit from it. anytime profit is involved, corruption follows. we should not have a corrupt health care system ..

  • That's why we have laws to stop corruption. That's like saying that anytime we have banks, bank robberies will follow, so banks cause the robberies. Profit doesnt not cause corruption.

    Have you not heard of corruption in government run health care systems?

  • Laws that noone enforces!

  • Then why aren't you in favor of enforcing the law?