American Health Care Killed My Father (David Goldhill)

[KittenKoder]

@ricanlegend203 How is changing who pays going to change the severe lack of care from doctors? Or the excessive care? Or the fact that doctors are often endorsements instead of ... well doctors? Blaming insurance companies for doctor decisions is like blaming the rain for your house being blown down.

[KeLtiCxWaRRioIR]

im from scotland and im covered under the nhs which cover the whole of britian and even though ive never used the nhs im very greatful just to know thats its their should i ever need it and to be honest i dont see why americans are so agaist the new healtcare bill is it just because that rich americans dont want to see those who cant afford healthcare die?

[hadenufnow]

REPEAL the TAX & JAIL mandate bill nobody ever wanted...

[hadenufnow]

Kill the 3000 pg Illega HC TAX & JAIL TROJAN HORSE Mandate bill nobody wants..

Kill the bill...

[Taiyama2]

"Hello, American Healthcare, my name is David Goldhill; you killed my father; prepare to die!"

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I'm...I'm sorry. I had to do it. Just minus me all over the place.

[jack555a]

Thats his point! Think! He is saying the problem is government and more government run healthcare will make it worse! Use your head! think! Medicaid is run by

[xlntjoy]

O, sorry. I took him differently in that he is criticizing our current medical care. Guess I'm the one who is clueless as to what he is trying to say ... So I'll resubmit...American Medicine's the best in the world.

[XCritonX]

I was born in Canada with the universal health care system with virtually no private care. I live in Portugal where we also have universal health care and cheap private care.

On my last visit to the public hospital the doctor was 3 hours late, too hung over to work, didn't speak English or the native language of Portugal (Portuguese) and yelled at the patients for complaining about these things.

When this happened in Canada I couldn't do anything about it. Here I can choose private care.

[bilpayne]

why cant we get back to the days where you just pay the doctor get rid of the government supported corporation hospitals we have now replace with private ones many would be truly nonprofit

[codeman1979]

Because it makes sense and is simple, and that just two things that we can't do in this nation.

[yogagye]

...you need equipment, need trained personel (and that is very expensive), because not just doctors work there, the guy who picks up the trash needs the appropriate training also... ¿Can we do that in every hospital in the country? Seems a bit difficult to me... But let's start I say, but not just mention Medicare, that is misleading.

[yogagye]

And that commentary on min 3:15, that the sterility protocol of that "doctor" reduces infections by 2/3 or 3/4 is just a bunch of b.s., I'll like to know which doctor is that one... I'm not saying there is nothing more to improve, we can always improve of course, but is not as easy as this guy is saying, that with some nice protocol you cut infections so dramatically...

[yogagye]

I don't have to explain you each step of my thinking. I know where these people of the CATO Institute are going, saying that "Medicare" expects to be the client is NOT the most accurate statement ( 6:29), he just mentions Medicare because that is the government's run health care program. I hope you get it this time.

[hayesism]

Haha, real good attitude for a doctor, yogagye.

Yogagye: "I'm afraid you're going to need a tonsillectomy."

Patient: "But this is my first inflammation -- would a course of antibiotics not do?"

Yogagye: "I don't have to explain you each step of my thinking!"

[yogagye]

Ha ha ha ha, that was funny.

Yeah my friend, that's how I treat the dumbasses that think they are too clever saying that I think like a 10-year-old, but they don't know anything about what they are talking.

[hayesism]

"...anything about what they are talking."

Wow, can this guy commit to a bit or what?

[DaveC86]

great video, its too bad people are so simple minded that just automatically assume, without giving any real thought to the issues, that the solution is for the government to start 'paying the bills'.

[BloodiCheeseCake]

My condolences to Mr. Goldhill. We definitely need change in our healthcare system, unfortunately, you won't find the answers in washington. Republicans want to preserve our private health insurance/medicare system. While the Democrats want a single-payer system. Either way, they still want a corporation or a bureaucrat between patients and doctors. For some reason, in healthcare, insurance means covering everything, not just catastrophic events.

[yogagye]

As a physician, I will like to ask Mr. Goldhill how many people out of those 100,000 died in hands of the Medicare "infections"? And how many died from the private insurance companies infections? Isn't that the Health Care reform all about? Stoping these private health corporations that believe are the "final client", as Mr. Goldhill himself said.

[SeamofConsciousness]

yogagye, there is some validity to what you are saying. What you have to look at is how these "Private" insurance companies get away with such things. The simple answer is that they have no competition to drive them to improve. The government subsidizes them, and then passes regulations that make it next to impossible for new insurance companies to start. The state is responsible for these problems, and adding more regulation will only worsen the problem.

[k1awdttt]

With the US population now officially over 300,000,000, medical errors fatality has a fairly low rate of occurrence at 200,000 deaths per year (about 0.7%)... albeit it is preventable to up to 75% if they do it right.

CEO of game show network huh? Talk about chances...

The man has a point though - bargaining power is the best protection since human civilization :D

[MooseOfReason]

k1awdttt, Yeah, but when you're related to one of those 200,000, you'll be pretty upset.

[k1awdttt]

Oh, I do feel bad about what happened to those people. I was, merely pointing out the bitter irony of the strange thing called life.

If those deaths are preventable, then letting the system be the way it is is really an insult to the integrity of human...

It's easy to lament, and think how one could righteous "help" the others. By the time we finish watching this video, about 216 people died from hunger (24ppl@min).

But feeling sad doesn't change anything. That's why we have to act :)

[focus21x]

You still sound like a dirty politician, in spite of your "disclaimers," because you are afraid to mention the name of the hospital that mistreated your father. What are you afraid of? A law suit. So be it, you, loser!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[freesk8]

Right on!

Who pays the piper, calls the tune.

When we give up paying, we also give up control, and our rights.

[George46602]

@freesk8Hello. I'm a Drama student in London, and am about to start creating a piece of theatre about the American Health System. To do this, I need to interview (via e-mail) American citizens. Would you be interested in taking part? I would be very interested in your opinions, as an American, on the issues surrounding Health Care in you country.

Many thanks,

George.

[LeGioNoFZioN]

so very sorry to hear Mr Goldhill.

[hugesinker]

Don't forget to ask how it got this way in the first place. It wasn't always. Something changed.

[Pvtjamesryan2]

"cigarettes killed my father and raped my mother" - Family Guy