IF AIR TRAVEL WORKED LIKE HEALTH CARE

[ZachAttackSenor]

At around six minutes. AND MY RECORDS WOULDN'T BE LOST BECAUSE OF A SERVER ERROR IN ANOTHER STATE!!!!! 

[ksunthorn]

That's the way health care works in the US? Really?

You guys have no idea how bad you have it.

[al2i]

Tens of thousands of government regulations have brought us to this precipice of unworkability. It would have been great to have a Constitution that strictly separated government and health care.

[rsbandbj1]

i wonder how many americans know that many other countries has universal healthcare, and yet we pay wayyy more than any other country in the world.

[Catasyne]

This was more depressing than funny

[thecrew777]

Thank you for the laugh! I needed that. :)

[rpvitiello]

I love how everyone complains about "democrats" wanting to suck money from the government. Go look at taxes by state. Almost every state that votes democrat, pays MORE taxes than services they receive from the federal government. Almost every republican state (except Texas) TAKES more funding then taxes they pay.

Anyway this is not a debate about state healthcare, it's simply that the system is NOT a free market, it's a closed system that is designed to rip people off.

[grscubadiver]

Democrats think they have a right to everything and anything but at no cost to them. The evil rich can pay. Send every sick and pathetic Democrat off to Iraq and let them find their entitlements in a land where Sharia law prevails

[Christian121y]

@grscubadiver But they wouldn't like Iraq either.They actually drill *GASP* for their *OWN* oil there.That and the National Health Service there sucks so much,the socialist president Jalal Talabani actually had to go to America for open heart surgery(like many other leaders around the globe)

[salinasstan]

@grscubadiver I find it interesting how the go to line for the ignorant is "send...to...and see how they like it there" It is a shallow and meaningless statement devoid of sense. The video is simply a testament to the fractured healthcare system in the U.S. As alignment occurs and fragmentation dissolves we will find a much more efficient and less costly system. As for those who don't want a government run system, we already have one fed & state pay more than 60% of healthcare costs

[badtvbad1]

Hah, this was about insurance companies, not about socialism. Wanting rational delivery of healthcare is not socialism. He was upset about the lack of modernization and coordination, the fragmented continuity of care and the secrecy behind medical care costs. He doesn't want to fly to oregon for free, he just wants to fly to oregon in a reasonable amount of time in an expeditious manner with a clear price tag.

[TahoeTruth]

Their motto is "order from chaos", meaning they intentionally create the chaos (with their big corporate healthcare cluster f***); everyone panics; and then they provide the solution they really want which is socialized health care with total government control. Eventually they will give us more efficient 'health care', where they efficiently line us up for toxic drugs and then send us to the soylent green facility!

[evilyakko]

I dont have this problem cos im British, I can get a shiny new vagina for free if i wanted.

[TurbotortoiseStickle]

This sounds like what I went through, and am still going through, with New York State Workers Comp when I was injured.

[nottinmatterz2day]

more central control, more government...more new world order

[eddiedrachenberg]

This is a wonderful video! Very well put together and gets the point across.

[4453pedro]

olá gostei de seu video muito poste mais!!!!!!

logo fron;brasil.

[JonkyOnTheSpot]

If only a single, brilliant and customer-oriented Government bureaucracy (oxymoron?) could fill the void left by the idiotic system set up and permitted largely by the Fed/State governments and insurance lobbyists.

Let's simplify, get out of the way, and let the entrepreneurs innovate!

[rf5gh]

1 year ago in 1820 a man named fredrick osloft one day he was working in his lab until a ghost came by and killed him the next morning fredrick was nowhere to be seen 100 years later two boys went in the lab as a dare the boys where never seen again where aparently murdered now that u have read this comment tonight when u go to sleep the two boys and fredrick will come and murder you but you can stop this by posting this comment on 5 other videos by midnight

[Qntrix]

Luxurious!

[slick4844]

Rise up healthcare consumers! You don't cry to your government when your airline lets your down. The absurdities of this industry won't end until healthcare consumers refuse to accept it and begin to call out the doctors, insurers and medical facilities who perpetuate it. Is running an airline complex? Sure. Do they burden their consumers with their complexities...not the ones who want to keep and add customers. I'm a 20 year veteran of this industry and the excuses are just that...excuses

[TheGr8Chalupa]

This is brilliant and equally horrific. 

[carolyngwright]

To the idiot that uses Japanese healthcare ..I have just one question. How much do you pay in taxes??? Believe me, you ARE paying. It may be arranged differently, but you are paying. Why can't people understand that healthcare is NOT FREE or even close. SOMEONE pays even if if\t is not the patient, and that usually ends up being the taxpayer!!!!!! Wise up all you people that think something is free or better priced.

[bennett4490]

@carolyngwright I lived in the UK and had free healthcare there. Paid the same in taxes as I do in the US. That's the great myth. In fact the US takes taxes to pay for the existing Govt healthcare (Medicare, Medicaid, VA) and covers far less of the population but spends twice as much as the UK.

It's far better if it's the taxpayer than the patient - the patient is already suffering by being sick, why penalize them further? In the US the #1 cause of bankruptcy is healthcare bills! Shameful.

[ekpil2000]

@carolyngwright

You're right.

No such thing as a free lunch.

Still cost and outcomes can be measured.

In some area's the USA excels but in cost for outcome for the average person It's far from first I believe per person the USA spends the most so overall outcomes should be better than they are. At least that's what I think.

We should do better.

How do we get there?

[diane022755]

Obama care has nothing to do with this. This is the current state of health care now and has been for a long time. This kind of red tape is nothing new. But you CAN find physician services that don't work this way. My physicians office does not do business this way. Their office is a large cooperative of physicians and everything is done in one location. But the issue of funding is another matter everywhere!!!!! Depending on your insurance source.

[captsparks1]

This was funny as hell. Scary, but funny.

[NutritionalCleansing]

Nice Channel, keep it up I 'M SO INTO FITNESS

[Oktoberfesting]

Obamacare was signed on March 2010 with 59% of the people disapproving according to a CNN poll. The CBO scored Obamacare on six years of coverage for 10 years of taxes, which is how the CBO showed the bill to be deficit neutral . It’s unconstitutional mandating all citizens to purchase health care. Even Pelosi said, “We have to pass the bill, so you can find out what is in it.” watch?v=KoE1R-xH5To It’s also meant to take over industry watch?v=p-bY92mcOdk

Allen West 2012

[diane022755]

@Oktoberfesting : Obamacare has nothing to do with this. This system has been in place forever. Healthcare and organizing your health care is so complicated. I am a nurse and I don't understand it.

[Oktoberfesting]

@diane022755

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Obamacare will destroy America if it isn't repealed. Obama and the democrats are banking on it. They hate America.

[ekpil2000]

@Oktoberfesting

Are you being sarcastic or paranoid?

[MrBanditoRazor]

@Oktoberfesting Im sorry but the bottomline is that our health care system is in ruins. You can try to make it about politics, and mask the issue, but at the end of the day the truth is our health care system fails. Pay 50$ extra taxes... vs playing 100$ to get it through my job... yeah, much better not have to have that tax increase even though it means paying LESS over all.

[Oktoberfesting]

@diane022755

.

It's a 2,700 page monstrosity filled with taxes and laws that will ruin the country and have everyone go into a single-payer system similar to Canada. Most Canadians would opt to come here for their health care because we have the greatest system in the world. Obama wants to collapse America to fundamentally transform it and healthcare is his eticket.

[TheBlueGuitarMan]

I hope the US gets its act together and allows its citizens to receive affordable comprehensive health care not tied to one's employment.

[6582bucc]

I think you're smoking somthing, ace. If you don't understand you're paying for the difference between $28 to get your wisdom teeth pulled, and the actual cost, you need to take a crash course in economics. There's a word for that difference. It's called taxes. But i forgot--you leftwing socialists don't pay any. Sorry.

[wigglytuff20031]

@6582bucc

Are you smoking something. Your complaining about taxes? Or would your rather have a $40,000. Oh I guess we'll have to take your house and you can go &$## yourself. Yes that is a better system, way better for the rich. Maybe when you get sick you can tell us what is better. Wow

[bpstojkovic]

@6582bucc There are US funded studies which show why a Japanese MRI is indeed 10x cheaper than a US one: the Japanese government has regulated the price (imposed a maximum), which in turn made doctors prescribe the procedure a lot more (it's cheap and non-invasive), which eventually made money for the providers (they make money on the huge volume). It has nothing to do with taxes, just better organization. Besides, do we not pay taxes in the US? It's just that we get little service for them.

[cornflaik]

@6582bucc

You sir are an ass

[pisforpearl]

this video is why we use the internet for almost everything now. calling people one company at a time (in the 90's) sucked.

[seriouslybad6767]

Call a different airline fool

[ddemento53]

I am also a physician and current CMIO, and I thought this was quite funny. Even though it is not accurate for every system (mine included) due to improved automation and information sharing, it is very accurate for many systems in the US. It is entertaining, and most of my physician friends agree. :-)

[mbenitez50]

This is a rediculous comparison. No one ever crashed a hospital into the World Trade Center. Keep the government's hands off my Medicare!

[suzenrose]

This was great

I hope to show to my students

[narutokun19]

Very well done, and so true.

I swear you go to a hospital and you fill out repeat the same damn history six times. And that's when you're only going through the emergency room....

[I2GhettoEnufffaU]

that receptionist is so annoyin!!!

[kristinwhitehair]

No has a fax machine...

[clancelotta]

The VAST majority receive care within their local health system, so, while nice, is the cost of being able to access a Vermont resident's med list / health history in Nebraska worth the cost? Especially when <gasp> the patient can actually TELL you his/her history and any tests can be readily obtained from the remote health system's medical records department via fax or email within (usually) 10-20 minutes.

I enjoy tech and I use EHRs. Local health systems should choose what works for them.

[clancelotta]

To all you anti-big business types: where do you think the idea of a nationwide health-care computer system comes from? Who profits from the sale of equipment, software, maintenance contracts, and whatever personal data future regulations allow them to sell to third parties for marketing/research purposes?

[clancelotta]

God forbid anyone take responsibility for their own care! Imagine interacting with a doctor all by YOURSELF! Wouldn't it be better if government (mommy) did it for me? Instead of maintaining a copy of your own health history / med list and PHOTOCOPYING it (10 cents) for new providers, lets tax the crap out of the 53% of the population that still pays taxes to fund a billion dollar electronic beaurocracy that raises the cost of everything!

Personal Responsibility:Liberals = Garlic:Vampires

[BlacknWhitesAlright]

@clancelotta Let me guess - you've never worked in or around the healthcare system, right?

[clancelotta]

Actually, I'm a physician... not an Internet armchair philosopher.

I personally see anywhere from 20-45 patients per day. I not only use

EHRs daily, but I am also personally involved in the implementation

of our entire health systems's new Electronic record.

You?

[I2GhettoEnufffaU]

@clancelotta o shove it up ur money hungry ass, physicians dont even do shit, the antibiotics do the job for them! i can diagnose myself better! ive been to so many different physicians my whole life and maybe all but one or two couldn't do anything but refer me to a specialist, waste of time!

[clancelotta]

@I2GhettoEnufffaU Wow.....I don't quite know how to respond to that one (except maybe with some Thorazine....)

[I2GhettoEnufffaU]

@clancelotta and also, IT systems aren't even the FUTURE, they are the NOW...get with it caveman...and no doctor's office will accept another doctor's offices photocopied forms u idiot!

[clancelotta]

@I2GhettoEnufffaU As a real doctor and healthcare IT consultant, I do not completely agree. IT in healthcare is in it's infancy (or perhaps it's toddler years), but very exciting things are on the horizon...

Also, we use copies of records all the time, so I don't know where your other notion came from.

[TheValereb]

OMG how true is this my nurse friends!

[matqreyears]

haha...u ppl cant fly coz of volcano ash!!

[dadoctah]

They left out the part where they won't sell him a ticket at all if he has ever flown to a city that has ever had a plane make an emergency landing. Preexisting condition, you know....

[matqreyears]

i think this is stupid! After the long talk the provider is giving he just hung up! She is just doing her job and some companies or airlines really won't share their info. Some pax wants to check but we can't due the system doesnt allow us! we cant do anything either and when we feedback to our supervisor they won't hear! And everyday she has to listen to the same complaints! you think she like? her life sucks! nobody would want to work there so u ppl cant travel! go row a boat!

[okisoba]

@matqreyears you've totally missed the point...

[themonsieurpistache]

wow - this guy is a huge douche. <3 stevi

[Healthcareforallweho]

Funny. Too much bureaucracy just to protect the insurance companies' profits. Wish I could buy direct from the government instead of wasting my money on private insurers to deny care to people. The public option is coming after the health reform bill passes and the insurers continue to fail to control costs.

[JayPourte]

The problems with healthcare information technology are not related to protecting the insurance companies profits. They are directly related to how complex medical information is and how it has not been standardized like other industries. You do not understand the underlying issues here. If you are honestly interested in the real issues here, I will discuss it further.

[IceManEXE]

Wow, that guy was a huge douche. I hope he doesn't have health insurance either.

[hadenufnow]

@jciljc,

oblamadonotcare works if the intent is to take out the elderly with a HALF TRILLION in cuts to medicare..

Wasn't that the intent??

[jciljciljcil]

Obamacare will work great -- until someone gets sick.

[rosscollinswilliams]

I actually didn't recognize any similarities with my health care. Try using an HMO and you won't have those problems.

[hadenufnow]

Hey Ledhed,

Smartest thing I've heard yet...

[leddhed]

Just pay the damn doctor.

[ardavis57]

Very every one of the idiotic comments made by the lady in the video, there's a regulation which directly covers it. Want your health information to be exchanged? Sorry - HIPAA, and its associated bankruptcy-inducing fines, prevent that. Don't like to fill out your health history 1000 times a year - thank the malpractice attorneys; relying on a history obtained elsewhere is proof of "negligence". E-mail? Back to HIPAA - e-mail isn't secure enough. And it goes on and on...

[JayPourte]

The problems you mention are not the main underlying cause. HIPPA does not prevent medical information exchange. The main problem is that medical data is not standardized.

[hadenufnow]

Hey chumps,,

You be payin fo me an my byotches wid all da million dollar alcohol rehab & toxicity problems wid all the kids be poppin out you be pay for..git used to havin yo pockets picked by da man who makes you think you like it...he be good like...& smile when I told you that...chumps

[mykonos329]

are you really as stupid as you type........fok ebonics chump

[AlexTrebucq]

If you think health care's bad now, then wait until the government controls it.

[jprg12]

The entire time I wanted to punch the lady in the mouth.

[ganapatikamesh]

Love this video! Finally, an example that most anyone can actually understand when it comes to what all is wrong with our health care system. If the airlines ran like the health care industry, they'd be bankrupt. The difference is, people need health care, but when it comes to travel we can find other ways to get to where we need to go (train, bus, car, boat, walk).

[cybersleuth58]

The best part is - if you don't agree with their decision you can file an appeal but the appeal is heard not by an independent body but by the same people who denied your care to begin with. Why do we put up with this rather than demanding a change? We are sit around and bitch about it, we all feel helpless and at their mercy but nothing ever changes. So now what???

[healthmusic]

A very powerful illustration of the terrible mess in the USA healthcare. If Air Traffic Control was like US healthcare there would be lots of air accidents because the controllers are busy, shuffling to check the air pilot's insurance.

I do an act with a fire hat; someone called, his house was on fire; but I couldn't send units out because he didn't have fire insurance, even though he had children trapped in the burning house.

[carolcrown]

Not only insurance companies but every company out there is exactly the same when you try to communicate with them. Pleasant,sickeningly sweet sounding voices that talk you in circles and have no concern for what concerns you.

[funandeducation]

omg what total and utter bullshit... and it's the truth! We can kill hundreds of thousands in a war where we have no business... but cannot help our own citizens with their health care. No wonder many do not appreciate America... we are not compassionate to our own citizens. Very, very sad and disturbing. #37 for the wealthiest, most powerful nation in the world? Folks, this is NOT acceptable!! We can do BETTER. The GOP needs work with the unpartisanship of President Obama.

[kanelalee]

LOL, that is just to good!

[diezungen]

americans are total idiots to put up with their third-world health care system.

[aeon23]

I don't deal with American health care anymore...I'm on the Japanese National Health Care system now. Yes, it is infinitely better. The most I've ever paid is $70 and that's because I had an MRI. Plus, my medicine was included in the bill...along with the doctor's consultaion. The dentist is cheaper. I had 2 wisdom teeth pulled for $28 (pain medicine included) So, you right wingers can put that in your pipes and smoke it.

[GoblinXXX]

@aeon23 Wow. All that, violent animated porn, AND panty vending machines? I'm moving to Japan! (And at 5'8", I'll also seem tall, so all the more reason to go.)

[aeon23]

@GoblinXXX Actually, 5'8" isn't tall here either. There are tons of tall people here. I'm talking 6'0"-mayber 6'8"

[Breck1011]

@aeon23 That sounds great, is it all paid for by tax payers? Do the 50% of people in the United states that don't pay any tax get a free ride off the people that work for a living? What makes it worth while for people to keep paying and paying for the lazy people that just want a free ride? Should they just be happy to be helping?

[aeon23]

@Breck1011 - This system isn't a free ride. If you don't pay for it, you can't use it. I know you're trying to prove your argument that universal health care is a bad idea and couldn't possibly work, but you're basing your argument on right wing propaganda. The truth of the matter is universal health care works just fine. You lost the argument as soon as you started it. This is because you argue from a platform of ignorance. You've never experienced universal health care first hand.

[Breck1011]

@aeon23 Wait, Wait, Wait. Are you saying that if someone doesn't pay in, they don't get medical coverage? So how do the 50% of Americans that don't pay any tax get coverage? Are you saying that they will just get sick and die because there isn't a free ride? I don't care what wing you listen to, that just won't fly. You are leaving 150 million people out of the system. I am not saying Universal health care is a bad idea. We have that at my work. You work, Your covered.

[aeon23]

@Breck1011 Of course there is a system for those below the poverty line. This applies to single mothers, those on unemployment (lost their job, not slackers) and the elderly. We also have a pension system though. This will pay for the elderly once they retire. It's by no means perfect, but it's a far better system then America has. Before you try to disprove it, realize that I'm an American...I've lived under both systems...I prefer this one 150%.

[reidksmith]

@aeon23 ....has it occured to you that the cost is covered by taxes?

[reidksmith]

@aeon23 ....has it occurred to you that the cost is covered by taxes?

[aeon23]

@reidksmith -Yes, I'm aware of that. I'm also aware of the fact that Americans pay a lot of taxes, with very little return to their investment.

[Christian121y]

@aeon23 Congratulations,you're proud that you made someone else pay for your healthcare.Either that or your health care expenses went onto Japan's public debt.Goddamn that's a beautiful system.

[SuperAhmed1337]

@Christian121y I hope you get really, really sick some day, lose your healthcare coverage and end up bancrupt, having to sell all your wealth, like so many others in the US. It's really a great system you're fighting for. And with that I don't mean capitalism, I mean healthcare companies robbing your money. And before you say anything, I am really sick and I'm glad my countries healthcare is a lot better than yours. Brainwashed much?

[Christian121y]

@SuperAhmed1337 Which is the reason why your leaders come to my country ALL THE TIME for healthcare and the majority of the world's biomedical research is done here.Indeed,there's a very sizable chance that the only reason you're alive right now is because of research done here in the United States.And who exactly would be brainwashing me Ahmed?The evil corporations?Why but of course!!!The same ones that provided medical devices and research that probably keep you alive?Most likely........

[Christian121y]

@SuperAhmed1337 And also realize you didn't address my point about essentially footing your bill onto other people's taxpayer dollars or your State's debt.Instead you go onto a bourgeois self hating tract about how there will be some mythical day in the future for me where I'll god forbid have to foot my own medical expenses like a responsible human being.I might also have to pay for my own food too.What you say you pay for your own food too?

[Christian121y]

@SuperAhmed1337 Well just think of all those poor poor people who had to go bankrupt to feed their own families with food you selfish jackass.Yeah YOU might have the money to pay your own food,but think of the children,man!!!Think of the children!!!I mean that's a really great system you're fighting for(paying for your own food).And with that I don't mean capitalism,I mean food companies robbing your money.And before you say anything,I'm really hungry right now and I'm glad my State gives me

[Christian121y]

@SuperAhmed1337 food stamps which allows my country to have a better system of food deliverance than your god awful antisocial country.Hell more than 34% of all adults over 20 in my country are OBESE(which by the way affects healthcare costs in NO way whatsoever) which just goes to show how much better our food distribution system is than yours.Brainwashed much?

[DecSop1]

I'm even more glad than I usually am that I'm British... Thank God for Beveridge.

[chishi1]

The lack of single unifying system that can exchange data is due to the HIPAA law and interpretation. This was originally designed to try to assure that any (electronic) data would not or could not be accessed by other than authorized personnel - and authorized by you. The interpretations of the regulations has made it even more difficult to exchange information.

This skit only covers one aspect of the disjointed medical care delivery system.

[tncanoeguy]

So true. I had a trip to the emergency room recently and received 5 bills:

Hospital

Attending physician (didn't do Jack)

Specialist (did most of the work)

Ultrasound tech

Lab fee

Don't know why the ultrasound tech and lab fee were separate from the hospital charge.

[chishi1]

The Hospital is only a "facility" or location fee.

YOu forgot the separate radiologist reading fee for your ultrasound.

The ultrasound and labs are "procedures."

The advantage of being in the Emergency Department as opposed to in your prmary care office, or an independent walk-in clinic is that the referral/consultation occurred at that time, on site.

[rmrmr]

I think healthcare needs to be reformed but I don't want a record being kept on me. No way.

[rmrmr]

They keep records but as is said in the video they are not well coordinated so they can't really affect things. What I should say is I don't want a central health record.

[laydydee]

@rmrmr...A record is kept on you everytime you visit the doctor or hospital. It is called your medical record/file. The problem today is that information is siloed. So if for whatever reason you had to go to a different provider that is not associated with your current provider you will have to fill out forms again with your medical history etc. All the stuff is redundant and you might forget some pertinent information when filling out the forms again. So now there are diff med rec of you.

[rmrmr]

I know all of my pertinent medical information. I don't need a universal record and I don't want doctors to be able to share information I don't want them to share.

[mostliberal]

You already have a flight record, academic record, and criminal record being kept. Imagine if all this shit happened every time you had to fly (as shown), get a job (ok, technically you provide your history, but its pointless since its so easy for bosses to find out on their own), and everyone can just buy your criminal history offline. Stop bitching, there's info out there about us all that's just as important that can be obtained at the touch of a button.

[rmrmr]

That doesn't mean I want to give even more of my personal information to everyone. You know there's a reason for doctor-patient confidentiality, right?

[mostliberal]

Doctor-patient confidentiality doesn't exist. It's bullshit. Doctors know each other, and they keep huge social networks of doctors, even outside the country in which they operate. If you become too difficult a patient because of a complex medical problem, or if they think you might sue them, they can tell the other doctors you go to not to treat you, and pretend like they're still working on it. Its called medical black-listing, look it up.

[rmrmr]

A universal record would make medical black-listing into a standard, encouraged practice. Why is that a good thing?

[mostliberal]

It already is standard. All doctors go to this website that only doctors can log onto, and share information about each other. I was surprised when one of the specialists I went to kept in touch with one of the surgeons who operated on me in another country on the other side of the world.

[Skolhed]

@rmrmr This is true, but you do know there's no such thing as insurer-customer confidentiality, right?

[teleutube]

Health care system IS ALREADY WORKING LIKE AIR TRAVEL.... airlines dropping everyday flights like flies...due to travellers' pre-existing conditions...

Ten of thousands travellers dropped from airplanes every year, WITHOUT ANY PARACHUTES !

GOOD LUCK ON THE WAY DOWN....for other travellers' safety sake.

[Fetishmale]

I love and support amrikanere, but I`m very glad that I live in Denmark or any other civilized country, when I become sick or injured.

[InteractiveViewer333]

...the themes here are also common to the school systems BTW. And don't think 'hey, that's socialized!' SOME things are socialized about it, like money, much of the way the school conducts schoolings is all independent; anyone ever heard of an independent school district? It has that name for a reason. We pay hundreds dollars for sets of books created by professional organizations who research how to help kids learn, then barely use them (each district would rather try a new experiment each yr

[glorpy2]

You forgot the part where the airline doesn't actually give you the price ahead of time, but waits a couple months to bill you as it churns through a horrifically slow insurance reimbursement system (even if you don't have insurance, naturally).

Yes the market is competitive, but it is only competitive for insurance companies. The US healthcare system is structured to benefit insurance providers, not healthcare providers or consumers.

[rg0057]

Keep my health information away from the Internet, thanks. Anyone who has used youtube knows its no place for important information.

[d03boy]

The internet is quite safe using some very simple levels of security. Really.

[glorpy2]

Erm, so you also don't use telecommunications, banking, transport, security, education, retail or manufacturing providers? Because they all rely on the Internet for securely relaying their important internal information.

[InteractiveViewer333]

There is also no reason everything has to be a part of the public domains...we'll need to talk to the government again about that one (there really is a way to have responsible AND minimal internet regulation).

[glorpy2]

@InteractiveViewer333: Huh? Nobody (of importance) has proposed abolishing copyright privileges, which is all "public domain" is about.

Your comment seems off-topic.

[InteractiveViewer333]

notice: I didn't say "public domain", I just mentioned the domains (i.e. names). I shouldn't have made a statement using words that looked similar to something else. Anyway, I was referring to the idea that every company should just toss their shit onto the commonly used internet instead of dividing the networks or the way they are looked up (at the very least!).

[acidqueen69]

hilarious and depressing

[pentel1911]

boo

[NYjoshK1]

that was pretty good.... And sadly TRUE

[yohanbab]

if that was the case, i'll just take the train insted! the should have an option to jump over the window!

[iamborghini1]

this country is way fucked up.... its everyman for themselves... stay away from those wacky christians....

[terilgus]

OMG, they tagged this as COMEDY?! It's horrifying, and too true.

[noraview]

Very very, funny! I loved her happy cheery voice right up to the end. Always feels like you're talking to a script.

[ticklebug]

@noraview: Yep. You are talking to a memorized script. That's a good thing because if these agents talked how they really felt inside, you wouldn't like what they would have to say.

I used to be one of those airline agents, and should you stray from the rules/script, you get fired. Honestly, we would REALLY love to be more human in front of customers.

[prothonotar]

A wonderful Doctor gave this guy 6 months to live. When he couldn't pay his bills, he gave him another 6 months.

I LOVE THIS CROWD!

[aprilshih]

yeah, this is amazing. love both you altons!

[anniekelleherct]

a man gets a call from a hospital ... his wife's been in a terrible accident. he goes to the emergency room and the doctor comes out and tells him: your wife's in awful condition. she's going to need round the clock care, physical therapy, special nurses, and oh by the way none of this is covered by your insurance. oh my god, says the man, what will i do? what will i do? aw, says teh doc, don't worry, i was just messing with you. she's dead.

[PatriceFitz]

Brilliant and painful.

[nikflorida]

WOW

[TheOnlyCatman]

great video!!!!

[daverydc]

I think if healthcare operated like the airlines it'd be even scarier--ten hour waits in the doctos office, etc

[PatriceFitz]

We already wait in the doctor's office. Only now we pay too much for it too. IF we have coverage at all.

[nylund154]

Best airline system in the world! Just ask the GOP.

[Heraldblog]

That was excellent!

[prysmith37]

So on target it hurts. The sad part is that air travel is becoming more like health care.

[dtnoip28]

Funny thing is the main reason people have to repeat the same exact information to medical companies is because the same exact people keep suing the providers to keep their medical records private.

Of course, all would be solved if we put everything under a government run system. But then, that would lead to tens of thousands of people losing their jobs at insurance companies, leading to their families and children starving without food or money.

[PatriceFitz]

Do you work for an insurance company? Sometimes progress requires change.

I'm sure that when air travel became popular, those who worked on transatlantic passenger ships had to find new work.

[eafalf]

The big difference is that transatlantic flights were a product of the FREE market. No one was forced onto the planes.

[dtnoip28]

@PatriceFitz

I actually don't, and I don't think I know anyone who do, tbh.

However, your analogy doesn't really work. The move from oceanic travel to air travel took a long time (about 40-50 years). However, instituting government run healthcare would be a drastic change in a relatively short amount of time.

Also, you do have to realise that insurance workers are normal people who just want a job to feed their families. The executives would be the bad guys if there were any.

[cgjr53]

You are so on Target, Guys! Good work.

Sadly, I am actually working thru a pile of medical bills, trying to make sense of them, while I watch the video.

[prpentest]

that sounds like me for every single doctor ive visited (about two hundred thousand). I hate the way things are, spot on!

[ShuminaGmail]

Great job! I think I've flown them a few times. Spot on.

[CuteThingsExploding]

WOHOO MY FAVORITE CHANNEL!!! you guys are so cute