Real People DENIED Real Healthcare: Nathan Wilkes

[MrCRM114]

I live in the UK.

We all pay about 11% of salary for the National Health Service, you don't get a choice.

Forget the bullsh!t you may have heard about the NHS.

If you're sick, an ambulance will come and take you to hospital and you will get treatment.

I had a heart attack - ambulance took 10mins to arrive - attended by 3 doctors - clot busting drugs, intensive care - my own nurse for 12 hours, (she sat by my bed).

This all at 6 o'clock in the morning.

Total cost - £0.0p.

[TheShasiti]

I worked for United Healthcare for several years. The way the system is set up is definately in favor of the company. We have to get rid of the middleman which means socialized medicine. No it is not perfect but it is better then what we have now. I live in AZ our money goes to illegals. Yes, some peope will die while waiting for treatment. The government tells us they have no money to cover Healthcare yet they can send billions of dollars overseas every year?? What's wrong with this picture??

[stringlov]

It's TIME to TAX the RICH $ BIG TIME HEALTH CARE should be a RIGHT for everyone in USA and make USA no.1 again

[Helljumper91]

People think that people like me support this kind of shit. No, its unbelievable what the insurance companies get away with. There needs to be reform. But the bill that was passed last year will end up killing just as many people. Its already been proven that it doesnt work in other countries, because those people flock to the US to get treated. BUT, the system the way it is right now cant stay.

[MikeDSr13]

KEEP IN MIND sry caps!! yea he runs and plays not like me any more bc now all that playing ..bc we wanted 2 feel like a noremal child!! naw we cant walk or run and our joints are a lot wers then , then they were , so now iam takeing my med,s a lot more now then when i was a child!! And you dont sound like a jerk but i would ask a queshtion before yousay some of the thing you say...sry my spelling is vary bad!! haha..little slow had a bleed in it when i was yunger...now iam ssslllllooooowwwwww!

[MikeDSr13]

KEEP IN MIND sry caps!! yea he runs and plays not like me any more bc now all that playing ..bc we wanted 2 feel like a noremal child!! naw we cant walk or run and our joints are a lot wers then , then they were , so now iam takeing my med,s a lot more now then when i was a child!! And you dont sound like a jerk but i would ask a queshtion before yousay some of the thing you say...sry my spelling is vary bad!! haha..little slow had a bleed in it when i was yunger...now iam ssslllllooooowwwwww!!

[s3ductive1s]

To XTheGuvX i dont mean to sound like a total jerk but you have to understand that every body responds different to illness so only because you've only spent 2million it doesnt mean that another person will spend the same. You need to have in mind that each not every health insurence is the same some you pay more others pay less. I think we all know that our healthcare system has for generations worked in a corrupt manner. keep in mind hes a child he runs and plays and is very different from you

[lepcook]

Call me cold hearted but we got so far in capitalism that we dont even realize the value of money with all the money they used to save one child they couldve made hundreds of family live for a year i know people will tell me but if he was your own you would see it differently it always comes back to the question what is really the right thing to do. Was it really the childs desire to keep living like this or was it out of selfishness that his parents kept him alive.

[aimike3]

He is an outlier; a very rare case. People shouldn't be forced to buy health care because of rare cases like this, and tax money shouldn't go to rare cases either. It should go to the military or to the states for fixing roads and other stuff.

[Momofableeder]

@aimike3 There is a lot of families with children with Hemophilia, it is only rare because it is not publicized as much as other conditions. There is a whole field of medicine related to bleeding disorders called Hematology. They are not rare and I know a lot of other mothers who would prefer to see their children get the medicine to keep them alive, the same medicine the military uses to treat acute bleeding in battle, over fixing roads.

[adamwittek]

Hello Nathan & viewers of this video, I have a request and as this moving story appears to be a good place to reach the people I'm looking for, I hope it's okay that I post here.

I'm an actor & theatre practitioner in London, currently working on a verbatim project on the AMERICAN HEALTH CARE SYSTEM and needing willing participants to share their views & experiences. Please click my Channel for more info. I'm looking forward to hearing from you, Nathan, or any page visitor. Thanks.

[FortNikitaBullion]

Does anyone have the contact information for this family, I would like to make a donation.

[kevinkards1]

how can this be allowed to happen in a so called civillised country

[XTheGuvX]

whoops! I need factor VIII, not factor VII, factor VII deficiency is significantly more rare than factor VIII deficiency, and thus probably makes it a hell of a lot more expensive. that makes as as* of me for assuming, I need to start watching the full video before responding to it. But either way, hemophilia treatment is NOT CHEAP!!!

[XTheGuvX]

I have severe hemophilia, am 23 years old right NOW, and haven't gone through 2 million dollars in healthcare in all 23 & 1/3rd years of my life. a 1 million dollars per year price for healthcare for a severe hemophiliac means to me (no offense to parents here) that they need to train their kid better, and not let him be involved (if he is) in "dangerous" sports. So no football or hockey if he is in either of those. A guide on living with hemophilia? ask me, I should be a motivational speaker.

[franklikespolitics]

We will get a Single Payer Health Plan when we have as many or more protestors in front of the White House as we had during the Viet Nam War, not until then. Until we learn that real change does not come from politicians but from rallys, strikes and other forms of protest, we will not move an inch. Are you ready for a million people march for Single Payer Health plan. What is your Union doing to build a nationwide strike for Single Payer Health Plan? Such actions would Single Payer NOW.

[amielrox]

murderers, these republicans and bureaucrats, all of them.  it's unforgivable, putting profit over the lives of the people they claim to care about.

[StuBotNYC]

where are all the knuckle dragging republican obstructionists here? Maybe REAl stories of REAL people is something they can NOT deny???

[barbcinque]

20,000 americans die yearly because they are denied healthcare. Insurance CEO's make money by DENYING CLAIMS not by saving lives. Why would anyone trust the greedy selfish filthy rich that live off of our premiums and by letting us die.

STOP PAY OR DIE SYSTEM

This is like modern Eugenics...the republicans are fighting to let poor and working class die off.

[robb1031]

Under NO CIRCUMSTANCES should an insurance middleman come between a patient and his/her doctor - particularly, if the insurance middleman stands to gain from it.

To put it simply, IT'S A CONFLICT OF INTEREST.

[marsstrain]

this is SOO sad! I have a chronic illness and am given top care.. I can't imagine thinking about money when I am ill and making some of the decisions you are having to make. I have 5 dr. involved in my care and have had millions of dollars in test and treatment. The difference? I live in Canada

[longykid]

I HAVE SEVERE A HAEMOPHILIA

[skuvet]

Bless your heart! I am deeply touched. I wish I could help, my Nanny job ends in a week, I have no new job to go to yet and My student loans are in collections as I am not able to pay them. What can I say to you, how can we help you?

[kipptumor]

The right and big business love to squawk about beaurocrats between you and your doctor, but we have allowed CEOs to come between us and our health care for years now. Insurance companies do not want people to be sick - especially when they have to pay out. We have the only for-profit system on Earth now. This is what you get for making million-dollar bonuses for insurance company CEO's more important than health.

[nohealthcare62]

I was sprayed with malithion for 7 Years and I cant get no help no doctor or lawyer to help me .I was also refused emergncey room care in 2003 nurse said state was bankrupted from illegals and walmart I had perfect credit .

[SupportWeThePeopleKB]

Nathan's situation is an outrage. We are being played for chumps.

Our best interests are NEVER the concern of the health care profiteers. They are legally responsible to their stockholders.

Our best interests should ALWAYS be the concern of legislators, nevertheless, only in rare cases do legislators consider our best interests to be their fiduciary responsibility. Those honest brokers not only sponsor HR676 or S730, they actually want it passed.

[BillySevern]

i got severe haemophilia a

all those who think its disturbing it aint! your lucky you aint gotta live with it!

[imthekingoftheworld]

Health insurance CEOs are equal to a pile of dog manure, with a mixure of vomit.

[patty7beth]

People who advocate and lobby for this system have been co-opted and "bought" by the system.

There is a special suite in hell for those who sold their soul for cash made on human suffering, and those who spend millions lobbying to keep the racket in place. Enjoy eternal damnation. Maybe while you're being tormented you can explain to your new landlord the dangers of socialized medicine and how unchecked market profiteering benefits us all. Good luck with that.

[ewkajackson]

This is deeply disturbing.

[aviomaster]

-- I think CEO's of Insurance companies should be sent to AFGANISTAN ... to FEEL MUJAHEEDEN HEALTH CARE ... THEY use only sharp knives ...

[aviomaster]

-- THEY do not have anestesia .

[feejo]

Yes it is devastaging, americans are ripped of by the gouvernament that is alowing that to happen, just to make doctors, hospital and insurance compagny make more profits. And it is working, but people are dieing from it. It is serious that voters on next election open eyes. Who can pretend you have the best medical system if the world like Mc Cain say so?

[coasterfreak100]

It's not the government.. its us!  We allow this to happen.

[srubi74]

One of the problems is that yes, when you go on disability or lose all of your money, you can get Medicaid. But then it is very difficult to get off... you need insurance, because you have a chronic illness, but who will cover you? And what if you lose your job? So people end up stuck on Medicaid.

[SallyH499]

The UK and Canada have their problems, as no system is perfect. But our problems are far, far worse and that is the point. The UK and Canada also answer to the public and their problems can be addressed. Our problems are well hidden and dealth with behind closed board room doors and not to the benefit of patients but to profits of stock holders. This is why our system is failing and the health stats of those in Canada and the UK are superior to ours.

[SallyH499]

Dane, all the factors you mention and more are taken into consideration when the WHO ranks the health outcomes of countries. We rank #37 in the world and spend more than twice per capita and as GNP. This is a direct result of the for profit private insurance waste.

[SallyH499]

Dane, my industry (TV) was DE-regulated in the early 90s and, absent of regulations, we lost creative and ownership rights, and what was once a diverse and competitive community has been wiped out. Only a handful of big media companies now control the networks - distribution and content. Few of us can make a living anymore and without rules our "free market" has become a "rigged market" for the few rich and powerful. The idea that all Government is bad and all private is good is absurd.

[SallyH499]

With national health insurance, the systems answer to the public/patients first and everything is in the open so problems can be addressed. Our system answers to shareholder's profit's before patient's care ALWAYS (by law) and problems are hidden and dealt with behind closed boardroom doors in favor of profit. This doesn't work for healthcare.

[SallyH499]

Dane3026 - do you blog for insurance companies? You sound like the insurance astroturf. sourcewatch . org / index . php ?title = Astroturf_blogging - to read up on Astroturf blogging From SourceWatch.

[SallyH499]

Shopping around doesn't apply to healthcare. If your kid is choking do you shop around? Can you predict where you might be when an emergency happens? The only concern should be to get to the nearest doctor. If you call the fire dept. should they check to see if you're covered before dispatching a truck? Or have some middleman tell them how many trucks to send? Should the fire dept. have to fight with the middleman for payment or should you pay the bill? Healthcare is not a commodity.

[youseptube]

emigrate to Europe, you'll get free treatment for your kid there

[mikedmo1]

this mabe my cry for the ferst time in a long time....werd thing is that i moved down 2 F.L about 9 mouths ago and i had 2 move back 2 P.A bc of almost the same reson...

[SallyH499]

And making a profit in healthcare is fine as long as it doesn't involve denying care. No more than profit for the fire department to refuse to show up if you have a fire. Oh, the fire department is free. Gee, I think I will go set my house on fire. And if healthcare is free that means I can ask for two colonoscopies instead of just one?

[dane3026]

SallyH499, by stating "Gee, I think I will go set my house on fire" are you attempting to argue that the phenomnenon of *moral hazard* does not exist? Or that *moral hazard* is only theoretical and people truly don't live riskier lives when they can transfer that risk to someone else?

[SallyH499]

bottom line is our system is failing. Countries with single payer systems like that embodied in HR 676 have better health stats and pay half what we have. Period. Those are the models we should be looking to for answers instead of wasting time trying to figure out some new fangled way for insurance companies to stay in business.

[SallyH499]

John stossel is a libertarian kook and is 20/20 piece was very onesided.

[dane3026]

Search youtube and watch John Stossel's "SICK IN AMERICA"; it's a great series of videos!!!

[SallyH499]

Not everything should be for profit. It works for selling cars and shoes but not for basic needs like healthcare. And what we have is clearly NOT working. And your oil change anaolgy is just ridiculous.

[dane3026]

Sally, you're responding to the wrong conversation. Your post should be listed under my direct response to your question. The comment you're responding to is a new topical-post directing viewers to John Stossel's piece.

[debbydolittle]

So sad you have to think of divorce, or quiting your job just to receive help! Your son is so worth it!

[MySeizures]

Dear Sir/Madam, After working hard for over 25 years and built a decent life for my self and my family, because of and due to the last 10 years of persistent epileptic seizures, I lost my wife, my home, my job, my car and my driving license to become destitute homeless. I've been told by Stanford University, I need brain surgery to cure my seizures but I don't have health insurance. Can you please help, Thank you, Regards, Gerrie

[jakesmom1009]

I am so sad to see your story. Unfortunately this is the same story all across the US when you have someone in your family affected by hemophilia. It's outrageous!! A tragedy. I am praying for your family and all families affected by hemophilia.

[expresspress]

What a sad story.

[muminoz]

a shocking case - i am sorry to say it but why would any nation now look to the usa as a role model when this type of manipulation of the health care rules by health care companies is allowed to continue? when will you people stand up and shout ENOUGH IS ENOUGH to your 'leaders'? As an onlooker, this is disgraceful and would never happen in australia. come and live here!

[aviomaster]

Cases like this one in USA ... you have  alot ... ALOT ... more than you think ..... BUT euther they are scared to speak or or TV stations wont put it on the AIR .....

[dane3026]

His family has a sad situation, unfortunately this man's story is being use to promote an UNVIABLE solution. If the private health insurance industry "only" cares about profits, what will a gov't run health plan for EVERYONE care about? (Hint, hint: COSTS.) Read Dr. David Gratzer's book "The Cure: How Capitalism Can Save American Health Care" for a better understanding of healthcare issues globally.

[clops]

hey dane3026 go fuck yourself

[dane3026]

Your comments are VULGAR and INNAPROPRIATE, 'clops'! This video is one in a series of videos being used to promote healthcare legislation. I sympathize with this family's situation, but I emphatically DISAGREE with the POLITICS.

[garoumec]

I hope you got cancer.If there's a god a a devil I pray to one of them to give you cancer.Tha's all you deserve.

[dane3026]

Garoumec, you say I deserve cancer for disagreeing with the politics of this video?!?! Thank you for expressing your (warped) views on freedom of speech.

[garoumec]

yes,dane3026..You deserve cancer.We are not talking about politics,but life and death situation.On those vids there are people living with terrible diseases and are dying because they cannot afford healthcare. I pray and wish cancer upon you.May the lord or lucifer,I really don't know which one you are serving,send cancer or an incurable brain tumor on you.

[garoumec]

your freedom of speech is ridiculous,senseless when you are expressing it on a vid where a real human tragedy is unfolding right before our eyes.Those people are not actors,they are suffering with incurable diseases.You and your freedom of speech deserve a nice and long long long incurable illness,then I will be happy to talk politics with you. May you got cancer.

[dane3026]

Wrong! Wrong! Wrong! These videos ARE about POLITICS! This video says so right at the beginning of the vid, the proposed legislative bill is "HR 676, Quality Healthcare for All" My position is that quality healthcare can be made available to these unfortunate folks WITHOUT National Universal Healthcare. I'm not unsympathetic the difficult plight of these sick individuals, but I'm not just gunno ignore the fallacy of the politics behind HR 676 either!

[garoumec]

dane3026.I just don't care.All I can see on those vids are people with terrible diseases asking for a better healtcare system,not politics .I wish you cancer.If if there is really a god,a loving god who loves his children,he shouldn't stay indifferent to your comments.I wish that god sends a long long incurable disease on you.A nice cancer of the brain would look good on you.

[dane3026]

You say you don't care? You don't care that HR 676 is fatally flawed? You don't care that the basic economics of a single-payer healthcare system is fatally flawed? All you care about is agreeing with whatever the sick person says? *NEWSFLASH* the sick person isn't asking for a better healthcare system, they are asking for SUPPORT OF LEGISLATIVE BILL HR 676!!!

[dane3026]

Sadly this is a typical ploy. Get the victim to promote the solution and, abracadabra, no one is allowed to criticize the solution (no matter how flawed.) The logic goes: because of their status as victims, victims are innately correct, and hence NEVER WRONG. Unfortunately, they should't be selling it and I'm not buying it.

[garoumec]

I DON'T CARE ABOUT THE TYPICAL PLOY AND YOUR ABRACADABRA. TO ME,THE VICTIMS ARE ALWAYS RIGHT AND ALWAYS WILL BE.THEY ARE LIVING IT,WHILE YOU YOU ARE JUST GUESSING IT. THE VICTIM GOT THE RIGHT TO BITCH,MOAN,SCREAM AND YELL.you on the other hand need to shut your eyes,close your ears,shut your trap,pinch your nose and remove your motherfucking self from the situation.We call that DECENCY. I wish cancer on you.

[garoumec]

You gaddamn right.I don't give a flying fuch about politics.I just want for everybody in America to be able to recieve the best care that money can by without having to pay a cent.If we can borrow more than 3 trillions from China and spend it to occupy a muslim country,we can at least take care of our sicksand poors.I WILL ALWAYS AGREE WITH THE SICK PERSON,what the fuck do you expect? I WILL AGREE WITH YOU TOO,WHEN GOD OR LUCIFER SEND THAT CANCER ON YOUR BRAIN.

[dane3026]

garoumec, so the only thing that matters to you is that once I have brain cancer, then *abracadabra* you will AGREE WITH ME that I'M ABSOLUTELY, 100% CORRECT on the POLICTIAL FALLACY of National Universal Healthcare?!

WOW!!! Have you done no reading of your own on this subject?!

[garoumec]

"garoumec, so the only thing that matters to you is that once I have brain cancer, then *abracadabra"

--YOU BET

"you will AGREE WITH ME that I'M ABSOLUTELY, 100% CORRECT on the POLICTIAL FALLACY of National Universal Healthcare?!"

--NO,hell no!

" Have you done no reading of your own on this subject?!"

-- I sat aside some time for philosophing.Not on vids where real human tragedy is so raw that one's can feel it.

[SallyH499]

Dane, would you please outline in detail WHY you think HR 676 is flawed? And what your proposal is? Because I am getting really tired of reading blogs from naysayers who have no clue what they are talking about, don't do their homework and can't provide solutions of their own. And don't give me the free market shit - we have that now and it's not working.

[dane3026]

SallyH499, John Conyers' web page is the official site for HR676, I believe. It says that HR676 will establish universal coverage for anyone 'residing' in America with single-payer financing. If by 'flawed' you mean that it won't be able to do that, I concede I'm wrong. I admit, HR676 *WILL* accomplish what it proposes.

[dane3026]

...it will *even* contain healthcare costs as proposed (no matter what it takes to contain them.) You've forbidden me to discuss "free market shit". Why? Perhaps you have a misconception of what "free market" means. Let me give you a teeny-weeny, itsy-bitsy example...

[dane3026]

...have you ever seen an oil-change car shop that *only* does oil-changes (and charges $19.95 or $29.95)? Vs. a full-service auto shop that can also do oil changes but charges $50-$60 for the same. Why? Don't those greedy bastards, who only do oil changes, care about the rest of your car? Shouldn't the gov't step-in and force the shop to provide more services? The gov't mandates services hospitals must provide. And *you* say that's the 'free-market' we have now that's not working. Hmm...

[dane3026]

Sally, you posted; "Not everything should be for profit. It works for selling cars and shoes but not for basic needs like healthcare. And what we have is clearly NOT working. And your oil change anaolgy is just ridiculous." You don't think food, shelter and clothing are basic needs? These items are provided within a free market. The gov't over-regulates our healthcare system; meaning it is NOT a free-market system.

[dane3026]

My oil change analogy would seem ridiculous if you couldn't comprehend how it applies to healthcare. Do you know how to shop around for a low-cost, good-service oil change? Do you also know how to shop around for a low-cost, good-service appendectomy?  My bro had to. Only one hospital out of five would even quote a price to him.

[dane3026]

What prevents an entrepenural capitalist from establishing an Appendectomies-R-Us clinic that could do routine appendectomies for about 1/2 the price of a "full-service" clinic? Answer: regulation and profit. If it's not profitable; fine don't do it. If the gov't won't allow it because of regulation; boo, hiss.

[SallyH499]

COSTS. That's right Dane. And to control those costs we have to get rid of the middleman insurance company that WASTES 350 billion a year. We can't sustain it FYI - our private system is FAILING us now. Single payer would control costs and put competition between doctors, not middlemen.

[dane3026]

Sally, I don't blog for insurance companies. I'm just an "armchair student" of economics who appreciates the greatest good that a free market provides. I agree, our current system IS failing. But it is NOT the free-market, or the profit incentive, or insurance that is killing the healthcare system. True, we can't sustain our current system. Perhaps national healthcare will, of necessity, be a stepping stone to a better system in the future...

[dane3026]

...but previous attempts to improve the economics of certain industries through control systems, other than free-market, have consistently failed. Economic policies need to be analyzed by the incentives created, not by the hopes that inspired them. I'm sympathetic to the desire, but the reality is that improvement can't be mandated by gov't fiat.

[SallyH499]

I have to disagree with you, Dane. Systems in other countries with national healthcare have already been proven. and the proof is in the stats. They spend less than HALF and are healthier and live longer. Their systems are not perfect but they certainly work much better for most of their citizens.

[dane3026]

Sally, you're being selective in the stats you refer to. The "story of the stats" goes both ways; outcomes for US patients in many areas is better than their counterparts in the EU and CA. Longevity is comprised of so many factors (i.e., ethnicity, cultural values, diet, etc.) I don't think it's reasonable to tie it directly to health care. US healthcare is more expensive, per capita, than most countries, but refer to my point about outcomes above. Can we improve prices? Yes, very likely.

[dane3026]

Just to dictate "lower prices" has more undesirable consequences than the problem of "high prices", such as the UK and Canada are experiencing. I didn't put forth the idea that all Gov't is bad and all private is good, so I'll agree with you that that notion IS absurd.

[jm2trash]

and in response to "outcomes [of longevity and health] for US patients in many areas is better [than in other countries]..." of course it is - anywhere where people can pay out of pocket. We are not worried about universal healthcare the independently wealthy, whose "outcomes are better," we are worried about it for EVERYONE else.

[jm2trash]

dane3026- this is the problem I've noticed with economics students - they can look at a system in which 18,000 people die just from not being able to pay for insurance and call it a success. I am a student of sociology. To me a living population full of healthy people is success. Profit at the expense of human life is failure.

I would defy you to look on the bright side of private insurance if you got colon cancer and were denied coverage.

[ILUVZACANDERICFEDACK]

OMG! SOMEBODY NEEDS TO STOP HIDING BEHIND HIS DESK AND HELP KID'S LIKE THAT, PRETTY SAD WHEN A 12 YEAR OLD HAS TO TELL YOU THAT EH!?, George Bush!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ILUVZACANDERICFEDACK]

oh my GOD That poor little boy! Well I guess that's what the world's come to , Selfishness!

[thmmomma]

My son has severe hemophilia, he is only 15 months old but I fear for his future because of insurance issues like these. We are behind you 100%!

K

[pigeatinginfidel]

Canada's health care is great. Just ask anyone who hasn't needed to use it. The canadians who love it are the ones who never need it, or only used it for flu shots or very minor treatment. Those in need of serious care often end up in the US. In fact, there is even a company that arranges American medical care for Canadians called Timely Medical Alternatives. Now tell me again how great Canada's health system is. A system so great wouldn't have to outsource its most expensive care.

[Crazyman1212]

part 1

well lets see what you forget to mention. Canadians pay 1/3 the cost of drugs because our drug companies are controlled by the government, americans can't get those drugs in canada because big phrama had there lobbist convince government to make it ILLEGAL.

[Crazyman1212]

part 2

Canada has the best training for doctors, alot of forgeiners including americans get there medical training in canada useing OUR TAX DOLLARS which saves them money and the canadian doctors that we do have are being paid a few more bucks to work in the US thats why we have LONG WAITING LISTS. Those medical treatments that our outsourced from canada to the u.s are most for non life threating treatments like, breast

[Crazyman1212]

part 3

implants, cosmetic surgury, etc...you know stuff that we consider not to have priority over someone who needs heart surgury, of course in america it's more important that micheal jackson gets his nose job before i child gets his heart. we have morals in canada, i'm not sure about america but thats just how we are up here.

[nohealthcare62]

USA doctors only get 12 hours of Nutrition I was told by a DUKE Dr, that all doctors in West Tn. are All Uneducated

[Crazyman1212]

Thats why Private Health care should be made illegal and universal health care for everyone in america. Peoples health and life should not depend on something as stupid as "the bottom line" GO FUCK YOURSELF PRIVATE HEALTH CARE. With your situation i would move to canada, atleast you could get the help you need without having to pull out your wallet.

[pigeatinginfidel]

We ahould have single payer auto industry too, so we can all drive Yugos. Fact is the "bottom line" is going to be the concern whether you pay, your employer pays, or the government pays. Health care isn't a natural resource; it is scarce - once it is used it is gone. In Canada you pay by waiting in line, often for life-threatening lengths of time.

[redfieldc]

We live in Flint, MI. Mott Park. Aetna Insurance is refusing to pay over $65,000 for my hospital bill which they say they owe. ??? We are now facing retirement and losing our paid for house. I have it posted it on youtube. Just search the words AETNA INSURANCE UNFAIR PRACTICES - GOING TO LOSE OUR HOME and it will be the first one to come up. Give them hell, Michael. They are sure giving it to America.

[nohealthcare62]

Redfieldc I am saying the DIVINE MERCY PRAYER FOR YOU AND THE LITTLE BOY and his Parents .I am sick and they told me to get a Divorce and remarry in Church and dont turn in the paper work to the state and get married again in church I am voting for Kucinich

[nogurufilms]

I am a haemophiliac, living in the UK and as you probably know our National Health Service picks up the tab for all Factor VIII expenses. Watching this video made me want to cry. I simply can't believe that a country with the resources of America can not support a child that could and should go on, like me, to lead a perfectly normal and active life. My heart goes out to Nathan, his son Thomas and his wife. I hope they find a way to get him the treatment he needs.

[acynnon]

i agree with you man but i live in canada..still though how can america be so...rude? it just makes no sense..