what is single payer?

[jackrosen1]

This is a treasure trove of facts, thank you Single Payer HC for practically finishing my project :)

[kyle20120]

oneeeeeeeeeee is the loneliest number that youll ever do.

[feelgoodlost2]

a more updated number on the uninsured: for 2009 it was 50.7 million, a 4.3 million increase from 2008

[dukeljk]

If you support single payer healthcare you are a freeloading peice of shit. Get a fucking job!

[BardCoennius]

NO!!!! THE RICH MUST RULE OVER US AND WE MUST BE THEIR SLAVES!! IT'S THE WILL OF GOD!!! STUPID LAZY PEOPLE WHO AREN'T SMART ENOUGH TO BE RICH MUST SIMPLY DIE!!! GOD AND JEEEE-ZUS HAVE ORDAINED IT!!

[fresoui]

This is still the best idea for health care in the U.S. But do the numbers still hold, since this was made in 2008?

[nohealthcare62]

I voted for Barack for 2 reasons Universal HC and No War I got neither one & nor will he in 2012 my VOTE in 2012 will go to Alan Grayson for POTUS !

[Orionx30]

50% OF THEM WILL BE DX WITH: High blood pressure, serious heart conditions, diabetes.

This is the heart of the problem. 50% of all healthcare spending can be absolutely prevented. HTN, MIs and diabetes are unhealthy life style choices. Do to fast foods, excess fat and calorie intake, soda, smoking, alcohol and lack of exercise.

Why would anyone be forced to pay for someone's bad decisions and who would want the govt. to regulate that choice?

[nowellian]

Every industrialized country in the world has it. Why don't we? Is the USA a 3rd world dictatorship or a democracy?

[repubtodem]

great clip

[xylo4rd]

My thoughts are exactly the same as mmyer. I thought the video theoretically made sense, but I have many Canadian friends who do not like their system at all? Does anyone know what possible negatives this plan could bring? Or are we all just stupid for not thinking of this before??

[kmarinas86]

The one underlying factor many miss is that while cutting down the administrative costs to health care will make it cheaper and that income will be less of a factor in receiving health care, cutting these costs does not equate to increased coverage; it spreads the currently existing coverage to those who might not otherwise get it. If we want to actually have more coverage, or if we want to others to have coverage without sacrificing our own, a single payer system will fall short of those needs.

[kmarinas86]

We must keep our eye of the reality that brought our life expectancy far beyond that of our ancestors from centuries ago. That reality is the advance of scientific understanding in medicine, biology, chemistry, and the development of new medical technologies to treat injuries and diseases. To have more REAL health care, then we need to emphasize science like the Japanese do. Liberal Arts has been around for 1000's of years. Science is the only way we solve the problem of health care.

[hellotommy]

Rationing is creeping death for the elderly.

It is Death Care for Grandma & Grandpa.

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. - Thomas Jefferson

[mmyr123]

Sounds great in this vid but then why do countries like canada come here for healthcare???

[lamborger]

They don't. In a CTV News Survey last year, 91% of Canadians said their health care system is superior to the United States. 90% of Canadians live within 50 miles of the United States border. If they wanted to, they could come here easily, why do 91% of them feel this is not a good idea?

[avaistheone]

I want to get me some of that.

Single-payer NOW.

[schlicklou]

I think the idea was to show that the 60% we already pay in taxes would stay the same. Of the other 40% we pay to the private health insurance industry if we replaced that amount with other taxes then it would be cheaper. We replace the 40% made up of premiums, copays, deductibles, and other out of pocket costs with taxes that are spread out among employees, employers, and the wealthy. CONTINUES NEXT POST

[betterthanbarker]

good video, but why doesn't that graph you made add up to 100%? it should if it explains where all of the taxes come from to pay for all of our healthcare costs.

[schlicklou]

CONTINUED FROM PRIOR REPLY The kicker is the taxes make up only 23.15% which is much less than that extra 40% we currently pay to the wasteful private industry. It costs less because nobody needs to profit with single payer. We actually use the funds to pay for care, not dividends and CEO salaries and bonuses. I think I got it right.

[betterthanbarker]

that makes more sense then.

[odetomy]

Great video! Very well thought out and I like how everything was broken down, mathmatically, to where anybody can understand where the money is coming from and how the system will give us all equal rights and choices.

[manudo]

Makes sense to me :)