30% of health care insurance dollars go to administration, overhead, advertising costs , etc...and corporate's PROFITS. Incentives to increase profits, bonuses will drive people to COME UP WITH ANYTHING to cut costs
Health care operating as a commodity, for-profit model fails.
This is a slippery slope. Interesting how our priorities and how we compensate people differs. Why, for example, is it that we pay entertainers - singers, sports figures - millions of dollars? Much more than we pay our doctors and nurses?
They can't provide healthcare to everyone were already in too much debt just look at canada it did them no good they are 15 years behind our medicine. Would you like to have old medicine that is underly developed? I dont think so. Do you want to pay for some guy that never completed college or high school on the street or some hobo? No so please do not support this for your own good. DO NOT LET IT PASS!
Raise taxes. . .you dont need to take money from defense or military. . .I think the average family wouldnt mind having there taxes raised to have health care for their entire family and hell they wont pay for their current health insurance. . .and reform the health care process people are dieing because they dont have health care what is going on AMERICA. . .
We're not even supposed to have taxes in America, ass. LOL. We used to not have taxes but the government loves to keep growing making us all dependent. The going green shit is going to murder us as well.
we're not supposed to have taxes? ? ? where the hell is that coming from if we didnt have taxes we wouldn't a military, school, roads and other beneficial things to live u dumb fuck
i agree the money needs to come from somewhere to help this issue, but not from defense. there are too many loose cannons out there with north korea, middle east, terrorism, and so forth to let our defense go down. i'm not saying we need war or anything, but we need to be actively looking at defense as well as health care. we won't need healthcare if someone nukes us. just my thoughts. i agree with the rest of what you said though tim.
I don't think these companies can be both privatized and working for the public good. It's an inherent conflict of interest. As long as they're privately owned, medications are worth what people will pay for them, just like any other good. And medication tends to be a necessity, which means people will pay everything they own until they're penniless.
Congrats on the new toy. The quality looks good except the close-ups were a little blurry for HD.
There's certainly no easy answer when it comes to health care. It costs far too much in comparison to other countries and is increasing far too fast. Something has to be done or it's another stumbling block to getting the US economy back on track. I saw a stat the other day that said 65% of U.S. bankruptcies were caused by medical bills. Cont.
And here's the real kicker. Over 70% of those 65% that declared bankruptcy had health insurance. It's a real nightmare. I'm all for profit but some things are just excessive. I've been having some foot pain so I went to a neurologist the other day who did a nerve conduction thing on my feet. It took about an hour and the cost was (I hope you're sitting down) $2300!!! And this isn't something done with a big fancy machine. It was done on a laptop computer with some software, Cont.
I don't know when profit became a dirty word. Profit is part of what motivates the developement of all those "miracle" drugs. If you take profit out of the equation, you won't lower the price of those $800 pills you take, you'll eliminate the pills altogether.
Actually you could be right because the motivation to create a cure could outweigh the current model of finding "treatments" which cost lots of money. I don't buy the argument that you can't have profit. I'm not advocating all profit gone, just limiting the margin and removing the profit incentive as the ONLY motive for health care.
It's not illegal to get meds from Canada. I get some of mine from a mail order place there. It's cheaper but hardly at a fraction of US prices. I pay about $250 for a 90 day supply of BP meds as opposed to $300 here. And the last time I ordered them, there was a shortage and I couldn't get them there. I had to buy them in the US where there has never been a shortage of these meds. It gave me a taste of how it will be here if Obama gets his national health care passed.
Keep in mind that pharmceutical companies can prevent generic copies for a given time, I think 10 years. So in 10 years they not only have to recoup the cost of reaseach and developement of those meds, but also the cost of all the meds that they failed to perfect. If they were making as much money as you seem to think, their stocks would be going thru the roof.
Can't argue this in detail, but since the pharmaceutical lobby managed to get approval for the advertisement of prescription medications, their spending has moved significantly. Not only to pay for ad campaigns, but also into R&D for unnecessary but highly marketable drugs. Did anyone ever hear of EDS before Pfizer accidentally stumbled onto Viagra (while looking for a new blood pressure medication)? Also the government picks up a lot of R&D costs (see above).
Actually a lot of R&D is already paid for with tax money at Universities. Under the current structure, though, Big Pharma still ends up with the rights. I'd like too see every aspect of health care be run on a non-profit basis, but I don't see any way to get there without collapsing the economy. Even if there were to avoid economic collapse, you have to find a way to pay the senators and representatives more than the corporations do, before they'd support it.
You're right. If all you do is give people cheaper or free health care, all that will happen is more people take advantage if it. Why not! It's free!
It won't do a darn thing to lower costs. Instead, it'll just increase the profits of the medical companies. While increasing our national debt at the same time, if one of those liberal plans goes thru.
hey buddy Tim....your cheeseburger look really yummy but is it really healthy?
do you know how much calorie that sandwich and that large sized drink has?
Why drink high caloried, sugary soda, if you could drink water...after all we know the effects of sugary foods on ones health.
Or is these high calorie substances addictive?
I think diet and lifestyle behaviors play a huge role in the health of an individual or society.
iknewitalready 2 years ago
thanks to the pharmaceutical R&D...the pills itself is a WMD by itself.
I say that because if you take medicine for one ailment, the side effects by taking that pill itself creates another disease.
so you take another pill to cure the secondary disease - you didn't have before taking the medicine in the first place and the cycle continues...
America is a pill addicted nation enslaved by the pharmaceutical companies!
iknewitalready 2 years ago
GOOD ANALYSIS:
profits, profits and nothing but profits:
30% of health care insurance dollars go to administration, overhead, advertising costs , etc...and corporate's PROFITS. Incentives to increase profits, bonuses will drive people to COME UP WITH ANYTHING to cut costs
Health care operating as a commodity, for-profit model fails.
teleutube 2 years ago
This is a slippery slope. Interesting how our priorities and how we compensate people differs. Why, for example, is it that we pay entertainers - singers, sports figures - millions of dollars? Much more than we pay our doctors and nurses?
Xaves511 2 years ago
people are for forgeting how much does it cost to give you a life saving surgey
metalfunk420 2 years ago
They can't provide healthcare to everyone were already in too much debt just look at canada it did them no good they are 15 years behind our medicine. Would you like to have old medicine that is underly developed? I dont think so. Do you want to pay for some guy that never completed college or high school on the street or some hobo? No so please do not support this for your own good. DO NOT LET IT PASS!
oooorb1 2 years ago
Raise taxes. . .you dont need to take money from defense or military. . .I think the average family wouldnt mind having there taxes raised to have health care for their entire family and hell they wont pay for their current health insurance. . .and reform the health care process people are dieing because they dont have health care what is going on AMERICA. . .
GR1MxR34P3Rx57 2 years ago
We're not even supposed to have taxes in America, ass. LOL. We used to not have taxes but the government loves to keep growing making us all dependent. The going green shit is going to murder us as well.
CattleCarcass 2 years ago
we're not supposed to have taxes? ? ? where the hell is that coming from if we didnt have taxes we wouldn't a military, school, roads and other beneficial things to live u dumb fuck
GR1MxR34P3Rx57 2 years ago
Oh and check this video out:
watch?v=ho-0SHFEgGo
he wants to deny medical care to elderly and poor. you and your dumb mother fucking dreams of a fantasy world isnt a reality asssssssss.
CattleCarcass 2 years ago
thats funny they disabled comments on the obama video. i wonder if they have the balls to delete some of the comments
CattleCarcass 2 years ago
i agree the money needs to come from somewhere to help this issue, but not from defense. there are too many loose cannons out there with north korea, middle east, terrorism, and so forth to let our defense go down. i'm not saying we need war or anything, but we need to be actively looking at defense as well as health care. we won't need healthcare if someone nukes us. just my thoughts. i agree with the rest of what you said though tim.
secretoompaa 2 years ago
Maybe, but we won't need nukes if one goes off either- MAD no longer works because the other people holding the WMDs are, well, mad...
Shadowadler 2 years ago
Too right you are!
discaimer 2 years ago
I don't think these companies can be both privatized and working for the public good. It's an inherent conflict of interest. As long as they're privately owned, medications are worth what people will pay for them, just like any other good. And medication tends to be a necessity, which means people will pay everything they own until they're penniless.
a6487487 2 years ago
Congrats on the new toy. The quality looks good except the close-ups were a little blurry for HD.
There's certainly no easy answer when it comes to health care. It costs far too much in comparison to other countries and is increasing far too fast. Something has to be done or it's another stumbling block to getting the US economy back on track. I saw a stat the other day that said 65% of U.S. bankruptcies were caused by medical bills. Cont.
3CoolKats 2 years ago
And here's the real kicker. Over 70% of those 65% that declared bankruptcy had health insurance. It's a real nightmare. I'm all for profit but some things are just excessive. I've been having some foot pain so I went to a neurologist the other day who did a nerve conduction thing on my feet. It took about an hour and the cost was (I hope you're sitting down) $2300!!! And this isn't something done with a big fancy machine. It was done on a laptop computer with some software, Cont.
3CoolKats 2 years ago
and some probes with sharp ends. Personally I think something like that is grossly excessive.
3CoolKats 2 years ago
I don't know when profit became a dirty word. Profit is part of what motivates the developement of all those "miracle" drugs. If you take profit out of the equation, you won't lower the price of those $800 pills you take, you'll eliminate the pills altogether.
RitchM 2 years ago
Actually you could be right because the motivation to create a cure could outweigh the current model of finding "treatments" which cost lots of money. I don't buy the argument that you can't have profit. I'm not advocating all profit gone, just limiting the margin and removing the profit incentive as the ONLY motive for health care.
UpDownMostly 2 years ago
Profit is a dirty word when you have a ten time mark up on an item that a retired person needs to survive.
How come there are laws making it illegal to purchase the same exact drugs for a fraction of the price from Canada ?
REPOTAG 2 years ago
It's not illegal to get meds from Canada. I get some of mine from a mail order place there. It's cheaper but hardly at a fraction of US prices. I pay about $250 for a 90 day supply of BP meds as opposed to $300 here. And the last time I ordered them, there was a shortage and I couldn't get them there. I had to buy them in the US where there has never been a shortage of these meds. It gave me a taste of how it will be here if Obama gets his national health care passed.
RitchM 2 years ago
Keep in mind that pharmceutical companies can prevent generic copies for a given time, I think 10 years. So in 10 years they not only have to recoup the cost of reaseach and developement of those meds, but also the cost of all the meds that they failed to perfect. If they were making as much money as you seem to think, their stocks would be going thru the roof.
RitchM 2 years ago
Can't argue this in detail, but since the pharmaceutical lobby managed to get approval for the advertisement of prescription medications, their spending has moved significantly. Not only to pay for ad campaigns, but also into R&D for unnecessary but highly marketable drugs. Did anyone ever hear of EDS before Pfizer accidentally stumbled onto Viagra (while looking for a new blood pressure medication)? Also the government picks up a lot of R&D costs (see above).
DynaCatlovesme 2 years ago
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Aliyon13 2 years ago
Actually a lot of R&D is already paid for with tax money at Universities. Under the current structure, though, Big Pharma still ends up with the rights. I'd like too see every aspect of health care be run on a non-profit basis, but I don't see any way to get there without collapsing the economy. Even if there were to avoid economic collapse, you have to find a way to pay the senators and representatives more than the corporations do, before they'd support it.
DynaCatlovesme 2 years ago
I pay $89.00 a month for my BP medication if thing get tight money wise I will be doing without them!
BigBerthaTractor 2 years ago
And personally I don't think that should ever happen. You should never have to choose between medication and food or other.
UpDownMostly 2 years ago
AMEN! Nice video quality from your new toy Tim! HUGS xoxoox
WackaDoodleFreeZone 2 years ago
Thanks. It's suppose to be HD.
UpDownMostly 2 years ago
You're right. If all you do is give people cheaper or free health care, all that will happen is more people take advantage if it. Why not! It's free!
It won't do a darn thing to lower costs. Instead, it'll just increase the profits of the medical companies. While increasing our national debt at the same time, if one of those liberal plans goes thru.
MysticVideo 2 years ago