Groups Protest Health Insurance Heavyweights

[TonikHealthInsurance]

Very useful information. I am very interested. thanks boss...

[Catherine8940]

Health costs will ONLY decrease when the end customers cares about the price and can price compare.

[remanuelli]

I C OPPS IN THAT CROWD

[waffenshroodle]

It's funny how people think that universal health care is communist. I guess if that is communist, taxes are too! What many people don't understand is that these companies are almost as big as the government themselves and as corrupt. Go make your own electricity and fresh water and live truly independent if you think that government healthcare is communist. I guess we Canadians are communist too, eh! Be happy for free healthcare, North Korea probably doesn't even have healthcare anyways.

[caupachow]

i do not have insurance and went to a CVS minute clinic tody. 10 minutes later and $62 i was on my way with my antbiotics. Whats wrong with that?

[HoofHeartedFilms]

Screw the insurance companies. They are nothing short of vipers!

[BudWiser999]

Isn't it funny that nobody ever mentions the Communist Terrorist State of Israel and their "wonderful" MANDATORY guvmint health care system. With their income tax rates of 50%, and NO CHOICE, who in their right, freedom loving mind would want to be treated like cattle????

[70road]

Anyone who thinks the present system is good must have never been sick, once they get sick (and it will happen) they will see just how bad the system is. Also ask any Canadian if they would switch with America.

[crumbinator]

I'm Canadian. No Way. Good luck, USA.

[alexapollo22]

I just wear Alex Chiu's immortality rings and H have no health problems what so ever. No health insurance needed.

[BRONXBOMBERSoORG]

Google change single_payer

[nzattu]

How do we organize to change this?

[jfouratt]

Uninformed men say stupid things when they do not think about community rather than their own self center needs ...needs I would suggest that unless they belong to that extremely small group of wealthy people .. real wealth ... will seriously affect them when they begin to deal with a health crises ans what it costs the average citizen..

[jfouratt]

Greed and selfishness are un-American ..... We all can learn fron the European models of health care and make our own US version. Name calling is a cheap shot ... and unless those people here commenting belong to the millionaire class they are being blinded to the reality of their and their neighbors health insurance empending crisis.

[SteveKopekne]

jfouratt calls folks greedy and selfish and blind, then admits doing so is a cheap shot. jfouratt really says nothing, just spouts ideology. jfouratt is not really worth paying any more attention to..

[jfouratt]

text and without a seeming understanding that some people are profiting off keeping the average joe, jane, Juan, LaToya and Mei Woo frombeing able to know that their families will be provided the necessary quality health care when their family finds themselves dealing with a health issue.

[jfouratt]

selfishness and greed is undermining the very principles of equality that this country was founded on these selfish rants about taxes without any con

[Chick6517]

Okay.. that was a great video! really made ma laugh! I liked it alot! I wanna watch it over and over again now!! I t really had me laughing!

[coryedo]

What good is "the best medical care in the world" (and I'd like to see where people are getting that designation from) if the people of that country can't afford it? I'll take "the second-best medical care in the world" if its available to everyone regardless of their income. Give us single payer health care subsidized by our taxes - I will GLADLY pay an extra $100 a year if it means that all my fellow citizens get the health care they need!

[bonnieblue1122]

i live in Canada and nobody has too pay for healthcare it is a basic need! i hope one day the ppl in the U.S will not have to worry about healthcare anymore i could not imagine not being able to take my kids to the doc!!  ALL OF U NEED TO STAND UP!!!

[jans1736]

Thank you Bonnie. We need all the help we can get. I've got a lawsuit against my insurance company. Check out California Nurses Association vidoe "Janet Stephens Real People Denied Real Health Care" on YouTube and please comment. You can also see me playing piano with my favorite guy and bassist, Brian Wright. I think you'll find the story and hopefully the music interesting.

[ANGLEBOOT]

one we are not in Canada we are in the US. But you are making it like you don't pay a penny. But tey every country that does have a national health care system pays the highest taxs.

As all as it is truely free than I'll stand up. but that means hospitals,doctors and nurses will all have to work for free.

They do that and I'll stand up.

[gaelic86]

Hey dingbat if you reduced the budget for the DEPT of WAR by 25% and applied the amount to pay for universal health care, everyone in the USA would be covered without raising taxes.

[ANGLEBOOT]

BULLSHIT!!! just since Obama been in office taxs have gone up on just about everything. 22 new deparments of government have been open. How are we going to pay for that,NEW TAXS!!

the governmet will charge a tax just to bring the troops home.

[SteveKopekne]

No kidding, Angleboot, and these people want to put the people responsible for this budget in control of healthcare? lol, the the sky is the limit! Of course the government can make it look like your health care is cheaper, they just defer the cost to your grandkid's grandkids!

[SteveKopekne]

And of course, there goes the privacy of your medical records. One the government holds them they'll never need a subpeona to get them. Oh, but right, the government never, ever, abuses their power, right?

[magie19475]

Many people do not have health insurance now I believe due to companies moving elsewhere. Hershey is now moving to Mexico - as did other companies. When the companies move to other nations this leaves people with no job or benefits. The days are almost past to be able to find ANY job that offers good benefits let alone any kind of a pension. The Government has made it too easy for companies to pull up stakes and go elsewhere.

[magie19475]

The majority of jobs available are in the service industry which offers no benefits generally. The jobs that do - require more education and skills - and are hard to come by of late. The Health Insurance companies are not totally the problem - it's that people cannot afford to pay the premiums for decent coverage. The United States offers the best medical care in the world - which brings a pricetag out of most peoples affordable reach.

[magie19475]

I frankly do not see an easy answer to this problem.

[BudWiser999]

The answer is easy. MORE COMPETITION

[wwickeddogg]

This is like the fourth time this is in my subscription box.

[NoelleTs]

The single payer system is the only way to go & its not like doctors still arent going to be making MAD MONEY they are they are Dr's they deserve it however the Insurance co's shouldnt be profiting off this this Its about time we got the insurance industry out of health care & for those who fear that the fed will dictate how care is distributed the insurance companies do that now. But at least I can have 3 astma attacks in a month like I did back last Jan & it not cost 2k a pop at the ER

[SteveKopekne]

But the doctors are the ones who are refusing your right to health care by insisting they get paid ungodly amounts for it. Insurance is just a way of trying to convince someone else to pay for healthcare you can't afford. Voluntarily via private systems, or forcefully via singlepayer.

[NoelleTs]

Then if your using the 3rd party logic arent the insurance companies a 3rd party in the transaction? But since we have a socialized police dept & a socialized fire dept what wrong with socialized med Or should we privatize first responders now too lets come up with an insurance industry to support that & see how well that goes over I can just Imagian how well that would go over it would be like Im sorry getting mugged aint coverd orIm sorry we had to let your house burn down you have no ins.

[SteveKopekne]

Re third party, I already said insurance was a third party, what's your point?

Um, NoelleTs, the police and fire are not national programs but local. Not all localities handle then the same way. Some don't even have them. And even if they were socialized at the national level, are you really trying to make the argument that if we have one socialized agency then we should have no objection to making any other socialized? i.e. Once we let one in, we may as well become a fully socialist country?

[ANGLEBOOT]

that's what I can't get some to see. Local taxs are mostly for local property owners, not the whole nation. They would really be paying high taxs if the fed taxs for local fire and police. the if their local payed in more, they would still get less, after the governmnet and their "robinhood plans".

[SteveKopekne]

Because they are so blinded by their ideology that facts and reasonable arguments that disagree with them don't register with them. I saw one single payer advocate saying something like "the health care insurance industry is making 117% profit compared to 5% for the S&P". Never mind that "117% profit" is mathematically impossible and the health care insurance profits average the same as the S&P at 5%.... You can only say something that stupid if you are blinded by your ideology.

[judsons]

I support Single Payer 100%. But Massa said it wrong that people can't go to the doctor. Yes they can, if they want to pay for it themselves. It's cutting out the insurance part of the equation and letting all people have coverage that would solve the problem. With the lobbyists involved, it would be the tallest mountain to climb. But we've got to try.

It would work even better than Medicare. It would put America back on top as a progressive country.

[SteveKopekne]

Sorry, but I don't work for the health insurance industry. I'm just don't want the feds telling me what to do. Are you happy with how the government treated the power they had the last 8 years and think the solution is to give them more. Imagine the feds that had power over whether or not you could seek health care, or what health care was permissible. They'd never abuse that power would they? Oh, of course not.

Michael, I am telling the truth, but it seems you can't handle the truth.

[Textynn]

Danner and Ignagni look like zombie robots. I bet they have extensive health care complete with mood altering, intellect suppressing, mind dulling freely supplied "treatments" Medical Special Interests probably puts them in a suitcase and brings them out when they need them to say pat unmoving slogans to continue to make a few rich at the expense of the whole.

[SteveKopekne]

A few? Around here there are plenty of high paid doctors living in big houses driving fancy cars. Sometimes I think this whole attack on the health insurance industry is a plot by physicians to distract people from how much the physicians are getting paid. You know if you compare physicians salaries in different countries to the median wage in those countries, doctors in the US are paid 2-3 times they rate they are elsewhere. 2-3 times!! Now wonder our health care cost so much!

[hckyplyr143]

healthcare is not a priviledge you assholes... it is a RIGHT! HUMAN RIGHTS! EVERYONE DESERVES THE SAME CARE IN LIFE! What is wrong with you people!

[SteveKopekne]

Tell that to the physicians who refuse to give you that human right without getting paid, not some third party who is not involved and who doesn't want to be forced into paying for it. If it is a right, then sue the doctor who won't treat you for violating your right.

[hckyplyr143]

we already know of the greed there is. i am speaking on behalf of human rights. no matter who is to blame anyone who says that healthcare is not a human right is just as bad as the greedy physician or the insurance company working hand in hand with them for those dollars. maybe if more people started uprising things would change. but with people like you playing the back and forth blame game,, NOTHING gets done.

[SteveKopekne]

But if you clain health care is a human right, then it is between the person who wants to exercise that right (the patient) and the one who provides that right (if it is a right, how come someone needs to provide it??) Bringing an innocent thrid party into the equation is only a disttraction. The two parties to this "right" are the doctor and the patient.

[SteveKopekne]

lmao, if you have to tell people you aren't a fringe element, you *are* a fringe element. 48 million cannot access medical care? Not that old lie! 10million of those make over 100k per year and are "self-insured". Another 17million make over 50K and could afford health care, but choose not to, paying for it out of their pocket.

[redape6870]

how do you stop the HMOs? there's so much money at stake here. as long as they have money and lobbying power THERE WILL NEVER BE UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE IN THIS COUNTRY. not in my lifetime. not ever. I SAY BLOW THE F#CKERS UP!!

[hckyplyr143]

i meant to give thumbs up. this is exactly right. wake up people.

[BlueEagle8]

Health care, more accurately called Sick Care, is NOT a right it is a privilege.

Most health insurance is not insurance. It is more accurately call health maintenance. You insure against major catastrophes - acute injuries.

You maintain your sickness and mask your symptoms with drugs and expensive treatments.

Health costs will ONLY decrease when the end customers cares about the price and can price compare.

[SinglePayerActivist]

Thanks, Representative Massa! Excellent!

- Bob Haiducek Bob the Health and Health Care Advocate

[coryedo]

Eric Massa is my Congressman and holy crap am I proud of him! You go Eric Massa!

[macman2345]

Rep. Eric Massa is a fresh voice in the fight for a decent health care system for America. I am so glad to have him help lead this fight for single payer health care in America.

[spfldnet]

The burden of employee health care costs should be removed from businesses.

[isisarchist]

If we would just get rid of health insurance companies all together then the free market can work. They are the middle-men btw us & our doctors. A hospital shouldn't be charging 15k to set a broken arm, or 10k to deliver a baby or 700.00 to get a lab test, if we had to pay this junk out of pocket they would have to lower prices to their actual value.

We should be able to purchase any drug, except narcotics, w/out a prescription.