Some Doctors Cost More. Why?

[R0CKFACE]

can we talk about how much more it costs to kill off the poorer patients? it doesn't even work as a biz model long run

[pricelessDragon]

thank you for this video, i now under stand the system XD

[happynomogop]

Nomore foreignaid or 2 trilliondollar mlitry giveawaysEs time to take our country bak!

[trevor920]

lies!!!!!!

[Smartassawhip]

The USA has the ... "BEST SPECIALISTS" ... but our Health Care System stinks and is ranked as the Low 37th on a World Scale !! It's like saying "THE USA WON THE MOST GOLD MEDALS IN THE OLYMPICS ... SO THE ENTIRE AMERICAN POPULATION IS MADE OF TOP ATHLETES !!

When in reality we have an overweight & sick ...(cancer~heart diseases~diabetic)... population, compared to other nations. Don't buy into the Right-Wing propaganda.

[jjrglobal]

Wow this guy is either lying or is an idiot.

1. Dr's don't agree to these ins contracts to see more patients, they agree to them to see any patients with insurance. This means that the larger ins co's can get away with paying far less than the smaller ones. The docs can't afford to lose 45% of their patients on a company the size of say Blue Cross. This is why Blue cross has the lowest reimbursement in our state, because they're the biggest.

[yojimborobert]

forgot to mention that even though doctors that see lots of patients can charge less, they also spend far less time with those patients, thus reducing the quality of care.

[GetLostInCompost]

It's a propaganda.

The days of HMOs are counted.

America will switch to the Canadian model soon.

The maker of these little shitty videos can go choke on a cock right now!

[MajorDiarriah]

veterinarians don't have socialized health care nor insurance for animals, and they're prices are an order of power lower than for doctors, even though they do similar work. Insurance inflates prices while socialization floods services.

[jjrglobal]

And vets make a whole lot more than most docs. Why? Simple administration costs and arguing with insurance companies have made it nearly impossible for solo practice physicians to even turn a profit. This is why most physicians are forced to either join a group or work for a hospital system. Meanwhile the former CEO of United Health Group cashes in a 1.4 Billion dollar pension

[juice797]

Google "Half of primary-care doctors in survey would leave medicine"...

[LamenessFTW]

not true, without networks prices would go DOWN because there would be no mega-stores to steal the business in the first place. competition drives prices down not up. You cant compete with a mega-store.

[ctscan123]

Insurance companies use leverage to make docs negotiate crazy low prices or be excluded frm the companies patients.The notion of offsetting these lower payments with higher volume results in a doc needing to see a crazy number of patients to say afloat and thus the 11-minute office visit.For the record, Humana, the company that sponsored this education made a first quarter profit of 80mil this year while my doc is looking for a new job because he feels he cant practice medicine anymore

[jjrglobal]

We just closed my wifes pediatric clinic for the same reason

[cicatriz79]

my doctor is free =D suckas!

[BikerTrashWolf]

cicatriz79: Not true unless your doctor has taken a vow of poverty and works for free charging only his room and board. Otherwise nothing in this world is free, just sometimes you dont see where the money comes from that pays for it.

[healaryclenton]

lmfao, I can't wait to see a video advocating DuPoint's outstanding work in the farm industry in a web-2.0 astroturf. Web 2.0.

[domulys]

I appreciate the "education" provided by this video - but unfortunately it is horribly biased.

[linkin54321]

moron...this isn't a debate...just a bunch of facts, which you can apply it to any business field.

[esdtenis]

Insurance companies decide what is medically necessary, but when did CEOs go to medical school or examine the patients.

[ItsPrincessAnn]

i love the way that u makes ur video

[Kyrax1]

Canada health care ftw.

[Whistleblower101]

I accept some insurance but I am also the lowest fee'd surgeon in my area....I have the "Obama" fee schedule. Do I get rewarded for that? No..my referral base can be very snobby

[puscikat]

I have to ask, why are people against socialized healthcare, really? I know the system regardless of what it is, would be flawed, but what is the difference between the flawed system we have now and the flawed system then? I mean other than paying into a system that won't treat you, if you get picked up at all.

Try getting health care for someone with autism. No one asked to be autistic, and no one tries to make their child autistic; healthcare companies don't care.

See what they say.

[TheHolyThief]

Thanks.

[sharifsabirov]

More people going through the same doctor = less time devoted to each patient = lower quality of service. A conveyor belt principle applied to the health care is what we have in the US. A Production of Health.

[sharifsabirov]

More people go through the same doctor = less time devoted to each patient = lower quality of service. Conveyor belt principle applied to health care is what we have in the US. A production of health.

[hassbundu]

Pure Genius.

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[mikethesnowkiller]

PROPAGANDA! they only have one goal, to make as much profit as they can

[mistaspot1]

And you also get a doctor who doesn't care about you because he/she has 57676564567 people in his waiting room.

[michalski1976]

YES YES. Create network more and more Networks. They work sooo well. GMC, Ford, AT&T, Crysler, banking networks. Think - DIVERSITY. Think freedom of choice. JUST Think.

[michalski1976]

One thing. The value of the diversity should never by underestimeted. Big networks fall with greate splash and noise - vide GMC and Ford. You want to experience the same with your health system. Be smart - think for a while!

[AznRUs]

Im guessing the insurance company made this video...

[jonawllen]

wow, i smell an agenda here

[IshmaelDeux]

Probably the best explanation of a heatlhcare network I've ever seen, good job.

[JJFORM6]

If you like this video, watch "Let's do it again" by Dave Stewart...so hott!

[dblock5150]

when i grow up i wanna be JUST like you

[h2oca4]

I wonder why we're the only civilized country that doesn't have socialized medicine, and why the people of this country "fear" socialism so much

oh wait a minute...thats becuase of corporate america and all their ads and propaganda like these bullshit videos

[TimLoganKnows911623]

For-profit health care is a form of modern-day barbarism!

[pandafallout]

FYI: Humana made this.

bias?

the end.

[zigyzigy13]

take cleansing product if have some type of disease. Don't take any medication if you are not in a crisis situation.

[NotAboutCars]

how long can YOU hold your breath?

[20letternameonly]

I feel so lucky to live in Canada we get free health care not to gloat anything but just feel very privileged

[602snakepit]

I have an idea, instead of everyone blaming someone for your health problems, how about you just work harder, get a pay raise, stop smoking, and stop eating at McDonald's so much. No one said cancer should be cheap to fix, and no one forced you to weigh 300 lbs.

[mels411]

No worry creativerick, after Jan 09, we'll all be living in a socialist country.

[freewebjunk]

mels411 and anyone else who thinks we're becoming a "socialist" country, I just have one question for you. The democrats plan on raising the current 36% tax rate on the wealthy to 39% which was the level it was at during the Clinton Administration, so WHERE IN THAT 3 PERCENT DOES IT TURN TO SOCIALISM?

[Argonaut22j]

Right because a 2 trillion dollar war and a 700 billion dollar bailout is free market capitalism.

[mistaspot1]

Thank goodness. :)

[nestorrfortuna]

and what is wrong with that.

medicare, police and firefighter are socialist organizations.

so is military

[kempkempo]

all these videos are just one big advert

[creativerick]

Actually everyones prices would be cheaper. Hospitals charge too much because we are in capitalism. Everyone has to make money along the way. That mean all the Hospital supplies cost more than they should. Capitalism makes healthcare cost too much. If you want cheap and good healthcare go to a socialist country.

[snowborednow]

Wow... look at all these "rouge economists" who haven't even taken an economics course.

I suppose all the wait times and poor quality issues that are in Socialist health care shouldn't be concerned with. Timmy might have his arm lopped off in a car accident but he'll still have to wait 4 hours for emergency surgery if he's in Canada, just like everyone else.

Please don't preach the gospel of Socialism; if the government pays for it you still pay for it too, it's just in taxes and inflation.

[mariokartfever]

Like Cuba? Don't believe everything Michael Moore tells you.

[ccmerope]

No like Germany, England, Switzerland, Taiwan, Japan...USA will become a 3rd world country unless we do something to help our shrinking middle class.

[ciklonaut]

No, believe CNN and Fox, they are proven truth tellers.

Just to tell you from my experience, and that is from Yugoslavia (communist and socialist country) and Socialist Serbia: everything was free, no waiting lists (which were invented by imperialist propaganda machine), no short supplies...

Free surgeries, free hospitals, free medicine... Free resorts, mountains and sea - everyone had right to go for free BECAUSE IT WAS GOOD FOR HEALTH (physical and mental!).

Alas, capitalism won...

[Rory1471]

No, like the UK. Free health care.

Communism != Socialism

[balzahk01]

Capitalism creates incentive for research labs to come up with new treatments and medications. Without capitalism, we'd be a hundred years behind where we are now. The problem is too much government regulation. More government regulation = less free-market competition. Less free-market competition = higher prices. By the way, I've never heard of a country with quality socialized health care system. People come from Canada to the US to get urgent health care instead of waiting 6 months on a list.

[ubentu]

there is however monsanto.

[misterclemes]

thats a sweeping generalisation you just made there. at least socialist healthcare is more inclusive

[ciklonaut]

Like Cuba, like Iraq, like Yugoslavia, like Serbia...

Oh, I forgot: USA occupied, bombed, and/or isolated those countries and brought them NATO "democracy". Now everyone is happy, right?

Wrong! In socialist countries - before they got destroyed by offensive imperialist policy - there were best health systems on planet.

Cuba, Yugoslavia, France (it was under socialists all those years): everything free (surgery, medicine, hospitals, etc.), no waiting lists (dirty capitalist propaganda).

[khalyd123]

*cough* Norway *cough...

[jordanbmoore]

Amen! People have become such naive morons regarding Socialism. If you want it so much, go move to beautiful communist Cuba.

[Saleenrulz]

Wow. I live in Canada, and that has to be the most ignorant thing i have ever heard. Our system works, yes their is wait time, but nothing compared to the states, and i have never heard of peoople going to the us for treatment. If anything they are afraid of getting ill in the is, seeing as your systeme revolves around profit, because in the end, that is what the insurance companies are looking to make. No, i think Canada has a huge lead on your defective system

[Clockworkforest]

Yeah, capitalism and hospitals makes about as much sense as capitalism and privately owned prisons.

[AKuspatriot]

Why doesn't everyone take a serious look at countries with socialized medicine, are they really better off??? Our system needs work, but socialized medicine is definitely NOT the answer!

[xposito]

AKuspatriot said:

"Why doesn't everyone take a serious look at countries with socialized medicine, are they really better off??? Our system needs work, but socialized medicine is definitely NOT the answer!"

Yeah genious,you gave us some hard facts there.I am now convinced that soc. healthcare is wrong.You are right (you didn't provide any proof, but schmucks arent much for proof,right?)

If you want the REAL answer, countries with soc. healthcare are the top ranked in healthcare IN THE WORLD.

[Alanar777]

Canada, France, the UK, Switzerland, Germany, (all of Europe, actually), Japan, name it. Variations in universal healthcare. Higher life expectancy. Better general health. Pretty good doctors. Nobody has to choose between illness and bankruptcy. Oh, yeah, it has a cost. Less than a private system, though.

[Igosuki]

Are they better off ? According to the International standings, France is first. What counts is not wether people who can afford it will get top healthcare or not .. In France we have top equipment that everybody uses, that is just as good as in the states, many yearly medicine discoveries are made in our country, sometimes financed by public funds, because in France, everybody pays for healthcare and everybody GETS it Please tell me what isnt good in socialized medicine.

[AKuspatriot]

WOW! I can't believe all of the comments for this clip are loving the idea of socialized medicine!!!! Is everyone really that naive?

1)there is no perfect plan. There will always be flaws because there are always greedy or lazy people. 2)ppl have failed to note many other reasons health ins. is so high: treating uninsured patients in ER for free, defensive medicine, etc. 3)I lived in Switzerland where by law you must have ins. and ppl didn't sue docs at the drop of a dime. Seems to work 4 them

[Clockworkforest]

So you think it is a better idea to have a hospital be a business that makes money off of having beds filled?

Where is the business insentive to cure and make people healthy?

They make more money when the beds are full and people stay sick.

When healthcare is a business it has the morals of business: to make money.

That is fundamentally flawed.

[Alanar777]

You obviously know nothing about the Swiss UNIVERSAL healthcare system, even if you lived there. Similarities with France (mutuelles), for instance, you are right: in one way or another, everyone who has a job has to pay, + income tax financing. Oh, and the doc suits thing, I have to laugh: pure product of the American system.

[davesteele1917]

"ah... duh maybe if we portray are decrepit inefficient for-profit health care system on a nice clean white board - it won't seem so evil"

[tunit0395]

i have humana insurance. its absolutely the best. my copays real cheap and i can see practically any doctor under their plan

[cdizzle1198]

this is BS, these plans are borderline racketeering. i like the comparison of medical care to bananas at mega grocery.

[shinyhalo]

Oooo let's all trust what a for-profit company tells us! Truth check. What happens when a doctor makes $100 each time you go to their office? DUH! The doctor becomes motivated to keep you coming back each week. How does a doctor keep you coming back? DUH! By not fixing your health problem or by making it worse.

Wake up people! Capitalism + Health do not mix well.

[TheSchmuckLook]

So you're a shill for the insurance industry. Whoopee. The best doctors still charge more, but the co=pay is what goes up. Plus, since one has to make his/her own insurance payments, the price of the visit didn't really 'decrease', just the opposite over the course of a lifetime, it increased. How does paying for a layer of non-medical personnel help decrease cost? Answer...shell game.

[chuchugaga]

I wish you were my teacher at school. D:

[qkr19]

huh...

[EducatedNobody]

ow much does Humana take out of the pie?

[ldfernan]

Wow, this was really misleading. A couple things that come to mind are A) The fact that in a network doctors won't get "recertified" unless they deny patients referrals to costly procedures. Another fact is that B)hospitals can barely stay in business because insurance networks pay them so little (sometimes 1/10) of what the procedure normally costs.

Insurance networks have broken our healthcare system through their own greed!

[Sabradin]

Some doctors cost more. Why?

Is it because they are worth more?

Usually.

[lurkist]

This needs a more balanced analysis. Competition is necessary to ensure that healthcare networks are working for the patients.

[Tektra]

I love being Canadian!

[Cxdy]

I like all the videos. Keep up the good work.

[Spudst3r]

Makes me happy to live in Canada.

[paxson001]

These videos are obviously intended to promote the United States' appalling health care system.

Everyone has a friend with a horror story (denied coverage, often) from our nasty profit-driven "health care" industry.

[ChocolateThunder013]

Did he just sell me a shamwow?

[oldhacks]

what the fuck is this corporate right wing sell out garbage? this is brainwashing people to think that health care is a privilege.

[eluko79]

LOL!

[crabapplesmoke]

Advertisement. Self-serving.

Markets work best when people spend their own money.

[fnordly]

Now wait a minute.... if doctors set their own fees at market rates, why couldn't they drop below the "standard" rate? So doesn't the network also set a minimum floor on that rate by guaranteeing it? Who would charge any less? (I recently went to an out of network doc that actually DID charge less.) The system today is run by these kinds of trade guilds, for their benefit, not ours. No wonder costs soar.

My bet is the free market would end up much cheaper in the long run.

[crabapplesmoke]

Its an advertisement. Self-Serving! In the long term, prices are lowest when they are spending their own money.

[hicksw24]

Please people think about what he is saying. He said without networks everyones costs would go up

Ex:

Network doctors charge $10

Out of Net may charge $15

If there were no networks, the price would be in between ~$13, that basic math. Numbers dont lie variables like rules can

Not to mention doctors would be able to have specials and deals like 2 checkups for the price of one. Thats a shallow exapmle but I hope you will think for yourself

Dnt b fooled in2 thnkng the system works

[Juggaloserialeater]

why why whyyyy why why whyyyyyyyyy why whyyy why why why why why

[EducatedNobody]

lol...now that we have Humana's opinion... they failed to mention how much THEY take out of the healthcare system to "set up" the "network."

[freudianstud]

You forgot to mention that the insurance companies themselves pay only a fraction of the bill. The overall bill is less as you mentioned, but the insurance companies require members to pay a lot more out of pocket. Many doctors are also leaving networks because insurance companies deny so many claims.

[knaifer]

I like the way you present the idea BUT I totally disagree with the content

[PackedFunk]

Not true where I live. Good Drs. cost more, period. If you can't afford it, you suffer.

[delarosa213]

i love this.

he takes time of his life just to teach us things we should know.

[pongman]

This commercial smells like BS

[2freet]

I like things like this! good work!

[mosfillers]

Love it! Another great job!

[Radianation]

First

[6alalio]

nice, keep up the good work :)

[adrianyktan]

like the way u express the idea short and clear ＴＨＸ＝】 inspirative!!

[XxSteph89xX]

Informative.

[tooosweeet]

It's not informative, it's insurance company propaganda. In case you haven't noticed the HUMANA logo at the end. Doesn't matter, I'm just wasting my time because oh yeah, in the spirit of information they also censor negative or revealing comments.