Ed Show: Bernie Sanders on the Need for Single Payer Health Care System

[dlwke2]

Wow, this idiot Senator Bernie Sanders (who voted for this moron?) couldn't have been more wrong. The American public has spoken: NO ONE WANTS THIS GOVERNMENT RUN HEALTHCARE CRAP!!

[davidandbess]

my friend you are the moron public option would go a long way to a better system. A single payer system would be the best move forward,less admin remove greed motivated pharmy and healthcare providers,wellpoint being the main culprit

[Justprayfirst]

Com'on plp!

Why not let the government be nanny over every aspect of our lives? We need a big government telling us stupid people how to do everything, right?

[8x56]

You've been hearing the grass roots you twit!~ The Gov't bankrupted Social Security,Medicare,the V.A. system is a mess (wounded vets should pay for their after care,remember) You clowns can't even run cash for clunkers in an efficient manner! And we should listen to you? You don't even grow enough hair down below to announce town hall meetings in time for your constituents to make plans to attend. Read it in the morning paper that the meeting is at noon that day. Some people have lives Bernie.

[JimmyFormerMarine]

Didn't they have a "public health plan" in the Soviet Union? How well did that work?

[akaDickBush]

Hey john n,how does one Fing up America?It sounds kind of fun.

[akaDickBush]

Like the former Canadian Prime Minister said,"If we took money from corporations like the Americans do,we'd be in prison.

[fecklessbollocks]

regulate the market and crease out amazingly effective inequality of capitalism. oligarchy will do the same but in favor of the rich, hence we have all of these lobbyists buying politicians in D.C.

you bring up examples just of Canada look at the rest of the free world - American income inequality has steaily increased since the 60s.

why are you sticking up for business it blows my mind - your ideology usurps rational thinking, common sense, context.

[johnnorvaisas]

The Obama health care proposals will lead to a Canadian style socialized medicine -- and i explain the consequences.

A 16% higher cancer death rate in Canada

* An eight week wait for radiation therapy for cancer patients

42% of Canadians die of colon cancer vs. 31% in the US

Cutbacks in diagnostic testing The best meds for chemo therapy are not available No way out of the system; you can't even pay for services yourself

Real facts not you're bogus 50 million!

[fecklessbollocks]

ok let me ask you this. How small can the government get?

No schooling?

No roads?

No Police?

No fire service?

America has never had this much touted small government - this is extreme right wing politics - really extreme. If this kind of economy were carried out to its fullest America would end up like Hondouras or Colombia with the vast majority of the popluation living abject poverty and the rich elite living in gated communities.

[johnnorvaisas]

You are clueless i know we need some government but not to the extreme that you wacko socialist liberal nuts want.

The free market is the best and only way!

We are doomed with you extreme left wing nuts destroying our country and it is starting to backfire.

People are waking up and finding out how bad you're socialist rationed health care is.

Seniors will have a fit and vote you clowns out in 2010 and 2012 if you get you're garbage public option.

Thank you for Fing up America you moron!

[fecklessbollocks]

I think if you look at the overwheming evidence its right wing nuts who have ruined America.

The end.

[johnnorvaisas]

I agree they go too far right but you're just as bad wanting to go way far left with a single payer health plan.

Big government will NOT work!

[johnnorvaisas]

Also the majority of the people in America are center right and we feel like we where conned by Obama.

He ran as a moderate and is governing like a big government socialist.

If he keeps this up he will get crushed in 2012 you watch.

[Justprayfirst]

That's right. Those stupid hard working, responsible people who actually work for that evil word "profit" should just leave and let you run things, right?

[Badergader]

Bernie Sanders rules

[basesloaded09]

Senator Sanders is the smartest guy in Washington on this issue - he wants to remove insurance company influence from the equation! Insurance companies are the culprit, guilty of felonies in my opinion when their monetary greed restricts medical coverage and causes bankruptcy or the deaths of hardworking Americans! Congress should be ashamed if they fail to follow Senator Sanders' ideas! Other purposed remedies to fix the healthcare problem are like rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic!

[thoughtsurfer1]

Large corporations have got to go! Companies should not be allowed to make more than one kind of product or exist outside a certain radius. We need to return to a country of small corporations and small businesses, with a unified social support system.

[AminCad]

Let's see if heathr456 has enough courage to allow my video response.

[chambernater]

ED SHULTZ SHOW SUCKS its like a democratic orielly always one sided debates .......... not what the world needs!

[TimothyPhillips]

America ranks 37th in health care compared to other nations. We are the most powerful nation on Earth and has among the highest cases of diseases. Our healthcare system is destroying us.

[johnnorvaisas]

Wow this guys show sucks big time!

And liberal socailist want single payer not the majority of Americans.

Please get it right and i hope GE wakes up and fires this clown what a garbage show!

[fecklessbollocks]

70% want universal healthcare

[johnnorvaisas]

70% of people that have no clue how bad it is!

[fecklessbollocks]

Oh piss off you lunatic. America has the second worst infant mortality rate in the free world. 50 million americans without halthcare, and the rest with health insurance companies which are operating on a level of criminal deviousness which is outright wicked.

So where are you coming from? Why do you have this ideology? It's abstract to the point of the absurd. Are you yourself extremely rich? Are you and everyone you know totally happy with private care?

It's perplexing.

[johnnorvaisas]

Most people in the real world are happy with there health plans and don't want government to run it they know it will mean much higher taxes.

And no i don't make alot of money i have a high deductible health plan with a flexible spending account.

I manage my health care and have it when i need it.

I was in the hospital for two days last year and thanks to the great health company it only cost me $400.

I sure as hell don't want to pay for the 15 million illegals.

[johnnorvaisas]

And the last census in 2007 was 47 million and of those 47 million that don't have health insurance 15 million are illegal and some experts say 10 to 15 million are young people that don't want health care.

So on the low end there is over half of you're inflatted 47 million.

Move to Canada if you want garbage rationed health care and pay your high taxes ok!

Less government is the only way!!!!!!!!

[bpartoens]

Sure single payer would save us money, but how would our elected officials line their pockets?

Wake up America. There are more of us, average hard working people struggling to keep jobs we are over qualified for just because we need the health insurance.

No health care for our elected officials until we the people have affordable single payer health care. It works in other first world countries. Watch "Sick Around The World". Baucus is bought & paid for by big health insur. and pharma.

[johnnorvaisas]

Single payer does not work unless you want huge taxes like Canada and the UK Sanders is dead wrong it will bankrupt America!

Sanders is a socialist a nice guy but dead wrong move to the UK if you want to be taxed 61% i know i don't.

Less government is the best way!

[fecklessbollocks]

Actually income tax is lower in the U.K. Sales tax is comparable. I presume you are happy to pay tax for two wars? Why not for a human right.

Americans we need to get over this outdated Ayn Rand libertarianism which has nothing to do with reality. Two wars = massive government.

[729zoom]

The people want single payer!!!!! Yes WE CAN! what happened to that slogan? HCAN (Healthcare for America-NOW) is ASTROTURF pushing phony reform and keeping single payer off the table. spread the word and let's push these cowards in D.C. to do what was promised.

[urbanverificationist]

Single payer advocates represent the largest constituency for health care reform in the United States. It's a testament to the power of health insurance companies and the cowardice of politicians that single payer remains politically marginalized.

[Hereticbooks]

Why has it taken so long to truly address this issue? The Brits have had NHS since the 1950's. Health care in this country is a disgrace!

[pokemanz]

Damn I would love a single payer NHC. Just take the medicare/medicaid system, and completely restructure the system to fit a NHC system. If Obama got THAT done.... best president ever just for that. That would be massive change. Just massive.

[rochesterpopulist]

"we need to have the freedom to pay private companies 30 percent overhead"-republicans

[Plutonwolf]

Do you think it is that low? Try again.

Medicare returns over 85 cents on the dollar to the insured.

Private insurers with all of their culling of insurees to insure maximum return on the dollar returns 23 cents on the dollar to the insured. This smells to me an awful lot like 77% overhead.

But hey, CEO's have a certain standard of living to maintain, Gold fiber toilet paper doesn't come cheap, neither does disposable limousines.

[leesagrrl]

Yay BERNIE!!!

[xhagast]

The Democrats have quite a few guys like this and Obama is pushing for universal health care. He has a chance of getting it. Let me tell you, universal health care is GREAT. It means NO worries. And everybody manages to pay for it. I heard that in Spain like ten years ago they said that by 2007 the money would run out. It hasn't. It has troubles but it may be because Spain has a million+ ilegal immigrants and a culture where you go to the hospital for a papercut.

[eljefereal]

Well in that case we'd better take care of our illegal immigration problem or the money will be gone before it's even there.

[leesagrrl]

xhagast:

Except... Obama doesn't seem too devoted to "Universal Health Care..." certainly not Single Payer.

He originally picked Private Practice Shill and slimeball, Gupta, for SG... then his brand new gal at DOHHS, Sebelius is a Private Practice shill too...

So, I'm not too optimistic about it actually happening.

[xhagast]

I actually am. It would be a cataclism but Obama has the votes and the political capital. And he is moving so fast he may get the opposition with its pants down. And I don't mean the ridiculous GOP but the pharmaceutical and insurance companies.

Of course this would have been much easier if done in the 50s like the rest of the world did.

[leesagrrl]

xhagast:

I'm glad you are optimistic.

And I hope, with all of heart, that you are right.