Health Reform Hits Main Street: The YouToons Explain the New Health Law

[FriderikD]

Relying on Kaiser to explain healthcare is like trusting Nazis to explain "camp" or "shower."

[HickeryHickery]

Well that doesn't sound so scary...

In fact, I think I like this "Obamacare."

Still prefer universal healthcare, though.

[neoparshath]

Money.

Greed and avarice are the reason we don't have universal healthcare or why electric cars aren't the norm, despite all the glaring and obvious benefits of both.

Sigh, sometimes I wonder how much more advanced our society would be if we didn't slow down the growth of civilization because of greed and pride.

[thereinliestherib]

@neoparshath Myth. Did it ever occur to you that calling for socialized Hc in the country with the 70% obesity/overweight rate is a recipe for disaster? We already have socialized care in the US: it's called the healthy/responsible are overcharged for a good they don't consume, in order to subsidize the costs of an unhealthy nation. The primary reason for HC costs in the US is increasing pool risk due to poor national health--which is why Obamacare's only practical end is spreading liability.

[hagamablabla]

I can see where this could go wrong. However, I still think that it is a great system. At least the government got SOMETHING right.

[newKurukshetra]

Free Range Socialism, thanks for the propaganda why don't you tell these people the truth which is they are 'The People' and are FREE to OPT OUT.

[javabarbarian]

No thanks. I don't need somebody with a $14T credit card bill managing my health.

[sirwinfredsmith]

single payer national health care would cut down costs, private insurance wants to make money for its ivestors and its executives.

This is a gift to the health insurance company. when they say the govt chips in it is really us the people who chip in and give to insurers through the money we give in premiums and the money our govt gives to them. cut the private secotor out of health insuarnce.

[thereinliestherib]

@sirwinfredsmith Cutting the privateers out of health insurance won't do much when every govt program suffers from 3/2 efficiency disadvantage compared to the private sector, and also when pool risk due to abyssmal national health is UNEQUIVOCALLY the primary reason for rising US HC costs (70% obesity/overweight, 25% smokers, and abundant drug/alcohol abuse in the US). I'm tired of hypocritical universalists who will do everything except to earn the right--say, by losing some friggin weight!

[sirwinfredsmith]

@thereinliestherib here in France the health care is great single payer national health care and for full coverage for my daughter and myself i pay about 145 us dollars per month (most is just taken out with the taxes). Lots of people smoke here, we are the top cannabis users of europe and lots of people drink. there are less fat people over here, including me. i am 32 and still wear the same size as in high school. 6 ft tall and 157 pounds, i do a lot of mountain biking.

[thereinliestherib]

@sirwinfredsmith Exactly. And because your country is healthier, the HC system doesn't have to carry as high of pool risk as in the US. Likewise, your system is significantly subsidized through your VAT tax, unlike the American tax system. Socialized care in America--a country where virtually no one gives a damn about their health, then complains about costs--could only perpetuate and enable the root problem of an insanely unhealthy population.

[sirwinfredsmith]

@thereinliestherib why do you just assume that private sector anything is a third more efficiant than in the private sector?  roads are public built except tollways and i dont really see a difference in efficency. fire departments were made public because previous private owend fire companys were not efficent for the overall population. private owned essential services enable the already rich to get more rich providing essential services, this is robbery not efficency.

[thereinliestherib]

@sirwinfredsmith Roads aren't built publicly, they are contracted out to private construction companies. In fact, because of bidding reg's, roads are a lot more expensive, because of prevailing wages and bidding requirements to protect minority-owned contractors who do lower quality work. The faults you claim against the "evil" private sector apply just as much to the public sector, but obviously the fallacy of non-equivalence dictates your beliefs about govt.

[sirwinfredsmith]

@thereinliestherib you are correct, roads are private built with public money except tollroads can be private owned and private built, most of our road system is public FUNDED, not built, i used the wrong word. if roads construction were only FUNDED privately they would only build roads where it would be profitable to do so and people in rural areas would have to pay very high toll as the cost per user to construct would be higher, in the public funded system this is not a problem

[thereinliestherib]

@sirwinfredsmith But you mistake the point that its not either/or: roads are a hybrid of private/public, and actually they are ultimately built for-profit in order to generate commerce and connect with primary economic ports of entry. Roads aren't built so we can go play on them; they are built for private commerce and trade. And on the balance, their biggest construction beneficiaries are bloated private construction co's.

[sirwinfredsmith]

@thereinliestherib roads are not built to go play, i know, so when i lived in the suburbs or chicago there were many many roads to facilitate commerce, in rural areas with low population density there is little commerce aside from timber for instance, public funding of roads means that high population density livers subsudize road construction in rural areas, this would not happen in a purely private system even though we need timber and food from rural areas. food costs would go up due to tolls

[thereinliestherib]

@sirwinfredsmith "we need timber and food from rural areas" ..Which totally contradicts the claim that rural roads serve no compensatory economic or commercial purpose. What disgusts me isn't private corruption; it's the complacent failure of govt's to view themselves from the private perspective, as businesses beholden to a market model. Its the primary reason states across the country have run up liabilities and debt which they are now struggling to pay. Its called scarcity, guys.

[sirwinfredsmith]

@thereinliestherib i never said rural roads serve no econolic or commercial purpose, i said they serve less purpose therefore will be more expensive for individual users were they private funded toll roads. governments have defecit problems because they are not taxing enough. they need to raise revenue by raising taxes on the wealthy and on corporations.

[thereinliestherib]

@sirwinfredsmith They don't serve less purpose! Rural roads are used for the transport of raw goods and the maintenance of infrastructure, such as when power plants and transmission lines are located in remote areas. State govts have debt problems because they knew about their deficits last year and before; but like I said, they aren't beholden to market changes as with the private sector, and in the end game, they can do as you suggest, which is to increase taxes rather than ctrl spending.

[Dxmpr72]

how about doing a video showing how universal healthcare is even better than this crap....

[piratecheese13]

taxes for people with fake tans? I'm all for it

[ThePinkHeel]

@piratecheese13

They might call it the Jersey shore tax!

[playlifesgame]

First Comment! Very good video from Free Range Studios as always.