American SiCKOS Donna and Larry Smith Rally for Single-Payer Health Care in Washington, D.C.

[truckdawg43]

Single payer? really ? No it should say tax payer paid joke forced on those that choose to work .Given to those that think they have a right to my tax dollars ,but are sorely mistaken .This wasnt a problem when Bush had everybody working now that unemployment is hoovering near 10 % in some states well over 10 % They cant get enough of tax dollars GET A JOB AND GET OUT OF MY WALLET not a request !! Losers

[cjyount]

Same to you moron.

[cjyount]

Just like your not smart enough to realize the only way obama and the liberals will want health care reform is through a single payer system. Look at the public option which penalizes private companies who do not provide health care for their employees. The public option is a part of the goal of implementing single payer health care. It does not work and it will not pass in our country.

[cjyount]

Their best interest is to go broke and have crappy health care. Yeah, that is a good argument dush bag.

[treid100182]

SINGLE-PAYER Or BUST!!!!

Its the only Fair and balanced way to cut costs, and insure every American Citizen, regardless of Wealth, Race, or Creed.

Healthcare needs to be UNIVERSAL!!!!

...How can we call ourselves civilized if we are willing to destroy millions of lives for the benefit of OLD, Rich white men???!!!

[cjyount]

We cannot afford it liberal. Look at Canada and France. They are going bankrupt because of their government run health care.

[STUBBORNOTTER]

@cjyount I you look around it's the U.S that is going bankrupt. The Euro and the Canadian Dollar are both stronger than our dollar. Thanks to Bush and people like you! One of the factors that is making us go bankrupt is rising health care cost. The single greatest variable in rising health care cost is CORPORATE GREED. We need to take the leeches out of health care

[cjyount]

Canada has had multiple emergency meetings discussing the rising cost of the NHS or national Health Care system. That is the truth and you cant deal with it. That is what happens when too many people rely on the government to manage things like health care.

[STUBBORNOTTER]

@cjyount OH MY GOD! Canada had emergency meetings! That is because there are no perfect systems. Things change and SMART people hold meetings, consult experts and come up with solutions with the best outcome. They still provide health care to their citizens, they have better health outcomes than in the U.S and Canadians live longer than Americans. You can LIE all night about the facts but you can't CHANGE the Facts. Sane people seek the facts to find solutions those who don't are Tea Baggers

[mephesh]

Well said

[gkgreger]

Obama's healtcare program will expand the privet HMO & Insurance industry which is going broke because of bad investments in the Stock Market. We will be forced to buy and carry insurance if we want medical treatment. A medical panel will determine who will get medical treatment based of cost effectiveness. Heil hitler! Obama's program is just another Wall Street bailout. Obama is a Wall Street prostitute that will say anything to get some head. Google Video: OTC PM Report September 10, 2009

[getyourpitchfork]

Can ANYONE name one thing that the United States government has done successfully, just one. That's how you want to FIX healthcare? There isn't a stupid stick big enough to beat you with.

The problem with healthcare is lawyers and insurance companies, don't belive me.....ask a doctor.

[outasight12]

There are two sides to this coin. I disagree with the current US system of healthcare as it is only affordable if you have insurance but I also disagree with the government mandating it. Please do NOT tell me to "get sick and you'll see" as I'm already there, but two wrongs never make a right.

[krazymindreader]

These democrat, prostituted and owned blue dogs who believe in retaining a broken private healthcare system believe in it so much they have to be paid for their comments? A public option is as it says an OPTION as described in the bill, if u believe in private healthcare so much, then pay for it you sods! Let those who work on minimum wage have some form of healthcare at least, & stop throwing scary words like GOVERNMENT CONTROL and SOCIALISM in every sentence cause were over all that bullshit!

[zipperhouse]

I'm a Canadian....find it astonishing that US doesn't have (or want) a single-payer system. I guarantee, you don't hear from Canadians on political issues too often, but if our government ever tried to take away our single-payer health care, there would be an uprising

[cjyount]

Hey moron, Your healthiness system is bankrupt. That is what happens when the governemnt runs things.

[STUBBORNOTTER]

@cjyount Answer. I will run better and for less cost because the leeches will be flushed from the system. People will not have to give up their life savings is a member of their family gets sick. People will not have to loose their homes and go bankrupt to stay alive. 4500 Americans won't die every year for lack of health care.

You won't have to have money taken out of your pay check for workmans comp, Your home and car insurance will be less because health care is payed for one time.

[cjyount]

Government run health care will cost more and will decrease the quality of health care. I am sorry you don't understand that but its true..

[STUBBORNOTTER]

@cjyount This is not true the AMA says so, the CBO says it will reduce cost. A greater pool will reduce cost. If you don't think savings due to size does not work than don't go into a Walmart or CostCo. Their volume buying provide quality products at reduced prices. The Rape-publicans under W. prevented the government from negotiating lower priced for Rx drugs. That is one reason we now pay more and get less for drugs than the rest of the world

[cjyount]

CBO says it will only reduce cost if every provision in the bill is achieved which has never happen in our country. The CBO says it will more than likely increase the premiums and add to our national bebt and you know it.

[lucho182]

I have to travel all the way to Argentina to get Affordable Health care. They also have a Public option for everyone and it works great too. It's is sad to go to a third world country and see how healthy is people and how sick is people here at the US.

[SupportWeThePeopleKB]

Single payer is the only way to save money and to ensure access to high quality health care. See Sara Collins Commonwealth Fund January 2009 charts. Don't think the insurance companies are out to make hideous profits on whatever ails you? See SICKO or listen to Wendell Potter former Cigna exec on Bill Moyers. Just hope the ethical congressmen (those signed on to HR 676 and S703) will support the Weiner resolution for single payer. Now is the time to call & write Congress relentlessly.

[mcresearch]

In Canada we listen with astonishment to the blatant lies that are being told about our single payer health care system. Ask any Canadian which system they prefer. No Canadian in their right minds would choose the current US health care system.

[SupportWeThePeopleKB]

A fine public service is done every time groups of you warn us against our believing the lies we are fed by health care profiteers every day of the year. We are told to be afraid of the horrors of the Canadian system. Those of us who have researched the details admire the good sense of our dear neighbors to the north. I hope that the Conservatives don't use subterfuge to create niches for the profiteers up there.

[matheus330]

Ask anyone in UK, they might moan but we would never want the American system. i bet neither do Canada. You want you system better, but not private its just pure evil!

[raporter602]

But fortunately for you we are close if you need real help!

[mcresearch]

Yes, if (like our lovely Shona Holmes) we wish to have a cyst removed for $97,000, you are very handy.

There is an added bonus. If we ever need to see third-world poverty up close, we don't need to jet off overseas.

[cjyount]

And you still come here for cancer treatments that your government will not provide because of cost. I think I will keep the US system over yours.

[STUBBORNOTTER]

@cjyount This is the big lie. You are just repeating it. You need to stop and think. The facts are against you the people that do not provide treatments because of the cost are the private insurance company. People who are on Medicare like it we can make it better but it works. And don't say but Medicare is going bankrupt. It is not if there were any shortfalls a quick fix would be that everyone pay the same percentage of their INCOME not just wages. Stop drinking the Kool - Aid

[mcresearch]

Keep drinking the Kool-Aid! Our cancer centres are second to none.

BTW, the lovely Sarah Palin used to come to Canada for health care as a child.

[cjyount]

Nice try loser but our cancer treatment centers are the greatest in the world. We have the most sophisticated treatments centers because we don't allow the government to pay or run them.

[mcresearch]

If the best you can do is name-call, your argument is probably not that good.

We pay less for health care in Canada and our longevity rates are better. We insure all our people, not just politicians and the rich; and if people get a life-threatening illness, they don't have to re-mortgage their home (assuming they have any equity).

[cjyount]

You pay less for health care is a joke. Why did your governemnt just have numerous emergency meetings to discuss the financial problems regarding your health care system. Canada's system is broke and you know it. I don't have to wait for hours to see my doctor and my quality of care has not gone down.

[mcresearch]

Google health care costs in US and Canada. You'll get the truth. It turns out that the US spends more government money on health care per capita than Canada.

I know you feel passionately about this but you are being sold a bill of goods. Check the facts.

[cjyount]

No what funds most of our treatment centers and most of our medical research is the private insurance companies that is why you pay higher premiums for your health care you idiot.

[STUBBORNOTTER]

@cjyount said " what funds most of our treatment centers and most of our medical research is the private insurance companies" You have to be totally out of touch with reality to tell a lie that big and feel no shame. There is a medical term for that. SOCIOPATH! Ok. Time to put up or S.T.F.U. Post 1 case where a ForProfit Insurance Co. has provided funding for a medical study in excess of any federal or nonprofit grant. Got to give $ amount. Do it or the world will know you as one who LIES!

[nohealthcare62]

West Tn Sprayed Errad BOWEEVL MALATHION @ 7yrs many CANACERS paid for by fed gov, goole and watch WINNIPEG Malathion on YT PT3 Many sick many DEAD no health care

[Railroadhill]

It is heartbreaking to watch American politicians treat their tax payers like objects they own while openly accepting bribes . Orwell was prophetic !

[lionssong2525]

I really wish someone would post the shares of Managed Care corporations that each Republican Senator & Representative in Congress owns.

It would be interesting to show that number on the news when these people put up these absurd excuses for not liking Universal Health Care for Everyone.

Michael Moore, you are one of the greatest REAL Americans ever!!! I wish I could do more to help fight these Republican Elitists.

[janebusby]

People need 2 things to succeed in life, health & education.

If people do not have access to these 2 foundation blocks to build on, they will find it difficult to be successful.

This in turn breeds a divided society, with the rich getting richer & the poor getting poorer. From private healthcare you can expect higher healthcare costs from your 'supplied for profit' system, plus the costs of social unrest, crime, segregation, deppression, v poor & v rich neighbourhoods living side by side

[sabbathhill]

u couldnt pay me to live in the states jesus health care is everything

[cagedrazor13]

Healthcare for all citizens.. it's is what we need!!!

[cjyount]

We cannot afford it!

[STUBBORNOTTER]

@cjyount You swallow deluded lies and spew them out again and act against you own interest. YOU have ignored all the wonderful points that rational non name calling people have posted. The person from Canada for example your great comeback to his facts was" I don't have to wait for hors to see my doctor. What a foolish statement . Try to make an appointment and see your doctor in less than an hour. All you can do i lie. "Our cancer treatment best in the world if you can afford them. 4500 DIE.

[cjyount]

@STUBBORNOTTER Keep believing in your socialist liberal point of view. You make me look so much better. I guess the majority of Americans are also swallow these deluded lies since most Americans do not want Obama care.

[STUBBORNOTTER]

@cjyount You Lie! Most Americans want single payer option. You say they don't but offer no facts to back you up. Your Tea Bag rallies are nothing more than modern day Ku Klux Klan rallies and don't represent the majority of Americans. Here are my facts. The greatest poll of all was the election where Obama not only won the presidency but liberal Dems took Congress. It was not even a close election. You are a coward who will not respond to the valid points posted.

[cjyount]

Every poll out there says most people do not want a single payer option. Rasmussen and Gallup are just 2 of them. 6 out of 10 Americans are against this obama care. I know the truth hurts but deal with it.

Look at the facts right now, Obama approval rating is 46% which has drop over 20% since he was elected. That is the lowest by a first year president in the history of our Country. I cant wait for November when the Conservatives and Republicans take back the Senate and possibly the house.

[STUBBORNOTTER]

@cjyount said " We cannot afford it!"

Another example of a well thought out Tea Bagger argument. May I call you cj**unt for short

[cjyount]

Keep calling me names because it makes you look foolish.

[STUBBORNOTTER]

@cjyount Actually when you call people names it makes YOU look foolish because your idea of debate is to parrot words from a drug addict radio host. Your name calling it is out of frustration. You are like a child trying to insinuate herself into an adult conversation. You said Health Insurance Co.s were the main source of funding for medical research. I wrote that you were wrong and challenged you to present your facts. Instead you cry. GROW UP respond to the issues or STFU.

[STUBBORNOTTER]

@cjyount No I keep pointing out your inconsistant arguments and lack of facts makes you look foolish. The challange was to support you argument that private health care corps were in the forfront of funding medical research. You said something very stupid like a typical TEABAGGER. Now you can't support what you said. and now you feel cheap like a broken down jeep going beep beep beep beep. Yet you can't say OK I was wrong but here are some other good points I have. No. Knuckel Head TEABAGGER!

[STUBBORNOTTER]

@cjyount SILENCE! YEAH! IN YOU FACE BULLY TEABAGGER. SWOOSH! BING. Nothing but net.

And the crowd roars!

[Smartassawhip]

Anyone who wants to contact their representatives can do so easily by visiting my profile I have all of their phone numbers as well as other ways to contact them.. We have waited long enough and this needs to happen. I believe it will.. so for those of you who are against it you may as well get used to the idea.

[Textynn]

Stymie law makers. That is bull. It wouldn't stymie them one second if it was them that was not getting treatment for pain, suffering, and risk of loss of life. These numbers don't come close to the reality of people without health care. those that don't care are humane-less creatures that should be run out of office and into the dark woods and back under the rocks from which they came.

[MagellansUnderwear]

What blows my mind is that despite the obvious overall success of UHC in Canada, Japan, Australia, and most of Europe, and despite the fact that Western Europe is slowly but surely overtaking the U.S. in overall health, life span, individual happiness, and measurable categories of academic success, Not to mention overtaken us by far on the HDI,conservatives are still fighting this tooth and nail, with every dirty trick in the book.

[biguy617]

You should make a video about that poem

[SGAK]

Healthcare for all citizens,

republicans and some democrats say no?

I wonder if this new Roman Empire called the US of A is beginning to crumble?

Obama's biggest opponents, it seems, are those damned Democrats...

[epicurus32]

America has unlimited money anyway. Whats another 1.75 trillion. You can borrow 50 trillion if you want its UNLIMITED. The health care insurance companies just want the money in THEIR pockets.

[galezstuff]

I find myself wondering why the politicians we have in office want to be politicians. Is it really that they want to represent the best interests of the people and our country or is it self serving on their part. The xCEO of CIGA is telling Congress what the health insurance companies have been doing. If our politicians don't understand what is truly going on after listening to him then they care more about the lobbyists giving them money for their campaigns.

[garyupyours]

galezstuff, Hate to break it to you but are vile politicians, know whats going on. They have fucked the american people for generations. They know they put on a good show with phony hearings. But remember this the insurance companys and drug companys are going to determine what insurance you get. There is so much behind the scenes bribes going on it would knock your socks off. The only change will come when we rise up and take our country back. Arrest and execute all CEO's and their politicians

[burntonion05]

Obama isn't out of control. He is the President and was elected to make change and fix all the bs that happened the last 8 yrs. We didnt' elect a do nothing Repub.

[bagelboi66]

How can a great nation like the USA have so much trouble with something as basic as universal medicare?

[ELisSheba]

Because some self interested Americans are puritanical, conservative, capitalists who don't want anything to do with socialism/universal healthcare even if it means helping millions. It's ok to be socialist and bail out all the rich CEOs out however the privatized health care system would lose billions if ailing Americans had access to a universal health plan. Hence universal healthcare or socialism for the poor = the devil.

[pongman]

I hope Sen. DeMint has a heart attack and finds out that he can't have the triple bypass surgery because it is a pre-existing condition. After all it would be by the insurance companies standards; he eats so much shit it's affecting his heart.

[kaycem]

the senator doesn't have to worry about "pre-existing conditions" b/c he has government-sponsored healthcare.

[pongman]

very good point. ERISA trumps all other insurance plans. I'd be happy if they made that for everyone! It's sad that the taxpayers in this country have to have shoddy care while the so called people that are suppose to protect our interests get the best.

[EduardoHatch]

I'll Like so much Jim "Waterloo" DeMint give up your govrnt run health care plan in the holy name of "freedom"...

[dangerouslytalented]

Time to put the bluedogs to sleep.

[pjce3]

You know what FUCK ALL THE POLITICIANS!! I'm tired of watching them talk bullshit about d health of millions, I'm not watching anymore videos about it, watever the fuck happens,happens, but if they put me to vote I'm all 4 it. They fucking relax with their nice suits and super extensive plans while we fucking die of treatable diseases. FUCK ALL POLITICIANS! The "From the PEOPLE, by the people and for the people" no longer applies. Now its just,who has more cash in their pockets :'(

[garyupyours]

pjces Your right. These people are vile despicable whores. They take their campaign money, oh excuse me i meant to say their bribe money, and vote to protect the best interest of corporations, insurance companys and the drug companies. All these videos on utube and other sites mean nothing. They have all the power. WE THE PEOPLE MUST TAKE IT AWAY FROM THEM BY FORCE. Thomas Jefferson said '' THE TREE OF LIBERTY MUST BE FED THE BLOOD OF TYRANTS EVERY FEW GENERATIONS''. That time is now wake up usa

[campasini]

why are people against this putting a price tag on americans health and lives?

[44MONTEREY]

It will cost more they say . . . again and again . . .

('They' are known liars)

Every other country finds it is less costly . . . again . . . and again

USA is 29th on the list of people dying and their deaths were preventable, i.e. they needed their medicine or surgery. They say tort reform . . .

('They' are known liars)

Malpractice is 1 % of the cost of medical practitioners.

[JesusSavesAtCitibank]

Senator Kent Conrad is a big part of the problem with the Democrats! If it all fails, he will be to blame.

He wants to keep the insurance thieves in our pockets with some crazy "co-op" idea that forces everyone into private insurance and so will only add to their profits. How much money does Sen Conrad get from them?

Call Sen. Conrad and tell him it MUST BE SINGLE PAYER FOR ALL NOW!

[imtang0708]

Richard Nixon started the demise of healthcare! Republicans are worst organized criminals in the world!!!

[saxmanchiro]

The rest of the civilized world is watching this and wondering why there is conflict or impass with our leaders. They have enjoyed the comfort of available health care for decades and wonder why the USA has not done the same, one payer system. Folks need to get in touch with Congress and let them know how important this is to them. Let's stop the 'bleeding' that families have had to endure.

[Teenagefreedomfightr]

Yes. In England even the most right wing party (Which is racist and practically fascist) agrees that the NHS there needs to exist. Even if that is because most people already know that and won't vote for someone who says otherwise isn't it a testament to representative democracy?

[Teenagefreedomfightr]

Although I am in favor of this new plan in comparison to current policy but I really wish we could get a real NHS and start catching up with the rest of the world.

[chimerademonninja]

I deffinitely agree with you there. However, with the people opposed to a national healthcare, it's a fairly good start, but even then, we've got a long way to go before we get to where we need to be.

[Teenagefreedomfightr]

Yes this is very true. We have a huge political process where the idiot party that was once "lead, follow or get out of the way" have officially become obstructionists. We are to the right of almost all western nations and don't exactly have a functioning democratic process.

Until our political system and actually our people can smarten up we will still be going nowhere.

Although I do not usually trust in these kind of "first step up the staircase" policies it seems to be our only hope.

[busherbee]

F. republicans and blue dog bribe takers, F. the hmo's that pay them off.

[acledmaiden]

say fuck instead of F. please, you sound like a douche

[busherbee]

but i am a douche! and i spend most of my time cleaning P's!