FRONTLINE | Sick Around America | PBS

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People deserve to get health care, no matter if you are rich, poor, innocent, guilty, black, white, atheist, Jewish, blind, deaf, dumb or drunk. Be open to the idea that someday you will not be alive anymore, & you are left worrying about your children's futures. Why would set back this milestone for something that should be so important for our next generation and the idea that everyone deserves some of the help that we can potentially offer them.

[Doughnutchef]

If Obama and his merry band of facist get their forced so-called healthcare,i'll go to prison before i ever sign up for any of this forced shit!

[tls2156]

I just watched this documentary and it showed the positive and negatives of the Massachusetts system, for the most part it showed how flawed the system is. If you can not afford to pay for healthcare, it makes no difference if its madatory......COST is the big problem. this is a good documentary.......see it if you want to see just how bad the U.S. Healthcare system is.

[SinglePayerActivist]

Beware! I heard that near the end of this documentary they included some positive comments about the Massachusetts mandated health insurance law. When any health care law causes problems like the Massachusetts law has caused, we don't want it!. Do NOT believe whatever they included on this documentary. The MA law is bad! I know citizens in MA who are trying to get the word out about how bad it is. Perhaps the film producers are working hard day and night to take that section out. Let's hope so.

[1mayven]

I agree! The MA plan is a terrible failure - nothing but a boon to private insurance companies and tax dollars going into the pockets of insurance middlemen instead of paying for health care. Subsidizing private insurance doesn't contain cost or make healthcare affordable for most and doesn't address the incentive to deny care for profit. 

We need the real reform - Single Payer!

pnhp . org has a lot of great info and hope people will learn more about it.

[Icix1]

I agree, the way our medical system works you end up paying so much just to go to the doctor there seems to be pressures to go only when you have to, aka dying/hospitalized.

[columbusoh1]

I as a Christian conservative support universal health care. You cant call yourself a Christian and be against taking care of one another because you label yourself as a conservative.

[lenin1928]

as a Christian conservative you have to hate liberals if you don't you're a fake. and fuck universal health care.

[RealTime88]

@columbusoh1 I like that. I hate the idea of every man woman and child for themselves.

[bamboo4tameshigiri]

Hospitals think I owe them $45,000. I will die before I pay it for the sloppy half assed job they did that nearly killed me, and they dumped me out a week early with open wounds. If they want their money they are going to have to come through the business end of my rifle.

[sourmanofcoal]

@bamboo4tameshigiri lol

[ilovemycat00]

I look forward to this!!

[booboodaddy373737]

i haven't invented a cure for cancer or a major movement for peace so i think when that time comes i will spare the expense and go quietly...how important are you? take care of yourself, eat right and in porportion, exercise often, depend on no one!

[spindizzy1969]

I agree, but it's all well and good, as long as you don't develop cancer at 12 years old!

I love this country, but it is going to die unless it looks after the people that make it what it is..

Just like Communism..Capitalism has failed or is in it's death throes.. Oh well, back to the drawing board eh?

[booboodaddy373737]

spindizzy1969...i love your humanity...you are a unicorn!...and that is the problem...what it takes to be a human is lost on 95% of its inhabitants and I'm being conservative..my country....its went from freedom to fascism...the old golden rule " the one with the gold makes the all rules" and if there is no control and profit that poor child dies..so lets stop killing each other and stop cancer and a few other ills like food , water, shelter, JOBS and sanitation...

[spindizzy1969]

Hey I do not argue with what you say, I come from a country that has had socialized medicine for a long time. I have been treated by that system. I can't stand the propaganda that the media here spews. The ones spewing it have the means.

I hope one day they find they do not. reality checks are indeed needed, we are in a time when they need to be cashed. Not everyone can be or wants to be a multi million dollar business owner.And the freedom thing..That's really a bit of a mirage..

[PaulLeary]

Finally PBS is going to shed some light on this! Thank you!

[mindrunfree]

This one looks like it'll be important to watch.