Can We Do Away With the Middleman?

[elephantpuke]

Dammit I gave you one star when I meant 5, sorry dude.

[bezelthai]

amen!

[johnebii]

i don't trust corporations, i trust MYSELF.

[pvukosavljev]

do not worry a health insurance one day will deny a medical treatment for you or someone you care about and they will die just like so many in the Sicko documentary

[johnebii]

so does canadian gov't funded ins.-at a much higher rate of incidence by the way than private ins. carriers

[pvukosavljev]

There is NO private health insurance for major health care in Canada. The only private health insurance in Canada covers cost of drugs and eyeglasses

[pvukosavljev]

Only country without Universal heath care are:

All countries in Africa, a few republic of the Former Yugoslavia, and some of Asia

Even Mexico is starting universal health care

When did Mexico become more wealthy then the USA.

Private insurance HAS to deny some claims to make a profit and it is 3% which as said on 20/20 with the president of the association of private insurance company _ not nobody you care about is part of the 3% or they will be SOL

[johnebii]

so 97% of claims GET PAID and we are complaining? that is a wonderful success rate. we're going to change the whole system when it is succeeding at a 97% rate? ridiculous!!!

[pvukosavljev]

so a success rate of about 97% is very good for the space shuttle _ i will inform the familes of the ones who died on the 2 space shuttles that the space shuttle amost 100% sucessful

YOu shoud watch "SICKO" to get the REAL facts of the broken private for-profit health care insurance

[johnebii]

you think michael moore is only interested in the truth?! he has an agenda, he is a propagandist!!! why do you all assume he is an unbiased speaker of facts. he is a left-wing propagandist. study both sides with an open mind instead of looking to one side as your saviour

[pvukosavljev]

I am not left wing and in the province of Ontario a right wing party started Universal health care. In other provinces left wing, center and right wing parties started Universal health care

[johnebii]

i'm saying the entire political spectrum from u.s. to canada is skewed. if a person classified as 'conservative' in canada were to move to the u.s. and run for political office w/the same ideas they hold in canada the would be considered moderately to strongly left wing here. your strong left wingers would be considered hard line socialists. i guess in canada you can be for the gov't intruding into every aspect of individuals lives and be considered 'conservative'. here you can not.

[pvukosavljev]

Conservites in Canada are TRUE conservites ... balanced budgets

IN USA .. what is you National debt

American republicans are SPEND and BORROW government which is much worse the SPEND and TAX

More spin please...

[pvukosavljev]

It works in Isreal, Canada, Britain, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Belgium, Germany, France, Spain, and the rest of Europe.

[johnebii]

you need to read some press about the 'success' of USP ins. in britain, canada, france, etc. major newspapers in these countries almost daily chronicle the disasters of patients dying while waiting on approvals and appointments, etc. please watch some stuart browning vids (available at freemarketcuredotcom) then let me know what you think about how 'successful' these programs are elsewhere.

[pvukosavljev]

I live in Canada and the UHC system was started by a Conservite party in 1969 _ yes a right wing party

[johnebii]

why do patients from canada and europe flock to our hospitals in the u.s. to obtain procedures they are not able to obtain in their home countries? where are the patients from the u.s. running across the border to canada for PROCEDURES.

[pvukosavljev]

MORE SPIN _ what is your source

I have source that estimate that 500,000 american go overseas and most go to INDIA where a chain of hospitals is affiated with Harvard Universary Medical school _ more spin pleas

[johnebii]

why don't the americans go to canada if their system is so great instead of india? india has gravitated towards free market solutions

[pvukosavljev]

because a heart value operation cost $8000 in India and many times more in the USA.

India has a partial universal health care system and one day will have a full universal heath care system _ 250,000 people in India work at call centers for ATT and other major American Companies

[pvukosavljev]

500,000 americans go overseas for medical treatment each year and this is increasing __ 1 in 600 __ outsourcing of medical care to INDIA

Plane boarding for INDIA now _ all first class passenger can pre-board (doctors) now

[johnebii]

you didn't answer the question. why don't these americans come to your wonderful canada.

we all know your system is the best but when left with choices people don't choose it, they choose india. i thought your system was the best. i guess these people are just ignorant. like in all other things, the socialists assume they know better for these people than the people know for themselves

[pvukosavljev]

Adrian Campbell came to Canada for cancer treatment that her insurance company refused to pay for. She is in sicko

More spin please.....

[pvukosavljev]

In canada the doctor decides with the patient what treatment to be done. The government just pays the bills from taxes collected.

If the government does a poor job then you just vote in another party

Your vote is the most powerful weapon.

[johnebii]

baloney, ask some canadians about the gov't middle man telling them what procedures they can and can't receive and what the gov't will and won't pay for.

[pvukosavljev]

I AM CANADIAN so you statement is based on only a few people out of 32.5 million _ give me name and sources _ more statement from someone who believe BS from Dr. David "Traitor" grazier, Sally Fat ass piper and the big lier Rick Baker

[johnebii]

look for stuart brownin or google 'patient waiting' 'patient dies waiting' and see what you come up with. i dare you. let me know what you find.

[pvukosavljev]

stuart _ tells lies and has never even beein in Canadian hospital or got treated in one

He is a major spin doctor who lies