TAVIS SMILEY | Lining Up for Free Healthcare | PBS

[MrBillholden1969]

These people could do a good job, but they often choose not to. I wen't to them once when I was in need and they treated me badly and did a terrible job. I will do without medical care before I ever go back around them. Thanks for nothing RAM members. Try to remember, we are all just humans.

[pegleg09able]

More Americans need to donate to RAM...(especially if you are unable to volunteer.) It goes to a great cause!

[NolanRogers2]

As a British man I want to say how PATHETIC and Evil you Americans are to do this to your own people.

I read that there are 5 MILLION American children without ANY health care or even access to a bloody doctor.

Does that make you Americans Proud? Does that want to make you get out your ratty ass American Flag and wave is back and forth and sing "God Bless America"? Disgusting!

Yeah....You Yanks are SO PROUD to say how GREAT you are - yeah GREAT at DENYING health care to your own people...

[westsidepride69]

@NolanRogers2 As an American, I agree with you.

[Detoxicsify]

@NolanRogers2 As an American, I also agree with you.

[jfkjrlover]

@NolanRogers2 I'm not proud BUT I will say that many of those who are poor are Hispanic or black. I'm an Armenian living in the US and seeing how my people come to the US and become productive members of society, I can't help but feel disgust for the blacks and ESPECIALLY the Hispanics who've been here for generations and are just continuing the cycle of poverty by popping babies out as teens & dropping out of school. Why not place blame on them a little for their unfortunate circumstances?

[NO2EUoNO2NWO]

America STILL does not have free health care? LMAO

[AbjectConformity]

@NO2EUoNO2NWO Why should they?

[PaulDougouba]

America - why do you think it is A OK to DENY HEALTH CARE to your fellow Citizens and Human Beings?

You are an EVIL bunch of people!!!

USA - Do you realize that the WORLD looks upon you with DISGUST and CONTEMPT when you allow this kind of tragedy to happen to your own people?

USA - Your Rich Politicians and Capitalists who allow this kind of inhuman suffering to come upon poor uninsured men, women and children should be arrested, jailed, put on trial...and then executed for GENOCIDE!

[laughingtiger123]

In Canada, you pay over TWICE the fed tax rate as in America... but you cant see that you are ALREADY paying for your inferior healthcare UP FRONT in fed tax dollars? You can't see that? It requires that you actually think a step or two ahead... like in Chess, a game liberals are just terrible at. Why did lhe last two Canadian Prime Ministers and one of their wives have to come all the way to AMERICA for decent medical treatment? Hmm??? Waiting......

[NewRevolutionLeader]

Check my uploaded videos and tell me if you all agree or not with my views and share your opinions. I am open to both sides to the arguement and will not call you names or jump on you for your views. This is America and everyone has an opinion on my videos I'd like to know yours.

[hadenufnow]

OPT OUT of blomacare..

Nobody wants it..

It's POISON..

Even his own party scattered when he told em in the state of the blom speech ""DON'T HEAD for the HiLLS" ...and they scattered like mercury droplets on a tile floor...HIS OWN PEOPLE don't want it...

[deb35802]

God bless Stan Brock.

[tomheppy]

America had its chance.

[sngrmnsthsm]

Health Care Is A Fundamental Right, Not A Privilege. We need to pass health care reform with a public option now. ~Peace~

[dgtlmtrspts]

Maybe they should have the free heath care @ the Employment office?

[tinkll1]

For 47,000,000 uninsured Americans, we have become a Third World Nation, with regard to healthcare. This exposes the problem, as would any visit to any ER. RAM, noble effort that it is, is NOT the solution.  Single Payer Health Care is the solution.

[minmotstand]

America is quickly becoming a third world country...

[pegleg09able]

Thank God for Stan Brock! What would happen to Americans without his wonderful organization! Thanks to Remote Area Medical and PBS!

[ron11270428]

I wish they would come to my neighborhood. I'm 61, recently laid off, and have pre-existing conditions that preclude me from health care in this crap country.

[IkonikPhoto]

That this is even NECESSARY in the richest nation on earth is both tragic and disturbing.

[ElAminNazir]

"One week in one city and this could happen everyday every where"...

[sorinbulat]

cool hdhdh

[voyeurdug]

HOORAY for PBS and PBS on YouTube for bringing this out. While some -few- commercial broadcasters even mention this, PBS is all over it.

Commercial broadcasters -apparently- prefer to air stuff LIKE astroturfers at healthcare reform town halls, trying to stifle or shut down discussion of healthcare reform.

The contrast of their (public vs. commercial media's) values, priorities and portrayal of reality is overwhelming and inescapable.

[maskedphrogg]

Inglewood California?

Only 8,000 showed up for free Health Care?

Better advertising and they could have had 10 times that easily.

Crikey! Just move the Fair a few miles down the road toward Watts. 800,000 the first day.

[jlu71]

I volunteered for this event and I can tell you that more than 8000 showed up....but were turned away because we were at capacity.

My first patient told me that he got to the Forum the night before at 10pm and finally got to see me at 1pm the next day. Better advertising needs to be done by RAM to recruit doctors. I found out last minute to volunteer. I'm sure many of my colleagues would have considered it had they known in advance...

[matman125]

Why is no one else covering this? If this isn't the best case for reform then I don't know what is.

[mkeym]

I love it! We professionals should always give back. Fantastic job!