Peter & Christopher Hitchens: U.S. Health Care - Live Call-In - Part 6 (1994)

[avasocrates]

in civilized world.



[avasocrates]

healthcare system socks lady, go see how it works in civilized work.

[avasocrates]

no doctor ever gave me a discount.

[OhmgrownCron]

How is Chris' brother, peter religious now?!?!!?

[TAz69x]

haha, Chris is the ~COOL~ brother!

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[genxtargetmarket]

Only people that can afford healthcare in other countries go to other countries for healthcare. It's the people that can't afford healthcare who are under the radar. The fact that people in our country actually go bankrupt due to medical needs is an outrage.

[cantroos]

Incredibly rich Canadians like politicians and business figures fly down to the US to get surgery because they can shell out the cash for it. Nobody else.  Wait times can be long but I think it's overstated. I had an MRI for a knee injury and I got in for it in a week and a half, I think that's reasonable, definitely preferable to getting it the next day and paying $1000 for it.

[TheOtherView]

@cantroos

and my uncle died because he needed to wait 4 months for a scan. I lived in Montreal and the system sucked.

[84EagerBeaver84]

@TheOtherView No, he did not.

[pakarpis]

I think this women knows just enough to get her in trouble. This is when you have to consider the source.

[Claronium780]

It's amazing how many Americans think health care for everyone, health care as a right not a PRIVILEGE - as a right not an INDUSTRY is a BAD thing !

Americans just think they do everything better and that's not true with a lot of things

[Claronium780]

wow that woman who called just before halfway through the clip sounded pretty ignorant

[Claronium780]

Peter Hitchens: maybe one MAJOR reason that the Vietnamese are as poor as they are is because of AMERICA'S involvment in that country

[Pepotamo1985]

@Claronium780

The whole anti-healthcare crusade in the US is just so utterly irrational and bizarre as to verge on pure evil.