Zombie Public Option Puts Stake In Heart of Health Care Costs?

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! :-)

"The Colbert Report" this week found something a little ghoulish about the resurrection of the public option just in time for Halloween, though, as I argue in this video, the public option may be necessary to kill the real monster threatening the United States: rising health care costs.

The short clip from "The Colbert Report" I use in this video comes from a segment broadcast on Comedy Central on October 29, 2009, currently available in full at http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/253997/october-29-2009...

The image of the bar graph comparing US health care spending to the spending in the other 29 member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is a public domain image available at http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a1/International_Comparison_-...

The original source of that graph (along with a lot of other great information) is at http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/documents/CEA_Health_Care_Report.pdf

The images from the 2004 article in Health Affairs titled "How Does The Quality Of Care Compare In Five Countries?" come from the document available online at http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/reprint/23/3/89

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[Frog869]

i was genuinly shocked when i found out americans didn't have universal healthcare or an NHS as we have in England, i really didn't believe it for a while.

i could only imagien how terrible it would have been that when my dad went into hospital a couple of years ago we'd have to worry about the costs too.

i feel really sorry for you guys, get one soon, they are great.

[an0m0nus]

no it will increase them even more... 

[KalimanCool]

No mamen

[ZDoggMD]

Fascinating. Might want to check out my video addressing the undead and their effect on the healthcare debate: Undead and Uninsured. Click on my name to get to my channel. Keep up the good work!

[jackybarapat101]

too freakin funny 100000000000000000000000000000­000000000 starz!!!!=)=)=)

[PyreOfFate]

Are you serious? The US a 77% higher death rate from gun shot wounds. But that has nothing to do with the healthcare system. To say that more people die from one specific disease somewhere else means that its because of there healthcare system is a really stupid argument. Did you get that from bill oreilly or something?

[nithelith]

please share your sources of information

[XxslimchickenxX]

you think a 57% death rate from prostate cancer in england is a sucess. man the US must have it worse it with a 12% chance of dying. hmmm .(England has socialized helath care.

[Frances3654]

zombie pelosi is actually a reptillian

[murrymurrymurrymurry]

lol 5/5 for zombies!