Health Reform Explained Video: "Health Reform Hits Main Street"

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Health care reform explained in "Health Reform Hits Main Street."
Confused about how the new health care reform law really works? This short, animated movie -- featuring the "YouToons" -- explains the problems with the current health care system, the changes that are happening now, and the big changes coming in 2014. Written and produced by the Kaiser Family Foundation. Narrated by Cokie Roberts, a news commentator for ABC News and NPR and a member of Kaiser's Board of Trustees. Creative production and animation by Free Range Studios.
Also let the YouToons illustrate how health insurance coverage will work under reform. Visit: http://healthreform.kff.org/profiles....

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[THEEVANTHETOON]

Or maybe they have a pre-existing condition. Or maybe they are a college student without a stable job. Or maybe they got kicked off their health care plan when they got sick. Or maybe their health care plan doesn't cover the particular illness which they have. Or maybe they work really hard at a low wage and can't afford healthcare.

That's the problem with you Republicans: you assume that, because someone needs help, they must be lazy moochers. That's not true.

[Forrester56]

Billionaires might travel to the US for gold plated concierge level health care, but 3X more Americans travel abroad for healthcare than those who travel to the US. The reason? Ridiculous cost. The US healthcare system is the most expensive per capita (X2 or X3), the most wasteful, most inefficient and least effective in the industrialized world, and that is with a substantial portion of the population with no coverage at all.

[goneoffthedeepend]

Info @ the 6:20 mark is incorrect. Current CBO projections are 1.88 trillion, not .93

Google CBO Feb 2013 ACA projections, first link is a PDF link from the CBO gov website, page 2 of the PDF shows the costs

[MrDPMan3000]

Well I remember in my health class we I learned about what the bill does and what it solves in the old system and I love it! I thought for a long time we needed to change the health care system because it was just too missed up and this system I think solves a lot of the problems. Anyone who think it's "social medicine" or whatever I don't think so. Whoever thinks this is socialism needs to go back and watch this video again and think about what socialism is. But in all I think it's great!

[mtstatehk14090914]

Well Im a student, I work part time, barely above minimum wage, and I dont want Obamacare.

Im not really a republican but im definitely not a democrat.

But when I see inefficiencies in programs like SS and medicare and medicaid already why should I trust a govt to provide me such a program when govt has already shown how inept it is.

why is it such a silly idea that if the govt stayed out of our wallets then we could afford to pay for insurance? Why is that so crazy?cause its not progressive?

[mkpm90]

Karo, the blame lies squarely in hospitals and Big Pharma, many individual practitioners are losing their shirts and selling their practices at a loss to medical systems.

[mkpm90]

Hospitals cannot turn away any person in need of emergency medical treatment.

[mkpm90]

Forrester,  the largest costs of health care are Hospitalization and Prescriptions, yet Big Pharma wasn't touched, the hospitals still charge $6 for a tylenol, and the insurance companies are licking their chops looking at all the customers they're going to get, because they no longer have to pay commissions to agents who did the marketing for them for free, and all they'll be doing is claims processing.

[mkpm90]

Theevanthetoon. You have no clue what you're speaking of. I pay for my own insurance, and was notified my college age son's healthcare is going up 46%, and my graduating high school daughter's insurance is going up 37%. Get a clue and stop believing the crap you are hearing and read the bill. And btw... I'm not a Republican, just someone who's read the 2000+ pages bill - something that Nancy Pelosi didn't do.