Beyond Sicko: Part 3

Part 3 of Beyond Sicko: What you really need to know about health-care reform. This four-part series was recorded at the Manhattan Neighborhood Network in mid-July 09 and discusses what is wrong with the current US health-care system and concrete ideas about how to fix it - as well as tips for effective activism. Part 3 looks at questionable choices of the Obama administration, US military spending and the whole issue of socialism. Some action tips are given. Host: Heather Wokusch, Guest: Beth Hart, Producer/Director: Gloria Messer.

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[rrevoltar19]

you fuckin americans are so stupid! you are so brainwashed with ur fucked up presidents you had in the past..... Having free medical is great........

[GaryCraig1]

Yes, link healthcare to military spending! Obvious, but its important to make that link. The examples of socialism are good too.

[MajorHeadRush]

lol she needs to edit out that 8 trillion dollar bank bailout under bush... bush is a twit but tarp was 700 billion of which only about 400 went out untill O got a hold of it at which point he made rules like no perks no bonuses untill its paid back and its all most all paid back now... they did try to basicly just steal the money though...

[jtilicki]

@ctau410 Hmm. Interesting tibits.

[cnoyes72]

@rrevoltar19 Free? Who pays for the medicine? Who pays the doctors, nurses, hospital staff, ambulance staff? The biggest problem in the US with regards to health care is tort reform (or, rather, a lack of it). The amount of professional liability insurance that doctors and hospitals have to carry is staggering Fear of lawsuits is also why so many unneeded medical tests are run (driving costs up even more). The health reform law doesn't address any of this.

[sealhunter5]

@rrevoltar19 Well you have just proven you are the smarter one .

You dont need to take care of your self and when you feel a little ill you go get antibiotics and of course lets not forget the non responsibility of taking care of your self !

Wait when you drive your car lets forget we are driving a 4000lb machine at 55 or above with enough kinetic energy to kill 100 people and blame it on someone else !

DONT BE A BRAIN DEAD BURN OUT TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOURSELF! dont blame others!

[rrevoltar19]

@sealhunter5 sealhunter5: ur a fkn idiot!!! are you even educated? why the fuck you comparing urself "us humans" to animals? YOU maybe healthy right now, what if the day you get sick? or you have an accident and you need to be rush to the hospital to get operated on and you dont have any money to pay for the procedure? da fuck you going to do then? You will ask help from your animal friends?

[rrevoltar19]

@ctau410 thank you someone has a brain in here! unlike sealhunter! fkn idiot!

[ctau410]

@rrevoltar19 I agree with you americans never fight when it matters they didn't make this much noise about the war instead they reelected the person that caused it.

[Jamesmandana]

Agreed. There are a lot of things that nature doesn't have that we do have. But if humans went back to nature and started fending for ourselves in the wilderness, how would we be able to post comments on YouTube videos? Can I bring a laptop to the wilderness? I promise I won't see a doctor, I still can't get insurance anyways because of a pre-existing condition (carpel-tunnel from typing so many comments).

[maskedphrogg]

One must make that assumption to con ppl into the idea that Health Care is a Right, though it is not.