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BILL MOYERS JOURNAL | Wendell Potter | PBS

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/j... With almost 20 years inside the health insurance industry, Wendell Potter saw for-profit insurers hijack our health care system and put profits before patients. Now, ...  
 
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an80sreaganite (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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And to show Michael Moore! Another joke! Yeah, healthcare in Canada is "free".  How much taxes do they pay? Did you know much of the system is going broke? In Calgary, they are beginning to offer "for profit" hospitals? Insane! I like how "fair & balanced" Moyers is. And this report (as with most Moyers' reports) is supposed to me taken seriously?

Why do I think Bill Moyers & Wendell Potter will NEVER have government run healthcare. Hypocrites...
bapyou (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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And where did you learn this information that the Canadian HC system "going broke"? What is your source? CIGNA?

With a username like yours, who is supposed to take what you say seriously? Ronald Reagan murdered 1000s of Central Americans & he was the biggest union buster to have ever walked this Earth. He began the decline of real wages for American workers & he was a fake Christian; just like all of the fake Christians clogging up the media today.
tnearing (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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In Canada most healthcare providers are private providers. In other words, the doctors are mostly for profit. It's the insurers (the federal, provincial and territorial governments) that are not for profit.
mikelowry5 (1 month ago) Show Hide
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Yes, the private insurance industry would like to prevent a public option. But that does not automatically mean that a public option is a good idea.

Take the converse example, Obama and the Democrats lie and lie and lie about health care facts in order to get their plans passed, but that does not automatically mean that their plans are bad. You have to look at the facts/merits/shortcomings before deciding that.
Triniman32 (1 month ago) Show Hide
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I really hope that these people or advocacy organization below me really gets sick and tries to get help from their insurance company!! but wait alot of them work for the government and they have government controlled healthcare or are rich and can afford to pay for it themselves. bye the way they get alot of money from the health industry to think like this...
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We as conservatives stand against the socialized government controlled vaccine program that currently exists in the United States.

We want to privatize this institution. Americans should have the freedom to take responsibility for themselves, stop looking for hand outs, and shop the free market for a best H1N1 vaccine.

NO to publicly funded vaccines.
klonekollector (1 month ago) Show Hide
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what a selfish sick person you are.

I hope you need help someday soon, and no one helps you. it would serve you right
lily1468 (1 month ago) Show Hide
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Most important stat shared in this video: Medicare/Medicaid admin overhead 3%, private health insurance admin overhead 20%. It's time for a change...get the word out...the Corporate health insurers are fooling us. And the politicians are in their back pocket!
mikelowry5 (1 month ago)
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mikelowry5 (1 month ago) Show Hide
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This statistic has been debunked many times. Medicare/Medicaid keep their overhead low because they do not perform basic oversight of claimed expenses. That is why fraud is much more rampant in these systems than in the private system. When you factor in reasonable estimates for system fraud as an "administrative cost" you get pretty much the same overhead numbers for public health as you do for private health.

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