Real People DENIED Real Healthcare: Nathan Wilkes

DENVER, CO--Nathan's son Thomas Wilkes was born with severe hemophilia, which puts him at risk for major internal bleeding and for which he must receive nearly $1 million in healthcare costs each year to avoid death or serious disability.

Watch this important video to see how the private health insurance industry cares only about profits, NOT patients.

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[barbcinque]

20,000 americans die yearly because they are denied healthcare. Insurance CEO's make money by DENYING CLAIMS not by saving lives. Why would anyone trust the greedy selfish filthy rich that live off of our premiums and by letting us die.

STOP PAY OR DIE SYSTEM

This is like modern Eugenics...the republicans are fighting to let poor and working class die off.

[kipptumor]

The right and big business love to squawk about beaurocrats between you and your doctor, but we have allowed CEOs to come between us and our health care for years now. Insurance companies do not want people to be sick - especially when they have to pay out. We have the only for-profit system on Earth now. This is what you get for making million-dollar bonuses for insurance company CEO's more important than health.

[MrCRM114]

I live in the UK.

We all pay about 11% of salary for the National Health Service, you don't get a choice.

Forget the bullsh!t you may have heard about the NHS.

If you're sick, an ambulance will come and take you to hospital and you will get treatment.

I had a heart attack - ambulance took 10mins to arrive - attended by 3 doctors - clot busting drugs, intensive care - my own nurse for 12 hours, (she sat by my bed).

This all at 6 o'clock in the morning.

Total cost - £0.0p.

[TheShasiti]

I worked for United Healthcare for several years. The way the system is set up is definately in favor of the company. We have to get rid of the middleman which means socialized medicine. No it is not perfect but it is better then what we have now. I live in AZ our money goes to illegals. Yes, some peope will die while waiting for treatment. The government tells us they have no money to cover Healthcare yet they can send billions of dollars overseas every year?? What's wrong with this picture??

[stringlov]

It's TIME to TAX the RICH $ BIG TIME HEALTH CARE should be a RIGHT for everyone in USA and make USA no.1 again

[Helljumper91]

People think that people like me support this kind of shit. No, its unbelievable what the insurance companies get away with. There needs to be reform. But the bill that was passed last year will end up killing just as many people. Its already been proven that it doesnt work in other countries, because those people flock to the US to get treated. BUT, the system the way it is right now cant stay.

[MikeDSr13]

KEEP IN MIND sry caps!! yea he runs and plays not like me any more bc now all that playing ..bc we wanted 2 feel like a noremal child!! naw we cant walk or run and our joints are a lot wers then , then they were , so now iam takeing my med,s a lot more now then when i was a child!! And you dont sound like a jerk but i would ask a queshtion before yousay some of the thing you say...sry my spelling is vary bad!! haha..little slow had a bleed in it when i was yunger...now iam ssslllllooooowwwwww!

[MikeDSr13]

KEEP IN MIND sry caps!! yea he runs and plays not like me any more bc now all that playing ..bc we wanted 2 feel like a noremal child!! naw we cant walk or run and our joints are a lot wers then , then they were , so now iam takeing my med,s a lot more now then when i was a child!! And you dont sound like a jerk but i would ask a queshtion before yousay some of the thing you say...sry my spelling is vary bad!! haha..little slow had a bleed in it when i was yunger...now iam ssslllllooooowwwwww!!

[s3ductive1s]

To XTheGuvX i dont mean to sound like a total jerk but you have to understand that every body responds different to illness so only because you've only spent 2million it doesnt mean that another person will spend the same. You need to have in mind that each not every health insurence is the same some you pay more others pay less. I think we all know that our healthcare system has for generations worked in a corrupt manner. keep in mind hes a child he runs and plays and is very different from you

[lepcook]

Call me cold hearted but we got so far in capitalism that we dont even realize the value of money with all the money they used to save one child they couldve made hundreds of family live for a year i know people will tell me but if he was your own you would see it differently it always comes back to the question what is really the right thing to do. Was it really the childs desire to keep living like this or was it out of selfishness that his parents kept him alive.

[aimike3]

He is an outlier; a very rare case. People shouldn't be forced to buy health care because of rare cases like this, and tax money shouldn't go to rare cases either. It should go to the military or to the states for fixing roads and other stuff.

[adamwittek]

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