Healthcare reform

You will NOT be able to reform health care in the US until you somehow change the underlying structure of health provision -- that is, money and profit. Health care in the US is NOT about providing health care -- it's about making money and profit. If you cannot change the underlying structure of profiting from health care then you will not change health care at all.

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[RitchM]

I don't know when profit became a dirty word. Profit is part of what motivates the developement of all those "miracle" drugs. If you take profit out of the equation, you won't lower the price of those $800 pills you take, you'll eliminate the pills altogether.

[UpDownMostly]

Actually you could be right because the motivation to create a cure could outweigh the current model of finding "treatments" which cost lots of money. I don't buy the argument that you can't have profit. I'm not advocating all profit gone, just limiting the margin and removing the profit incentive as the ONLY motive for health care.

[BigBerthaTractor]

I pay $89.00 a month for my BP medication if thing get tight money wise I will be doing without them!

[UpDownMostly]

And personally I don't think that should ever happen. You should never have to choose between medication and food or other.

[WackaDoodleFreeZone]

AMEN!  Nice video quality from your new toy Tim! HUGS xoxoox

[UpDownMostly]

Thanks. It's suppose to be HD.

[iknewitalready]

hey buddy Tim....your cheeseburger look really yummy but is it really healthy?

do you know how much calorie that sandwich and that large sized drink has?

Why drink high caloried, sugary soda, if you could drink water...after all we know the effects of sugary foods on ones health.

Or is these high calorie substances addictive?

I think diet and lifestyle behaviors play a huge role in the health of an individual or society.

[iknewitalready]

thanks to the pharmaceutical R&D...the pills itself is a WMD by itself.

I say that because if you take medicine for one ailment, the side effects by taking that pill itself creates another disease.

so you take another pill to cure the secondary disease - you didn't have before taking the medicine in the first place and the cycle continues...

America is a pill addicted nation enslaved by the pharmaceutical companies!

[teleutube]

GOOD ANALYSIS:

profits, profits and nothing but profits:

30% of health care insurance dollars go to administration, overhead, advertising costs , etc...and corporate's PROFITS. Incentives to increase profits, bonuses will drive people to COME UP WITH ANYTHING to cut costs

Health care operating as a commodity, for-profit model fails.

[Xaves511]

This is a slippery slope. Interesting how our priorities and how we compensate people differs. Why, for example, is it that we pay entertainers - singers, sports figures - millions of dollars? Much more than we pay our doctors and nurses?

[GR1MxR34P3Rx57]

we're not supposed to have taxes? ? ? where the hell is that coming from if we didnt have taxes we wouldn't a military, school, roads and other beneficial things to live u dumb fuck

[metalfunk420]

people are for forgeting how much does it cost to give you a life saving surgey

[CattleCarcass]

Oh and check this video out:

watch?v=ho-0SHFEgGo

he wants to deny medical care to elderly and poor. you and your dumb mother fucking dreams of a fantasy world isnt a reality asssssssss.

[oooorb1]

They can't provide healthcare to everyone were already in too much debt just look at canada it did them no good they are 15 years behind our medicine. Would you like to have old medicine that is underly developed? I dont think so. Do you want to pay for some guy that never completed college or high school on the street or some hobo? No so please do not support this for your own good. DO NOT LET IT PASS!

[CattleCarcass]

We're not even supposed to have taxes in America, ass. LOL. We used to not have taxes but the government loves to keep growing making us all dependent. The going green shit is going to murder us as well.