Wendell Potter and Sick For Profit on The Ed Show
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Garunteed profit? That doesn't sound like the free market to me.
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DON"T LIKE OBAMA HEATH CARE ? TRY GOP NO CARE !!!
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Hey man well said!! It's good to hear people from out of the USA talking about the ridiculous attacks from the right wing on how BAD England and Canada has it.... I have family from England and my grandfather was born there as was my father... It's just ridiculous what our leaders are doing to the American people with this failed health care system..... it's sad man really sad.... Your very fortunate to be English!!
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And put a man on the moon.... has the most powerful military in the world... great police force... fire department... look I"m not saying government is the only answer BUT a non profit SYSTEM in health care is desperately needed... Product and innovation can remain the same but let's GET a system that doesn't leave people behind... in 7-8 years our current health care system is gonna bankrupt the country... SOMETHING has to be done... our leaders are gonna have too... HAVE TO!
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@funkyflights your right. lets take a monopoly and lets let the people that don't know how to run an educational system... and have them run all the hospitals in america. then if your illegal and hurt yourself you don't get help.
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@imajorhavoc lol. thats politically correct... but oh my gosh has that rule been broken so many times.
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@wear2whale yes I worry about that too for a few American doctors. Though I don't believe many doctors would be demoralized by having free reign on helping people with a slightly smaller salary. I mean, our doctors get paid very well in the UK but I am sure not quite as well as yours. It will be a big change for them over in the US if they did ever have universal healthcare but I would imagine a lot if not most doctors get into the field to help people. The pay is just a bonus
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@BLaZeDRas excellent points. i won't pretend capitolism doesn't have its flaws. Sometimes i wonder why God let us have so many choices, and didn't save so many of us from tempation and problems.... but we shallow Americans love our dental care... our plastic surgery. Our idealism has gotten the better of us and we pay a steep price for it. What i wonder is how many people will die as a result of the hospitals slowing down because the doctors severed salary.
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@wear2whale no offense to Americans (I understand that it is the corporations treating people like this) but there is no way in hell I would give up our NHS (British National Health Service) to go over to a system like the US has. Healthcare for profit (not to mention them actively denying care because of profits) is one of the worst things I could imagine. Greedy corporate assholes killing people to make money, sickening.
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@wear2whale I'd take theirs over ours any day. You would too if you weren't an ignorant fool. But, that is asking alot.
If it wasn't for Obama proposing the public option, none of us would be talking about healthcare in the first place. While I agree he needs to step up to the plate, he at least has got the ball rolling.
Could you imagine what we'd be talking about if Bush was still president? Not health care. We'd be talking about the war, the recession, and the national deficit. He wouldn't even explore the public option, because that would dip into profits.
MLadyAzzera 2 years ago 15
The government will never side with the people. I guess I should say "this government." The whole system is rotten to the core and until the people rather than the corporations are truly represented, the people will get screwed. Again. And again and again and again.
carriellbee 2 years ago 7