Health Reform Hits Main Street: The YouToons Explain the New Health Law

Confused about how the new health care reform law really works? This short animated movie -- featuring the "YouToons" -- explains the problems with the current health care system, the changes that are happening now, and the big changes coming in 2014.

The Kaiser Family Foundation and Free Range Studios collaborated to bring this piece to life. Narrated by Cokie Roberts, a news commentator for ABC News and NPR and a member of Kaiser's Board of Trustees.

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[piratecheese13]

taxes for people with fake tans? I'm all for it

[Dxmpr72]

how about doing a video showing how universal healthcare is even better than this crap....

[ThePinkHeel]

@piratecheese13

They might call it the Jersey shore tax!

[thereinliestherib]

@sirwinfredsmith They don't serve less purpose! Rural roads are used for the transport of raw goods and the maintenance of infrastructure, such as when power plants and transmission lines are located in remote areas. State govts have debt problems because they knew about their deficits last year and before; but like I said, they aren't beholden to market changes as with the private sector, and in the end game, they can do as you suggest, which is to increase taxes rather than ctrl spending.

[sirwinfredsmith]

@thereinliestherib i never said rural roads serve no econolic or commercial purpose, i said they serve less purpose therefore will be more expensive for individual users were they private funded toll roads. governments have defecit problems because they are not taxing enough. they need to raise revenue by raising taxes on the wealthy and on corporations.

[thereinliestherib]

@sirwinfredsmith "we need timber and food from rural areas" ..Which totally contradicts the claim that rural roads serve no compensatory economic or commercial purpose. What disgusts me isn't private corruption; it's the complacent failure of govt's to view themselves from the private perspective, as businesses beholden to a market model. Its the primary reason states across the country have run up liabilities and debt which they are now struggling to pay. Its called scarcity, guys.

[sirwinfredsmith]

@thereinliestherib roads are not built to go play, i know, so when i lived in the suburbs or chicago there were many many roads to facilitate commerce, in rural areas with low population density there is little commerce aside from timber for instance, public funding of roads means that high population density livers subsudize road construction in rural areas, this would not happen in a purely private system even though we need timber and food from rural areas. food costs would go up due to tolls

[thereinliestherib]

@sirwinfredsmith But you mistake the point that its not either/or: roads are a hybrid of private/public, and actually they are ultimately built for-profit in order to generate commerce and connect with primary economic ports of entry. Roads aren't built so we can go play on them; they are built for private commerce and trade. And on the balance, their biggest construction beneficiaries are bloated private construction co's.

[sirwinfredsmith]

@thereinliestherib you are correct, roads are private built with public money except tollroads can be private owned and private built, most of our road system is public FUNDED, not built, i used the wrong word. if roads construction were only FUNDED privately they would only build roads where it would be profitable to do so and people in rural areas would have to pay very high toll as the cost per user to construct would be higher, in the public funded system this is not a problem

[thereinliestherib]

@sirwinfredsmith Exactly. And because your country is healthier, the HC system doesn't have to carry as high of pool risk as in the US. Likewise, your system is significantly subsidized through your VAT tax, unlike the American tax system. Socialized care in America--a country where virtually no one gives a damn about their health, then complains about costs--could only perpetuate and enable the root problem of an insanely unhealthy population.

[thereinliestherib]

@sirwinfredsmith Roads aren't built publicly, they are contracted out to private construction companies. In fact, because of bidding reg's, roads are a lot more expensive, because of prevailing wages and bidding requirements to protect minority-owned contractors who do lower quality work. The faults you claim against the "evil" private sector apply just as much to the public sector, but obviously the fallacy of non-equivalence dictates your beliefs about govt.