Is Health Care Around The World Better Than In America?

Thom speaks with T.R. Reid about his documentaries Sick Around the World and Sick Around America. Check out http://www.thomhartmann.com!

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[robw1031]

Why is that no other country's copy our Heath Care System

[MsTommyknocker]

Here in Denmark we have free UHC. And we couldn't be doing better. Make no mistake I'm very pro-American but I think it would be better for states to have UHC

[mysterions13]

@crazyboyxx America does NOT have a health care system! It is a free for all! The sole motive is profit & to bad if you can't pay for it!!! The big powerful USA does not care about the health or their own people! Profit first!

[CBAnaesthesia]

@crazyboyxx

He's also a homeopath and believes alternative medicine (reiki, acupuncture, etc.) produces a greater effect than just placebo. So I agree, he is far from a rational thinker.

[annemelissa71]

How about the fact that corporate America runs everything? There's a real shocker. For-Profit Insurance companies have got to go! As a registered nurse, I see the stressors of lack of insurance and/or money negatively impact the possibility that a patient might have some form of quality of life! Also, let's begin to pay our nurses what they are really worth! 500 K/day sounds good in that context!

[spites1]

@lacomtessealice agreed, people in america REALLY fuck shit up nowadays when it comes to politics. since obama was elected, both sides treat their political stripes more as sports teams =/

[lacomtessealice]

I am French-American and I am flabbergast to see how many Americans still support the current U.S. healthcare system ? If this happened in France, people would be out on the street decades ago to run down all those "interested parties" ! This is NOT a political issue ! This is a fundamental issue, a human's Right issue! A moral issue! Oh, I forgot, there is no such "moral thing" in our society anymore... It is all about profit.

[mexman48]

What a schmuck this tom hartmann is. How much does this guy make a day?100 dollars, 200 dollars, 300 dollars. I am sure there is no justification for this guy to make ONE SINGLE dollar. Bleeding liberal. There is such a thing as the market. If you rightfully make 20,000 dollars a day, then that money is rightfully yours. If you illegitimately get 50 dollars a day (let´s take welfare for example), then that money IS NOT yours. What a schuck.

[misticspear]

@robw1031 

[jam1966ful]

Did'nt America used to have not for profit health insurance. What their defenders forget is that every cent they take in profit is a cent off everybody's health care. I'm not a socialist i'm slightly to the right of centre but to have the capacity of basic health for everyone and make it a financial and political football smacks of obcenity.

[genYprogressive]

Is Healthcare around the world better than ours?

Does George Bush have trouble with the word Nuclear?

[GmaM11]

Ask Al Gore how a person can use $500K per day.