Nonprofit Healthcare: A Moral Responsibility? - T.R. Reid

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/09/14/TR_Reid_The_Healing_of_America

Journalist T.R. Reid argues that one of the best models of modern health care reform took place in Switzerland. "Switzerland had American-style, for-profit insurance until 1994," he explains, when the healthcare payment system became non-profit.

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T.R. Reid talks about The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper and Fairer Health Care.

NY Times-bestselling author Reid shows how other industrialized democracies have done something the U.S. can't seem to do: provide healthcare for everybody at a reasonable cost. - Commonwealth Club of California

T.R. Reid is a former foreign correspondent for The Washington Post, a commentator for National Public Radio and the author of nine books, including three in Japanese. His 10th book, The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care, was published by Penguin Press in the summer of 2009.

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[turdferguson9725]

@Macabre215 That's general welfare of the union, not welfare, AKA "votes for cash"

This Erwin Chemerinsky sounds like a good little communist.

You sound like a real winner too, what with liking FDR, the president who threw american citizens in concentration camps because of their race, and LBJ the "If we give those niggers a civil rights act, they'll vote democratic for the next 200 years".

I net you think the interstate commerce clause covers everything under the sun too.

[Macabre215]

@turdferguson9725 Then you should be mad at Hamilton and Madison for the General Welfare Clause, since it allows what you consider to be unconstitutional.

"There is no constitutionally protected freedom to be able to refuse to be insured or to avoid paying for the benefits provided." --Erwin Chemerinsky dean of UC Irvine School of Law

[turdferguson9725]

"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people"

10th amendment, US constitution.

[Houshalter]

@abyssquick, healthcare would be cheaper for the rest of us if more people were unhealthy, economies of scale and all that. "Education" and expanding the nanny state by banning food (of all things, why food?) is not going to help at all.

[Houshalter]

@abyssquick, Oh I never said that what we had was a free market healthcare system. I was simply pointing out the problems in a socialist system. Everybody hates the ridiculous cost of healthcare. To fix it you have the start at the problem. Here: watch?v=A7z4iHCNHMI

[abyssquick]

And by the way, I don't smoke, drink, do drugs, or eat unhealthy foods. Your assumption about people such as myself reeks of conceited judgement. Not everyone indulges in the irresponsible standard American diet.

If you want people to be healthier, thereby lowering healthcare, then people need to be educated about health, and the food industry needs stricter regulations on junk food. Most of what Americans eat is junk.

[abyssquick]

You're talking to a person who was born with a heart condition that requires a pacemaker treatment. I can't get health insurance, and if I can it's priced out of my range. I'm already facing my first medical bankruptcy. I can't get access to credit, I can't get a mortgage or home, and I have to pursue employment based on insurance options.

"My responsiblity?" You misrepresented my argument with a straw-man assumption - no, you are selfish (taking your money?) & oblivious to the issue.

[Houshalter]

#LOL some people believe this shit. The world is not thinking very much at all.

[Houshalter]

@variablast, the state is always the problem. Why do you think healthcare costs so much? Do you think it's going to get cheaper?

[Houshalter]

@abyssquick, gee, it's not like healthcare costs money and someone has to pay for it. I'm not going to let you take thousands of dollars of my money to pay for people that didn't take care of themselves, that smoked, were obesse, etc. Even if it's not by choice and just a random accident, they should been responsible and gotten insurance.