American SiCKO Donna Smith and Bill Moyers Give Max Baucus a One-Two Punch

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/05222009/transcript1.html

BILL MOYERS: Welcome to the JOURNAL. Health care reform. It's the talk of the town - if the town is Washington, D.C. But some possible reforms aren't being talked about at all. Not officially, that is.

The White House and Congress have kept the lid on one of the most controversial but popular options, known as single-payer. It's a story the mainstream press has largely ignored and that's why we are covering it in this broadcast.

You don't expect to see these people demonstrating in our nation's capitol. You'll most likely encounter them in the examining room, the operating theater, the clinic or the laboratory.

They're doctors, nurses, and other health care professionals, unaccustomed to making themselves heard in the streets...

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[Janusha]

If you are American and your country is screwing you out of either pension or healthcare. Come to europe, settle down in any decent coutry of your choosing and start enjoying life. Free schooling up to University, healthcare for all. Including all kinds of operations and medication. And obviously. Everyone has a pension. Companies cant gamble away your pension fund here or lose it on the stockmarket. Americans are welcome in Europe and we speak english aswell. Its ugly the way USA works now.

[nuno1959]

u still believe insurance companies exist to take care of our problems ?....really ?....LMAO..... like when oil companies say : ''we care''..... after an oil spill - come on people, wake the fuck up !! otherwise ''THEY'' are not doing it to you , YOU are...

by the way get over that irrational polarization that anything not kissing big business's ass is left wing - that's an old argument used by totalitarian regimes : if you are not for me , you're against me - very convenient but daft

[Janusha]

@Charlie12241

Im glad you appreciate :)

[Charlie12241]

@Janusha thank you

[xadam2dudex]

Bill Moyers is awesome and covers the truth not the lies of the right wing nuts

[Janusha]

Nobody i think is ok with the current system. Its more a fear of the new one.

While I agree with Ron Paul, its not a good time to make huge transitions in a state of national bankruptcy, I stronly disagree with him when he says its unconstitutional, imoral and socialism doesnt work.

If americans would get over their own faith in their own superiority and actually look abroad they could simply just adopt the model that France (and the rest of us) use. Which has worked very well for 100 years.

[Janusha]

They prey on peoples fear. In the case of the new health reform is the fear of having to pay for other peoples mistakes... other peoples illnesses. Instead of suing people for billions, now when you fall over in a shopping mall, you go to the doctor and have it fixed for free. But ofcourse USA is spending trillions trying to find their own way because their firm belief in their own superiority prevents them from looking at Europe and adopting their perfectly fine system which has run since WW1

[Janusha]

I dont know where they get Hitler from in all this. Probably because american politicians pray on the naivity of the masses (teaparty type crowds) when they point at you dramatically from the TV and say YOU DONT WANT TO BE LIKE THOSE SOOOCIALIST COUNTRIES DO YOU !! Cleverly inprinting sooocialism into american minds right alongside nazism, communism, marxsism, faschism and several other words ending in -ism that they also have no clue what means. This is no way to do politics really.

[funkyflights]

@Janusha

This is so true.... Were talking about fixing a broken health care system and people in America scream socialism and Hitler.... It really is ignorance and it's sad... In the meantime the health insurance industry will just keep lobbying and owning our congress.... Big money seems to rule our congress now day's....

[Janusha]

I discuss stuff alot. International politics, economy, business.. However when discussing such topics with americans they instantly leap forth to defend liberty and freedom, wave their flag and go OMG.. YOU HATE AMERICA.. at any hint of criticism. I have to ask... Is there no tradition for criticism in america? Criticising stuff is the only way to actually induce change and improvement. Its a pity really. Its very hard to conduct a civil conversation about proper topics with americans.

[funkyflights]

Donna Smith I"m proud of you.... Your a strong women and you keep doing your thing .... Millions of people that are ok with the current system have simply not gotten sick.... Keep fighting Donna ...