Healthcare in America

A personal story from an average person, living in America today WITH health insurance. While our national press continues to deny the obvious, these incidents are routine and commonplace by now. This is just one story, out of many, that I hear EVERY SINGLE DAY.

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• Healthcare
• Broken
• System
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• Nurses
• Social
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[stev9090]

Healthcare in America is all about greed.

Once again, the little guy gets screwed.

[Methadone4Life]

Good vid Ella. Yeah,the nurses are WAY overworked and when you are that exhausted mistakes can and do happen. Our healthcare system is in the middle ages compared to the rest of the industrialized world. Michael Moore was 100 percent correct on this one. Do not listen to the right wing who will tell you how great everything is...yeah,except for the millions without healthcare.

[aviomaster]

50.000.000 Americans have no health care ,,, another 30.000.000 are underinsured ,,, and USA goverment is going to GEorgia  6000 miles away ,, to give them aid ... WHAT the fuck ...

[YogaNate79]

I don't want universal healthcare. Unlike the rest of Europe that is socialist, Americans do not need to have every facet of their lives controlled and dictated by their government. Healthcare and wellbeing is a personal choice in the United States and the government should and ought not be responsible for babysitting the American people by enforcing a bunch of medical coverage rules through being taxed to death. Say NO to big government!

[jeAh7]

Just goes to show you what happens when you have a healthcare system that is motivated purely by profit. To everyone who loves our system the way it is imagine if you were the woman in 55ella's story. How would you feel about your doctors treating you only as long as the money comes in? How would it feel to have a dollar sign placed on your quality of life?

[highway234]

if you cant reveal her name (which makes sense) you should ask her if you can reveal the name of her insurance company. it's possible to hit these people in their pocketbooks by getting word around about the specific companies who basically criminalize getting sick.

makes me so furious. i'd love to know the name of the company, we could boycott shows and publications that the company sponsors.

[manque15]

I hear stories like this and am very thankful for the Australian medical care we get...it's free...

I can't believe this can happen to someone, it seems so far fetched, oh I believe it unfortunately I just find it so wrong...thanks Ella for telling us.

[HeidiSaid]

What a great portrait of a sad and twisted system. Thank you for sharing this story. I wish I was surprised, but I have had too many experiences with myself and family. It's insane.

I hope you are well. ~Heidi

[fearnotfear]

And improve it would! We should have been gone from there long ago.

[MotoRooter]

I hate HMOs! They don't care about the needs of the average citizen. Can doctors even dispense the type of treatment the patient needs without have some bean-counter at an HMO looking over their shoulder?

I guess we should be grateful that a select few in this country (like the uber-rich) can still get the best healthcare money can buy!

Maybe if we could redirect all of that money that's being wasted in the quagmire in the Middle East, the quality of life in so many ways would improve.

[infokemp2]

Given this poor woman's experience no wonder the US citizen has to be litigious, the insures should not complain about being sued when they give such poor service.

If you see the sequence of events its plain the present system is set up to force people on the edge of ability to pay into a situation where the state and their corporations eventually get your house, then you have to except public health care, organized crime in process.

[infokemp2]

Good point but save in gold and silver. Even if gold and silvers value falls in the long-run it is still an insurance in its own right, as in New Orleans type situations to buy food and water.

Govt Bonds and cash will be eroded by inflation, as US citizens have a high propensity to spend and import rather than save, so you're unlikely to experience deflation with growth like Japan.