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  • @sambarrett3059
    @sambarrett3059 4 года назад +24851

    The more I learn about America the less I want to live there.

    • @useruk7330
      @useruk7330 4 года назад +829

      Quiet G u literally described my childhood

    • @mouloudaourtilane3262
      @mouloudaourtilane3262 4 года назад +886

      @@quietg3712 try canada, i'm sure it's gonna live up to your expectations of what you thought the us would be like.

    • @oasis4life014
      @oasis4life014 4 года назад +519

      The healthcare puts me off.... nhs is amazing

    • @useruk7330
      @useruk7330 4 года назад +32

      Mouloud Aourtilane too cold tho 🥶

    • @quietg3712
      @quietg3712 4 года назад +317

      @@mouloudaourtilane3262 Went to Nova Scotia with my girlfriend. Had a brilliant time. The people were hilarious and very much like us which makes sense because I'm from Scotland, Nova Scotia means New Scotland and was founded by the Scottish.

  • @dylanbyrne1265
    @dylanbyrne1265 5 лет назад +24201

    Americans would literally rather pay more and cover themselves, than pay less and cover everyone, that's selfishness on a whole other scale.

    • @Torontopia
      @Torontopia 5 лет назад +1538

      That blows my mind!

    • @trainerkai1313
      @trainerkai1313 5 лет назад +1478

      Ikr. As an American, I am disappointed

    • @87Wayne
      @87Wayne 5 лет назад +235

      Sure it's great when someone ELSE is doing the paying.

    • @dullicecream
      @dullicecream 5 лет назад +512

      These people are adding more bad stuff to our name :( people already don't like Americans we don't need more to dislike about us

    • @PabloGonzalez-hv3td
      @PabloGonzalez-hv3td 5 лет назад +1196

      @@87Wayne That's the fundamental concept of insurance too

  • @geisterfahreruberholer2171
    @geisterfahreruberholer2171 4 года назад +16575

    Seeing this america has two problems:
    - no state-funded healthcare
    - huge lack of education

    • @labaccident2010
      @labaccident2010 4 года назад +612

      Geisterfahrerüberholer as an American, I wholeheartedly agree! I haven’t gone to college also because I can’t afford it, but I’d honestly much rather just get textbooks and learn on my own.

    • @westero7796
      @westero7796 4 года назад +94

      @@labaccident2010 that's a good very good idea. soooooooo....... JUST DO IT

    • @Leicht_Sinn
      @Leicht_Sinn 4 года назад +49

      Nice Name

    • @AndrewCurtis57
      @AndrewCurtis57 4 года назад +680

      Geisterfahrerüberholer Most of the population of the USA have no idea of what happens outside America. Most don’t even know where Europe is! 😐

    • @profblack
      @profblack 4 года назад +542

      The younger people in this video do seem to be reasonably well educated on the matter and know that they aren’t getting the service that they should be entitled to.
      The older citizens however are very much set in their ways and can’t empathise with someone who is less fortunate. One of them said that everyone needs to look for well paying jobs with healthcare benefits but not everyone can have a job like that. Perhaps employers need to do more for their employees but the government should also be setting a higher standard.

  • @kayreb
    @kayreb 2 года назад +190

    Had to go to the ER with my fiance while we were in Ireland. He didn’t want me to call the ambulance for him because he was scared of the cost, as we aren’t particularly financially stable. The cost turned out to be €0. The US is messed up.

    • @fatherson5907
      @fatherson5907 2 года назад

      All funded by other people because you two are broke bums.

  • @BK01012
    @BK01012 4 года назад +8146

    America: "socialized" healthcare
    Rest of the world: healthcare

    • @ClaudeMagicbox
      @ClaudeMagicbox 4 года назад +227

      BK0101 02
      ‘Murica: social = bad!
      ‘Muricans: let’s pile up by the hundreds and swallow gallons of liquor...wooooooo!

    • @Kyle-kc8cw
      @Kyle-kc8cw 4 года назад +36

      Rest of the world huh...you mean Europe.

    • @Biobele
      @Biobele 4 года назад +245

      @@Kyle-kc8cw in Nigeria there's free primary healthcare and people give birth in Government hospitals for free except the hospital runs out of anything and can't get it on time before you give birth so you may have to pay for that yourself out of pocket.
      Many other African countries have something similar free mosquito nets, free drugs for certain diseases that are common. Many drugs can be bought for 0.15usd in the pharmacy in Nigeria that's impossible to find in the U.S of A

    • @Hatypus
      @Hatypus 4 года назад +216

      @@Kyle-kc8cw No, almost all of the rest of the world in a stable enough position to

    • @gauravkulkarni6120
      @gauravkulkarni6120 4 года назад +136

      @@Biobele Exactly even here in India ..all kind of treatment in government hospital is pretty much free, if you are under certain income range.
      And if talking about medications ,I would say India is probably cheapest place to find medicines.

  • @mrhpijl
    @mrhpijl 4 года назад +14126

    Breaking Bad in Europe:
    Walt gets cancer
    Cancer treatment is free and he’s allowed sick leave from work
    Walt recovers
    The end.

    • @Leicht_Sinn
      @Leicht_Sinn 4 года назад +431

      @@michelr8817 well you forget free education you get
      and what if you had a serios injery? US if you have not the good insurance you have to pay a ton of money compared to Europe where you pay only a part of your income i mean if you are eaning quite less you could apply for social support for paying less

    • @mrhpijl
      @mrhpijl 4 года назад +419

      @@calebf3655 but in order to pay the to surgeon he still needed the money he made from meth ;)
      And given that we have accessible healthcare over here that also won't bankrupt you, his chances of survival would've been fair

    • @onee
      @onee 4 года назад +1009

      @@calebf3655 Actually that top surgeon would be free.... Is it that difficult to grasp this concept.

    • @onee
      @onee 4 года назад +482

      @@michelr8817 Stop lying. I know many people who moved from Europe to the US. And they all pay triple or quadruple the amount they used to pay in Europe. Yes, it isn't "free" but it's a lot cheaper. The main problem is, American hospitals are incredibly expensive. An ambulance ride which is "free" aka paid by your health insurance in Germany is €600 ($650). That same ride in the US is $2700.
      Giving birth is $10,000-$30,000 in the US. While in Germany it is €1500-€2000 ($1640-$2180) which again is "free" aka paid by your health insurance.
      Health expenditure per capita in the US is $10,586 (2018). Which makes it the most expensive healthcare system in the world. In Germany, which is the second most expensive healthcare system in the world, it's $5,986 (2018) per capita. And in "communist" France it's $4,965 (2018) per capita. Making it the fifth most expensive healthcare system in the world. Which is still less than half of what is spend in the US.

    • @mrhpijl
      @mrhpijl 4 года назад +311

      @@michelr8817 I'd rather pay some more income tax and VAT if that means that thing like healthcare and education are affordable or free. If university sets you back 30-50k a year and simply giving birth costs north or 10k, you only give the priviledged access to services that are meant for everyone.
      I support capitslism, but some areas require government intervention and need to be publicly managed. Healthcare and education are one of those areas. What kind of country do you live in when many people that get sick are stuck between avoiding treatment and possibly dying, or selling your house to take the treatment or possibly bankruptcy?
      In the US, you might be a patient or student, but you're a customer above all else and that idea is sickening

  • @Alice-ib4cz
    @Alice-ib4cz 4 года назад +2598

    “Anything that’s free is not worth having” - someone in a country where they don’t stfu about FREEdom

    • @shayantamdas5059
      @shayantamdas5059 4 года назад +51

      Lmao right on point dude

    • @bartdoo5757
      @bartdoo5757 4 года назад +22

      Freedom is not and has never been free. It is constantly being fought for.

    • @nicosteffen364
      @nicosteffen364 4 года назад +20

      @@bartdoo5757 Yes but not in a physical way!
      There are always, mostly rich, people that want to take your freedom, fighting in that case means, not giving up!
      It means vote for the politicians that doesnt want to take your freedoms and gives you more freedoms!
      Btw, is gun control taking away your freedom?
      Actually no, in the US its only meant to be making sure that no criminals and insane people get guns!
      Look at other countries, less killings, but almost as many guns around as in the states!
      In my country, germany, there is a strict gun regulation, but there are almost 6 million guns out there!
      You just need a need for it, if its being a hunter, sports or safety!
      As Taxidriver i could ask for a license, i have to learn the laws, make a test, get checked and then i can buy one, it costs money and i have to lock it up but i can carry it in my job!
      Btw i have a gun, a P99, but just the version that is allowed for everyone, a blank gun, as long as i only have it at home its allowed, when i want to carry it i need a so called small gun license, less restrictions and regulations but to fire it there has to be a danger for my life.
      Canada has as many guns as the US, but less problems!

    • @hejalll
      @hejalll 4 года назад +2

      But free =/= Freedom.

    • @EnormousDuck2
      @EnormousDuck2 4 года назад +13

      that sounds like some ultimate statement of capitalism (and basically stupidity, since oxygen or love or whatever is fkin free)

  • @donei132
    @donei132 Год назад +340

    I cannot believe how selfish those two older ladies were. America, you’re broken.

    • @NoNameToYou
      @NoNameToYou 5 месяцев назад +9

      We know. We know. ☹️

    • @catmando4914
      @catmando4914 5 месяцев назад +41

      The one woman talking about getting a job that provides health care, is way out of touch with reality.

    • @Therealtruthsocial
      @Therealtruthsocial 5 месяцев назад

      The media, Politicians and corporations have brain washed Americans into thinking they have great health care. The fact that a lot of these people have never read about health care in other countries is shameful! The same entities have made people think that Global Warming is a hoax. It all has to do with greed!

    • @dfdf-rj8jr
      @dfdf-rj8jr 4 месяца назад +2

      Lmao dude Australia is a toilet compared to the US. Keep coping though

    • @commandbrawler9348
      @commandbrawler9348 4 месяца назад +16

      @@dfdf-rj8jr australia is way better then the us of a

  • @Mendaz
    @Mendaz 5 лет назад +8735

    The contrast in mentalities by age is so stark

    • @abelis644
      @abelis644 5 лет назад +865

      It blows my mind!!!
      I'm 60, and Canadian, we have universal health care of course.
      That older woman was an absolute moron!!!🤦‍♂️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♂️
      Unreal...

    • @germnbill
      @germnbill 5 лет назад +262

      The dialects also kind of hint at certain political standings, although I do have a lot of southern liberal or democratic friends, which is to say I don't want to stereotype.

    • @colmcgillveray1010
      @colmcgillveray1010 5 лет назад +129

      @@germnbill She was a Daughter or the Confederacy for sure!

    • @rageraptor7127
      @rageraptor7127 5 лет назад +24

      leicanoct then tell us who does?

    • @glynnmcneill1875
      @glynnmcneill1875 5 лет назад +262

      @@abelis644 sadly when she realizes it's cheaper she still defends paying through the nose.

  • @KianBrose
    @KianBrose 4 года назад +2267

    I used to think America was great, but honestly the more I learn about it the more I want to stay away from it

    • @fatherson5907
      @fatherson5907 4 года назад +23

      Please do

    • @breno855
      @breno855 4 года назад +72

      People from there come here to Brasil to have treatment so yeah

    • @philipe1502
      @philipe1502 4 года назад +74

      I mean it's not people fault their government works in a certain way. What deeply annoys me is the lack of information and compassion in that country.

    • @KianBrose
      @KianBrose 4 года назад +109

      Philipe d. I think of America more as a company that profits on its citizens more than a country itself

    • @fatherson5907
      @fatherson5907 4 года назад +3

      Philipe d. What deeply annoys me is ignorant people like you who don’t respect other people’s values (bigots)

  • @19maurice66
    @19maurice66 4 года назад +16661

    "I hate paying taxes"
    *Pays thousands more in insurance fees*

    • @VictorECaplon
      @VictorECaplon 4 года назад +623

      Yep, should have mentioned that to them.

    • @jasonbyrne8487
      @jasonbyrne8487 4 года назад +290

      @labcoent co Yep, she was morraly bankrupt...

    • @jasonbyrne8487
      @jasonbyrne8487 4 года назад +391

      Horrible people who don't care about the less fortunate members of society, they don't want to have to contribute to help others, I thought that is what a civilised society does...

    • @relentlessmadman
      @relentlessmadman 4 года назад +86

      @labcoent co yes the easiest why to eliminate poverty is to let the poor die!
      Was Jesus Christ a not capitalist??????
      !!!!

    • @jakobnordal7432
      @jakobnordal7432 4 года назад +2

      Probably gets it from His job

  • @quippy8402
    @quippy8402 2 года назад +147

    For those who said "NO", just wait till you have a need to seek extensive health care services and get your medical bills.

    • @stevenclarke5606
      @stevenclarke5606 Год назад +13

      Especially when you either don’t have insurance or you’re not covered? Why are these people so Stupid?

    • @Remembrace
      @Remembrace Год назад +7

      ​@stevenclarke5606 they're not stupid. They are brainwashed

    • @sarahspindler2914
      @sarahspindler2914 9 месяцев назад

      They'll still say no because they're brainwashed.

    • @Predator-zh9zp
      @Predator-zh9zp Месяц назад +1

      ​@@Remembracedude they have no critical thinking its pathétique

  • @giteausuperstar
    @giteausuperstar 4 года назад +5043

    Imagine not calling an ambulance because you worried about the cost. The US is a joke.

    • @darthjarjarbinkstherealsit6832
      @darthjarjarbinkstherealsit6832 4 года назад +202

      I'm sorry, is this some sort of US joke I am to European to understand.

    • @synashilp
      @synashilp 4 года назад +300

      To quote a tweet: "If I get injured, you better call me an Uber. I'm not about to pay 5,000 dollars for a trip in the wee-woo wagon."

    • @devolution13
      @devolution13 4 года назад +83

      it's actually really sad

    • @Bloodclotzzzzzzzzzzz
      @Bloodclotzzzzzzzzzzz 4 года назад +35

      Every American with health needs knows not to call for emergency transport. Helicopter transport though? It's a laughable amount of money.

    • @Suchen_Wahrheit
      @Suchen_Wahrheit 4 года назад +75

      Land of free you have all the choice. Poor me gotta call govt ambulance, with a response time of 5 mins inside City. They don't even let me to pay for it, in Austria.

  • @nicosimioni7363
    @nicosimioni7363 4 года назад +3272

    "Socialized Medicine" or, as we call it in the rest of the world, "Medicine".

    • @miclic1217
      @miclic1217 4 года назад +6

      But unlike Canadians we can get a CT scan in a couple of days or on the spot in the case of emergency. My buddy wanted 12 months in Canada. And un like the UK the US will do anything to keep a child alive, the UK will let them die instead of trying experimental treatments. Don't believe me it happened last year.

    • @saturdaycovers6954
      @saturdaycovers6954 4 года назад +156

      Michael Settles I’ve lived in both the UK and Australia, both countries have universal healthcare. I can tell you as someone who has experienced government healthcare firsthand that I am very grateful and pleased with the healthcare I have received. I have also never heard of a case where British Hospitals allow children to die when something can be done. The NHS is not perfect and waiting times are quite high but I would rather wait than die and to have access to MRI scans, consultation appointments and specialist appointments as well as operations for next to nothing is amazing. That’s not to say that you can’t go private, but to have a universal healthcare for a reasonably poorer family cannot be understated. Of course there’s pros and cons but in the UK and Australia, you can choose to go private or public, so you actually have more freedom than in the US, where you have to go private. People are dying in the US because they can’t afford healthcare, how is that acceptable? You guys need to do something about it because it’s frankly embarrassing.

    • @Bucketheadhead
      @Bucketheadhead 4 года назад +85

      Michael Settles “We”...you mean people with insurance and/or money? Here, everyone can get a CT scan. If you want one really quickly and you have the money, you can pay privately. The difference is if you don’t have money you still get the scan.
      Also, you read the Fox News version of what those sick child cases were about.

    • @TruongBui16
      @TruongBui16 4 года назад +55

      Any wait times are because of the triage system. They will treat people in need of urgent care first. If you're not going to die from what you have then you can wait. The people in need of life saving care will be treated before others that are in a life threatening situation.

    • @MichaelsTightPants
      @MichaelsTightPants 4 года назад +36

      @@miclic1217 the case you refer to had many experts from around the world say it wouldn't work or could cause more suffering to the child

  • @Nieaqop243
    @Nieaqop243 4 года назад +6670

    Woman: If it's free it's not worth having.
    *Oxygen: I'm about to end this whole woman's career*

    • @arantkjeld7058
      @arantkjeld7058 4 года назад +96

      Don't they know, that the PD and FD are paid through taxes??

    • @peteryoungpeteryoung965
      @peteryoungpeteryoung965 4 года назад +90

      BRAINWASHED!

    • @Justine0588
      @Justine0588 4 года назад +52

      Just a crazy old witch

    • @paranoid9678
      @paranoid9678 4 года назад +17

      ah well i likr my free air to breathe you know :/

    • @arviduebelacker
      @arviduebelacker 4 года назад +10

      Stephanie B At least it's easy to rip off such people

  • @huananina
    @huananina 2 года назад +176

    Different topic, but still mentionable: As a European woman who's been on international dating platforms, whenever an American man texted me, they automatically assumed that I'd be dreaming of living in the US. They didn't even ask, but started talking about what we could do together, once I've moved. The shock and disbelief they showed when I told them I'd not want to move to the US was actually really offensive.

    • @fatherson5907
      @fatherson5907 2 года назад

      You’re on an international dating platform?
      Humorous how pathetic and desperate women from the EU are. Thanks for the laugh.

    • @Brozius2512
      @Brozius2512 2 года назад

      Don't bother, Father son is a liar and a troll. He's a butt hurt American who cannot stand that other countries have it better than the US.

    • @huananina
      @huananina 2 года назад

      I can't read your replies. :(

    • @Brozius2512
      @Brozius2512 2 года назад +26

      @@fatherson5907 The average age of a medical bankruptcy filer is 44.9 years old.
      40% of Americans fear they won’t be able to afford health care in the upcoming year.
      17% of adults with health care debt declared bankruptcy or lost their home because of it.
      66.5% of bankruptcies are caused directly by medical expenses, making it the leading cause for bankruptcy.
      As of April 2022, 14% of Americans with medical debt planned to declare bankruptcy later in the year because of it.

    • @bicyclist2
      @bicyclist2 10 месяцев назад +8

      I'd move to Europe for a woman.

  • @avarose__
    @avarose__ 5 лет назад +7229

    "Anything that's free, sometimes it's not worth having."
    *Does that go for brain cells too?*

    • @jantonio55
      @jantonio55 5 лет назад +318

      I know lol. I couldnt believe it when she said that.

    • @katrina200577
      @katrina200577 5 лет назад +24

      😂😂😂

    • @WCamden
      @WCamden 5 лет назад +55

      Nothing about the nhs is free

    • @coolfred9083
      @coolfred9083 5 лет назад +10

      Applies to fortnite

    • @chuckymcnubbin1518
      @chuckymcnubbin1518 5 лет назад +147

      I seriously doubt she had any clue as to what was being asked and I seriously doubt she even realised what she said.

  • @finnjons3792
    @finnjons3792 4 года назад +2142

    "What do you think about socialized healthcare?"
    "I don't like the government telling me what I can and can't do."
    Excuse me, how is that connected?

    • @Nickbaldeagle02
      @Nickbaldeagle02 4 года назад +302

      The government already tells them what they can and can't do.

    • @rowo175
      @rowo175 4 года назад +127

      Finn Jons socialism and communism are like the most scary and evil thing to them

    • @Nickbaldeagle02
      @Nickbaldeagle02 4 года назад +46

      @@rowo175 American police have already embraced communism. They use the most brutal over the top violence with no provocation and arrest people who aren't committing any sort of crime.

    • @sr.nobody8585
      @sr.nobody8585 4 года назад +123

      Nick Baldeagle what are you talking about? Communism is an economic system, perhaps you refer to authoritarianism (?

    • @3DRiley_
      @3DRiley_ 4 года назад +45

      In her defense, compulsory social healthcare means you have to pay a monthly percentage of your wage, so the government would tell them that they have to pay (or tell them they can't not pay). What she doesn't get is that although she might not need it most of the time, she will be thankful for that one time she has a stroke or other medical emergency. And people usually get sick a few times a year, so there is that.

  • @rustcrayfish7675
    @rustcrayfish7675 3 года назад +2936

    paying 900$ a month to insurance: "good" "capitalistic"
    paying 40$ in tax a paycheck (80$ a month) for free health care and not having to pay a copay each time you see a doctor: "unfair" "communist"

    • @fatherson5907
      @fatherson5907 3 года назад +12

      Except nobody is paying $900 per month.
      You’re ignorant and uneducated.

    • @rustcrayfish7675
      @rustcrayfish7675 3 года назад +305

      @@fatherson5907 the average price of health care for a single person is 400$ if you are covering more then one person such as a spouse or yes Child (or both) it will multiply buy how many people you are covering

    • @fatherson5907
      @fatherson5907 3 года назад +7

      @@rustcrayfish7675 yes, $400 is not equal to $900

    • @rustcrayfish7675
      @rustcrayfish7675 3 года назад +249

      @@fatherson5907 however the average household is 2.53. So for just 2 people it cost 800$ and that’s for basic coverage that doesn’t include add-ons like free doctor visit and copays and that can put it above 900 or even 1000$. I’m not saying a NHS would be the greatest thing ever it has it’s flaws just like everything else however. The US needs this option for lower class family’s who can’t afford health care and need assistance and also so that the Insurance companies have competition so their monopoly ends

    • @fatherson5907
      @fatherson5907 3 года назад +3

      @@rustcrayfish7675 so the amount of taxes they would be paying would be double. There is no such thing as “free” healthcare. Only idiots believe that.
      Low income families get full coverage through Medicaid.
      You have no idea what you’re talking about. While your beloved NHS is completely failing against the pandemic, you fools are obsessing over the internal affairs of the US (which have no impact on you at all).
      Mind your own business, Karen.

  • @Nick-kz6dg
    @Nick-kz6dg 2 года назад +405

    Karen: “People need to look for jobs that provide benefits.”
    Also Karen: “WHY WON’T YOU FLIP BURGERS FOR PENNIES? YOU’RE SO UNGRATEFUL!”

    • @fatherson5907
      @fatherson5907 2 года назад +4

      Groomer: why don’t you pay my bills. I don’t want to work!!!

    • @Brozius2512
      @Brozius2512 2 года назад +18

      @@fatherson5907 New York declares a state of emergency over polio

    • @jmgirard7
      @jmgirard7 2 года назад +19

      Finds work but employer cuts hours so that they don't have to pay for benefits: "Well F me, I guess."

    • @zeyadsaeed9580
      @zeyadsaeed9580 Год назад

      ​@@fatherson5907 Anti-Groomer unless the groomer is a priest and Christian.
      Just like evangelicals.
      Talk all Christian and all mighty but will not be for feeding children in schools for free.

    • @wmoros4902
      @wmoros4902 Год назад +24

      @@jmgirard7 "But youll be working just 2 hours less at 38 hours a week! its basically fulltime but we strip of you insurance and benefits because we dont care for you!"

  • @James_taylor810
    @James_taylor810 3 года назад +2438

    Getting a child delivered in Australia cost $7 for parking.

    • @eland65
      @eland65 3 года назад +88

      Plus gas...

    • @James_taylor810
      @James_taylor810 3 года назад +220

      @@eland65 ok, fair point, that should take the total to $8.13.

    • @eland65
      @eland65 3 года назад +43

      @@James_taylor810 nah, ups's rate would be like 375, american...

    • @adraen5942
      @adraen5942 3 года назад +15

      @@eland65 XD I laughed way too much at that

    • @SirKenNorth
      @SirKenNorth 3 года назад +5

      @@James_taylor810 yeah that's too much, gonna pass on that.

  • @pikachuisshook2795
    @pikachuisshook2795 4 года назад +3224

    "Would you like basic human rights?"
    AnD wHoSe GoNnA pAy FoR iT?

    • @thompoz7114
      @thompoz7114 4 года назад +251

      US: gun rights > human rights.

    • @miguellazarogil935
      @miguellazarogil935 4 года назад +18

      Well, let me tell you that it is a very important question. In my country we have free health care and it is great but then you look at the job offers and people here earn a lot less then in the US. If it was only health care it could work out but trust me, once this starts, many other things will be controlled by the state. I would prefer to have to pay $100 for an insurance while earning $300 more than what I do now

    • @isaacjacobharris
      @isaacjacobharris 4 года назад +61

      @@miguellazarogil935 how is paying for insurance going to let your earn $300 more

    • @justincarlozmaxino1100
      @justincarlozmaxino1100 4 года назад +33

      @@miguellazarogil935 The pay disparity is because of the US having a larger market but that market is about to collapse friend because it is propt up in fake revenue. Your better off taking a long lasting fullfilling job out of the US with stronger stable economies. You will never know how long it will be until the next bubble pops and you are jobless again but it is clear the bail outs are getting closer and closer to each other as time moves.

    • @AngelEmfrbl
      @AngelEmfrbl 4 года назад +28

      @@miguellazarogil935 If you have a major health implication and can't work, you will be paying more per month then you can afford.

  • @jellyegg1843
    @jellyegg1843 4 года назад +1858

    That old woman heard the word “social” and turned off right then. Not worth speaking to people like her.

    • @avianpegasus3335
      @avianpegasus3335 4 года назад +76

      Too proud and stupid to listen or change her mind

    • @intercity4553
      @intercity4553 4 года назад +35

      social media must be communist propaganda!

    • @moreplease998
      @moreplease998 4 года назад +20

      @@intercity4553 I have come across a fair number of them who seem to genuinely believe that

    • @revanruler6404
      @revanruler6404 4 года назад +14

      agreed just let them die from the covid

    • @jeece711
      @jeece711 4 года назад +2

      @@cacapopocaca4842 Actually you don't have. Demography is in favor of young people. They must go vote, be heard and take the power that legitimately belongs to them!

  • @brotherelf
    @brotherelf 2 года назад +20

    What blew my mind is when I found out insurance doesn't cover every hospital or ambulance service provider so there's a good chance you'll still be on the hook. .

  • @asdunlavey
    @asdunlavey 4 года назад +4642

    "Anything that is free, sometimes it's not worth having."
    *This is an ambulance we're talking about, Pauline - not a loan shark.*

    • @joeallen7172
      @joeallen7172 4 года назад +167

      Americans already pay a lot in taxes for healthcare in fact they pay over 3 times as much per capita for healthcare than Canada. Yet over 500,000 Americans go bankrupt for healthcare related reasons every year and healthcare is by far the main way in which people go bankrupt

    • @ian1352
      @ian1352 4 года назад +17

      It's also not free, as in no-one pays for, but there is no charge at the point of use.

    • @asdunlavey
      @asdunlavey 4 года назад +96

      @@ian1352 True but considering that healthcare can be the difference between life and death, not needing to worry about paying upfront is much better. An upfront cost is how people die from not being able to afford insulin or refusing to visit a doctor until their condition worsens.

    • @VenturePictures
      @VenturePictures 4 года назад +79

      People like her are the issue ...

    • @livedandletdie
      @livedandletdie 4 года назад +3

      If it's free it's not worth it is true. And Socialized healthcare is far from free, it's far from cost effective, it's far from societally beneficial, it's far from being good in any way shape or form.
      Sure I don't think healthcare should be extremely costly either, but it's only extremely costly due to the massive conglomerate corporations who own the medication industry and health industry, and that's globally. Deal with those things before trying to destroy every good hospital out there by ruining them.

  • @ahmede8946
    @ahmede8946 4 года назад +3508

    Lady: "It is not the job of the government to provide healthcare"
    THAT IS LITERALLY THEIR JOB

    • @damianeadie510
      @damianeadie510 4 года назад +226

      If not - then why is it their job to carpet bomb countries who have the wrong politics?
      It doesn't make sense to me that you can justify 'defending' a country from tin pot dictatorships with oil fields (and prop others up) while not defending people's health at home.

    • @MortalVildhjart
      @MortalVildhjart 4 года назад +95

      I would love to ask that lady, what she think´s the Governments Job is. And also what she thinks of people who simply are born Impared and can´t get the Job that they would need to proivde themselfs with the Itmes of need.

    • @tompain2751
      @tompain2751 4 года назад +1

      No.

    • @laurensd.l.2717
      @laurensd.l.2717 4 года назад +77

      She'd much rather sponge of her husbands insurance and call it her own accomplishment of being provided for. It's called 'the american way' Laughable

    • @ArpanMukhopadhyay93
      @ArpanMukhopadhyay93 4 года назад +7

      Seriously!!!

  • @aaronvalero3217
    @aaronvalero3217 4 года назад +3215

    American: Do you like to pay taxes?
    Any European: For universal healthcare? GOD YES

    • @8is
      @8is 4 года назад +10

      No, the right exists in Europe too you know.

    • @johanuuu8448
      @johanuuu8448 4 года назад +7

      Not "any european".

    • @jorgemtds
      @jorgemtds 4 года назад +6

      @@8is But he spoken of EUROPEANS in the first place.

    • @Ninjaananas
      @Ninjaananas 4 года назад +1

      @@8is
      What right?

    • @henrybaker818
      @henrybaker818 4 года назад +39

      Not just EU and Canada. There are many others like Australia and New Zealand.

  • @MultiVeeta
    @MultiVeeta 2 года назад +35

    I find it sad how the US is full of such self centred people.

    • @dfdf-rj8jr
      @dfdf-rj8jr 4 месяца назад

      Why do you care what happens in the US?

    • @alisonwilson9749
      @alisonwilson9749 Месяц назад +2

      @@dfdf-rj8jr Because your foreign and trade policy affects he rest of us. Because we're sick of you telling us how wonderful you are. etc.

  • @aaronconway4435
    @aaronconway4435 4 года назад +1868

    "I don't believe that our government should be responsible for providing all of us with health care."
    The 1st and only priority of a government should be the health and safety of its citizens! What does that woman think the government should be responsible for?!?!

    • @ChristianYoga
      @ChristianYoga 4 года назад +130

      They be like: it's freedooommmm!!11!!!

    • @Alan-hq6ei
      @Alan-hq6ei 4 года назад +85

      My eyes rolled so far back into my head when she answered that 🤣🤣🤣🙄🙄🙄

    • @platogkrone7161
      @platogkrone7161 4 года назад +146

      @@Alan-hq6ei My eyes rolled so far back into my head that it severed my optic nerves, and now I have to get surgery to mend them. It's good that I don't live in the US, or I might have been screwed.

    • @littlestone1541
      @littlestone1541 4 года назад +87

      Probably building border walls, deporting brown people, and providing militarised interventionism to other countries that haven't asked for it... but certainly nothing like education and health care! 😂

    • @CesarMartinez-wi7wc
      @CesarMartinez-wi7wc 4 года назад +3

      Killing terrorists obvi

  • @luptonwell
    @luptonwell 5 лет назад +4125

    America where guns are affordable but healthcare isn't.

    • @djbdyckfbsgsg9176
      @djbdyckfbsgsg9176 5 лет назад +125

      Dave Dunwell America, where people blame everything on guns and not on mental health

    • @fyrelorde
      @fyrelorde 5 лет назад +149

      Gotta lower the population somehow

    • @darioramos5010
      @darioramos5010 5 лет назад +39

      I blame guns and republicans

    • @GRBtutorials
      @GRBtutorials 5 лет назад +50

      @@djbdyckfbsgsg9176 Well, then it's not like giving guns to those who can have mental health problems (so literally everyone) is a good idea, right?

    • @azhaz578
      @azhaz578 5 лет назад +25

      Lao lmao by that logic most western countries should be having the same amount of public shootings the US does.

  • @bleaaarghh
    @bleaaarghh 5 лет назад +8555

    ‘I would rather pay $100 to a private company than $10 in taxes for the same thing’ - republicans

    • @kt550
      @kt550 5 лет назад +34

      bleaaarghh not true at all.

    • @allanfoster6965
      @allanfoster6965 5 лет назад +555

      @@kt550 really?

    • @kt550
      @kt550 5 лет назад +25

      Allan Foster 20 trillion for Medicare for all

    • @Laufbursche4u
      @Laufbursche4u 5 лет назад +618

      @@kt550 And he's here again. Guys, look at Europe. We have "socialized" health care by much lower costs at all.
      Your pharmacy industry is bleeding you white.

    • @PabloGonzalez-hv3td
      @PabloGonzalez-hv3td 5 лет назад +454

      @@jaredmackey4511 That's the lie you're fed.
      Insurance and universal healthcare are actually IDENTICAL in concept it's risk pooling your coverage is in fact subsidized by everyone elses premiums and vice versa you're certainly not paying everything yourself or there wouldn't be "insurance" to begin with...

  • @iloveplayingpr
    @iloveplayingpr 2 года назад +23

    Unfortunately one of the reasons why the concept isn't happening in the US is because it is opposed by those that profit from it the most, and they certainly do it without caring or blinking of the lives its paid with.

    • @wmoros4902
      @wmoros4902 Год назад +1

      I hope with time itll change, theres been a shift in idologies regarding health and work systems in the US with age, just gotta wait for people to die at this point lol. I just want more speaking on the health of the gereral public and treatment of citizens, but we matter none to corporations, and we have no say unlike they do.

  • @johnnylira3312
    @johnnylira3312 5 лет назад +3532

    The propoganda has damaged the boomer/older generation.

    • @jomar564
      @jomar564 5 лет назад +17

      @No Truth Dont Speak To Me the educational system and past racial standards and beliefs, had a tremendous affect on it as well. Since people elected in power and those with wealth have continually gone for antigovernment and anti union, their efforts indeed paid off, since unions are looked down by those that fallow the word of the rich, dont like taxes cause the rich told them to and domt like socialites programs or progressives ones that would better the nation, cause the rich would be hurt or some how it's bad form them to help themselves and others.

    • @jhenrypaul
      @jhenrypaul 5 лет назад +1

      @Emily Moss If indeed the young don't embrace the "Greed is good" mantra then with the poor turn at the polls the young are if as you believe so pro one payer system then they hold an even greater blame for not having one. You like many other younger people here want too simple of answers.

    • @ryanharvey9800
      @ryanharvey9800 5 лет назад +4

      Its destroyed them that and insane right wing nut job Christian televangelists

    • @jhenrypaul
      @jhenrypaul 5 лет назад +4

      @Emily Moss No what I am saying is that quite simply very few people vote. In an extremely big turn out year only about 25% of the voter eligible to vote show up and vote.
      If indeed as you say it is us Boomers that are keeping a one payer system of health insurance from happening. Then the responsibility for allowing that to happen falls upon these under 55 for allowing that to happen by not getting out of there armchairs and voting for people that would make that happen.
      I myself was born in 1960 so am at what many consider the last of the babyboomers. Most Boomers I know are working class and they do support an nationalized health care system. On the other hand most of the younger people I know that have either higher paying jobs or are bosses ot self-employed are dead sets against an nationalized health system.
      The gist of my argument is that if in fact it is the Babyboomers that have kept a nationalized health care system from happening. With such terrible voter turnouts by Babyboomers, had these under 55 or even 45 truly wanted the change they could have effectively made it happen by merely turning up at the polls and electing these that would have made it happen!
      You want too simple of answers! The answer is not as simple as the Babyboom generation was against it. Many of my generation have said that an nationalized health care system was the right thing to do since I was a kid in the 60's.
      It is interesting that over all these of us born in 1960 have not done as well financially as peopleborn in the early to mid 50's and before. The Red Scare of 47 to 57 was the starting point of The Powers That Be (PTB) dismantling the gains that union's took a century to make. Unions were took down by The PTB figuring out that you destroy them by buying off union leadership for starters.
      There are many more reasons that a nationalized health system hasn't happened in the USA. The ideal that if you work long enough and hard enough you too will be rich. Tribalism and even sexism.
      Why should someone my age support a system of nationalized health care that I believe should happen when so many your age seem to be saying that we are the total problem? Are you that far from the eugenics movement of the early 1900's that you would deny health care based on age? Perhaps regardless of the fact that people, y age and older agree that health care should be nationalized in order to protect ourselves we must act to keep you weak?
      Life is not simple. Health care issues are not simple. You want to make a simplistic answer to why an nationalized health care system has not happened (blame the Babyboomers!). My daddy would have said it was time to get you head out of where the sun don't shine. (He used much more colorful language though). Stop blaming and look for answers! One of them is that capitalism must be brought down and I can assure you that the PTB will fight that tooth and nail! The Capitalists in the USA see health care has a sign of their power and will fight to keep that sign under their banner.

    • @jhenrypaul
      @jhenrypaul 5 лет назад

      @Emily Moss yes I was mistaken on the percentage of these voting. But even the percentage being wrong by 1992 these post Boomers had they all voted with these of us boomers that are progressive would have had a huge enough number to changed the laws.
      I guess really what bothers me the most about this conversation is that you want to make all of us Babyboomers into A. Holes. While refusing to see all these in your age group that believe if you don't have a good job and private health insurance there is something wrong with you and that if you get sick and die because of that you deserved to die.
      As to actually getting a health care system nationalized in the US in the near future. After Trump was elected in 16, I believe that it won't happen the PTB would sooner destroy the US economy then let that happen. There are far too many millennium's and younger that have brought the lies of the PTB. And you have brought into the lies yourself when you put total blame on Babyboomers for the health care issue. The PTB has always used the divide and conquer MO and it just about always works.

  • @jfoz7602
    @jfoz7602 4 года назад +2366

    Imagine having to pay for an ambulance. Jesus Christ I can’t even get my head around that.

    • @deathnote939393
      @deathnote939393 4 года назад +239

      Here's 911, would you like to pay with credit card or cash?

    • @idontlikewind.554
      @idontlikewind.554 4 года назад +173

      “Help my dad has had a heart attack”
      999: “Oh sorry looks like you don’t have enough.”

    • @jeremyself6984
      @jeremyself6984 4 года назад +67

      @@deathnote939393 unfortunately, that's not how it works. They pick you up, go to the ER, you sign stuff before or after saying you'll pay, then they send you the bill to pay up. So they might help you, but you probably took years off your well-being due to your new debt/bankruptcy. And often times, if you need an ambulance you're not going to be in a position to refuse or get alternate transport to reduce some of the bill.

    • @rowo175
      @rowo175 4 года назад +73

      I am a Foreigner . Called ambulance in Spain stay hospital for 3 days only cost 100 euro food poison . Thanks god has mercy on my soul I didn’t get sick when I was in USA

    • @jadiecakes3241
      @jadiecakes3241 4 года назад +95

      @@rowo175 when i was in america in 2015, i got the flu, so went to the hospital for some medication (i was on a tour they suggested going to the hospital), $2500 to see a nurse.... i was like.... i can see a doctor back home for free (or private for $75). Thank god for travel insurance is all I can say!!!

  • @Alex_186
    @Alex_186 4 года назад +1246

    “No society can legitimately call itself civilised if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means”. - Aneurin Bevan MP, Minister of Health (1945-1951) founder of the National Health Service (NHS).

    • @vforvendetta275
      @vforvendetta275 4 года назад +55

      That's pretty meaningful as well. Post WW2 and swimming in Lendlease debt, rebuilding bombed cities the British still came up with the NHS.

    • @GewalfofWivia
      @GewalfofWivia 4 года назад +18

      Technically... Americans aren't "denied" medical aid, but rather given an impossible choice. Appearances must be kept, you understand.

    • @rextransformation7418
      @rextransformation7418 4 года назад +1

      Amen.

    • @cuac5869
      @cuac5869 4 года назад +2

      John Lu lmao true

    • @kristoffersparegodt420
      @kristoffersparegodt420 4 года назад +11

      John Lu. Incorrect. That’s how the 17 yo died from Corona in America. People do get denied in the US

  • @MegaJacko4
    @MegaJacko4 2 года назад +87

    It's a very big part of British culture, this sence of togetherness that Americans don't seem to grasp. Everyone who can afford it pays for the NHS no matter how small or large a contribution so it is available to everyone even those who can't afford it. Everyone has a duty to eachother not just to themselves and that's such a large part of what it means to be British. We look after our own. Always have. Always will.

    • @katep8982
      @katep8982 2 года назад +6

      Well said, the NHS can also buy medication in bulk so we only pay £9. US citizens are vulnerable to inflated drug prices. The NHS works but our government have not been investing in it sadly.

    • @aclem8246
      @aclem8246 Год назад

      Yes Brits sure look after their own. I have never seen a nastier bunch other than Australians when it comes to gossip rags and bigotry.

    • @jordannewman177
      @jordannewman177 Год назад

      Except when your money is going to violent immigrants who don’t contribute anything to your country and are actively trying to destroy it all while taking advantage of those systems. Britain is being killed from within on purpose.

    • @dfdf-rj8jr
      @dfdf-rj8jr 4 месяца назад

      Yeah and yet way more people move from the UK to America than the other way around. Your country is nothing but America's largest aircraft carrier.

    • @alisonwilson9749
      @alisonwilson9749 Месяц назад

      @@dfdf-rj8jr High time we told your military bases here to bugger off, especially now you have trump again.

  • @theuniquebean
    @theuniquebean 5 лет назад +1644

    The two older women are just so brainwashed. I don’t understand.

    • @blackwatch6649
      @blackwatch6649 5 лет назад +193

      In two words: Fox News.

    • @cheese84567
      @cheese84567 5 лет назад +135

      That's boomers for you

    • @jpw6893
      @jpw6893 5 лет назад +54

      Neither do they

    • @RanjithKumar-bc6ev
      @RanjithKumar-bc6ev 5 лет назад +34

      Boomers, man!!!!

    • @jadenaaronbrown1232
      @jadenaaronbrown1232 5 лет назад +54

      Black Watch there probably from well off families so never had to worry about healthcare costs

  • @Menntes
    @Menntes 4 года назад +2431

    Most Americans have such a selfish mind, instead of paying more in taxes to help everyone they would rather pay thousands of dollars because they don't like the word "taxes"

    • @neutronalchemist3241
      @neutronalchemist3241 4 года назад +215

      What Americans fail to understand is that they are ALREADY paying universal healtcare through taxes, without having it. Medicare and Medicaid costs 6.62% of US GDP, British NHS costs 7.1% of British GDP.

    • @mushmush4980
      @mushmush4980 4 года назад +13

      I don't think you're an American, since the majority are in favor of socialized healthcare here

    • @lincolnduke
      @lincolnduke 4 года назад +19

      @@neutronalchemist3241 And it's shite. If you get an urgent reccommendation for cancer treatment (assuming you get to see a doctor) there's a 20% chance you will not see a specialist within 9 weeks. And it only gets more expensive.

    • @dylanroper6446
      @dylanroper6446 4 года назад +54

      @@lincolnduke It's underfunded purposely so it can be privatised.

    • @jessicareutercastrogiovann5796
      @jessicareutercastrogiovann5796 4 года назад +76

      I'm an American, and I would pay 50% of my income right off the top if it meant no one had to worry about getting health care. I've had to skip appointments, cancel labs, and let medical bills go to collection because I just can't pay them. It's a very common thing in my country; the only people I know who haven't experienced that are people who have been consistently upper class.

  • @momoluvsappa
    @momoluvsappa 4 года назад +3609

    I was travelling and an American was talking to his friends about visas and wanting to prevent too many immigrants from taking over their system. He noticed I’d overheard and said “sorry, no offence.” I was confused and said “mate, I’m Australian. Why would I ever want to live in America?” He was completely baffled by my comment - didn’t take it as a joke and laugh it off or anything like that. He was just completely puzzled. A few days later, at the same hostel, he asked me what I’d meant. I explained about our Medicare system, our minimum wage (we call them penalty rates) system, compulsory superannuation, minimum leave entitlements and additional loading on holiday pay, preferential voting system, etc etc etc. What was curious is that he wasn’t mad or argumentative, just completely dumbfounded. His entire life he’d been brought up to think that everyone from around the world dreamed of living in America. He didn’t understand that the absolute majority of the West views the US as an experiment, not as a model. He had fallen for the lie that everybody craves what Americans have. Isn’t it genius? What a way to keep a population controlled while believing that they’re the freest. Giving them absolutely no dividends, and make them believe they’re grateful for it. An ingenious kind of prison.

    • @DYKWINNING
      @DYKWINNING 4 года назад +446

      I concur. As an USA citizen I would rather live in Australia. But USA is #1..... In military spending.
      Complete and utter waste of tax dollars.

    • @ianstafford8716
      @ianstafford8716 4 года назад +292

      American Exceptionalism is still believed by many US citizens. The US would be a much better place if this was not the case.

    • @matthewclements5558
      @matthewclements5558 4 года назад +63

      Wow; that’s so true. Well observed.

    • @kevindam1946
      @kevindam1946 4 года назад +274

      @@DYKWINNING Not only are we #1 in military spending, we are #1 in bankruptcies and financial ruin caused by insane healthcare costs, we are #1 in school shootings and other gun violence, we are #1 in incarceration rate of our own citizens, we are #1 in lobbyist spending, #1 in sugar consumption, and many other terrible things. Not to mention #1 in COVID cases and COVID deaths.
      Meanwhile, we are never #1 in positive things. We are #16 in human development (HDI), #19 in citizen happiness (World Happiness Report), #52 in how free we are (World Liberty Index), and #27 in education.

    • @vaIentinerose
      @vaIentinerose 4 года назад +7

      DYKWINNING they still don’t have the best special task force tho, and I oop

  • @optimistic_cynic
    @optimistic_cynic 2 года назад +26

    This is literally the main reason why I insisted not going to the hospital for an MRI after my first car crash. I only had whiplash and months of back pain minimized through yoga and careful stretches, thank god I didn't have anything worse. I remember everyone including the paramedics just staring at me. I remember my mom on the verge of screaming at me why I refused to go to the hospital. Idk if they thought I was a madman, but I guess I am - mad with the system I live in. It honestly upsets me how many people view the current healthcare system as the norm. Everything is so outdated, from healthcare to schools. It's like hyper-monetization and -competition is the only thing to look forward to.

  • @rileyhall2181
    @rileyhall2181 4 года назад +947

    That lady saying ‘they need to have a job’ in order to deserve healthcare blew my mind.
    Does she not know disabled people exist? Or does she just not care?

    • @bochiebochie
      @bochiebochie 4 года назад +147

      That's the American Dream! If you're rich, you succeed. If you are poor, just go somewhere else and die.

    • @daverhoden445
      @daverhoden445 4 года назад +63

      Maybe she thinks McDonald's provides health insurance?

    • @ameykarade9432
      @ameykarade9432 4 года назад +6

      @@daverhoden445 😂😂😂

    • @vicktoria4864
      @vicktoria4864 4 года назад +28

      she doesnt care that other people have different living situations. their selfishness really stands out in these debates, i think selfishness can cause america to fall down if they keep acting like other people dont matter

    • @arjunaich5399
      @arjunaich5399 4 года назад +9

      Old people irritate me for this reason so much.

  • @bellsTheorem1138
    @bellsTheorem1138 5 лет назад +1340

    Notice everyone who is agaisnt it just assume it is more expensive. Never researched it.

    • @betsywilliams3666
      @betsywilliams3666 5 лет назад +13

      Or knew someone from another country or lived abroad themselves.

    • @Ibrahim-vx5kq
      @Ibrahim-vx5kq 5 лет назад +73

      Ikr they think America is great,lmao 300 dollars for an inhaler just so you can breathe normally,I'm an asthmatic and in the UK,there is no argument to say it's better to pay 300+ rather than just 12 dollars for the prescription or none if you claim certain benefits

    • @rochester212
      @rochester212 5 лет назад +44

      It's because uncle Sam and the corporations have been using anti-healthcare propaganda in the US for the last ~80 years?? People are so scared they refuse even to think about it.

    • @cypher_2259
      @cypher_2259 5 лет назад +6

      @@Ibrahim-vx5kq I'm from UK and pay £0?

    • @Ibrahim-vx5kq
      @Ibrahim-vx5kq 5 лет назад +6

      @Ali Barsnack 3k a year is a lot less than the money i'd have to pay under the US healthcare system

  • @pratiti1749
    @pratiti1749 4 года назад +8407

    The first two women are basically: I have the money so others can die.

    • @doconomolo6892
      @doconomolo6892 4 года назад +485

      Americans would be quick to say that American hospitals can't refuse treatment. But after treatment the patient would receive a huge bill. Patients have to face a choice of death or debt.

    • @austinsworldtour8748
      @austinsworldtour8748 4 года назад +26

      Survival of the fittest.

    • @TjerdavanEijkelvanhetSchip
      @TjerdavanEijkelvanhetSchip 4 года назад +225

      I can't believe how selfish these women are! 😲 Let's hear from them when the husband left them for a younger version and they have to work and still aren't able to pay for there healthcare (I wanted to say Botox, but it's clear to me they do not get those 😂)

    • @γιουργια
      @γιουργια 4 года назад +19

      @@austinsworldtour8748 yipee, social Darwinism/s

    • @autohmae
      @autohmae 4 года назад +118

      Which is crazy, because they also would be paying less. So it's even in their own best interest.
      Not even talking about other people having healthcare helps prevent something like the current coronavirus spread. Not everyone has a US $ 3100 lying around to get themselves tested.

  • @CartoonDrama44
    @CartoonDrama44 2 года назад +22

    "Individuals need to look for jobs that provide benefits."
    Yes, but by definition, a large proportion of US jobs don't provide good benefits. Does it mean people working these jobs don't deserve healthcare?

    • @MF-qf7bs
      @MF-qf7bs 5 месяцев назад

      It annoys me to no end that foreigners whose countries cover their healthcare costs, don't respect the fact that pharmaceutical companies (don't know if it's the same for health insurance co's) are making up the losses by charging Americans more to cover them.

    • @nevillehoward8736
      @nevillehoward8736 Месяц назад

      ​@@MF-qf7bsThat is not true. Yes, there are costs to make and provide pharmaceuticals, but these are nothing like the amounts charged in the USA. What is charged in the USA are super profits.

    • @derniederrheiner4518
      @derniederrheiner4518 Месяц назад

      @@MF-qf7bs LoL! The companies take what they can get. And in the USA they can demand more. Even with what they get paid in Europe, they're not starving.

  • @nighthasfallen456
    @nighthasfallen456 4 года назад +1470

    My mother has a chronic illness. If we were American, she would have died years ago and I would have grown up without a mother.
    Thank you NHS.

    • @henryphilippeaux3566
      @henryphilippeaux3566 4 года назад +156

      Because... they wouldn't have been able to afford treatment?

    • @ArchangelSteve
      @ArchangelSteve 4 года назад +86

      @John Galt Because we can do the maths.

    • @Widdekuu91
      @Widdekuu91 4 года назад +64

      Oohh I recently thought about that too.
      If I lived in America, I would've been messed úp. No way that there would've been care for my leg, for my mother's cancer, for my trauma, for my autism-needs.
      I would've probably been homeless at this point. Homeless while caring for a stray cat, or dead.

    • @Carlium
      @Carlium 4 года назад +36

      I'm also glad to live in Europe, I live in Norway. In Norway, everyone has the right to healthcare and other stuff. Everything from education to healthcare is free up to 18 years of age, after that you pay a small fee for everything (depending on what it is of course), except necessary treatments / operations, and I'm happy with having to pay taxes as an apprentice.

    • @MrMerzi007
      @MrMerzi007 4 года назад +11

      @@Carlium Karen say if everythings free thats not worth to be have

  • @Dan-B
    @Dan-B 5 лет назад +1302

    Older Americans: “I don’t want socialized health care”
    also older Americans: “Don’t call an ambulance, I can’t afford it”
    The cognitive dissonance is real..

    • @hikaru9624
      @hikaru9624 5 лет назад +27

      I find the idea of not dialing 999 (I live in Scotland) for an ambulance when you absolutely need it insane! I do understand why that's the case for some folk over there but that really shouldn't be a thing.
      I guess I'm just to used to having that safety net should I ever need it.

    • @GorinRedspear
      @GorinRedspear 5 лет назад +3

      When I'm in doubt to call an ambulance, it's more like "can they get here and back faster than I can get there?" Works for minor stuff.
      When a friend got a piece of iron in his eye (literally stopped by the back of his skull) we were more worried about how to explain to the ambulance how to get to where we were, than about how we were going to pay for it.

    • @jairoagudelo6843
      @jairoagudelo6843 5 лет назад +56

      @assassinlexxlol nobody dies in the Uk for waiting for a doctor...but instead annually 50k Americans die cuz they cant afford doctor...let that sink in...

    • @Shrooms-gud4ya
      @Shrooms-gud4ya 5 лет назад +20

      @@jairoagudelo6843 American (mostly Republican voters) : Well...it is the survival of the fittest isn't it?
      Rest of the world : ..and that is why we don't treat you seriously outside the military

    • @XionXIV243
      @XionXIV243 5 лет назад +7

      @assassinlexx if it's that serious they will let you straight in

  • @Zargas
    @Zargas 5 лет назад +1710

    Give the US some time, its a developing country.

    • @_futur3_298
      @_futur3_298 5 лет назад +35

      😂

    • @coolguy3848
      @coolguy3848 5 лет назад +34

      😂

    • @richardray6827
      @richardray6827 4 года назад +134

      no it is not. The last three years it has gone backwards 100 years.

    • @brillianthamlet3132
      @brillianthamlet3132 4 года назад +58

      It's not a More Economically Developed Country. It's not a Newly Emerging Economy. It's a Shrinking Development Country lol.

    • @Mitaka-Asa
      @Mitaka-Asa 4 года назад +32

      Go away boomers. You're holding everyone back.

  • @CH1LDOFTHEMOON
    @CH1LDOFTHEMOON Год назад +11

    These people against 'socialised healthcare' forget they have 'solialised military/police/ fire brigade'!

    • @fatherson5907
      @fatherson5907 Год назад

      Police and fire brigade are funded municipally.
      Stop obsessing over our healthcare. Fix your own system.

    • @Brozius2512
      @Brozius2512 Год назад +2

      Don't bother, Father son is a liar and a troll. He's a butt hurt American who can't stand that other countries have it better than the US

    • @suptumberlumbertumberlumbe9305
      @suptumberlumbertumberlumbe9305 Год назад +1

      It's unfair to make people pay for situations they have nothing to do with

    • @Brozius2512
      @Brozius2512 Год назад +5

      @@suptumberlumbertumberlumbe9305 So you don't want the fire brigade to help your neighbours out when their house is on fire?
      How selfish of you!

    • @dfdf-rj8jr
      @dfdf-rj8jr 4 месяца назад

      Why are you so obsessed with healthcare?

  • @alextygesen3101
    @alextygesen3101 4 года назад +1638

    To this date I still don't understand how a country like America can consider themselves a true 1st world country with a free-for-all mentality like this.

    • @CorporateShill66
      @CorporateShill66 4 года назад +134

      They are brainwashed, and many are just dumb.

    • @shachingmongmarma828
      @shachingmongmarma828 4 года назад +88

      @@CorporateShill66 you can't brainwashed people who already have no brain

    • @BlazinNSoul
      @BlazinNSoul 4 года назад +13

      America has never been a first world country as where have you been. :/

    • @Abyssinian97
      @Abyssinian97 4 года назад +13

      its literally globally recognized that America is a first world country lol

    • @adamflynn7322
      @adamflynn7322 4 года назад +27

      @@Abyssinian97are you actually this dumb or just trolling?

  • @octopiarejustwetspiders
    @octopiarejustwetspiders 4 года назад +734

    "Do you like the idea of socialized healthcare" *No*
    "Have you ever avoided treatment because you couldn't afford the cost?" *No*
    Okay, so it seems that the people who are against universal healthcare are the ones who can afford it and don't care about the people who can't.

    • @noxious89123
      @noxious89123 4 года назад +66

      "But why don't poor people just get more money? They must be stupid!" I think is pretty much the attitude.

    • @mr.g797
      @mr.g797 4 года назад +10

      You're comment is literally GOLD!!!!!!!

    • @licensed_beheader
      @licensed_beheader 4 года назад +2

      @@noxious89123 don't call a poor man stupid alright it's disgusting alright never even call a rich man stupid unless you know them well you don't know why they are in their current situation it's pretty ignorant of you to say that.

    • @rvoloshchukify
      @rvoloshchukify 4 года назад +14

      She was clearly lying just to make a point. She literally knows people who wouldn’t call the emergency, so how is that not avoiding healthcare?

    • @speedydog45
      @speedydog45 4 года назад +3

      @@noxious89123 "Stop being poor"

  • @marcsoler299
    @marcsoler299 4 года назад +3486

    Watching these kinds of videos just makes me realise how lucky I was to be born in Europe

    • @brosquito7483
      @brosquito7483 4 года назад +180

      It's pretty cool to be able to travel around Europe with just your ID.
      Passports are for loosers.

    • @brosquito7483
      @brosquito7483 4 года назад +80

      1st butthurt, keep 'em comming, ladies.

    • @omegaRST
      @omegaRST 4 года назад +151

      @Mario yes it's totally pathetic to see a society making a combined effort to save thousands of lives while other nations cant even agree on what to do about the crisis and end up doing nothing

    • @emc903
      @emc903 4 года назад +5

      @Mario UK more like EwK

    • @mingmingandmikki
      @mingmingandmikki 4 года назад +137

      I’m born in Thailand, a developing country and I still have way better healthcare than this.

  • @phalanx-it
    @phalanx-it Год назад +10

    "Anything that's free, probably isn't worth having"... Said no-one ever, having been involved in a car accident on a motorway (interstate) in the middle of nowhere and been collected by an air ambulance with full paramedic crew and flown A&E, given lifesaving treatment, surgery, accommodation, TV, WiFi and a daily menu for food for £0/$0 - and even a ride HOME in an ambulance if needed. 'I know I'm wrong saying it, I know I'm lying when I say I don't know anyone who's avoided treatment due to cost but 'Murica so whatever'....

    • @fatherson5907
      @fatherson5907 Год назад +2

      The sad thing is that you’re so uneducated that you actually believe all of that is free.
      Over 6 million in England alone are waiting *years* for surgery. Years.
      I’ve never known anyone that waited for surgery but ‘NHS is pride of the UK’
      Lucy Letby is a hero 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @Brozius2512
      @Brozius2512 Год назад +1

      Don't bother, Father son is a liar and a troll. He's a butt hurt American who can't stand that other countries have it better than the US.

  • @star42
    @star42 3 года назад +1465

    That women is the face of what's wrong with the United States right now: Placing pride over self-preservation.

    • @cathl4953
      @cathl4953 3 года назад +93

      And talking about individual responsibility and government regulations with little understanding of how it works

    • @rivertwygzbed543
      @rivertwygzbed543 3 года назад +64

      @@cathl4953 Also humanity didn't survive living alongside Woolly Mammoths, Sabre tooth tigers and 20 foot sloths or outlast Neanderthals through rugged individualism, humanity thrives when we cooperate.

    • @Chukwu1967
      @Chukwu1967 3 года назад +15

      You mean ignorance over everything else

    • @AnthonyGibbsRTA
      @AnthonyGibbsRTA 3 года назад +15

      @@rivertwygzbed543 this is why we made the Neanderthals go extinct, they were not as social as our ancestors but they were stronger, smarter and able to withstand extreme weather conditions.

    • @rivertwygzbed543
      @rivertwygzbed543 3 года назад +9

      @@AnthonyGibbsRTA Stronger together

  • @dorinebatchakoue29
    @dorinebatchakoue29 4 года назад +668

    Everyone in Europe pay taxes, just half of it don’t go to the army like in the USA. It’s not about paying more, it’s about knowing where that money should go first

    • @julienpastis3355
      @julienpastis3355 4 года назад +33

      Dee Dee exactly, just look at the budget of the us, health care and education are just a joke. How to kill the poor 101 and having dumb and easily manipulated youth... it’s scary

    • @frostbite3820
      @frostbite3820 4 года назад +4

      At the very least we need to stop the 700 to 1000% price gouging that would be a great start.

    • @alexmikhylov
      @alexmikhylov 4 года назад +1

      @@julienpastis3355 but it's the youth that advocates for universal healthcare and other social policies.

    • @dmannevada5981
      @dmannevada5981 4 года назад

      Under our progressive tax system, half the population doesn't pay federal taxes. Would that be true with Scandinavian or European countries...NO! The problem is not the military budget, the problem is that if people want to receive Health Care, like Scandinavians and Europeans, they're going to have to contribute to the system...hello!

    • @le4ieme
      @le4ieme 4 года назад +14

      @@dmannevada5981 under your progressive system, people die because they can't pay. We pay taxes that go back into healthcare, retirement plans. Everyone pays for everyone.
      It's cheaper to get a gun than to have a baby and you want to talk about a "progressive" system?
      Education must be f*cked up too then

  • @yourneighborhoodwierdo8349
    @yourneighborhoodwierdo8349 4 года назад +2336

    This shows how older American are brainwashed. Young Americans are awake. They will change things

    • @lydiabell6218
      @lydiabell6218 4 года назад +146

      Let's hope so. I am one of the "older" ones, but grew up and returned to my European home country. I have railed against the system in the US for decades.

    • @jasonbyrne8487
      @jasonbyrne8487 4 года назад +16

      I'm not sure you should excuse them that easily, everyone knows right from wrong, to not care about the more vulnerable members of your society just so you don't have to contribute shows that you are morally bankrupt, not and not deserving of your place within that society...

    • @technomewmew
      @technomewmew 4 года назад +4

      Just because it's free for everyone doesn't mean everyone gets it for everything when they need it. Take what my Dad got recently, a hip and a knee replacement. These are often rationed in free healthcare countries. Cataract surgeries also have a rationed waiting list. And others that aren't considered urgent enough. Look it up. Right now, my loved ones can get surgery when they need it. I get that eventually most people would likely get all the surgeries they need in a free healthcare system, but see the statistics (including the ones for people who have died waiting for free healthcare). In the UK for example, they aim not to let people wait over 18 weeks for a lot of things, but their waiting lists are full. I can't imagine waiting 4+ months for some of the things on their list. With free healthcare, there are sacrifices too. There is private healthcare there too, so once again, those who can afford to go private get treated faster than those who can't. But the cost of replacing one's hip privately seems to be about the same as paying for insurance + deductible in the US, but less if you get both hip and knee done in the same year.
      I get not everyone can get care here because they can't afford it. And something should definitely be done about that. There has to be a way where everyone gets what they need, but government-provided free healthcare doesn't seem to be it. If you read the horror stories about people desperately waiting for care from NHS because they can't afford to go private, how is that so different from people desperate for care they can't afford here?

    • @naedora0124
      @naedora0124 4 года назад +19

      @@technomewmew there is always a waiting list whenever it comes to the hospital whether it is a socialized system or privatized. But think of the bigger picture, drug manufacturers that profit an insane amount of money off the sick is not morally acceptable in my eyes. A socialized system will eliminate that and allow anyone to walk into clinics and hospitals without worrying about going into huge debt. Now think about those that are recently unemployed due to the coronavirus, they dont have a healthcare plan anymore. Which one is for the people more?

    • @weeman2873
      @weeman2873 4 года назад +22

      @@technomewmew so what you are saying is uk people pay the same amount to get a premium service as the us have to pay to get a standard service? the difference between uk and us right now is by having an option, in us if your are poor then you are straight up screwed and nothing you can do about it. but as a poor man i would have rather wait than nothing at all.

  • @Sooz007-l3b
    @Sooz007-l3b Год назад +17

    My daughter had a quadruple by-pass in Australia, which also has a national health service and it cost nothing either for the op or all the ongoing care. Just because there is no charge at the point of service doesn’t mean it’s free. We all pay a relevant tax, which is automatically taken from your pay. Just because there is no charge doesn’t mean people abuse the system. It means that if you are sick you can get all the help you need without worrying if you can afford it or if it will bankrupt you. Many medications are also subsidised by the government too, especially for people with chronic or life threatening illnesses. You get the help you need, which is decided on by your doctor/consultant, not what an insurance company decides they are prepared to pay for!

    • @fatherson5907
      @fatherson5907 Год назад

      Yet average household debt is lower in the US.
      Math is hard for you peasants 🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @dfdf-rj8jr
      @dfdf-rj8jr 4 месяца назад

      Nobody cares about Australia. Useless, irrelevant country.

  • @nitinpathak9982
    @nitinpathak9982 5 лет назад +1257

    We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
    ~ Plato

  • @AD-df5tm
    @AD-df5tm 5 лет назад +2192

    Let me sum this video up
    Old person: "I don't like everything about universal healthcare"
    Interviewer: "everything you 'know' about universal healthcare is wrong"
    Old person: "well. I'm still agaisnt it"

    • @shoelacy7101
      @shoelacy7101 5 лет назад +128

      Some people willfully ignore facts just so they can be "right"

    • @wilmaknickersfit
      @wilmaknickersfit 5 лет назад +62

      Spot on. When the woman said something along the lines of free things are not worth having, I thought she'll never understand the concept of universal health care provided by taxation. The basic problem is the differences in the personal taxation systems in the UK and USA. I'm glad I live in the UK.

    • @10aDowningStreet
      @10aDowningStreet 5 лет назад +51

      Ok boomers. Basically the only reason they don't like it is their own ignorance. Come ot the UK, you will struggle to meet anyone whe would rather scrap the NHS, other than conservative politicians who want to chop it all up and sell it to their billionaire friends .

    • @Kj16V
      @Kj16V 5 лет назад +16

      This sums up most old people's attitudes to everything.

    • @10aDowningStreet
      @10aDowningStreet 5 лет назад +4

      @@Kj16V Yep, and that is change = scary & bad

  • @elinnilsson6875
    @elinnilsson6875 4 года назад +2042

    ”They need to look for jobs that provides benefits.” Is like saying. ”The poor people just have to stop being poor.”

    • @makoaki9071
      @makoaki9071 4 года назад +94

      Let them eat cake.

    • @milomhoek
      @milomhoek 4 года назад +25

      @@makoaki9071 Qu'ils mangent de la brioche

    • @RuRaynor
      @RuRaynor 4 года назад +75

      I bet if you asked her "should employers be forced to provide healthcare benefits?", she'd say "absolutely not! I don't think the government should tell business owners what to do!"

    • @fajaradi1223
      @fajaradi1223 4 года назад +50

      isnt that obvious?
      if your homeless, just buy house
      If you jobless, just get a job

    • @ciarantc7881
      @ciarantc7881 4 года назад +44

      If you're depressed just stop being sad

  • @MightyJosh1985
    @MightyJosh1985 Год назад +15

    Here in Australia we pay 2% of our taxable income into Medicare. It covers everything from cut finger to full cancer treatment. Here is an example only recently in my home state of Queensland. A man got attacked at a boat ramp by a crocodile in a remote community. He got first aid by the Ranger who found him. A helicopter flight to Cairns hospital (The next big city) a 45min flight and full treatment that day. Zero cost to him other than his 2%

    • @colonelfustercluck486
      @colonelfustercluck486 7 месяцев назад +4

      same thing in New Zealand (minus the crocodiles!)

    • @dfdf-rj8jr
      @dfdf-rj8jr 4 месяца назад

      No one cares about Australia. Alright, mate?

    • @dancemaniaco
      @dancemaniaco 4 месяца назад

      Many want to live and work in the USA because consumer goods are accessible, in the rest of the world everything costs twice as much, due to taxes, in the USA the taxes are minimal, but for this reason the state does not protect you in anything!! !

    • @MightyJosh1985
      @MightyJosh1985 4 месяца назад

      @@dancemaniaco take it from an Australian. I have zero intention of living in America. Even with the higher cost of living. Our universal healthcare. Safe society with low crime. Near zero gun violence, Trumps a few cheap groceries

    • @alisonwilson9749
      @alisonwilson9749 Месяц назад

      @@dancemaniaco Twice as much? £4 for 30 eggs here today. How much in the USA?

  • @sharxx112
    @sharxx112 3 года назад +1280

    The fact that they said "best selling inhaler" just sums up the entire system

    • @timaustin2000
      @timaustin2000 3 года назад +25

      Yup! Inhalers in the UK are dispensed according to effectiveness and nothing else. The NHS sees a cheaper option that will do the exact same job to the exact same degree? You get that.

    • @nicbing2598
      @nicbing2598 3 года назад +1

      make a MEAL of it ..burger,fries & coke..a HAPPY MEAL ..KING SIZE..save 2 dollars !

    • @alundavies8402
      @alundavies8402 3 года назад

      @@timaustin2000 and that thing that they call economies of scale that would be why British people get expensive medicine for the nominal price unless they are disabled and can no longer work and then the medicine costs nada Nish nothing

    • @blessed_lana6965
      @blessed_lana6965 2 года назад +1

      Your health,
      Their wealth.

  • @squawkknife2582
    @squawkknife2582 4 года назад +2849

    Reporter: “What do you think if ambulances were free?” Person: “Sometimes if something is free, it’s better not to have it” Ok no ambulance for you then.

    • @Klaratchi
      @Klaratchi 4 года назад +116

      translation: I would rather you be dead

    • @natty5861
      @natty5861 4 года назад +2

      its not free in the uk im British

    • @loch502
      @loch502 4 года назад +105

      @@natty5861 Ambulances? I'm pretty sure they're free mate.

    • @5calambres
      @5calambres 4 года назад +97

      @@natty5861 What are you trying? That no British people are here to call you out? I am not a citizen of the UK and i still got free treatment in hospital after a accident.

    • @pluckybellhop66
      @pluckybellhop66 4 года назад +59

      We're so used to the high cost of healthcare that the idea of a free ambulance sounds too good to be true lol

  • @billpercy6354
    @billpercy6354 4 года назад +880

    British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was treated in the same ICU as a black student who didn’t have to pay for his/her treatment. The student can go on to live his/her life without healthcare debt. That’s ‘universal’ (not socialised) healthcare, and it’s an accepted concept in the civilised world.

    • @daverhoden445
      @daverhoden445 4 года назад +60

      This comment right here should be on 24-hour broadcast on every channel the US has access to.

    • @burntgod7165
      @burntgod7165 4 года назад +5

      This is not the concept in the civilized world. Most European health systems are insurance based, with some public funding. And they are ALL superior to the NHS according to the Euro Health Consumer Index. The Dutch always top the rankings. All their hospitals are privately run. Imagine the screeching in the UK if that were the case here. Germany too, where it's private/public funding that provides healthcare. These countries are more interested in a good health care system rather than some ideological, nostalgic tie to the past.

    • @babushkalol
      @babushkalol 4 года назад +75

      @@burntgod7165 Where did you get the info that Germanys hospitals are privately run and that the system is mostly private? I am German, and this is the first time I'm hearing this.

    • @oriontigley5089
      @oriontigley5089 4 года назад +19

      @@burntgod7165
      Would you please be so kind as to provide links to back up your claims, eh?

    • @burntgod7165
      @burntgod7165 4 года назад

      @@babushkalol I meant to say Dutch with regards hospitals, sorry. Dutch hospitals are run privately. I did not say the German system is mostly private, I said there is a combination. It's about 25% private (that means insurance-based), approx. If you mentioned an insurance-based system in UK, people would go nuts despite the best systems (like Germany) being either entirely insurance based or a combination of insurance and public funding.

  • @CCJJ160Channels
    @CCJJ160Channels 2 года назад +8

    You ever notice nations with socialized healthcare aren’t fighting to adopt the U.S. system?

    • @florendilhobbit2099
      @florendilhobbit2099 2 года назад

      Not Nations, but people within those Nations sometimes do. Usually the wealthy elites.

    • @fatherson5907
      @fatherson5907 2 года назад

      Yet they’re heavily depending on medical innovation from the US.

    • @Brozius2512
      @Brozius2512 2 года назад +4

      @@fatherson5907 US ranks 4th in medical innovation. Switzerland ranks #1, Germany ranks #2, Netherlands ranks #3.

    • @Brozius2512
      @Brozius2512 2 года назад +4

      @@fatherson5907 It must kill you that the US isn't number 1 in medical innovation anymore. 😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @florendilhobbit2099
      @florendilhobbit2099 2 года назад +1

      @@fatherson5907 You mean Like the Covid vaccine?

  • @Berek71182
    @Berek71182 4 года назад +5135

    American: "Do you like to pay taxes?"
    German: "Yes we do like to pay taxes. Do you like to die because you cannot afford treatment?"

    • @roguechevelle
      @roguechevelle 4 года назад +562

      Well to be honest those people saying that actually can afford the treatments they just don't care if no one else can or dies as result. They think lower class people just didn't work hard enough to afford it or are lazy, they have no sympathy for the less fortunate.

    • @organ66
      @organ66 4 года назад +217

      I would pay 100% taxes if the government provides me all stuff of my life.

    • @Eric-wu5ue
      @Eric-wu5ue 4 года назад +101

      @@organ66 thats.... called communism

    • @KossolaxtheForesworn
      @KossolaxtheForesworn 4 года назад +2

      *OOOOOOOOO* burn

    • @kevvilla6356
      @kevvilla6356 4 года назад +133

      @@Eric-wu5ue then you should return your stimulus check, hence that's a form of communism lol hahahahahaahah this republitards crack me up

  • @onlycorndog6322
    @onlycorndog6322 3 года назад +3353

    In Canada we don't say 'socialized' anything, it's just health care. Only Americans.

    • @Zlata1313
      @Zlata1313 3 года назад +137

      Exactly! We just complain about having to pay for parking at hospitals!

    • @MC-Racing
      @MC-Racing 3 года назад +102

      to be fair, Canada seems much more europeanized, and does not really belong anywhere near US :-)

    • @insideAdirtyMind
      @insideAdirtyMind 3 года назад +12

      call it free health care, everyone will be happy to get it

    • @MC-Racing
      @MC-Racing 3 года назад +83

      @@insideAdirtyMind did you not hear the lady, if its free its not worth having.. Only in USA.. Im glad i have taxfunded healthcare

    • @SpennyBoi
      @SpennyBoi 3 года назад +11

      @@MC-Racing you could die in a car to the hospital but in an ambulance to the hospital they take care of you... my blood is boiling by you saying ambulances are bad.

  • @sandramariaca78
    @sandramariaca78 5 лет назад +1167

    Older people and non urban communities need to be more informed about the reality of healthcare in the USA. Also, to that woman who said people should find jobs with benefits, she needs to show us where are those employers.

    • @silverpairaducks
      @silverpairaducks 5 лет назад +23

      This is why we need to take away their rights

    • @shersmk90
      @shersmk90 5 лет назад +73

      That woman is sooo dumb... rich and dumb...

    • @tacobellcall911
      @tacobellcall911 5 лет назад +14

      Every full-time job I've ever had gave me benefits and Costco gives you benefits part time . But it still should be free

    • @jaredmackey4511
      @jaredmackey4511 5 лет назад +6

      Sandra Mariaca I think everyone realizes healthcare sucks here, however, I still don’t want to work to pay for someone else’s care. I work to give my family what they need

    • @shersmk90
      @shersmk90 5 лет назад +81

      @@jaredmackey4511 So if you need a transplant of blood or organs and you can't getting it from your family, you decline?

  • @christo123
    @christo123 Год назад +10

    The old lady in red was a real piece of work

  • @LilyShimizu
    @LilyShimizu 5 лет назад +773

    “I don’t want the government picking what I can and cannot do.” Okay but you want private insurers to do the same thing instead??

    • @shellieeyre8758
      @shellieeyre8758 4 года назад +63

      And at higher cost!

    • @DarthRayj
      @DarthRayj 4 года назад +2

      @Yoster Schnauss I have pretty decent state insurance because of where I live and how much I (don't) make, and I have so much more choice and opportunity for healthcare than I did when I was under my dad's insurance it's crazy- oh yeah, my dad works in healthcare so he has always had "good" insurance too.

    • @edwardjames6023
      @edwardjames6023 4 года назад +1

      True

    • @edwardjames6023
      @edwardjames6023 4 года назад +1

      @@DarthRayj That's scary, but it is because doctors recieve more money and bonuses for taking in people with government insurance, so a lot of them leave their doors open

    • @Andrew-it7fb
      @Andrew-it7fb 4 года назад +1

      @@edwardjames6023 that's definitely not the case in the US with medicare. Doctors receive less from medicare.

  • @impossibleThinqs
    @impossibleThinqs 4 года назад +1383

    “if it’s free, it’s not worth having” - that woman strikes me as one to currently protest their rights of “freedom”.

    • @peterbense5650
      @peterbense5650 4 года назад +29

      Hopefully she's out marching right now.

    • @Gone1229
      @Gone1229 4 года назад +62

      It shows how good the american brainwashing works.

    • @leophyte9663
      @leophyte9663 4 года назад +31

      @@Gone1229 Nah, Trump getting elected shows how good the american brainwashing works

    • @triciasimpson8054
      @triciasimpson8054 4 года назад +12

      Just to clarify it is not free it is paid for out of taxation, it is free at the point if delivery there is a difference, also the tax contribution is considerably cheaper than insurance.

    • @90AlmostFamous
      @90AlmostFamous 4 года назад +3

      Wonder what will she say if she won a million dollars lottery 🤣

  • @nottiification
    @nottiification 4 года назад +2472

    There are 2 camps.
    1. People who support socialized medicine
    2. People who dont understand socialized medicine.

    • @fatherson5907
      @fatherson5907 4 года назад +30

      There are 2 camps.
      1. People who understand that other people may have different opinions.
      2. Fascists

    • @nottiification
      @nottiification 4 года назад +40

      @@fatherson5907 qoward.

    • @Brozius2512
      @Brozius2512 4 года назад +86

      @@nottiification Don't bother, Father son is a troll.

    • @seybertooth9282
      @seybertooth9282 4 года назад +137

      3. People who actually have it and call it what it is: "public healthcare".
      This whole "socialized" nonsense is just to scare 'Muricans to think it's "communism" cause "socialized" sounds a bit like "socialism".
      How I wish I was kidding.

    • @fatherson5907
      @fatherson5907 4 года назад +3

      @@seybertooth9282 I had it for several years under the NHS. It was garbage care, carried out by completely incompetent providers. You’re just obsessed with the US because you’re an insecure coward whose parents did a poor job raising him to have self esteem.

  • @huha47
    @huha47 Год назад +4

    I've been living in Europe for 30+ years, part of our earnings goes for both pension & health care. For any prescription I pay €6,85. Several years ago, I developed asthma, was at the highest level of medication, had problems in regulating my breathing, received a new therapy, which is a shot costing over €3,400/shot. In the first year 7 of them, then every two months, & over time reduced now to 3x a year, my cost €6.85/shot. I had an asthma attacks in Italy, was treated at an emergency room, paid even less for some meds, received no extra costs for the treatment in my home country.
    My wife had a double transplantation at one time, paid a little bit for the meals, that was it. We could not imagine what it would cost for her meds that she needs to live. No cost for our daughter's birth.
    One can always pay extra for private insurance, same as in Canada, and have both coverages. Unless one lives it, you will never know. I also have excellent doctors.
    Socialized medicine was our debate topic in 1964 throughout the US, still nothing's done. Health care is a right!

    • @Brozius2512
      @Brozius2512 Год назад

      Don't bother, Father son is a liar and a troll. He's a butt hurt American who can't stand that other countries have it better than the US.

  • @Axel-yb3vd
    @Axel-yb3vd 3 года назад +2313

    "Anything that's free, sometimes it's not worth having."
    Ma'am it's an ambulance ride not a cheap cookie sample

    • @TheManwithaview
      @TheManwithaview 3 года назад +185

      Ma'am, would you liek this life saving treatment, it's free?
      No thanks because it's free it's not worth having.
      Machine starts to flatline beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep
      Oh well another dead Republican...

    • @chinggiskhan6678
      @chinggiskhan6678 3 года назад +22

      @@TheManwithaview This has probably happened.

    • @TheManwithaview
      @TheManwithaview 3 года назад +12

      @@chinggiskhan6678 Sadly, I agree

    • @Dougiewoof
      @Dougiewoof 3 года назад +36

      Well I guess there goes free public (libraries, School /school transportation, parks, services like fire and satiation, and the hundreds of other things paid for by taxes)

    • @TheManwithaview
      @TheManwithaview 3 года назад +24

      @@Dougiewoof I ask people if they vote, yes I vote, who do you thank for your right to vote? Silence. Socialists that's who. More silence....

  • @kookookat7182
    @kookookat7182 4 года назад +1772

    anybody else notice that the older generation were the only ones who were reluctant about the idea of free health care? Lets hope that mean newer generation will step up and make health care better for future generations.

    • @samanthapeters8314
      @samanthapeters8314 4 года назад +110

      A millennial American told me before social media Americans didn't understand universal health care. But when social media came along people (mostly young) in America have been able to talk to other countries about universal health care.

    • @kookookat7182
      @kookookat7182 4 года назад +85

      @@samanthapeters8314 I am a millennial American and I can confirm this! I didn't know free health care was a thing until my mid 20's, so I can see how many Americans go about their lives never hearing about it. We aren't educated on how other countries are run or what policies they enforce, so it's easy to to just go about life assuming that this was normal for the rest of the world. Unless you seek out the information yourself, you're not likely to hear anything about it. I'm happy to see awareness being brought up about it though! Hopefully that means change is around the corner.

    • @rasmusjensen8271
      @rasmusjensen8271 4 года назад +16

      @@kookookat7182 another shocker, where I'm from the minimum wage for a 16 year old is a bit over $10 and if you work in the weekend it's about $13-14 or more.
      The highest I was ever offered at 16 was $16/h for doing dishes at a local restaurant/hotel

    • @kookookat7182
      @kookookat7182 4 года назад +14

      @@rasmusjensen8271 !!!!! What the heck! When I was 16 I worked multiple jobs as a cashier and never got paid over $7.35/h! When I got older I got a job in an animal hospital helping run the kennel and even that only paid $9/h. I worked there for two years and never got any sort of raise or benefits. Quit and went to a different kennel and they gave me $10 for having previous experience, worked there another two years and still never got a raise and benefits were only offered if you worked a certain number of hours. So in the coarse of 4 years in a job field, I have only been able to gain $1 an hour.... You are blessed my dude. I'd gladly wash dishes for $16/h!

    • @rasmusjensen8271
      @rasmusjensen8271 4 года назад +12

      @@kookookat7182 we also only pay 8% Tax on the first $4700 or there about. Once you're 18 you earn about $19/h or more depending on the job(and that's uneducated jobs like cashier, waiter, barista). Once you're 18 and study the government gives you aid. When I went to our version of college I got $890 a month from the government just for studying, I lived by myself and therefore got more than my friends who lived at home, depending on their parents income they got around $100-300.

  • @mravina1614
    @mravina1614 3 года назад +1483

    I live in a 3rd world country and we have socialised medicine. My mom had cancer and all her treatment was free. She's now cancer free and receiving immunotherapy also free. Try to take that away and people will come to the streets and strike.

    • @maevewinters1392
      @maevewinters1392 3 года назад +48

      That’s so great to hear! Aw go your mum, what a warrior!

    • @llamapartyy
      @llamapartyy 3 года назад +59

      not in America, it's become so normalized that no one questions it. I mean they made a whole show about it (breaking bad) 🤷‍♂️

    • @dmitrizaslavski8480
      @dmitrizaslavski8480 3 года назад +3

      Which country?

    • @fatherson5907
      @fatherson5907 3 года назад +1

      @@llamapartyy so why is cancer survival rate higher in the Us than any other country? I bet Michael Moore didn’t tell you that, eh inbred?

    • @RR-us2kp
      @RR-us2kp 3 года назад +87

      @@fatherson5907 cancer survival rate is high because only a handful of people with cancer and enough money actually gets healthcare in US. Most people can't afford healthcare. And even people that can afford it don't bother if their survival rate is low.
      In our country you get cancer treatment for everyone for free and doesn't matter if the chances of survival are high or low.

  • @blauer_Hase
    @blauer_Hase 11 дней назад +2

    She doesn’t want the government “peeking,” but she’s okay with private, unaccountable companies doing the same? You have less to fear from government than you do from corporate America. The government is the people.

  • @crookedpaths6612
    @crookedpaths6612 5 лет назад +785

    I bet if you changed the word “government” to “church” the old lady would be all for it.

    • @ravik007ggn
      @ravik007ggn 5 лет назад +18

      Oh, Jeysus Christ, yes ( I know it is spelled Jesus).

    • @crookedpaths6612
      @crookedpaths6612 5 лет назад +8

      @@ravik007ggn Actually it's closer to Yeshua.
      The 'J' sound was not in the language.

    • @aycc-nbh7289
      @aycc-nbh7289 5 лет назад +1

      Kawerau Woods I’d like that better as well. While having a large group would mean that insurance rates for the collective would be lower, having too large of a group would complicate database management and introduce greater data security risks, with the data obtained as an aggregate being more valuable than it would be otherwise. Add in the fact that the government is usually too divided to make these decisions, leaving pretty much everything run by them vastly underfunded, and you have a recipe for disaster with the oven set at the Planck temperature for an eternity, with our congressmen at the dinner table. Plus, you would personally know the people who would run that system and would be able to directly contact them with questions, but those who’d run the state-run alternative would be no-name bureaucrats who’d want everything in triplicate.

    • @linkofvev
      @linkofvev 5 лет назад

      @Jackie Tearie Also with xmas (the apparently offensive to christians way of saying christmas) "X" comes from the Greek letter Chi, which is the first letter of the Greek word Christós (Χριστός), which became Christ in English.

  • @tashazalinski5250
    @tashazalinski5250 4 года назад +893

    “No society can legitimately call itself civilised if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means.”

    • @karlwalters3763
      @karlwalters3763 4 года назад +9

      Well said.

    • @jedrzejjanuszowicz9678
      @jedrzejjanuszowicz9678 4 года назад +1

      So you gonna force a doctor to work because someone has a right to his labour?

    • @MoogleMoger
      @MoogleMoger 4 года назад +4

      @@jedrzejjanuszowicz9678 doctors quit in Venezuela to become taxi drivers because they made to little lol

    • @Arkaelis
      @Arkaelis 4 года назад +49

      @@jedrzejjanuszowicz9678 Doctors are still getting paid you know? That's what universal healthcare does. Everyone pays into a fund and that fund is used to compensate medical staff and pharmaceutical companies.
      You thinks companies like Bayer exist because no one in Germany pays them for medicine?

    • @BigAlCapwn
      @BigAlCapwn 4 года назад +23

      @@jedrzejjanuszowicz9678 What if I told you that most of the civilised world had already developed a system whereby the healthcare is free at the point of use to its citizens, but also pays the doctors for providing it! I know this must sound like witchcraft to you, who it appears can't understand anything more complicated than the barter system.

  • @TheOrlandoTrustfull
    @TheOrlandoTrustfull 4 года назад +453

    "Sometimes anything that is free, is not worth having"
    That woman just wants to be right. She would rather drive herself to hospital with two broken legs, than get a free ambulance ride? Get the f**k out of here.

    • @gratver
      @gratver 4 года назад +31

      Seems like a legit Trump voter to me tbh. ;)

    • @nmdsy
      @nmdsy 4 года назад

      Sometimes social healthcare can be a pain in not-so-rich countries. In my country people whine about long queue lines and the quality of provided healthcare all the time, but honestly I would still choose it over the way its done in the USA.

    • @dfdf-rj8jr
      @dfdf-rj8jr 4 месяца назад

      Adjusted for purchasing power parity, which includes cost of healthcare, USA has the highest median income in the world

  • @geoffbarker8402
    @geoffbarker8402 2 года назад +9

    I love how you managed to interview every boomer in my hometown at the same time.

    • @megapangolin1093
      @megapangolin1093 Год назад

      Boomers should want free healthcare, you end up using it a lot when you get older.. That old woman hasn't had to call in her insurance big time, wait until she does.

  • @Lenny-ue8hk
    @Lenny-ue8hk 4 года назад +751

    "they need to look for jobs that provide benefits"
    not very easy when companies actively try to avoid having to provide those benefits.

    • @lizcollinson2692
      @lizcollinson2692 4 года назад +71

      I gotta admit, it defeated me when I found that a paramedic didn't get healthcare from his job.

    • @glens18account
      @glens18account 4 года назад +38

      But what about all the people who have jobs that don;t provide healthcare? You know only so many jobs are available. What is she really saying, that every job which cannot pay or enough or provide you with healthcare should just stop existing?

    • @dougowt
      @dougowt 4 года назад +22

      And millions of Americans just lost their jobs over the last couple of months. That woman has been brainwashed by the BS coming from some of the bought senate and tax-dodging billionaire owned media

    • @James-yk3hk
      @James-yk3hk 4 года назад +10

      Admittedly this was like 10 years ago I learnt this so it may have changed, but I remember in school we had a lesson about the american insurance system for healthcare. We watched some documentary about it and there were people whos literal jobs was to find loopholes in your insurance policy so the company didn't have to give you the treatment you were paying the insurance for. So even if you work covers your insurance you still might not be in the clear lol

    • @kornkernel2232
      @kornkernel2232 4 года назад +3

      It seems like she got a job that provide those benefits and now blind what the reality is. Maybe directly benefiting from this system and prefer to stay with this status quo. Or just plain blissfully ignorant and hard headed.
      Seriously, not everybody has the same privileges and opportunities in life. Not everybody can get that job that offers those benefits, and there are many companies seems actively avoiding paying it as well.
      Her mentality is simply pure selfish.

  • @mollyonyxbox
    @mollyonyxbox 4 года назад +799

    If it’s free it’s “not worth having” lmao what does that even mean? Ambulances are free in the uk and they are definitely worth having

    • @readmylisp
      @readmylisp 4 года назад +66

      She's been brainwashed ..murican is best .....even though she has no idea how other countries operate health care.

    • @Charlotte-wx4jz
      @Charlotte-wx4jz 4 года назад +30

      That lady is also the one that said she was still for individual medical care when they compared the price of prescriptions in the UK and the US. Like she was proving a point 🤦🏻‍♀️🤣

    • @iplaygames8090
      @iplaygames8090 4 года назад +10

      Shes onto smthing. Her organs are free maybe she could geve em away.......

    • @andrewmirror4611
      @andrewmirror4611 4 года назад +5

      I mean, in Russia we also have tax paid healthcare, and it's like... the worst, it is related to our government being so corrupt and incapable, they don't pay doctors enough, they don't provide hospitals with essentials, during this pandemic almost all hospitals reported of not having even surgical masks, and they are being opressed by the government because they report. But from an outside view, if someone wanted to create a narrative of Russia - bad, We - good, it could seem like "it's free, but it's not worth having"
      On the other hand seeing the US establishment politicians, I would expect that if suddenly they implemented a tax paid healthcare, it would go by the same path it went for Russia, and would be not worth being for free.
      In Russia we seriously don't go to hospital unless we are literally dying. Not because we are afraid of costs, but because we are afraid of not getting any help, or even requiring even more healthcare because of that healthcare

    • @readmylisp
      @readmylisp 4 года назад +3

      @@andrewmirror4611 Are you sure you're Russian ?
      You command of English is impressive.

  • @farisfaikar_r
    @farisfaikar_r 4 года назад +1864

    "Anything that's free is not worth having."
    Well oxygen is free so its not worth having it I guess

    • @Vinkie
      @Vinkie 4 года назад +32

      It's not exactly free, when your socioeconomic status in part determines the quality of the air you breathe, and the complications you get as a result.

    • @MrMerzi007
      @MrMerzi007 4 года назад +4

      Yo Karen had interview

    • @petermirtitsch1235
      @petermirtitsch1235 4 года назад +11

      @@Vinkie except it doesn't. Under the NHS everyone gets the same level of care. You can still go private if you want to.

    • @TobyBanci
      @TobyBanci 4 года назад +15

      Kardz22 we pay the same amount of taxes as USA but our taxes go to nhs, yours goes to trump’s golf trips

    • @jomc20
      @jomc20 4 года назад +6

      Healthcare is not free because everyone earning over $15000 pays for it through tax ('National Insurance') but it is far cheaper than in the US because almost every operation is paid for regardless of cost. ER, ambulance, blood tests, hospital visits are all free. Doctors do not have a vested jnterest in keeping you sick or doing unnecessary operations, either. Having a baby costs nothing extra.

  • @todglenn2707
    @todglenn2707 5 месяцев назад +4

    The US does not have a healthcare system. It has a for-profit insurance system that occasionally provides healthcare as an afterthought.

    • @fatherson5907
      @fatherson5907 5 месяцев назад

      Then why does it have the highest cancer survival rates?

    • @SandfordSmythe
      @SandfordSmythe 4 месяца назад +1

      ​@@fatherson5907One metric?

    • @fatherson5907
      @fatherson5907 4 месяца назад

      @@SandfordSmythelow wait times, best hospitals, best doctors, best research institutions, most medical innovation, etc.

    • @fatherson5907
      @fatherson5907 4 месяца назад

      @@SandfordSmythe oh look, you ran away
      Shocker 🤣🤣🤣

    • @dfdf-rj8jr
      @dfdf-rj8jr 4 месяца назад +2

      Adjusted for purchasing power parity, which includes cost of healthcare, USA has the highest median income in the world

  • @nicoledreamcr4666
    @nicoledreamcr4666 4 года назад +412

    Other countries : Healthcare
    *America : Wealthcare*

  • @gemmal8110
    @gemmal8110 4 года назад +2643

    "anything that's free is sometimes not worth having"
    An ambulance taking you to the hospital for free....
    Erm...

    • @RipMinner
      @RipMinner 4 года назад +102

      Right. Like your not going to suddenly not want a Ambulance just because everyone can get one with out bankruptcy. lol

    • @sarahnoia3495
      @sarahnoia3495 4 года назад +174

      I guess the air she us breathing is not worth having then, since it's free xD

    • @florindamehmeti3336
      @florindamehmeti3336 4 года назад +132

      She hated it that the uk system is better than the us

    • @xetinc5356
      @xetinc5356 4 года назад +49

      @@florindamehmeti3336 even African systems are better than us

    • @MysticalAdventurer21
      @MysticalAdventurer21 4 года назад +16

      in slovakia ambulance takes you to hospital for free, but you will be propably dead till it arrives :D :D

  • @KesselRunner606
    @KesselRunner606 4 года назад +567

    "I don't want the guv'ment telling me what I can to can't do."
    I have the sneaking suspicion she has no idea what socialised health care is.

    • @jgdooley2003
      @jgdooley2003 4 года назад +18

      Probably thinks a state doctor will be dictating what she can or cannot do with her life, like prohibition of alcohol. tobacco fatty foods etc, sugar taxes and extra tax on bad health habits etc..

    • @nerdletter3773
      @nerdletter3773 4 года назад +4

      John Dooley Honestly, looking around the people in my country, I actually wouldn’t be surprised if a doctor refused to give treatment because of that. It genuinely shocks me at times how selfish so many people here are.

    • @revanruler6404
      @revanruler6404 4 года назад +16

      probably still thnks communists eat babies too. Old americans have been brainwashed to the point that they cannot define communism like a normal person

    • @autumntriesthings
      @autumntriesthings 4 года назад +1

      I seriously can’t wait for these ignorant boomers to die

    • @kornkernel2232
      @kornkernel2232 4 года назад

      That's and understatement. Also hard headed as well since she is refusing to budge at all, and stand her ground no matter how brittle it is. Just so that she can't eat up her own ego.
      Seriously, government has the responsibility to take care of its citizens and that included better health care system. Which is a basic things that we humans need. The healthier and more alive citizens are, the more consumers and productive workers that country have, the better economy and wealth. Don't take care of your own people, expect shithole.

  • @KeithOram-d8q
    @KeithOram-d8q 17 дней назад +2

    “No society can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means.”
    "Illness is neither an indulgence for which people have to pay, nor an offence for which they should be penalised, but a misfortune, the cost of which should be shared by the community."
    These two quotes from Aneurin Bevan who helped set up the NHS in Clement Atlee's Labour government paid for out of taxes. It tells all you need to know about how healthcare should be organised. It should never be a for profit industry in which insurers make huge profits whilst trying manfully to find ways to not pay up for essential healthcare.

    • @fatherson5907
      @fatherson5907 16 дней назад

      The NHS is third world garbage and you’re too uneducated to understand what the word “free” means 🤣🤣

    • @Brozius2512
      @Brozius2512 4 дня назад

      Don't bother, fatherson is an American troll who cannot stand that other countries have it better than the US.

  • @codswallop321
    @codswallop321 3 года назад +2200

    Well, to prove the point, I'm British and had to look up the word "copay"

    • @camylleouellet4296
      @camylleouellet4296 3 года назад +92

      I’m canadian and I had too!😆

    • @lelushdsilva9200
      @lelushdsilva9200 3 года назад +27

      Me as well lol

    • @susannah8342
      @susannah8342 3 года назад +36

      I would love to know what that is, I've never heard that term before

    • @jameslees7103
      @jameslees7103 3 года назад +61

      @@susannah8342 Another brit here also wondering what that is and how a good chunk of Americans are so ignorant and assume they have the best

    • @chrystla891
      @chrystla891 3 года назад +2

      same

  • @danielburdett8200
    @danielburdett8200 5 лет назад +991

    Can we all just agree, the woman in the red is nuts.

    • @jacobdesigns8241
      @jacobdesigns8241 5 лет назад +72

      agreed. She's extremely closed minded and is defo a Trump lover lmao

    • @twattusbobble9845
      @twattusbobble9845 5 лет назад +14

      I just wrote a full comment myself before seeing yours and realising I could have just given you the thumbs up!

    • @star1923
      @star1923 5 лет назад +1

      May be, but thats just her own issue.

    • @themousemage
      @themousemage 5 лет назад +43

      @@star1923 Sadly it's not, because she is a voter, and she is basing her votes on ignorance and a fundamental refusal to educate herself. She is part of the problem.

    • @tblack21
      @tblack21 5 лет назад +3

      Yes. I feel we can. Lol

  • @wdpm6424
    @wdpm6424 4 года назад +527

    The question “Have you ever avoided healthcare due to the cost?” Should not be something that can be asked in any developed nation... It shows which government takes care of its citizens

    • @lincolnduke
      @lincolnduke 4 года назад

      The government does not care about it's citizens, and it's incredibly stupid to rely on that it should. You dont rely on the provider of any other service to work for you because it really cares about you.

    • @jakemitchell7786
      @jakemitchell7786 4 года назад +46

      @@lincolnduke I suppose you build your own roads then, have never gotten public education, have never received any form of welfare, have never gotten services from a corporation that receives grants (which includes pretty much all health insurance companies), have never required a 911 service or law enforcement in any fashion (also never been near any as they act as deterrents),have never used products from a subsidised industry(e.g. agriculture), have never used any consumer, tenant, citizen rights laws (basically have to live in the middle of nowhere, growing your own food, building your own house, crafting your own clothes since those are all gov't regulated), never been in a building designed to comply with gov't safety standards, etc.
      You're pathetic.

    • @dagamingbeast8327
      @dagamingbeast8327 4 года назад +7

      @@jakemitchell7786 LOLLLLLL you tell him bro

    • @ashddd
      @ashddd 4 года назад +18

      @@lincolnduke the whole point of a democratic government IS LITERALLY to care about you. That is the job description.

    • @henrikfitch4017
      @henrikfitch4017 4 года назад +2

      @@lincolnduke Who cares more about you. A country that relies on people's well being to be able to fund it or a business that only wants to increase profit?

  • @jadexplores2100
    @jadexplores2100 2 года назад +17

    This is a huge part of the reason why I am considering moving abroad. As an American I make a decent salary but I can’t retire early because I would not be able to afford health insurance so as long as I’m living here I need to continue working for employer sponsored health insurance. At least until Medicaid kicks in in my 60s. I want to have at least some years to work a job I want to work, not to have to work a certain kind of job because of the insurance tied to it. I know there is no perfect system, but I would much rather pay higher taxes than deal with the possibility of 6-9 figures of medical debt destroying an entire life’s worth of savings which happens to SO many Americans here. I’m 43 now; pray for me that I can move abroad (likely to Europe) one day.

    • @ProtocolAbyss
      @ProtocolAbyss 2 года назад +4

      If you haven’t moved already I’d recommend countries like: Switzerland, Norway, Germany, the UK and Sweden. All generally have decent to perfect English speakers and have outstanding healthcare.

    • @jadexplores2100
      @jadexplores2100 2 года назад

      @@ProtocolAbyss Thank you. I haven't moved yet but honestly the country I was considering is Portugal. Although I will look into the others you have mentioned. I have a very sick parent now that is disabled and doesn't have savings or insurance (they're in a very bad nursing home) so I've been trying to navigate that situation most of this year and it's been extremely challenging. Wherever I move to, it has to be somewhere I can afford to place a full-time caregiver in the home with my mom and I as I can't afford it here in the US. I spoke to a few agencies in Portugal and they were able to give me good costs for placing full-time in-home (actual live in) care, so this is currently my biggest consideration for moving. Thanks for your response.

    • @ProtocolAbyss
      @ProtocolAbyss 2 года назад +2

      @@jadexplores2100 Oh those were ones off the top of my head. Others I’d include on the list would also be Italy, Spain, France, Portugal and Canada too. And also no worries, I hope your family gets better and that you guys will be okay!
      I hope other there in Portugal you and your mum will do well, take care!

    • @jadexplores2100
      @jadexplores2100 2 года назад

      @@ProtocolAbyss Thank you so much!

    • @EmmaPlayzRoblox
      @EmmaPlayzRoblox Год назад

      @@ProtocolAbyss I don't know if you still respond to comments, but would New Zealand be an ideal place to move as well? I'm thinking about moving there.

  • @patwestrope4468
    @patwestrope4468 3 года назад +2137

    The two older women who astonishingly believed that the costs would be higher under a public health care system show that their position is based on thinking the facts are the exact opposite of what they actually are.

    • @auntisthenes2754
      @auntisthenes2754 3 года назад +49

      OPinions based on opinions. My system is the best ergo, ther's something wrong with another model

    • @RaXXha
      @RaXXha 3 года назад +102

      That blew my mind, I don't get how someone would think it would cost the individual MORE in a system where everyone contributes. xD

    • @biblemademedoit
      @biblemademedoit 3 года назад +35

      They have been brainwashed to believe these programs will cost them more.

    • @markc1548
      @markc1548 3 года назад +54

      Most Americans can't afford an Ambulance to a hospital or regular medication because their health system charges more than almost any country in the world, So the people believe the thousands of dollars it costs just to be a member of the private system will rise to pay for everyone else currently not in the system.
      What helos make a good health system affordable is stopping drug companies selling $1 medicines for $1,000, or charging thousands of dollars for an xray that cost just a few dollars.
      Just compare the prices of operations in America with BETTER hospitals in other countries and look at the price difference.
      They need regulation to stop hospitals overcharging

    • @jaydenmccowan5743
      @jaydenmccowan5743 3 года назад +21

      So Fox News then

  • @Austrianman11
    @Austrianman11 4 года назад +776

    "The individuals need to be responsible." - Lady hit it on the nose, just decide cancer is not gonna come to your town and your good. Easy as that

    • @km-kl3lg
      @km-kl3lg 4 года назад +5

      😂😂😂

    • @davidlazarus67
      @davidlazarus67 4 года назад +20

      Mario Moser It’s like the tornadoes are God’s punishment for something or other. Fortunately if the Corona virus were to get a foot hold in the USA it would bankrupt so many people at once that Medicare for all becomes inevitable.

    • @kingtut7213
      @kingtut7213 4 года назад +11

      David Lazarus My thoughts exactly. What happens when people who rely on their jobs for their health care plans of themselves and their children start losing them due to the hit the economy will take or isolation measures? Maybe Americans will finally realise the predatory system they are subject to. As sad as it is, I think, and I hope, great change is coming in the US due to the virus, which will spouse these corrupt systems.

    • @davidlazarus67
      @davidlazarus67 4 года назад +1

      king tut I also think that so many will also discover that their unemployment insurance programs are unfit for purpose with the vast majority failing to qualify under the rules that have been voted for that even unemployment benefits will come under the spotlight.

    • @gamer3d147
      @gamer3d147 4 года назад

      Mario Moser look, cancer can be preventable, most people with cancer, not saying that it can all be preventable, many people have it because they weren’t responsible with their life choices. Too much sun, wine, meat, inorganic stuff.

  • @godamid4889
    @godamid4889 3 года назад +701

    Such a weird mentality to think that universal health care is an infringement of personal choice. You gotta shake your head at some Americans.

    • @paulthomson9014
      @paulthomson9014 3 года назад +45

      I remember speaking to an American who thought being allowed to have a gun and use it because it was their constitutional right was more important than free health care . The mind boggles .

    • @godamid4889
      @godamid4889 3 года назад +3

      @Justin Y. No one made everyone use public healthcare, so it's just another weird take on it.

    • @TheManwithaview
      @TheManwithaview 3 года назад +2

      @Justin Y. No one is saying abolish private health care. Therefore your argument is false.

    • @TheManwithaview
      @TheManwithaview 3 года назад

      @Justin Y. want to what? I had private health care on various jobs. Never cost me a dime.

    • @TheManwithaview
      @TheManwithaview 3 года назад

      @Justin Y. Such as?

  • @whittark111
    @whittark111 2 года назад +36

    I love how the guy who does have access to healthcare asks "do you want to pay taxes (so others can access healthcare)?" Actually, yes I do. Many of us are privileged to live as well as we do. With privilege comes responsibility. And healthcare shouldn't be a privilege. It's a right.

    • @fatherson5907
      @fatherson5907 2 года назад

      So why aren’t you voluntarily paying extra taxes?
      You’re just an entitled Karen. Declaring something a right doesn’t magically make it free.
      Pay your own bills, KAREN.

    • @gabrielflaubert5881
      @gabrielflaubert5881 2 года назад +1

      You don't need the government to ask more taxes from you, right now you can go and donate 50% of your salary to charity every month. What's stopping your sOLiDaRitY?

    • @whittark111
      @whittark111 2 года назад +2

      @@gabrielflaubert5881 drama-rama. no one is taking 50% of US paychecks.

    • @wmoros4902
      @wmoros4902 Год назад +7

      The funniest part of it all is that the taxes for healthcare in most countries is miles less than paying for insurance, so no matter what you are still losing more money to get treatment in america insurance or not

    • @dfdf-rj8jr
      @dfdf-rj8jr 4 месяца назад +1

      Adjusted for purchasing power parity, which includes cost of healthcare, USA has the highest median income in the world

  • @chrisparti
    @chrisparti 3 года назад +1543

    The thing that stands out for me, is that a lot of Americans think it couldn't work, as if it doesn't already exist and work in many other countries in the world.

    • @flo6119
      @flo6119 3 года назад +41

      And it is funny, that there are no far right parties, who want to change the health Care system in Europe, but in the US, it is nearly communism.😂

    • @judithschuttevaar8451
      @judithschuttevaar8451 3 года назад +7

      They are in the Netherlands! The out of pocket payment for example. The first 250 euros you have to pay yourself. And if you every visit the Netherlands and you break something don't directly go to the ER. They will give you a ticket of 50 euros. You will have to contact the hospital (desk) first to go see a GP.

    • @boxtradums0073
      @boxtradums0073 3 года назад +6

      @@judithschuttevaar8451 ik heb mijn rug gebroken in Nederland en gelukkig had it mijn EHIC card dus heeft ede NHS alles voor me betaald.

    • @oasis4life014
      @oasis4life014 3 года назад +14

      77 years in britian 💙💙🇬🇧🇬🇧💙💙🇬🇧🇬🇧💙💙

    • @judithschuttevaar8451
      @judithschuttevaar8451 3 года назад

      @@boxtradums0073 mooi :) het verschilt per situatie. Een vriendin van mij ging met een gebroken arm naar de eerste hulp. Ze kreeg een waarschuwing, omdat ze eigenlijk eerst naar de huisarts moest 😅

  • @Daniel-qo9tg
    @Daniel-qo9tg 4 года назад +2179

    USA: "Land of the Free?" No no.. "Land of the Fee"

    • @Joshua-go4vz
      @Joshua-go4vz 4 года назад +16

      The r is silent like the ueue in queue

    • @Jeg898
      @Jeg898 4 года назад +1

      😂😂😂 Nice.

    • @generaltech512
      @generaltech512 4 года назад +4

      I am from Sweden and I can tell you that this video is misleading. Socialized medicine always end up failing and brings the quality of hospitals and clinics down. Many people end up paying for private health care because the standards are always higher. The UK is a prime example of failed socialized healthcare, it is literally one of the worst in all of Europe. You get what you pay for in this case. Also the low income earners are the people who pay the highest percentage in taxes under these type of governments.

    • @dripmass
      @dripmass 4 года назад +6

      @@generaltech512 The reason our healthcare is bad is caused by outdated buildings, equipment, safety measures, low salary, capacity, workers, lack of nurses, and the long queue caused by all of this.

    • @Perfectcrime87
      @Perfectcrime87 4 года назад +10

      What? The land of the free? Whoever told you that is your enemy.

  • @jacob9673
    @jacob9673 4 года назад +952

    “Uhhh sometimes anything that’s free is not worth having”
    Oh yeah? Like the cops? How about firefighters?
    Trying to sound wise doesn’t make you wise.

    • @georgobergfell
      @georgobergfell 4 года назад +54

      How about roads?

    • @MrLucky3576
      @MrLucky3576 4 года назад +49

      Strange since the word "Freedom" has the word "Free" in it.

    • @williamtharp6049
      @williamtharp6049 4 года назад

      So are your emergency services non profits?

    • @alyorkie6
      @alyorkie6 4 года назад +18

      @@williamtharp6049 In the UK They're paid for by taxes, like any civilised country

    • @TheInsaneupsdriver
      @TheInsaneupsdriver 4 года назад +3

      at the end of the 19th century, you used to have to pay firefighters before they'd put out the fire at your house! the U.S. has to be the slowest industrialized nation to evolve on earth.

  • @KeithOram-d8q
    @KeithOram-d8q 17 дней назад +2

    I am a UK citizen aged 80 I have had free prescriptions since I was 60 having worked and paid my taxes all my working life. I chose to retire late aged 68 instead of 65. I am in receipt of a state pension as well as pensions I paid for myself. My medical care is free. I have free hearing aids properly fitted and balanced via the NHS. I have free eye tests but I have to pay the going rate for lenses and frames. I can see or consult with my doctor at our primary care health centre for free. I will leave our deluded American friends with a quote from Aneurin Bevan who was the health minister that set up the NHS in 1947.
    “No society can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means.” He also said, "Illness is neither an indulgence for which people have to pay, nor an offence for which they should be penalised, but a misfortune, the cost of which should be shared by the community."

    • @fatherson5907
      @fatherson5907 16 дней назад

      You paid NI for decades and believe that the third world quality care you get from the NHS is “free”
      You’re so gullible that you can’t accept the objective data:
      Over 40% of cancer patients in the Uk fail to receive urgent treatment due to long wait times
      Average ambulance wait time in the Uk is over 60 minutes
      Over 10% of the population in England alone are waiting years for surgery
      Nurses are paid so poorly in the UK that many have resorted to visiting food banks.

    • @Brozius2512
      @Brozius2512 4 дня назад

      Don't bother, fatherson is an American troll who cannot stand that other countries have it better than the US.