United Healthcare denied me life saving medicine. To save my life I obtained my medicine from India for $400, in the US it was priced at $120,000. Ya'll can imagine how little empathy I have for their CEO!
I went to India to get an MRI which was not approved here for three years. Even though I am thankful I have Medicaid. Those who don’t have even that resources imagine. Medical tourism is big business in India.
exactly, i wish people would stop thinking about left and right and realize none of that matters. Politicians and the media belong to the corporations.
I saw Bowling for Columbine in theatres as a teen, having zero idea what it was about. Probably changed my life (mostly because I watched Roger & Me the next day)
I slept in a homeless shelter for 8 months. They dumped hospital patients there all the time. One night a woman in a wheelchair was brought to the shelter and staff left her outside in the snow because they were not able to care for her. Another woman was released from the hospital and brought to the shelter after being hit by a car the day before. I met 2 women who had active cancer.
Let me tell you in India the Government hospitals are the ones where you get best Doctors. Health is like if you want to be in a five star hotel room or plain room or have no privacy in a Government hospital. The care is the same. Atleast you have a choice the rich go to fancy hospital that’s all.
The richest nation on the planet and stories like this exist. Makes me ashamed to be part of this country. People are treated like garbage when they have no money. You're ridiculed for using any form of social welfare programs. We don't help the mentally ill, or provide housing. Politicians would rather move you to another town rather than deal with the underlying issues. So f***ing sad 🤦 Edit: I wrote this before seeing that bit towards the end where patients were being thrown out because they couldn't pay... Wow
As a Brit this documentary makes me sad too. Since it’s making the NHS has been destroyed, libraries have closed, fire departments have been cut, police (meh) also being cut. Our social safety nets have been eroded beyond repair. And it’s been done deliberately
@@EdgarTheOgre From what we saw this year I also agree. They just need to switch their attention to the government and not immigrants 😅 not that us Americans are any better btw
The largest amount of protests can't outdo 14 years of public sector starvation, inflation, and Brexit. You're asking too much of people. @EdgarTheOgre
Speaking of, there’s a rise in anti universal healthcare sentiment in Canada because provincial governments are trying to make it unbearable to use. I don’t think these specific people know how lucky they are to even have the option…
My husband in Denmark waited 3 days for the first examination and 14 days for the stress test. He's going to checkups in January and February. No bills or out of pocket.
It's always hilarious to me that people think long waits are somehow a dunk , when the exorbitant cost of American Healthcare generally means most people don't ever get treated, because they can't afford it
bro, the fact that people actually think Canada has a big wait list issue is hilarious to me lol, like sure sometimes ya gotta wait for a non emergency appointment but in my experience you're never waiting for more than a few months.
Guess which countries are the ONLY 2 countries to consistently vote against lifting the embargo on Cuba? Every time it goes for a vote in the UN. The US, and Israel. Why does the world have to listen to US and Israel? Everyone should just lift the sanctions without them.
Right? If the whole world went against US interests, even the US wouldnt be able to stop them all despite their power. And im saying this as a US resident lol.
@@charisma-hornum-fries basically cause the us will impose severe penalties or outright ban trading for those countries and the us is the most lucrative market for all of them. now technically all countries could just band together say were doing it anyway and the us would probably have to continue trading with them all but nobody wants to be the one caught out if even one country backtracks, not to mention the us could still choose to make an example out of a couple wealthier ones so nobody steps out of line so easy next time. all in all cuba has nothing worthwhile to offer anyone, nothing worth going against the us for anyway so it comes down to ''are you wiling to devalue your dollar and plunge your country into financial crisis just to help these commie fucks?'' very effective strat
I watched this documentary at university for a subject called 'Integrated Health Practices,' which was mandatory for all students in the healthcare field. Yes, it was to teach us the importance of our brazilian universal healthcare system
My buddies in high school all went to see this doc when it came out back in the day. It radicalised them in a good way. I had a broken leg and didn’t go. I was radicalised some years later at university studying nursing & learning how the USA was the only western developed nation without universal healthcare. I cannot believe this doc is still relevant like nearly 20 years later. Literally nothing has changed, jfc.
54:41 “you’re 22 you shouldn’t have cervical cancer” Yeah duh she probably felt the same way. They don’t care if you’re insured, if you’re a single mother with children to take care of. I remember watching this as a kid. Insurance is so gross.
Medical insurance be like "you're 22? Ah well you're young. You should be able to fight it on your own for a few years. Besides, we have other patients with much more money." Hearing the stories in this video makes me wanna scream... This is legalized murder... That's it
that is the single most outragious excuse to deny coverage i've ever ever heard. people should be able to sue insureance companies for this kind of stuff
@ i don’t think it’s a money issue. there are lawyers who only take a cut of what you get from the lawsuit, there are class actions so all victims can get together and hire a single law firm… i’m afraid the problem is the law. insurance companies can lawfully do these things because the lawmakers were bought out in the first place
I'm 41. I lived through those horrors pre-ACA. Seriously, hospitals would kick patients out and literally dump them on the streets, IV ports still bleeding, without shoes on. It was THAT bad. And it's going to get worse
Same. I’m 42. I couldn’t get insurance pre-ACA. My crime was that I gone to therapy for a while in high school and insurance companies said that indicated I had a pre-existing condition and wouldn’t give me insurance.
I’m a British citizen living in the US. I don’t have healthcare because it’s literally cheaper for me to pay out of pocket. I have flight money saved so if I have an emergency I can fly home for care. That and just hoping for the best.
My dad was diagnosed with Lynch Syndrome, which is basically a cancer gene, and when I said I would also like to be tested, he said that “it would be a preexisting condition” and he “doesn’t want me to be denied healthcare.” Even if it’s not possible, it’s still a fear that could deny me active healthcare that might be able to help now. It’s insane.
I’m Cuban and I’m going to Cuba next year to be treated for pelvic subluxation. I have United healthcare but they won’t approve the high accuracy MRI I need to get a better diagnosis. They don’t even want to approve more physical therapy which I need and only approve more pills. It’s an insult to have to go from the richest country in the world to one of the poorest just so I can get the medical care I need. The United States doesn’t care about its own citizen’s general welfare.
Cuban here too. As someone very deep in the American healthcare system, I can say that one name keeps coming back to mind, José Martí. “Viví en el monstruo, y le conozco las entrañas”
You have to be kidding me. This is really hard to even believe. Why would they take you back? Perhaps you have dual citizenship? I have a friend that had to go back to England to get life-saving treatment for a degenerative muscle disease. She was slowly dying here in the US with her sub-par Obama insurance. She was treated and saved with cutting-edge IV therapy in England. She had dual citizenship.
I saw this when it came out in Canada from a video store, and despite the flaws in Canadian healthcare, I will fight anyone who thinks privatization in the answer.
All of the premiers who are successfully sabotaging their provincial public healthcare systems in order to legitimize the existence of the private option. We won't forget.
Should have both. Public healthcare and private healthcare option. Basic healthcare shouldnt be about making money and pleasing fucking shareholders. America is dystopian to me
@@Monnisti no, there shouldnt be private insurance. Everyone waits in line. Rich people will do what they always do, fly somewhere else. If you cant afford the flight, get your ass in line with the other people.
Destiny “ it’s not like they go around the office saying whoever gets the most denials gets a bonus this year, it doesn’t work like that!” Me, just fast forwarding to a random timestamp 21:35 Doctor Who formally worked for Humana: “ they would literally compare doctors’ rate of denials, and the one with the highest denial rate would get a bonus.”
@@swiggersyolo5748 Not sure if you're being sarcastic but there was literally multiple whistleblowers last week that said there are "denial quotas." Last week as in 6 days ago.
My husband is lebanese, last year, i visited, had dental work for my self and daughter, had a high tec scan of my mouth, which was 10$ 🤯, had blood work done and eco for my daughters heart. Total just under 1000$ and appointments were next day or within a week. Doctors are well trained! America hates its citizens, yet for some reason, many are hyper patroatic.
I remember being a kid pre-aca and seeing those ads on tv for health insurance that advertised the fact that they didn't refuse insurance for pre-existing conditions, and even back then I remember being confused about the concept of not being able to get care if you're already sick, when that is the entire point of healthcare
So many chatters yelling at whistleblowers from decades ago is ridiculous. There are people that worked alongside people like that medical director lady and they are making millions today and still killing people. She and the other whistleblowers in this deserve grace jeez
It’s very funny to see the complaints about 12 hour waits at emergency rooms when my mom had to wait that long in the US while her spine was disintegrating anyway.
Thanks for sharing this with your audience Hasan, I literally cried , was in disbelief and finally horror and dismay for the people of US, and I’m from a “third world country” that tries to provide healthcare that is free at the point of service to its citizens & the US sounds dystopian to me ! I hope we are never so democratic that we lose our humanity for each other ❤🇿🇦
When I lived in England, born and raised, I never waited to see a doctor when something happened. When I came to America I wait 4-5 hours in a hospital.
Insurance companies tried in Europe to make exclusions on the basis of pre existing conditions. It was deemed discrimination and dropped by the courts.
Damn, the Cuban fire department made me cry. My dad has been a firefighter for nearly thirty years, retiring at the end of this year. I've watched him completely destroy his body for his work, and get little to nothing in return. Apart from watching the police get more and more money while the fire department gets cuts. Yet, he's conservative because he's been lied to. And having to accept that nearly everything you thought you knew about your world was a lie is too hard a pill to swallow. Deep down, I think he knows but doesn't know what to do about it now. He's too afraid and too old to care. He doesn't understand that I'd rather have a dad who is alive and healthy than one that died working his fingers to the bone to provide for me. Hard work was what he was told his value was. Not his love and his presence for me and my sister.
@@Virjunior01 Trust me, I have. He takes it as me not appreciating his hard work and trying to give people an excuse to be lazy. It ends in arguments, every time. It's him deflecting and trying to justify to himself that he spent more of his life working than watching me grow up. Because then he'd have to accept that it didn't have to be like that and I could've been provided for without him killing himself for that end.
I had a severe heart condition as a child and I absolutely remember this nonsense. My mom had to fight tirelessly to get me covered and was paying triple for my coverage, even after I was cured. It wasn’t until Obamacare that the cost went down. It’s sickening these fuckers claim to care about kids
If the Republicans hadn’t stopped Hillary from trying to get all of us from getting Single Payer aka Universal Health Care, that CEO who was killed would still be alive because people would have gotten the care they needed.
Hillary didn't want single Payer. Obama didn't want single Payer. None of today's Dems want single Payer except for Bernie. The healthcare lobby has done its job.
I remember that was her political campaign promise. But Republicans sabotaged her but voting Democrats and electing OBAMA and later complaining for OBAMA care because their premiums had higher. Republicans are not better than Democrats at this point they both are the same.
It was still heavily like Obamacare and tried to keep insurance cartels in the loop a great deal. .... All they had to do was give everyone Medicare, and sell it like that. But of course congress is against that...
I'll have seven years next month and I just got a job that offers dental insurance. I thankfully didn't have any cavities but I had to get two deep cleanings with nerve blocks on either side of my face, cost me like $450 WITH insurance. This country is a crime.
I remember the days before they forced insurance companies to take people with pre existing conditions. You could be denied for having acne as a teenager. The reason the premiums went up in the ACA was because it forced the insurance companies to kind of do their job. Though it never should be their job, single payer government healthcare is the way
I feel like the “house on fire” argument isn’t even fully equivalent to pre existing conditions. I feel like something similar would be like “there are things in the house that could cause a fire” which is true of….every house
I recently went to Cuba with my family, about a month before the big blackout, I had a great time, the kids really missed the WiFi and the point of traveling to a different country, but overall it was a good experience. All seven of us ate a 3 course seafood meal that was amazing for less than a hundred dollars U.S. and we even had beer and mixed drinks with our meal. I will say there is massive wealth disparity on display and numerous locals asked us for medicine/money throughout the trip. We left our medicines and other scarce supplies in the Air BnB for the host and next guests and we gave out a bunch of food and money but we all left wishing we could’ve done more to help the people. It was definitely an eye opening and bittersweet experience that I would recommend to anyone that wants to get out and explore the world. All the locals were incredibly nice, the food and culture were amazing, and exploring Havana was way more rewarding than sitting on a beach and getting a tan.
Im only 10 min in, but as a "tall person". I find it insane a kid was rejected by an insurance company for being ft and 130 lbs. I've been 6'4" since mid highschool, and only just broke through my 150-160 lb "wall" after passing my mid 20's. That kid is normal weight for a teenager with his build. Most of the people over 6 ft that I knew at that kid's age were lanky like that. I also only passed that 150-160 mark after I stopped working out or caring about what I ate, along with drinking more beer. So it happened when I adopted a more unhealthy lifetyle.
the bmi system is so fucked, I swear the only reason it's still used is because it feeds into the dysfunctional relationship between patient and provider. Just another way to gaslight patients into believing their health conditions are their fault when it's the denial of healthcare that is creating the negative health outcomes they're experiencing
Word. I'm 42 now and have the same build as I did when I was 17. 6'2," and never weighed more than 148 lbs in my life. Depending on how well I'm eating and exercising (or sick), I fluctuate between 128 and 143 on the regular, with an average of about 135.
even then they could find something out later, there were people who got dropped because they allegedly had acne as kids and insurer said it was 'precancerous lesions'
Even when I was a Republican I was fvcking astonished my mom didn’t like the ACA. Like I literally wouldn’t have had treatment options cause I’m Diabetic but some ppl are so diehard team Republican they can’t even support something undeniably good.
58:32 if you mention wait times when arguing against universal healthcare, I immediately know you have no idea how healthcare works in America. I’m a type 1 diabetic and made an appointment with a new endocrinologist in the first 2 weeks of 2024. The first available new patient appointment was the 2nd week of November. My PCP is the same way. My neurologist is the same way. I have a referral from my PCP to to an allergist that was sent in October. Even with follow up on my end, no appointment has even been set up yet.
Bro, try waiting 8 to 12 hours in an ER and then having to pay for it lmaoooo. The ERs here are also slow. I’ve only been once even with my insurance I still owed $800, next time I guess I’ll just die smh. What was frustrating was I tried to go to an urgent care first, so I’m also paying for that. Edit: the only reason my bill was that low was because they ended up doing no real testing on me. Just loading me up with painkillers and sending me on my way.
People are so stupid. That chatter heard Nurse Practitioner and assumed "dumb woman." Nurse Practicitoners are the same as Physicians, except they probably have less contempt for humanity on average.
The feeling of watching the French part as I'm working overtime until 8pm after clocking in at 730am and knowing it's barely enough to save up for needing a new car because mine is breaking down and we barely have public buses in my town and its not at all walkable.
Hey, Brazilian MD here! During College had a Teacher who worked from the Pharmaceutical Industry, a lot of research on Cancer by the industry is halted cause seeling Quimoterapy is much more profetable them a permanent solution, be it vacines, nanotech or polímeros
Remember watching Sicko by complete mistake about a year after it came out. Completely opened my eyes to what the rest of the world has. I just assumed everyone had the same issues we do.
Lots of Americans are frequently taught bullshit... as in omission. We rarely discuss anything about how our systems actually work, or how other nations' do.
@Virjunior01 American exceptionalism my friend. We believe that our way is the best and only way to do things. Both a blessing and a curse. Mostly a curse IMO. It's brought us to the point of not leading the world in anything.
@@wusaint honestly no. That's the lie they tell us, and you know for a fact most of those in power are smart enough to know that isn't true... only a few trick themselves into believing it. American Exceptionalism is like gassing up an idiot... think The Deep in The Boys. He's a complete moron who'll do whatever somebody says if they say it will make him superior to someone else. They know damned well that the purpose today is to keep the rich people rich, and they're traitors who'd rather be "house n*ggas" than "field" ones. Like you know a ton of racists are only like that because they're poor as hell and need someone to blame/attack with minimal effort who has the least chance of fighting back. This country is selfish and narcissistic. That's why I'm laughing at all this, and when the motherf*ckers are goosestepping down the street, I'm gonna *cackle* at how Americans will try to paint themselves the victims.
@@wusaint they erased my response, but basically, they all know exceptionalism is a lie. It's the exact same as my issues as a black guy looking at black Christians. I didn't need someone to "indoctrinate" me into not liking that... simply understanding the colonial enslavers were Christians, enslaved non-christians, and now the decendants of slaves are Christians. The enslavers knew it was wrong, but pretended to believe in a divine authority. Just like how monarchs the world over claim divine right. All they want is money and power, and just count on the staggering amount of *uckin* !d!ots who believe in Q conspiracies. It's ALWAYS been a thing.
American doctors incur on avg almost $1m in student debt+interest followed by 3-10+ yrs residency at less than minimum wage/hr. I would know, I'm a new emergency doctor, just got board certified.
Ok to that a hole throwing shade at nurses "who would you rather get medical advice from?" One of the roles of RNs is educating the patient on healthy practices including proper medication administration. The amount of information the RN needs to know is immense. And the question was about nurse practitioners that he decided as "nurse" we are essentially talking about a doctor. The nurse practitioner is a nurse WHO PRACTICES MEDICINE! They can do all of the treatments and can practice independently in most states.
Maybe the most troubling thing is not how this persists in America, but howmany of the other countries shown have privatized their Healthcare since, to deleterious effect.
The strawman questions Fox news was asking Bernie in the Town hall about health insurance are never asked when it's about tax cuts for the rich. "Who is paying for the insurance of other people. Someone is going to right? It is other insurance payers". That question is never asked by Fox News when it's about private jets, mansions and yachts being tax deductable "Who is paying for that? It's tax payers isn't it?". The "other people shouldn't pay for your health" has been instilled into people to a point, that the whole idea of what an insurance is has gotten lost. Money is pooled by members and payed out if needed by a member. That's the whole idea of an insurance.
Im from iceland,i was born with disability, have had many opperations, resently had hernia and my galbladder removed,the only think i pay for if i need,is a ambulance,and prob. for the gas
chatter at 16:50 in response to the healthcare worker feeling awful is wild thing to say . bro is holding her to the same standard as a accountant doing book keeping at Auschwitz
I’m astonished by how little some people (Hasan’s chatters) understand about what nurse practitioners are and the important work we do. As a registered nurse with 18 years of experience and a soon-to-be nurse practitioner, I believe we need to do a better job educating patients about our role. Becoming an NP requires extensive training-I’ve completed eight years of education, and have to pass a rigorous board certification exam, and will practice in collaboration with physicians. For anything more complex or beyond our scope, we refer patients to a physician to ensure the best care possible. We are healthcare provider.
Just imagine how much more messed up it will get with Trump in office when he literally came out and said people who pay will get preferential treatment.
Even the CEO of Novo Nordic in Denmark has recommended Americans getting a universal healthcare system like the Nordics have because he and his companies can't help people as much as he can elsewhere. It's simply not possible to treat correctly if people can't afford the treatments. He does not make the prices, the middlemen decides the price at the pharmacy making his company lose sales. If the middlemen decides it's too cheap, they can't profit on it and the production will cease to exist.
Ah yes the ideal way to consume Michael Moore's Sicko, with a man eating on top of over 1/3 the video, constantly pausing to get stunlocked by chat. Cinema, really.
Stuff like this is why I laugh when people tell me AI is going to help us solve all these complicated problems. We know how to solve these problems, and we only make them complicated to discourage fixing them.
@1:03:03 Canadian wait times in emerg depend on the severity of injury, if you have a broken ankle and someone comes in with internal bleeding, they're gonna treat the other person first. Combine that with under funding, which causes brain drain and nurses to flee the public sector leading to under staffing. Then you consider that funding doesn't just effect wages, but also stuff like the number of available equipment like MRI's, X-Rays, heck even just beds which causes issues with capacity. That's not even considering the situation with the family doctor network, or how people treat clinics vs emerg which both have an effect on how many people go to emerg rather than seek other options. It's a big system that can't operate efficiently without proper funding and regulation, it's not as simple as saying "Oh long wait times, must mean privatization is better" (even though this very documentary had an American complaining about waiting like 18 hours in emerg). So yeah, it's no wonder some people experience long wait times in the Canadian healthcare system.
1:03:00 , someone mentioned Healthcare in BC, and the context surrounding this comment means I am triggered. I live in BC. We are currently looking to upgrade and expand downtown hospitals like St. Paul's and VGH to make capacity to serve people better. The ER wait times of some of the hospitals I have been to over a 15 year period I have lived here are 2 hours at Langley Memorial Hospital 2-5 hour at Surrey Memorial Hospital 3 hours at Burnaby Hospital I have also been to the ER and assessed to require immediate attention and been shown to a doctor right away, skipping the line of people who are probably going to wait a couple hours before seeing a doctor. All the times above are long wait times, yes. But I have never been refused service, I have never, or known anyone who has ever been turned away. I used to live in Ontario and have waited 6 hours in an ER to be seen, but I was still seen at the end of the 6 hours, and I still had access to someone who could have alerted a doctor to see me in a moment if the attention I needed was critical. This is all from the Canadian medical system that is underfunded, and thus poorly run. The Canadian healthcare system needs a lot of attention, but in the mean time, the broken system makes it very easy to see a doctor and get the medical attention needed. Where it sounds like the American system is broken and is denying people care. What is worse? Waiting 6 hours to get a life threatening injury dealt with, or waiting until you make 300k as the injury slowly kills you?
Those would all be pretty short wait times at many (most?) ERs in the US. If you’re having a heart attack or something else that’s immediately life threatening you get seen right away (at least usually), but anything else you have to wait. I went to the ER with a badly broken ankle several years ago (bone was sticking several inches out of my leg) and I had to wait about 90 minutes to be seen.
@elliotclausen2225 My point was that ER wait times in Canada are arguably long. 90 min in Canada would be a wait time practically no one would experience (although if your bone was sticking out of your leg, I would be supprised if you waited 90 min in Canada). But I the outside figure is around 5-8 hrs, which happens, but is rare. The average wait time people expect is 2-4 hrs. And that wait time doesn't involve anyone actively dying in the waitroom. Care is triaged. And noone is sent home after waiting. If you were to wait 10 hrs at an ER, like the comment claimed, you would get treatment at the end. I honest would rather wait an extra 2 hrs to get medical attention that was completely free, then get in immediately and go into financial ruin after getting treatment. I even went through my personal experience at several major hospitals in several cities. Anecdotal, but unless you have a study, all of this is.
@@Poisonfrogg oh I totally Agee that Canadian health care is faarrrrr preferable to US health care. The only point I was trying to make is that people here in the US are always pointing out how places like Canada and the UK have ‘long wait times’ as if we don’t also have long wait times here in the US. 90 minutes was the shortest I’ve waited in an ER. I’ve also waited 8 hours once…and then (like you said) later received a monstrous bill in the mail. It sucks ass. Also appointments with specialist sometimes are booked literally years out. I had a dermatology appointment I waited TWO years for. And then was charged an arm and a leg for. This system here is so predatory.
@elliotclausen2225 That is interesting to hear. And thank you for clarifying, I don't think I understood initially. There is a growing faction in Canada that point to the USA Healthcare as preferable. Some of the most common talking points are wait times. I had no idea that you could wait 2 years to see a specialist. In Canada my longest experience has been 1 year (which is because we have a staffing crisis after Covid). I am sorry you don't have better access to Healthcare. I do think there would be value in strengthening a community of people willing to promote better politics in Canada and the USA. We all get our news from the same place, and generally want the same things...
1:26 this. all of this. Exactly what is happening in Sao Paulo, Brazil . They scrap the entire service and sell it to a private company promising improvements, and they sell it cheaply.
In 2020 I finally was diagnosed with a serious primary (probably born with) immune system deficiency. That requires super expensive monthly treatment just to be able to fight viruses, bacteria ect…. I was sick constantly as a kid and young adult. I was almost 40 before this got diagnosed after a bunch of specialists and tests. With the infusions I am max out of pocket 3 months in. My dad actually had a good job with good insurance (blue cross) The doctors never came all that close to figuring out why I had those problems. I remember pre existing conditions. It would be pretty hard to argue this isn’t one. Even then my family had trouble dealing with insurance for things like antibiotics and primary care visits. It’s crazy to actually figure out I was actually pretty functional in my life besides a serious handicap. I was lucky to actually have insurance that couldn’t argue against my treatments. But that is through my work. That was a lot of work to “justify” even now. Dealing with it all and barely being able to get to work has definitely burnt me out. The idea of losing my coverage is something that’s kept me at an abusive place for years. I don’t know the solutions. Except the easiest seems to be to dissolve private insurance. The system is so ridiculous that the people who work for them can’t explain specific/direct questions about why an EOB seems contradictory. I spent 3 hours on the phone with Aetna yesterday…. The end result was the rep giving up on why I owe for something when my out of pocket is maxed out. Their own system doesn’t say. Anyway…. I’m babbling, long story short is I’m glad there was some reform through the affordable care act. At least for myself. My own healthcare is barely sustainable with “good” insurance. It’s a bizarre system… There is a reason every doctors office has people who’s job it is to medical code. Protip to calling a doctors office. Quickest was to get transferred to where you need is to select “billing” when you call. 😅 I think I have more experience and understanding of dealing with insurance. I still have at least one big surprise charge and something that can’t be explained every year. Usually something that is pretty costly. Best I get out of an explanation is we’re right, you pay. Without explainations. The things people say we benefit from our system seem to actually line up with free systems every year. Crap still ranting, good movie to show. I wish Americans would demand changes. I’m certainly more worried with Trump and republicans calling the shots. Dems are definitely as indebted to the healthcare industry. They do have a little bit of shame at least. America chose the worse of the two evils. I am personally trying not to think about those implications too much. It says something that medical of all things is what is occupying my brain power.
Quick side note… I do need to get prior authorization for the monthly infusions. Thankfully that office has a person who is an expert in that. They’ve actually gotten unrelated things approved that the specialist said would be too hard to try. That was framed as because of the immune thing. The immunologist is who told me no it isn’t complicated because of my health. It’s just the prior authorization. People will be unhappy with whatever the system is. It’s really a matter of how much damage is done to how many people based on the system. I’ve noticed that there is a huge staff shortage in everything healthcare here. They can’t keep nurses. We have understaffed pharmacies. Walgreens is closing multiple stores/pharmacies here in the biggest city in AK. That has been an issue for years. Apparently they have one pharmacist splitting time between multiple stores. One person working at them isn’t at all unusual. Notes on the door that they can’t open as well.
I love people saying Canadian healthcare as long wait times. While I’m trying to get something to help with sleep and it takes 5months from when I called for it… I doubt insurance is gonna be nice either
"Yeah use a bunch more big words that will convince us all" - why are you even joining his chat if you think "class consciousness" is a "big word" you don't want to hear in life? Go watch Mr Bondarelli's stream or something.
The fact that our taxes already pay the private companies is making my head hurt. Us as Americans have been sold this crazy way of living just egregious hours, and for less (thanks ww2) and most of our money getting funneled out of homes and to entities we don’t see. Again, thank you WW2 because we have just gotten used to that mind set because we never went back.
United Healthcare denied me life saving medicine. To save my life I obtained my medicine from India for $400, in the US it was priced at $120,000. Ya'll can imagine how little empathy I have for their CEO!
I went to India to get an MRI which was not approved here for three years. Even though I am thankful I have Medicaid. Those who don’t have even that resources imagine. Medical tourism is big business in India.
I'm glad that u had good experience in India 🇮🇳
exactly, i wish people would stop thinking about left and right and realize none of that matters. Politicians and the media belong to the corporations.
And that's why orange man wants to stop imports, you are supposed to make his friends richer, not buy stuff overseas.
India is on route towards an insane inflation, isn't gonna be that cheap for long. Incompetent fascists are ruining things for everyone.
As a Canadian we talk about US health care like Americans talk about North Korea. No joke
Our healthcares been getting worse from underfunding in recent years like in Britain but it’s still so much better than the US
@@Hsalf904 You need to stop those conservatives in your country from doing that. You need to do whatever you have to.
Like Luigi?
@@trappedinamerica7740yes. Too bad labour is just conservative-lite now
America is. 3rd world country, just the Americans don't know
Im 39 i saw sicko in the movie theater. Been "woke" for a long time. Micheal Moore is a real one.
I watched it on my Thursday off
40 and same
I saw Bowling for Columbine in theatres as a teen, having zero idea what it was about. Probably changed my life (mostly because I watched Roger & Me the next day)
Old as dude 😂
@@cuyxjrplays hopefully I go before the clean water wars. Godspeed youngin
I slept in a homeless shelter for 8 months. They dumped hospital patients there all the time. One night a woman in a wheelchair was brought to the shelter and staff left her outside in the snow because they were not able to care for her. Another woman was released from the hospital and brought to the shelter after being hit by a car the day before. I met 2 women who had active cancer.
Which State did that? That's horrific, evil level horrific. I'm sorry you witnessed that, and experienced such hardship.
@@jenniferbrown-west782I saw one documentary on California doing it.
Let me tell you in India the Government hospitals are the ones where you get best Doctors. Health is like if you want to be in a five star hotel room or plain room or have no privacy in a Government hospital. The care is the same. Atleast you have a choice the rich go to fancy hospital that’s all.
The richest nation on the planet and stories like this exist. Makes me ashamed to be part of this country. People are treated like garbage when they have no money. You're ridiculed for using any form of social welfare programs. We don't help the mentally ill, or provide housing. Politicians would rather move you to another town rather than deal with the underlying issues. So f***ing sad 🤦
Edit: I wrote this before seeing that bit towards the end where patients were being thrown out because they couldn't pay... Wow
@@jenniferbrown-west782 Denver, Colorado
deny. defend. depose.
seriously man... 20 minutes in and i am team mangione all the way through
Delay Deny Depose
As a Brit this documentary makes me sad too. Since it’s making the NHS has been destroyed, libraries have closed, fire departments have been cut, police (meh) also being cut. Our social safety nets have been eroded beyond repair. And it’s been done deliberately
why did you let them? I thought you brits were good protesters.
@@EdgarTheOgre From what we saw this year I also agree. They just need to switch their attention to the government and not immigrants 😅 not that us Americans are any better btw
The largest amount of protests can't outdo 14 years of public sector starvation, inflation, and Brexit. You're asking too much of people. @EdgarTheOgre
It's the same in Denmark. The exact same. It feels like our fellow countrymen are sleepwalking while the ruins keep crumbling in front of them.
@@EdgarTheOgre the average person is voiceless. it's hard to collectivize, not that we should give up
them talking about not wanting a long waitlist like in Canada..I have patients that are scheduled until 2027 to see the pulmonologist here in AMERICA
After a chain of three referrals
Speaking of, there’s a rise in anti universal healthcare sentiment in Canada because provincial governments are trying to make it unbearable to use. I don’t think these specific people know how lucky they are to even have the option…
My husband in Denmark waited 3 days for the first examination and 14 days for the stress test. He's going to checkups in January and February. No bills or out of pocket.
It's always hilarious to me that people think long waits are somehow a dunk , when the exorbitant cost of American Healthcare generally means most people don't ever get treated, because they can't afford it
bro, the fact that people actually think Canada has a big wait list issue is hilarious to me lol, like sure sometimes ya gotta wait for a non emergency appointment but in my experience you're never waiting for more than a few months.
"Ronald Wilson Reagan" Six letters, six letters, six letters.
haha I always liked the anagram; Insane Anglo Warlord
Jésus is black, Ronald Reagan was the devil, and so on
Him and Thatcher were truly evil. The demons duo.
Nah, my name is the same but I’m not evil 😭
Guess which countries are the ONLY 2 countries to consistently vote against lifting the embargo on Cuba? Every time it goes for a vote in the UN.
The US, and Israel.
Why does the world have to listen to US and Israel? Everyone should just lift the sanctions without them.
The interesting thing is, ISRAEL HAS UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE! Since 1995.
That is puzzling to me too. Just ignore the vetoes like they don't exist.
Right? If the whole world went against US interests, even the US wouldnt be able to stop them all despite their power. And im saying this as a US resident lol.
The actual answer is America has the biggest stick. We are absolute thugs on the world stage.
@@charisma-hornum-fries basically cause the us will impose severe penalties or outright ban trading for those countries and the us is the most lucrative market for all of them. now technically all countries could just band together say were doing it anyway and the us would probably have to continue trading with them all but nobody wants to be the one caught out if even one country backtracks, not to mention the us could still choose to make an example out of a couple wealthier ones so nobody steps out of line so easy next time. all in all cuba has nothing worthwhile to offer anyone, nothing worth going against the us for anyway so it comes down to ''are you wiling to devalue your dollar and plunge your country into financial crisis just to help these commie fucks?'' very effective strat
I watched this documentary at university for a subject called 'Integrated Health Practices,' which was mandatory for all students in the healthcare field. Yes, it was to teach us the importance of our brazilian universal healthcare system
My buddies in high school all went to see this doc when it came out back in the day. It radicalised them in a good way. I had a broken leg and didn’t go. I was radicalised some years later at university studying nursing & learning how the USA was the only western developed nation without universal healthcare. I cannot believe this doc is still relevant like nearly 20 years later. Literally nothing has changed, jfc.
Things have changed, it got worse
Their profits increased
54:41 “you’re 22 you shouldn’t have cervical cancer”
Yeah duh she probably felt the same way. They don’t care if you’re insured, if you’re a single mother with children to take care of. I remember watching this as a kid. Insurance is so gross.
Medical insurance be like "you're 22? Ah well you're young. You should be able to fight it on your own for a few years. Besides, we have other patients with much more money."
Hearing the stories in this video makes me wanna scream... This is legalized murder... That's it
that is the single most outragious excuse to deny coverage i've ever ever heard. people should be able to sue insureance companies for this kind of stuff
@@uncopino they technically can but the money to do so aint easy to scrape together, pro bono aint as common as youd think
@ i don’t think it’s a money issue. there are lawyers who only take a cut of what you get from the lawsuit, there are class actions so all victims can get together and hire a single law firm… i’m afraid the problem is the law. insurance companies can lawfully do these things because the lawmakers were bought out in the first place
@@uncopino its certainly difficult to prove ''legal wrongdoing''' ya
I'm 41. I lived through those horrors pre-ACA. Seriously, hospitals would kick patients out and literally dump them on the streets, IV ports still bleeding, without shoes on.
It was THAT bad.
And it's going to get worse
Same. I’m 42. I couldn’t get insurance pre-ACA. My crime was that I gone to therapy for a while in high school and insurance companies said that indicated I had a pre-existing condition and wouldn’t give me insurance.
they still do for christ's sake!!!!
This movie should be required to watch in every health class!
I’m a British citizen living in the US. I don’t have healthcare because it’s literally cheaper for me to pay out of pocket. I have flight money saved so if I have an emergency I can fly home for care. That and just hoping for the best.
My dad was diagnosed with Lynch Syndrome, which is basically a cancer gene, and when I said I would also like to be tested, he said that “it would be a preexisting condition” and he “doesn’t want me to be denied healthcare.” Even if it’s not possible, it’s still a fear that could deny me active healthcare that might be able to help now. It’s insane.
I’m Cuban and I’m going to Cuba next year to be treated for pelvic subluxation. I have United healthcare but they won’t approve the high accuracy MRI I need to get a better diagnosis. They don’t even want to approve more physical therapy which I need and only approve more pills. It’s an insult to have to go from the richest country in the world to one of the poorest just so I can get the medical care I need. The United States doesn’t care about its own citizen’s general welfare.
Cuban here too.
As someone very deep in the American healthcare system, I can say that one name keeps coming back to mind, José Martí.
“Viví en el monstruo, y le conozco las entrañas”
@@kiseitai2 "Y mi honda es la de David"
You have to be kidding me. This is really hard to even believe. Why would they take you back? Perhaps you have dual citizenship? I have a friend that had to go back to England to get life-saving treatment for a degenerative muscle disease. She was slowly dying here in the US with her sub-par Obama insurance. She was treated and saved with cutting-edge IV therapy in England. She had dual citizenship.
@@SteeveeKeyswhy would you assume then that they wouldn’t also have dual citizenship.
@@TheTrainStationOGI have no idea what he's talking about either and why he felt the need to bring it up
I saw this when it came out in Canada from a video store, and despite the flaws in Canadian healthcare, I will fight anyone who thinks privatization in the answer.
All of the premiers who are successfully sabotaging their provincial public healthcare systems in order to legitimize the existence of the private option. We won't forget.
What kind of fight?? Fist, gun, Sword??
Should have both. Public healthcare and private healthcare option. Basic healthcare shouldnt be about making money and pleasing fucking shareholders. America is dystopian to me
@@Monnisti No. There shouldn't be private insurance
@@Monnisti no, there shouldnt be private insurance. Everyone waits in line. Rich people will do what they always do, fly somewhere else. If you cant afford the flight, get your ass in line with the other people.
Destiny “ it’s not like they go around the office saying whoever gets the most denials gets a bonus this year, it doesn’t work like that!”
Me, just fast forwarding to a random timestamp 21:35
Doctor Who formally worked for Humana: “ they would literally compare doctors’ rate of denials, and the one with the highest denial rate would get a bonus.”
D is possibly the most useful idiot of all time.
He is one of these people that genuinely shouldn't have a platform. It's so big eland entirely useless.
ok but theyre BETTER now! they dont do that anymore!
@@swiggersyolo5748 Not sure if you're being sarcastic but there was literally multiple whistleblowers last week that said there are "denial quotas." Last week as in 6 days ago.
@@xbabu142x i would NEVER joke about something so serious!... /s
My husband is lebanese, last year, i visited, had dental work for my self and daughter, had a high tec scan of my mouth, which was 10$ 🤯, had blood work done and eco for my daughters heart. Total just under 1000$ and appointments were next day or within a week. Doctors are well trained! America hates its citizens, yet for some reason, many are hyper patroatic.
Don't call insecurity and narcissism "patriotism."
I remember being a kid pre-aca and seeing those ads on tv for health insurance that advertised the fact that they didn't refuse insurance for pre-existing conditions, and even back then I remember being confused about the concept of not being able to get care if you're already sick, when that is the entire point of healthcare
So many chatters yelling at whistleblowers from decades ago is ridiculous. There are people that worked alongside people like that medical director lady and they are making millions today and still killing people. She and the other whistleblowers in this deserve grace jeez
First-world leftists are so puritanical and its beginning to bleed into other leftist spaces too. Im convinced its a psyop at this point.
hasan is pretty chill mostly, his chat is mostly braindead tho
It’s very funny to see the complaints about 12 hour waits at emergency rooms when my mom had to wait that long in the US while her spine was disintegrating anyway.
Thanks for sharing this with your audience Hasan, I literally cried , was in disbelief and finally horror and dismay for the people of US, and I’m from a “third world country” that tries to provide healthcare that is free at the point of service to its citizens & the US sounds dystopian to me ! I hope we are never so democratic that we lose our humanity for each other ❤🇿🇦
After watching this who feels more sympathy for Luigi 😅
One man shook the ruling class more than decades of peaceful organizing!
the healthcare companies are the bad guys
I'm not even American and I support him. He must be in such horrific backpains in jail. At least he has friends in there.
Luigi is a hero.
Viva La revolution!!
Watching from the UK, this is truly dystopian, I am so so so sorry
as a european, this is horrifying to the point of ridiculousness. if i didn't know better i'd think this wasn't real or was happening 200 years ago.
@soulfireonfire6423 what?
@
Mind you business
@soulfireonfire6423 you okay man? When did the original comment say they were a surgeon?
European here. It is barbaric in my humble opinion.
When I lived in England, born and raised, I never waited to see a doctor when something happened. When I came to America I wait 4-5 hours in a hospital.
Insurance companies tried in Europe to make exclusions on the basis of pre existing conditions. It was deemed discrimination and dropped by the courts.
Damn, the Cuban fire department made me cry. My dad has been a firefighter for nearly thirty years, retiring at the end of this year. I've watched him completely destroy his body for his work, and get little to nothing in return. Apart from watching the police get more and more money while the fire department gets cuts.
Yet, he's conservative because he's been lied to. And having to accept that nearly everything you thought you knew about your world was a lie is too hard a pill to swallow. Deep down, I think he knows but doesn't know what to do about it now. He's too afraid and too old to care.
He doesn't understand that I'd rather have a dad who is alive and healthy than one that died working his fingers to the bone to provide for me. Hard work was what he was told his value was. Not his love and his presence for me and my sister.
Tell him that.
@@Virjunior01 Trust me, I have. He takes it as me not appreciating his hard work and trying to give people an excuse to be lazy. It ends in arguments, every time.
It's him deflecting and trying to justify to himself that he spent more of his life working than watching me grow up. Because then he'd have to accept that it didn't have to be like that and I could've been provided for without him killing himself for that end.
@VampireClubDJ then that's the end of it. No use even thinking about it.
We wouldn't even have Obamacare if it wasn't for this movie.
I had a severe heart condition as a child and I absolutely remember this nonsense. My mom had to fight tirelessly to get me covered and was paying triple for my coverage, even after I was cured. It wasn’t until Obamacare that the cost went down. It’s sickening these fuckers claim to care about kids
My twelfth grade social class had to watch this and I fear most of my class (including the teacher) didn't understand the true issue.
This is a true horror movie.
"How we gonna pay for it" -- Dark Brandon in 2019, when Bernie was pushing for single-payer
"Same way we pay for war" -- Me
you cant be draconian to whistleblowers, BECAUSE WE WANT MORE OF THEM!! how stupid can people be? jesus christ.
If the Republicans hadn’t stopped Hillary from trying to get all of us from getting Single Payer aka Universal Health Care, that CEO who was killed would still be alive because people would have gotten the care they needed.
Hillary didn't want single Payer. Obama didn't want single Payer. None of today's Dems want single Payer except for Bernie.
The healthcare lobby has done its job.
I remember that was her political campaign promise. But Republicans sabotaged her but voting Democrats and electing OBAMA and later complaining for OBAMA care because their premiums had higher. Republicans are not better than Democrats at this point they both are the same.
It was still heavily like Obamacare and tried to keep insurance cartels in the loop a great deal.
.... All they had to do was give everyone Medicare, and sell it like that. But of course congress is against that...
Nowadays though the Democrats and the Republicans don't want socialized Medicine Harris didn't even mention health care
My teeth are rough due to a lot of neglect and drug addiction.. 7 years sober I had to cry when dude who was grinding just walked away with new teeth.
I'll have seven years next month and I just got a job that offers dental insurance. I thankfully didn't have any cavities but I had to get two deep cleanings with nerve blocks on either side of my face, cost me like $450 WITH insurance. This country is a crime.
In Europe they pay you and they still have people who want America Healthcare.
That has to be some form of masochism.
It's pride month
It's been the constant demonisation of tax. The insidious 'Think Tank' lobbyists and a right-wing press. Follow the money.
I remember the days before they forced insurance companies to take people with pre existing conditions. You could be denied for having acne as a teenager. The reason the premiums went up in the ACA was because it forced the insurance companies to kind of do their job. Though it never should be their job, single payer government healthcare is the way
man this is too sad to watch it in 8 AM
Its night time, what are you talking about?
@@visit402time zone
@@visit402whatever you say liberal
@visit402 😂😂😂
I know you're joking, but im 100% certain some ppl don't know about time zones
It’s 7 am for me
I feel like the “house on fire” argument isn’t even fully equivalent to pre existing conditions. I feel like something similar would be like “there are things in the house that could cause a fire” which is true of….every house
💯 I was thinking the same...
I recently went to Cuba with my family, about a month before the big blackout, I had a great time, the kids really missed the WiFi and the point of traveling to a different country, but overall it was a good experience. All seven of us ate a 3 course seafood meal that was amazing for less than a hundred dollars U.S. and we even had beer and mixed drinks with our meal. I will say there is massive wealth disparity on display and numerous locals asked us for medicine/money throughout the trip. We left our medicines and other scarce supplies in the Air BnB for the host and next guests and we gave out a bunch of food and money but we all left wishing we could’ve done more to help the people. It was definitely an eye opening and bittersweet experience that I would recommend to anyone that wants to get out and explore the world. All the locals were incredibly nice, the food and culture were amazing, and exploring Havana was way more rewarding than sitting on a beach and getting a tan.
It sucks the US still has sanctions on Cuba, all because of 1950s red scare bs and protecting capitalist-driven interests.
Im only 10 min in, but as a "tall person". I find it insane a kid was rejected by an insurance company for being ft and 130 lbs. I've been 6'4" since mid highschool, and only just broke through my 150-160 lb "wall" after passing my mid 20's. That kid is normal weight for a teenager with his build. Most of the people over 6 ft that I knew at that kid's age were lanky like that.
I also only passed that 150-160 mark after I stopped working out or caring about what I ate, along with drinking more beer. So it happened when I adopted a more unhealthy lifetyle.
the bmi system is so fucked, I swear the only reason it's still used is because it feeds into the dysfunctional relationship between patient and provider. Just another way to gaslight patients into believing their health conditions are their fault when it's the denial of healthcare that is creating the negative health outcomes they're experiencing
Word. I'm 42 now and have the same build as I did when I was 17. 6'2," and never weighed more than 148 lbs in my life. Depending on how well I'm eating and exercising (or sick), I fluctuate between 128 and 143 on the regular, with an average of about 135.
Basically you could only get health insurance if you were in perfect health up to the point you signed onto the policy.
even then they could find something out later, there were people who got dropped because they allegedly had acne as kids and insurer said it was 'precancerous lesions'
@@atropabelladonnaJfc thats insanity. I hate this fucking country and those on power so much
I believe that things will NOT change until our legislators have the same access to healthcare we do and see what happens.
Even when I was a Republican I was fvcking astonished my mom didn’t like the ACA. Like I literally wouldn’t have had treatment options cause I’m Diabetic but some ppl are so diehard team Republican they can’t even support something undeniably good.
Sounds your mom was brainwashed
58:32 if you mention wait times when arguing against universal healthcare, I immediately know you have no idea how healthcare works in America. I’m a type 1 diabetic and made an appointment with a new endocrinologist in the first 2 weeks of 2024. The first available new patient appointment was the 2nd week of November. My PCP is the same way. My neurologist is the same way. I have a referral from my PCP to to an allergist that was sent in October. Even with follow up on my end, no appointment has even been set up yet.
Bro, try waiting 8 to 12 hours in an ER and then having to pay for it lmaoooo. The ERs here are also slow. I’ve only been once even with my insurance I still owed $800, next time I guess I’ll just die smh. What was frustrating was I tried to go to an urgent care first, so I’m also paying for that. Edit: the only reason my bill was that low was because they ended up doing no real testing on me. Just loading me up with painkillers and sending me on my way.
People are so stupid. That chatter heard Nurse Practitioner and assumed "dumb woman." Nurse Practicitoners are the same as Physicians, except they probably have less contempt for humanity on average.
The feeling of watching the French part as I'm working overtime until 8pm after clocking in at 730am and knowing it's barely enough to save up for needing a new car because mine is breaking down and we barely have public buses in my town and its not at all walkable.
Hey, Brazilian MD here! During College had a Teacher who worked from the Pharmaceutical Industry, a lot of research on Cancer by the industry is halted cause seeling Quimoterapy is much more profetable them a permanent solution, be it vacines, nanotech or polímeros
FREE LUIGI
This really demonstrates the ineptitude, purposeful, of the Democratic party over 18 years.
You are so right about Reagan. And nothing he did has ever been reversed.
Remember watching Sicko by complete mistake about a year after it came out. Completely opened my eyes to what the rest of the world has. I just assumed everyone had the same issues we do.
Lots of Americans are frequently taught bullshit... as in omission. We rarely discuss anything about how our systems actually work, or how other nations' do.
@Virjunior01 American exceptionalism my friend. We believe that our way is the best and only way to do things. Both a blessing and a curse. Mostly a curse IMO. It's brought us to the point of not leading the world in anything.
@@wusaint honestly no. That's the lie they tell us, and you know for a fact most of those in power are smart enough to know that isn't true... only a few trick themselves into believing it.
American Exceptionalism is like gassing up an idiot... think The Deep in The Boys. He's a complete moron who'll do whatever somebody says if they say it will make him superior to someone else.
They know damned well that the purpose today is to keep the rich people rich, and they're traitors who'd rather be "house n*ggas" than "field" ones.
Like you know a ton of racists are only like that because they're poor as hell and need someone to blame/attack with minimal effort who has the least chance of fighting back.
This country is selfish and narcissistic. That's why I'm laughing at all this, and when the motherf*ckers are goosestepping down the street, I'm gonna *cackle* at how Americans will try to paint themselves the victims.
@@wusaint they erased my response, but basically, they all know exceptionalism is a lie. It's the exact same as my issues as a black guy looking at black Christians. I didn't need someone to "indoctrinate" me into not liking that... simply understanding the colonial enslavers were Christians, enslaved non-christians, and now the decendants of slaves are Christians.
The enslavers knew it was wrong, but pretended to believe in a divine authority. Just like how monarchs the world over claim divine right.
All they want is money and power, and just count on the staggering amount of *uckin* !d!ots who believe in Q conspiracies. It's ALWAYS been a thing.
1:51:13 that kid dying for no fucking reason makes my blood boil
Truth will set us free. Let's highlight people who need help paying their medical bills. Let's get this to be more real. We are taking this seriously
American doctors incur on avg almost $1m in student debt+interest followed by 3-10+ yrs residency at less than minimum wage/hr. I would know, I'm a new emergency doctor, just got board certified.
Ok to that a hole throwing shade at nurses "who would you rather get medical advice from?" One of the roles of RNs is educating the patient on healthy practices including proper medication administration. The amount of information the RN needs to know is immense. And the question was about nurse practitioners that he decided as "nurse" we are essentially talking about a doctor. The nurse practitioner is a nurse WHO PRACTICES MEDICINE! They can do all of the treatments and can practice independently in most states.
It’s not lost on me that in 2008 the biggest area of disagreement between Obama and Hillary was universal coverage. Barack was not in favor of it.
I was recently in Havana. Are there poor areas in Cuba? Yes. Are they worse than areas in cities all across the US? If anything, they are better.
Please have michael moore on the pod!
Maybe the most troubling thing is not how this persists in America, but howmany of the other countries shown have privatized their Healthcare since, to deleterious effect.
The strawman questions Fox news was asking Bernie in the Town hall about health insurance are never asked when it's about tax cuts for the rich. "Who is paying for the insurance of other people. Someone is going to right? It is other insurance payers". That question is never asked by Fox News when it's about private jets, mansions and yachts being tax deductable "Who is paying for that? It's tax payers isn't it?". The "other people shouldn't pay for your health" has been instilled into people to a point, that the whole idea of what an insurance is has gotten lost. Money is pooled by members and payed out if needed by a member. That's the whole idea of an insurance.
Im from iceland,i was born with disability, have had many opperations, resently had hernia and my galbladder removed,the only think i pay for if i need,is a ambulance,and prob. for the gas
Ronald McDonald Reagan!!
chatter at 16:50 in response to the healthcare worker feeling awful is wild thing to say . bro is holding her to the same standard as a accountant doing book keeping at Auschwitz
Understood, but at the end of the day, people like her will do their best to justify or ignore the harm they are party to to get that bag.
Why is the audio for the Dr. Linda Pino (spelling) section at 32:57 fucked up?
It's free, it's got jolly music. Perfect movie for family christmas. Also, I love Hasan's Elton John look. Those glasses are tight.
This makes me so angry.
The 2016 election documentary from Micheal Moore was crazy also
The US healthcare system is just like living in a real-life MadMax dystopia
I’m astonished by how little some people (Hasan’s chatters) understand about what nurse practitioners are and the important work we do. As a registered nurse with 18 years of experience and a soon-to-be nurse practitioner, I believe we need to do a better job educating patients about our role. Becoming an NP requires extensive training-I’ve completed eight years of education, and have to pass a rigorous board certification exam, and will practice in collaboration with physicians. For anything more complex or beyond our scope, we refer patients to a physician to ensure the best care possible. We are healthcare provider.
I think some of these chatters got their idea of what a nurse is through watching Animaniacs
I'm surprised you haven't seen any of them in full until now. You should watch capitalism: a love story, next. It's his best work. His magnum opus.
Just imagine how much more messed up it will get with Trump in office when he literally came out and said people who pay will get preferential treatment.
Yeah just wait to see all those suits with neat little holes in em.
36:02 chat complaining about whistleblowers not being perfect while watching on cellphones made by exploited people. None of us are unproblematic.
Even the CEO of Novo Nordic in Denmark has recommended Americans getting a universal healthcare system like the Nordics have because he and his companies can't help people as much as he can elsewhere. It's simply not possible to treat correctly if people can't afford the treatments. He does not make the prices, the middlemen decides the price at the pharmacy making his company lose sales. If the middlemen decides it's too cheap, they can't profit on it and the production will cease to exist.
Luigi hires Meidas Touch former prosecuter KFA to represent him in New York! 🎉🎉🎉
Ah yes the ideal way to consume Michael Moore's Sicko, with a man eating on top of over 1/3 the video, constantly pausing to get stunlocked by chat. Cinema, really.
It’s the ONLY way to consume Michael Moore’s Sicko 😂
For the citizens of a country with dogshit education, this is absolutely necessary.
Yeah the eating is gross. And he should have reduced his PIP
Stuff like this is why I laugh when people tell me AI is going to help us solve all these complicated problems. We know how to solve these problems, and we only make them complicated to discourage fixing them.
Sick! Ive been waiting to watch the documentary again anyway!
@1:03:03 Canadian wait times in emerg depend on the severity of injury, if you have a broken ankle and someone comes in with internal bleeding, they're gonna treat the other person first. Combine that with under funding, which causes brain drain and nurses to flee the public sector leading to under staffing. Then you consider that funding doesn't just effect wages, but also stuff like the number of available equipment like MRI's, X-Rays, heck even just beds which causes issues with capacity. That's not even considering the situation with the family doctor network, or how people treat clinics vs emerg which both have an effect on how many people go to emerg rather than seek other options. It's a big system that can't operate efficiently without proper funding and regulation, it's not as simple as saying "Oh long wait times, must mean privatization is better" (even though this very documentary had an American complaining about waiting like 18 hours in emerg).
So yeah, it's no wonder some people experience long wait times in the Canadian healthcare system.
When you wait in Canada it's because your need isn't as pressing. When you wait in the US it's because your wallet isn't big enough.
Excellent! Thanks for showing this
1:03:00 , someone mentioned Healthcare in BC, and the context surrounding this comment means I am triggered.
I live in BC. We are currently looking to upgrade and expand downtown hospitals like St. Paul's and VGH to make capacity to serve people better.
The ER wait times of some of the hospitals I have been to over a 15 year period I have lived here are
2 hours at Langley Memorial Hospital
2-5 hour at Surrey Memorial Hospital
3 hours at Burnaby Hospital
I have also been to the ER and assessed to require immediate attention and been shown to a doctor right away, skipping the line of people who are probably going to wait a couple hours before seeing a doctor.
All the times above are long wait times, yes. But I have never been refused service, I have never, or known anyone who has ever been turned away. I used to live in Ontario and have waited 6 hours in an ER to be seen, but I was still seen at the end of the 6 hours, and I still had access to someone who could have alerted a doctor to see me in a moment if the attention I needed was critical. This is all from the Canadian medical system that is underfunded, and thus poorly run.
The Canadian healthcare system needs a lot of attention, but in the mean time, the broken system makes it very easy to see a doctor and get the medical attention needed. Where it sounds like the American system is broken and is denying people care. What is worse? Waiting 6 hours to get a life threatening injury dealt with, or waiting until you make 300k as the injury slowly kills you?
Those would all be pretty short wait times at many (most?) ERs in the US. If you’re having a heart attack or something else that’s immediately life threatening you get seen right away (at least usually), but anything else you have to wait. I went to the ER with a badly broken ankle several years ago (bone was sticking several inches out of my leg) and I had to wait about 90 minutes to be seen.
@elliotclausen2225 My point was that ER wait times in Canada are arguably long. 90 min in Canada would be a wait time practically no one would experience (although if your bone was sticking out of your leg, I would be supprised if you waited 90 min in Canada). But I the outside figure is around 5-8 hrs, which happens, but is rare. The average wait time people expect is 2-4 hrs. And that wait time doesn't involve anyone actively dying in the waitroom. Care is triaged. And noone is sent home after waiting. If you were to wait 10 hrs at an ER, like the comment claimed, you would get treatment at the end.
I honest would rather wait an extra 2 hrs to get medical attention that was completely free, then get in immediately and go into financial ruin after getting treatment.
I even went through my personal experience at several major hospitals in several cities. Anecdotal, but unless you have a study, all of this is.
@@Poisonfrogg oh I totally Agee that Canadian health care is faarrrrr preferable to US health care. The only point I was trying to make is that people here in the US are always pointing out how places like Canada and the UK have ‘long wait times’ as if we don’t also have long wait times here in the US. 90 minutes was the shortest I’ve waited in an ER. I’ve also waited 8 hours once…and then (like you said) later received a monstrous bill in the mail. It sucks ass. Also appointments with specialist sometimes are booked literally years out. I had a dermatology appointment I waited TWO years for. And then was charged an arm and a leg for. This system here is so predatory.
@elliotclausen2225 That is interesting to hear. And thank you for clarifying, I don't think I understood initially.
There is a growing faction in Canada that point to the USA Healthcare as preferable. Some of the most common talking points are wait times.
I had no idea that you could wait 2 years to see a specialist. In Canada my longest experience has been 1 year (which is because we have a staffing crisis after Covid).
I am sorry you don't have better access to Healthcare. I do think there would be value in strengthening a community of people willing to promote better politics in Canada and the USA. We all get our news from the same place, and generally want the same things...
Damn I wish that wasn't muted 33:00
Yeah. Wtf?
dmca stuff prolly
1:26 this. all of this. Exactly what is happening in Sao Paulo, Brazil . They scrap the entire service and sell it to a private company promising improvements, and they sell it cheaply.
I just watched this, like just finished and now I have you on.
Thank you for showing this film!
In 2020 I finally was diagnosed with a serious primary (probably born with) immune system deficiency. That requires super expensive monthly treatment just to be able to fight viruses, bacteria ect….
I was sick constantly as a kid and young adult. I was almost 40 before this got diagnosed after a bunch of specialists and tests. With the infusions I am max out of pocket 3 months in.
My dad actually had a good job with good insurance (blue cross) The doctors never came all that close to figuring out why I had those problems.
I remember pre existing conditions. It would be pretty hard to argue this isn’t one. Even then my family had trouble dealing with insurance for things like antibiotics and primary care visits.
It’s crazy to actually figure out I was actually pretty functional in my life besides a serious handicap. I was lucky to actually have insurance that couldn’t argue against my treatments. But that is through my work. That was a lot of work to “justify” even now.
Dealing with it all and barely being able to get to work has definitely burnt me out. The idea of losing my coverage is something that’s kept me at an abusive place for years.
I don’t know the solutions. Except the easiest seems to be to dissolve private insurance. The system is so ridiculous that the people who work for them can’t explain specific/direct questions about why an EOB seems contradictory. I spent 3 hours on the phone with Aetna yesterday…. The end result was the rep giving up on why I owe for something when my out of pocket is maxed out. Their own system doesn’t say.
Anyway….
I’m babbling, long story short is I’m glad there was some reform through the affordable care act. At least for myself.
My own healthcare is barely sustainable with “good” insurance.
It’s a bizarre system…
There is a reason every doctors office has people who’s job it is to medical code.
Protip to calling a doctors office. Quickest was to get transferred to where you need is to select “billing” when you call. 😅
I think I have more experience and understanding of dealing with insurance. I still have at least one big surprise charge and something that can’t be explained every year. Usually something that is pretty costly. Best I get out of an explanation is we’re right, you pay. Without explainations. The things people say we benefit from our system seem to actually line up with free systems every year.
Crap still ranting, good movie to show. I wish Americans would demand changes.
I’m certainly more worried with Trump and republicans calling the shots. Dems are definitely as indebted to the healthcare industry. They do have a little bit of shame at least. America chose the worse of the two evils.
I am personally trying not to think about those implications too much. It says something that medical of all things is what is occupying my brain power.
Quick side note…
I do need to get prior authorization for the monthly infusions. Thankfully that office has a person who is an expert in that.
They’ve actually gotten unrelated things approved that the specialist said would be too hard to try.
That was framed as because of the immune thing. The immunologist is who told me no it isn’t complicated because of my health. It’s just the prior authorization.
People will be unhappy with whatever the system is. It’s really a matter of how much damage is done to how many people based on the system.
I’ve noticed that there is a huge staff shortage in everything healthcare here. They can’t keep nurses. We have understaffed pharmacies. Walgreens is closing multiple stores/pharmacies here in the biggest city in AK. That has been an issue for years. Apparently they have one pharmacist splitting time between multiple stores. One person working at them isn’t at all unusual. Notes on the door that they can’t open as well.
This movie made me cry.😞
I want to hear a Republican diss track where the beat switches half way through and Hasan hits a “REEAAAAAGAANN”
I watched this on release. Been frustrated for people in a different country for a long time now.
I like the part where Hasan chastises the chat for being purity police on the whistleblower.
I love people saying Canadian healthcare as long wait times. While I’m trying to get something to help with sleep and it takes 5months from when I called for it… I doubt insurance is gonna be nice either
"Yeah use a bunch more big words that will convince us all" - why are you even joining his chat if you think "class consciousness" is a "big word" you don't want to hear in life? Go watch Mr Bondarelli's stream or something.
The fact that our taxes already pay the private companies is making my head hurt. Us as Americans have been sold this crazy way of living just egregious hours, and for less (thanks ww2) and most of our money getting funneled out of homes and to entities we don’t see. Again, thank you WW2 because we have just gotten used to that mind set because we never went back.
after taking a public health class in college it has tremendously opened my eyes to the medical industry
Hasan screaming REAAAAGAANNNNN is so funny 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣