Safety-not just healthcare-is rapidly declining in the USA. Watch this video where Mr. Henderson comments on the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson and explains what wealthy entrepreneurs and investors can do to protect themselves: ruclips.net/video/cF309aooVsI/видео.html
Luigi's family reportedly owns 9 Luxury Retirement/Nursing homes. add those types of facilities can bill taxes about $10,000 a day per patient for absurdly poor results?
Funny thing - they said the same thing to people living in dystopian countries like Russia, North Korea, Myanma, Zimbabwe, Syria, and Libya, as well as those in developing and under-developed countries like Afghanistan, Mexico, Lebanon, Venezuela. Chile, Iraq, Laos. etc. So, is the U.S. in the same league as those countries today?
@@ArtSmosh1274sorry, but you're wrong. The USD to MXN PPP has increased pretty steadily since the 1990s. USD gives you some avantage in Mexico, but it won't turn a middle class income into a princely sum.
The US is number one in the world for healthcare for the rich. There's a reason Gulf royalty and other obscenely wealthy people come to America for surgeries and treatment. It's just in America you got to be in the top 1 percent to have access to the best healthcare.
My income is nearly at the bottom of the food scale, I could never be a client of yours but I have watched your channel for some time and I just followed your program. Go where you get treated better.. so I did.. I moved from the uk to Greece. Yes I could earn more in one day in the uk than I do in a week here in Greece but I treated better the price of living is cheaper and the weather is so much better why would I go back. So for those people out there that say this channel is not for them because they don’t have a million in change… listen the program works for all of us. Just do your research and take that jump, it’s worth it..
Agreed @timbrown8123, folks need to take the info, do some research and some soul searching and then take action. It's a more do it yourself independent approach.
MEDICAL services ≠ HEALTH care. "Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet; in an environment equally fit for birth, growth, work, healing, and dying... Healthy people need no bureaucratic interference to mate, give birth, share the human condition and die." - Ivan Dominic Illich
The only people who think the US has the best health care are people who have never been to a doctor overseas. I've had to visit the doctor in Gibraltar, Korea, and Bahrain. All were easier, better, and cheaper than the US. All of them.
Because you're poor. A lot of the upper class of other countries come to the US for healthcare. Especially surgeries. But the best is reserved for th wealthiest. It's that simple.
@@mrb152 Yeah - I'd agree that healthcare in Greenland is so poor that the Eskimos resort to eating the livers of seals as a cure for maladies since they cannot find a pharmacy anywhere to fill their scripts. /s
@@poorman2457 I'm not poor, you idiot, you don't know me. I'm guessing you've visited doctors in multiple countries overseas, because you're so rich, I'm sure you travel a lot. Poor little me has only been to 36 countries.
In 2008, my son was in a single vehicle accident. He was uninjured but the responding deputy called an ambulance and he was transported to the hospital. At the emergency room, he waited almost three hours before someone spoke to him. He was never examined but was told he was fine and could leave. The bill (again, back in 2008) was $13,000.
I've lost a lot of blood due to GI bleeding caused by NSAIDs, and got into a hospital by ambulance in Portugal. I haven't had government insurance at the time and the doctors estimated endoscopy with clamps and two weeks of control would cost around 3000€. I thought it was not a problem as I was transferred from a private hospital that didn't have equipment and the private insurance will cover that, but doctors asked how long I lived there, and as I was working legally for more than half a year they just registered me and it was completely free. Even if it wasn't, it's not that much, and that wouldn't even cover an ambulance over the pond. I wasn't happier giving up on the American dream, as this unfortunate event would just bankrupt me in the US.
I know someone who was here on vacation and one morning woke up not feeling well so her daughter took her vitals and found that her blood pressure was very high, so she took her to the hospital emergency room where a doctor saw her after a two hour wait gave her a prescription and sent her home, later she got the bill from the hospital $5000, i kid you not.
@Paladin_Strategic While on vacation in Florida, I passed out in the bathroom of the hotel where I was staying. The ambulance was called, and the paramedics had already put me on the stretcher when I woke up, able to understand what was happening. Immediately I raised hell and demanded not to be taken to the hospital, against the advice of those present. I estimate that I saved myself $20,000 in hospital bills by standing firm.
i had a ingrown toenail for over a year in indonesia and i eventually gave up and went to a hospital and got surgery it cost $32 USD and it was very quick and clean
Because we eat terrible food and are extremely overweight. It's actually a miracle that the health systme can keep fat people alive for as long as it does.
I do not for one minute blame physicians, especially highly skilled surgeons, for exhorbitant medical costs. Andrew is correct about the schemes to limit the number of physicians. The education requirements in the US are completely unreasonable. In some countries, a medical degree program is six years, start to finish. Rarely, this is possible in the US, where only second-year-level university science classes are pre-requisities to admission to US medical schools. Another big factor I learned is that non-medical administrators and managers are often paid $300,000 or more with only a master's degree, not a medical degree. Understand this, the United States is not a free market.
The public taxes you would pay for a Medicare for all system, would be significantly less than the private taxes we pay currently to health insurance middlemen.
In Colombia when you pay health insurance I could say 100% is covered, when I move to the US I got an accident mountain biking I had a small but deep cut bleeding everywhere, a guy pull up and say put instant glue in your wound otherwise the hospital bill is at least $20K. Another story my wife had an emergency something simple $5.870 US dollars to be provided with ibuprofen by the ER. Why people in the US makes gofundme to bury the body of their belove ones ?
Stop going to the ER! It's not meant for the things you describe. There are thousands of urgent care centers and the prices for the services you are talking about are capped at $350 WITHOUT insurance. ERs are for life threatening emergencies, hence the name. Many hospitals even have their own urgent care centers, and it the issue becomes emergent they will have the resources.
@@mrb152 I cannot go into details, but she didnt look well with fever and very fragile, I hate hospitals that was my first and only time. Regardless US healthcare sucks.
Sad, but true. The American health care system has been greatly altered to model the military industrial complex... endless spending and no accountability... a great gig if you can get it (unless you are on the receiving end). This is why it is a great idea for Americans to start with an up-to-date American passport first... then, if you are unfortunate enough to really need medical care, then you have the opportunity to take a vacation and get treated in another country... all cheaper than your out-of-pocket costs even after your insurance kicks in. Why do you think medical tourism is so popular with westerners (not just with Americans... Canada's & UK's healthcare systems aren't a whole lot better).
That in itself I dont have a problem with, its when they have their thumb on the scale and overprice their services to consistently increase their profits that I have a problem with
@@ayannafit2441CEOs will tell you point blank that their number one priority is to maximize profits and value for shareholders. The system isn’t broken. The system is working as designed.
It is not $500 per year that you need to pay for health insurance. The average for a single individual is $9,000 per year + deductibles. For a small family of 4, you are looking at around $18,000 in premiums. And then, even with all of that, the insurance providers basically have a default response to reject all claims and effectively make it mandatory to go through a series a appease to get coverage. Most other countries just won't let them get away with that and have better food and an adequate base line public healthcare system that overall works to keep the nuts and bolts of healthcare costs down.
So true vid. This is the best vid explaining the cost of healthcare. I’m a retired registered nurse. When I moved, I lost my trusted healthcare givers. Now, t like the video explains, we are in a system of administration providers, not nurses or doctors, but “consultants.” In 5 years I have yet to get a physical. I’m told I need 3 consults to schedule a physical. While I had United healthcare AARP, it is not solely to blame. The physicians are milking the system with all their 10 minute consults. And while I used to be offered an A1c test, I was told by a nurse that I didn’t look like I had diabetes. Begging for basic lab tests shouldn’t be. And the Medicare healthcare system actually pays in full for these tests. Also, no doctor where I live wants to see anyone with a cough or cold. I’m told to go to the emergency room. And then some emergency rooms will not admit you either as I was turned down in two before accepted in the third. This didn’t happen yrs ago when people were afraid of Covid, this happened Nov 2024.
How do you like EPIC? My wife hated it. It's partly why she retired from the ER after 38 years. And lucky for her - COVID hit 2 months later. Too much of our health care workers' time is devoured by bureaucracy. And that just burns up cash.
Personal experience, went to emergency room in Brazil. It cost me 200 dollars ,they did x-rays, blood test and another test. In United States it would have been a thousand for room or more.
Believe it or not, I had a cranetomy for a chronic hematoma (brain bleed), I experienced in Mexico City and the surgeon did an outstanding job and my health insurance in the USA paid 100%. I would have had to pay at least 15% and the deductible too and extra for lab tests and outside doctors etc...iin the USA. I paid nothing, zero. I had a last minute decision, to get it done at the Mayo clinic or in Mexico. I decided on Mexico to avoid all the extra charges and aggravation. Glad I crossed the USA off my list!
@NOCDIB Yes, that's what I said. I wouldn't go there like ever and USE my health insurance. It's cheaper actually to get insurance in Mexico. But since they paid 100% I used it. I wouldn't use it in the USA at all or go get medical care there. There's better options.
I had a roommate who had congestive heart failure, hypertension, and diabetes, mostly if not completely because of his diet. He also weighed almost 400 lbs. His doctors prescribed shopping bags full of drugs for him, but never educated him about improving his diet. I guess he was the perfect patient. Lots of expensive treatment that will continue indefinitely.
And that is a "controversal" area, like oh we can eat what we want...Mind you the food is ENGINEERED to be addictive, but still. Personal responsiblity is nill.
Thanks for this info! So helpful. As a single mother working hard to elevate my family into a better financial position, I am terrified all of my hard work will be obliterated by my daughter's health condition which requires ongoing surgeries. I have seriously been weighing my options in other countries which could offer us a better outcome.
MEDICAL services ≠ HEALTH care. "Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet; in an environment equally fit for birth, growth, work, healing, and dying... Healthy people need no bureaucratic interference to mate, give birth, share the human condition and die." - Ivan Dominic Illich
Thank you for this video. I moved to Ecuador. The healthcare here is very good and affordable. I recently had a neurological event, and got in to see a neurologist as a new patient the same day! It cost $45 to see him. The doctors I have seen here are excellent, many having trained in Mexico, Spain, Brazil, and the US. The private insurance here has been a pain, in my experience. They do not seem to like paying claims, and it takes lots of time and effort to deal with them. I once had a claim rejected because the insurance company did not like the doctors handwriting! The social healthcare system is bankrupt, so it is not very good generally, but maybe good for emergencies. If you can self pay, it is very affordable, and is a great place for healthcare.
Medical Doctors become rich fast in the USA then retire early and go into real state etc. this is one main reason we have less doctors, especially experienced one-take it from a Professor
They are not going to change because one guy got shot, but perhaps it inspires politicians to see that this violence will only increase if they don't start helping people. Desperate folks do terrible things.
Yup - like the French Revolution ("let them eat cake"), the American Revolution ("no taxation without representation"), the Russian Revolution ("slavs and not slaves"), the Chinese Revolution ("100 years of humiliation"), the Cuban Revolution ("no more corruption from foreign domination"), the Slave Rebellions (Revolts), the Intifada (Palestinian Arab uprising), etc, etc. History is resplendent with actual events when common people are driven to the point when they can take repression and oppression by the wealthy and powerful no further, especially after all attempts in peaceful persuasion have failed to bring about the changes sought. As President John F. Kennedy has said in 1962 - very astutely - "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, will make violent revolution inevitable." Is this where the U.S. Healthcare for all Americans heading in the U.S.? Must violent uprising against an unfair and unjust system finally have to take place before a Universal Healthcare system be finally introduced into the U.S. so that it joins the rest of the developed countries? By the way, for those who criticize the faults in the Universal Healthcare system in other countries and as a result, their system "does not work", their line of "logic" is that same as "throwing the baby out with the bath water". When there are faults and problems in anything, do we simply discard the item completely and not try to find solutions? When the early internal combustion "horseless carriage" vehicles first hit the scene, it was full of faults and problems but as thinking humans, those problems and faults were steadily worked on and ironed out over the many decades and while still imperfect, we persisted because we believe it to be worthwhile. A baby born is full of imperfections (don't know how to walk, take care of themselves, how to feed, etc) but apart from those who chose abortions, we don't get rid of babies nor even having them totally. A Universal Healthcare System for all as a basic human right to health care is a worthwhile project and whatever faults that exist, we should work on them to make it as perfect as we can. By not doing so, we end up with the U.S. Republican Democratic System that is supposed to be an experiment when it began in which changes to modify it to make it "more perfect" as time went on, has not been carried out and we have what we have today - a still imperfect Constitution.
People need to stop counting on the government to solve their problems. As long as Americans can choose not to pay health insurance companies, they shouldn’t.
Its not just the price, Healthcare in the USA sucks. You rarely see a real Doctor, and when they show up, it's a 5 min saying hello as the Medical Practitioner costs the same as a real Doctor. Urgent Care is also poor as the quality is all over the place.
Direct Primary Care is the answer. Its a non-insurance based practice. You pay $60 month, unlimited visits, no co-pays, no deductibles, wholesale meds and labs--no middle man to interfere between you and your primary care doctor. Now if they could also do that for more specialized care that would solve this insurance mess.
Americans don’t understand how terrible healthcare actually is until they live in another country. When I lived in France, it was 10X better than anything I’ve ever had in the US. Not even comparable. And to the haters: yes I went to the ER. Minimal wait time. And I paid $0. All that to be said, the healthcare industry in the US is “too big to fail” at this point. There is no way it can change radically enough to be better. Only thing you can do is leave.
Some other countries are really different. Brazil for example. One of the worst free public healthcare in the world but if you pay a private consultation and pay for your exams you will probably get one of the best treatment
Well said. Many countries are like this. The government health care part is always corrupt and terrible quality. The private part is efficient and excellent. I walked in to a private clinic in Ukraine in 2018 and got an MRI for $41.25 at the current exchange rate then. It was a one year old German-made Siemens machine....top of the line. I had no appointment and only a 20 minute wait. In the U.S., an MRI cost $2700 on average at that time (I remember because I looked it up). Even after insurance, it's a few hundred dollars. An MRI is just a picture of what is happening in your body. It should be the first thing done before anything else. In the U.S., insurance companies require six months of physical therapy BEFORE paying for a picture of what is going on. No physical therapist should be screwing around with your body without looking at such a picture. Our system in the U.S. is screwed up because the government is in it. Almost all corruption in this world comes from government. Remove the government from the system and you will remove the corruption.
The thing is because public healthcare exists then private healthcare must be competitive against it. Without public healthcare, you will get an economic singularity: A monopoly on a service with infinite demand (live vs death); all the money in the world for your life.
@@billstrasburg384my husband just had lumbar lower back MRI right away. His doctor gave him a script and BCBS covered it without any problems 🤷♀️ My father also had MRI thru Aetna insurance 6 months ago. No issues.
The one thing that's incorrect is that a nationwide coverage would increase the price anyone would pay for coverage, even in taxes. The cost for any kind of insurance here (even with employer help) is ridiculously high and there are still large deductibles and things that simply aren't covered. I have catastrophic-only insurance and self-pay most of the time. It saves a lot of money that way as the doctors reduce the bill at least 20%--sometimes as much as 80%.
Ontario's health care is death by stealth. Can't get a Doc. Clinics are fewer now and way overcrowded. Hospital Emergency ? Bring a sleeping bag. For me, there is no health care. I am 75 and need to get a health care regime up and running before any problems present. Where can I find that? Sure as certain not here. Dying on a gurney in a hospital hallway, like the founder of our medicare here experienced, doesn't appeal to me. Overseas pay-as-I-go is going to be my Plan B. Thought provoking video, thankyou.
Problem is that the average person can be easily misled and manipulated by large corporations. The free market doesn't work efficiently here since people on average are incapable of making informed decisions as consumers (e.g. not using the bad healthcare insurance companies). So bad companies continue to practice, don't get outcompeted and have no incentive to change.
There’s no free market, I use ACA as self employed, there’s only one provider in the state marketplace, and none of it is HSA eligible since two years ago.
What evidence do you have that a free market wouldn't work here? When you say "here", are you talking about the U.S.? There has not been a free market in the U.S. since the 1930s. Do you know what a free market is? A free market is free of government intervention in the marketplace. The "free" part means free of government. No one can rationally claim that healthcare is free of government regulations, taxation, lobbying, corruption, and other intervention. More government means more corruption.....higher prices, lower quality care, and more lobbying (you know what lobbying is, right? Government bureaucrats are the ones lobbied to because they literally control the system through regulation). More government means more corruption. Almost all corruption comes from government. When there is competition in the market, people can just switch to a provider who is not ripping them off. Only the free market allows competition. Socialism creates monopolies and oligopolies in a market. Marxist projection is the #1 tactic of socialists to create an army of Useful Idiots who will brainlessly attack Capitalism. What we NEED is a free market.
Ok, honest question. I left Colombia when I was five and just returned for the first time in 53 years for a quick visit. I was surprised to find out I was still a citizen and had to get my Colombian passport and Cedula before my visit. During my trip there my family did their best to tell me all that was wrong with Bogotá and Colombia, which by the way was cleaner than NYC and I only saw one homeless person. I have been watching this channel and due to my age and the fact I’m retired from law enforcement, but currently working as a Trauma Therapist I don’t have the ability or energy to become a global citizen. However, my sons do. Here is my question to this community. Would it be advisable to get them Colombian citizenships on top of their U. S. Citizenships. My old, stuck in their way boomer families think I’m nuts. But truth be told I have been wrong before.
It is that way for four reasons: 1. The problem is that government allowed and encouraged the big corporations to take over healthcare, and all that the CEOs care about is making more $$$. Years ago most hospitals used to be run by religious groups and charitable organizations, most clinics used to be run either by states, counties, municipalities, or community organizations, and most private practices used to be owned by the physicians themselves. Now, private equity owns and controls pretty much all of it and patients and quality of care are not a priority. 2. Also, a lot of the so-called 'clinical research' behind our evidence-based best practices is fake garbage that is often secretly paid for pharmaceutical corporations. 3. Obamacare. 4. Unauthorized residents from elsewhere who have overrun the hospital ERs seeking free healthcare...which by law has to be provided upfront, regardless of ability to pay. The hospitals eithe rmust eat those costs or pass them on to everyone else. And, guess what they do MOST of the time...? I have a feeling that a lot of this stuff is about to change though.
Obamacare didn’t make things worse 😂😂😂 It is clearly flawed but it does cover preexisting conditions. It didn’t contribute to the healthcare system we have today 😂 Trump was supposed to get rid of Obamacare and replace it with something “much better” 😂😂😂 He did jack squat and only has a “concept of a plan” after 9years
Look at all of you idiots, bitching about who’s political stance is the best. You’re all part of why it will NEVER change. Obama, Trump, Harris, Biden… they are all the same establishment puppets who’s sole job is to brainwash enough of you into believing their version of the establishment narrative is the best.
Get big pharma designer drug ads out of all forms of media. Get big pharma execs out of the revolving door known as the FDA. People are becoming far to reliant on expensive designer drugs to solve all their problems. It is making normal healthcare unaffordable for everyone!
The USA has great healthcare **technology** but has horrible healthcare **dispensation** - that, the fact that private healthcare insurance companies make incredible profits based upon **denying the people who paid for that "insurance" access to the healthcare** , and the fact that this is almost the only country where the number one reason for bankruptcy is due to paying for healthcare ... all are strong reasons why the life expectancy in the USA has been declining since ronald reagan's administration. Go to where you are treated best - while you still can...
Perhaps in some countries ... but the USA has a great system of checks and balances - the healthcare market abuse is counterbalanced by the second amendment.
Health care is a personal responsibility, not a right. It’s completely ridiculous to call it a right. Pay your health care provider. They have an extremely valuable skill. Make sure you can afford it! If not, find an organization who will pay on your behalf. But it’s not a right.
@ probably a response from someone where health care is not available to everybody. If you treat health care as a market, you put a price on people’s lives and the health sector can ask whatever they want (because the are supposed to have a valuable skill). Health care is not a market as people do not have a choice whether or not use it.
Direct Primary Care is the answer. Its a non-insurance based practice. You pay $60 month, unlimited visits, no co-pays, no deductibles, wholesale meds and labs--no middle man to interfere between you and your primary care doctor. Now if they could also do that for more specialized care that would solve this insurance mess.
Possible TMI, The food is a huge thing. I go to the carribean or thailand my allergic asthma is so much better. Also while we were in thailand i noticed my breasts werent lumpy anymore. I was always told some lumpiness as long as its not a hard mass is normal but while i was in Thailand for a couple months the lumps (which i am assuming was inflammation in the lymph nodes in the breasts) was completely gone. And when i got my menstrual i had no pain in my breasts and no migraines either. But when i came back to the US my first menstrual felt like my nips were on fire and now theyre lumpy again and i had a migraine for two weeks.
@YogaBlissDance absolutely. I don't eat oily food in general but there's definitely something with the quality of the food here. I had breakfast at the hotel and I grabbed a waffle and eggs and I could just taste the artificial in it. And I felt super bloated after I ate it. The only food within walking distance after we flew in to Boston and got to our hotel also was Starbucks so I got the spinach sandwich and also didn't feel too good after I ate that. And the drink was soooo syrupy. I knew better and did it anyway cuz I was hungry 😭
@@usernameryan5982 These people are morons, you’re wasting your breath. They are the same people that think voting for a new political party to be in power will change the system. The establishment and system is here to stay, certainly within all of our lifetime which is why the core message within the video is so poignant. Either go where you are treated best in the world, or spend your life campaigning for change that will never happen and complaining. That’s the choice we all have to make.
I wish US citizens did fight against their real common enemy and not with eachother like politics and corporations make them. I lived there for years and their healthcare is the cruelest once I have ever seen and sooooo expensive!! even our private most expensive healthcare in Europe is waaaay cheaper than the US, and we are talking about human lifes, so makes no sense. our life expectency here 82yrs old... US 76yrs... difference? universal preventive healthcare and that also makes it so the guvenment really takes care of what you eat, for it costs them momeny if you get sick. Wake up people!! and in spain we have huge problems too, but healthcare is not one of them (although its getting worst)
Hong Kong has the longest life expectancy in the world and, more importantly, a much longer healthspan. Japan is second. Even China leaves the US in the dust, especially for healthspan.
@கோபிசுதாகர் see, a lot of sheltered Americans genuinely believe the entire world that isn't the west lives in grinding poverty with no hope or opportunities. It's not how the world works, but they really just don't know.
MEDICAL services ≠ HEALTH care. "Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet; in an environment equally fit for birth, growth, work, healing, and dying... Healthy people need no bureaucratic interference to mate, give birth, share the human condition and die." - Ivan Dominic Illich
After going through the system with my Mom the last 3 years and learning first hand the extent of the inertia and chaos in the system which is either overworked /understaffed or just driven by private equity and profit, is enraging. It is mindboggling, nothing you can do except be there everyday with your loved one to make sure they do their jobs and your relative does not get overlooked. Happens all the time. The nurses and Dr.s generally are good and good people and the education excellent. But the system is a behemoth, a mess. Now you are seeing overseas nurses and Dr.s in droves in parts of the US. Good money for them, standards are relaxing to handle the shortage of med workers, we had nurses of which we could not understand a syllable of their speech. I dread aging here. Medicare did come through, but they are getting ripped off by "providers". A heart test that is $500 gets billed as $5000. A two week stint in the hospital for elderly with multiple issues=$400k +/-. Billiions and Billions of dollars are running through the system. And yet care is getting worse, not the tech or the individual themselves, it is just overwhelmed and patients suffer less attention.
We do not need insurance companies AT ALL... The US government (taxpayer) covers over 60% of the bloated cost of 69th rate remedial sick care. GAWD, must be nice to be among the global top .1% right? You can move around and "shop" for health care. IT"S THE PROFIT MOTIVE THAT DRIVES SICK CARE -- The systemic issue is that we live in an Oligarchy and the people are ASLEEP and are kept POOR.
I'd like to double down on overconsumption of over-processed food being a major factor in our poor healthcare. So many Americans have a Yolo attitude toward what they eat and do to their bodies, and hospitals are overwhelmed with obesity related ailments. I can't imagine how much my taxes would be raised to compensate for the unhealthy lifestyles of others.
It is more than a YOLO attitude. Most of our food chain is full of garbage that is either inflammatory or destructive to our bodies' systems. If you have a lot of time and money you can find good food. Why can't we have at LEAST the same food regulations as the EU and get almost all of the garbage or of our food? I hope RFKJ can make a difference and live through it.
A relative of mine orders drugs for a major hospital in a big US city. The cost of lower priced drugs are routinely marked up 2,000% whereas expensive drugs are marked up 500%.
it's true that US Healthcare is really bad. in CA state, it has massive debt, therefore MAiD was acted, along with 10 US states. people have to choose from MAid or medicine
Healthcare for all. There are some things that shouldn't have a profit motive. Healthcare is one of them. Xray machines, the actual DEVICES, no. But the CARE and Medicine, keep that shit away from Capital.
bad idea. A disaster wherever tried. Doctors are not slaves, their labor is subject to markets jsut like everyone else, not the political whims of the morons who run governments.
@@realretta Same thing here. I had to fly to California for a good pelvic surgeon as wait time to SEE the doctor (not even for surgery, just to be evaluated) was 3-6mos in my state...this is anywhere in my state even if I drove 2-3hrs to the largest city. Then this year I needed a simple ultrasound for a mass I grew that was extremely suspicious for cancer, and my PCP wanted the ultrasound ordered STAT/as soon as possible/rush. The 3 local ultrasound places in town would have had me waiting weeks or months to get the scan. I had to drive 60 miles to another city to get an ultrasound, and I needed the ultrasound to see a specialist that could address the mass. If I wanted to see a local specialist for the mass I would have been waiting 2-3mos, so I had to again drive about 70 miles to be seen within a few weeks time. I do not live in a small town, I live in a city of about 130,000 people. Yet I have to drive 50-100 miles for care typically, or even fly out of state to California or Texas. When I schedule appts with my PCP in town the soonest I can ever get is 4-6wks out.
Before the ACA, Medicare had the highest rejection rate. They would refuse care exponentially above private insurance rates. I wonder what it looks like now.
I recently had to have my ACL reconstructed for the 2nd time, this time I went under the NHS because I had a lacklusture experience via my private medical insurance (paid by work). Overall, the experience was great, considering it cost me £0 and took about 2 month from MRI to surgery. It took about 2 weeks through private, and the dates are very flexible but thats about the only difference. Also I had to pay the surcharge of £300.
I read an article in Time Magazine years ago. Every step in America health care has someone has their hand out for moolah. Look at insurance companies tons of Salaries for employees just processing. And the executive Salaries are better than hitting the Lottery several times over. AMA restricts number of doctors. European Doctors are paid less than in America. Lobbiests and Politicians in America is a big issue. Revolving doors for political cronies that pass legislation
Direct Primary Care is the answer. Its a non-insurance based practice. You pay $60 month, unlimited visits, no co-pays, no deductibles, wholesale meds and labs--no middle man to interfere between you and your primary care doctor. Now if they could also do that for more specialized care that would solve this insurance mess.
Al Chile man, you are spot on, paying a medical insurance cost 500 dollars per month and it can't cover the half of the price of your medical bills WTF!! 😮
professions with heavy gov interference are mostly unaffordable and a headache to deal with, wonder whats the pattern... 9:21 under money printing, capitalism and communism are the same thing
The amount of people doubling down and calling for more government control of this almost completely government-controlled system is ridiculous. Almost all corruption in this world comes from government. To remove the corruption, we must remove the government control.
I went to an accident and emergency department while on holidays in Spain. Waiting time was about 15 minutes to see a doctor and everything was as completely free. Impressive health care system.
The problem with US health care is a product You have to buy and you don't have time to take for someone to negotiate the prices so you need regulations, If your house is burning no one expect you to call multiple fire stations to get a quotation
The problem is too much regulation and government involvement. Government regulation is where all the corruption is from. More government equals more corruption, that's why we are having this conversation. Too many people keep doubling down and calling for more government when the last call for government didn't work. The amount of government intervention and regulation in health care in the U.S. is absolutely insane.
@billstrasburg384 oh really all around the world health care is regulated, you can't allow health care to be just for profit. Regulations in Obama care is what made kicking off people with preexisting conditions illegal, and more should be done to prior authorization, and medicine should be regulated so you won't have an opuim crisis and it's prices should be negotiated on the state or federal level
@@billstrasburg384 health care is a service that you can't make the market regulate it , so government must do it , I'm with you on other issues but not health care
The government specifically chose this as a policy. They intentionally obscurred the prices. The vast majority of healthcare costs are no emergent like a house fire and you could in fact choose ahead of time.
Public vs. private is a false debate. Public care in Canada is crappy… well, health professionel staff is good, but accessing them is quite a quest. Plus, bureaucracy is insane, data sharing between facilities is chaotic. Plus, North American patients often prefer their "agency" to pork, smoke, drink and sit idle, and expect the system to fix them. In Japan, doctors measure their patients’ waist and, if overweight, even the slightest, put them on a diet. Japanese are the thinnest people in the world. I condemn fat-shaming, but obesity as a public health issue should be tackled more seriously.
Direct Primary Care is the answer. Its a non-insurance based practice. You pay $60 month, unlimited visits, no co-pays, no deductibles, wholesale meds and labs--no middle man to interfere between you and your primary care doctor. Now if they could also do that for more specialized care that would solve this insurance mess.
The US can look to ANY other developed country for how to solve healthcare in the US. There are just too many people who have a vested interest in keeping US healthcare inefficient, and too many politicians who are willing to accept money from them.
I am British and going to settle in Portugal on a D7 visa. Better healthcare than the UK anywhere else I go as a tourist. If your American moves, then visit the US as a tourist.
I can't wait to leave the Violent Divided Impoverished States of America. I have traveled to over 20 countries and I have seen the light that no matter how rich or poor you are life in better in other developed and wealthy countries. Even the declining western countries have a better quality of life the US does.
Some jobs offer Health and Welfare (H&W) pay on top of regular salary. That H&W pay, from the jobs I see, is like $5 an hour. The employee can reject getting health insurance (ie they already have one) and get an additional $5 to their paycheck. This says a lot on how much healthcare costs in America.
The problem with USA healthcare is not having the right and proper health equipment and medication to meet patient's demand.Its not just about the cost the same thing with the education system,cost is one of the problems but it is most certainly not the only problem.
I disagree about the taxes. The middle class pays more tax because we have had since Reagan, write offs and deductions taken away for decades. This leaves us less to invest. I somewhat agree with you about healthcare although I am in a California union job and have had excellent health care at no cost for my entire career. I paid nothing for a surgery I had last April and got stellar care. I think the quality of care you get depends on the region. Idaho for example has good health care but West Virginia does not. Rural hospitals are closing at an alarming pace in the USA. Life expectancy is lower due to lower quality of life- long commutes, working more and eating a poor diet. I think diet and lifestyle are the issues. Our food is getting worse here. I travel an hour to a family farm to buy some of my food. You do put your faith in government though in the countries you live in.
Safety-not just healthcare-is rapidly declining in the USA. Watch this video where Mr. Henderson comments on the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson and explains what wealthy entrepreneurs and investors can do to protect themselves: ruclips.net/video/cF309aooVsI/видео.html
Luigi's family reportedly owns 9 Luxury Retirement/Nursing homes. add those types of facilities can bill taxes about $10,000 a day per patient for absurdly poor results?
and medical gaslighting, medical upcoding, alleged 33% kickbacks between medical doctors, for skid row California results?
Luigi himself a result of psychadelics treatment from Mental Healthcare?
Get real, the USA doctors etc cover up pathogens causing disease to Medical Upcode?
Too many guns in the US.
I think the US is the only country where a single surgery can force a family to sell their home and go on food stamps. It’s mind blowing.
It must depend on your state. In my state, you could declare bankruptcy, keep your house and your car, and go on as normal.
@@edennis8578 which state is that?
@@edennis8578 Yes, I’ve heard some do that.
Which state?@@edennis8578
At least the only rich country where something like that happens.
Every time you tell people in America that our health care sucks you get the love it or leave it speech.
I left due to overpriced healthcare in the U.S.
I left for various reasons but healthcare was one those.
Funny thing - they said the same thing to people living in dystopian countries like Russia, North Korea, Myanma, Zimbabwe, Syria, and Libya, as well as those in developing and under-developed countries like Afghanistan, Mexico, Lebanon, Venezuela. Chile, Iraq, Laos. etc. So, is the U.S. in the same league as those countries today?
That's all I heard from this guy. It sycks here😟
What do you think Andrew did
This is a tough video to swallow because it's so true
Yes, thank you for your comment.
We moved to Mexico and one thing we definitely don't have to worry about is how much healthcare is going to cost us.
I mean, you got us dollars, which is a lot over there.
This is actually not a solution you are just moving to a country where your dollar has more power. Then still complain about socialised healthcare.
@@ArtSmosh1274sorry, but you're wrong. The USD to MXN PPP has increased pretty steadily since the 1990s. USD gives you some avantage in Mexico, but it won't turn a middle class income into a princely sum.
@@BSenta It is an answer. I agree Mexico has better healthcare and so does England.
Wow! Good video. The US is number one in people in prison. Number one in addicts. Number one in military spending. They are number one in some things.
The US is number one in the world for healthcare for the rich. There's a reason Gulf royalty and other obscenely wealthy people come to America for surgeries and treatment. It's just in America you got to be in the top 1 percent to have access to the best healthcare.
Number 1 in horrible things. Sad.
All the drugs on the planet come out of LAX. Those are American values they are always talking about.
Especially now that all the convicts in Russia opted to join the army to get out of jail.
Number one in having demons in power
My income is nearly at the bottom of the food scale, I could never be a client of yours but I have watched your channel for some time and I just followed your program. Go where you get treated better.. so I did.. I moved from the uk to Greece. Yes I could earn more in one day in the uk than I do in a week here in Greece but I treated better the price of living is cheaper and the weather is so much better why would I go back.
So for those people out there that say this channel is not for them because they don’t have a million in change… listen the program works for all of us. Just do your research and take that jump, it’s worth it..
Agreed @timbrown8123, folks need to take the info, do some research and some soul searching and then take action. It's a more do it yourself independent approach.
I dated a U.S. doctor who knew very little about preventive care. It's hard to believe they call themselves doctors.
I'm a nurse and I am amazed daily at how obtuse they really are. Don't trust them and never did.
MEDICAL services ≠ HEALTH care.
"Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet; in an environment equally fit for birth,
growth, work, healing, and dying... Healthy people need no bureaucratic interference to mate, give birth,
share the human condition and die." - Ivan Dominic Illich
They are trained to sell you pills and therapies, not to promote health.
Preventative medicine doesn't pay the health insurance companies. Therefore, it's not taught in medical school
I see them as a Vending machine instead of a doctor! My pediatrician was the last of the Mohican.
I've been to 57 countries. Never spent so much money on food yet been so ill as i do during 9 months in the USA. Even the expensive food is junk here.
US is worst country in the world, no doubt about that
The only people who think the US has the best health care are people who have never been to a doctor overseas. I've had to visit the doctor in Gibraltar, Korea, and Bahrain. All were easier, better, and cheaper than the US. All of them.
I was in the middle east 2015-2017 and the doctors actually LISTEN to you before giving a diagnosis. It was the best hardship post I experienced.
I went to one in croatia. It was horrible. Also pharmacies overseas are a huge pain, barely anything easily available OTC.
Because you're poor. A lot of the upper class of other countries come to the US for healthcare. Especially surgeries. But the best is reserved for th wealthiest. It's that simple.
@@mrb152 Yeah - I'd agree that healthcare in Greenland is so poor that the Eskimos resort to eating the livers of seals as a cure for maladies since they cannot find a pharmacy anywhere to fill their scripts. /s
@@poorman2457 I'm not poor, you idiot, you don't know me. I'm guessing you've visited doctors in multiple countries overseas, because you're so rich, I'm sure you travel a lot. Poor little me has only been to 36 countries.
In 2008, my son was in a single vehicle accident. He was uninjured but the responding deputy called an ambulance and he was transported to the hospital. At the emergency room, he waited almost three hours before someone spoke to him. He was never examined but was told he was fine and could leave. The bill (again, back in 2008) was $13,000.
I've lost a lot of blood due to GI bleeding caused by NSAIDs, and got into a hospital by ambulance in Portugal. I haven't had government insurance at the time and the doctors estimated endoscopy with clamps and two weeks of control would cost around 3000€. I thought it was not a problem as I was transferred from a private hospital that didn't have equipment and the private insurance will cover that, but doctors asked how long I lived there, and as I was working legally for more than half a year they just registered me and it was completely free. Even if it wasn't, it's not that much, and that wouldn't even cover an ambulance over the pond. I wasn't happier giving up on the American dream, as this unfortunate event would just bankrupt me in the US.
I know someone who was here on vacation and one morning woke up not feeling well so her daughter took her vitals and found that her blood pressure was very high, so she took her to the hospital emergency room where a doctor saw her after a two hour wait gave her a prescription and sent her home, later she got the bill from the hospital $5000, i kid you not.
Even the Sicilian mafia would flinch at the practices of the US "healthcare" cartel. The USA today is merely a collection of criminal rackets.
awful!!
@Paladin_Strategic While on vacation in Florida, I passed out in the bathroom of the hotel where I was staying. The ambulance was called, and the paramedics had already put me on the stretcher when I woke up, able to understand what was happening. Immediately I raised hell and demanded not to be taken to the hospital, against the advice of those present. I estimate that I saved myself $20,000 in hospital bills by standing firm.
i had a ingrown toenail for over a year in indonesia and i eventually gave up and went to a hospital and got surgery it cost $32 USD and it was very quick and clean
@@davidwentzel1560 In the US that would have been $1,000 just for using the OR.
costed me over 1500 usd in an emergency room in california for the same surgery :(
No one talks about healthy life expectancy. The U.S. lags even more behind in this metric.
Because we eat terrible food and are extremely overweight. It's actually a miracle that the health systme can keep fat people alive for as long as it does.
If one goes off that metric than the states are behind Bangladesh, Tunisia and Cuba. All have higher life expectancy.
I do not for one minute blame physicians, especially highly skilled surgeons, for exhorbitant medical costs. Andrew is correct about the schemes to limit the number of physicians. The education requirements in the US are completely unreasonable. In some countries, a medical degree program is six years, start to finish. Rarely, this is possible in the US, where only second-year-level university science classes are pre-requisities to admission to US medical schools.
Another big factor I learned is that non-medical administrators and managers are often paid $300,000 or more with only a master's degree, not a medical degree.
Understand this, the United States is not a free market.
And each state has it's own medical board so you can't be a traveling doctor unless you have a liscence in the state you're practicing.
The public taxes you would pay for a Medicare for all system, would be significantly less than the private taxes we pay currently to health insurance middlemen.
Not for our wealthy clients.
Half a million Americans go bankrupt every year due to medical debt!
Nowhere else in the developed world does this occur.
Thanks for informing the terrible situation of the US Healthcare system.
In Colombia when you pay health insurance I could say 100% is covered, when I move to the US I got an accident mountain biking I had a small but deep cut bleeding everywhere, a guy pull up and say put instant glue in your wound otherwise the hospital bill is at least $20K. Another story my wife had an emergency something simple $5.870 US dollars to be provided with ibuprofen by the ER. Why people in the US makes gofundme to bury the body of their belove ones ?
Stop going to the ER! It's not meant for the things you describe. There are thousands of urgent care centers and the prices for the services you are talking about are capped at $350 WITHOUT insurance. ERs are for life threatening emergencies, hence the name. Many hospitals even have their own urgent care centers, and it the issue becomes emergent they will have the resources.
@@mrb152 I cannot go into details, but she didnt look well with fever and very fragile, I hate hospitals that was my first and only time. Regardless US healthcare sucks.
Sad, but true. The American health care system has been greatly altered to model the military industrial complex... endless spending and no accountability... a great gig if you can get it (unless you are on the receiving end). This is why it is a great idea for Americans to start with an up-to-date American passport first... then, if you are unfortunate enough to really need medical care, then you have the opportunity to take a vacation and get treated in another country... all cheaper than your out-of-pocket costs even after your insurance kicks in. Why do you think medical tourism is so popular with westerners (not just with Americans... Canada's & UK's healthcare systems aren't a whole lot better).
U.S. healthcare is also profit-driven.
50% of the massive spending is government spending, and they intentionally pay below market, forcing private healthcare to subsidize their expenses.
It's a racket.
That in itself I dont have a problem with, its when they have their thumb on the scale and overprice their services to consistently increase their profits that I have a problem with
There’s nothing wrong with profit. There’s everything wrong with pretending to give value but not.
@@ayannafit2441CEOs will tell you point blank that their number one priority is to maximize profits and value for shareholders. The system isn’t broken. The system is working as designed.
It is not $500 per year that you need to pay for health insurance. The average for a single individual is $9,000 per year + deductibles. For a small family of 4, you are looking at around $18,000 in premiums. And then, even with all of that, the insurance providers basically have a default response to reject all claims and effectively make it mandatory to go through a series a appease to get coverage. Most other countries just won't let them get away with that and have better food and an adequate base line public healthcare system that overall works to keep the nuts and bolts of healthcare costs down.
Shit, you would better off traveling overseas for major surgeries.
Mr. Henderson was referring to Malaysia 🇲🇾 not the US
100%
Do you have to pay more the older you get? Considering most cancer etc comes to old people. $9000 sounds very little.
"Free" to army veterans me and my wife.
So true vid. This is the best vid explaining the cost of healthcare. I’m a retired registered nurse. When I moved, I lost my trusted healthcare givers. Now, t like the video explains, we are in a system of administration providers, not nurses or doctors, but “consultants.” In 5 years I have yet to get a physical. I’m told I need 3 consults to schedule a physical. While I had United healthcare AARP, it is not solely to blame. The physicians are milking the system with all their 10 minute consults. And while I used to be offered an A1c test, I was told by a nurse that I didn’t look like I had diabetes. Begging for basic lab tests shouldn’t be. And the Medicare healthcare system actually pays in full for these tests. Also, no doctor where I live wants to see anyone with a cough or cold. I’m told to go to the emergency room. And then some emergency rooms will not admit you either as I was turned down in two before accepted in the third. This didn’t happen yrs ago when people were afraid of Covid, this happened Nov 2024.
How do you like EPIC? My wife hated it. It's partly why she retired from the ER after 38 years. And lucky for her - COVID hit 2 months later. Too much of our health care workers' time is devoured by bureaucracy. And that just burns up cash.
@@NimbusBrain EPIC fail?🤔
Personal experience, went to emergency room in Brazil. It cost me 200 dollars ,they did x-rays, blood test and another test. In United States it would have been a thousand for room or more.
Believe it or not, I had a cranetomy for a chronic hematoma (brain bleed), I experienced in Mexico City and the surgeon did an outstanding job and my health insurance in the USA paid 100%. I would have had to pay at least 15% and the deductible too and extra for lab tests and outside doctors etc...iin the USA. I paid nothing, zero. I had a last minute decision, to get it done at the Mayo clinic or in Mexico. I decided on Mexico to avoid all the extra charges and aggravation. Glad I crossed the USA off my list!
@@GlobalAdventurer so your American insurance paid for your medical treatment in Mexico but you’re glad to have crossed the US off your list?
@NOCDIB Yes, that's what I said. I wouldn't go there like ever and USE my health insurance. It's cheaper actually to get insurance in Mexico. But since they paid 100% I used it. I wouldn't use it in the USA at all or go get medical care there. There's better options.
Correction - while in Asia, prevention may be prioritized, in the US TREATMENT is prioritzed, not cure.
Because that's where the superposition are
Big pharma money in maintaining that illness.
I had a roommate who had congestive heart failure, hypertension, and diabetes, mostly if not completely because of his diet. He also weighed almost 400 lbs. His doctors prescribed shopping bags full of drugs for him, but never educated him about improving his diet. I guess he was the perfect patient. Lots of expensive treatment that will continue indefinitely.
And that is a "controversal" area, like oh we can eat what we want...Mind you the food is ENGINEERED to be addictive, but still. Personal responsiblity is nill.
And those last 20 years of life in US is physical hell cause of the poor food (and yes poor choices of course)
Worst food you can it in your life.
Thanks for this info! So helpful. As a single mother working hard to elevate my family into a better financial position, I am terrified all of my hard work will be obliterated by my daughter's health condition which requires ongoing surgeries. I have seriously been weighing my options in other countries which could offer us a better outcome.
Some people think healthcare is socialism but they are ok with government bailing out private for profit companies.
Not everyone can or will be successful in life; the vast majority of people will be poor; that's how the system works.
I agree. At least in US you can make good living if you are smart and ambitious.
The vast majroity of poeple in the US are not poor. We're at this very moment, median income of the highest in world history.
MEDICAL services ≠ HEALTH care.
"Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet; in an environment equally fit for birth,
growth, work, healing, and dying... Healthy people need no bureaucratic interference to mate, give birth,
share the human condition and die." - Ivan Dominic Illich
@@mrb15260-78% of the country (depending on what source) lives paycheck to paycheck.
It's math.
Ask your doctor if medical bankruptcy is right for you.
Thank you for this video. I moved to Ecuador. The healthcare here is very good and affordable. I recently had a neurological event, and got in to see a neurologist as a new patient the same day! It cost $45 to see him. The doctors I have seen here are excellent, many having trained in Mexico, Spain, Brazil, and the US. The private insurance here has been a pain, in my experience. They do not seem to like paying claims, and it takes lots of time and effort to deal with them. I once had a claim rejected because the insurance company did not like the doctors handwriting! The social healthcare system is bankrupt, so it is not very good generally, but maybe good for emergencies. If you can self pay, it is very affordable, and is a great place for healthcare.
Medical Doctors become rich fast in the USA then retire early and go into real state etc. this is one main reason we have less doctors, especially experienced one-take it from a Professor
They are not going to change because one guy got shot, but perhaps it inspires politicians to see that this violence will only increase if they don't start helping people. Desperate folks do terrible things.
I'm amazed it hasn't happened before!
Yup - like the French Revolution ("let them eat cake"), the American Revolution ("no taxation without representation"), the Russian Revolution ("slavs and not slaves"), the Chinese Revolution ("100 years of humiliation"), the Cuban Revolution ("no more corruption from foreign domination"), the Slave Rebellions (Revolts), the Intifada (Palestinian Arab uprising), etc, etc.
History is resplendent with actual events when common people are driven to the point when they can take repression and oppression by the wealthy and powerful no further, especially after all attempts in peaceful persuasion have failed to bring about the changes sought.
As President John F. Kennedy has said in 1962 - very astutely - "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, will make violent revolution inevitable."
Is this where the U.S. Healthcare for all Americans heading in the U.S.? Must violent uprising against an unfair and unjust system finally have to take place before a Universal Healthcare system be finally introduced into the U.S. so that it joins the rest of the developed countries?
By the way, for those who criticize the faults in the Universal Healthcare system in other countries and as a result, their system "does not work", their line of "logic" is that same as "throwing the baby out with the bath water". When there are faults and problems in anything, do we simply discard the item completely and not try to find solutions? When the early internal combustion "horseless carriage" vehicles first hit the scene, it was full of faults and problems but as thinking humans, those problems and faults were steadily worked on and ironed out over the many decades and while still imperfect, we persisted because we believe it to be worthwhile. A baby born is full of imperfections (don't know how to walk, take care of themselves, how to feed, etc) but apart from those who chose abortions, we don't get rid of babies nor even having them totally.
A Universal Healthcare System for all as a basic human right to health care is a worthwhile project and whatever faults that exist, we should work on them to make it as perfect as we can. By not doing so, we end up with the U.S. Republican Democratic System that is supposed to be an experiment when it began in which changes to modify it to make it "more perfect" as time went on, has not been carried out and we have what we have today - a still imperfect Constitution.
People need to stop counting on the government to solve their problems. As long as Americans can choose not to pay health insurance companies, they shouldn’t.
Its not just the price, Healthcare in the USA sucks. You rarely see a real Doctor, and when they show up, it's a 5 min saying hello as the Medical Practitioner costs the same as a real Doctor. Urgent Care is also poor as the quality is all over the place.
Direct Primary Care is the answer. Its a non-insurance based practice. You pay $60 month, unlimited visits, no co-pays, no deductibles, wholesale meds and labs--no middle man to interfere between you and your primary care doctor. Now if they could also do that for more specialized care that would solve this insurance mess.
Americans don’t understand how terrible healthcare actually is until they live in another country.
When I lived in France, it was 10X better than anything I’ve ever had in the US. Not even comparable.
And to the haters: yes I went to the ER. Minimal wait time. And I paid $0.
All that to be said, the healthcare industry in the US is “too big to fail” at this point. There is no way it can change radically enough to be better. Only thing you can do is leave.
Andrew, the healthcare system in America is not 'broken,' it is functioning exactly as intended.
Its functioning to be broken🤷♂️
Fresh out of the hospital where I spent 5 days. The cost: $37,000.
Should be abt 120k u got lucky
I hope you’re feeling better on my way to a shit hospital where my dad is hospitalized
Some other countries are really different. Brazil for example. One of the worst free public healthcare in the world but if you pay a private consultation and pay for your exams you will probably get one of the best treatment
Really it is the same in India.. the public healthcare is not that bad but the waiting time is long. Private healthcare is amazing in India
Well said. Many countries are like this. The government health care part is always corrupt and terrible quality. The private part is efficient and excellent.
I walked in to a private clinic in Ukraine in 2018 and got an MRI for $41.25 at the current exchange rate then. It was a one year old German-made Siemens machine....top of the line. I had no appointment and only a 20 minute wait.
In the U.S., an MRI cost $2700 on average at that time (I remember because I looked it up). Even after insurance, it's a few hundred dollars.
An MRI is just a picture of what is happening in your body. It should be the first thing done before anything else. In the U.S., insurance companies require six months of physical therapy BEFORE paying for a picture of what is going on. No physical therapist should be screwing around with your body without looking at such a picture.
Our system in the U.S. is screwed up because the government is in it. Almost all corruption in this world comes from government. Remove the government from the system and you will remove the corruption.
The thing is because public healthcare exists then private healthcare must be competitive against it. Without public healthcare, you will get an economic singularity: A monopoly on a service with infinite demand (live vs death); all the money in the world for your life.
@An_Attempt yeah I think private healthcare can be there to subsidize public health care
@@billstrasburg384my husband just had lumbar lower back MRI right away. His doctor gave him a script and BCBS covered it without any problems 🤷♀️
My father also had MRI thru Aetna insurance 6 months ago. No issues.
It is coming to a point where going to a veterinarian is way better than a doctor.
I quit eating at McDonalds.
The one thing that's incorrect is that a nationwide coverage would increase the price anyone would pay for coverage, even in taxes. The cost for any kind of insurance here (even with employer help) is ridiculously high and there are still large deductibles and things that simply aren't covered. I have catastrophic-only insurance and self-pay most of the time. It saves a lot of money that way as the doctors reduce the bill at least 20%--sometimes as much as 80%.
Ontario's health care is death by stealth. Can't get a Doc. Clinics are fewer now and way overcrowded. Hospital Emergency ? Bring a sleeping bag. For me, there is no health care. I am 75 and need to get a health care regime up and running before any problems present. Where can I find that? Sure as certain not here. Dying on a gurney in a hospital hallway, like the founder of our medicare here experienced, doesn't appeal to me. Overseas pay-as-I-go is going to be my Plan B. Thought provoking video, thankyou.
Problem is that the average person can be easily misled and manipulated by large corporations. The free market doesn't work efficiently here since people on average are incapable of making informed decisions as consumers (e.g. not using the bad healthcare insurance companies). So bad companies continue to practice, don't get outcompeted and have no incentive to change.
there isn't a good company to pick and only very wealthy people could afford health care without insurance
There’s no free market, I use ACA as self employed, there’s only one provider in the state marketplace, and none of it is HSA eligible since two years ago.
What evidence do you have that a free market wouldn't work here? When you say "here", are you talking about the U.S.? There has not been a free market in the U.S. since the 1930s.
Do you know what a free market is? A free market is free of government intervention in the marketplace. The "free" part means free of government. No one can rationally claim that healthcare is free of government regulations, taxation, lobbying, corruption, and other intervention.
More government means more corruption.....higher prices, lower quality care, and more lobbying (you know what lobbying is, right? Government bureaucrats are the ones lobbied to because they literally control the system through regulation). More government means more corruption.
Almost all corruption comes from government. When there is competition in the market, people can just switch to a provider who is not ripping them off. Only the free market allows competition. Socialism creates monopolies and oligopolies in a market. Marxist projection is the #1 tactic of socialists to create an army of Useful Idiots who will brainlessly attack Capitalism.
What we NEED is a free market.
Ok, honest question. I left Colombia when I was five and just returned for the first time in 53 years for a quick visit. I was surprised to find out I was still a citizen and had to get my Colombian passport and Cedula before my visit. During my trip there my family did their best to tell me all that was wrong with Bogotá and Colombia, which by the way was cleaner than NYC and I only saw one homeless person. I have been watching this channel and due to my age and the fact I’m retired from law enforcement, but currently working as a Trauma Therapist I don’t have the ability or energy to become a global citizen. However, my sons do. Here is my question to this community. Would it be advisable to get them Colombian citizenships on top of their U. S. Citizenships. My old, stuck in their way boomer families think I’m nuts. But truth be told I have been wrong before.
Any resources are important
It's always good to have a second passport.
Why U.S. DeathCare Sucks
It’s easy for rich people to leave a country. It isn’t easy for working class or poor people to leave.
I’m far from rich and I left.
@ Me too. I left also and I’m certainly not rich. But acting like anyone can just leave or leaving is simple isn’t realistic
Not true at All. I left for England with nothing and started all over again and even married an English woman.
@@pluto4847 Check immigration requirements around the world, money matters.
@@drewj4297 I married a British woman so I was on a marriage visa.
It is that way for four reasons:
1. The problem is that government allowed and encouraged the big corporations to take over healthcare, and all that the CEOs care about is making more $$$. Years ago most hospitals used to be run by religious groups and charitable organizations, most clinics used to be run either by states, counties, municipalities, or community organizations, and most private practices used to be owned by the physicians themselves. Now, private equity owns and controls pretty much all of it and patients and quality of care are not a priority.
2. Also, a lot of the so-called 'clinical research' behind our evidence-based best practices is fake garbage that is often secretly paid for pharmaceutical corporations.
3. Obamacare.
4. Unauthorized residents from elsewhere who have overrun the hospital ERs seeking free healthcare...which by law has to be provided upfront, regardless of ability to pay. The hospitals eithe rmust eat those costs or pass them on to everyone else. And, guess what they do MOST of the time...?
I have a feeling that a lot of this stuff is about to change though.
Excellent response. #3 it would be good to add that it was designed by the insurance industry.
So, in summary... Follow the money eh?😂
Obamacare didn’t make things worse 😂😂😂
It is clearly flawed but it does cover preexisting conditions.
It didn’t contribute to the healthcare system we have today
😂
Trump was supposed to get rid of Obamacare and replace it with something “much better”
😂😂😂
He did jack squat and only has a “concept of a plan” after 9years
Tell me you're a MAGAT without telling me you're a MAGAT.
Look at all of you idiots, bitching about who’s political stance is the best. You’re all part of why it will NEVER change. Obama, Trump, Harris, Biden… they are all the same establishment puppets who’s sole job is to brainwash enough of you into believing their version of the establishment narrative is the best.
Get big pharma designer drug ads out of all forms of media.
Get big pharma execs out of the revolving door known as the FDA.
People are becoming far to reliant on expensive designer drugs to solve all their problems. It is making normal healthcare unaffordable for everyone!
The USA has great healthcare **technology** but has horrible healthcare **dispensation** - that, the fact that private healthcare insurance companies make incredible profits based upon **denying the people who paid for that "insurance" access to the healthcare** , and the fact that this is almost the only country where the number one reason for bankruptcy is due to paying for healthcare ... all are strong reasons why the life expectancy in the USA has been declining since ronald reagan's administration.
Go to where you are treated best - while you still can...
Health care is not a market, it is a human right.
Perhaps in some countries ... but the USA has a great system of checks and balances - the healthcare market abuse is counterbalanced by the second amendment.
So is overturning Tyrannical government (2nd. Amend.)
Health care is a personal responsibility, not a right. It’s completely ridiculous to call it a right. Pay your health care provider. They have an extremely valuable skill. Make sure you can afford it! If not, find an organization who will pay on your behalf. But it’s not a right.
@ probably a response from someone where health care is not available to everybody. If you treat health care as a market, you put a price on people’s lives and the health sector can ask whatever they want (because the are supposed to have a valuable skill). Health care is not a market as people do not have a choice whether or not use it.
I think the people should stop paying for that insurance company every one should get out
Direct Primary Care is the answer. Its a non-insurance based practice. You pay $60 month, unlimited visits, no co-pays, no deductibles, wholesale meds and labs--no middle man to interfere between you and your primary care doctor. Now if they could also do that for more specialized care that would solve this insurance mess.
Possible TMI,
The food is a huge thing. I go to the carribean or thailand my allergic asthma is so much better. Also while we were in thailand i noticed my breasts werent lumpy anymore. I was always told some lumpiness as long as its not a hard mass is normal but while i was in Thailand for a couple months the lumps (which i am assuming was inflammation in the lymph nodes in the breasts) was completely gone. And when i got my menstrual i had no pain in my breasts and no migraines either. But when i came back to the US my first menstrual felt like my nips were on fire and now theyre lumpy again and i had a migraine for two weeks.
Stop junk food and foods heavy in oils it sounds like...
@YogaBlissDance absolutely. I don't eat oily food in general but there's definitely something with the quality of the food here. I had breakfast at the hotel and I grabbed a waffle and eggs and I could just taste the artificial in it. And I felt super bloated after I ate it. The only food within walking distance after we flew in to Boston and got to our hotel also was Starbucks so I got the spinach sandwich and also didn't feel too good after I ate that. And the drink was soooo syrupy. I knew better and did it anyway cuz I was hungry 😭
It's not run as a "cure" model - it's run as a for-profit model instead of a single-payer model with prices negotiated to reasonable levels.
If only someone would teach those CEO's a lesson... oh wait
We addressed that issue in this video: ruclips.net/video/cF309aooVsI/видео.html
This literally did nothing, and if you think it did, you’re part of the problem
The lesson they learnt was to beef up personal security. The US rich are increasingly living in a state of siege
@@usernameryan5982 These people are morons, you’re wasting your breath. They are the same people that think voting for a new political party to be in power will change the system. The establishment and system is here to stay, certainly within all of our lifetime which is why the core message within the video is so poignant. Either go where you are treated best in the world, or spend your life campaigning for change that will never happen and complaining. That’s the choice we all have to make.
I wish US citizens did fight against their real common enemy and not with eachother like politics and corporations make them. I lived there for years and their healthcare is the cruelest once I have ever seen and sooooo expensive!! even our private most expensive healthcare in Europe is waaaay cheaper than the US, and we are talking about human lifes, so makes no sense. our life expectency here 82yrs old... US 76yrs... difference? universal preventive healthcare and that also makes it so the guvenment really takes care of what you eat, for it costs them momeny if you get sick. Wake up people!! and in spain we have huge problems too, but healthcare is not one of them (although its getting worst)
Hong Kong has the longest life expectancy in the world and, more importantly, a much longer healthspan. Japan is second. Even China leaves the US in the dust, especially for healthspan.
When i went Cambodia, even there the healthcare is much better
Right because you're in the wealthiest 1% in Cambodia. Your healthcare is always the best when you're one of the richest in the country.
@mrb152 I'm not😂😉 I just went as a tourist for several days and I went to a local medical doctor, not a fancy hospital or anything.
I'm not rich at all haha just a working class guy
@கோபிசுதாகர் see, a lot of sheltered Americans genuinely believe the entire world that isn't the west lives in grinding poverty with no hope or opportunities. It's not how the world works, but they really just don't know.
MEDICAL services ≠ HEALTH care.
"Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet; in an environment equally fit for birth,
growth, work, healing, and dying... Healthy people need no bureaucratic interference to mate, give birth,
share the human condition and die." - Ivan Dominic Illich
Changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes!
After going through the system with my Mom the last 3 years and learning first hand the extent of the inertia and chaos in the system which is either overworked /understaffed or just driven by private equity and profit, is enraging. It is mindboggling, nothing you can do except be there everyday with your loved one to make sure they do their jobs and your relative does not get overlooked. Happens all the time. The nurses and Dr.s generally are good and good people and the education excellent. But the system is a behemoth, a mess. Now you are seeing overseas nurses and Dr.s in droves in parts of the US. Good money for them, standards are relaxing to handle the shortage of med workers, we had nurses of which we could not understand a syllable of their speech. I dread aging here. Medicare did come through, but they are getting ripped off by "providers". A heart test that is $500 gets billed as $5000. A two week stint in the hospital for elderly with multiple issues=$400k +/-. Billiions and Billions of dollars are running through the system. And yet care is getting worse, not the tech or the individual themselves, it is just overwhelmed and patients suffer less attention.
We do not need insurance companies AT ALL... The US government (taxpayer) covers over 60% of the bloated cost of 69th rate remedial sick care.
GAWD, must be nice to be among the global top .1% right? You can move around and "shop" for health care.
IT"S THE PROFIT MOTIVE THAT DRIVES SICK CARE -- The systemic issue is that we live in an Oligarchy and the people are ASLEEP and are kept POOR.
I'd like to double down on overconsumption of over-processed food being a major factor in our poor healthcare. So many Americans have a Yolo attitude toward what they eat and do to their bodies, and hospitals are overwhelmed with obesity related ailments. I can't imagine how much my taxes would be raised to compensate for the unhealthy lifestyles of others.
It is more than a YOLO attitude. Most of our food chain is full of garbage that is either inflammatory or destructive to our bodies' systems. If you have a lot of time and money you can find good food.
Why can't we have at LEAST the same food regulations as the EU and get almost all of the garbage or of our food? I hope RFKJ can make a difference and live through it.
A relative of mine orders drugs for a major hospital in a big US city. The cost of lower priced drugs are routinely marked up 2,000% whereas expensive drugs are marked up 500%.
it's true that US Healthcare is really bad. in CA state, it has massive debt, therefore MAiD was acted, along with 10 US states. people have to choose from MAid or medicine
Healthcare for all. There are some things that shouldn't have a profit motive. Healthcare is one of them.
Xray machines, the actual DEVICES, no. But the CARE and Medicine, keep that shit away from Capital.
bad idea. A disaster wherever tried. Doctors are not slaves, their labor is subject to markets jsut like everyone else, not the political whims of the morons who run governments.
2.5 months wait to get an MRI. 4 months to get an appointment with another doctor 200 miles away. And this is for suspected cancer.
In the US? I have never heard of those kinds of numbers. We have to be seen within 30 days where I am. I have scheduled MRIs within a week.
@realretta yes, in the US
@@realretta Same thing here. I had to fly to California for a good pelvic surgeon as wait time to SEE the doctor (not even for surgery, just to be evaluated) was 3-6mos in my state...this is anywhere in my state even if I drove 2-3hrs to the largest city.
Then this year I needed a simple ultrasound for a mass I grew that was extremely suspicious for cancer, and my PCP wanted the ultrasound ordered STAT/as soon as possible/rush. The 3 local ultrasound places in town would have had me waiting weeks or months to get the scan.
I had to drive 60 miles to another city to get an ultrasound, and I needed the ultrasound to see a specialist that could address the mass. If I wanted to see a local specialist for the mass I would have been waiting 2-3mos, so I had to again drive about 70 miles to be seen within a few weeks time.
I do not live in a small town, I live in a city of about 130,000 people. Yet I have to drive 50-100 miles for care typically, or even fly out of state to California or Texas.
When I schedule appts with my PCP in town the soonest I can ever get is 4-6wks out.
I'm 74, have medicare, it pays well. Sorry for the younger folks who pay high premiums, and then denied service.
Before the ACA, Medicare had the highest rejection rate. They would refuse care exponentially above private insurance rates. I wonder what it looks like now.
I recently had to have my ACL reconstructed for the 2nd time, this time I went under the NHS because I had a lacklusture experience via my private medical insurance (paid by work). Overall, the experience was great, considering it cost me £0 and took about 2 month from MRI to surgery. It took about 2 weeks through private, and the dates are very flexible but thats about the only difference. Also I had to pay the surcharge of £300.
Thank you for saying the truth🎉🎉🎉🎉
Drop out of medicare part B! You can save almost 2000 a year!
And do what at an old age? Have no medical coverage at all? Very smart 🙄
Without Part B, you will have to pay for your meds yourself.
My daughter had her outpatient pinky finger operation last month. The bill? $125,000!
A kidney stone will cost you that much and don't dare call an ambulance call an uber instead.
I read an article in Time Magazine years ago. Every step in America health care has someone has their hand out for moolah.
Look at insurance companies tons of Salaries for employees just processing. And the executive Salaries are better than hitting the Lottery several times over. AMA restricts number of doctors. European Doctors are paid less than in America. Lobbiests and Politicians in America is a big issue. Revolving doors for political cronies that pass legislation
It’s designed that way so people are forced into the corporate matrix.
Direct Primary Care is the answer. Its a non-insurance based practice. You pay $60 month, unlimited visits, no co-pays, no deductibles, wholesale meds and labs--no middle man to interfere between you and your primary care doctor. Now if they could also do that for more specialized care that would solve this insurance mess.
The U.S.A. is good at propaganda.
Al Chile man, you are spot on, paying a medical insurance cost 500 dollars per month and it can't cover the half of the price of your medical bills WTF!! 😮
professions with heavy gov interference are mostly unaffordable and a headache to deal with, wonder whats the pattern...
9:21 under money printing, capitalism and communism are the same thing
The amount of people doubling down and calling for more government control of this almost completely government-controlled system is ridiculous.
Almost all corruption in this world comes from government. To remove the corruption, we must remove the government control.
I went to an accident and emergency department while on holidays in Spain. Waiting time was about 15 minutes to see a doctor and everything was as completely free. Impressive health care system.
"WHY US SUCKS"
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The problem with US health care is a product You have to buy and you don't have time to take for someone to negotiate the prices so you need regulations,
If your house is burning no one expect you to call multiple fire stations to get a quotation
The problem is too much regulation and government involvement. Government regulation is where all the corruption is from.
More government equals more corruption, that's why we are having this conversation. Too many people keep doubling down and calling for more government when the last call for government didn't work.
The amount of government intervention and regulation in health care in the U.S. is absolutely insane.
@billstrasburg384 oh really all around the world health care is regulated, you can't allow health care to be just for profit.
Regulations in Obama care is what made kicking off people with preexisting conditions illegal, and more should be done to prior authorization, and medicine should be regulated so you won't have an opuim crisis and it's prices should be negotiated on the state or federal level
@@billstrasburg384 health care is a service that you can't make the market regulate it , so government must do it , I'm with you on other issues but not health care
The government specifically chose this as a policy. They intentionally obscurred the prices. The vast majority of healthcare costs are no emergent like a house fire and you could in fact choose ahead of time.
GREAT CONTENT AS USUAL!
Valuable Info.👍
Public vs. private is a false debate. Public care in Canada is crappy… well, health professionel staff is good, but accessing them is quite a quest. Plus, bureaucracy is insane, data sharing between facilities is chaotic.
Plus, North American patients often prefer their "agency" to pork, smoke, drink and sit idle, and expect the system to fix them. In Japan, doctors measure their patients’ waist and, if overweight, even the slightest, put them on a diet. Japanese are the thinnest people in the world. I condemn fat-shaming, but obesity as a public health issue should be tackled more seriously.
Direct Primary Care is the answer. Its a non-insurance based practice. You pay $60 month, unlimited visits, no co-pays, no deductibles, wholesale meds and labs--no middle man to interfere between you and your primary care doctor. Now if they could also do that for more specialized care that would solve this insurance mess.
@pluto4847 Where is it applied? In which country or state?
All you have to do is look at the slop we eat here as compared to many other places.
US rather have expensive amputations rather thab givimg free metmorfin and insulin to prevent diabetes complicatoons
How does it feel to go bankrupt? How can one recover in hospital knowing he’s going bankrupt?
Land of the Free, Home of the Brave, OH, Horsehocky, but just do not get sick.
There's thousands of people that go to Algodones Mexico for dental work😮
The US can look to ANY other developed country for how to solve healthcare in the US. There are just too many people who have a vested interest in keeping US healthcare inefficient, and too many politicians who are willing to accept money from them.
Glad you read my comment. This is how you capitalize on a situation like this and push your brand. Good work AH
Love the new message on this but the 180⁰!is hilarious haha, better late than never though! 😁
I admire your hustle. You learned from the feedback on the last video and made this instead.
The US government spends trillions of dollars on healthcare, and regulates extensively which is why prices have inflated so much.
Not true- it is the insurance companies that are a corrupt and unnecessary middle man that drives up prices.
If there is one reason that makes me want to run screaming to another country it's health care. Thanx for making this video.
I am British and going to settle in Portugal on a D7 visa. Better healthcare than the UK anywhere else I go as a tourist. If your American moves, then visit the US as a tourist.
I can't wait to leave the Violent Divided Impoverished States of America. I have traveled to over 20 countries and I have seen the light that no matter how rich or poor you are life in better in other developed and wealthy countries. Even the declining western countries have a better quality of life the US does.
Some jobs offer Health and Welfare (H&W) pay on top of regular salary. That H&W pay, from the jobs I see, is like $5 an hour. The employee can reject getting health insurance (ie they already have one) and get an additional $5 to their paycheck. This says a lot on how much healthcare costs in America.
The problem with USA healthcare is not having the right and proper health equipment and medication to meet patient's demand.Its not just about the cost the same thing with the education system,cost is one of the problems but it is most certainly not the only problem.
MY BROTHER WENT TO THE ER AND CAUSED HIM 20K!!!! SO 2K FOR YOU WAS CHEAP
u s. healthcare needs to be fixed regardless..
Respect life. Hard work. Honor and confidence. You keep it real. America is a cooked and pumpkin spice is gonna make it worse.
I really enjoy your channel.
I disagree about the taxes. The middle class pays more tax because we have had since Reagan, write offs and deductions taken away for decades. This leaves us less to invest. I somewhat agree with you about healthcare although I am in a California union job and have had excellent health care at no cost for my entire career. I paid nothing for a surgery I had last April and got stellar care. I think the quality of care you get depends on the region. Idaho for example has good health care but West Virginia does not. Rural hospitals are closing at an alarming pace in the USA. Life expectancy is lower due to lower quality of life- long commutes, working more and eating a poor diet. I think diet and lifestyle are the issues. Our food is getting worse here. I travel an hour to a family farm to buy some of my food. You do put your faith in government though in the countries you live in.