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John Pilger's documentary, The Dirty War on the NHS, "goes to the heart of the struggle for democracy today", he says. Britain's National Health Service, the NHS, was the world's first universal public health service. Designed to give millions of people "freedom from fear", the NHS today is under threat of being sold off and converted to a free market model inspired by America's disastrous health insurance system, which results in an estimated 45,000 people dying every year. Donald Trump said the NHS is "on the table" in any future trade deal with America. Filmed in Britain and the United States, this timely, compelling documentary touches us all and reveals what may be the last battle to preserve the most fundamental human right.
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Britain's National Health Service, the NHS, was the world's first universal public health service. Designed to give millions of people "freedom from fear", the NHS today is under threat of being sold off and converted to a free market model inspired by America's disastrous health insurance system.
Buy stock in pharma companies. That way, when u have emergancy you can sell it off and not have to file bankruptcy. Also, those stock aint going down if yall convert to our system.
I sure hope it doesn't come to that. American healthcare system is the worst. The 'system". I got a $3000 bill because they put bandage on my son's wound for 15 mins with over the counter stuff in an ER (after waiting for almost 3 hours).
I think cost sharing only works on a truly public model. Socialized medicine is a scary notion but the American system has proven to be a hellscape that should not be incorporated into other models, lest the downstream consequences be tolerable - and they’re not.
And you guy's called the COMUNISTS - CRIMINALS 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@sortasurvival5482 That is the most perfectly rounded piece of logic I have heard lately. You have drawn the perfect circle. I was about to give up on circular reasoning til I heard this. And BTW, it's "y'all".
We called emergency services for a homeless man clearly in distress. The paramedics kept trying to make us (the bystanders) leave. We dispersed, but I was watching from around the corner. They 'propped him up' on the bus bench and drove off. 😮 Welcome to America.
Sorry but 😂😂. That's sad and funny at the same time
@@goo1358 That's going to be you when you get old and weak.
What should they do?
@@beng4647remember who funds them and that that tax payer contributed to the funds that paid for their student loan debt to be paid off
Corporate greed, the enemy of the human race. I am an American nurse and finally left our so called healthcare system. I was tired of fighting with management for what I needed to take care of my patients. One of my responsibilities as a nurse is to advocate for those in my care, I got fed up with the BS and being told I was not a team player. Good luck getting the fox out of the henhouse.
Come to Germany plenty of nurses jobs here with accommodation.
@@deniseg-hill1730 Thank you, I may look into that.
Government being made up of people who are corrupt and unqualified for the just b is what caused this
It’s considered bad to call the cops on people for mental health issues and in some states totally neglected as an issue all together. This is an issue with not being able to institutionalize people and give them help.
@@deniseg-hill1730 pretty sure the empyment tax rate is something g you should I form them of. Otherwise they will always think the grass is greener elsewhere without understanding how the grass has become green. If they understand they can vote for that here in America.
This is true of the US these days. If your job offers a free health plan for the employee its co-pays and deductibles are so high you can't use the insurance. You end up paying 1/2 the cost for even routine check ups and labs. For a family, health insurance is ridiculous. When you turn 67 and can retire on the pittance that you are given for social security you have to pay monthly for your Medicare plan which is the medical plan for those over 65 and it doesn't cover a lot. It doesn't cover dental, vision, or hearing. The elderly are typically put into a nursing home after a couple of hospitalizations because they have no place to live any longer having had their homes sold off to pay medical bills. That is your reward for working and paying taxes all your life.
There are going to be lots more Jan 6's
@@LoverOFhopeANDcompassionlol. Most elderly Americans don’t understand that private pro profit care is the culprit. They are so afraid of “universal “ or “single payer “ healthcare that they would rather suffer and go bankrupt than agree to “communist” (e.g. cost sharing) healthcare. Nothing is more scary than paying tax for your neighbour’s cancer treatment. Many believe that personally deserve and earned right for healthcare, but others don’t deserve it.
A Clemon 8246 you are right on point !
Yup 👍
Drs and health scare in U.S. are scam. Like Its. It all about $$$
We the people are letting this happen to US..!!! No time to feel sorry or complain only time for us to take action =) we MUST ALL stand together or we will ALL go broke together
The problem is that the US government has brainwashed the American people to hate universal healthcare. So many Americans I’ve heard have said that they will not pay for someone else. That it’s communism to do so. Yet when corporations need help and a bailout it’s capitalism and the American people turn an eye to it. This right here is what’s wrong with the American model all together. So many Americans rely on these social programs and yet are demonized for being poor. They tie socialism and communism as hand and hand unfortunately.
Republicants. They live that lobby dollars. Wether it be for guns, forienge countries or private companies. They live those dollars over it's citizens. And yes some so called Democrats take the bribes.
In the old days, they called these guys "Robber Barons."
Robber = thief
Baron = upper class
That boils down to the evil doings of humans. Wherever one goes, greediness, deceit, abuse, and all kinds of evil are pervading.
its more average than evil, TBH
@@donkeywhistlerYou are so numb to the reality of what was said that you can't realize its truth?
Sounds like Trumpf in a nutshell.
You just proved my case for never having children.
The sad part of NHS is that most of the money is expent on administration NOT on services, equipment or professional personnel.
*cries while laughing* in america...
And, in the US, at least half the health care dollars go to admin or insurance companies- but, mostly insurance companies.
@@erbiumfiberyet it's mainly tax payers dollars. They don't want it to go to the people just to their and investor's pockets.
Aren't government contracts tax dollars.
If poor decisions lead to more profit...poor decisions are incentivized.
The medical system here in the US is a disaster. Nobody should emulate our system. It sucks bad.
How so...?
@@virgilhilts3924Rewatch the documentary. Especially the part with the Backwood voters from Appalachia.
My name is Lou Ann I want ma plastic surgery that cause almost a million dollars. But don't let them poor folks in other cities get ma tax dollars for their hearth surgery. No sir re bob, not ma tax dollars.
-lou Ann
So right- no money = u will just die
Same here in Canada. The system is failing quickly and is abused by visitors.
God Bless John Pilger! May he Rest in Peace! May his career never be forgotten. And may the issues he shed light on be correctly mended for the good of Humanity. “If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.” -Charles Darwin
I realized just yesterday he died, my deepest condolences to his family. We have lost a voice of reason among us.
Good on Charles and good on you.
Greed and narcissism
This documentary is so moving and heartbreaking.
Health care privatization is like opening up Pandorra's Box.
When greed takes over lives.
Or takes lives
I am nursing home CNA. Our health care is broken system of pure Greed. Nursing home's chose profits, over the care of our residents, who i give my blood, sweat and tears to. Working short like we do is so dangerous, But i keep walking the floor, with Gods help.
This is very disturbing 😢 I'm glad they are exposing them
I'm American. I've been in and out of psych wards and rehabs since the late 90s. I've watched the healthcare system decline. It's gotten to the point that I'm afraid to go to the hospital. As for a Nursing Home, that will NEVER happen. It's so sad. The situation is deplorable. Two of the last rehabs I was in have been shut down.
Hope you are doing ok now.
Sober. Yes. TY 🥰@@annoyedaussie3942
I like your name. 🤪@@annoyedaussie3942
I do everything I can to avoid hospitals, assisted living (glorified nursing homes), and nursing homes. When my time comes, I will go to a nonreligious hospice, where I can be put to sleep.
When things become for profit or privatize people suffer.
I recall not too many years ago, a thousand dentists set up in a US sports stadium and they still had to turn people away . . .
Yes happen quite a few times so far in different places. They should never set these up especially in Republicants hotbeds. These are the same people that look down in other that get assistance and always blame other for their own demise. But as we saw in this docu. How bad they themselves are suffering. But the hate for the other side they rather suffer than work together to make things better for all Americans.
In America it’s a luxury, even with coverage- which is a joke.
I feel so guilty for bringing children into this world
I wouldn't dare bring multiple children in this world.
@susanchisena3188 Absolutely feel the same way as you.xx
@@user-cb6ly8sw4m I’m new to answering on RUclips. I don’t know the app. All, I can say is to seek the spiritual truth of us and instill it upon our children. It’s not easy. Especially, if religion has been a dominant force. ❤️
I've seen this patient dumping. This happens all the time, to this day, in America anyhow. I have seen this.
as a paralyzed tetraplegic i have been one of those dumped and lucky enough to be saved by a real friend
Nhs is progressing towards the American style health care, that's crazy.
It's all who you vote for. Just listen to what they say. It's pretty obvious half of the time.
We all have technology that can be used to dig into the backgrounds of many of these socalled politicians.
Austerity for the common people profit to the crooks who suck your blood every second minute hour day...😢😮
Sounds like we shouldn't be allowing that to happen. So why have we been letting greedy psychopaths destroy civilization since the beginning of civilization?
Literally
This is exactly why the American people need to push for universal healthcare. Americans pay more in healthcare for worse care than any other first world country. Americans seem to look at short term problems more a long term solution. While taxes help pay for universal healthcare, imagine paying only a few hundred dollars extra every month for when you need that surgery that cost half a million dollars. Well that surgery will cost you next to nothing and your portion of taxes are only a small drop in the portion that went to paying for that. Evil corporations are what is ruining this and delaying care because you can’t afford it, makes it mire expensive when you aren’t able to wait anymore.
Taxes could go down if done properly. Australia has universal healthcare and we spend less money per capita on government funded healthcare than USA.
American love fighting against their best interest. The Republicants party have sold out Americans long ago. They are 100% pro privatization and pro lobbyist.
Look at the Appalachian part of documentary. Those are your Republicants that always vite against their best interest. Listen to their stories. Yet they all want free this or that.
Yes, we have Medicare and private health insurance, the private is exorbitant, even when you pay just to have the insurance you still have the gap. Medicare is overloaded though, ramping is up, ambulance takes too long in some cases, I don’t think govt has taken into account population is increasing ergo more sick people, inevitable.
We have to fight for humanity.
I’ve just stumbled upon this channel. Very insightful and underrated.
welcome
Protecting the sacred Patient-Dollar relationship.
Greed here too. It's a corporate system only
The good news from the U.S. is that hospitals are no longer allowed to let people bleed to death in the parking lot if they have no money or insurance. They have to "stabilize" your condtion (meaning that you won't die right away) before kicking you out.
Exactly.
I know that the US hospitals are pretty awful and priority is misdirected, but I never imagined this patient dumping would actually be true. Very sad to see it's becoming a thing in the UK.
It’s becoming a thing in the UK but it’s been happening here in the U.S for many years now. There have been countless news stories about it and stories about people injured sitting outside hospitals that need assistance getting inside and nobody coming to assist them.
Happening in jamaica as well and many parts of the world
@@user-umcubJamaica love to copy America. so I'm definitely not surprised.
@@allthatglittersisgold8425people keep voting for it to keep happening. So don't expect any change soon.
Americans can go to 58:00 and start watching. People are dying because the rich aren't rich enough.
After watching that portion then go to the portion of the people that support this to keep happening. 1:12:12. Watch till the part where you hear who they vote for.
What happened to the oath that medical practitioners take when they qualify? It should never have been allowed.
Unfortunately- hippocratic oath is not always practiced.
Nowadays. Oath is just a symbol that doesn't mean a thing.
Just got my parent’s MRI US$9845 bill from the hospital. Luckily we have 2 health insurances ($1500 each per month), the final bill after the two insurances is $250.
1500 a month? and you still got billed? terrible.
@@lgull1 Most people can't even afford $1,500 a month for health insurance premiums. Much less deductibles or any other expenses related to it. Does sound very typical in the USA tragically. The lack of universal healthcare is enough for revolution overnight in itself. Yet the people in the USA are mostly obsequious sheeps who've been brainwashed and systematically dumbed down.
He is paying 3k a month, used 2 insurance companies, could have paid less in 5 months if they paid for the MRI out of pocket lmao@@lgull1
That's still expensive. Not just the bill itself, but the insurance.
Without any insurance, an MRI would not cost 100 Dollars in most ASEAN/SE Asian countries
MRI in New Zealand $0
It’s a miracle from God when people are actually helped from healthcare , many people are hurt beyond words. 😭🙏🏼❤️
It's not a miracle, in Russia medicine is free of charge. Some doctors are not professional, but there is no guarantee that doctors in private hospitals are. At least you know you will be helped without emptying your bank account
"Yank" here.
Thank goodness I was in the US NAVY. I'm 65, on social security and Medicare. The Veteran's Healthcare pays the hospital the amount that Medicare doesn't cover.
I had a bit of a stroke last June.
After all was said and done I got a letter from the VA. It explained what was paid and by whom.
The best part?
"Veteran's portion-$0"
I do feel for those who didn't serve in the military 😕
I live in a city that has the regional trauma center, a huge hospital with a university medical school and all of the experts one could want. They wanted to give me three weeks of inpatient physical therapy, but I declined.
How does it feel invading poor countries based on lies and natural resources?
In my USA they are hiring Dr Assistants with only 2 years of academic medical edu . Then PhD in medicine with 6 to 12 years of academic medical edu. OMG. And hiring Nurse Practitioners instead of MDs
In my Doctor surgery, Nurse practitioners are now taking on the workload of Dr's, and the Dr's are only seeing people for very serious things like stroke, heart issues and cancer. It's taking 1-2 weeks to even see the nurse, even when you're in an asthma attack. Then you end up in A&E on oxygen. No apologies from the Dr's surgery. The NHS over here is killing people.
Heart disease is the number one killer of people today and cancer is number two.
Being over weight is the number one factor leading to an early death.
People who are over weight have higher risks for high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes and cancer.
Even children today have signs of artery disease. Fast foods and sugary drinks have long term consequences.
There is an obesity epidemic today where over 60% of the population is overweight or obese.
What is common today and "NORMAL" is not healthy. The average person today is not healthy and is taking medications.
Heart attacks were once only common in people over 65. Today people in their 40 are having heart attacks.
Add more plants and vegetables to your diet and less junk and overly processed foods
Exactly. Processed food makes us sick, but it’s advertised and sold to us my the corporate greedy. They want us fat and sick (diabetes), because the new “money-making bandwagon” is diabetic supplies.
Dr Robert lustig a brilliant professor from university of California sanfrancisco says the same thing you have said
We are lucky (upstate NY) because we have volunteer EMTs and firefighters, supported by donations.
Very.
They should test their equipment everyday like a pilot checks his small plane before every take off.
They are SUPPOSED to at least in the US🙄
What a legend John Pilger was. We have lost an honest voice . RIP ❤
Tell me something I don’t know. Btw, the US healthcare system is the most profitable enterprise created by man. At $4.2T per year, or 20% of the country’s GDP, our un-health predatory healthcare system has long ago purchased every politician at all levels of the US government. Ergo, our healthcare corporations are glad to provide services so long as you can turn your bank account to them. Thanks to both Republicans and Dems.
I was surprised to find out that the USA life expectancy is dropping. With the cost of healthcare that is crazy. I want my money back!
Indian health care systems are changed like the NHS in 2019.The old systems of health care in government hospital for treatment is a good system for poor communities but the new systems are for the benefits and earning for the private parties (clinics, hospitals, insurance companies and others).It's very sad for the poors in India.
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Good documentary but the interviewer mentioned 2019. It would be appreciated if your channel can always mention date in your comments section so at least we know when it was recorded & have an idea of how things were then cos us thinking like its this year or last year would be misleading with no date. 😳 thank u very much for your insightful interviews 👍🏻.
I've seen this up close and personal. Here in Texas, Republicans partially privatized our prison system. Turns out that prisons are big business. Every politician (and their buddies) wanted their fingers in that pie... 💰👆 💰
Facts. Then they make new laws to toss people in prisons just for about anything. Abortion anyone.
People in prison PUT THEMSELVES in there... What's do you want prison to be? A HILTON??🙄
RIP John Pilger.
Thanks for this one x
When the recession hit I had no choice but to abandon my health care. That was 16-17 years ago. I’ve never had a single moment where I wish I had it. I found a local private doctor who I pay 45 dollars a month for unlimited access. No co pays no nothing. That 45 dollars is all I ever pay. I don’t live in a big big city. So you can also find someone like this.
Interesting concept.
I hope this becomes standard everywhere in the world.
When greed takes over the health industry...
Its been smoke and mirrors pretty much the whole time.
.... The hypocratic oath 😂
I've always thought the name for that was highly questionable. 😂
@lawerancelanham something, something, placebo effect, something, something, faith healing, has been in the reverse (to death) by the heathcare industry for a long time, perhaps its time for a different approach?
COVID-19 My aunt Fanny!😷
@know-body2519 faith healing 🤣
That's the reason I don't believe in, trust in, or even wanna go to a doctor. I have faith in myself but when you're taking $ from people...ummm, faith is free and im not religious. If we relying on that... I'll stay home and suffer whatever. As , I do...
@lawerancelanham Funny, I was the same way before Thanksgiving 2019, when a family member prayed for me and my almost 20 years of pain as a result of jumping out of airplanes while working as a medic had abated.
MRI shows injuries, but I've been pain-free for the most part since. So, my friend, you can "don't believe" if you like, but as John Candy once said, "believe what you want, but don't believe it here."
P.S. My brother is cancer free (twice)after we've said the Our Father together, probably in spite of the chemotherapy that doctors suggested.
Why don't you pray for faith?
(You may need it...) 🙏
At 5 minutes 20 seconds, when he mentions 2019 and all the privatization of the UK national health service all I can say is done by design ahead of covid-19😢😢. January 2024 and davos is in a few days you know Klaus Schwab and all his buddies
Same for dental & eyecare in America! Shame on government 😢
What do you think the whole AMA idea was about it's about getting your Medicare money even before Medicare was started.
Not one person in the American medical association originally was a doctor they were all rich men but no doctors.
Do you really think this is good for your health
We should provide healthcare to everyone regardless of financial status. Why? Because we are compassionate, we want to help others, and that is how we would want to be treated. God didn’t charge you for the breath in your lungs.
All crooks want to feed on your blood to quench their thirst of greeeeed and money 🤑💰 at the cost of your health 😢😮😢😮😢😮...
Rest In Peace John Pilger 🕊️
It's all about the money. Agree by all to raise taxes, and there will be no need to "reign in costs". In the US, Medicaid reimburses at 80% of costs; Medicare at 100%, and private insurance at 150 - 200% of cost to offset the costs of Medicaid and Medicare patients. Raise taxes (it's only money and we're talking about lives here) and reimburse based on per diem (not on the reimbursable length of stay driving the urgency of on-time discharges) and there will be no need for the private sector employed to contain costs.
I work in social services and NHS hospitals dump people at housing offices too. Not for profit reasons but because medically they do not need the hospital and a hospital bed can't be used simply as housing because there are sick people waiting for the beds. The problem is that every public service is in demand because populations are more needy/less self sufficient.
Governments, like any other corporate entity, have no space in their business model for morality, other than the begrudged concessions necessary to keep the workers and customers subdued.
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John pilger
Your brilliant 👍🏻
Excellent program. It would be a wonderful dive to examine the history of myalgic encephalomyelitis under the NHS to fold in with the narrative of this piece. Same lobbyist strategy to undermine a financial threat to the NHS and DWP, leaving patients to fend for themselves often at great cost to family and in the worst situations leading to suicide.
On October the 12th 2020 my mum went in and out of consciousness the ambulance staff were there while this was happening
She was not moved until she lost consciousness and had to have a pipe put in her throat to help her breath that was an hour later
Then another 40 minutes to get her to hospital this was at 7:30am in the morning by 9:40am I got a call from my brother that my mother was dead
She had died of septus and pneumonia
And should have been taken straight away but was not taken for an hour and then another 40 minutes to get there
septus is a killer she should not had to have waited that long
my mum had just turned 70 march that year
Insurance companies were allowed to buy the every company associated with healthcare. How can they own the hospital, pharmacy and insurance at the same time. They can charge and change everything to benefit them. For profit needs to go. Pay good wages and cost for products. But the government is corporations.
This made me very sad 😢
Fascinating
The greed is with the insurance companies for higher premiums and the government for charging it into socialist system, having lived under a system only the government and employees benefit. It may take decades to fall but it will. The country where I lived under a socialist system changed to a market system. We now have 6 new modern hospitals and our doctors practicing medicine have now returned to Costa Rica, thank you America
I work in healthcare in Texas. As a nurse supervisor I never encountered dumping because I coordinated the receiving hospital about patient. Dumping is a big no no no in the U.S. Even transferring patient to another hospital I make sure the doctor will talk n give report to a receiving hospital doctor to prevent this from dumping. There is a nurse to nurse report n doctor to doctor report
haha, thought this would be about our crappy, greedy healthcare system (US).
No it is showing how the British Healthcare system - once the shining beacon of health care for all - is slowly becoming like the US system
Having dealt with both, I would still take the NHS over US healthcare
@@ENDEVRDocs yeah i know, after reading the description / starting to watch it.
Still haven’t gotten the hip surgery I was supposed to get during my Medicaid still being active because Spectrum monopolized orthopedic surgery in my state and did so poorly with surgeries and patients they’re being sued for malpractice even with the AG they chose to bail them out in play (AG Dana Nessel)
Which investments, with a $89K portfolio, are the best to make in order to increase overall portfolio performance in the new year, given the lessening signs of inflation and the Federal Reserve's decision to halt rate hikes?
Stocks are pretty unstable at the moment, but if you do the right math, you should be just fine. Bloomberg and other finance media have been recording cases of folks gaining over $610k just in a matter of weeks/couple months, so I think there are a lot of wealth transfer in this downtime if you know where to look.
It's true that some investors employ hedging techniques or devote a portion of their portfolio to defensive stocks that perform well in down markets. These kinds of ideas can come from collaborating with market experts, as I did in 2019 during the rona outbreak. My financial advisor has recommended assets that allow me to increase my multi-million dollar portfolio by 45 percent.
how can one get more info about your adviser, I’d be the judge myself
Aileen Gertrude Tippy guides me. She works with Empower FinanciaI services. But there are a lot of independent advisors you might look into. For me, her strategy works hence my result. She provides entry and exit point for the securities I focus on
She appears to be well-educated and well-read. Also seems very proficient considering her résumé. I ran a Google search on her name and came across her website; thank you for sharing
Healthcare is a right. So is good housing, food, and education. The UK does ok on the first, but not so good on the last three. And, if you give everyone a good diet, a nice living environment, and a college education, healthcare costs would largely take care of itself.
UK is an old country and also has many colonies. so I expect y’all to catch up those first world things ASAP
While some aristocrats in Britain continue to live a rent-seeking life on the backs of the working class.
Welcome to American health care
I've been carried out by security when I couldn't walk from a back injury.
It seems to me if we got rid if insurances. Make them all like plastic surgeons offices do. They set their prices to bring in patients. See how affordable hospitals and private doctors offices become. Patients can go anywhere and get the treatment they need without some company telling them no.
Putting healthcare in the hands of for-profit organizations is a recipe for disasters such as this one. Who honestly believes that, if the choice comes down to providing adequate care versus protecting profit, as it oftentimes does, that the former will be chosen?
In the US, Medicare and Medicaid are underpaying hospitals, doctors and dentists so much that hospitals are going bankrupt, doctors and dentists are leaving their professions.
This is one of the only pieces to this. The United States to get universal healthcare and bring them into the future and join every other first world country
Statistics clearly do not support your unsubstantiated claims.
Doctors are making over $300k a year and it’s still not enough? Many doctors and medical administrators are overpaid in the USA while lower level people are underpaid. This is the reason why Amazon and insurance companies are bringing emedicine ( as shown in this video) instead of real doctors. Healthcare needs to reduce costs.
If Medicare & Medicaid are not paying these entities an amount to even just cover their actual costs of the services then you know they can always just not take Medicare or Medicaid. No one forces them to accept patients who have those as the payors. Also, if it is so bad why is it that when I look at 5 of the bigger for-profit healthcare systems they had a combined operating income [revenues after costs, but before taxes,] they made $14,373,617,000 in 2022. When reading into the revenues & operating revenues of the 10 largest nonprofit healthcare systems they were almost all operating losses, but there were 3 things cited in all their cases for why their operating income was less than in 2021 or for most of them why it went from operating income to operating losses. They were:
1) Major employee/staffing cost increases.
2) Even larger supply cost increases.
3) Non-operating expenses which while being a net negative for all but like 3 of the systems, for 2 systems the loss from non-operating expenses were more than the operating loss was & for 5 systems the non-operating losses absolutely dwarfed the operating incomes [which for 4 of the systems was a net positive before non-operating expenses.]
Also, for the record Medicare doesn't provide Dental coverage... Medicaid does though. But, again I would stress that for any hospital, doctor, dentist or whatever *accepting Medicaid or Medicare patients is voluntary.*
@@vg7985Malpractice insurance costs a LOT of money. Running a private practice costs a LOT of money. Contracting with insurance companies costs a LOT of money.
Damn it
That lady voice broke my heart and the doctor speech made it worse 😫😫😫
broke my heart too and it was gruesome to my ears. : (
I lost faith in the NHS 30 years ago
the number ONE RULE in the world is human cannot get sick unless under ONE CONDITION that if you are rich. 😵
Coming to Canada 🇨🇦
It's already here: those who can afford it, go to the US for timely medical care.
The National Health Care Insurance in Taiwan is so affordable that even a homeless can pay for it.
Interesting
For the love of money is the root of all evil
Ever heard of a doctor getting paid if you don't visit?
It's in their best interest to keep you as sick as possible
RIP John Pilger
A fundamental principle of freedom from fear from health care bills in time of need and distress. That principle definitely needs to be established here among the industrial health care & insurance complex.
No one owes you anything in life
@@virgilhilts3924 what's that supposed to mean? It reads pretty calloused towards helping the weak and infirm. Reads if you agree or are indifferent to grinding on the face of the poor.
@@lorenzoortez64
"what's that supposed to mean?"
-Exactly what it says, period
"No one owes you anything in life"
-What do you not understand about that very simple statement?
@@virgilhilts3924 Simple statement to the brutish, uncircumcised in heart. Ppl not being washed by Christ.
@@lorenzoortez64
-Again...
"No one owes you anything in life"
-What do you not understand about that very simple statement?
This has been going on in the US for many decades!
a few minutes into this vedo and what pops up? a privatised health advert ffs
Shouldn't talk about this with big smirk and smiles
They are indicating that the investigation and objections are a joke to them, not to be taken seriously. That is how confident they were or are in their project, confident because they know they own the politicians. Thatcher, Blair, Cameron, Johnson, Sunak, and Starmer to come.
Australia heading same way, just sad
At Bayfront Medical Center, in St. Petersburg, Florida, US, has over 1,000 volunteers. Volunteerism helps cut down costs.
I like that. If you can get people to work for free that means more money for the management. Other types of corporate owned business should encourage people to work for free.
And yet you charge far more than the charge for the same services in a public system.
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I don't work for them, so I don't know. However, volunteerism is much more common in Tampa Bay, FL than in Brooklyn NYC, and almost nonexistent in upstate NY (Dutchess County). I don't know why. These are the only three areas I am familiar with.
Blame Insurance and corporations for Americas failed Health care system. Profit over lives is now tbe norm.
I agree 👍 this makes me seak,dam shame
Honestly it feels this way :(
Lucky I'm covered by 2 in insurance plans. Others are not so lucky. I pray for them.
I expect it to get worse.
That's life on our wonderful planet.
Same here in the Philippines..." No money No honey".
It already has happened in the NHS and especially dentist.