The struggle for healthcare in the US: The Only Doctor | Witness Documentary

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  • Опубликовано: 26 янв 2025

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  • @aljazeeraenglish
    @aljazeeraenglish  Месяц назад +6

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    • @bonniepookles-ke3hv
      @bonniepookles-ke3hv Месяц назад

      My comment was blocked because I said universal healthcare doesn’t work

  • @yogamuslimah
    @yogamuslimah Месяц назад +66

    This woman deserves to have a go fund me page set up for her so she can have a small nest egg for retirement. She has given so much back to the community.

  • @Milaperadotti
    @Milaperadotti Месяц назад +115

    We Americans are sick of our healthcare system. It doesn’t matter if you’re on the right or the left we’re all sick of it. The CEOs have the blood of millions on their hands denying people claims .I watch my own family member go bankrupt and get denied cancer medications.

    • @pennyfleming3006
      @pennyfleming3006 Месяц назад +7

      @@Milaperadotti
      And we australians are glad to hear you’re sick of your health care system.
      You’ve been being ripped off and treated like commodities for far too long.

    • @candaceberman1448
      @candaceberman1448 Месяц назад +6

      Especially if you have chronic illnesses and disabilities they toy with your health and emotions it's awful 😖

    • @candaceberman1448
      @candaceberman1448 Месяц назад +2

      The debt we are all in is crazy I wish we had universal health care

    • @uklie01
      @uklie01 Месяц назад +4

      I'm Swiss and it is crazy to me that an insurance can decline something like cancer medications. Makes me wonder why any American even pays for health insurance if they don't cover you when you need them.
      I'm so sorry to hear that a family member of yours has cancer and had to go bankrupt over this! I hope your system can be fixed asap!

    • @Milaperadotti
      @Milaperadotti Месяц назад +3

      @ Thank you🥰

  • @MsJani70
    @MsJani70 Месяц назад +52

    Karen is a wonderful soul. She deserves the best

  • @SylvieJean-mf3cc
    @SylvieJean-mf3cc Месяц назад +27

    Her marrying in the end newrly had me forget what the programme was about initially...
    Ive never felt happier for a stranger. She is so deserving of lifelong love 😊

  • @odnoshourd3732
    @odnoshourd3732 Месяц назад +31

    No one talks about diet. We need to understand that most of the food in the corporate grocery chain stores do not nurture our bodies they make us sick.

    • @derfer007
      @derfer007 Месяц назад +7

      YESSSS! People need to learn how to grow their own food or to read labels. My doctor once told me, “eating processed foods is like eating straight from the devil‘s kitchen.”

    • @samjane6267
      @samjane6267 Месяц назад +3

      I agree both issues need to be address! Processed food make us sick and Health insurience sucks.

    • @CallumMoscript
      @CallumMoscript Месяц назад +1

      sometimes people live in a food desert, and there isn't a grocery store within 50 miles

    • @JW-zd5ry
      @JW-zd5ry Месяц назад

      This is very true. I am one of those immigrants. I was healthy before, but after living here for 13 years, I was diagnosed with kidney disease.

  • @annasutton8078
    @annasutton8078 Месяц назад +5

    What a great service you are providing for your community.
    I have watched this from the UK.The doctors at my practice would not know me from Adam. What a lovely relationship you have with your patients.
    I hope that all is going well.

  • @vickythefist7062
    @vickythefist7062 Месяц назад +24

    What a hero this lady is

  • @CAA_AB8
    @CAA_AB8 Месяц назад +5

    What an informative documentary! Thank you, Dr. Karen, for your selflessness.

  • @CiaraArmstrong
    @CiaraArmstrong Месяц назад +3

    What a disgraceful indictment on the richest country on earth that so many of their own citizens are living in such dire conditions when there is so much wealth. It’s heartbreaking.

    • @ChocookieMonster
      @ChocookieMonster 11 дней назад

      Never forget there's a reason we measure wealth the way we do - a high GDP looks good on paper, but what good does it do the lower income 50% that the top 1% has all that money? They use GDP so it isn't obvious right away that the US has immense income and wealth inequality and so that people keep believing that the current system is working, even though so many people can't afford the health care they need (50%!!) and the life expectancy of poor people is around 15 years shorter than that of rich people. And yet so many people believe the propaganda by the insurance companies that they would be worse off with single payer health care because of "long wait times"? Even if that were true (it really isn't, and the few people who even have short wait times are the ones who can afford to and will continue to be able to pay for private care) - isn't it worth more to us as a society to not have people who can't get any healthcare at all?

  • @GenevaShore
    @GenevaShore Месяц назад +9

    She is a true patriot and an angel on this earth

  • @1timbarrett
    @1timbarrett Месяц назад +3

    What an admirable human being this lady doctor is…! 👍

  • @michelletimme8041
    @michelletimme8041 Месяц назад +5

    This doc was SO GOOD!! THANK YOU FOR PRODUCING GREAT CONTENT.

    • @aljazeeraenglish
      @aljazeeraenglish  Месяц назад

      Thanks for watching, dear Michelle! 🙋 We appreciate your positive feedback.

  • @mvujnovi1
    @mvujnovi1 Месяц назад +46

    Like a third world country. Except, that even there there is a likely universal health care system. Our doctors’ offices and disappearing , our local newspapers are disappearing, our local groceries too. The common denominator, monopoly capitalism and greed.

    • @MyWalk3296
      @MyWalk3296 Месяц назад

      Yep, glutinous greedy is the real diseas

  • @colleenlally-ross7105
    @colleenlally-ross7105 18 дней назад

    Wow, the fact that all those patients of hers died really got to me🥺 she sounds like a lovely person that is useful, talented and thoroughly loved by so many! That IS what makes one's life "happy".❤

  • @donnaallgaier-lamberti3933
    @donnaallgaier-lamberti3933 Месяц назад +7

    I'm age 74. i have lived in cities, in poor rural America (where we had to drive more than an hour to get seen) and a small upper end community. Everywhere there are PCP shortages and the wait to see a specialists is 3 to 6 months. I have found that the only way to get decent health care is to go to a Functional Medicine Physician AND PAY FOR IT OUT OF POCKET. This the only way to have high quality care and any control of it To think that the county, state or government is going to rescue this clinic or these people is, unfortunately a dream.

  • @bleepbloop4826
    @bleepbloop4826 Месяц назад +4

    Thank you Dr. K for everything you do. ❤ it's tough here in the usa.

  • @doctork1708
    @doctork1708 18 дней назад +1

    NOOOOO to nurse practitioners. Rural areas need DOCTORS.

  • @mohammadarifsahar2689
    @mohammadarifsahar2689 12 дней назад

    GOD bless the family for the kindness and grate work

  • @kamrynduplessis1997
    @kamrynduplessis1997 Месяц назад +9

    a hero fr

  • @feedcount
    @feedcount Месяц назад +2

    THE ENDING IS INSANE!!! Why did all if them die!!! America this is so sad!

    • @CallumMoscript
      @CallumMoscript Месяц назад +2

      Is this your first day in America?

  • @candaceberman1448
    @candaceberman1448 Месяц назад +6

    That's so sad 😞 😔 they need help 😢

    • @stefanossmitty3318
      @stefanossmitty3318 Месяц назад

      No they don’t. They overwhelmingly vote for people like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Trump who has a “concept of a plan.”

    • @candaceberman1448
      @candaceberman1448 Месяц назад

      @stefanossmitty3318 oh wow thanks for that information I didn't know that

  • @theshugashackpodcast2457
    @theshugashackpodcast2457 Месяц назад

    What an amazing person to serve her community based on what they can afford. It’s disgusting that this is how Americans are treated not being able to afford healthcare.

  • @mama_keikei8081
    @mama_keikei8081 Месяц назад +1

    This is America! 🇺🇸

  • @jillpeters4297
    @jillpeters4297 Месяц назад

    My heart is full 🫶🏻❤️

  • @ruthgallagher9584
    @ruthgallagher9584 Месяц назад +4

    Health care ahouldnt be forr profit

  • @katiempojer
    @katiempojer Месяц назад

    Such awesomeness

  • @tiffaninghs
    @tiffaninghs Месяц назад +3

    They gotta apply for grants

  • @katiempojer
    @katiempojer Месяц назад

    I love being a rural mh provider people are lovely

  • @WorldCitizen333
    @WorldCitizen333 Месяц назад +24

    This is the richest and most powerful country in the world? Makes me wanna horse-laugh.

    • @mulugetakide964
      @mulugetakide964 Месяц назад +6

      They would say that this is exactly why the US is rich; not supporting disadvantaged people.

    • @hendihorlings2341
      @hendihorlings2341 Месяц назад +7

      Some Americans say that Canada is a socialist country because of our health care. At least we don't have to go broke getting it.

    • @LeahDyson-kq4bd
      @LeahDyson-kq4bd Месяц назад +1

      You're right you should go live in Qatar

  • @IikaalayAdiga
    @IikaalayAdiga Месяц назад +7

    AIPAC will fix this problem

  • @universaltruth9988
    @universaltruth9988 Месяц назад +20

    So called super power 😂😂😂😂

    • @Milaperadotti
      @Milaperadotti Месяц назад +1

      👍

    • @mudshovel289
      @mudshovel289 Месяц назад +4

      The word superpower has nothing to do with healthcare. It has to do with the economy and military.

    • @universaltruth9988
      @universaltruth9988 Месяц назад +4

      @@mudshovel289 u mean superpower failed in healthcare 😝

    • @mudshovel289
      @mudshovel289 Месяц назад +3

      @@universaltruth9988 I don’t know if you think you’re being clever or what but I’ll repeat myself just because I know some people are slow and don’t understand things so easily. The word superpower has nothing to do with healthcare.

    • @universaltruth9988
      @universaltruth9988 Месяц назад +4

      @@mudshovel289 lol 🤣🤣🤣

  • @deekay7015
    @deekay7015 Месяц назад

    Service to mankind is service to God. This doctor is a very kind soul. I wish her a good health and I wish there were more doctors like her in the USA.

  • @jamesmeehan4209
    @jamesmeehan4209 Месяц назад

    This is the same non liberalism politics that we have in uk where politics are governments have destroyed the inner city area of uk the gap between the rich and poor is huge homelessness lack of decent housing rents out of control health service Nhs is under pressure welfare benefits for the poorest peoples is being cuts and the government is going to make more cuts in budgets to local governments this has been going on for years voting Tories or Labour Party into power doesn't make any difference same old politics for the richest elite privilege people who own massive amount of wealth and resources in uk

  • @lieslwindjulie3230
    @lieslwindjulie3230 Месяц назад +1

    😢

  • @margaretmukasa2998
    @margaretmukasa2998 Месяц назад +5

    Many do not have insurance. Sighn up for obama care before trump gets rid of it.

    • @jeanc.65
      @jeanc.65 Месяц назад +1

      When Trump gets rid of it, many millions of people will suffer even more than they are already.

    • @CallumMoscript
      @CallumMoscript Месяц назад +2

      Brian Kemp did not expand Medicaid in Georgia.

  • @katiempojer
    @katiempojer Месяц назад +1

    Medicaid and Medicare for all Americans

  • @marshablackburn89
    @marshablackburn89 Месяц назад +7

    If you can afford to smoke you shouldn’t be mooching food stamps

  • @babajaga158
    @babajaga158 Месяц назад +2

    did she had 3 massive bottles of Pepsi on her desk???? like wtf

    • @kamrynduplessis1997
      @kamrynduplessis1997 Месяц назад +8

      id need the caffeine too if i was single handedly supporting all medical services of an entire town for no pay

    • @susiekinsell
      @susiekinsell Месяц назад +19

      Hi - this is Dr K. They are to demonstrate the amt of sugar in sodas. They do get stolen occasionally!

    • @babajaga158
      @babajaga158 Месяц назад +1

      @@susiekinsell oh sorry forgot is America u need to talk to ppl like its 1990s.

    • @karenkinsell6587
      @karenkinsell6587 Месяц назад

      @@babajaga158 true that

    • @pubhag
      @pubhag Месяц назад

      ​@@susiekinsell bless you Dr Kinsell, wishing you and your partner the very best. Honoured to share the planet with people like you.

  • @A.--.
    @A.--. Месяц назад

    Playing pretend clinic is for kindergarten guys

  • @kingmaafa120
    @kingmaafa120 Месяц назад +1

    Well, what truly find interesting is there seems to be no struggle for those seeking kids for things related to legislation like
    California AB 957
    California AB 1955
    🙃
    🇺🇸unhinged
    Unhinged 🇺🇸
    TBC
    🇺🇬🇹🇿❤️🦾🐈‍⬛🤐👍