Why Obamacare Doesn't Work As Promised | 5 Minute Videos
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- Опубликовано: 19 дек 2018
- President Obama made many promises to the American people regarding health care reform - but the Affordable Care Act was destined to fail. Why? Lanhee Chen of the Hoover Institute explains why government-run health care is not the answer.
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Whatever seems FREE, it´s never FREE...you end up paying for it through huge tax increases. Plus, there’s a huge bureaucracy involved and huge public administrative costs paid by all of us.
Andrew Barnett not exactly true. Yes, the US healthcare system is broken, but Canada’s “free” healthcare system is also horrible bc sometimes if u break ur arm, u have to wait sometimes even a year to get it repaired, but in the US if u have insurance, u can get it repaired quicker and our doctors r very good. Since the government doesn’t run healthcare here, we can get it a lot quicker. In some countries like Sweden or Japan, yeah on average they live longer, but in a lot of other countries like Germany, Cuba, Norway all live a few years less than us. Canada lives 3 years longer than Americans yes, but they always have
Andrew Barnett a lot of Canadians I’ve talked to have said Canada’s healthcare system is not good although so many people think it’s great
Andrew Barnett hmmm...that’s weird bc I’ve talked to so many Canadians on that issue and they say they hate the single payer system. One of whom is Steven Crowder. I talked to Canadians on social media, not irl btw
@Andrew Barnett You have not talked to many Canadians then, because it doesn't take long before you have someone who had an experience that was truly terrible. The essential unavoidable reality of single payer is massive overuse of the system and crowding, not because "oh now finally everyone gets healthcare, of course they're going to use it," but because everyone is mandated to be served and it is not profitable for health care professionals to do so, so any time health care taxes are not fully covering it, and America will never tolerate the taxes for a long enough period to make it work consistently, you end up with overcrowded hospitals and underserved patients.
Single payer healthcare system has no answer for this except "pray you get progressives in office forever so the taxes stay high enough to pay for it." Once the shit hits the fan and everyone wants to go back, no one can, because the insurance industry is gone. That's socialism in a nutshell. It works, until it doesn't, then it's tragic.
@Andrew Barnett nothing is free. The problem with free health care is that it still cost money and makes people dependent on others to pay there stuff instead of building someone up to tale care of themselves.
We have “free healthcare in Denmark”. But the problem is that we pay up to 60% in taxes. The government owned hospitals have the worst services.
I try to tell people that here and they tell me I don't live there how do you know. They think its great and won't reach out to people experiencing it🥺
If I don't like Home Depot.. (and i don't, because they pay annual extortion to worship at the altar of Al Sharpton's 'National Action Network' - NAN) then I can go to Lowe's, or Ace, or True Value.. There's competition among these services. However, If I don't care for government healthcare service.. just like I don't care for government post offices.. or government schools.. or the way the VA is being run.. or the way Social Security is being run... I don't have a choice - I'm STUCK. So for every person who's Ever dealt with, or been frustrated by these governmental agencies,, and believes that SOMEHOW..the same government which has run all of these into the ground.. with mismanagement of funds and virtually NO accountability.. will just 'all of a sudden' MAGICALLY.. get its act together, and right the ship... You are too far gone to even insult.
@Zeksteve - Turn it over to a truly free market and watch those numbers go WAY down.
@@princeharming8963 I tell people the same thing about universal income....I tell them...if you don't like your job or think you aren't making enough money...you are free to go to any other job that will pay you more...but if the government is your source of income and you don't like the amount of money you are making...there is nothing you can do....you are stuck with whatever they decide is fair payment. The concept of free market and competition work better in almost every situation in life than a centralized government program. So many young people think socialism is going to be this great equalizer and that suddenly everyone will have the same amount of success in life and finally be equal...I keep trying to tell them.....yes we will all be equally poor, equally hungry, living in squalor equally while a very select few who run everything will live like kings and queens.
@Zeksteve - I know there's a point in there somewhere.
Ah, yes, obama, the certifiably WORST president (if I can call him that) in the history of this nation.
What Obama[Doesn't]Care did for my family: We went from a $24 copay for everything and $81 for ER, to... Oh now you have to pay $8500 per yr before insurance covers anything. It is a direct attack on the middle class.
Middle class funded.
It’s the Non Affordable Care Act! We pay $1000 a month with a $15,000 deductible, $100 copay. Not to mention the application for it is a nightmare. I dread it every year. Definitely screwed the middle class. Oh yes, I only had 1 choice if I wanted to keep my doctors and hospitals. ObamaCare is a joke.
Exactly I paid over 7,500.00 in one year that was the cheapest I can afford for a family of 4, not including copay prescriptions, emergency, and blood work
My friends government healthcare paid absolutely nothing not a dime no copay just bs
@@melaniekeegan7970 whoaaa
Before aca we payed $350.00/$2500.00 for me and my husband. After aca it was $975.00/$7500.00. we can't afford that so now we have no insurance.
Doesn’t work as promised, but works *exactly* as intended.
ytmndan that’s interesting considering it was created by a conservative think tank
Ahh...couldnt be democrats fault could it.
"We got about 90% of what we want from a Republican control house and senate"
-Chuck Schumer -
Considering that the original crafters even understand it was
"Designed to fail"
and even mocked Obama care sopports as morons for falling for it!!
@@paramiind4730 I forgot. How many Democrats voted for it, and how many Republicans voted for it?
ytmndan no idea. That doesn’t change the fact it was originally suggested by the heritage foundation. It was only once the democrats put it into legislation that they showed opposition to it.
@@paramiind4730 278 Democrats voted for it. 1 Republican voted for it.
Doubling my taxes, in order to loose control of my health care? Worst deal ever.
It is not doubling. The US left doubling taxes a long time ago. It is more of quadrupling or higher your taxes. Remember if a business gets taxed, they raise their prices to adjust accordingly, meaning you are getting taxed even more.
@@cainabel6356 Obamacare quadrupled my monthly healthcare costs, while cutting my coverage down to basically nothing. As a healthy, productive American, I now pay 20% of my pay check for 'health care' that only kicks in if my hospital stay exceeds $10,000 annually. I pay all this money every month because I am forced to, and then I dont have any money left over from my pay check to go to the doctor if I'm sick or get injured. Obamacare is a terrible deal for anyone that takes responsibility for their self and their own actions. People like Bernie want us to give up on freedom and free markets, join the government slavery plantation, and dig ditches (our graves) like good comrades. People that support this are spiteful losers that want government to stick it to the rest of us, or are just too stupid to see it for what it is. If you get your healthcare 'free'. You're welcome. I paid for it.
Lose........
@@jwoellhof congress members have their own healthcare, not stupid enough to join the useful idiots.
@Andrew Barnett the main reason americans pay too much right now is that the gov got involved. Prior to obama care it cost a third as much and provided better access to better care. The free market could do amazing things with health care costs if given the chance. And no gov run universal health care in the world is better than what we have in the USA right now. Please get off the communist crack pipe before you start really hurting people.
My insurance costs have increased dramatically since the ACA was passed. And my benefits are the worst they've ever been in my life.
When ObamaCare was passed, Congress and the Senate gave themselves an exemption for having Obamacare. They got to keep their Gold Plated tax payer health insurance.
But, but....Michael Moore told me Cubas healthcare is number one!
Great, let's ship 'ol Mikey to Cuba, and kill two birds with one stone.
There are many different healthcare systems in the world based on a government system. They are not all the same. Many are very good. Cuba is a bad example.
@@floobertuber Are you saying that MM is so fat that he would sink the island? !Ay!
Michael Moore couldn't find his way out of a cardboard box, with GPS and a map, let alone with the flaps open.
Cubans are leaving for Florida, geee I wonder why.
I watched how Obamacare effected 2 members of my family when they had life threatening situations.I have nothing nice to say about socialized medicine.
howz that tRUMPcaRe working for ya in a pandemic? #DEM2020
@Drgnfli I cant eat that shit i have MS...I also have the best healthcare in the country. ...Romneycare was the model for obamacare, but sadly Rs have been desperate to take it away from ppl during a pandemic Rs created! Thats how they roll...Thats why they got beat so bad in 2018. Rs never ever learn. #DEM2020
@@welcometoreality3450 You mean a pandemic created with a virus engineered in China, where your idol Obama and his cronies Bush and Clinton sent the Pharmaceutical industries - a planned pandemic to try and subdue the entire world to the will of the exalted great leader Winnie Yinping, who even stole (confiscated) the lab equipment of all the pharma's who decided to leave China? Your idol and his cronies, left the world to the non-existent mercies of the Chinese communist dictator, whose counsel now has the virus and the laboratories needed to create the antivirus. Thankfully, capitalism is built on invention and innovation, unlike your idol-dictator who tried to use his pen and iPhone, to regulate imagination out of existence. How'd that ObamaDoesn'tCare work out for the the entire world population?
welcome to reality , you are so stupid!!!!! Trumppence2020!!!!!!
I remember how it ravaged my income with all the tax boosts.
"Socialism is a great idea, until you run out of someone else's money."
THATCHER
Margaret thatcher!? I’m pretty sure she attacked the poor
WTF doesnt works on pracitee1
@Vishnu Ashwath don’t matter
Based Iron Lady
Margaret thatcher was an authorian politician and radical conservative
The sad reality of this,that I experienced personally with government run healthcare is: we will cover a sex change if you want it however finding out why you have miscarried 8 times, that will not be covered.
My heart goes out to you.
There is a reason that Canadians, who have the financial means, come to the U.S. for major surgery. Because socialized healthcare doesn't work. I used to work for a hospital near the Canadian border. Probably about half our patients were Canadian citizens.
For little thing, it is better to go in a private clinic. If you are really sick or injure, the system is good. For cutting edge medicine, the Canada isnt good is this field. Like the U.S. we have our good and flaw here in Canada. Each country have to find solution for their problems
Why not have a dual care systems cover everyone that cant afford it and allow those that can choices for privatization care and allow private. Doctor's govt. Subsidies if they want to help the poor an uninsured. Allow marketplace choices.
@Charles KingAhh. I see . Interesting
Not true. Only a small amount of canadians come to the USA for healthcare. Most of canadians simply cannot afford it, even if you can - why to pay for something, that you can get for free?
@@3941602 Welcome to Australia! That's exactly how it works here - medicare for all, or you can get private health insurance if you want
No wonder it’s unconstitutional.
Southwest Washington Rail Productions I think it’s unconstitutional because it forced people into commerce.
Republicans said it costs nothing thus allowing judge appointed by George Bush Sr to say its unconstitutional
@@jwil4286 10th amendment.
@@sebsignat8286 He said it's unconstitutional because it compels people to pay for-profit companies. Then he said since the option was there to pay a penalty instead, that it was therefore a tax, and okay with the Constitution via tax law. He was correct about the first, and wrong about the second, which is why it's going away now.
@@23wtb than why did the congress raise the penalty for no insurance under ACA from $695 to $0?
The best and less expensive health care is privately insured health care. We want the Government out of it and our lives.
no, we don't want it out of our lives, we just want it under our guns incase there's any monkey business goin on
Because it wasn’t supposed to “work”, it was supposed to make you accept government run healthcare.
Real world person: "My taxes will more than double, and for that I get LESS healthcare? Oh hell NO!
Delusional college student: "Did Bernie say FREE! Sign me up! Oh hell Yea!"
Lol
howz that tRUMPcaRe working for ya in a pandemic? #DEM2020
welcome to reality trumpcare? What is your healthcare situation. What were you paying in 2014-15? What are you paying now? How about adding something more than a few words that mean nothing. Speak from experience. Try to change someone’s mind. Or not.
To all people under 60. Before the gov got into healthcare with Medicare & Medicaid it was much cheaper as a percentage of your income. More gov in it will only increase cost and cut quality. Just like everything else gov gets into.
Beautifully and simply well put!
This year my premium is 4 times higher since 2012 and my deductions are beyond my math skills to come up with the exact numbers
Leon Lazarevic because it covers prexisting conditions they raised it to help those that are ill. I agree prices are way too high
This is America the land of the FREE America should have 100% private insurance end medicaid and medicare and ALL regulations on insurance just look at the areas where insurance isnt involved: plastic surgery and lasik surgery is sooooo much cheaper than it was 15 years ago the consumers of healthcare must be responsible for paying for outpatient services health insurance should be like care insurance: something catastrophic happens they come in. And just as importantly those who choose to buy a nicer house or go on an extra vacation MUST be allowed to live their choices as well so people see the value in insurance.
Same here!!!...So, I wonder what our wonderful government meant by the term "Affordable Care Act / ACA???"
Jorge Zorros Xamaica insurance has been heavily regulated in America for decades. Most costs come late in life when people are on medicare for example.
JcJ * great argument. If we were in a free market for healthcare it wouldnt be as much of a fiscal burden to have children with leukemia. That said i wouldnt wish that kind of emotional pain on anyone.
"If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor." -from Barrycare's greatest hits
I was dropped several times and would be referred to medical when I couldn't even qualify and put a hold and couldn't get it again. Then a got a private insurance. Thanks to Trump that made changes.
Govt: "Everyone Gets a Free Loaf of Bread"
People: "Yay!"
Govt: "But we have to double everyone's taxes to afford it."
People: "Um...okay."
Govt: "Here's your free loaf of bread."
People: "The bread is moldy."
Govt: "But it's free bread."
People: "How can it be free if you jack up our taxes for it?"
Govt: "Shut up, you!"
Thats the same as "and get a second one FREE just pay a separate fee"
@@phoenixstormjr.1018 I loved watching those infomercials that did that. "But wait, order in the next 18 minutes and we'll throw in an extra one for free, just pay shipping and handling." *facepalm
Everyone gets to be able to phone a policeman or should that be pay as you go too. I reckon there must be a balance where one can have private healthcare too
Love it,funny but true. Look at Venezuela. 🇺🇸Trump 20-24 🇺🇸
Good one!
Coming from Taiwan, a nation with supposedly one of the best single payer healthcare plans in the world, I can promise the USA that you do not want single payer healthcare. Here they brag about how cheap it is, while the government has been running deficits for 3 decades because it's unavoidable. I have to carry 3 separate private insurance policies for my wife and children because of the long list of things you don't qualify for under the single payer program and the wait times that you have to deal with for things you do qualify. Want to just have a basic checkup for something? Be ready to wait for 6 hours because they're short medical personal due to the pay restrictions. Taiwanese doctors all go to the USA to practice. Want to have a country that is dependent on prescription drugs for every little sniffle? Go single payer. In Taiwan the over prescription of medicine is terrifying but will never stop because like in the military, if you don't go over budget every year, your budget will never get increased.
Additionally, it's a really great feeling when you get a raise at work due to your own sense of personal responsibility and work ethic only to find out that you're making less money now due to the fact that your raise puts you in a higher tax bracket for health insurance. It's so nice to know that some alcoholic, chain smoking, lazy, overweight, irresponsible bum can have access to my earnings to finance his poor decision making with over prescribed weekly medication long before I even get to think about meeting the needs of my own wife and children.
Single payer sucks.
You should stop it with your real life REAL examples of single payer systems! You're going to ruin the narrative that single payer is cheap.
drschplatt well said my friend. Sheep only hear what they want. And they actually believe the
Government is there to better us😂
drschplatt, thanks now I can write an essay
@@dkchen So?
@@seijin4426 I'm full of sarcasm. I can't be serious about anything especially about politics.
I’m British and have never heard of any one being denied treatment for cataracts or diabetes on the national health service. My grandad lived to the age of 96 and had two knee replacements, a hip replacement, heart bypass and beat prostate cancer thanks to our health care system !
Trust prageru to find a comparison without doing any due diligence!!
And yet I heard of a woman living in Britain whose bladder fell out because a perfectly treatable condition kept being put off by the doctors. Not everyone lucks out.
Nothing FREE. Someone gets socked. Period. It’s a crime to steal from others to pay for your stuff, no matter how “valiant” the cause.
It is because Democrats made it
@Barry White You have proof of that?
@Barry White All conspiracy theories.
Ted Kennedy wasn't a Democrat but he originally came up with the ACA, Mitt Romney was the first to pick it back up in his bid to run for President. And FYI: BOTH men are Republican. Might wanna check that again homefries.
@@ThrdSonofSparda Senator Ted Kennedy was in the Democrat party. Here are two references.
Ask Google:
What party was former senator Ted Kennedy in?
Following Republican Richard Nixon's victory in November, Kennedy was widely assumed to be the front-runner for the 1972 Democratic nomination. In January 1969, Kennedy defeated Louisiana Senator Russell B. Long by a 31-26 margin to become Senate Majority Whip, the youngest person to attain that position.
Check WikiPedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kennedy
Political party Democratic
@Marshal Ivan Konev, 1st Ukrainian Front, Red Army; No I'm not mistaken in my information, I may have gotten the party affiliation of Kennedy wrong, but the info isn't incorrect. Sorry friend.
My grandfather had to wait a year past his recommended time for heart surgery because of English national health. When he finally got it his condition had progressed too far and he died on the table.
Sorry to hear that. Condolences.
@@Cissy2cute Thank you. It was quite some time ago but I still feel angry sometimes, at the life he was robbed of.
I am very sorry Christopher.
@Britannic hayyomatt Then one has to pay for private medical insurance, which because of confiscatory taxes, one may not be able to afford. I used to have some clients who emigrated to the US when I lived in Florida. They told me that people with money use the NHS for very minor healthcare issues, any thing serious they use their private insurance. Have I been mislead?
@Britannic hayyomatt when you apply crazy tax for NHS, what money the middle class left for private hospitals, we don't have a choice to refuse the NHS tax
In Canada, some people just love wasting doctors' and hospitals' time. We know a lady here that loves making up reasons to go to the doctor, one time for a suspicious bump that turned out to be a mosquito bite.
Obama‘s healthcare fees went through the roof nobody could pay them still can’t it’s a losing proposition it sucks
Obama care,
That what OBAMA calls taking care of himself.
It’s not about “care” but all about “control” It’s called in other places socialism and in America is called “democratic party” Don’t give up your God given rights!
Why anybody votes for those pigs is beyond me, except for being flat out dumb.
UNION WORLD Can you elaborate more about the “poor people” you said Obamacare reach out?
UNION WORLD Are you talking about the Heath plan called Obamacare or about the infamous 44th president? You still sending shots without presenting any reasonable argument.
Actually, in other places it's called "social services" and "Democratic socialism". There is a very fine line between those 2 and all out socialism. Most countries with these services have a higher quality of living, take Denmark for example.
Moc you can’t seriously compare Denmark to the United States. We have a 45% work participation rate in the United States. That means of the 350 million people only 150 million work and participate in the tax system. Denmark is going completely broke with their social systems as we speak because they are now experiencing immigration. Yes in a tiny bubble socialized community whatever works.
When a 3rd party is footing the bill; they make the spending decisions. This applies to insurance companies, as well as government. If direct costs are not paid by the consumer; prices escalate; this goes for insurance companies as well as the government.
The ACA is corporate welfare for the insurance industry. All those people being given $300 a month to spend on private insurance.
What do insurance companies do in response? Raise their rates.
Hence why inflation is going crazy in the healthcare industry
You’re an idiot. Most companies dropped out leaving one or two companies in each state to even buy.
@@Guitaroverkill Aparrantly you haven't even looked at the site or you know what a cool you've made of yourself.
@@AshGreen359 Apparently you don’t live in my state that only had 2 companies to pick from. Now there are 3 fool. Some states have their own version of ACA fool.
@@Guitaroverkill In California is called Covered California fool. It's still the same Obamacare, I didn't know your state sucks so much, sorry foolish fool.
Fool
I’m from Canada(Ontario) and agree 100% with this video, our healthcare is far from free and is inferior to the American system.
How is the healthcare not free in Ontario?...the part about how much the govt spends on health care is accurate though!
ken juan OHIP (Ontario Health Insurance Plan) is bloated in bureaucracy, name me one government service that is fiscally responsible🤔 another reason is when healthcare is “free”, hospital waiting rooms are full of people with the sniffles, further burdening an overstretched system.
I pay an ohip payroll tax of $1200 a year as does every Ontarian based on income and our highest income tax bracket (federal/provincial) is 54%.
Nothing is for free. There is a cost to everything.
@@MW-yh9tm $1200/year doesn't sound like anywhere near a terrible amount for health care...fiscal irresponsibility and wait times are definitely bad but nothing is free...obviously tax payer dollars need to fund any govt program...so still free compared to the US...now quality wise that is debatable.
$8000 a year oer person for healthcare alone, added to our tax bill.
It's because the government isn't good at doing things like that. I had an unbelievably ironic discussion with a person about that one time, he was going on about how teachers aren't treated fairly and they don't make enough money and then literally in the same sentence said he supported government healthcare for all, so I was like, "So what you're saying is that you want doctors and nurses to be underpaid and not appreciated too?" The government runs the education system, and he points out all these problems and then wants to give that same institution power of a WAY more important thing? Needless to say he was flabbergasted after that. saying, "Well that's not the same thing, that won't happen." Why? All previous things say that that's EXACTLY what will happen.
😂😂😂😂😂
Even Germany Privatised the Hospitals. that should say enough. and since they are Privatised it goes alot better. Still many "hurdles" for them but its a Start.
"Logic" has always been - and will always be - the Achilles Heel of leftists.
the state governments mainly run their education systems
however, the federal government is invading the healthcare industry that should be maintained and operated by respective state governments
so you're argument isn't really valid
but i still agree with you, the federal government is really bad at managing money (Dave Ramsey uses the phrase "spending like Congress" lol)
greg heffley but states are great at it? Like the way they manage their pension obligations? No, law enforcement and courts and administrators for the contractors they should hire for everything else. Governments cant be trusted to handle anything. They prove it every day.
I'm from a country with government controlled healthcare and it just doesn't work. We are having a huge shortage of nurses and doctors because they get payed shit. Private hospitals are booming and many people seek treatment in other countrys.
What country?
The ACA saved my life.
Im a Danish citizen. when I was living there, I paid 46% income tax (and I wasnt in a high income bracket....) free healthcare? not so much. healthcare isnt particularly good either, and I always felt like I was met by the staff like a freeloader (be grateful and dont complain...its free). oliver teist style...please sir, may I have some antibiotics..
Cost of living is high as well. minimum wage laws make it very difficult for low skilled workers to enter the (highly regulated!) labour market, and most production has moved overseas. it was difficult to make ends meet.
Liberty is not really a significant part of the Danish mindset, its a nation of state worship and collectivism. its nauseating IMO - so I voted with my feet.
David M you gotta love when people who don’t live in certain countries think they know better what’s going on there than the actual citizens?!? Like you did with Tiger lily here. Just because you read some stupid study about happiness that probably used totally irrelevant parameters or was biased in the way they “measure” it.
I know a few Danish people that even though they love their countries were very surprised to be proclaimed the happiest people on earth.
I'm pretty sure you are not a Dane because I know some Scandinavians and they actually like the system
I take it all this occurred in Denmark. Where do you now live?
@@hugokam7762 Was talking to Tiger Lily. But hello to you nonetheless, and have a nice day.
🤣 @ the Oliver Twist. I'm still laughing.
"Obamacare" CRIPPLED ME FOREVER-- & I NEVER EVER WAS CRIPPLED BEFORE!
Really sorry to hear that
As I heard Stefan Molyneux once say, "If it's free, then you're the product."
When you're overly generous with other people's money.
Now if only I could find an actual university with this level of logic.
Hillsdale College
I recently started reading "How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie, and on the first line of the second chapter, he said that you there is only one way to get people to do what you want. "You have to make them want to do it." This is one of the things that I think that many people are missing in their view of the world. It's the reason socialism refuses to die, that people don't understand that they can't just make somebody do something, they need motivation, and allowing people to make business decisions makes profits, and that makes people want to do it. Governing anything takes away profits and drives people away because it's not about them anymore, it's about some complete stranger's desire for free stuff.
I remember that you had to pay penalty for not getting Obama care. That's being sai you were forced to join ACA.how democratic that is?
Because YOU don’t pay for it...doesn’t mean it’s free.
and how long can a system like this last offering health care for illegals
If the Republicans can take the house, maintain the Senate, and President Trump gets re-elected, the Republicans already have a healthcare bill ready to be voted on singed into law.
@@jimwilliams4088 funny, they had that from 2016 to 2018. except that the republicans in office despised Trump and had their own agenda, not the American people's best interest , like they were elected for.
words are cheap (during the elections)
TheXDatabase
Trumps done a good job so far as keeping his promises
For most Politicians, words are almost as cheap as promises.
P G that’s just not correct
Anything a President says to the People is not legally binding. But if the President talks to Congress and is questioned, then he is committing perjury. So is it a stretch to think that the Congress tells the President what lies to tell the People!
Riley Nicosia
How so?
So true!
Anyone who’s ever had to deal with any government agency should never want them anywhere near their health care. If there’s a long way, hard way, expensive way to do something, that’s the way they do it. And god help you if they have to fix one of their errors. You ,ay not live that long.
Obama: *speaks*
Me: 🎶 _Why the fuq u lying? Why u always lying?!_ 🎶
Russianbot-Not#80085
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You have proof?
Ohhhmyyygaaahd stop fuckn lyin
@@T25de an NPC calls someone a russian bot
@@charlescarter4608 I came here to reply precisely the same thing. TAKE MY UPVOTE, YOU MAGNIFICENT B*STARD! :-)
An Australian man went home for shoulder replacement, then a year later had surgery in the U.S. to fix their shoddy work.
I've had the same doctor for over two decades. I am on my third now since Obamacare. Bureaucrats have zero understanding of what the doctor/patients needs are. We are the envy of all other counties for our medical care and we are trading it for Obamacare.
Thanks for the explanation.
I met a gentleman from Detroit who said that his doctor's office was always overrun by people from Canada because they said they would die waiting to be seen by a doctor in Canada.
Here in the US many doctors are refusing to take people on Medicare/Medicaid because they can't charge them appropriately and the paperwork is horrendous - you forget to sign a page, literally dot an i or cross a tee the Doctor/Nurse can be brought up on charges of Medicare fraud. The doctors are either closing their doors or only accepting cash from their patients.
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@@55Quirll my uncle joined the service and had to change his name for the rest of his life because a clerk typed a "b", instead of a "v". Yeah, the government can do everything better... NOT!
@I I But i meet a lot of affluent Canadians who winter in Arizona and they get their medical stuff done in Arizona before they head back up to Canada in the spring. But if you ask them they will say the love the Canadian healthcare system. Question is: why do they have all their elective procedures done in the U.S. ?
When I first heard him say those words on the news, , I had just gotten a notice my company-bases insurance plan had ended...
ravenf6 so what did you do?
As an Australian, we have a two tiered system. Medicare taxes are paid for during your working life, but the care extends into retirement. If you want private health cover, you pay extra to the provider. This eliminates any possible waiting list times and allows your choice of doctor and a private room.
Anyone in support of gov't run healthcare should look at it like this: Have you ever had a positive experience at the DMV? Now imagine your doctor/hospital visits being handled as if you were at the DMV.
I hear poorer people saying Obamacare is great because it's cheap, but it just gives more freedom to the government to control what you can and cannot do
The bronze level of Obamacare cost you $5,000 in insurance deductibles before you did have to pay for your basic health care.
Poor people always had Medicaid or similar by state the middle class is the one that needs affordable insurance
Obamacare was not cheap. I couldn't even afford it.
I wish it was really “free,” but nothing is...
Enough with the PC it’s only free if you enslave the medical care workers from nurses to doctors to social workers & force them to work for free. That’s what these socialist scum ultimately would like to do.
So how does the Japanese Health Care System manage to stay affordable, but with quality care?
STELLAR INFORMATIONAL PRESENTATION ‼️. Thank you All💞
According to AOC, "we'll just... pay for it."
The money comes from the money trees. We just need to plant more money trees.
The sad of all this it's that some people and some politician still defend this stupid Obama care it sucks. Doesn't work.
All of my college educated friends do
Brainwashed
Thank you 😊
Plus, whenever government gets involved, quality goes down. Look at public schooling. Private & Charter schools are popular for a reason.
I’m all for moving towards free market health care but that cannot happen until we are willing to address the elephant in the room and that’s the fact that pharmaceutical companies have been allowed to control so much of the healthcare industry. A truly free market healthcare system that offers the best solutions at competitive costs cannot exist until big pharma and the federal government aren’t in business together anymore.
It is a FDA/Pharmaceutical complex. They are symbiotic and it is a strange “partnership” not too healthy for the pharmaceutical company. The FDA is part of a dictatorial FDA-AMA complex. They are dangerous regulatory bureaucrats that lie and have proven to harm. I am a physician and I am an observer. I am retired!
Absolutely right. People miss the fact that just because you favor free market solutions doesn't mean you're not in favor of some very dramatic regulatory reform.
This is just not true. Medicare and regulation are the primary driving forces in the healthcare market. Medicare because so many people have it and regulation because they tell insurance companies what they're _required_ to cover. A lot of the latter happened in the late 70s or early 80s, when the government started forcing insurance companies to cover routine care instead of letting them decide what procedures to cover. Taxation is also the reason that insurance is so heavily tied to employment instead of being bought independently; it was excluded from income taxation because the unions balked about it back in the 50s. I'm all for not having businesses and the government in bed, but that just isn't the main problem here and the best answer to that is to just get rid of government power so that the business gains no benefit from being in bed with them.
Yes, naturally if you make the government weaker, the pharmaceutical companies will not be able to control nearly as much. On that we agree on.
Nah, the problem is insurance companies. We need to make them illegal, and the market will force medical prices WAY down.
I love this channel!!!
You love being fed propaganda, being a NPC must be a bliss.
Me too 👍
@@gracjanlekston134 I would agree with you on that comment but then we would both be wrong.
Graceful Rival Lex it’s hardly propaganda, if you watched the video you would see that it was backed by facts
@@aidans3259 Obamacare came from GOP's plan.
As a person who supports neither party
and sometimes likes/agrees with this channel, it is propaganda and
sometimes straight out lying. Example: 3:03 is a blatant lie. Bernie's
plan would REPLACE ALL costs we pay now. that's a fact. it's not even
logical to claim he'd charge USA to cover all medical costs yet we still
gotta pay all current medical costs. and this is coming from me, a
skeptic of Bernie and his plan.
Prager's channel proves leftists n
rightists both operate on 5 senses and experiences that are limited,
flawed, bias, n prone to cheating. they dont really care about true
karma or true God given values. they rarely give FULL, detailed, factual
solutions on people BORN with very costly pre-existing conditions...or
solutions to many things. they just find faults in leftists which isn't
hard to do. ruclips.net/user/playitalready should be watched n supported more
than this.
Spot on!
Remember how the only people, the ones most closely related to knowing the resolutions to the heath care problem, the ones who would implement the the Actual care of the patient, the ones who would be Most effected by the law itself, The Doctors and Nurses, were the only people who were Not allowed into the room during the negotiations and drawing up of the Bill that was passed. My taxes increased, my premium went up threefold, my deductible increased, Worked the first 16 hours of the week just to pay for insurance and all the other government mandated deductions such as FICA, SS, etc., etc., of a forty hour week, whereas before I had it all paid in less than a day. Now, here's the kicker. If a fairly good insurance plan I bought myself is about 6-7,000 dollars a year, and with the ACA the minimum deduction was 6,000 dollars a year. Where was the change?
My problem with “Obamacare” is a financial concern. Previously, people would not pay for their (sometimes unnecessary) emergency room visits. Ever wonder why the aspirin you were given in the hospital costs eight dollars? The insane prices charged were charged to you to pay for the people who weren't going to pay. Now, the same people who did not pay before have insurance that does not need to be paid for. It seems to me, now that many more people have insurance than before, the hospitals SHOULD be seeing increased revenue as a result. Have your medical costs decreased? Does your doctor now charge you less? Has the “quality” of your insurance increased? OR, has everything become FAR MORE expensive? Have major hospital conglomerates been buying all local hospitals and making them as opulent as a hotel in Dubai? Costs have increased for most, as have the revenues for hospitals...as can be seen. The government cannot handle making a cup of coffee, yet they will economically manage the healthcare system. Sure........
It's almost as if the government says "We'll pay for it!" and the hospital execs start rubbing their greedy hands together and say "Excellent. Now we can charge whatever we want."
@Glen M Yes..and off-topic...your great Avatar PIC I totally recognize, but I can't remember where! Help!
US spends millions on their military, millions bailing out big banks; millions bombing other countries; cut those costs, then no financial problems.
Doctor's discovered headaches were caused by dehydration in many cases. Pharma invented aspirin with the main goal of, take with a full glass of water. It's believed by many, pharma could make money on headaches and put something bitter to taste like medicine in a pill and told you to drink a full glass of water to wash it down. Soetoro was a pharma mafia guy, surprise you?
Damoclese CoE Because the government still only pays pennies on the dollar for Medicaid and not much more for Medicare. That said, insurance and big pharmaceutical companies that lien the pockets of politicians needs to be curbed.
It doesn't work because the insurance industry works the same way as the gambling industry does. The house has to come out ahead, or the business folds. With every insured person, the insurance company is betting that the person will remain healthy, and that on average a person will pay more in premium than they will take out in benefit. This works, because they use tables of known statistical probabilities to profile customers, and price insurance accordingly. Obamacare doesn't work because it leans on the system (to cover pre-existing conditions) so that the house automatically loses. You're not dealing with risks anymore. you're dealing with a known outcome. It's like forcing the dealer to keep drawing cards even though he has 21 on the table already. There is no possible way a customer with a pre-existing condition will pay more than he receives in benefit. Therefore the cost of his care must be compensated for by hiking the price of insurance for other customers. Therefore insurance companies had to raise prices.
*This was the excuse.* Health insurance companies were the largest institutional donors to Barack Obama's 2008 and 2012 campaigns. Obamacare gave them the excuse to both raise premiums, and to raise deductibles. This completely sabotaged peoples' ability to actually get health care using their health insurance. The only people who spent over the deductible were catastrophic cases. The companies made money hand-over-fist. Though technically more people were then covered by "health insurance," many many *many* fewer people were actually able to use that insurance to actually pay for health care. Hundreds of thousands of upright citizens, possibly millions, became functionally uninsured, because while they may have had insurance, they couldn't use it.
Obamacare was a scam from the ground up. In this way, Obamacare worked perfectly and as intended. Until now, when it's going away, and good riddance to it.
Well put. You work in the insurance business?
Supposedly they removed the penalty BUT Obominationcare cost me 800.00 on my taxes. Instead of getting $807.00 back I'm getting $7.00. Thanks jagoffs!
I am retired on a retired insurance program and my cost went up 400%! Hussein Care did more damage than anyone will admit.
How are we going to come up with $30 trillion to spend on healthcare when we can't even pay the $25 trillion National Debt ?
One thing I hated about Obamacare is that if you can't afford it or any other insurance you are penalized more money for not having it
Awesome video! Easy to understand too
Period.
Hip replacement surgery is a two-year wait in Canada. Single payer, universal systems typically mean that healthcare is rationed. This would worry me since there are as many people in California alone as there are in Canada.
It's rationed here, too... If you can't afford it, the wait is infinite... 2
@@stewiegriffinfan18 not true, my mother waited five days for hip replacement surgery in the states, fully covered by insurance when she had private insurance. now that she has gov healthcare(medicare) they are only paying 2000 on open heart surgery( life ending if not done) leaving 50k plus for her to pay. and you want me to trust gov controlled healthcare, hell no i will never trust it.
@@stewiegriffinfan18 I mean, that's a fair point...
@@spencergraham-thille9896 Thanks :p
I feel like slapping Obama every time he says “Ye oh” (you know).
I feel like he should be slapped every time he opens his mouth.
mankybrains Yes, also 😂
The Great I AM. will take care of that lie speaker. Just, do not join him in his fate.
@Talking ape on giant ball flying through space He won't because AG Barr won't prosecute him
My sister works at a tiny coffee house in the Scottish highlands. She makes a higher hourly wage than nurses in London. She knows this because she was in the medical field here in the states prior to moving to the U.K. and even with her experience couldn’t find a medical job that would pay her well when she moved over there.
I too am in the medical field. I do direct patient care with patients in a hospital. I do what I do for the medical benefits because I have a family of five and I want them to have medical security. If the U.S. goes to socialized medicine with no avenue for private healthcare it would free me up to leave the field. Why should I deal with all that stress if I will be paid less than I make now and have the same healthcare as everyone else. This might seem selfish but it is reality for me and many of my coworkers. Tons of us want to do other things but we do what we do because it is profitable and provides safety for our families. Take that away and our incentive is gone. That is human nature.
Medicare, Medicaid, and state healthcare programs drive up costs. I see this first hand. I understand wanting to take care of those who are unable to take care of themselves but we need to be more strict in how we do it. I have seen plenty of folks who are fully capable of supporting themselves, find some way to trick the system in order to get taken care of and get free money stripped from tax paying citizens. It is sick and is one of the biggest things driving medical costs up.
paid more than a london nurse i call bs
Govt makes services worse and more expensive. Look at the DMV, social security offices, and states with gov't ran liquor stores. No one does it better than the private sector.
I already had affordable healthcare for years right up until the “affordable” healthcare act took affect and then I lost all of it.
Maybe we should be focusing on cutting the cost of overpriced medical cost. A simple xray or MRI scan costing thousands of dollars?
Have you tried the combination of not using insurance and talking to the Doctors about pricing? You'd be amazed at what a few questions can do. Most people don't realize it's the use of insurance that is dictating the pricing.
There are tons of doctors that would prefer not to deal with the headache of using insurance. Even my Eye Doctor gives me a discount when I get my contacts. No insurance involved. Just talk to them about what you can afford.
Another great trick is not using insurance for a prescription. A "Co-Pay" price is often locked in even if the meds don't cost that amount. I used to work for Merck's Prescription Benefits and had access to actual drug costs. Many many many drugs retailed for a fraction of a penny per pill yet people still opted to use their insurance and pay a $35 Co-Pay for about $2 worth of pills.
Handing over an insurance card literally changes the prices in the system at doctor's offices, hospitals and pharmacies. I told a friend about this and her birth control pills went from $25 to under $5 simply by opting to not use insurance.
I lost my health insurance when Obamacare came out. It increased 200 a month making it just over 600 per month plus the 4000 deductible. I dropped it. At the doctors office I usually went to I let them know I didn't have insurance and they charges me 100 for the visit. My usual bill after 25 copay was 300 for the exact same visit. Only difference was the insurance.
The only way to cut prices is go to cash. When people have to pay out of pocket, they use less and provider has to charge less to get customers.
An MRI machine costs more than a million dollars and can be scheduled only a few times a day. Our medical care costs much more than it did 50 years ago because we GET so much more now. Socialized medicine adds a massive bureaucracy that must be paid for, too. If you want 1950 medicine, that would be cheaper.
Haven’t been able to afford healthcare since Obama care came out. My husbands and my premium is more than our house payment at 1400 dollars health care last time we checked 1700 with a 12,000 dollar deductible each. Insanity
President Trump has signed an executive order to bring down prescription drug prices. There needs to be competition between insurance companies.
As someone from Ontario Canada, I can say so far I have had good care. I needed to get an Non- emergency MRI and Ultrasound and got it within one to two weeks.Non Emergency wait times can vary, I had have them range from 20 mins to 6 hours from the time I signed in and the time i was seen by a doctor.
Same with NHS in the UK. When I was there this past May a female friend we traveled with rolled her ankle on the Abbey steps in Manchester. We called their medical advice line (nurses asses your situation) and were pre checked into their A&E. In all, it was about 4 hours in and out and (even as tourists) costed us 0 pounds. Same equipment, medical staff, etc. Conversely my trip to the emergency room xmas eve one year costed me $2,000 and that was with insurance.
Barry said he "was going to "fundamentally change" America. He did exactly that.
I'm in Québec and have waited for 3 years for treatments for Complex Regional Pain Syndrome from a spinal injection injury that was a government paid treatment for my initial work injury that took place in 2015. ER times are around 8+ hours in the Montréal area, less time if you are lucky/unlucky enough to have a more serious emergency. The health workers are overworked and family doctors have x2+ caseloads.
I recently (July 2020) got treated for a kidney stone. Of the almost $9000.00 bill (for 3 appointments), my insurance paid $420.00, made the provider write off just over a thousand dollars, and said the remaining 7+ thousand is my responsibility. I’m so glad obummercare made it so affordable for me. I would hate to see the bill for something more complex.
Billionaires can’t pay for Trillion dollar programs.
30 Trillions for just 10 years of low-quality healthcare = ok
5 billion for one wall to protect our people and enforce the law = not ok
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@@hewhositsuponfroggychair5722 And just a decade and a half ago, Dems were voting in favor of a wall, like the 2006 Secure Fence Act. But they always flip-flop.
I assume the last part of the video answers my question which was going to be -- rather than simply accept the high cost of healthcare and shuffle plans around to figure out how to pay for it, why don't we address the question of why it's so expensive in the first place and foster competition to drive that down. And while as I said, the last part of the video explains it as the profit motive in R&D for new treatments and cures, I do think the sizable health lobby in DC does a lot to artificially prop up the costs of healthcare. Any time a private industry "colludes" with government, it's bad for the citizens.
And now they are colluding with our doctors. We are the only ones left out of the loop.
Yesterday I was searching up info about planets and stuff and I had typed "why are" in the searchbar, then I saw that one of the recommended searches was "Why are veterans important?" It took about an hour for that to sink in.
Hi all I'm 26, France, I've paid about ~800$ this year in taxes for about the integrality of what the healthcare system provided me until now. The system is working so well we can even take care of illegal migrants! But anyway, I guess it's important to keep wealthy people able to chose Dr A or B for their coloscopy. Bless you all !
I'm curious. After doing this video, does this fellow still have his job? Great information, by-the-way!
I lost everything he said I could keep, plus our premiums quadrupled.
Netflix had a show called Embarrassing Bodies. It was filmed in the UK and it had people that had issues they were tired of living with. The problem was that they lived with these problems anywhere from 1 to 20 years. Some of the conditions were so awful you felt bad for them. An example was an 8-year-old girl that had warts covering her foot. She has had them for 3 years and they were getting worse. She had a hard time walking. She came on the show and the problem was taken care of. She had been going to her Primary Care Physician and they couldn’t or wouldn’t do anything. All the people on the show had been using the NHS (the government run healthcare system). The doctors that were doing the show helped them or sent them to private practices. Basically it comes down to if you have private healthcare (which you can buy in the UK) you will get the best treatment. If you don’t, you have to accept whatever you get from the government. Unfortunately the show is not on Netflix anymore. I would say this is a must see for anyone that wants government healthcare.
Access to health insurance does not equal access to health care.
"If you have Diabetus and you're on Medicare...."
I have type two diabetes in Canada! I have to pay for my own metformin. Here's the kicker! The pills cost a out five bucks a month. The pharmacy's fee is $11.47 each. Unless you're on welfare you pay for your prescriptions. Some companies have prescription plans, But these companies are few!
My sister is on long term disability, $1900 dollars a month. She has type one diabetes. She pays around $400 per month for her insulin and other meds out of pocket.
Not all medications are covered by welfare either!
“The path to Hell is paved with good intentions.”
When done for your ownngood
"""But but but, it has Obama in the name, and I voted for him.. """
A caller on radio today said his Obamacare costs had more than doubled and there was very little customer service. Didn't all but one provider leave Obamacare long ago?