Why the U.S. never got universal health care
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- čas přidán 22. 05. 2018
- Every fight over the Affordable Care Act is a reminder of the bigger truth about the U.S. health care system: It's really a patchwork, not a system, because we never decided what our priorities were. Here's a look at how it developed and why it's not the kind of health care safety net other countries have.
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Cut the BS its all about the money.
Private insurance compagnies, pharmacueticals making huge profits in the US.
@@metalvideos1961 you sad it greed and anti social.
The money thing is having private insurance compagnies (profits must be made the more the better) they have about 1.8 million administrative people. Hospitals having high insurance costs due to malpractise. Medicines are up to 10 times the price you find in other countries . Again compagnies making huge profits. I even suspect price agreements. And a government that doesn't care about the wellbeing of their citizens. And if half of the population doesn't know how its done in the rest of the world. And the other half doesn't care. Then their healthcare system will stay in place for a long time.
@@fcl2024 yes its horrible how they treat you in america. i totally agree. but all this could be stopped with a universal health care. take an example to scandinavia. pay more taxes for free health care and school. that is what bernie wants as well. or do something like we have in the netherlands. pay a monthly payment to your health care insurance company and get every help you need. now i have to say i am not happy with the system here. but its better then nothing. infect we have the second best health care system in europe. probably even in the world. so yeah i get your concerns and i see that you want to have it changed as well which is more then logic. but for some reason false flags and illegal wars is priority number 1. after that maybe the citizens. there is no reason why you have to pay more for medicines in america then anywhere else. its pointless. its greed and nothing more. i dont understand why no government thought about things like this. very strange to hear if you ask me
Exactly
Just searched it up, the U.S collects about 2-3 trillion in tax money every year. Keep that in mind, the U.S can definitely use the same tax paid health care system but decides not to.
@@SalmanM190 1 trillion goes to medicaid. think.
Now tens of millions of Americans are now finding out that healthcare coverage is a requirement for a functioning society especially in the COVID era.
...and who's running health care? The same Government that arranged the pandemic in the first place. "Thou shalt not kill" (6th Commandment). Socialists have even more blood on their hands, and they shall answer to the Lord Jesus Christ on Judgment Day (Revelation 21:8, KJV). Even so, come, Lord Jesus! Establish the Kingdom in Jerusalem, and keep the world safe from Democracy!
@@Tb2204 No Hazel, on the contrary: free healthcare should be a basic human right. 0.001% of US Military expenditure.
@@Tb2204 yes, spending trillions on the military to drone strike children in the middle east is fine, but spending a dime on the citizens of america immediately causes the economy to collapse.
Not here in Australia it isnt
People have died in the street for a millenia. The problem is not that. The problem is care and trained people have the right to get paid. Facilities, medicine, technology, drugs all cost money and it is not free anywhere, just paid for in different means.
@@manofwar6013
We don't have it because the insurance companies keep a ton of lobbyists in Washington. 🤷
Maybe it's time for massive protest?
@@johncaze757 the system that allows this corruption, has to be changed.
Every developed country in the world has a universal healthcare system. Also, many have in addition a private option. Here in the USA the brutal capitalists who don’t care at all about our health are trying to find reasons to deny what every other country has. It is all about money!
and even the third world countries have... Brazil with a GDP 20 times smaller than the American one and with a similar population manages to have a minimally decent system (it's not perfect but it saves many people)
Even if usa wanted universal HC it wouldn't be possible with the 300million ppl it has unlike the rest of developed nation that has less then 60-50 population.
@@AngelicoCiudad it is possible
@@zakmatew
Idk? Free HC with good qualities would sound too much without lowering the population. We also have USA wasting most on borders, having most/receiving illegal immigrants, and waste most on military which from all this other developed countries benefits from. So again idk if it's possible without strict and drastic laws?
@@AngelicoCiudad I'm from india and we have. And our population is 1.4 billion💀
Healthcare should be a right I mean it's pretty important.
Even more important than roads and schools
It makes the government a lot of money there is a reason it is not free
No,they profit from this business,they will NEVER listen because of the capitalism.
Ya, but in a democracy, education is more important in my opinion
@@chupasmetes2347it’s a good reason
Our dogs get treated better in the UK than you guys do, we even have voluntary payment for poor people with Pets its what you can afford, and all wildlife is treated free in Scotland
No need to overcomplicate the issue. There are huge profits in private healthcare. Money interests own our politicians. Thus we don't have universal healthcare.
It really is that simple
Here's your short answer. Greed. You see in Britian, human lives means more than a wallet with cash, but that's the complete opposite in the US.
It's always been about money no matter what the case is, Insulin costs 2$ to manufacture but is sold for ~400$ a month for people that literally need it to survive. I honestly hate living in America.
Human lives do matter in the US it’s just the Government doesn’t run the show like other countries. It’s the private insurers businesses who want money in their pockets. It would be the same in Europe if it was like this, and the NHS is nice but not that great. Also, that’s kinda a dumb reason to hate living in America.
@@jamesdavid1185 I mean I have more reasons why I hate the U.S, this was one of them.
@@jamesdavid1185
It’s actually a very valid reason. Having to pay thousands of dollars for some medicine that literally costs like nothing to make is just ridiculous. And let’s not even talk about the insane cost of going to the hospital.
@@itsbriarwallace Oh I know I live in the US. I’m just saying the government doesn’t run the show like other countries do with their healthcare. Like for example private Owned hospitals can charge whatever they want and they want money.
@@itsbriarwallace Also this conversation was about hating to live in America. Everybody can think of something. I mean no country is perfect. I’m just saying the person who wrote this comment isn’t dealing with this stuff so why would u hate America for it. I wish the healthcare system was better but it’s not going to make me move because I’ve only been to a hospital once in my life and I don’t have to deal with the American healthcare system everyday.
I wouldn’t call like a right, I would call it an entitlement for its citizens. US is a developed nations & it should have some unifying health care insurance. There is many example of free market and effective system to follow like Singapore, Switzerland, or even Australia if we don’t want extremely high taxes. I don’t understand why is permissible to have a military health insurance, but not health insurance for all the civilians.
because their military are all a bunch of zionist controlled terrorist puppets. so they fight for the great zionists and are protected by the US government because of this reason. citizens in general are not zionist puppets. so they can suck it
@@metalvideos1961 what??? So US soldiers are terrorist puppets???
@@jamesdavid1185 they sure are. Well trained brainwashed Zionist terrorist puppets. Just like their own government. Whole America is a Zionist controlled terrorist state.
@Metal Videos
I don't quite see how Zionism under Jerusalem relates to the U.S. Military, any chance you could elaborate?
@@CristianEvans704
Oh forget him he’s just an idiot.
The reason we don’t have Universal Healthcare boils down to the same thing Abraham Lincoln and George Washington warned us about. Partisan division and rivaling ideologies.
You see, even the most far fetched cost for a real universal and free healthcare system covering every single citizen of the United States. This includes all doctors appointments, free medications, all surgeries, acute dental care and etc. The total cost is estimated to be around 32-33 trillion dollars each decade. Now you might see that number as absolutely crazy and unthinkable, but hold your horses for just a bit.
Annually, the Federal Government spends about 3.9 trillion dollars on healthcare, or roughly 18% of GDP. Over a decade, that’s ~39 trillion dollars. What also have to our benefit is even though we have the third largest population in the world, we have by a wide margin the largest budget per person in the world at over 11.000 dollars per citizen. That’s about 2x as much all other countries in the world bar second place Switzerland with 8.000 dollars. Germany, France, Norway, Denmark, Japan, Sweden and all other developed nations have between 5000-6500 per person. Do you understand how ridiculous it is that we don’t have universal healthcare? Do you know just how unrivaled we’d be in healthcare if we had?
You can thank sincerely the Republican Party for blocking EVERY single proposal for a universal healthcare system. Truman’s Fair Deal, The Clinton Healthcare Plan & PPACA that barely passed and was severely compromised on.
I would say whether Bernie is right for this country or not in terms of the presidency and his policies for a free education and free healthcare. At least we are debating about it more now. I hope the public is more dictated and looked at this issue for more angles and come to a better determination of how to either have universal healthcare or change and fix what we do have. And that at least we could thank Bernie for. At least were talking about it again.
I'd rather fix the healthcare we have than just have it government ran. we can make it affordable to where we don't have to worry about it being expensive.
Bernie would had made a better president.
Bernie is a liar.
As long as the US is still a member of the United Nations it should pursue the UN WHO 2030 Universal Health Coverage goal for all people... but do it a hell of a lot sooner than 2030
UN is a scam
@@JohnDoe-uq2qd Can you provide more info?
I hate how it's considered "radical" despite the fact health insurance literally is a pool of money you pay into along with other people hence, you're literally paying for other people's insurances
Universal Healthcare is a joke
@@AustinGaspar But many Countries has it.
@@AustinGaspar Nah in the netherlands for example we only pay 140 a month with a yearly co pay of 385 euros a year an that’s it. It cover all forms of basic care +dental, hearing, mental health and even all my medications for my pre excisting conditions. No extra payments. My governement even has healthcare stimulus in which they provide us 112 euro’s of the 140 i pay a month. (for ppl with low tow middel income.) It’s fantastic compated to the us. And the 140 is like one of the most extensive premiums, the basic coverage is about 125 a month.
@@AustinGasparAt least in the U.S...but other countries love it
why do people call universal health care communism? we have it up here in Canada and we are not communists.
Same reason they think school shootings are a normal, acceptable thing.
@@theyoutubeguy1 nobody thinks that lol
@@theamazinggarbage3209 Considering they are still allowed to happen every week, I think the politicians do.
@@theyoutubeguy1 they don’t happen every week lol, and just because it does happen doesn’t mean it’s accepted. Your logic doesn’t make sense.
One point made in the video that is VERY important is that corporations didn't want everyone to be covered, only their employees and later the family. But I think this was discussed in the 30's not in the 40's.
I thought the us was suppose to be better this sucks...... My stomach hurts I can’t afford health care
yeah, right. its about greed and money. this nation was built on those two words. if you offer free healthcare, half the nation would retire immediately and live off their savings, because they know that any catastrophic event would be covered. thats a good reason many work until medicare kicks in, but that also aint free. its $150 to 300 a month.
They add sugar to the products so that people get sick more.
They need to make it free
That ain't going to happen when 70% of it is ran by the private sector and people screaming COMMIE whenever someone comes up with the idea
Pathetic you are
@@twinsenwang6676based people screaming that. They are saying what’s right
I never realized how many problems the US has now I'm an adult and I can see we have many problems
Many many many problems...
Right?? I mean my parents had Medicaid as I was growing up since I grew up very poor. So I always thought U.S. healthcare was free or very cheap for everyone. Now that I'm an adult and have a job it's like damn. This country has some serious issues. Makes me want to leave and go somewhere that has their shit together.
@@professional.commentatorserious issues is an understatement. I wish I could leave...
@@lukamilas8648 To where?
Me too especially after I got out of the military
Why is the healthcare system in disarray because United you stand divided we fall
It really ticks me off about Medicaid because apparently I make too much despite not being able to afford anything
I use the VA. And had Tricare, while in Military and as a spouse. VA in Texas was horrific. But you can milk the system there much easier when you exaggerate certain illnesses. More money, going through motions. OR, they refuse treatment to those who need it the most. Make it difficult enough, that you give up, go away, and die. Most treatment for illness or disease the Doctor Prescribes. But they are unconcerned, any after all they are Corresponding Course and Medical School bottom tier Grads. Getting big checks, for little work. Go to a VA parking lot, see all those Corvettes, BMWs, ECT. Or your local Wal-Mart. What kind of car do you see in those parking space. Decked out Vans, sports cars, ECT. While GRANDMA w a cane, Pregnant women, those in Cancer treatment, waddle into store. With a 99 Honda. That system there is corrupt. Such as, you may go in for Sleeplessness due to Depression and anxiety. But instead you can get listed for Sleep Apnea. Treating you for depression is more costly (blood test, counseling, drugs). And inconvenient for some (long waits for appt, forced use of substandard Dr., transportation problems, anxiety of dealing w VA). Which pays much much more.
I know a guy who while deployed hung his flight vest above his bed. It fell, hit him in the head. He was seen for a bump. When he started to get into trouble stateside. He blamed it on a head injury and PTSD. So he was allowed to beat his wife, cuss out Command, skip work ECT. He was Medically Discharged. And recieved another 90 percent from the VA. For faking! Meanwhile, the Vietnam Vet begging for assistance only option is to threaten homicidal ideation to get a 3 day stay. But still be denied entrance into system. Or the Rapist, get treatment, and payment. While the Soldier who was assaulted, harassed, experienced Workplace bullying. Gets a Pap Smear, if they are lucky. They say, you can report sexual assault and receive assistance and care IF someone can vouch for the assault. Oh you mean like The Command, who covered up the assault? The Squad Leader who is only looking out for her career. The Platoon Sgt, who loves that Soldier because he's a Bird of a feather. Or, the co workers and subordinates who joined in on terrorizing you. Glad it's not them. Embarrassment, hopelessness or refusal/minimal treatment of the Victim is COST EFFECTIVE. Where the assaulter, gets more than living wage, benefits, treatment ECT. And sells The drugs he's prescribed to neighbors. Lives a Good Life, with lifetime Healthcare. A clean record, bc you are WILLFULLY BLIND, and believe Military Branches punish like Civilians. No, they don't have to register. The point is you wanna know why healthcare costs so much. Keep believing this tidbit is an exception to the rules. Oh, and there's Dental. The Soldier who did not pay attention while receiving instruction during weapon training, shatters teeth. Or simply has bad hygiene. Gets caps. Lifetime dental. But many who have served Honorably and age, walk around with tooth pain, tooth loss. You do realize Soldiers get their teeth pulled by other Soldiers. Often with complications. It's a month's long course. Have you ever been to a bad dental school?
let me just put it this way.... employer = direct purchase. its the same damn thing! because employers take that out of your paycheck!!
Yes but don’t employers pay the other part?
@@WhirlOmar they do pay for it
Yes but not every job gets quality insurance.
@@vulcanraven9701 it is their way of allocating more funds to your pay check. some employers will give you the option of expensive healthcare or cheap, and in fact your pay check will be bigger or smaller due to this choice you make. smart employees weigh their benefits as part of their total compensation, for example if a company is gonna pay you 3% more than another competitor, but the other competitor has a 5% 401k match, in fact, you earn more at the "lower paying" company
@@ajlee613 Some employers offer weak healthcare coverage and week salaries. A lot of the uninsured fall into this category
A national healthcare system is simply not the same as universal healthcare - unless it becomes - one tax-based system and the 'right' of all citizens. Yes, I said it, ...an entitlement. (The opposition to that is enormous!) The wife and I have been in healthcare and watched the process since Hilary Clinton took a shot at it, and where the money-power people spiked it fast to later propose a much different route. Obama was that weakened way, ...resulting only in the creation of additional policies being paid for by taxpayers, but leaving the patchwork described here undisturbed. (The lie was in insurance companies feigning being bankrupted by it all.) Therefore, ...universal healthcare has been 'buried' under a national healthcare program from the beginning. A partial effort in "single payer proposals" is a wuss attempt to bring universal healthcare back to the table - but most people are persuaded to believe it cannot be done without tax increases, that 'research' and universal healthcare can't live side-by-side. Etcetera. I love America - and - what it 'could' be again. ps: to RS & Assoc: untrue, and look beyond money for the 'good' docs my fellow Americans!
Common denominator really did shock you
Germans in 1883: “get on my level!”
1:12 Why should non-citizens be given free Healthcare?
Becuase its the right thing to do? If they are living here and paying taxes here then maybe they should be given medical support.
Because people getting injured while on vacation deserve as much help as citizens
Do you know that undocumented people pay taxes right? If you didn’t well now you do! They pay taxes and none of them get any of the benefits that you are probably entitle to, I am just a resident and I pay a lot of taxes and I am not entitle to all the benefits as citizen are, so how cruel it’s to think that some undocumented people has even denied to be treated at a hospital because of the legal status in this country? They pay too and get a lot less so before saying stuffs that you don’t even know how they are I think you should read a little or inform yourself before you have the entitlement to say why non-citizens should get free healthcare
The AMA is largely responsible for why we do not have universal healthcare here in the US. The AMA, insurance & pharmaceutical companies.
You know maybe if they don’t spend billions every minute on the military then maybe they’d be able to solve the fact that their country is half dystopian nightmare half rich boys playground
The question shouldn't be whether or not its a right but whether its beneficial to society. Public Wifi, electricity, fire fighters etc. are not a "right".
Those things exist because its *practical*.
Why does healthcare get singled out & nobody complains about having to pay for others roads/bridges/internet/stadiums etc. When they themselves never use it?
"by contrast, countries much smaller than the u.s. and therefore can afford to take good care of everyone does it so well, i don't know why america which has one of the biggest populations in the world, cant handle this issue. after all, if you can take care of one you can take care of six million, what does a few million more who sneak into the country do to affect the workload? none at all."
yeah, about that...
I dont get why the US doesn't have a referendum vote for this, there will obviously be more taxes due to this. But come on how are you supposed to pay ur hospital bills. I live in belgium for a broken leg with xray, ... i go to the hospital and get a bill of 200$ at most. in the US this is 2500$ or so i heard 'Insane'.
Because it is “democracy”.
I am kidding.CAPITALISM
@@ilyatoporgilka Stop blame capitalism. All Europe countries have a universal healthcare and they are capitalistic
The bigger the costly
Because everyone is getting fat lmao we'd go bankrupt.
Always wanted to live in the USA but I'm not trying leave free healthcare
No healthcare is free.
Everybody claims they want universal healthcare but they don't get that it would cost them like 50/60 income tax. For it to get in now they would have to convince the majority of people that it is worth paying most your check every month to pay for that surgery some random homeless person needs. I for one would vote against the so called "free" healthcare and would rather deal with some issues myself then be forced to hand over most my cash when me and alot of other folks already struggle to pay for all out crap as is. Little Timmy will just have to go without that transplant unless some rich person or a bunch of middle class people bunch together to make it happen XD. Call it selfish of me if you like but I am not sorry for wanting to keep more of my money...
thats a very common misconception. as far as taxes go, it wouldn't have to be increased by much if at all if you look at other countries with universal healthcare. and even if it is increased, the amount you'd be paying in taxes will almost certainly be less than the amount you have to pay monthly to your insurer. also, America has one of the most expensive healthcare systems because of the system we have. Healthcare providers charge so much for surgeries and medicines because they know insurance companies will always try to low ball them with the amount they'd receive as payment, so to counter this they bill patients more than the actual cost to try and get paid a fair amount. this unfortunately leads to the uninsured to have to pay nonnegociated prices which is why you see crazy bills for simple procedures. with our current system, an ambulance ride, for example, can costs over $1k for emergencies (varies depending on location, insurance, etc.) whilst in Canada, its usually just a flat rate of $125 (more or less depending on location). We can definitely afford universal healthcare and everyone would be better for it.
As an American that makes a bit more sense. Thank you for the info. When someone outside my country says free healthcare it makes me mad because it's not free. Universal healthcare is a much better term. Thing in this world is free someone has to pay for the doctors and the equipment that they use to help their people. I'm so used to living off of insurance that all of my money gets taken out of for other people. I'm fine with helping those who need it but it makes me worry about the people who take advantage of it who don't need it when there's a lot of people in this country who really do need it. People will go to the hospital just for a cough and act like they're dying when they're not. Having universal help care would be perfect for people in need like the homeless, and the adoption centers that are taken care of children who've been neglected and abandoned or had their parents killed. That I would be more than happy to pay my taxes too.
Not really 🤔
The problem is corruption and politicians are involved. The cost of medicines should not be so expensive, but drug companies and hospitals put the prices very high for medication and services.
We need regulations to put an end to high-cost medical services and maybe one day we could have a better America.
Yeah but many of those countries don't have a defense budget because guess who pays and dose it for them
A true lamp and people alarm bud
California’s GDP is 5x bigger than Sweden. Why don’t they do Universal Health Care???? If it is so perfect, let them Canary… if it works, awesome I’ll pay -$500 and it will be adopted on the federal level…
One state attempting to transition to universal healthcare won’t work. It needs to happen everywhere at once
@@Schnoz42069 🤣🤣🤣🤣 if a state that if it was its own country it would have the 6 HIGHEST GDP IN THE WORLD. If California can’t make it happen. You honestly think the Federal government can take this on? 😭😭😭. Does the EU have sweeping Universal Health care that is in charge of enacting with ALL EU countries with the same exact sweeping laws and distribute all of those fund to every EU country. With 0 corruption. No. They all have different laws base on their country.
This SUXX !
Capitalism
All those other countries who have free universal healthcare are capitalist countries.
You can have capitalism and have free universal healthcare. You can have socialism and still have a pay for market driven healthcare system.
Based chess team
If we went the traditional route of universal healthcare, we'd have to nationalize the hospitals and doctors. That means that most doctors and all specialists would receive dramatically lower pay. If we went with a hybrid system, whereby the GVT sets prices (al la Medicare) and doctors/hospitals would have to comply, it still wouldn't work. Some hospitals would fail because they don't have their expenses in order. Providers would also need to reduce their income dramatically or (more likely and what is happening now), play the system such that they do more tests/procedures, make sure they are a part of a hospital (so get a higher reimbursement), or something else. Of course the medical system does not operate under supply/demand/price rules (healthcare is not finite, but ever expanding into things like "pre" hypertension. You don't have it, but we'll treat you anyway). So anything that is proposed must be put through this filter. For example, cutting the number of days a person stays in the hospital may sound great, but if the cost for 1/2 those days is now more than the prior full term, something is wrong (so 3.5 days costs more than 7 days).
Robert Slayton & Associates, Inc. stupid comment
RPDBY don't waste your time on comment😑
Robert Slayton & Associates, Inc. Still better than the system we have now where more than 35,000 Americans die every year because they don't have access to healthcare.
@@TheAverageJoe2014 the worst part of it is that a lot of health issues are easily treatable, yet you have 2 options if you were not wealthy....simply die or go in to extreme debt wishing you died...it's disgusting
@@annirachael3954 yep... Medicare for all
Good video but he left out alot of stuff. Healthcare is a business not a right or a charity and the US population is far greater than all the countries he named. He also omitted that Britain got the Hospital Plan because the continent was leveled after the war. Churchill had to give the people somethin g for morale, especially since many had lost everything g and had injuries, let alone deaths in families. He is right in the fact that its a patchwork of systems. Workplaces providing health insurance would have to go away and eliminate all other insurance . The capitalistic economy in America would demand insurance companies compete for customers. Everyone would have to be under 1 and one only provider that could command rates and what hospitals could charge. Not just charge whatever they want, which is what they do now.
I believe that the key point of your argument that causes dissension and misunderstanding is the determination of whether or not healthcare is a right. From your standpoint, healthcare is a privilege that is to be earned through merit. Hence, attaching health insurance to employment seems like the logical decision. However, there are some (such as myself) that feel that healthcare should be a human right. The UN states: "Human rights include the right to life and liberty, freedom from slavery and torture, freedom of opinion and expression, the right to work and education, and many more." I would argue that the vast majority of these human rights are inherently dependent upon being in a state of good health. One cannot live without it. One cannot sustain work or education while ill. Health underpins so many vital parts of life and society that it is simply impossible to separate it as "a privilege". That isn't to say that changing the American system from its existing state to a universal healthcare system would be simple, or free from "road bumps" along the way. Universal healthcare isn't a flawless system, and the legwork required to convert our system is certainly significant, but I believe that it is worth the effort. Healthcare is essential to human life and happiness, and those are human rights. We should strive to maximize the availability of these rights.
Britain went socialist after the war and voted Churchill out. The conditions of the workers were terrible.
@@parkerwebber4085 Healthcare maybe a right but the resources and trained people administering it also have a right to be paid
Yet they turned around and voted him back in during the 50's. @@SandfordSmythe
@@brianlogan4243 Who said that health care providers shouldn't be paid? With that, I'll bow out of further discussion.
is anyone surprised. THIS IS AMERICA!! the land of the greed, money and power.
Because we aren’t communists
The US does have free healthcare for the elderly, physical and mentally disabled, babies, children, and ACA is basically universal healthcare.
You have to fill out a Bible of paperwork and make sure all your Ts are dotted…..and one screw up can get you canceled.
In those countries it’s free and universal by virtue of citizenship.
and the poor
Not really. Not everyone qualifies for ACA. A lot of part time workers get shafted
Only for poor people.
The middle class is not included .-.
Then the struggle is that middle class has to pay a lot to be covered 🫠