True cost of US healthcare shocks the British public

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  • čas přidán 2. 12. 2019
  • In the UK, an ambulance callout costs you £0 in medical bills. The birth of your child costs you £0 in medical bills. In the USA, it's a different story.
    We asked members of the public to guess how much they'd have to pay for simple medical services in America, and what they think about the NHS - an all too valuable asset during the coronavirus pandemic.

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  • @PoliticsJOE
    @PoliticsJOE  Před 4 lety +9441

    The Mayor of London doesn't like Donald Trump visiting his city. We sat down with him to discuss their beef
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    • @MasterofPlay7
      @MasterofPlay7 Před 4 lety +150

      britian needs a strong leader like Trump!

    • @MasterofPlay7
      @MasterofPlay7 Před 4 lety +47

      ​@N S lol there's something called private health insurance you know? And you get the best healthcare, not some public bs which is slow and unresponsive and outright corrupted

    • @MasterofPlay7
      @MasterofPlay7 Před 4 lety +18

      @N S lol salty, healthcare is a monopoly anyways. People died all the time in public healthcare system with medical accidents without any liabilities to surgeons/physicians

    • @MasterofPlay7
      @MasterofPlay7 Před 4 lety +13

      ​@N S Surgeons/physicians are accountable and can go to jail under private healthcare, which one do you prefer? lmao

    • @andyme3541
      @andyme3541 Před 4 lety +201

      @@MasterofPlay7 Actually you don't get the best healthcare, it costs more in the Us for worse service. Which makes sense, since insurance companies make a loss everytime they pay out they have a vested interest not to pay out, and since legally they must pursue profit, they also have a legal obligation to exploit any loop hole. Which means Americans end up paying for the red tape more than the actual service.
      Added is a thing called economy of scale when a whole nation is paying, through tax it needs pay less than an individual on a insurance scheme. I could go on but to sum up, America's healthcare system is both horrid, and over expensive.

  • @marcel844
    @marcel844 Před 4 lety +4515

    American Health Care Plan:
    1. Don't get sick

    • @chocolatedonut6312
      @chocolatedonut6312 Před 4 lety +112

      Marcel Wolke and don’t have babies

    • @teaisfantastic7136
      @teaisfantastic7136 Před 4 lety +58

      @@chocolatedonut6312 buy condoms & stay happy 😂

    • @unido5411
      @unido5411 Před 4 lety +107

      2: Don't be poor

    • @Anna_ep
      @Anna_ep Před 4 lety +49

      It's impossible. Your food alone is laden with so many chemicals and too processed. That's why other countries do not want American foods in their country. It's making their citizens sick.

    • @SankoshSaha_01
      @SankoshSaha_01 Před 4 lety +1

      Valid plan

  • @yourmomsfavourite5677
    @yourmomsfavourite5677 Před 4 lety +13717

    In America some people are begging people to not call the ambulance after an accident because they're poor....
    Here in Germany it's a crime to not call the ambulance if someone is really injured!

    • @SienneB
      @SienneB Před 4 lety +838

      Same in the Caribbean... didn't realise how lucky we are till I saw this video 😥

    • @malathomas6141
      @malathomas6141 Před 4 lety +140

      Where in the Caribbean do u live I’m from Trinidad and Tobago

    • @pauharrison
      @pauharrison Před 4 lety +430

      Exactly, in Uruguay and Argentina is the same way, cant believe how dumb and ignorant most yanks are (sorry for the good ones, I know there are a lot)

    • @liamcoulter9627
      @liamcoulter9627 Před 4 lety +363

      Oh yeah, you don’t call the ambulance unless it’s life or death or something that needs immediate care. Coming from a solid middle class family.

    • @macoffeeprettypie
      @macoffeeprettypie Před 4 lety +401

      Really poor people have health insurance called medicaid (which is what I'm on) which would cover emergencies, including ambulance. The problem is when you have enough money not to qualify for medicaid but not enough to pay your medical bills

  • @ghost_ship_supreme
    @ghost_ship_supreme Před 8 měsíci +2314

    As an American… I agree. It’s horrifically expensive. There are people who go to other countries for surgeries it’s so bad.

    • @ArariaKAgelessTraveller
      @ArariaKAgelessTraveller Před 8 měsíci +148

      I once read someone actually bought a ticket to Spain(or was it portugal?), get treatment, having vacation and all, and it still cost less than having same treatment in his own US state

    • @bobababy6089
      @bobababy6089 Před 8 měsíci +124

      WHY ARE THEY CHARGING YALL TO HOLD YOUR DAMN BABY??? I DONT UNDERSTAND THAT PART

    • @ALoser-ThisIsTotallyUnique
      @ALoser-ThisIsTotallyUnique Před 8 měsíci +84

      @@bobababy6089 WE DONT EITHER

    • @Nirioonossian
      @Nirioonossian Před 8 měsíci +107

      @@bobababy6089 Because you aren't subscribed to the premium baby battle pass, of course.

    • @toxihex876
      @toxihex876 Před 7 měsíci +43

      The question is, why does anyone stand for it? There's proof it doesn't have to be that way, and it can be literally hundreds of times better, yet nobody even thinks to see how these healthcare systems function. Not only that, but they make excuses for their own system and argue against those who say this isn't normal.

  • @alyssabates967
    @alyssabates967 Před 7 měsíci +389

    As someone from the US, I have seen many people die, because they are afraid of the huge price tag that may come with going to the doctor, so they often wait until whatever illness they have has progressed to the point it may cause permanent damage or not be able to be fixed, resulting in death. It’s a pathetic disgrace, and I fear its going to take the nation falling to its knees to change anything. Which is sad, because I love many things about my home, but we deserve better than this. It’s pathetic and an embarrassment, and it’s literally killing people.

    • @SarahSkinnyJeans
      @SarahSkinnyJeans Před 7 měsíci +3

      Yes

    • @quietcontraire
      @quietcontraire Před 7 měsíci +12

      Not just falling on its knees, it needs one heck of a damn wake-up call by crumbling the very foundation of its corrupt economy

    • @lynxfresh5214
      @lynxfresh5214 Před 7 měsíci +16

      Some folks need to take their own words to heart when they say "facts > feelings". The USA has more morbidly obese people than the entire population of Australia, the average USA citizen will live three years less than they British counterparts and the USA has a massive jail population with over 1.5 million inmates (most of which have been diagnosed as mentally ill).
      The current USA health-care system is objectively unsustainable as stated by healthcare professionals from across the world (the reports are all over the internet and news) yet apparently a nation that values freedom above all else is controlled by a certain percentage of folks that value profit and keeping the status quo above human life (I'll never forget those folks at the rallies that cheered at the prospect of their fellow hardworking Americans being left for dead on the transplant list and being refused help all because they were poor).

    • @kai0tfoool
      @kai0tfoool Před 7 měsíci

      ​@@lynxfresh5214china has the largest amount of obese people, not America

    • @mychaeldark1007
      @mychaeldark1007 Před 7 měsíci

      Live in America and I call bullshit. I have affordable healthcare and have NEVER had to pay a dime for any medical services or fee's. I've had to have all my teeth removed and replaced with dentures $0. Hospitalized twice during Covid, from the Vaccine not catching the disease $0. My eyeglasses for having 20/1000 vision $0. If people are dying from ignorance and incompetance than I say good riddance. Clears out the mentally defective from the gene pool.

  • @seymourskinner3573
    @seymourskinner3573 Před 4 lety +3557

    Confused civilians: "Where does all the American money go then?"
    U.S. Army : 🤫

    • @themoonsanus7213
      @themoonsanus7213 Před 4 lety +36

      Seymour Skinner talk to my ten grand toilet spot and my 8 grand “best dad ever” mug

    • @jonahpark4595
      @jonahpark4595 Před 4 lety +23

      Seymour Skinner most of our budget is spent on entitlements not the military

    • @dylancosto
      @dylancosto Před 4 lety +127

      Jonah Park don’t think so, as on 2018 it was 54% of federal discretionary budget for the military, nearly 600 billion$, half of the entire budget to increase the size of the already extremely large military, America is ridiculous.

    • @itstimeforafuckingcrusade
      @itstimeforafuckingcrusade Před 4 lety +81

      @@dylancosto yep, the U.S. military funding is larger than all other countries military funding combined.

    • @dylancosto
      @dylancosto Před 4 lety +46

      It's time for a fucking crusade. And it’s getting bigger every year, despite the most peaceful time in recorded human history, people already don’t respect American and it’s people, making the army larger won’t solve anything.

  • @MPresheva
    @MPresheva Před 4 lety +7574

    40 bucks to hold your own baby after birth? USA helthcare is sick.

    • @GB_B
      @GB_B Před 4 lety +244

      Mustafa Preşeva yeah thats so stupid

    • @lilly3424
      @lilly3424 Před 4 lety +326

      it’s ridiculous

    • @8is
      @8is Před 4 lety +21

      Yeah, cross-subsidization and suing of doctors aren't great.

    • @fadhly5192
      @fadhly5192 Před 4 lety +445

      Cause their tax go to military and war instead of healthcare and education

    • @8is
      @8is Před 4 lety +47

      @@fadhly5192 What's sick isn't who pays it, it's that the price is so high. It's a matter of choice if you want to pay for yourself or pay taxes. They chose to pay it themself but they still pay taxes for medicare where they force the hospitals and ambulance to take under market value prices. That's why there is no competition and the suing of doctors increase the prices even more because if they make a mistake they are charged with millions of dollars so they have to have expensive insurance so they need to increase the prices.

  • @anuzis
    @anuzis Před 7 měsíci +329

    Had our first born in the US last year... $33,000. After insurance, about $6,000... edit: to the UK dude who said his child birth cost 8 pounds for parking, it reminded me we also paid about $70 for parking (overnight for early morning birth)

    • @mestupkid211986
      @mestupkid211986 Před 7 měsíci +17

      My son cost us $10k but at least we didnt have to pay for parking.

    • @vintage1950
      @vintage1950 Před 7 měsíci +12

      Damnnnnnn, my brother and his wife just had a little girl last week. They got a refund on parking as she was there for 3 days.

    • @kaiserxion
      @kaiserxion Před 6 měsíci +2

      Compare both individual and sales tax rates between locales, look into better insurances and realize that the USA is basically subsidizing MANY countries humanitarian, disaster and protection aide (whether it's effective is another topic). I pay 10% individual tax and 9% except on food stuff which is 0%. We are far better off.

    • @amperesclaw9203
      @amperesclaw9203 Před 6 měsíci +4

      High deductible rates are cheap and you can reimburse yourself during retirement for that expense from HSA and employer gives us $1250 a year towards that. If you are an engineer/working couple $6000 for such a life event is chump change and only have so many kids.

    • @KT28818
      @KT28818 Před 6 měsíci +4

      My firstborn’s hospital bills was a total of $60,000.
      She and I had to be transferred to another hospital, the one I gave birth in didn’t have a NICU. Then she stayed in the NICU for about five days.

  • @Sand.eater87
    @Sand.eater87 Před 7 měsíci +94

    “You have to pay for that?” Yes, we have to pay for bandaids in the hospital

    • @sailor5853
      @sailor5853 Před 6 měsíci +7

      Imagine paying for individual toothpicks in a restaurant

    • @cs4155
      @cs4155 Před 6 měsíci +5

      LMAO that's so sad

    • @legolord4483
      @legolord4483 Před 6 měsíci

      @@sailor5853paying for the mint in the basket when you leave

  • @cgme7076
    @cgme7076 Před 3 lety +5358

    “If you’re poor you’re dead.”
    Yes.

    • @keephuzzlin
      @keephuzzlin Před 3 lety +162

      @Merika Ramocan Right.. Medicaid.. Thats why there are tens of millions of Americans who arent insured, and tens of millions more who are underinsured.. And ontop of that, 1 out of 10 Americans cannot handle a 400 dollar emergency and about 40% would have difficulty doing so. He wasnt being misleading at all.

    • @danielintq
      @danielintq Před 3 lety +97

      @@keephuzzlin Now I understand why there are so many anti-vaxxers. It's just they can't afford vaccines.

    • @grecco4037
      @grecco4037 Před 3 lety +24

      @@danielintq that's actually sad. plus the fact that they create these narratives in their own bubble to justify and make themselves feel good that they are anti-vaxxers

    • @unownunown1530
      @unownunown1530 Před 3 lety +7

      Daniel Lin the thing with the vaccines is afaik things like flu vaccines are the one thing you actually do get for free in the US lol

    • @fcuagency2163
      @fcuagency2163 Před 3 lety +1

      @Merika Ramocan sure, like 100% of Americans can get that

  • @Tipko
    @Tipko Před 4 lety +59189

    Problem isn't the brits who are surprised. The true problem is the Americans aren't

    • @aintunnis9201
      @aintunnis9201 Před 4 lety +2421

      @GR JM use punctuation ffs.
      And I 100% prefer health care that is paid by a solidary tax system then pay 100.000+ dollar because I randomly get cancer or break some bone. F*ck the health system of the USA (and sadly a lot of other countries like Chile, Argentina..)

    • @dragonsember
      @dragonsember Před 4 lety +1890

      I live in the states. My family was in dire straits after 2008, seeing as they were both in real-estate. I got salmonella as a kid and my parents tried to wait it out and treat it at home bc we couldn't afford medical treatment. It got worse, I got brought to the hospital, we lost our home. I'd rather our medical system be akin to a public school and private school situation where we have access to both options (an affordable tax funded option and a more costly higher standard private medical facility) than have a child with the system we currently have.
      A lot of Americans will tell you "if you have an issue with the way things are currently run, you can just leave and move to a 'better' country." Imo it's cowardly. We have the right to vote for a reason. If you have a problem with your country, you don't leave, you make an effort to fix the problem.

    • @Tipko
      @Tipko Před 4 lety +1001

      @@Balletified wow! What an insensitive comment. The guy's parents lost their house because of the system and you mock him? What a douche you are

    • @Astari0n_BG3
      @Astari0n_BG3 Před 4 lety +30

      yeah

    • @hi-nw7qy
      @hi-nw7qy Před 4 lety +572

      Americans aren't surprised because they're just used to it.

  • @John_Merritt
    @John_Merritt Před 8 měsíci +104

    My wife had both our sons in private hospitals here in Australia, our private cover for both my wife and I was $2500 AUD per year for full cover and the excess for each birth was $200 and this gave her a private room each time, meals each day and I think I did pay for parking but that’s fine, significantly cheaper than the US.
    Problem with the US health care system is the word Care isn’t included, its a business not a care system

    • @fatherson5907
      @fatherson5907 Před 8 měsíci

      You actually believe this silly propaganda. You’re incredibly gullible. 🤣🤣🤣

    • @brozius
      @brozius Před 8 měsíci

      Don't bother, Father son is a liar and a troll. He's a butt hurt American who can't stand that other countries have it better than the US

    • @Who-cu9eu
      @Who-cu9eu Před měsícem +1

      How much would it cost to have a pack of anti biotic for a water infection? I get them quite a lot. In the U.K. it costs 15 dollars a pack

    • @alletsa1575
      @alletsa1575 Před měsícem

      Water borne infection? Antibiotics vary in price in Australia. $8-25 generally.

  • @zenkalt
    @zenkalt Před 7 měsíci +198

    Guys, I think I got it! I've been pondering and the $40 charge for letting the mother hold her baby is probably for the strain the doctor/nurse goes through when handing over and taking back the baby.

    • @rkprasad64
      @rkprasad64 Před 7 měsíci +3

      It could be actually true, you know..

    • @_JustSyd_
      @_JustSyd_ Před 7 měsíci +30

      Strain they go though💀

    • @savannahrae9030
      @savannahrae9030 Před 7 měsíci +9

      Lowkey actually, i had my son back in June 2022 and asked the nurse after and she said it was because they have to bring in an extra nurse to suprvise you because you are highly medicated and might accidentally drop/smother/hurt your baby in some way
      Edit* i had a c-section so i don't know if they do that for natural birth

    • @shoganflamemasta3975
      @shoganflamemasta3975 Před 7 měsíci

      ​​@@savannahrae9030That's bullshit, it just a way of preying on new mothers who will almost always want to hold their own babies for a bit of extra cash. America is mental, and paying to hold your child is so dehumanizing and insane, that at first I thought these brits where joking, until I found your comment. Truly, be careful out there.

    • @sailor5853
      @sailor5853 Před 6 měsíci +5

      ​@@savannahrae9030Imagine going through years and years of Nurse training just to do supervision.
      USA don't understand they can personnel inside the hospital to do menial tasks without went to damn medical school.
      If I cut my finger here and got to the hospital for them do put in two stitches do you think they will spare a damn nurse to do it? No.
      That's the equivalent of getting an electric engineer to change a lightbulb.

  • @mariairfan7736
    @mariairfan7736 Před 4 lety +5118

    "so if you're poor, you're dead"
    American Healthcare summarized.

    • @DoctorArzt
      @DoctorArzt Před 4 lety +21

      Maria Irfan not just their healthcare lmao

    • @1lori_b
      @1lori_b Před 4 lety +50

      That's why we Americans get bitter when our government wants to give illegal immigrants health insurance and yet we suffer and go without meds.

    • @rivasimri
      @rivasimri Před 4 lety +72

      @@1lori_b Immigrants don't get medical insurance though - part of the problem in the US is seeing healthcare as a profit. But we can sure as heck spend on war though.

    • @yukihirasoma8167
      @yukihirasoma8167 Před 4 lety +1

      Väinö Tapio you do

    • @aamgdp
      @aamgdp Před 4 lety +12

      @Donald Thorpe Well you could mistaken to think the overblown prices fund the research, but it just mostly goes to the pockets of people in charge of those companies, and politicians to not change the system. There is top medical research in almost every developed country.

  • @user-tq2qh8zl9q
    @user-tq2qh8zl9q Před 3 lety +5508

    Over $200 for an inhaler-
    I-
    Isn't that just paying to be breathe-

    • @chaotic_jinks121
      @chaotic_jinks121 Před 3 lety +271

      Asthmatic person: * breaths*
      American healthcare system: *racks shotgun* "that'll be 200 USD bitch"

    • @calmchaos.
      @calmchaos. Před 3 lety +45

      That's maaaad 😱
      In Morocco its 4 dollars

    • @sierramelling2374
      @sierramelling2374 Před 3 lety +36

      Even with my insurance it is still like 80-90$ for my inhalers and I have chronic severe asthma so I'm getting like one a month

    • @ryanrigley2558
      @ryanrigley2558 Před 3 lety +22

      I have asthma that flares up with allergies, those allergies without the asthma already obstruct my breathing, so its like a double whammy. The Fun part? I'm allergic to grass. And trees. Basically, Im not supposed to be alive right now.

    • @sillowillo
      @sillowillo Před 3 lety +36

      @@calmchaos. I live in America and are you fucking serious? 4 FREAKING DOLLARS AND WE ARE OVER HERE PAYING 200 TO BREATHE

  • @xragdoll5662
    @xragdoll5662 Před 7 měsíci +35

    Spent years in America and my epilepsy medication was $900 alone with an ambulance costing $900-1,000 I think. It’s insane

  • @lucaspham5238
    @lucaspham5238 Před 7 měsíci +85

    "10 grand for a baby" this still got me 😂

    • @baghira2761
      @baghira2761 Před 6 měsíci +3

      10 grand, not including 9 months of pregnancy 😂

    • @manojpatro6288
      @manojpatro6288 Před 20 hodinami

      @@baghira2761 🤣

  • @EaziGX
    @EaziGX Před 4 lety +29322

    I'm in London, and just had a child. We paid a total of £8, and that was the carpark charge.

    • @TrapKelly
      @TrapKelly Před 4 lety +1027

      @@delko000 Not in Austria. They really charge you. Atleast we don't have to pay for calling an ambulance right?

    • @metalvideos1961
      @metalvideos1961 Před 4 lety +320

      @@delko000 Nope they do it in the Netherlands as well

    • @metalvideos1961
      @metalvideos1961 Před 4 lety +314

      @@delko000 not true. i know a girl from france and she told me that she had to pay for parking spaces as well. so dont say something you cant back up. if you talk about europe to a non european they think every country in europe is the same. which is not. we have still our own laws and rules. so dont say something that you cant back up. it makes you look stupid

    • @metalvideos1961
      @metalvideos1961 Před 4 lety +68

      @@delko000 maybe not everywhere in france. different restrictions have different rules. also i have been to france tons of times. we even have friends in france. and we had to go once to the hospital long long time ago and we had to pay for parking spaces. so yeah dont know france is big with different rules

    • @Findus1701
      @Findus1701 Před 4 lety +765

      In Germany you also pay for the hospital carparks but honestly considering what people in America pay for medical care - I’ll pay all the parking charges much rather haha

  • @thethinkingstone9248
    @thethinkingstone9248 Před 4 lety +12365

    The rest of the world is literally laughing at us.

    • @underedenxx
      @underedenxx Před 4 lety +334

      Why? we give 50% of our pay check every week in Canada for healthcare that becomes less free every year, because I've never needed healthcare until now, I have essentially paid about a million dollars to have 1 baby and they wont even provide me with a popsicle I have to bring my own 🤷‍♀️

    • @JohnDoe-uq9ni
      @JohnDoe-uq9ni Před 4 lety +200

      and ever country that laughs needs to pay for there own military instead of relaying on america

    • @dontbother3346
      @dontbother3346 Před 4 lety +129

      was this meant to be a pun like us as in us and us as in united States haha

    • @rinkiakepapa5625
      @rinkiakepapa5625 Před 4 lety +150

      @@JohnDoe-uq9ni only Switzerland does!! Btw thanks for weakening NATO , if Stalin would have been alive today, he would have celebrated the weakening by diving into a pool of Vodka

    • @alexnadon6999
      @alexnadon6999 Před 4 lety +179

      @@underedenxx what the fuck are you going on about. They still give free popsicles. I got one a couple years ago when I had surgery. And you don't even pay 50 per cent

  • @Elilucksout
    @Elilucksout Před 7 měsíci +41

    Sad thing about this is when they said the low prices immediately I thought, “Damn I wish.” But I’m glad he brought up the fact you have to PAY to have skin on skin contact with your baby after you give birth.

  • @adverteasing
    @adverteasing Před 8 měsíci +24

    I'm on a team (in a company) that helps design medical products. One of the products, which is basically plastic tubes that cost 50-75 cents to manufacture, is sold to hospitals for $200-$300 depending on location. The tubes can save lives, however, always follow the money when you get that healthcare bill...
    Side Note: A lot of medical product manufacturers have needed a recall in their past history, but avoid or don't do them, even after FDA recommendations/shutdowns. Example: Let's say 7 people in the US die because of a faulty chemo port. A company will do a cost analysis of every factor-lawsuit over time, loss of life, and money, etc. You get the point: If profits come out ahead, they never do recalls. Most have the resources to bury with motions or paperwork, taking years for court productive momentum-same with copyright lawsuits and the such. I've heard our teams of in-house lawyers call it the, "drain and stain," method.

    • @kaasmeester5903
      @kaasmeester5903 Před 7 měsíci +3

      I heard similar stories, like hospitals repackaging a box of bog-standard throat lozenges ($5 for a whole bag), giving them individually to patients who need them, and charging them $50 for it. Not for the bag, but for the one lozenge.
      Problem in the US is one that (to a lesser degree) we in the Netherlands are suffering from as well: health care providers and insurers have a vested interest in making things expensive. So prices go up every year. You either need REAL competition between insurers (and that means free and informed choice, which is mostly lacking), or make it a national insurance. Because competition between health care providers and hospitals was actually working pretty well here when it started, and when the insurers hadn't consolidated their newfound power yet. Private care was WAY cheaper and better than the state hospitals, and available to all with no waiting lists.

  • @AkaiAzul
    @AkaiAzul Před 4 lety +15343

    Since when did America go from “Land of the free” to “Land of the fee”?

    • @Stanzafly
      @Stanzafly Před 4 lety +745

      It's funnier when you consider that the literal basis for our government was the idea of "no taxation without representation," i.e. the British Empire charging the colonies for things they didn't deserve to be charged for. I guess nothing lasts forever.

    • @coolrocknroll
      @coolrocknroll Před 4 lety +268

      America was stolen from the Natives, who were subjected to unspeakably cruel deaths. The thing that is called America bears no resemblance to the original spirit of the place. It was taken with violence, is ruled with violence and contempt for its' people. Fuck America.

    • @elizabethnilsson1815
      @elizabethnilsson1815 Před 3 lety +11

      the Germans and the French do not provenance the 'r'

    • @dexterjettster8875
      @dexterjettster8875 Před 3 lety +30

      @@Stanzafly Supporting free healthcare goes against the whole "no taxation" thing.

    • @guillermojimenez2152
      @guillermojimenez2152 Před 3 lety +12

      Since the English Landed

  • @teamo8394
    @teamo8394 Před 4 lety +2361

    Even with India being the so called "third world country", ambulance service is free of cost my god america wtf

    • @Ugnutz
      @Ugnutz Před 4 lety +184

      I've always found it wierd how the term Third World Country has evolved it was originally use to describe countries that were not apart of NATO and the USSR as all of the NATO aligned countries were the First world and the Soviet Block was the Second world and everyone else was the Third world.

    • @dodododododododo8216
      @dodododododododo8216 Před 4 lety +29

      "so called"third world country""
      Third world= what @ugnutz explained above. India IS a third world country.

    • @dr.k1012
      @dr.k1012 Před 4 lety +88

      Really dude.. I mean we have universal health coverage, medications are almost free at government hospitals and so are treatments, 10₹ for a prescription paper that you can use multiple times.. we have ASHA and Anganwadi for free meals to children mothers and girls.. subsidies on food for poor.. in my state we have free operations and treatment for everyone even in private hospitals, upto thousands and thousands.. its genuinely very good for a country such as ours..

    • @zaidkhan-se9rt
      @zaidkhan-se9rt Před 4 lety +72

      I live in Pakistan and even we don't have to pay for an ambulance and have lots of free hospitals :)

    • @glpinho
      @glpinho Před 4 lety +21

      Yea, same with Brazil

  • @tmgha6876
    @tmgha6876 Před 7 měsíci +55

    My husband joined the military when he was 17 and has completely free healthcare. He was SHOCKED to see how much I have to pay with regular insurance.

    • @Ryan-wx1bi
      @Ryan-wx1bi Před 6 měsíci +3

      The VA is aweful. I have access to that and still choose to pay for the normal healthcare system instead. I know guys who had to wait 2 years for important surgeries.

    • @MeganGarzaWellness
      @MeganGarzaWellness Před 6 měsíci

      The VA is garbage. My husband has gotten lied to about having a lesion on his liver, given contrast for a CT scan (he's had kidney cancer... Cancer survivor + radiation drink = bad time) , abnormal blood work, and just the general run around. Nobody ever answers the phone so getting an appointment is impossible.
      We've given up on the VA for him and just pay out of pocket for functional doctors (much better than regular MDs).

  • @KolMan2000
    @KolMan2000 Před 7 měsíci +6

    “Is there a price for that?” Is the most accurate response I can imagine

  • @shadowprincessnami3412
    @shadowprincessnami3412 Před 4 lety +27839

    “So if you’re poor you’re dead.” She just summed up the American healthcare system in 6 words.

    • @guinter89
      @guinter89 Před 4 lety +297

      and poor people from other countries still want to go to the US, why is that? Must be a very horrible place to live 🙄
      Or maybe, people who want to make money in the US are able to, obviously, the ones who are legal immigrants

    • @RebelGoPro
      @RebelGoPro Před 4 lety +1277

      Guy above me is chatting bare shit

    • @shadowprincessnami3412
      @shadowprincessnami3412 Před 4 lety +1177

      guinter89 what the hell are you on about? The second half of that wasn’t even coherent.

    • @Jesse-Karn
      @Jesse-Karn Před 4 lety +250

      Scratch the "So," and you'll get the summary in 5 words

    • @cyronader
      @cyronader Před 4 lety +8

      you are still breathing yes?

  • @BabylonGames798
    @BabylonGames798 Před 4 lety +3072

    Charging someone to hold their own child is called kidnapping

    • @LadyLyme
      @LadyLyme Před 4 lety +68

      TheBeast798 not in America

    • @limibosi1785
      @limibosi1785 Před 4 lety +57

      @@LadyLyme well yes it is what it is. Only that there its legal because of the system.

    • @kflowers8276
      @kflowers8276 Před 4 lety +106

      I thought it was called ransom. But when I think about it, the money is a ransome and (you're right) the act is kidnapping. 😄

    • @rehanmemon3969
      @rehanmemon3969 Před 4 lety +5

      ok, ok. wait. He said holding your baby delivered by C-section. meaning, post surgery. Isn't the mother sedated for that? I don't... can someone explain this to me, please.

    • @limibosi1785
      @limibosi1785 Před 4 lety +7

      @@rehanmemon3969 she will at some point be fully capable of holding the baby. They are talking when that moments come.

  • @madfarmdays9567
    @madfarmdays9567 Před 8 měsíci +9

    I live in Brazil, here they have SUS (NHS), in some states is better than others, my husband had skin cancer, had a consultation, exams, and surgery done in 30 days and stayed in a hospital room overnight by himself, private bathroom and netflix. How much does it cost? Zero dólares, zero reais. We couldn't believe and the doctor and nurses were lovely.

  • @truejustice2075
    @truejustice2075 Před 7 měsíci +14

    A lot of these medications were develop by taxpayers money and still Americans end up pay a lot. Now I don't know if the pharmaceutical companies get all the money or the U.S. gets a cut out of it, but regardless taxpayers should be paying less.

  • @janelc1843
    @janelc1843 Před 3 lety +10127

    world's hospital : you're a patient
    America's hospital : you're a customer

    • @nivedprabhu5057
      @nivedprabhu5057 Před 3 lety +117

      And the American model is gaining more popularity

    • @abbasraza56
      @abbasraza56 Před 3 lety +272

      Because of capitalism spreading. The UK health care system is better than America's

    • @santhoshraj5267
      @santhoshraj5267 Před 3 lety +104

      In India ; you're a product

    • @joaospegiorin7840
      @joaospegiorin7840 Před 3 lety +54

      America is a continent, not a country

    • @assootoshmotah2350
      @assootoshmotah2350 Před 3 lety +7

      @@nivedprabhu5057 cuz they only look at the stonks

  • @moler646445
    @moler646445 Před 4 lety +36587

    America isn't a real country, its just a business

  • @ryntintynvin
    @ryntintynvin Před 7 měsíci +7

    Guess the cost: I went in for a quick swab to test if my amniotic fluid was leaking. They also monitored my and baby’s heart rate while waiting for the test results. This was technically an emergency visit. I was there for about 2 hours total.
    $4,200

  • @mikebikekite1
    @mikebikekite1 Před 7 měsíci +6

    I was talking to an American who was still working quite late in life. I asked why and he told me he was diabetic and could only afford the medicine (to survive) if he worked. The weird thing is they regard the US as a 1st world country but, in reality, it's only if you can afford it.

    • @fatherson5907
      @fatherson5907 Před 7 měsíci

      All Americans over 65 get full medical coverage.
      You literally make up silly lies to tell strangers online.

    • @brozius
      @brozius Před 7 měsíci

      Don't bother, Father son is a liar and a troll. He's a butt hurt American who can't stand that other countries have it better than the US.

  • @SudaneseChamp
    @SudaneseChamp Před 3 lety +5431

    "If your poor... your dead"
    What that girl said basically America in whole.

    • @plantune2003
      @plantune2003 Před 3 lety +23

      I love who this comment if from 💕
      You know it the most lol

    • @SudaneseChamp
      @SudaneseChamp Před 3 lety +8

      @@plantune2003 😂😂😂

    • @angelina8570
      @angelina8570 Před 3 lety +112

      John Peric lmao, it’s about the people there. Are you dumb?

    • @SudaneseChamp
      @SudaneseChamp Před 3 lety +144

      @@johnperic6860 it doesn't matter when the top 1% hoard all of that money lol

    • @angelina8570
      @angelina8570 Před 3 lety +51

      John Peric i never said you’re poor. But you’re too poor to pay $3000 for an ambulance. Or $30K for an operation

  • @dresdentube1
    @dresdentube1 Před 3 lety +5903

    Whoever came up with the idea of charging $40 for the mother to hold her baby has thoroughly earned an afterlife stuck in a Hieronymus Bosch painting.

    • @remi1230
      @remi1230 Před 3 lety +102

      I blame the Pink Tax & Patriarchy engrained within American society

    • @liamott7057
      @liamott7057 Před 3 lety +15

      Or a Thomas Kinkade painting.

    • @soulpkeruk
      @soulpkeruk Před 3 lety +192

      @@j-69 There is making money and then taking the piss. they are taking the piss.

    • @tommyfred6180
      @tommyfred6180 Před 3 lety +48

      the real question is would you want to be treated by staff that would not let you hold kid till you payed up? i can see why so many Americans come to the UK to give birth.

    • @jamieadam2284
      @jamieadam2284 Před 3 lety +14

      That fucked up. I'll "finesse" my baby. Not paying those mf. LONG LIVE NHS

  • @earthearth3189
    @earthearth3189 Před 8 měsíci +6

    They took 12k(USD) for stomach pain(for my father)...and the catch here is that the stomach pain wasn't cured and later on he traveled to India as a medical tourist and got all his health taken care of under 50k rupees, which is less than 1000 USD...12k went down the drain...

    • @fatherson5907
      @fatherson5907 Před 8 měsíci +1

      Why didn’t he have insurance?

    • @brozius
      @brozius Před 8 měsíci

      Don't bother, Father son is a liar and a troll. He's a butt hurt American who can't stand that other countries have it better than the US

    • @CringeSeekers
      @CringeSeekers Před 7 měsíci

      ​@@fatherson5907 why pay for insurance when you have Papa John's Supreme pizza xl for only 8.99?

  • @sleuthjill7653
    @sleuthjill7653 Před 8 měsíci +4

    Texas here - my husband had a STEMI heart attack in 2014. Ambulance $1500. HOSPITAL ICU BED ONLY - $640 000. Specialists, meds, all additional services charged over and above. Have lived in the UK and truly appreciate the NHS. Fight to retain UK. DON’T fall for the privatization, you will pay the price and face with extortion by private ownership.

    • @fatherson5907
      @fatherson5907 Před 8 měsíci

      Why didn’t he have insurance?
      The NHS is third world garbage. Stop trying to push that failed junk on us.

    • @brozius
      @brozius Před 8 měsíci

      Don't bother, Father son is a liar and a troll. He's a butt hurt American who can't stand that other countries have it better than the US.

    • @MaxPayne-fi1mz
      @MaxPayne-fi1mz Před měsícem

      How much does health insurance cover??

    • @sleuthjill7653
      @sleuthjill7653 Před měsícem

      @@MaxPayne-fi1mz We were personally out of pocket for at least $40,000.00 not covered by insurance. I won't tell the many, many hours (days / weeks) I spent trying to get our costs down to what we ended up paying. .

    • @MaxPayne-fi1mz
      @MaxPayne-fi1mz Před měsícem

      @@sleuthjill7653Do you think if you had better health insurance you could have had lower costs??

  • @tylerforde87
    @tylerforde87 Před 4 lety +2915

    My son was born 6 weeks early and we spent 6 days in the hospital. Got our own room, food, tea, coffee etc.
    Price tag after everything $0.00
    Canada

    • @ElusiveTy
      @ElusiveTy Před 4 lety +259

      I went in for a 3 night stay at hospital a few years back for some severe skin issues. The cost? $0 for the stay, $30 for a bag of about 20 of the medicine I'd been prescribed.
      Australia.

    • @eli-nz8oe
      @eli-nz8oe Před 4 lety +146

      through the grapevine broke my arm and had an x-ray . a transfer to another bigger healthcare hub , temporary cast, meal, full cast , £0.00
      UK

    • @Wolagio
      @Wolagio Před 4 lety +77

      I had a stroke in Germany cost me 0€ but the rehabilitation for 4 weeks cost me about 10k half payed by the insurance.

    • @pixelcutterofficial
      @pixelcutterofficial Před 4 lety +54

      Have to have medication for a disease called "Mybodyfuckinghatesdoingthatbreathingthingitas" since I was a kid. Never paid a penny for it till I was an adult and now there's even a prepayment plan and all hospital trips still cost £0.
      Hail Britannia.

    • @kwangmyongsong4887
      @kwangmyongsong4887 Před 4 lety +8

      Taxes 40% ?

  • @phenethylamine91
    @phenethylamine91 Před 4 lety +3904

    American: *breathes*
    US big corporations: that'll be $9.99

    • @felix0-014
      @felix0-014 Před 4 lety +49

      They have already discussed air taxes...

    • @DreamsRemorse
      @DreamsRemorse Před 4 lety +34

      9.99$ if you have really good insurance. Otherwise it's like a few hundred dollars. No way anything you need to live is that cheap. People want to live...so what they need to live is higher priced.

    • @swirlandtwirl5417
      @swirlandtwirl5417 Před 4 lety +3

      Fxck

    • @DenZhead
      @DenZhead Před 4 lety +12

      @@mondoshredder5783 weeeell... Oxygen tanks cost $50 a unit in the US.

    • @brittanys505
      @brittanys505 Před 4 lety +2

      Oxygen tanks though!

  • @Chipper6811
    @Chipper6811 Před 6 měsíci +9

    When I had my hysterectomy back in 2016 (laparoscopic), I received the bill from the hospital because they filed with the wrong insurance company. It came out to $77,000, i was gobsmacked. When I contacted the hospital, they refiled with the correct company, I never received another bill. Healthcare prices are a nightmare, even with insurance, which is not an affordable option for many sadly.

    • @BulDurham
      @BulDurham Před 7 dny

      Every employer in the US over a hundred employees has to provide medical insurance by law

  • @RNF_96
    @RNF_96 Před 9 měsíci +29

    Save the NHS at all costs!!

  • @BoSinnfan54
    @BoSinnfan54 Před 4 lety +1890

    I like how America has no problem starting a huge and expensive war that created a refugee crisis and ruined the lives of millions
    but when it comes to fixing IT'S OWN HEALTHCARE, that's a big no no.

    • @MsHeartIsArt
      @MsHeartIsArt Před 4 lety +29

      Yeah cuz America is a business so they’re goal is to cut costs

    • @senatesheev
      @senatesheev Před 4 lety +101

      As an American, I really really really want to disagree but I just can't

    • @hnys7976
      @hnys7976 Před 4 lety +82

      The dumb thing is that America could clearly afford free healthcare. It has one of the dumbest healthcare systems in the world, they make the medicine and have to pay more for it than any other country. The money spent on the healthcare mainly goes on paperwork and rich billionaires stealing the money...

    • @hiddenknowledge2012
      @hiddenknowledge2012 Před 4 lety +49

      Because anything that goes against the US establishment is commie. Why do you like free healthcare you dirty commie, how dare you try and implement your communist regime in my country! This is America and we wont stand for socialism, what's next? Stalin?

    • @eldakka2163
      @eldakka2163 Před 4 lety +24

      @@iminyourwalls8309 just lower the tax rate of poor people and higher it of rich people. Like in Finland, you can get $2 000 000 fine just for driving too fast of you're enough rich (already happened)

  • @talfy0
    @talfy0 Před 3 lety +2617

    I lived in America all my life, I can tell you right now, it's a company, not a country

    • @12567NoYouCannot
      @12567NoYouCannot Před 3 lety +48

      EXACTLY, what I See.

    • @danieladam2512
      @danieladam2512 Před 3 lety +26

      That's why in our language we call it Amerika Syarikat, literally translates to America Company

    • @Arya-ov3ke
      @Arya-ov3ke Před 3 lety +4

      Amerika serikat

    • @kind-heart6273
      @kind-heart6273 Před 3 lety +1

      Gratz but which America North or south? 🤦🏻‍♂️ Americans don’t call the US “America” when referring to home we say “US” America is a continent my friend

    • @derk486
      @derk486 Před 3 lety +14

      @@kind-heart6273 In the uk and lots of places in europe we know the US as america

  • @HipBeeWitch
    @HipBeeWitch Před 7 měsíci +13

    And the shocking thing is, is that people actually WANT to move here (the US); Deluded! If I had the money, I'd have moved a LONG time ago!

    • @fatherson5907
      @fatherson5907 Před 6 měsíci +2

      You’re a privileged and entitled westerner with an easy life that you still manage to fail miserably at, so you desperately seek out imaginary victimhood to dodge responsibility for your failures. Typing away on your $800 phone about how bad you have it 🤣🤣🤣
      Why do you need money to leave? Plenty of people move to the US with no money at all. Why are you pretending you’re a victim (once again) and making up imaginary obstacles?
      You’re lazy.

    • @RasnakJS
      @RasnakJS Před 6 měsíci +2

      ​@fatherson5907 you're a clown.

    • @shadowsinmymind9
      @shadowsinmymind9 Před 6 měsíci +1

      Exactly

    • @fatherson5907
      @fatherson5907 Před 6 měsíci

      @@shadowsinmymind9 you’re entitled and delusional

  • @Jess4mab
    @Jess4mab Před 7 měsíci +8

    I just got a tooth crown today in Ohio(one of the cheaper states). I have dental insurance and I paid $800 out of pocket, cash. That was the only painful part of the procedure😂

  • @davidfaz2435
    @davidfaz2435 Před 3 lety +2448

    The best comment is: " is there a price for that? "

    • @DeVocthcKa
      @DeVocthcKa Před 3 lety +10

      @Kurogane -sensei Around 3000 dollars per person a year. It's a lot if you don't get sick. Also, the HHS in America costs the taxpayer an average of around 700 dollars a year. The difference American's would pay yearly for free universal healthcare is about 2,300 dollars. That's one ambulance ride.

    • @yassfishy
      @yassfishy Před 3 lety +2

      @Kurogane -sensei oversimplified babyyyyyyyyyy

    • @ellie8272
      @ellie8272 Před 3 lety +22

      @Kurogane -sensei the difference is that tax is actually the cost. Private insurance companies can jack up the prices since you literally need it to live. Another difference is that it scales to your income. Poor people can actually afford to get healthcare, whereas in the US they'd simply die

    • @inflammatorycommentswithno2407
      @inflammatorycommentswithno2407 Před 3 lety +2

      It’s been proven that Medicare for all would save the government and Americans money over the current one, yet they still want to argue this BS “we can’t afford it!” or “but my taxes will be high!” shit

    • @Redditard
      @Redditard Před 3 lety

      In India to my knowledge there is no extra fee for ambulance service if u call it it is within 1000₹ or so I dunno I never went to hospital in an ambulance (asked my parents bout it k)

  • @RetirededKat
    @RetirededKat Před 2 lety +6267

    "So if you're poor you're dead"
    Close, you're actually poor because you're not dead.

    • @ashak.v9027
      @ashak.v9027 Před 2 lety +43

      True

    • @subifyouhatetiktokandreddit234
      @subifyouhatetiktokandreddit234 Před 2 lety +78

      Lmao no, They still save you, But you're in debt

    • @cristian-bull
      @cristian-bull Před 2 lety +64

      @@subifyouhatetiktokandreddit234 not if you neglect for years prevention care you can't afford, until something comes out and its too late.
      Nobody would just pile debt up undefinetly. it's unrealistic, and there is more to healthcare than medical emergencies.

    • @blubbleebubbllleess4939
      @blubbleebubbllleess4939 Před 2 lety +6

      *Y E T*

    • @bighands69
      @bighands69 Před 2 lety +12

      No American dies due to poverty. America has a public health insurance system that poor people can use.
      The ignorance in the comments is astonishing.

  • @SoberOKMoments
    @SoberOKMoments Před 8 měsíci +3

    "So if you're poor, you're dead." She pretty much nailed it.

    • @americaisbetterthantherest9848
      @americaisbetterthantherest9848 Před 8 měsíci +1

      • Europe has the worst healthcare you pay 50% or more in taxes for “free healthcare” and then you have to wait a year to see a doctor.

    • @fatherson5907
      @fatherson5907 Před 8 měsíci

      Nope. Poor people get Medicaid. Stop spreading misinformation.

    • @brozius
      @brozius Před 8 měsíci

      Don't bother, Father son is a liar and a troll. He's a butt hurt American who can't stand that other countries have it better than the US

    • @brozius
      @brozius Před 8 měsíci +1

      @@americaisbetterthantherest9848 You don't know much about taxes in other countries do you?
      I pay 36% taxes and I'm happy to do so because these taxes are well used too improve quality of life for the people in my country.
      I can't say the same about the US.

    • @americaisbetterthantherest9848
      @americaisbetterthantherest9848 Před 8 měsíci

      @@brozius • Europe has kids under 10 years old having acid thrown at them and Europe has school stabbings. 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
      Europeans schools are call of duty stabbing edition.

  • @user-do3qz7kt2m
    @user-do3qz7kt2m Před 6 měsíci +8

    Omg glad to be Australian with basically free medical and highly subsidised medicine a inhaler costs about $7,having 2 kids free and one of my kids was premature his medical bill was zero 😊

  • @kolejigor
    @kolejigor Před 4 lety +3523

    American healthcare is like EA.

  • @csicsi13
    @csicsi13 Před 4 lety +3148

    The girl just trying her best not to swear:
    "Shut the fridge"
    "Carried in my ... womb"
    "They're fudged"
    😂

    • @alexhartley9963
      @alexhartley9963 Před 4 lety +91

      csicsak.daniel
      Then blurred out “FUCK TRUMP”

    • @YurimoHikashi
      @YurimoHikashi Před 4 lety +9

      @@alexhartley9963 wasn't blurred out

    • @Thehouseoffail
      @Thehouseoffail Před 4 lety +31

      What on Earth do you think she was going to say instead of womb?

    • @feedmysleaze1
      @feedmysleaze1 Před 4 lety +59

      She is cute.

    • @Jpg700
      @Jpg700 Před 4 lety +13

      @@Thehouseoffail I'd guess "vag" or similar.

  • @cassieoz1702
    @cassieoz1702 Před 7 měsíci +2

    In Australia, an inhaler (without prescription, over-the-counter) is about $6.50

    • @fatherson5907
      @fatherson5907 Před 7 měsíci

      Same as in the US.

    • @brozius
      @brozius Před 7 měsíci

      Don't bother, Father son is a liar and a troll. He's a butt hurt American who can't stand that other countries have it better than the US.

    • @cassieoz1702
      @cassieoz1702 Před 7 měsíci

      @@fatherson5907 great! I was dismayed by the price quoted in the vid

  • @sct4040
    @sct4040 Před 7 měsíci +1

    In 2023, an ambulance cost $1,500 in Boston, $2,000 in NYC. Fortunately, my husband’s insurance paid for it.

  • @meganmontiel284
    @meganmontiel284 Před 4 lety +2344

    When he asks how expensive an ambulance is, and the guy says with a shocked tone “there’s a price for that??”

    • @vickioliver0823
      @vickioliver0823 Před 4 lety +196

      My husband was in a motorcycle accident this last summer. On top of the $2,500.00 bill for the ambulance ride, there was an additional $400 he had to pay because he isn't a tax payer in the township where it happened. As if the original charge didn't go to them to begin with.

    • @hamnchee
      @hamnchee Před 4 lety +23

      @@vickioliver0823 Should people who ride motorcycles pay higher tax rates under a universal health care system?

    • @vickioliver0823
      @vickioliver0823 Před 4 lety +15

      @@hamnchee I personally don't think so, but that all depends on how that is set up. I could see them requiring you to also carry motorcycle insurance to help lessen the cost to provide riders with health coverage. But, at least where we live, it's a relatively short riding season. So you would probably drop the additional motorcycle coverage for 6-9 months out of the year ( we already do that). It would be silly to penalize someone for an entire year of an additional liability charge that wouldn't be used for most of the year.

    • @vickioliver0823
      @vickioliver0823 Před 4 lety +5

      @@hamnchee But I also don't have any personal experience with a universal healthcare system, since I live in the states.

    • @jorritvanderkooi939
      @jorritvanderkooi939 Před 4 lety +37

      In my country with proper insurance you don’t even need to pay for a trauma helicopter

  • @emeyeenaych
    @emeyeenaych Před 4 lety +12429

    kid turns 18
    the government: *_your free trial of living has ended_*

  • @aleph8888
    @aleph8888 Před 9 měsíci +2

    Employers pay most of the cost. And no one is going to wait a year to see a consultant. But it’s free? No more money for the awful NHS. Change to an insurance system.

    • @brozius
      @brozius Před 9 měsíci +2

      That is so much bullshit. It doesn't take a year to see a consultant. Waiting times in the UK are the same as in the US. You have been told lies from your health insurance companies.

    • @Ell-te7ix
      @Ell-te7ix Před 27 dny

      go piss off to america then, simple and don't call an ambulance unless you are at deaths door

  • @graveyardshift2100
    @graveyardshift2100 Před 7 měsíci +1

    "So if you're poor you're dead"
    Oh honey, it's more like torture.

    • @fatherson5907
      @fatherson5907 Před 7 měsíci

      Getting a job is torture to the lazy liberal filth.

    • @brozius
      @brozius Před 7 měsíci +1

      Don't bother, Father son is a liar and a troll. He's a butt hurt American who can't stand that other countries have it better than the US

  • @SikSh0oter
    @SikSh0oter Před 3 lety +3384

    I'll put it this way: If I'm severely injured and need to go to the hospital, DON'T call an ambulance. Call Uber.

    • @wojciechmuras553
      @wojciechmuras553 Před 3 lety +141

      Bruh, ambulance ain't a transporter. It's a mobile mini-hospital designed to keep you alive on your way. Your Uber doesn't have a supply of blood, a trained medical professional and sterile tools to deliver first aid.

    • @caposolomon8745
      @caposolomon8745 Před 3 lety +41

      What this video doesn't tell you is that no one in the United States actually pays that. Everyone here have insurances which if you do the math actually cost less in taxes even when paying for it. You are being lie to, they will make it sound like healthcare in the UK is just like in the United States but just free. That is wrong, the healthcare in the United States is way better, the service is Superior, the doctors and nurses are way more accommodating because they are paid more and the wait time is lower. There are 3 hospitals in the same small town so if you so if you don't like one you can go to another. Not to mention all the privately owned clinics open by doctors. If you are poor and can't afford insurance they's this thing call Medicaid which provides you with free insurance.

    • @EMAYisMCA
      @EMAYisMCA Před 3 lety +32

      Most of the time you don't have to pay for the ambulance to come out and stabilize you. It depends on where you live. Definitely call an ambulance so they can check you out and stabilize you and then refuse the ride. Then call an Uber!

    • @stephaniehanley1016
      @stephaniehanley1016 Před 3 lety +57

      Last time I was in an ambulance, the “professional” kept flirting with me even with a ring on my finger

    • @EMAYisMCA
      @EMAYisMCA Před 3 lety +56

      @@stephaniehanley1016 wow, that's disgusting. I'm assuming you were in some sort of medical distress at the time. That's a whole new level of dickishness.

  • @footballfanatic6210
    @footballfanatic6210 Před 3 lety +2502

    “So if you’re poor, you’re dead” she’s stating fact

    • @DylanDkoh
      @DylanDkoh Před 3 lety +11

      naaaa, you just be in huge dept

    • @aljon28
      @aljon28 Před 3 lety +10

      they have medicaid.. health insurance for poor people..

    • @Osiris261
      @Osiris261 Před 3 lety +18

      old woman falls she brake´s her leg and starts screaming "No ambulance please,! No ambulance!, I cant afford it"

    • @Artyomthewalrus
      @Artyomthewalrus Před 3 lety +5

      The crazy thing is, the american government spends more money per person on healthcare than the canadian gov does (or atleast before covid)

    • @hadley20
      @hadley20 Před 3 lety +7

      @@night6724 it’s not just medicaid. a lot of people have more money than to be able to qualify for medicaid but can’t pay medical bills. also people need food, shelter, etc.

  • @NatashaDamarisDosAnjos
    @NatashaDamarisDosAnjos Před 6 měsíci +5

    $40 for skin on skin contact is the most absurd thing I have ever heard in my life😮

    • @muir8009
      @muir8009 Před 6 měsíci +1

      Actually sounds like a fantastic deal.... OH my goodness, sorry.
      I must've be thinking of a different type of skin on skin contact... ;)

  • @DibTheMothman
    @DibTheMothman Před 8 měsíci +3

    We Americans should just go on strike and stop paying medical insurance and Drive to Mexico or Canada whenever we're sick so that the Insurance companies go out of business.

  • @friedchickenthegreat5162
    @friedchickenthegreat5162 Před 3 lety +1955

    "Is there a Price for That?"
    This is a question says that something is wrong in the US.

    • @dazzag371
      @dazzag371 Před 3 lety +33

      They keep voting for the same 2 parties and politicians that don’t care about the people as the media tells them too.

    • @Aphidae
      @Aphidae Před 3 lety +3

      @@dazzag371 well the system is set up so that you have to run in those parties or you are at an immense disadvantage.

    • @hedgehog3180
      @hedgehog3180 Před 2 lety

      @Yash Choudhary What in the actual fuck does that mean, out of all the dumb takes about communism this is the dumbest one, I thought you guys were saying that communism is when the state does something so how the fuck can you be "socially communist".

    • @hedgehog3180
      @hedgehog3180 Před 2 lety

      @Yash Choudhary That's because you keep electing the Tories and they've been purposefully destroying the NHS because they wanna turn the UK into a mini america. If you maybe just elected a left wing government once in a while you'd have a functioning country.

  • @yashchandravanshi
    @yashchandravanshi Před 4 lety +3573

    In USA owning a gun is easier than paying your hospital bill.

  • @Serasia
    @Serasia Před 7 měsíci +7

    Yeah…I know a lot of people in the US think if it’s expensive healthcare it’s good…but it’s not. Just seeing people alarmed about the costs helps though…a lot of people know it’s ridiculous and know we’re backwards over here.

  • @quaintleaf1208
    @quaintleaf1208 Před 4 lety +5959

    as an American, hearing the British people's reactions is grounding and truly a reminder on how messed up our system is. sometimes i forget because i'm living in it.

    • @10pistoledturret13
      @10pistoledturret13 Před 4 lety +71

      The American system is based upon advancement and personal use. Healthcare that's universal is less effective, and more expensive in the long run due to taxes that are increased. In America in which I live you shouldn't need healthcare to begin with. I wouldn't expect you to be hurt every other week. When you do need care though you will pay more money for better services in which we have. The money goes towards the doctors, upkeep of the medical facility and equipment and advancements in technology. Universal health care does not help a populus.

    • @Strider91
      @Strider91 Před 4 lety +435

      Ya, there literally nothing about what you just said that true

    • @10pistoledturret13
      @10pistoledturret13 Před 4 lety +39

      @@Strider91 So you're just being ignorant and not actually trying to form an argument. Everything I said was true. Everything I said has and does happen.

    • @Pbness
      @Pbness Před 4 lety +251

      @@10pistoledturret13
      But what if you have a constant illness? For example, mental illnesses. The amount of people being diagnosed is steadily climbing, most of which are life long illnesses. They, or I should say we, are screwed by the system in more ways then one.
      Not to mention the fact that if we did provide universal healthcare, our economy would most likely become better because there will be more people getting the help they need faster, filling up jobs quicker, and the like.
      The raise in taxes is something that happens anyway, and I'd much rather take that over having to spend more/work off my daily medication costs.

    • @10pistoledturret13
      @10pistoledturret13 Před 4 lety +26

      @@Pbness The thing is with universal health care the economy doesn't spike. People have less money due to raised taxes that have always happened. Neither do people get services quicker. Sure it's "free" It's not. Taxes are raised. But when it's "free" Going off canada here, the wait times increase majorly. Steven Crowder a Canadian did a video on this. He had to wait multiple days to I believe get just a blood test. That's not helpful to anyone.
      Raised taxes means you have less money to spend on yourself, and your family. Universal things don't help a population. And with this universal care there's no incentive for the government to increase medical quality, medical cost, and so forth. Competition from multiple competing sources do create better medicine, better quality, and cheapen the products being produced.

  • @SYN4456
    @SYN4456 Před 4 lety +3220

    "It's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it"
    -George Carlin, philosopher

    • @JamesKeithProduction
      @JamesKeithProduction Před 4 lety +67

      That man spoke nothing but the truth. I’m glad that he’s still appreciated :)

    • @jamestheotherone742
      @jamestheotherone742 Před 4 lety +34

      Carlin was a comedian not a philosopher. Although the current generation can't tell the difference since it takes its political advice from late night talk show hosts.

    • @tigertiger1699
      @tigertiger1699 Před 4 lety +9

      Rip George 🌹

    • @SYN4456
      @SYN4456 Před 4 lety +86

      @@jamestheotherone742 I know he was a comedian. And unlike him, it's obvious that you can't take a joke. Bernard Shaw once said, "If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh. Otherwise they will kill you".

    • @thebandofbastards4934
      @thebandofbastards4934 Před 4 lety +57

      @@jamestheotherone742 You don't need to be a philosopher to see the bullshit going around in society.

  • @Deathnotefan97
    @Deathnotefan97 Před 7 měsíci +1

    And yet the British populace has no idea how much the same services cost in their own country, simply because _they_ aren’t the ones paying for it

  • @melissapetricini6706
    @melissapetricini6706 Před 7 měsíci +1

    We also avoid having ambulances called at all costs. The most expensive ride of your life.

  • @velvetmiu
    @velvetmiu Před 4 lety +4685

    Now I understand why millennials aren’t having kids. 😳

    • @vglove8566
      @vglove8566 Před 4 lety +123

      And here I thought it was from abortions

    • @kattykleo8579
      @kattykleo8579 Před 4 lety +153

      European millennials aren't either. Very low birth rates all throughout Europe.

    • @brianisme6498
      @brianisme6498 Před 4 lety +294

      mar that’s not the main. The main reason is because people nowadays are more concerned with getting a good education then raising a family, the consequence of this is that by the time woman finish their education they’re at the age where it’s difficult to have children

    • @SkycometFallen
      @SkycometFallen Před 4 lety

      Yup.

    • @jamesmiller2521
      @jamesmiller2521 Před 4 lety +16

      @@kattykleo8579 in poor countries like Bulgaria. It's 2 or almost 2 kids per woman in Norway and other Nordic countries.

  • @al.s.3277
    @al.s.3277 Před 4 lety +4880

    “So if you’re poor, you’re dead”.
    Exactly! That’s a horrible reality.

    • @bluexblondebaby
      @bluexblondebaby Před 4 lety +9

      Hi exactly. It’s sucks but it’s not nearly as bad as most countries.

    • @TheRiiiight
      @TheRiiiight Před 4 lety +79

      @Hi Emergency care isn't what saves lives. If you end up going to the emergency room and costing the hospital 100's of thousands of dollars because they're trying to save your body that is shutting down and dying from advanced stage cancer the person still died because they couldn't afford the 50k cancer treatment that would have kept them out of there. They still died to the medical system even if their final days were in a hospital.

    • @ipotatosenpai7002
      @ipotatosenpai7002 Před 4 lety +13

      @Jonathan Fairbank oof

    • @BeckyNosferatu
      @BeckyNosferatu Před 4 lety +13

      @Hi No, they do. Often. Don't be in denial, dude, it _does_ happen if you have a bill. In fact our ER just got reprimanded and it was all over our paper a while ago that they denied someone who was in collections and she went home and bled to death.

    • @britishmgtow7251
      @britishmgtow7251 Před 4 lety +1

      @@BeckyNosferatu
      www.theguardian.com/society/2019/dec/19/woman-dies-after-waiting-on-street-for-six-hours-for-ambulance-wales

  • @chimkinnugget7134
    @chimkinnugget7134 Před 6 měsíci +3

    Getting injured is one of the worst case scenarios over here. My mom broke her wrist and my family had to change our entire budgeting plan for the year.

    • @fatherson5907
      @fatherson5907 Před 6 měsíci

      Why didn’t she have insurance?

    • @Just-Some-Helium
      @Just-Some-Helium Před 6 měsíci +4

      Ignore fatherson, He has room temperature iq.

    • @fatherson5907
      @fatherson5907 Před 6 měsíci

      @@Just-Some-Helium you can’t come up with a substantive rebuttal. Keep telling us about the paradise of Bangladesh 🤣🤣🤣

  • @WaffleAllDay
    @WaffleAllDay Před 9 měsíci +2

    In my country, the only time i've paid for healthcare was to take my medicine from the hospital's pharmacy which was $1 and it is equivalent to $0.75 USD

    • @fatherson5907
      @fatherson5907 Před 9 měsíci

      So you don’t pay taxes?

    • @brozius
      @brozius Před 8 měsíci

      Don't bother, Father son is a liar and a troll. He's a butt hurt American who can't stand that other countries have it better than the US.

    • @americaisbetterthantherest9848
      @americaisbetterthantherest9848 Před 8 měsíci

      Europe has the worst healthcare you pay 50% or more in taxes for “free healthcare” and then you have to wait a year to see a doctor.

    • @brozius
      @brozius Před 8 měsíci

      @@americaisbetterthantherest9848 Most countries in Europe rank higher in healthcare than the US and I never waited for more then a 14 days

  • @benny2446
    @benny2446 Před 3 lety +2538

    “So if you’re poor you’re dead?” Basically

    • @fatherson5907
      @fatherson5907 Před 3 lety +10

      Nope, if you’re poor you get covered by Medicaid. You’re ignorant and uneducated.

    • @jellyfesh7517
      @jellyfesh7517 Před 3 lety +137

      @@fatherson5907 joke

    • @fatherson5907
      @fatherson5907 Před 3 lety +4

      @@jellyfesh7517 lie

    • @jellyfesh7517
      @jellyfesh7517 Před 3 lety +98

      @@fatherson5907 m edicaid is not free you’re uneduacated

    • @jellyfesh7517
      @jellyfesh7517 Před 3 lety +104

      @@fatherson5907 America is a joke

  • @ungodlytemptations
    @ungodlytemptations Před 3 lety +6673

    "America is a third world country with a Gucci belt"

    • @koalaeucalyptus
      @koalaeucalyptus Před 3 lety +447

      I'd agree, except I actually am from a third world country, and I have access to free healthcare from the government. Obviously not as great as what you can find in Europe, but still...

    • @thomadbearr4631
      @thomadbearr4631 Před 3 lety +27

      well technically we're a first world country but I get what you mean.

    • @pietroghedini98
      @pietroghedini98 Před 3 lety +46

      A gucci belt and a very big knife

    • @Tiernan422
      @Tiernan422 Před 3 lety +2

      Actually I do believe America is aligned with itself so it is a first world country

    • @KokoroKatsura
      @KokoroKatsura Před 3 lety +2

      A N I M E
      N
      I
      M
      E

  • @whiteknightcat
    @whiteknightcat Před 8 měsíci +2

    "So if you're poor, you're dead."
    She gets it.

    • @fatherson5907
      @fatherson5907 Před 8 měsíci

      Nope, she’s ignorant filth. Poor people get Medicaid.
      Rodents in the UK are uneducated and gullible.

    • @brozius
      @brozius Před 7 měsíci

      Don't bother, Father son is a liar and a troll. He's a butt hurt American who can't stand that other countries have it better than the US.

  • @imaginepeace2015
    @imaginepeace2015 Před 7 měsíci +1

    Ok, I work in the delivery room…you don’t pay extra to hold your baby in a c-section. You pay for a lot, but that’s not one of them.

  • @simplyeason
    @simplyeason Před 3 lety +4485

    i love “shut the fridge” girl

  • @huhhwuhh
    @huhhwuhh Před 4 lety +32533

    “so if you’re poor you’re dead”
    essentially, yeah

    • @meowmixmeowmix
      @meowmixmeowmix Před 4 lety +220

      Meh. I have to work at clinics and I drug test patients due to our state law and almost everyone has medicaid so they pay next to nothing. And they are all taking multiple Rx oxycodone, morphine, etc. Half of them test positive for meth and a very small percentage test positive for heroin. They make less than 20k a year but get like 10k worth of medications a year for a small co pay and still have more than enough money to pay to live eat and get cracked out.

    • @cmecoo3109
      @cmecoo3109 Před 4 lety +1174

      @@meowmixmeowmix it's almost as there's a link between poverty and substance abuse

    • @billmcgill3739
      @billmcgill3739 Před 4 lety +71

      @@cmecoo3109 If your comment was sarcastic, I applaud you! Gee, ya' think?! Well done! There are way too many naive world views on line and sometimes they need to be skewered. In the event, this was not sarcastic, then my congratulations to you for discovering a major truth in human behavior.

    • @pwk22
      @pwk22 Před 4 lety +10

      1) I suggest you stop being poor, then. 2) Those must be zombies walking around the inner city and rural America, but they sure seem alive.

    • @adolfoguerra7257
      @adolfoguerra7257 Před 4 lety +27

      You know this isn't true. The poor still go to hospitals and they don't pay their bills.

  • @GgrimrodD
    @GgrimrodD Před 6 měsíci +6

    My grandma got her knee replaced recently, she told me that her insurance covered it but the total was $74,000. I think it would've been funnier if they went into more specific operations like that, cause those prices get insanely huge

    • @fatherson5907
      @fatherson5907 Před 6 měsíci

      That’s a lie. She would have Medicare cover the cost.
      Stop lying.

    • @devinnix9071
      @devinnix9071 Před 6 měsíci +2

      ​@@fatherson5907WAAAAAHH

    • @fatherson5907
      @fatherson5907 Před 6 měsíci

      @@devinnix9071go play your video games, little boy 🤣🤣🤣🤣
      Video games 🤣🤣🤣🤣. What are you, 10 years old?

    • @GgrimrodD
      @GgrimrodD Před 6 měsíci +4

      @@fatherson5907 I half expected a smartass to come along and attempt to correct me, did you gloss over the "her insurance covered it" part? Also, I wouldn't be shocked if she was flat out wrong, she has a screw or two loose.

    • @fatherson5907
      @fatherson5907 Před 6 měsíci

      @@GgrimrodD so you lied. Got it. The total wasn’t $74k.
      Stop lying to try to be a victim. It’s pathetic.

  • @aff77141
    @aff77141 Před 7 měsíci +1

    The girl with the scarfs reaction to a charge labelled "skin to skin contact" is the only correct reaction

  • @GetRotated
    @GetRotated Před 4 lety +2487

    “So if you’re poor you’re dead”
    Yes, but actually yes

    • @nielssorensen9856
      @nielssorensen9856 Před 4 lety +98

      @basant vimal sharma so you're a fatalist

    • @rotaruciprian4355
      @rotaruciprian4355 Před 4 lety +1

      Yes

    • @chunkatronic
      @chunkatronic Před 4 lety +69

      @basant vimal sharma I will be happy to pay for your time machine ticket back to the dark ages so you can live out your ideal

    • @dundee248
      @dundee248 Před 4 lety +6

      basant vimal sharma Except if you live in a developed country where healthcare is a thing. Oh well...

    • @aquaarmour4924
      @aquaarmour4924 Před 4 lety +2

      @basant vimal sharma shut up indian

  • @yawoelevn
    @yawoelevn Před 4 lety +1795

    She said “whY?”
    That’s how we all feel here in America .

    • @Creepermoss
      @Creepermoss Před 4 lety +100

      The "why" is simple. The government didn't want to spend tax dollars on you, so they allowed the healthcare industry to be privatized. It's now a for-profit system, of course the consumer gets fucked for money, they have a hard monopoly.

    • @Tshikonelo
      @Tshikonelo Před 4 lety +36

      Yet you go to the polls and vote for the very same people who are screwing you.

    • @Shetasen
      @Shetasen Před 4 lety +5

      A question we ask everytime we're sick.

    • @locarno24
      @locarno24 Před 4 lety +14

      @adam loring true. But there is a big difference - US prices are inflated not so much because of that but because (a) there is no 'customer' with collective bargaining power anything like NICE (The NHS drugs buyer), (b) it's run for profit and (c) the companies lobby for extended patents beyond the base value. The problem with health care - and the original argument behind the 'free at point of use' model is that if you need it you cannot say no: you are essentially held hostage. By having everyone, sick or well contribute a little, no one gets screwed. US hospital procedures aren't inherently less cost-efficient, but the true cost is largely hidden - compare (if you're a pet owner) the cost of a hospital visit to a similar procedure at a UK vet and you'll see how well the model works, even crippled by underfunding as it is....

    • @vincents3799
      @vincents3799 Před 4 lety +1

      Why? Ur goverment let it be, sick move

  • @eramthakur6992
    @eramthakur6992 Před 8 měsíci +1

    In India, one can avail superspecialist care literally for free. Didn't realise what a blessing it was, until now.

  • @jujubees5855
    @jujubees5855 Před 7 měsíci +1

    Funny thing is wealthy Brits will travel here to have the Texas surgeon who put in my now late husband's pacemaker/defibrillator because he will do the difficult surgery your doctors won't touch. And I was just an accounting clerk and husband was disabled. And it was a difficult surgery that took skill beyond textbook as my poor husband was in bad shape. We weren't rich at all.
    Didn't Tony Wilson, a TV presenter have to rely on donations for treatment the NHS refuse to pay? NHS sounds great until you get really, REALLY, sick.

  • @lucascavalcantibotelho6791
    @lucascavalcantibotelho6791 Před 4 lety +1671

    $40 dolars for post-delivery skin on skin interaction should be considered a violation of human rights

    • @ianrothenberger2929
      @ianrothenberger2929 Před 4 lety +91

      Lucas Cavalcanti Botelho Not here in the good ole USA, because even basic human rights are privatized.

    • @ianrothenberger2929
      @ianrothenberger2929 Před 4 lety +7

      Lucas Cavalcanti Botelho Not here in the good ole USA, because even basic human rights are privatized.

    • @AllThingsFascinate
      @AllThingsFascinate Před 4 lety +87

      @AwwwhYyyyeah why don't you explain, great wise one

    • @FortoFight
      @FortoFight Před 4 lety +105

      @AwwwhYyyyeah Someone should have the right to hold their newborn baby without being charged for it. Anyone that disagrees is a sociopath.

    • @Goaway863
      @Goaway863 Před 4 lety

      Is that true? I’ve never heard of anyone being charged for that.

  • @GeoffreyReemer
    @GeoffreyReemer Před 3 lety +1920

    - "So if you're poor, you're dead?"
    - "Don't be ridiculous, you first have to save up for that."

    • @gracefullyinthegrave1964
      @gracefullyinthegrave1964 Před 3 lety +74

      It can cost about 10 grand to die in America

    • @Growmetheus
      @Growmetheus Před 3 lety +13

      Olivia Weathers ill never own that much at once so i should be fine right?

    • @mariemmeryouma4768
      @mariemmeryouma4768 Před 3 lety +9

      @@gracefullyinthegrave1964 what ?! To die ! Really ?

    • @mariemmeryouma4768
      @mariemmeryouma4768 Před 3 lety +16

      @@jbird4478 that's horrible

    • @SpaceCattttt
      @SpaceCattttt Před 3 lety +11

      Nah. Just steal. You have no education. And even if you do, it's the worst education system in the western world, so you know next to nothing.
      You might get a job if you're either willing to wait on tables or you have rich parents, but even so, because the whole fucking country is owned
      and run by corporations that belong to the 1%, all it takes is for you to break your leg or have your appendix removed, and both you and your
      entire family could find yourself spending decades paying back what you owe and most likely get ruined in the process.
      So you turn to crime to support yourself. And then you get caught and incarcerated. Especially if you're black.
      The United States is a nation based on greed and corruption, founded by the worst scum ever to walk the planet.
      It's a country that breeds criminals by doing nothing to promote social reform. Everyone's in it for themselves. The American dream. Fuck yeah...

  • @Robotic_pilot
    @Robotic_pilot Před 6 měsíci +5

    Every human deserves Food, Water, Shelter and Healthcare. If you make these things expensive and pay people little for it, it's going to cause flack.

  • @dejihuam
    @dejihuam Před 7 měsíci +8

    one time I had to be transferred from one hospital to the other. I wasn’t in anything close to critical condition. My parents could have driven me just fine but the hospital called an ambulance FOR US. If my dad didn’t find out we would have ended up paying that $2,500 fine for an ambulance ride that we didn’t even want 🙃

  • @elliot7753
    @elliot7753 Před 3 lety +3307

    “Hey, well done, the baby’s alive and healthy. Now, insert your credit card here and we’ll allow you to keep it!”

    • @connorshort2308
      @connorshort2308 Před 3 lety +212

      E A sports it's in the game

    • @w1z4rd9
      @w1z4rd9 Před 3 lety +81

      Kidnapping in a few steps.

    • @Zequabtw
      @Zequabtw Před 3 lety +5

      I love the profile pic 😂 phil jones is a goon

    • @vishalbhat8602
      @vishalbhat8602 Před 3 lety +2

      Ah the Phil Jones pfp 😂

    • @santinosingh6047
      @santinosingh6047 Před 3 lety +68

      Credit card declined
      Doctor:well i guess its gonna have to go back in

  • @ThePartitoObliquo
    @ThePartitoObliquo Před 3 lety +2412

    Imagine claiming to be the biggest democracy in the world and then you have to pay for your health

    • @FATHOLLYWOODB123
      @FATHOLLYWOODB123 Před 3 lety +26

      So does the U.K, just through taxation, which has it's benefits and doubts.

    • @ThePartitoObliquo
      @ThePartitoObliquo Před 3 lety +215

      @@FATHOLLYWOODB123 yes of course, but if you come to europe and you feel sick, you don't have to pay (or very little). Me going to the states and start feeling sick: yes it's going to be 15.000$. True story

    • @ThePartitoObliquo
      @ThePartitoObliquo Před 3 lety +74

      @@FATHOLLYWOODB123 + USA healtcare sistem is totally against the Hippocratic Oath

    • @ceu160193
      @ceu160193 Před 3 lety +28

      @@FATHOLLYWOODB123 Consider it your government insurance, so if you get into trouble, government will do stuff to get you back to health.

    • @altaccount7696
      @altaccount7696 Před 3 lety +10

      First off, healthcare in the U.S. is arguably more democratic, since multiple companies can compete with each other, allowing users to "vote" with their money (at least, when there aren't monopolies), and second, no healthcare is free. That is just silly - doctors must get paid, technology must be innovated, all of which is extremely expensive. Countries with public healthcare get away with it by charging higher taxes than the U.S., while at the same time basically creating an artificial monopoly which limits innovation, and also hurting richer people and helping poorer people, might I add without any consent. Yes, very democratic, taking money from rich people just because they aren't the majority and using it to benefit the poor people, who contribute the least to society.

  • @sweetpjeb23
    @sweetpjeb23 Před 9 měsíci

    I got rear ended at a stand still almost 5 months ago and sustained pretty severe whiplash. I’ve been going to physical therapy twice a week and chiropractor 3 times a week ever since and occasionally a doctor.
    I have “good” insurance that would cost over $400 a month without obamacare.
    My insurance company still initially denied my claim for the MRI that my doctor ordered saying it wasn’t “medically necessary”.
    Finally got it covered and still can’t get the MRI because they’re making me pay a copay of $300 at the time of service.
    Even though I was just minding my own business on the way to work and a dumb college student hit me, I still have to pay for a lot of this sh!t and still am not getting proper treatment due to cost.
    (Not to mention having less money due to missing work for 5+ appointments a wee)

  • @ronnie7075
    @ronnie7075 Před 7 měsíci

    I live in Qld Australia- the Ambulance tariff is added to every electricity bill per quarter, when the bills come out. So every household and business pays towards the Ambulance service. Our Ambulance is free otherwise.
    Birthing costs used to be about $1,500 for a caesarian, but a lot more now I guess.

  • @BaolanGS
    @BaolanGS Před 4 lety +3571

    Me: *cut my finger*
    US doctor: *put bandage on*
    Also US doctor: "that will be 5k"

    • @ty2668
      @ty2668 Před 4 lety +103

      Me: *burns my hand with direct contact of the heat source in the toaster oven*
      My mom: oH mY gAwD- put neosporin on it
      Me: *hexcuse me what*
      ~~Around two months later, my burn has scarred~~
      My mom: IT SCARRED BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T PUT ENOUGH NEOSPORIN ON IT
      Me: *IT SCARRED BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T GET ME ANY FUCKING TREATMENT OTHER THAN ONE TUBE OF NEOSPORIN AND IT'S A FUCKING BURN*

    • @randomizedperson
      @randomizedperson Před 4 lety +8

      Sea!
      My mom treats me and it always work??? Except that time I got the flue that was not a good experience

    • @Tyler-cm6vk
      @Tyler-cm6vk Před 4 lety +34

      It's not the doctors, the people in the insurance companies are taking advantage of these people.

    • @thecreativemillenial
      @thecreativemillenial Před 4 lety +1

      #savage #facts

    • @Brindale
      @Brindale Před 3 lety +12

      Elementary Schoolers: "I scraped my knee I need a band aid"
      School "Nurse": "Here's a Caprisun walk it off"

  • @late8641
    @late8641 Před 3 lety +2634

    "So if you're poor you're dead" The US healthcare in a nutshell.

    • @fatherson5907
      @fatherson5907 Před 3 lety +25

      Nope, if you’re poor you get Medicaid. But why bother learning the facts, right?

    • @late8641
      @late8641 Před 3 lety +77

      @@fatherson5907 Just piss of from the comment section already, will you? I've read your other comments and they're completely ludicrous.

    • @brozius
      @brozius Před 3 lety +51

      Medicaid??? Yea it's so great that if you make use of it then many practitioners won't even see you.
      In order for Medicaid to cover your medical care, a doctor or another provider who participates in Medicaid must provide the medical services you use. But Medicaid doesn’t reimburse doctors and other health care providers at the same rates as private insurance, so many practitioners do not see patients who have Medicaid as their only coverage. If you’re enrolled in Medicaid, make sure to check in advance with any health care provider about whether they accept Medicaid patients.
      www.caring.com/caregivers/medicaid/

    • @brozius
      @brozius Před 3 lety +21

      @@fatherson5907 Lol and another person on here already knows that you are just a despicable troll. GOOD JOB 😂😂😂

    • @macmen007
      @macmen007 Před 3 lety +5

      Nearly Half the workers in the U.S. make wages that are considered to be in the poverty range. Poor people use home remedies and other natural medicines to survive.
      Many learned how to treat themselves during slavery, Jim Crow segregation (which banned P.O.C. from health facilities). Migrant workers also developed techniques to provide
      in-house medical treatment. More than half of all Americans have no health care, so these people have learned to use survival techniques passed down thru centuries of suffrage. It's an acceptable way of life in America. The medical System is not designed for low income people, it designed with high cost for a reason.

  • @Daisy-tl2lh
    @Daisy-tl2lh Před 8 měsíci +1

    although healthcare if free at the point of contact in the UK nobody can get a GP appointment which leads to a referral to see a specialist, we cannot just walk into a specialist's office and demand treatment, while this lot are shocked at the cost in the US they are all young and don't realise how restricted NHS healthcare has become

  • @Josurr_Madhawk
    @Josurr_Madhawk Před 7 měsíci

    Had to call an ambulance a year ago for intense pain. Here in British Columbia, i paid $80 (which if you don't pay by the due date they'll just take it off my income tax the following year) for the ambulance and like $50 for the medication from the pharmacist. All in all i capped out at $130

  • @mcetiger
    @mcetiger Před 4 lety +750

    And he didn’t even talk about insulin.

    • @ScorpionXII
      @ScorpionXII Před 4 lety +56

      This video is quite generous to the American health care system in fact, they should mention the fact that a stem cell transplant can cost up to $300,000 in the USA.

    • @CristiNeagu
      @CristiNeagu Před 4 lety +13

      They should talk about insulin, yes. The best example of why a free market in healthcare is simply better.

    • @07slowbalt
      @07slowbalt Před 4 lety +14

      Or a vile of snake anti venom costing 18k a piece and you normally need 2-4 of them.

    • @obiwankenobi687
      @obiwankenobi687 Před 4 lety +11

      ScorpionXII it would literally cost nothing in the U.K, we take our health service for granted so much

    • @46templar
      @46templar Před 4 lety +1

      Yes i was surprise about that as ive been using the stuff for 33yrs now and all the other crap to go with it as ive been having injection in both my eyes for over a year now

  • @luisceja3079
    @luisceja3079 Před 4 lety +1476

    EA: pay to win
    American Healthcare System: Pay to live.

  • @gamertactics1722
    @gamertactics1722 Před 7 měsíci +3

    Its crazy how high healthcare is, its quite saddening.

  • @spacetimemalleable7718
    @spacetimemalleable7718 Před 8 měsíci +1

    A quote from the reaction: "So if you're poor, you're dead!" An adequate description of the healthcare system in the U.S.

    • @fatherson5907
      @fatherson5907 Před 8 měsíci

      Nope. Poor people get Medicaid. You have zero knowledge, just silly lies from a propaganda channel.
      If the UK were a state in the US, it would be the second poorest state. The NHS is pathetic garbage, just like the people on that disgusting island.

    • @brozius
      @brozius Před 8 měsíci +1

      Don't bother, Father son is a liar and a troll. He's a butt hurt American who can't stand that other countries have it better than the US