An American in Europe On Health Care - PART I

	Duration: 10:59 minutes Upload Time: 07-07-11 11:23:22 User: barbarossa0067 :::: Favorites :::: Top Videos of Day
Description: An American living in Europe with experience as a patient on both sides chimes in on the "American Health Care Experience."
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cynthiakoval2 ::: Favorites This filmmaker says a lot....most Americans assume that our health care is the best in the world. The World Health Organization says different: Our rating is number 37, just below Slovenia! Americans, wake up and take back your tax dollars. Why do we no longer vote in our own best interests? 07-08-18 19:56:42 __________________________________________________
pvukosavljev ::: Favorites I live in Canada .... the drug company can NOT advertise on TV or radio. You know the drug ads in the USA convince people to go to their doctor and bug him to prescribe that drug no mather if they need it or not. Drug companies in the USA spend more on Advertising than R&D. 07-08-08 05:00:58 __________________________________________________
barbarossa0067 ::: Favorites That is just bizzare. HOW can that be legal? This is insanity. Though I have read books which talk about Drs who made tens of thousands like this. Your doctor's office is one of the most dangerous places you can be. 07-08-07 15:03:48 __________________________________________________
pvukosavljev ::: Favorites In the USA .. an HMO pays doctors $100 per each patient to switch them from Lipitor to a generic.... Forget baseball tickets .. now it is GOLD OLD CASH .. 07-08-05 22:28:45 __________________________________________________
pointoutlierzions ::: Favorites nice video 07-08-03 07:54:16 __________________________________________________
aviomaster ::: Favorites --bkalafut == I hope you do not get sick in THIS country and have to undergo major surgery -- YOU will understand what I am talking about-- 07-07-31 09:16:16 __________________________________________________
bkalafut ::: Favorites I would hope that you are intelligent enough to not confound society and government. That the US is not a social-democracy does not mean that society in the US is one in which the sick are "discarded." Can you conceive of a way of actualizing the value "the sick should not be simply left to suffer" that does not involve socialism? Perhaps involving opening your own wallet? 07-07-31 05:41:28 __________________________________________________
bkalafut ::: Favorites Americans may gripe, but they're unfamiliar with the history of the problem or the basic economics underlying the situation. People like Moore who talk of "free" healthcare are, at best, contributing to the confusion, and, at worst, tantamount to liars. 07-07-31 05:29:46 __________________________________________________
bkalafut ::: Favorites They do not understand what tradeoffs are involved between our (flawed) semi-private system and a socialist system, and are unfamiliar with the solutions (classical-)liberals put forth as an alternative. Most do not have enough of an understanding of basic economics to understand what a price control is and what that implies. (Do you?) What you're encountering is a "grass is greener" situation. 07-07-31 05:28:52 __________________________________________________
bkalafut ::: Favorites Regardless: 50% of Americans--or more--don't understand this issue well enough to be entitled to an opinion. (Recall that roughly 50% of Americans do not believe in evolution, that most Americans cannot name even one sitting Supreme Court justice, and that a substantial fraction believe that Alaska is located next to Hawaii.) 07-07-31 05:26:49 __________________________________________________