The American Healthcare System

[Kirkland Laing]

A fantastic video from the Daily Show.

UK people go here.

Daily Show's Aasif Mandvi Destroys Fox Business Commentator Todd Wilemon | Crooks and Liars

US people go here

Third World Health Care - Knoxville, Tennessee Edition - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 03/06/14 - Video Clip | Comedy Central


or download the daily show 2014.03.06 torrent for decent quality.

[Beanz]

Think you may be howling into the wind for a bit now that Lyle has gone.

[X]

? Where has Lyle gone ?

[brocktonblockbust]

HE WENT TO sKOKIE , iLLINOIS, THE ANNUAL RALLY.

[Kirkland Laing]

Think you may be howling into the wind for a bit now that Lyle has gone.

It's not specifically aimed at Lyle.

[mrbig1]

We have the best healthcare right here in the U.S.A. Which stands for the ununited slaves of American.

[greynotsoold]

My experience with American health care is unrivaled. From seeing how good a health care plan can be, to seeing somebody robbed of their VA benefits, to getting in a fist fight with a deputy sheriff because he was trying to look up my sister's skirt after my father suffered a severe stroke, I know about health care.
When my uncle got sick, they treated him like dirt and, ultimately, killed him. This was a guy that volunteered for Vietnam and got 3 Purple Hearts, but the VA denied his benefits because he went to prison. Of course, he had been to prison before they took him in and got him shot up (though, to be fair, he was shot 4 times and stabbed 29 times. One of each in Vietnam)but they denied him. So he ended up in Phoenix Memorial hospital, at the time one of the worst in the nation. Insanely incompetent.
Then we went to the county hospital, where he picked up the infection that ultimately killed him. Plus, they collapsed his circulatory system twice due to mixing and matching meds. We ended up at the Maryvale Hospital; his doctor there (this doctor had a sister that is quite possibly the most beautiful woman alive) filed several complaints with the state board of ethics over my uncle's treatment. I went to jail because my uncle's primary doctor would make jokes about his condition- when your liver is bad, your ammonia levels get high and you get goofy- but would not sign off to send him to a specialist. So I beat him up.
My urinary system collapsed and I ended up in the hospital. The cardiologists told me I had had two severe heart attacks and needed open heart surgery. In 2011, 6 years later, I did have heart surgery, and my surgeon told me that I have never had a heart attack. There was no way, he said, that my condition in 20o11 existed in 2005. But I had insurance.
In Arizona they have a state sponsored health care system. After years, my whole life, of carrying two health care plans, I let them lapse. Starting a new business and spending 6 days a week in the gym, oops. My girl got me on the state plan. Once you are on that plan, you become a target. They do shit to you, or want to, that doesn't need to be done because they'll get paid for it.
Now, I have pre-existing conditions, but I have insurance. I work 3 nights a week in a grocery store; the union plan says 80 hours per month gets you covered.I have been self-employed my whole life, since age 23. Working in that store is fucking degrading, but I have put about 350,000 dollars on that plan to get me healthy. And my care, from urologists to cardiologists, from Salt Lake City to Billings, Montana, has been great.
As an aside, when I had my quadruple by-pass, I was in the hospital for several days before the operation. That hospital is a top rate facility. My nurse for those days, Angela, was ridiculously beautiful and great at her job. We got on well; on the board in the hall, next to my room number they wrote "Angela's patient" rather than my name. They also had good food.

[Gandalf]

Obamacare is something dodgy. It is has hundreds of pages of legalese that nobody has read. It seems for anyone signing up they are likely seeing their premiums go up considerably and the costs are rising with each new projection. I think it looks like a terrible system, and is another example of Obama really not having the interests of his citizens at heart. The entire things needs to be got rid of.

It's terrible how the mainstream media is spinning it all as well. Degeneres says to Obama, we are so grateful to you for this. No they aren't! Most people think it sucks. And funnily the biggest corporations are exempt. It's a abit like taxes. The middle pays for everyone and the rich and the poor pay bugger all.

[El Kabong]

Brain Surgery Patient's Obamacare Plan Denies Meds, Drops Doctors

Dozens of Widows Dropped from Health Care Due to Obamacare in Alabama | The Weekly Standard


Obamacare is perfect comrades, Great leader Obama has made sure of it

[El Kabong]

I remember you going on about how great the VA Healthcare system is and how it's sooooo similar to Obamacare

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsMgAGLtTFE



Granted I've blocked you but I didn't want you to be in the dark on this little bit of info

[El Kabong]

Just gonna set this here.....ya know, if ya wanna read something

U.S. faces 90,000 doctor shortage by 2025, medical school association warns - The Washington Post