Why U.S. Hospitals Are Closing

[@hansklaus6860]

The fact that hospitals can even go bankrupt says a lot about the american health system.

[@Coolrunnings007]

Hans Klaus well that means that those hospital who provide terrible service should be able to go under. For example in Eastern Europe the government would keep this terrible hospitals going even though they should have long closed. So putting endless money is not the way to either I promise.

[@wqmf9356]

@@Coolrunnings007 Do it like The Netherlands. Hospitals that are good will get helped but those who are not will have to go. Helping means more than spending money on them. Give them new management controlled by the government.

[@Q_QQ_Q]

@Wqm F or those hospitals working can be expended while low earning hospitals can be turned into low facilities hospitals .

[@sato88888888]

Many rural hospitals go bankrupt because of shrinking rural populations. But yeah, I guess anyone can make stupid assumptions.

[@patricec.2957]

@@Coolrunnings007 the only problem with your example is that the USA has a higher infant mortality rate, and the average age of death is 5 years lower than in Europe. so the figures prove that Europe has a much better medical system than the USA.

[@Daniel-wd2ir]

The US is a country that can’t take care of its own people, but goes across the globe to meddle in other countries business. EDIT: I didn’t expect the variety of reactions my comment got, I’m really surprised! Also, what i mean by my comment is: countries should take care of their people first and foremost! I, personally, don’t pay taxes so that my country can go and buy guns to dictators or rebels halfway across the world; set up coups or do anything but take care of its people. Healthcare, safety, education, good infrastructure, good business conditions and so on should be the priorities of every nation, not conflict.

[@TheMindofGod]

WELL SAID!

[@Kev376]

The US is a country made up of multiple people, and thus... can multitask... bro...

[@cappuccinopapi3038]

Kevin apparently it can’t

[@Kev376]

@@cappuccinopapi3038 The lower 20% wage earners in our country earned an average of 4.4% more this year, so whatever it's doing is really good.

[@Q_QQ_Q]

USA only works for whites . If something aint getting addressed then it means its not affecting whites .

[@Videobot9000]

When your surgery for wisdom teeth removal is $1600 dollars with good insurance. American healthcare is a joke.

[@imzjustplayin]

That's a cosmetic surgery and frankly $1600 isn't all that expensive for that type of surgery.

[@Videobot9000]

@@imzjustplayin I'm sure it isn't but if we compare that price to the prices payed in countries that have NHS then that's just unacceptable. Make treatments reasonable and affordable.

[@godsgirl7201]

@@imzjustplayin most Americans don't have that money just sitting around

[@JudgeDillon]

If you can do it for less than that I'd love to see it. In fact I will fly out to wherever you are to watch you try with less than $1600.

[@and-reass2719]

Plague Doktor In germany you pay monthly around 100 dollars for insurance and thats all. After that you dont pay for anything. You can visit how many doctors you want.

[@celieboo]

"Hospitals want people who can be treated for 'profitable conditions" --that is horrible considering that hospitals make the most money off of cancer care, heart disease, and join disease. That is why almost every hospital has very prominent cancer care centers, orthopedic centers, and heart centers.

[@joedaoust5942]

And they really don't want a health society so they make sure fast food, cigarettes, guns and drugs are everywhere. Makes for a nice healthy bottom line.

[@saudielbamber4227]

@@joedaoust5942 well citizens fight hard to stop things like a sugar tax so the people deserve blame as well.

[@cathat227]

Now the unvaccinated

[@SweetPotatoesBlackStyle25]

My orthopedic dropped me because of money

[@mustang8206]

@@joedaoust5942 I'm pretty sure doctors aren't the ones opening up McDonald's

[@alexi8987]

People can’t afford visiting the hospital or the education to be a doctor.

[@PInk77W1]

Deadpanlolli because of govt

[@konvosationblak9640]

Yeah I think they shot themselves in the foot with this one

[@dolphingoboop]

Him Bike No actually, this generally has more to do with Insurance companies trying to profit off of hospitals

[@1flash3571]

@@dolphingoboop It is the gov't allowing convoluted billing system, drug buying programs which is stupid - they don't negotiate the price like they do in another country. U.S. ALSO subsidize drug prices for other countries. That is why the same drugs are much more EXPENSIVE in the U.S. than in other countries.

[@dolphingoboop]

Flash357 Oh I see what you meant now. Thanks for correcting me!

[@bentorno7821]

And here is the problem, hospitals are a business in The US

[@ritchesusanjason]

Hospitals became business all over the world.

[@dr.felipedbr2783]

All over the world dude

[@TheLiasas]

As it should be. Having the goal of making money is whatd drives any entity to give the most out of itself in order to achieve so. Then money promotes evolution and wider access to many technologies. People need to get off the idea that everything should be handed to them because of them just deserving so. Ofc some adjustments should be done in order to make the market more accessible to everybody, but anyone who believes that health care should be 100% "free" is just delusional

[@Spider-Too-Too]

@Wee Chatt how about tax money.? and an free market competition for medicine?

[@thelalaall]

In order to work in a hospital. You have to study minimum of 4 years and get the degree and license to operate. Well if you want to lower the hospital prices you have to lower the price in universities first and don’t forget the machines and technologies that were used and research.

[@ng3069]

My husband spent less than 24 hours in the hospital and had 2 heart stents put in. The bill was 99 thousand dollars. Ridiculous!!! This should not be allowed!

[@diamondgirllisa]

Novella Glass But how much of the 99 thousand did you actually pay though? Just an honest curious question? Or how much do you feel is an adequate amount?

[@SK-mr6ov]

diamondgirllisa exactly lol, just get some insurance

[@packinwood2009]

Its because you aren't paying for your visit. You are paying for everyone else who got their care without paying even $1.

[@youtuber6185]

packinwood2009 That’s true, my brother has a $22k Bill and told them he could pay for it so they charged him $0. He had insurance but was out of network.

[@humbawena]

that kind of money is criminal , how on earth can people pay that amount unless they are millionaires

[@1trschaefer78]

Healthcare & hospitals used to be about helping people. Now it's all about business profits.

[@meahdahlgren6537]

Right

[@heidihernandez5895]

💯

[@paulbrungardt9823]

Thank you Obamacare!

[@arseniaponseca9918]

Yeah....But who pays for their salaries...benefits supplies..safety..regulations. CAPITAL equipment in the $$$$$$$$$$$$$ millions..upkeep..and .any more Plus.many DO NOT HAVE INSURANCE ...or uncollected debt..WHO PAYS for that?????????????...?????

[@NazriB]

Lies again? Stolen Medical Supplies

[@Oxazepam65]

For almost every country in the world, healthcare is a service to the population. In the US, it is a business self-regulated by money, offer and demand...

[@onemanenclave]

Why shouldn't every product and service be offered by the government for the population? Why shouldn't we go full socialism?

[@mantislazuli]

They've started to do the same thing in France. It's horrible, people are starting to die after waiting for 10 hours + in emergency without getting attended, since they've cut the health budget so much, and started to enforce financial profitability objectives to the hospitals which are basically competing against other hospitals in the same city / region now.

[@Oxazepam65]

@@onemanenclave Some services are cheaper and more effective when controled by the state. Education, electricity, healthcare to name a few. In province of Quebec/Canada where I live, we have the cheapest electricity and the lowest University fees in North America. We do pay a lot of taxes though, but I think it's worth it. The only downside of our healthcare is the waiting time.

[@GeoFry3]

@@Oxazepam65 so it's great because it is free, but sucks because it is free.....

[@shannon2748]

The sad thing though, is that in some countries where healthcare is much cheaper it isn't as good. For example, in South Korea, where there is a national healthcare scheme, if you need to go spend time in the hospital, the nurses are useless. They will do nothing for you but bring you medicine. Your family is expected to come take care of you. if you don't have family, you have to hire what they call a hospital helper to come bathe you, etc.

[@bluenightsky]

A hospital shouldn't be looking at a sick person and ask, how much money can I make off of him/her. Such a disgrace that being sick is looked at as a business.

[@johnuthus]

That's the insurance companies

[@Khamiel]

Where else they going to get the money

[@carstenlarsen8144]

??- but it is business.. they only made the hole hospital because the could se some gold at the end of that rainbow.. The really ugly thing-is that you us peoplle are letting that happen to you.. how stupid is that.. but every time you have to help one another and chip and share and build- then sombody is screaming...kummies.. and then it stops again- thats why u not give anything -because it is...communism..no it is nor- how have you ever mad a road for everyone to use ?- that is pure kommunism..some obne paid and they maybe donot even use it... read a bit about us pople in denmark

[@johnuthus]

@@Khamiel not charging 7 USD for a band aid

[@WA_S_S_AW]

and that’s why the rest of the civilized world has single payer or what we are pushing for here Medicare for All

[@wenl4901]

Hospitals are to serve the community not the other way around. Greed is going rot this country away!

[@henrythegreatamerican8136]

Boomers brought and end to the american dream by supporting Reaganomics for 40 years. Millennials will be the first generation worst off than previous generations thanks to the boomers.

[@Kev376]

Then make a hospital to serve the community, don't force something someone else built into something else. Build it yourself

[@chris0000924]

You know any doctors that'll work for free

[@generalaccount6531]

The funny thing is that if they truly want the money in the long run, they should have made pricing and insurance more transparent, and more affordable, so people would come in more frequently. Would you ever buy a phone if its price was anywhere from $300 to $3000 but we won't tell you unless you've used the phone? This is short-term greediness and the healthcare as it is right now deserves it.

[@Beachdudeca]

it actually means that local towns . cities , counties will need to raise Taxes and buy the hospitals and cover the costs not covered by Med4All themselves

[@leschurchill804]

I worked at Jefferson, and the closure of Hahnemann was very traumatic to us. The influx was very damaging to Jefferson, and the volume was very overwhelming. The way they treated the patients once they closed was absolutely appalling. People were left with no way to access their records, and it caused dangerous delays in the patients receiving time saving medical care. Everything that they are saying is the truth. The CEO was a real 'heal.' He left in the middle of the night. Ms. L. Churchill

[@DavidHalverson]

One advantage of having hospitals digitize the patient's medical records so the information can be stored in an off-site repository for use by every medical facility world-wide. In effect, your health card is your entire medical history. Paperforms kept in boxes are prone to deterioration over the years, damaged or lost due to fire or incorrectly filed by Records Department staff.

[@randomstuff-qu7sh]

@@DavidHalverson True, but the disadvantage to that is it makes your medical records more vulnerable to medical ID theft. That can result in theft of your benefits (you need it and discover someone else took it first), getting bills for debts you don't owe and getting hounded by debt collectors for those debts, damage your credit score, and can potentially be life threatening since if the criminal's info gets mixed into your records (since doctors would be basing their decisions off of an incorrect medical history).

[@wilburmcbride8096]

You wrote down the wrong"Heal." You mean to write Heel like the heel on a shoe! The heal you used is to heal a person from illness.

[@SybilKibble]

And Virtua is just awful. My doctor I think did her ops at Hahnemann, now goes through Virtua. I stopped coming down there because of the greed; I could not even get an answer to a basic question like "can you please contact my dermatologist to see if my skin is healed enough so I won't reject the implant." Nope. Another train trip and string of hotel stays. When I told the office clerk that, she said "oh we have patients fly down from Canada." Lady, it's not a competition so stop treating it like that. They wanted the $$$ for every little thing at the pt's expense. I told my doctor in my home state what the Dr. recommended and got it done up here.

[@weeeeeeee945]

Health is wealth, that statement can't get any more true in the US.

[@weeeeeeee945]

@Wee Chatt true, but that's just the way the system is set up. Sad but true

[@ednan9]

Wee Chatt that stupid. Today’s healthy may the sick of tomorrow. Then what?

[@ameliadiaz8040]

@@ednan9 In the future, DEAD!!!

[@SwaggerLikeUz]

dCosmic1 real talk!

[@sillymesilly]

and wealth is health!

[@tomc.2808]

Most of the people just cannot afford hospital stay...:-(((

[@lahabitaciondelatrapado4621]

Most people can

[@botox1603]

Why don't you vote for politicians that endorse european healthcare model?

[@sirhellhound3074]

@@botox1603 But I dont like paying less for healthcare!!!1111!

[@Q_QQ_Q]

they closing hospitals in non white areas .

[@lefthanded5473]

La habitacion del atrapado Actually people can't. If they can, they're doing it through debt.

[@lootrpv90]

"They [hospitals] want people who are going to be treated for profitable conditions." This is so dystopian...

[@fergus247]

How is that dystopian. Of course it costs money to get medical treatment. The problem is that the whole industry is hamstrung by government. They cant optimise or do things better. It has to be a certain way, the way government says, and ultimately thats just a bunch of hippies who have no clue about the healthcare industry to begin with and thats why it sucks. Get government out of healthcare and you will end up with a better system.

[@AMoistEggroll]

@@fergus247 The problem with that is if you completely rid gov't services in healthcare, corporate care will step in and dominate the whole industry. Of course, in a for-profit healthcare system which we're in, you're simply a consumer of your own health which I'd argue is morally worse. Sure it may advance medical innovations in the industry, but without oversight, patients are much more vulnerable to medical-corporate misconduct which has been reported and proven many times. Public health must start with the hospitals. We need hospitals that can operate under public-private partnerships without dealing with the hindrances from each entity.

[@christianlibertarian5488]

@@AMoistEggroll A large number of US hospitals, up until now, have been public-private. Those county hospitals you remember from your youth. And they were horribly run. That is why they are merging with stronger players.

[@celieboo]

Yes it is dystopian. Those profitable conditions are cancer, joint disease, and heart disease.

[@Jonathan-Pilkington]

@Lee Hardt The insurer owes you healthcare, that is the whole point of paying healthcare insurance.

[@JC02official]

Absolutely sickening how hospitals have become corporate businesses. They care more about money than their own patients. How many people have died unnecessarily from this awful system.

[@richardbowers3647]

none have taken the oath that I now of!!!!

[@MiracleFound]

The hospitals aren't the ones causing the price problems. It is the insurance companies that drive the prices.

[@joshsullie4003]

@@MiracleFound that’s not true for the most part. If you ever go to a doctor or hospital without insurance they have two prices. The hospitals have been pushing for more profits by exploiting nurses and staff for the last 10 years. Claiming that they are loosing money while paying executives billions in bonuses. Plus all of the kick backs that insurance companies get for becoming a preferred point for their customers.

[@MiracleFound]

@Josh Sullie I am aware of that. Having worked in hospitals since 1976, I watched insurance companies take over healthcare during the 80's and 90's. As insurance companies took over, prices spiked to crazy levels. Graham-Rudman in the 80's was the beginning of those prices going up ridiculously. Over 50% of every dollar spent on healthcare in the US goes to the insurance companies. Yes, hospital prices are ridiculous, but it is totally about the way that insurance contracts are written. For example, when my husband was in the hospital, the insurance company paid $150.00 a day for the room, food, medicine and nursing care. Other procedures are paid at a set price and the insurance company pays for a preset amount based on the diagnosis. They pay, for example, for 3 days inpatient for congestive heart failure. If the hospital can get the patient home in one day, they profit, at 2 days they break even and at 3 days they start eating the cost. That is why, unless you are paying cash, there is no point in going over your hospital bill. Your insurance company doesn't pay based on itemization. Prices are set to get maximum profit for the insurance company, and the hospital, if they minimize the care they provide. Hospital employees have absolutely no idea what and how much things cost, mostly because it is different depending on what insurance you have, what your deductible is, and what the contract says. I did utilization review for a while where we did look and make sure that insurance mandated care restrictions were being followed. What is worse is that all of the major insurance companies are owned by the same group of people, but separate companies. The roll around cost and coverage and businesses rotate contracts with those companies. It is a big scam against US citizens. Our healthcare is decided by CEO's whose pay and bonuses are based on paying out the minimum amount possible. EMTALA ensures that everyone can receive life saving care, but it doesn't mandate any follow-up care. Single men are the least likely to get Medicaid if they don't have insurance. That means that if they have a heart attack, they are sent home with some medication but no rehab, no cardiologist and no way to refill that medicine. That happens until they end up on disability because they no longer can work due to the damage to their heart. At that point they are on disability and Medicaid and Medicare. Sadly, had they had the basic care and medications they would have been able to work and pay taxes for many more years, at a small fraction of what that heart attack cost. Our system is totally screwed up.

[@darter9000]

Kaiser Permanante is an insurance company… and operates their own hospitals… there is definitely an insurance takeover of hospitals.

[@esmeraldagreen1992]

When doctors were paid by patients they had to keep prices low so people could pay. It was when 3rd parties came in that things went south.

[@sageryan5819]

Antonina MacNeish You are absolutely correct. Prior to Medicare all medical services were reasonable. No $12 aspirins. Now that is probably $32+.

[@richardfleer1905]

Absolutely. Now most insurance policies are managed care and group policies, primarily from other businesses. Supply and demand. Also, many hospitals in rural and low income areas aren't properly sized to scale. Less square feet means less expense to operate. Also, employment and healthcare require complete separation. Medicare for All.

[@randyjohnson9772]

OLYGARCHY USING INSURANCE COMPANIES TO TERRORISE THE SHEEPLES

[@onatone]

It's the fact Americans see healthcare as a payable service and not like every other country as a right. If only we had a system where we had a government that worked for people that can bargain and challenge costs to keep costs down and due to the economics of scale lower overall cost of medicine and care to citizens. But that would "socialism". Now we have large merged hospitals to stay afloat, increase care costs and insurances that increase costs to those insured. The USA should be ashamed but we are so cucked by insurance/prescription companies even tho the USA gov still gives these companies handouts for R&D.

[@smokelord2002]

@MultiLaughs88 yes, they negotiate exorbitant rates that no one would pay for normally and then act like they are doing you a favor.

[@dogan6070]

The prices are to expensive,. So no one uses the service.

[@wolfumz]

Prices don't matter- people dont go to hospitals based on prices. They go based on their insurance. The video explains uninsured patients and lower insurance payments for services made mercy hospital close.

[@spencers4121]

@Kathleen Henson Not unless they can collect on the patients, which hospitals / ER is the primary care for those uninsured and poor.

[@biohazardlnfS]

My moma recent ambulance bill was 7800 after we got into a car incident. She only stayed for about 3 hours for test.

[@jonscott234]

@@biohazardlnfS the u.s most definitely

[@GeminieCricket]

Pretty Boy Pete. TOO not to. Dumbed down America hasn’t the ability to hold down well paying jobs. Thus too many poor dumb people can not pay. Non-paying patients means doctors/nurses leave.

[@nancymatolay3711]

So let’s face it. Curing cancer or heart disease wouldn’t be in the best interest of these hospital conglomerates....or big pharma.

[@krismine99]

Fr, that's the only reason why for profit makes sense. It's like Why else would they invest in that if their was no payoff?

[@JudgeDillon]

Let's face it, staying active, eating healthy, and not smoking would be in the best interest of someone trying to avoid heart disease.

[@bubba842]

@A. P. Heffel there is no money in curing disease. These companies want returning customers. They don't want to provide you with a special treatment that you only need once. They wouldn't make any money doing that.

[@pavelow235]

@Ellen Berry ..... There are countless KZbin videos increased earning potential and productivity of cancer cure vastly vastly exceed the supposed profit of treating patients, please read more on the subject. Resist the urge to fall into useless conspiracy theory camps.

[@bradtitt7572]

Illuminated

[@fluffypuff766]

*"Hospitals are closing!"* Well, maybe if it weren't so flippin' expensive, maybe we would consider going... especially if we need it...

[@gtlegacy8]

Patient: Gets charged $25k for a Throat swab test.

[@robroux6074]

But your Health Insurance payed $50k for the special color effects(for accuracy), the special packaging(enviormently friendly) and the disposal fee. You just have to Co-Pay $25k. Good thing money is taken out of my check for an HSA to help me cover, glad I also signed up for Care Credit. Pay it off in 6 years and boost up my CREDIT SCORE for an overpriced( cost $42K to build w/ permits, but you paid $220,000) home in the Suburbs.

[@mohan1519]

@Kevin Prima in India the costliest 3-D CT scan is $250 and cheaper, medical tourism is now a thing here.

[@kansasthunderman1]

@Kevin Prima Health care is a rip off.

[@n3gi_]

@@mohan1519 After or before insurance?

[@mohan1519]

@@n3gi_ well without insurance the whole thing costs you that much. If you work in IT or private insurance which is not much in India, I'm sure insurance can easily cover the entire cost for your CT scan.

[@VanieBabii]

All I heard is greed , money money and money Wtf happened to WELL BEING OF PEOPLE !!

[@Vlad2319]

That went to s#!t as soon as private insurance paid the big bucks greedy doctors wanted.

[@TartarianTopG]

Nero really

[@suserman7775]

Money is what makes hospitals respond to the wants of the patients. Government ruins everything with price controls and wait times that no one wants. You have every opportunity in this country to not be poor. If you are, then you must come to grips with your life situation.

[@johnsailor6081]

Nero doctors are not greedy. They honestly graduate medical school with 300k plus in debt. And they need to pay it off somehow.

[@johnuthus]

Insurance companies man, they make hospital cost $$$$$$$$$

[@AbhijitLeekha]

I went to the ER to get stitches.. There were 40 nurses that weren't allowed to do anything but check my blood pressure.. The doctor saw me for 90 seconds. And I'm not exaggerating The bill was 12,000$ to wait in the ER for 6 hours for 6 stitches That is moronic at best.

[@howtowithelizabeth7513]

Abhijit Leekha u have to be kidding me 🤦🏻‍♀️

[@dmarogonas]

@geeksquad smarty part of it I think is liability for who puts in sutures

[@kendrajones9708]

Abhijit Leekha Bernie2020

[@crystalyeowchingching1036]

Hillary Clinton i pay you in rupees.

[@nemesiszz]

move out!

[@Ringele5574]

Now you go to the hospital and stay for a few days and you get bills from 10 different companies. Hospitals are now like a flea market for healthcare. You pay for each different treatment vendor. Hospital, radiology, laboratory, food service, doctor/s, ect.

[@user-vk5ux7qz8x]

The report says it clearly , the hospitals serving the poorer communities are closing! And that says it all!!!

[@markmonaco70]

It the poorest communities that wealthy families should help fund since the poor are the ones who serve the wealthy. If the poor catch a coronavirus like illness then it spread to the rich areas too

[@davidwalker2144]

FEDERAL RESERVE don't want rural guys no insurance,no health care,with silly sickness flu,cold,diarrhea,coughing just upgraded now to [E.S.M] EXPENSIVE SICKNESS is MONEY!

[@carstenlarsen8144]

@@markmonaco70 but if a poor man braekes a leg- it is of nobodys cocern ..og course not in the us- but here in denmark- the state wil take care and noone sees a bill after 4 mdr in hospitall if that was necessary..

[@markmonaco70]

@@carstenlarsen8144 I'm not sure if your for or against my argument. I think the reason why a broken leg is not serious to most is because it wont spread like wild fire to different communities. Whereas a broken leg isnt a concern to people simply because they are selfish and dont care about their fellow man. I think more kindness should spread since this world needs more good hearted people. Just my two cents tho

[@lynndwho]

But the system in general is corrupt. The private insurance companies and bigger network hospitals are marking the prices up on purpose to make huge profits and ira hard for the smaller hospitals to compete.

[@whospilledmybeans]

US Citizens: Earns 7 dollars an hour, not eligible and can not afford insurance Doctors: lol ok so 500 for your insulin meds or no deal Elitist who own the hospital: so we steal all the money and ruin the economy and now all the sudden y’all wanna act poor

[@radicalbarrel2729]

Who spilled My beans I think you’re mad at pharmacies

[@Kiyometa]

Its not the doctors themselves that set the price on medicines, its big pharma.

[@radicalbarrel2729]

The Internet Is For Cats it’s more so the idiots than the degree

[@Resi1ience]

@bad bad mc bad generally a moral idiot, or an idiot who just barely got out of college and/or high school

[@kerripendragon4888]

@bad bad mc bad illegal immigrants and ex convicts ...etc

[@bindasguy3666]

Next= Why US medical colleges are closing

[@Camelotsmoon]

Or just colleges in general

[@chrisbooboo3840]

And all our doctors get their degrees in other countries or come from other countries.

[@RedBeardDog]

@@chrisbooboo3840 Actually this is happening with teachers.

[@Q_QQ_Q]

@RedBeardDog doctors too . people buying degrees from other countries then work as doctors in their own hospitals .

[@aa55claa55cl]

Then we need insurance to pay for school or there is no public hospital

[@mathewjoseph2237]

Hospitals don't care about their patients at all. Extremely few care only about the patients.

[@fergus247]

That is a systemic issue, as people have their freedoms taken away, and common sense denied and standard of living dropping then caring stops and cynicism rises. Dont be surprised if the next Hitler is american.

[@lzkrishmom]

If you care, you get burned out fast.

[@user-sr8mf2vg9p]

Well than stat home, next time you need emergent care.

[@dinnerwithfranklin]

I suspect that relates more to the fact that hospitals have to care about doing more and more with less and less than anything intrinsic to hospitals or the workers in healthcare. To blame the workers because the government is making them do two or three jobs, and therefore they are unable to spend time actually caring for patients is to confuse the symptom for the cause

[@lzkrishmom]

@@dinnerwithfranklin exactly. Healthcare workers of all levels are quitting because of burned out. These healthcare workers were trying to do too much with too little help and resources.

[@wildandwonderful7069]

"Many hospitals are monopolies, and have high rates" Go figure.

[@lamzo-yi4ku]

The state should build the hospitals then hire doctors as independent contractors, force a lower price on meds and all equipments and enforce cheaper med school. They will get their money back by getting a % on each service.

[@Dobiegal]

And this is why you are starting to see so many freestanding emergency rooms in shopping centers. , and physician-owned surgery centers. They set their own prices and they are competitive. They also give cash discounts to people who don't have insurance and pay cash.

[@Will_Salcedo]

"Why U.S. Hospitals Are Closing" Easy nobody can afford it and it's going to get worse. The only profitable hospitals are in major cities because extremely wealthy people live there.

[@rekwinchester7509]

@Justice9111 urban areas cost less than city bud

[@grandmalovesmebest]

and why did we pay for this all our working lives and now pay again w our SS income and then pay extra for other hmos and then pay copays and then get no treatment but drugs and never get cured of ANYTHING?!

[@Blessedbears]

Amen and amen! Medicine kills... real food heals! Look up dr John Bergman and watch all his videos! Amazing!

[@bobbys2643]

@Justice9111 uh.. so you're telling me the guys on wall street are pot smoking liberals and not money hungry republikkkans? Yeah.. ok. You've obviously never been to a city before.

[@bobbys2643]

@Justice9111 oh and you're a Christian. That explains it. When are you going to start giving all you own to the poor like the Bible ACTUALLY says??

[@manufacturedreality8706]

Signs of a great society.... 1. People are healthy, both physically and mentally. 2. People are well educated.

[@ArkOmen1]

Welp, that ain't us!

[@ArkOmen1]

@Jay Santos Ha ha. Don't forget, being educated takes initiative and hard work. It doesn't just get downloaded into people's heads automatically.

[@kriswingert1662]

Then there are those of us who got an education, went to college, work our butt off and still cannot make a decent living for our families. It is not so easy there bud!

[@ArkOmen1]

@@kriswingert1662 Well yes I agre with that, but this is because of a deeply flawed monetary system.

[@krishnanunnimadathil8142]

Signs of a great society: 1. People are individually responsible to one another. 2. People place duties to one another above rights.

[@carlynsykes6053]

I'd love to see this updated now after a year living under a pandemic.

[@signalfire6]

A huge amount of health care workers either died from Covid, got sick with it and have really bad lingering effects, or decided all the Trump supporting non-mask wearing assholes weren't worth risking their lives for and 'retired' or went into other jobs, that's what happened.

[@theyredistortingyourrhythm130]

@@signalfire6 What covid?

[@Pepe_theFurfagFrog]

Even better now that German hospitals may lose electricity this winter. And the "totally unrelated to the pandemic (or its vaccines), we swear" increase of 40% in deaths reported by life insurance companies from "unknown" causes. And the fact German food manufacturers reported to their chancellor (president/P.M.) that they expect >50% of their industry to be bankrupt within 9 months due to 'green' policies. So, starvation AND freezing coming to German patients...

[@catherinehazur7336]

CARLYN SYKES. Well, transgender "treatment" and surgery for minors is a new profit center the murder hospital corporatocracy is trying to push. Though it appears to be meeting with blowback from the elements of society and culture that have retained a sense of sanity. I'm going to take my chances far away from the full blown lunatic asylums that corporate hospitals are rapidly becoming.

[@KiamKweli]

Why every single time they show or mention poor people they cut to African Americans. There are more poor White Americans in this country. Who are the largest recipients of Medicaid.

[@Ionic0]

i dunno does it really matter?

[@JasonVonHolmes]

@@Ionic0 yes, subconsciously people won't care as much when they use the images of African Americans for social programs in America. This tends to make the majority population not feel like it's a issue that hits home with them and resulting in not enough action taken place. For example look at how mountains are being moved to solve the opioids problem. That's because the face that's used in the media is white people and the majority population connects better with that. If mainstream media really cared about the lack of hospitals, they would of shown a real look of the biggest demographic, white people, that's impacted. More would be done to solve the hospital problem if the majority population feels it connects with them.

[@Rommie26]

You’re wrong tho Blacks despite being 12 percent of the population are the poorest per cap

[@crucisnh]

@@Ionic0 Yeah, it does. It clearly shows the underlying bias of white liberals. When white liberal politicians talk to black folks, they dumb down their language because those white liberals see their audience as lacking in intelligence. When white conservative politicians talk to black folks, they do not dumb down their language because they don't see the audience as lacking in intelligence. So, who are the real racists?

[@Q_QQ_Q]

@Kiam Kweli if a problem is getting solved than it means most affected are non whites . if anything that affects whites then its a national emergency .

[@deathless3518]

The US isn’t even prepared for a pandemic. Smh

[@jessejennings3828]

Dont let a few closures fool you. There are tens of thousands more. I live in Tulsa and there is like 20 alone here.

[@Aden_III]

Jesse Jennings No. America is not ready for a pandemic. Your limited knowledge of the subject doesn’t change that fact

[@jessejennings3828]

@@Aden_III statements as such deserve proof. And all i said is that there is alot of hoapitals still. Are you fkn stupid?

[@kassrripples3659]

Deathless BAM

[@zero-pantsu-samus3203]

@@jessejennings3828 Well, I guess we are about to see the reality, we are in the brink of the pandemic. Good luck!

[@Dangic23]

When healthcare is a for profit system, then its totally normal to expect hospitals to close.

[@tj8024]

It’s bc of wealth inequality, not capitalism

[@VinceroAlpha]

TJ actually it is because of capitalism, if a hospital is burning through more money then it gets, then you need to reduce its operating costs or close it down and cut your losses. That’s literally capitalism 101.

[@Dangic23]

@@VinceroAlpha True. And wealth inequality is a component of capitalism also.

[@lashlarue7924]

I have a freaking finance MBA, and I agree. Financing a hospital system with a for-profit capital structure is a recipe for sexual assault at gunpoint by special interest groups. They should all be shot in the street.

[@Nishith8]

@@tj8024 wealth inequality is a cause of capitalism

[@missk7001]

Incredible and absolutely unbelievable. My mom had four hip replacement surgeries and two cancer operations and was all together in the hospital for probably for 4 months in the last 35 years. All she had to pay was around 9€/day in the hospital.

[@cogen651]

Where do you live

[@catherinehazur7336]

FOUR hip replacements?

[@carlitoscabana7197]

Yall gonna ignore the fact that these hospitals are being baught by investors because of the prime real estate location these hospitals are

[@wantedwario2621]

I dont think you know what you are talking about

[@dinnerwithfranklin]

I think the problem at it's root is that hospitals are operated as businesses.

[@mayainverse9429]

if they wernt it would cost way more to run. the problem is by nature modern medicine is expensive

[@kateajurors8640]

@@mayainverse9429 no the issues is that our country as Americans is allowing HUGE overcharges prices .

[@bolshevikrasta1027]

@@mayainverse9429 modern medicine is expensive? lol you just pay for greed, they operate on the disease model they don't want the cure. hospitals being run by investment bankers.

[@JudgeDillon]

Yeah, we should have the people who can't pave the roads and who are $23T in Debt run them instead. *Sigh*

[@bubba842]

@@JudgeDillon the reason for the debt is because they don't tax the wealthy corporations that make Billions of dollars a year. Instead the give the wealthiest corporations in the world subsidies. eg. Exxon Mobile, Conoco Phillips.

[@timergooff]

In summary, hospitals in poor neighborhoods lose money and close down

[@inachu]

A deeper truth. In california they closed down from the amount of illegals that flooded the hospitals.

[@nemo663]

The Savage capitalism can't have empathy.

[@Alastasius]

@@nemo663 It's not about capitalism. It's corrupt DemocRATS that adopt policies which further the problem.

[@DanafoxyVixen]

@@Alastasius dems aren't in power at the moment, your blaming ghosts...

[@Alastasius]

@@DanafoxyVixen I'm talking about all the blue states. That's mostly where the problem lies.

[@Byenia]

Mississippi already had the poorest education system in the nation, the highest out-of-wedlock teen pregnancy rate, very high obesity and diabetes rate, and now they appear to be the most at risk for losing their rural hospitals (0:40 mark). Smh

[@ammirza8323]

Health care should never be FOR PROFIT

[@vuchicago]

Healthcare service is a limited resource, so it should be treated as such. I think it should be for profit. It's the crazy amount of regulations that makes it unaffordable, not the other way around

[@javiertorres9114]

A M Mirza exactly. But also the insurance companies, those are publicly owned and traded on the stock exchange. Its all about the share holders.

[@tpeterson9140]

@bad bad mc bad "When it becomes universal healthcare... no one will spend the time, money or effort to be a doctor." Lol are serious? Basically all developed nations have universal healthcare and they dont have problem with lack of doctors at all.

[@Cortesevasive]

@bad bad mc bad That's doubtfully the case, look abroad, doctors earn a minimum wage and its like 1k . Compare it to the USA, if USA would be more open about importing workforce from poor countries like eastern Europe or India or any other country they could bring down doctor salaries 5times. No country has doctors who earn that much as in USA. Also people will go to study medicine anyway, of course people from rich families are not willing to go such a painful way while they get more money just renting their property. But thankfully there is lots of poverty in the world and that a warranty of cheap well educated fully indebted workforce. But USA don't need to bring the prices down, no profits there.

[@Cortesevasive]

@@vuchicago Regulations make it more affordable, its economy of scale, healthcare works best if implemented in large scale, look in europe lol.

[@ThomsiEntertainment]

I hate hearing "hospital" and "for-profit" in the same sentence... but maybe just because i am an european

[@Coolrunnings007]

THOMSI yeah but “Europe” and “defense spending” are a couple of words who hopefully will become more common in the same sentence

[@unoki99]

​@@Coolrunnings007 oh don't worry that is changing quickly. Sweden for instance (not even a part of NATO) went from "we will never go into war again, no one has to go to military school" to "we will force all youths at the age of 18 to send in health information and what field of defence they would prefer to work in" in just 1 year. I grew up being taught that peace will be ever lasting in Sweden, then the year I turned 18 that policy changed. but also: Europe doesn't need to put literally one third of our whole GDP on "defence" since we don't need to defend any "first place economy". Have fun with the trade war anyways B)

[@louismartignoli6603]

coolrunnings no. Look at Europe, they do not provoke wars unlike Trump. Europe spends on its healthcare because it wants to help. The US spends on war because they solely want to gasconade all while looking threatening. It’s stupid. Should we really spend more on killing people than saving people? You are in the wrong buddy. Europe doesn’t need to spend a ton on defence because we want to conserve peace, not spark them. It’s truly sad that whilst there are Americans living in poverty, dying because they cannot afford healthcare, struggling to live, the government spends more than the next ten countries on defence. You and your country are just sad.

[@annando]

​@@Coolrunnings007 well, as long as a "is lowering" is in between, I'm all for it.

[@Coolrunnings007]

LOUIS 2005 are you serious. That was the most stupid thing I read today. Europe has been the sole major reason that tension with Russia are at high right now. If you didn’t give the Ukrainians false hope they would have still probably kept there country together. But you want to stick it to the Russians and created a mess and tried to drag President Trump into it too. Nah fam that’s all you guys.

[@astrofrk]

When my hospital discovered I had no insurance, they kicked me out of bed when I was still dizzy and hallucinating. I didn't know where I was and hit the side of a door, knocking me on my back. Some nurse asked me if I was okay and I told her "This hospital thinks I am". America has the best healthcare system on earth but only for those who can afford it.

[@FrVitoBe]

lucky its that good, when you r about to die they can save you, if you have the money. anything else go away.

[@johnsantini3382]

Yuniko Yato very scary people lost their soul for money

[@christianlibertarian5488]

You are wrong about your own care. The doctors and nurses taking care of you have no idea what kind of insurance you have. What is more, they don't care. They want to get you out of the hospital fast, true. But they want to get everyone out fast.

[@wscottwatson]

I was not aware that the USA actually has a "healthcare system". Other than Medicare and Medicaid, there is a private medical system but CARE is not actually part of that.

[@christianlibertarian5488]

@@wscottwatson In a sense, you are correct. Each insurance company plan is, in effect, its own system.

[@sabbath2112]

1 month after this video being released and now we need them more than ever. crazy.

[@JamesRendek]

We need them to put us on vents that damage our lungs and make sure we don't make it.

[@tjmarx]

@@JamesRendek A ventilator doesn't damage your lungs. 🤦

[@keanureeves9772]

Hello greetings from Keanu Reeves....I know it will come as a surprise to you.....Well am a very social person,I'm down to earth,have a great sense of humor with a good attitude and pleasant character not only in words but in deeds, I don't discriminate anyone and I love making friends.

[@ericpaulgoldie]

Short Answer: Greed and ignorance.

[@coolbeans6148]

No you idiot. Hospitals dont merge or monopolize because greed, the do so for survival. It's too expensive to run a hospital.

[@kerripendragon4888]

Billions given to foreign countries and no healthcare for the people. Sad.

[@emelinugh]

kerri pendragon and TRILLIONS for war

[@wesbecool]

Billions given in tax breaks and no healthcare for the people. Sad indeed.

[@15seconds3]

Over U$2 trillion spent on useless wars and America's bridges and roads are crumbling. No high speed rail in the US and 30,000 kms were built (with all the infrastructure that entails) in 5 years in China.. Sad.

[@zusiphesikayi2390]

Money given as aid to foreign countries serves America more than it does those countries.

[@kerripendragon4888]

@@zusiphesikayi2390 How? Americans have crumbling bridges, very old trains , very old school buses, no healthcare, nasty huge corporations , population drop, huge credit Card debts, college debts, divorces, rising scams- crime and millions of homeless people with no shelter. Talk about the richest country but see how the ordinary people are treated like crap by insurance corporations, all sorts of bills and little pay for 60 hrs of work. Sounds more like a dictatorship by corporations in disguise...not capitalism.

[@Lathenboucher1534]

To call hospitals ‘businesses’ sounds weird to my Canadian mind

[@joannajamerson35]

I want to move to Canada

[@PetrGladkikh]

People in US call everything a business, even jails. I think it is a temporary fluke of history that police and army are not privatized yet.

[@spangst]

@Down the Canadian healthcare outcomes are way better at a fraction of the cost! You need to stay uninformed though...Republicans count on it!

[@Firebirdca]

@Down the Strange you go in debt to go to to a hospital in the U.S. and loose your shirt and your home. As in Canada I do not have terrible health care, had 2 complete knee surgeries, physio therapy covered, no cost. Had also a heart specialist, urologist look after me no cost. All testing that I needed be it X ray, MRI, ultra sounds and the list goes on. An in a modern hospital with all the bells and whistles of modern equipment just a little over 5 yrs old. An I am a pensioner, regardless our age young and old we are covered. In Toronto we have one of the leading children Hospital. at least here in Canada, I or other Canadians don't go broke and into the poor house, we take care of everybody rich or poor as equals. Especially our elderly and our cherished children. No one is turned away. You better do a little more research you are very very misinformed. Oh as to how we can afford all this is we bite the bullet and pay a little more in taxes.and its worth every penny.

[@michaelransom5841]

​@Down the I live in Canada, unbelievably good health care here. I tore the ligaments in my knee last spring, at home in my own back yard. Went to emergency, no wait at all, had an MRI while i was there, surgery within a week, was walking again the day of the surgery. received excellent physio and recovery treatment. All treatments including the hospital were minutes from my house. Was back to work 3 weeks after the accident. Within 3 months you would never know I ever hurt my knee, and it didn't cost me a penny! My 90 year old grandfather diagnosed with lung cancer 3 months ago, the cancer was inoperable, so they used a barrage of cutting edge chemo and radiation options. there is now no sign of the cancer and he's feeling great. Similar stories from every family member and friend I know. Honestly, if somebody is trying to tell you that Canada's health care is somehow inferior, they are lying to you. and the only reason i can think of for why, they must be trying to manipulate you.

[@karlabritfeld7104]

I know a lot of people with private health insurance just won't go to the doctor because the deductibles are so high. It's like not having any insurance at all so why bother?

[@tyrannyterminator4179]

Overcharge for simple services and you will always get closed down.

[@suzanne_atkinson]

The overcharge isn't for simple services....it's for the overhead of everything that's out of control. The administrators and CEOs get paid from the money that you get charged for a simple service. If the tech makes $15/hr, the nurse $60/hour and the doc $150/hr...how much of your bill goes to the CEO who earns $12million / year? (answer...most of it)

[@davidwalker2144]

FEDERAL RESERVE don't want rural guys no insurance,no health care,with silly sickness flu,cold,diarrhea,coughing just upgraded now to [E.S.M] EXPENSIVE SICKNESS is MONEY!

[@E.T.GARAGE]

I always thought Hospitals closed because most people can't afford to pay their medical bills.

[@the_hanged_clown]

oh they still get their money. other companies make quite a profit from buying your debt from the hospital.

[@alexh5391]

hang da clown they can’t get their money from those people because they don’t have jobs so the hospital closes can’t pay for Hydro property taxes employees it all adds up

[@johnuthus]

well insurance companies are a scam

[@davidwalker2144]

FEDERAL RESERVE don't want rural guys no insurance,no health care,with silly sickness flu,cold,diarrhea,coughing just upgraded now to [E.S.M] EXPENSIVE SICKNESS is MONEY!

[@johnuthus]

@Claire jokes on you I don't have insurance nor will I use it until I'm over 30

[@fly2174]

What’s the point of building hospitals and educating ppl to become doctors when the majority can’t afford it!!

[@JudgeDillon]

And if you are on welfare or don't work you can suddenly afford unlimited ER visits. I wonder if our taxes were cut in half if we could afford it then

[@thewhizkid3937]

I thought about that too lmao.

[@jgreber1790]

Like 10 years ago I took a trip to Florida to a conference that was held in Fort Lauderdale. When I was there I took the water taxi boat tour and what I could gather from the guy giving the narration was that about every second or third house on the water was owned by the CEO of some healthcare system! And you know that wasn't their primary residence!

[@Gigilovehugs]

So sad they are pilling up money when a lot of people can’t afford to pay for a doctor visit

[@CoffeeOn]

The US is health care system is messed up.

[@ziadalmohamady2871]

cuz its controlled by the insurance & pharmaceutical companies who are profit driven

[@KOLAkola]

itsgamerv ux it’s a business that’s why

[@FloridaMan69.]

@@ziadalmohamady2871 it's the government's fault not corporations

[@Blaze6108]

The US does not have a healthcare system. What you see in the US is the natural state of something like healthcare: without collective action, people just can't have it. Same with the police, most people wouldn't enjoy lawfulness in a natural state... which is why governments exist.

[@ziadalmohamady2871]

@@FloridaMan69. never said that the government is exonerated by any means

[@marlonelias]

Because they charge more than they should, that's why people don't want to go!.!.

[@kansasthunderman1]

You got that right. Padded expenses are rampant like charging $10 for one aspirin tablet.is a common practice.

[@TheArchaos]

@@kansasthunderman1 30$ fee 'skin on skin' contact after giving birth to a child. Yeah lol, throw it on top of the 3000$ price-tag.

[@Autobotsunited]

It’s so much more complicated than “they over charge for everything”.

[@naziajahan1657]

But you guys won’t ever vote Bernie! He promises a universal health insurance!

[@thewhizkid3937]

@@Autobotsunited explain.

[@tomc.2808]

HEALTH CARE - should never be a business....

[@THEGAMINGHELP101]

@Andrew savings guide Guyana Don't ask these questions it makes some people lose there mind.

[@DHart293]

@Andrew savings guide Guyana the government... Duh

[@noneshere]

Hospitals gotta get paid too. Just think of all the US bombs made that should be x-ray or MRI machines distributed. Even crispr tanks are small enough for home use.

[@lukaglobarevic9321]

@@THEGAMINGHELP101 in Europe the state taxes your income slightly to pay for medical care and uses that money to pay the doctors and maintenain and improve hospitals, its not a hard concept to understand

[@KOLAkola]

Tom C. Right on

[@heraissilly]

As a Canadian, my first thought after watching this was: 'Wait, hospitals can go out of business?' My second was: sucks that the pandemic just struck, I'm sure many people would have appreciated a nearby hospital with spare beds.

[@roymaddocks3184]

Ontario has also consolidated hospitals over the past 20 or so years.

[@chaseo8032]

First thought as an American is how much in taxes in plundered heard it takes days or weeks just to see doctor and when u do major services take even longer lol ur Healthcare is a joke usa #1 because they have money and resources to fund cures haven't herd on one come from Canada in a long time

[@chaseo8032]

So tell me how universal Healthcare so great?

[@chaseo8032]

Canadians so self riotous while they siphon stuff from the rest of the world that actually functions

[@heraissilly]

@@chaseo8032 well, I can see wherever US tax money IS going, it is not going into English or spelling lessons. Now while I know you don't actually want anything explained, you will probably just ignore this, drink a 6 pack of bud light and watch superbowl replays instead, I'll still attempt to just in case you genuinely want to know. The time it takes to receive care in Canada is generally based on how urgent the need is. For example; did you just get in a car crash and you are bleeding profusely? If yes then naturally you get priority and will receive care immediately. If however, it is something that is not life threatening, or at least immediately life threatening, then it will be scheduled to occur as soon as possible, once again depending on the nature of care needed. Laser eye surgery can, for example take a while to acquire, whereas a broken arm might only take a few hours (unless it is going to cause severe and possibly fatal harm, then see the above points about urgent care). The great thing is, however, that regardless of if it is an emergency or not, it won't cost you a cent. My parents never have to worry about paying for medical checkups as they age due to our healthcare system. tl;dr you get care immediately if it is life threatening. Within hours if it's urgent but not immediately life threatening, and non life threatening things get treated when schedules allow. Regardless, it is all free.

[@IWatchYouTubez]

"... hospitals going out of business" - why are they businesses?!

[@anonasdf2570]

Raymond Wong watch the video.

[@fergus247]

Caus no-one wants to work for free?

[@rubyscott6685]

Raymond Wong because America uses a predominantly capitalistic economic model. Hospitals as businesses suits this model better. In addition, Americans are taught not to ask what their country can do for them, but what they can do for their country. As a result, few demands are made by the citizenry on the government to provide accessible healthcare for all.

[@rockycomet4587]

Because that's the best way.

[@seekeroftheuniverse2657]

@@fergus247 the government should pay the doctors and nurses like in the rest of the world!

[@SA-xt1gd]

Psh they will eventually start charging you for sitting in the waiting room or even stepping in the door.

[@pdje]

Sorcerer Vaati64 they do

[@FrVitoBe]

tiles on the floor have a durability 2 so you know!

[@charliedallachie3539]

Surprised there isn’t bathroom fees yet

[@charliedallachie3539]

@DieselPatches IsHomo jeeze 😒 yay US health care. “Best in the world” normally that should be less than $300

[@jasonwoodward963]

They already do

[@jacobgoldenofficial4321]

Next... "Why universities are disappearing "

[@coachtanishamarie]

North Eastern Roberts right that’s next

[@troyc5994]

North Eastern Roberts if Bernie Sanders won he will make our colleges free by raising tax by 250% across the board. Yeah it’s going to be free!!!

[@leskobrandon6950]

Good riddance. University's just churn out more socialist idiots that want everything for free anyway. I was one of the brainwashed fools, until I had to earn a living without big Daddy government and Mommy and Daddy to take care of me. Free is not free.

[@Macheako]

@@leskobrandon6950 lol right. It was FreeDOM that we wanted, not just FREE 🤣🤣🤣

[@leskobrandon6950]

@@Macheako Yep, and our freedoms are challenged every day by brainwashed, endocrinated kids, old enough to vote for "feeling" but not old enough to know real world "facts". Too many of us left our kids to be brainwashed by public school. Now we are paying the price.

[@sciencetoday3629]

Hospitals :- Bye I am closing Corona :- Wait I am coming to save you

[@DuoLoverRed]

Actually everyone is holding off on the non emergency surgerys and treatment so Hospitals are losing tons of money right now. Not to mention since everyone is out of work due to lockdowns massive amounts of people have no health insurance anymore.

[@AdhikJoshi]

its shocking. Even in india, Govt. funds world class hospitals and its regulated to make sure hospitals won't become profit machine. It's sad to see American people suffering due to bad govt. policies.

[@apexpredator2118]

Government hospitals in India, except a few are in a deplorable state. India is going the same way with small private hospitals closing down or being acquired by big chains, many of them foreign companies. Good healthcare is going to become an expensive luxury in India too.

[@nitipriyasingh1387]

I hope living healthy and eco friendly life will keep us away from hospitals. These hospitals are turning into business hub. And that's not what a hospital is meant to do.

[@colinboggust2950]

So as the whole world knows the USA is a shithole. You got the money honey?

[@justrandomthings319]

Hahahahahahahahahaha. Don't even try to use India as an example of a good healthcare system. You can't even afford toilets.

[@padmakulkarni3028]

In India government hospitals are free and they do tremendous service to the society! Hats off to our Doctors and the paramedical staff who care for the patients. The private nursing homes and the bigger private hospitals offer world class services not only to Indians but also to the neighbouring countries. And all this at a much cheaper rate as compared to the western countries. Come and visit our health care sector to know how good we are!!

[@nightowl1654]

In other words, the apocalypse for poor people.

[@tammy5255]

So true they dont care for the poor

[@TSBrax]

Nailed it

[@zoesmybaby]

not poor ppl, most ppl

[@1flash3571]

@@tammy5255 Get out of being poor. Stop making stupid choices. Stop doing drugs. Get an education. Stop having babies until you are ready. Not that freaking hard to guess why some are poor.

[@huzainijai1184]

@@1flash3571 not everyone is privileged as u honey. Come to third world country with sometimes no internet , no food, no water, no electricity and then you can talk about not being poor.

[@Shriharsh2]

While i was at Mumbai airport i met an American , when he told me that he was here for medical treatment i was shocked. Why would someone from first world country come to India for treatment? And then i discovered about American healthcare system 😬😬

[@tanyavolansky5042]

As I lay here with a likely case of phenomena waiting for my immune system to do its thing but don’t want to pay to go it to get it treated... rofl sounds right XD This is why I got my MS in herbal medicine and a cert in massage therapy lolz >.

[@TheBandana1969]

What you saw was India's huge new industry, medical tourism. Top quality hospitals in India are able to provide medical care of US standards at about one tenth the cost. They throw in a nice tour package for the family of the patient. Patients in UK fed up of waiting for the NHS doctors to care for them come to India for treatment. Patients from other countries where sophisticated medical facilities do not exist also come to India.

[@chiron13]

@@TheBandana1969 , meanwhile most Indians cannot afford these hospitals.😁

[@destroyedsoul1791]

chiron that's the bitter truth.

[@biohazardlnfS]

@@destroyedsoul1791 I guess same issue as the US than RIP the world

[@michaelmaragh3919]

Insurances happily pay $3,000+/day to hospitals....But severely limit dental payments; they will pay cheap money to extract, but to replace is dismissed as "cosmetic".. a dentist told me that some dentists go bankrupt. Why?

[@Slammy555]

Meanwhile, litigation lawyers and health insurance companies post record profits.

[@Master-ls2op]

so are the red tape makers who make it so profitable.

[@dra6o0n]

Well yes. They think "Why should we fund medical for the rest of the country when we have personal/private doctors"?] Corona virus then says HI!

[@Master-ls2op]

@@dra6o0n why should i pay for someone else to get what i paid for. would you pay for a car but never get the car some else did who did not pay a penny for it.

[@dra6o0n]

@@KOK-sc8ez Yeah because they surely aren't dependent on the societal systems as much as people living in the urban and suburban areas. I mean they don't really need groceries when they have farmlands. They don't really worry about electrical prices when they have generators and other means. They don't worry about their properties because they own a piece of land.

[@peppersaltman1805]

Great comment

[@toxicwaste920]

People are staying home and drinking herbal meds. Going to Mexico for surgeries. When I had my gallbladder out, hospital billed my insurance 24k, for a 1.5hr operation outpatient. My supposedly room where I was held for like 2hrs cost $2500. SMH.

[@jamesgleeson6538]

thats crazy...there is no way that should cost so much ...yet i believe you after hearng about the difficulties in the states over the years ...Must be getting ridiculous in the states...glad i decided not to stay

[@UnrealZii]

> SMH That's the name of a hospital! Ironically. www.smh.com/

[@hatimarrazi9605]

Malaysia country, $0.25 for case like you in Government Hospital..

[@user-kr2ty9vk5n]

A lot goes into surgeries, even if they are 1.5 hrs. You were cared for by numerous nurses, given anesthesia by someone who trained for 4 years, and had your gallbladder removed by someone who trained for 9 years minimum using special equipment.

[@abdulrhmanalazmi1259]

My government charge me 0$ if they can’t treat you they send you abroad

[@agalah408]

My father developed appendicitis and was rushed to hospital. He has no health insurance. He was there for 2 weeks getting acute care, then they were able to send him home. He made a complete recovery. What was his total bill? Nothing. He's in Australia. 3 years ago he had cataract removal done to both eyes. Also free. There's plenty of preventive medicine. Anyone over 50 gets a free bowel cancer kit sent to them every second year. If it tests positive, they get an endoscopy check. Also free. This is one of the main reasons why Australians live (on average) five years longer than Americans. Watching these American videos of profit driven medicine are so sad for us to contemplate.

[@Tm-bj2sq]

Literally everything in America is for profit

[@williamadams2361]

Life is good when you have money, the rich stay rich by spending like poor and investing without stopping, then the poor stay poor by spending like the rich yet not investing like the rich.

[@smithwillison6345]

It's strange how people talk about all the profits, they've been making through trading of Bitcoin, while am here not making any profit at all. Please can Someone put me through on the right path.

[@jamesmarcus4105]

@@alanfuller7176 That's true most people today have been having a lot of failures in forex and crypto sector because of poor orientation and bad experts.

[@williamadams2361]

I did invest with her and I made huge profits.

[@luriabenson2376]

@@williamadams2361 I saw the recommendation but I didn't bother chatting her up I keep loosing tally i still don't understand how the forex market works tho.

[@danhanson5314]

My cousin recommended her to me. He has been investing with her for some months now, but the profits he gets is not that large, I've seen other traders who offer to give you 500% of whatever you invest

[@halfdevil2585]

*Hospital closed* *How, When they charge about 10k* *dollars for the Delivery of a BABY* *Crazy*

[@andrewcampbell3100]

It should be for free

[@NoName-mm6gh]

10K! That's insane

[@Scott-by9ks]

$10,000???!! How did you get off so cheap? I had a buddy that had health insurance and his out of pocket was $35,000!

[@dr.livesey7595]

I'm from germany and I can't believe that you guys have to pay for that :(( That's inhumane

[@ziadalmohamady2871]

its not about how much they're making in comparison to how much margin the hospital makes per delivery, besides most hospitals lose money when the government is involved in the billing system with Medicare & Medicaid

[@MixMeister5000]

Just imagine a Coronavirus outbreak in the US...

[@neilpeartspurplenose8739]

You may not need to imagine it.

[@genrealgrevious5453]

You do understand we still have more hospitals them china and less people then China yes?

[@MixMeister5000]

@@genrealgrevious5453 Doctor to patient ratio is similar between both countries but it is much more costly in the US. Very simple to look this up, so i would say you are incorrect on this! I feel like it would be utter panic and i can't fail to mention healthcare in the US is not well renowned. But who knows maybe in a serious scenario they would adapt well to better serve the population of the US.

[@MixMeister5000]

@Dean Oh man your logic is undeniable.

[@triciacol]

The USA now needs to address this situation, politically.

[@CruellaDeVil.]

If you want something to be ignored, turn it into a political issue.

[@dylanmorgan5589]

They have made it political. We got 14 terrible ideas. The one enacted was a fake solution worse than the 14. We got 3 misguided ideas. Two of those made with good intentions. And 5 versions of a good idea with very poor implementation plans.

[@cinnamonstar808]

YOU ARE WHAT YOU TOLERATE........... For some weird reason the USA and most Western countries dont want to take the "L" on this. if you facilitate, absolute greed, selfishness and violence.. its gonna echo back into your society = duh. you allow the notion of hostile take-overs & mergers. Iphone & Android dont work together, coke or pepsi. home depot or Lowe's = so why would big hospital reach out to the smaller ones in co-operations? Seriously, you want the to fix this and they dont even offer a political solution for a livable wage ? YOU PUT A MAN in power that has never applied for a job in his 7 decade lifespan. TAKE THE L . Congress has healthcare honey. the concern will be never!! dems or rep

[@juanzingarello4005]

Good luck with that. I am convinced no political party, not the Republicans nor the Democrats, give a rats ass about truly fixing our healthcare system. All they do is dump hot air about it and zero solutions to resolving the issue.

[@JustaReadingguy]

@@juanzingarello4005 and I think that is an optimistic point of view.

[@dano3523]

"A series of mergers and acquisitions have created mammoth hospital groups". Take out hospital and put in agriculture, pharmaceutical, communications, etc. We pretty much live in an oligarchy and with politicians sucking up to their special interest sugar daddies, it is. not going to get better.

[@TempestBear06]

I’m so tired of hearing “if everyone gets “free” health insurance the country will go bankrupt”... meanwhile billionaires are WHINING that they can’t AFFORD to pay taxes which would help pay for health insurance for people who are dying because they ACTUALLY can’t afford to go to the doctor

[@blinkybill2198]

Space Force coming to the US soon

[@luisvaldez6055]

We don’t need healthcare, back in my day we just died

[@roseeze166]

🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@maiamiller8182]

Looks like those days will be coming back😂😂😂😂😂

[@81kikyo]

@PRAISE THE SHRINKING SUN! Or.... people "DON'T" have insurance to cover the cost. We are in a recession after all.

[@brandonwombacher2559]

Isn't that natural selection though? The strong survive and the weak die

[@aj-sz8mu]

No worries. Most people in the US live this way still. Would rather die than be taken by an ambulance.

[@ScareFestTTV]

This is something you'll never hear of in Camada because our taxes pay for the hospitals and you dont pay out of pocket.

[@rjtheultimateputa]

If anything, we need more hospitals because of overcrowding, especially in downtown Toronto and the GTA

[@santia9647]

In Argentina taxes pay for the hospitals and they are trash, sometimes our health care (that comes from taxes) does not cover normal diceases, and most of the elderly have trouble getting their medicines.

[@anakondagrant7927]

In Poland too

[@youtubeaddict-1868]

Yeah but in Canada how long do have to wait for speciality care? Let alone the ER. I have heard of of people waiting up to 12 hours just to get in to the ER or urgent clinic. That's insane.

[@vipahman]

Love Canada. Such a sensible country.

[@brandonwombacher2559]

Any Service is useless if people can't afford to buy them

[@GavinValentine]

this is why you need a national healthcare service and not charging $120 for some cheap pain killers that cost $1 to make

[@ladhkay]

It'll take em another century to learn this

[@dream_candy2173]

Gavin Valentine Exactly!! 👏

[@protectork9831]

Name one thing that government does well. Veterans have national healthcare and it is the worse care compare to private sector. They cant even get doctors and have to staff hospitals with NP

[@ashleynoneofyobusiness1759]

It’ll work the same way it did when the government started giving people money to go to college. The colleges knew they could drive up prices and the government would pay it, so they did. Free market is best. If people can’t afford the service, companies won’t make any profit whatsoever so you will determine the price

[@khalilmohammadmirza4070]

@@ashleynoneofyobusiness1759 Even if large amount of people can't pay. Prices wont come down if they make a profit from paying one's. There is no incentive when there are many people in rich areas to pay ever increasing bills.

[@seraphcreed840]

"AH-CHOO!" Hopsital: Kleenex? Yes please. Hospital: that will be 20$ 😌🤑

[@sarahstauffer1]

That sums it up

[@bobbys2643]

$30 for ONE Advil. Crazy. $20 for a little alcohol swab.

[@kchilz32]

Bring your own Kleenex Advil Tylenol and anything you can get over the counter that way you can refuse theirs

[@Justin14999]

nah lol $200 for tylenol

[@taylorjackson7661]

Fr! I got in a minor car accident & went to the hospital only cause i was in a different part of my state 4 hrs from my primary doctor the doctor only toched my back & said it was a strain got the bill it was $435!!!!!! For him to touch my back! I had insurance to medicare (amerigroup)

[@anti-corndoctor2125]

Which is why hospitals should be run by altruistic physicians and nurses, not business men and women.

[@mrco555]

They tried that in Birmingham, didn't work. Doctors are terrible at business but great at treating their patients.

[@jogmas12]

Anti-corn Doctor too much administration, they need to cut the fat

[@tomare6479]

Nurses need to recruit men and turnover would improve

[@anti-corndoctor2125]

Michael Ray Thank, I’ll look into what happened there. If you want, look into the history of hospitals, like before insurance was even a thing. They made it work somehow.

[@anti-corndoctor2125]

TheGP We need Tort reform. We waste money ordering expensive tests and imaging so we don’t get sued. Then we can’t even discharge a homeless guy with a bottle of antibiotics or a vial of insulin. Administration and politics screws everything up.

[@StationOnLife]

What is sad is despite having the latest medical technology and medicine; yet, there’s people still dying unnecessarily because the lack of healthcare insurances.

[@tasseiviews2947]

I feel like healthcare has been so commercialized in the US over the last half century, that the common good is not respected and protected enough anymore.

[@AL-bo5vq]

They priced themselves out of reach of ordinary people without providing reasonable value.

[@191x7]

S C Unless you’re going to a private clinic, the doctors don’t see any of the cost of treatment. They get a salary and incentives based on the number of patients they see/treat but not typically based on how much they push on you. The main reason why the treatments recommended are so often so expensive is because they’re newer. Some things only have new treatments that are covered under patents, other treatments are recommended because they’re better than their older counterparts due to less side effects or more predictability.

[@MrPir84free]

That sounds just like colleges & universities....

[@gamersal4455]

So sad.. I never thought your law there is like that.. Sorry to hear that.. Here in Israel I really appreciate how they manage people who are in sick... They care in help a lot.. I'm one of them.. Hope in pray for all...

[@alwaysyouramanda]

Our local hospital is always crowded. Imagine these hospitals during this pandemic?

[@robertcuminale1212]

I made a rare trip to the ER in my local hospital. I waited 11 hours to be seen and tested to find out I had Diverticulitis. The ER waiting room had about 80% Hispanics in it none of whom had insurance. I was sitting close enough to listen to them answer that question about insurance. My knowledge of Spanish makes that possible. No entity can survive without revenue to pay employees, purchase machinery to test and treat patients, buy food for the patients to eat, etc. People who say just let the government pay for it all don't realize it's the taxpayers who are doing the paying or don't care. It's just another entitlement and they care who pays.

[@alwaysyouramanda]

Robert Cuminale it’s a good thing they charge 100 times what procedures cost them. If Americans didn’t rely on insurance, no one could pay! Well, thankfully we have the Uber rich covering all of us. (They own us and the people our Statue of Liberty mentions.. referring to as garbage.) The French knew us so well!

[@alwaysyouramanda]

For how much they gassed it up, the whole “checks and balances” thing was a wild flop.

[@nottiification]

Never put a church in charge of something important.

[@airops423]

The federal government spends hundreds of millions of dollars a year subsidizing rural airports and airlines to keep them open. I think we can do the same for rural hospitals.

[@christianlibertarian5488]

They do. They call them "Critical Access Hospitals", and they get special subsidies.

[@ingelarson6738]

Gov also finances the private airports for the rich!

[@airops423]

@@ingelarson6738 What are you talking about?

[@treatsrn]

They do...

[@airops423]

@Geoffrey Harris Couldn't disagree more, that will only increase the rural/urban divide and rural airports collectively contribute billions of dollars into rural economies effectively paying for themselves.

[@Da__goat]

So these large hospital groups have become monopolies. Sounds to me like the Antitrust Act needs to be looked at again. Break up the large hospitals, increase competition for drug pricing and insurance by employing the same methods, and make all costs for healthcare and drug pricing transparent.

[@rodneyfosdick3293]

Even just a little transparency would be great

[@Da__goat]

Rodney Fosdick exactly!!! It would give more power to the consumers and they would be more aware of the services they are paying for.

[@Da__goat]

EpiDemic117 I agree with your statement 100%. Competition and a tremendous amount of red tape has lead to a massive increase in administrative positions across the board in order to ensure compliance, further driving up costs. Your suggestion would be a step in the right direction toward addressing the costs of healthcare

[@Scarsofevil]

Can't do anything when republicans play every trick up their sleeve. Any mention of a collective to benefit everyone as a whole, and they scream socialism. Ironically, hospitals are closing in republican dominated areas. I say let them die out so there will be less red votes.

[@kp2638]

Look at their cost reports and 990s. it is transparent. You just need to understand math.

[@emelinugh]

I do medical billing, Insurances are charging an arm and a leg and don’t want to pay balances. There’s also patients that are not aware of what their insurances cover, and what hospitals are out of network. In NY there’s many hospitals that offer financial assistance for patients who are on a fixed income. Yet the hospitals try to make us not mention it and come up with payment arrangements instead. And good luck getting to speak to an insurance representative, half the time I’m stuck speaking to reps out of the country who barely speak English!

[@likejohnnyandjune2024]

Yes this. Florida Medicaid pays $30 for a 99213. $30!!

[@sparkle3000]

Wow... Healthcare has become profits over people. Greedy, corruption.

[@imperialmotoring3789]

What do you do when illegals come in? They never pay a cent.

[@sparkle3000]

@@imperialmotoring3789 Good point. Write the President. I already did. That is a very fair question.

[@imperialmotoring3789]

@@sparkle3000 The president wants more illegals to come in though. Maybe we need to impeach him?

[@kellyclover5953]

Part of the problem is that the federal government has steered far away from enforcement of anti-trust laws. Way way too many corporate mergers have been approved.

[@nate18268]

Very truly. Frankly I would say this should include employer sponsored insurance, health insurance should be no different than car insurance. I know a number of people who only stay at their job because of the health insurance, that is totally insane.

[@Donato93]

This video highlights that , many hospitals were started by Christian organisations for the welfare of the people , now are owned by multinational companies, that trade on the stoke market. I believe small centres for the care and welfare of humans will rise again across the nation. like they did 200 yrs ago .

[@krjourneyfan78]

Alberto Francesca perhaps, if over regulation doesn’t prevent it.

[@mayainverse9429]

medical care in the old days was way simpler. like it said in the video doctors used to come to your house with maybe only 100$ worth of medical equipment. because of all the advances in medical technology and a significantly broader amount of illnesses that can be treated is just more expensive.

[@loganangell9905]

@@righteousone1 that sounds racist but I'd believe it

[@silvy7394]

Sorry. Everyone's looking to eliminate and take away christian's rights and things worked a lot differently back then.

[@Donato93]

Mana Montana , maybe, but big organisations control the health system, and charge big money .

i'm from spain and this creeps the hell out of me

[@tjwoosta]

This happens when you privatize a public service...

[@fergus247]

Government has been getting more and more involved and prices have only gone up. So its the other way around

[@Ryanxtr00kvlt]

@@fergus247 they only go up because the private entity is still there, pushing any new costs to the consumer.

[@fergus247]

@@Ryanxtr00kvlt im so glad you are not in charge of anything lol you have no clue

[@tompain2751]

Yeah,when the government did it people just died!

[@jnayvann]

sjow False. It only went up in states that did not opt in to the Medicaid expansion

[@mathisnotforthefaintofheart]

The US medical system works great for you as long as you don't get sick.

[@mangowarrior]

Hospitals shouldn't be for-profit

[@kenim]

This is another symptom of the massive loss of values in the US. When the "nobility" was actually noble, it balanced things out and moved the country forward. Now its all about unchecked greed and its difficult to replicate that kind of golden age through laws

[@Ilovepineapple]

mangowarrior why would someone take a massive capital risk if they wouldn’t gain anything in return?

[@Ilovepineapple]

kenim noble? Was using fellow humans as slaves and lynching them for fun a noble thing? Nobility isn’t a country thing, it’s an individual thing, we had noble people in past, we have noble people in present. But, unfortunately, like everytime, Nobel people are in minority.

[@rara1800]

That’s what happens when you treat health care like a business not a human right

[@brucebasile5083]

Exactly.

[@Defy_Convention]

It's not a right, just like driving isn't a right, and car insurance isn't a right.

[@andonimendoza7278]

Defy Convention but it should.

[@link2442]

@@Defy_Convention you are comparing a human life to a car?

[@Defy_Convention]

@@link2442 mearly an example, it's not the government's responsibility to keep you alive and healthy.

[@Zapruderfilm1963]

I’m American, born and raised here. The single largest embarrassment for us is our healthcare system. Single payer WILL be instituted eventually because the current system is not sustainable. For profit healthcare is disgusting and has been a huge black eye for this country.

[@robinperronjones5024]

There are some services for the human race where it’s essential that they be sustainable, economic, standardised, efficient and available, examples are medical and energy, unfortunately in the US it’s a profiteering, greedy and broken system

[@aps-c1766]

There is 3 basic the most essential for humanity. Healthcare, transportation and food security. If you fail just 1 those. That not going to be great

[@danw6014]

It's also heavily regulated and monopolies.

[@esmeraldagreen1992]

Why aren't anti trust laws applied to these mega health corporations? They should be broken up and prevented from creating monopolies.

[@77.88.]

The lobbyist pay our politicians far better that their several hundred thousands per year they rip America off for look at what has been going on in Washington as of late millions of dollars of tax payers dollars miss spent on phony allegations by self serving rich like Pelosi, everyone suffers while she and her thugs probably get rich off our tax dollars?

[@mustang8206]

Ironically it's the only thing keeping these small hospitals afloat

[@CJ-vi7xm]

Hospitals are supposed to help everybody, not just the wealthy.

[@RealJudyi]

My dad has excellent health insurance. He is 56 but has incredible health. He works hard but is very strong. He went for a checkup in a nice hospital and all of a sudden he was "pre-diabetic" had "high cholesterol" and all these other crazy things. They wanted him to pay $3 thousand for lab tests He laughed at the doctor and said "no thanks I'm getting a second opinion" We went to another hospital and there was absolutely nothing wrong, in fact they said he's really healthy. I mean really, my dad and mom can outpace me walking, running and working and both are considered of senior age.

[@Pepe_theFurfagFrog]

Have an update on how old your dad is now, or did he pass away and prove the 1st hospital correct? Inquiring minds want to know...

[@sosammathomas1525]

There's law any person, even though they do not have insurance whenever they knew to ER they would take care and shout do everything ,will check everything to make sure why they are in hospital . No insurance or no legal status

[@sosammathomas1525]

Even though the hospital does not get paid, they have to pay doctors, nurses, and all other things .someOther countries, you have to pay first to do anything. The law of the land make us do everything on humanitarian ground. Nurse and doctors do their best to save a life.Sometimes does not get lunch or a coffee break

[@mariatolich4056]

I'm glad your dad didn't fall for their lies and realised that they only wanted to make money out of him so he used his common sense and gotten a second opinion which contradicted their lies

[@catherinehazur7336]

@@sosammathomas1525 doing everything on humanitarian grounds because of the law of the land? Wow....!!

[@jaym9846]

Eat healthy. Health starts in your gut.