HEALTHCARE IN THE USA: NO EMPATHY, MORE GUNS, AND MORE PROBLEMS

[@HayleyAlexis]

Currently on my way to turn in my last official assignment for school but when I get home I will see yall in the comment section

[@VivienLg]

Viel Glück! 🍀🐞🍀

[@juricarmichael2534]

Wish you luck and Daumen 'drückt! 🤞🤞😉 Btw. gef...t ohne -- beeep -- Maybe you started a new trend why and how to use german in media.... 😈 Well, your shirt? 🫣 No question, makes me grin. 👍 😂 But also 😢, if it's a respond to some akward and slimy comments? I'm sorry for you, if you receive such 💩. 😠 What about Weihnachtsstimmung? Slowly coming in the mood, wenn Du jetzt mehr Zeit und Muse dafür hast? 🕯🕯🎄🎅..... 👋

[@nobodx]

Didn't saw the "GR" from the shirt due to having something in front of my screen =X

[@HayleyAlexis]

@@nobodx 😁😅🤣😂

[@HayleyAlexis]

@juricarmichael2534 I think using German cusswords will now be standard in some videos. It is an easy way to bypass the horrible scrutiny of KZbin 😉😉

[@PCAGA2298]

Every time I hear that, “the CEO of a major health insurance company was on his way to an INVESTOR meeting “ something inside me just breaks and I realize how wrong it is that our country has a whole industry that is making money off people’s suffering.

[@philipdefrancisco7540]

And they still held the meeting. THEY HELD THE MEETING!!! Was his body still out there?

[@thomasbrutting8046]

Making Money per se is not a bad thing even in the health sector - it just depends where the focus lies. If a health insurance offers competitive plans at affordable rates and provides good service I do not mind them making profit from the surplus. It is how the buiness is run what is problematic. If your only purpose is to screw people over with high premiums, deny any claim and restrict the chances of actually making a claim covered by the T&Cs, then something si going severely wrong.

[@amyshoemaker5770]

​@@philipdefrancisco7540They dont care about the body 😊

[@kellymoses8566]

@@thomasbrutting8046 Any profit for health insurance companies is by definition money they got as premiums and didn't use to pay for healthcare. It should be refunded.

[@pan6593]

EXACTLY my thoughts. The problem is the customer is not the client. It is the stock holder. „We have a new way of making even more profit!“

[@bthyme]

What is tragic is that if 50,000 people had shown up at that hotel to peacefully protest United Healthcare, very little interest would have been shown. Why does it take violence for people take notice?

[@wilhelmvonn9619]

Interest would have been shown. The demo would have been broken up by the police.

[@alfdriss]

Fist bump on the desk ?!

[@northernsamba7388]

Because it is a violent country.

[@duancoviero9759]

Corporate Media would make sure to not cover it. Can't be giving the slaves ideas.

[@candyluna2929]

Exactly

[@boomerangfishact6754]

What I‘m preaching since a few years is that we are not dealing with immigrants and foreigners. Other nations are not the problem. The problem is the class system and how we all are getting „ficked“ by the top 1 %. This issue has to be resolved.

[@axllii]

This is correct 😢😢

[@jfuriouse1234]

Yea well immigration and climate nonsense and woke bull$&it are making the poorer, poorer.. So it is actually immigration..

[@fuchurZero]

Every American citizen but the Native Americans are either immigrant or descendant of immigrants ......in conclusion the Americans are against themselves...

[@stevelawrence5123]

The top 1% don't need health insurance, and didn't elect the people who ruined the best low cost health system in the world. Government did that starting with LBJ. W. Bush and Obama did their part promising something for nothing If we had only catastrophic health insurance and every minor cost was out of pocket the problem would be solved but too many people want others to pay for their medical care to ever let that happen. It's always nice to have other people to blame for our mistakes.

[@JoseDiaz-rh2vp]

​@@stevelawrence5123Every other western industrialized nation in the world has figured out how to provide its people with healthcare as a right. WE COULD do it, but our billionaire overlords won't allow it.

[@rockstargirl213]

Just a reminder that the TV series "Breaking Bad" is about the US healthcare system.

[@HayleyAlexis]

I know but I have never seen it....

[@Sine-gl9ly]

As I understand it, it could never be a theme for a miniseries - or even a single episode! - in any other developed country ...

[@Meah-t7q]

❤❤❤

[@Hellkite-er5pg]

The film John Q also covers the US Healthcare system.

[@daffyduk77]

It's slightly indirectly about it. It comes across to a non-USA person that the bankrupting essential health care thing is just a given & normal in the USA & not dwelt upon. Other than that it led to Walter White becoming a Very Naughty Boy, & ultimately subsumed in a monstrous drug/narco$$$$$$$$$ culture. Fasciniating series but maybe should have been a bit shorter, however entertaining &b well-acted it all was

[@haraldwerner9778]

Health care should not be a for profit institution. Health care is a right!

[@marylacken4016]

Education should be free, too!

[@wadeevans4355]

Is it a right?? Anything involving other peoples money taken by force is not a right.. I’m not necessarily against a more socialized health system but it’s not a right. It’s just me wanting to make sure people can get healthcare.

[@HayleyAlexis]

@wadeevans4355 that could be said about everything in the world though. Owning a gun is not a right, being happy is not a right, being free is not a right.... Rights are just things we have made up as humans to make life "better" for ourselves. It can't be that we are in 2025 (almost) and the discussion is over semantics. People in the USA deserve affordable access to healthcare and it should be a fundamental policy of this country.

[@wadeevans4355]

@@HayleyAlexis You don’t think your freedom, speech, and owning a firearm you worked for is a right?? That’s a very slippery slope. I am all for people having access to healthcare if they need it.. However we need to acknowledge it’s not a right if money is taken from us to give someone else care. It’s us wanting help those in need.

[@HayleyAlexis]

@wadeevans4355 freedom of speech is an idea. You don't work to own a firearm, especially you as an individual have done nothing to "work for it". That is like saying it is your "right" to own a car or your "right" to own a computer.... With your logic, money being funneled through the weapons industry to promote less gun restrictions to increase profit would not make owning a gun a right- it would make it a business. Healthcare was created long before guns my dear friend.

[@katwitanruna]

I blame Reagan for making medicine for profit.

[@stevelawrence5123]

Medicine , like everything else, has always been for profit. The cost of Medicine skyrocketed after LBJ pumped government money into it greatly increasing demand instead of increasing supply with that same money. Government corrupts everything it touches and then makes it worse each time it "solves" the problems it created.

[@RaphaelBrownhundt]

Yes, Reagan was one of the worst, but the health insurance problem started with Truman.

[@kaymuldoon3575]

While Reagan is to blame for a lot of things, the for-profit health insurance thing started under Nixon. So he’s where the blame really begins.

[@wetrucken1689]

Reagan the wife beater the clown actor but he was a good salesman that's what he was known for a snake oil salesman that's what he's always going to be remembered for😂 hahahahahaaha

[@goldflo91]

And also tho$e who pushed him in this way

[@JohnBerry-z7o]

I went from a 58 year old guy who ran two miles every other day and ride my bicycle 9 miles every other day. Following a back injury that my dr and insurance company mis- diagnosed and put me on the ABSOLUTELY WRONG TREATMENTS. I have unable to barely walk for almost two years. It was a Chiropractor who I paid for out of my pocket that made me aware I had a herniated discs ! The initial diagnosis was the CHEAP ROUTE FOR THE INSURANCE COMPANY !

[@LythaWausW]

I'm so sorry this happened to you. I was shocked by my father's hospital's neglecting to do a simple Xray. Instead, they inflicted physical therapy on him wihtout knowing he had a BROKEN BACK. He was in agony, I'll never forget it.

[@manub.3847]

Relying almost entirely on private (self-regulating*haha*) systems in the general health insurance sector in the American system is frightening and will lead to either financial or health ruin for many citizens. Aside from the fact that sick days can lead to job terminations, far too many people resort to really strong drugs, which can have an even greater impact on their health or even lead to addiction. Yes, most of us in Germany and the rest of Europe and elsewhere know that our systems are not perfect, but they do not drive us into financial ruin.

[@beentheredonethatunfortunately]

Yes, Governments are not necessarily the best owners/operators of health care but it doesn't take a genius to work out that if you're paying someone who's there solely to make a profit they're going to be paid the cost of the care plus the profit rather than just the cost. Private companies do not necessarily operate more efficiently and certainly not enough so that the cost + profit comes to less than the cost of providing directly by the government.

[@indivisibleman8596]

Profit holds no empathy.

[@matt47110815]

Yea. After i had Covid and found myself dealing with health issues, I left the USA and returned to Germany, after 20+ years in Murica.

[@Dangermaniac206]

Wisest decision ever

[@timtom3073]

As a German I am happy to have you back and to know you are being treated well now. On the flip side I am sad for you that you had to return after more than 20 years. You built a life there and had to abandon that. I really hope you are doing well now. All the best for you.

[@matt47110815]

@@timtom3073 Thank you! That is the nicest reaction I ever received upon telling a bit about my story. 🙂 I may still visit the USA from time to time, as my (adult) son is still there. As he is a dual citizen, he can still choose what he wants to do. To be honest, it is easier to make money in the US, but only as long as your health is playing along. I would generally not recommend for any European to emigrate to the US. BTW it was a bit like time travel for me to return to Germany, to notice all the things that changed, or didn't. 😀

[@LuvNickynGina4ever]

Welcome home to germany matt 😊 best wishes for the future. Xx

[@SideB1984]

Oh man, hope you’re doing better. Shame they don’t recognize long covid in US adequately. I have post viral from dengue for 11 yrs, then got Pf v injury with myocarditis, took 3 yrs to recover from that. Craaaazy stuff.

[@Vernon1960]

HAYLEY!!!! Politicians in the USA have been in the POCKETS of the insurance industry for decades. The state and federal rules which "govern" that industry were written by that same industry. People are angry at the fact that if you have any level of coverage and have any type of chronic, or grave, condition your finances are ruined then they die. If you do not have coverage, you die faster. "Our" federal politicians do not rely on the same insurance "products." Although wealthy, they enjoy privileges that the remainder of citizenry. I enjoy your preaching and observations. The loss of that man's life is unfortunate, may have been avoidable, and will likely be repeated in other areas also. Marie Antoinette thought that her cake remark was clever until the robe went slack.

[@agnesmichel1286]

Actually, Marie-Antoinette never said the stuff about bread and cake. But she ultimatly deserved her fate, having conspired with foreign armies seeking to invade France.

[@SideB1984]

Yes, ERISA law was originally established to protect consumers’ pension plans. Since 1974 it’s been expanded to accommodate LTD and medical claims denial and appeals process. I’m not sure if this is true, but I’ve heard that only 1% of patients appeal their denials.

[@George-k6o9t]

The politicians are also in the pockets of "BIG PHARMA" - pharmaceutical companies like Johnson and Johnson, Eli Lilly, Merck, Pfizer, Bristol-Meyers, AbbVie, Amgen, Gilead, etc - receiving millions in "donations" every year.

[@Wintermaus]

I have been seeing many stories on KZbin about this CEO. Imagine being so unforgivably horrid and greedy that people celebrate your violent passing, oof. This man caused millions of people terrible suffering and probably death, for which he wouod never face the death penalty or life without parol in a court of law. A truly DESPICABLE human. Yes, he too may be a victim of the system, but he had CHOICES in life. I don't condone violence by any means, but I can see why the empathy lies with the shooter. In the meantime I am watching a German/Romanian couple who recently emigrated from Germany to the US with green cards, and they are clearly still living in a honeymoon bubble. They post every week, (she giggling like a five year old every second) about how everything is so much bigger, better, cheaper, tastier, more beautiful and more wonderful than in Germany. I think they're in their 40's. Wonder how fast they will return to "bad Germany" if and when they get ill and/or old.

[@margritjones7934]

@Wintermaus I watch them too. And yes, they haven't experienced the bad stuff yet.

[@JUKE179r]

So glad I moved to the UK from the US. 😎 Cheers from a Black German American living my best life abroad! 🇺🇸🇬🇧 Dope shirt BTW. 😏

[@HelleKurstein]

US citizens - please stay home/go home and fix your system! The overspill is nasty!

[@Himmiefan]

@@HelleKurstein The Republicans and for-profit healthcare companies fight this tooth and nail.

[@mormacil]

@@HelleKurstein Nah with the dropping birthrates in Europe we can totally use them. They're generally educated and integrate quite well.

[@codyjarrett9685]

We aren't glad

[@ng41069]

@@codyjarrett9685 Why?

[@ivanamicimici]

What I see as a real problem with American Healthcare is that insurance is super expensive and very hard to get,and on top of that if you do t have it the prices are astronomical. In Germany if your insurance don't wanna pay for something you can usually pay this out of pocket because it's affordable. When I came to Germany for a long time I had to pay everything out of pocket,and the prices were laughable considering I needed those procedures,like natal ultrasounds. Even my birth and 5 day stay at the hospital with full care costed about 2000 euros. And yes that is a ridiculously small price to pay for someone helping you bring a child into the world.

[@KAMILLE731]

A fe weeks before this shooting happened, I saw a video on TikTok of a woman asking people to help her get the attention of United Healthcare. She has been diagnosed with Uterine Fibroids. She had Fibroids the size of a mini watermelon and caused her to lose a lot of blood during her period. She has low hemoglobin and passed out a few times because of it. Her doctor scheduled her for a hysterectomy to alleviate the issue (she'd need a blood transfusion prior to the surgery). United Healthcare denied it. Her doctor was livid, so her plan B was to prescribe her pills that would temporarily stop her period so that she could function, while they got everything worked out and situated with the insurance. United Healthcare denied that as well! This woman isn't able to function, and her doctor doesn't want her doing too much activity due to the times she has passed out, so her mom and husband have become her caregivers until they can get the situation fixed.

[@icebergrose8955]

I have the exact same condition. I'm deciding whether to have the major surgery now. Healthcare in my country is funded with our taxes. The one thing I haven't even thought about was money.

[@Mariam-kg7fr]

@@icebergrose8955 You are blessed.

[@anitamenig]

Fibroids can get larger and press against the surrounding organs. I had a problem. My surgeon, against my pleas, waited almost too long with the surgery. After surgery he stopped at my hospital bed. He admitted that the surgery almost became an emergency. THAT is american healthcare for you.

[@Daswuessteich]

Health, education, child and elder care should never be object to profitability considerations. And let's not fool ourselves, we do see the same tendencies also in Germany. We need to collectively stand up against these if we want a fair and peaceful society.

[@Monika-ls2qt]

I absolutely agree. How can health be of foremost importance if the healthcare provider / hospital has to make a profit? If we continue in Germany along the lines we are currently moving we are going to have very similar issues as seen in the US - it is just a matter of time. The thing with profit is also that it seems that the profit also has to increase each year - and how can this work in the long run? Especially in healthcare?

[@agnesmichel1286]

Same thing on the way in France, the state transfering more and more healthcare on private insurance.

[@anouk6644]

In the Netherlands we have private health insurance only since 2006. The difference with the USA is that there are no shareholders who can receive dividend and the salaries of the executives are capped somewhere between €220.000 and €300.000. The insurance companies are allowed to make a profit to remain solvent, invest it back into the healthcare system and/or give a return to the insurance holders. I don’t think the last part has ever happened. The basic insurance everyone is required to have costs about €150 a month and covers a lot. We also have a yearly deductible of €385 after which the insurance pays the bills. There are exceptions like a visit to your GP and pregnancy/maternity care are always covered immediately. You can get extra insurance where more is covered like physical therapy, dental work or holistic medicine, but those are only economical when you use those multiple times a year.

[@hermes667]

I agree. Living on the countryside I have problems with my ankle joints and it took two months to get an appointment with a professional, another 3-4 months to get an MRT and then 2 months again to see the professional doctor or 6 months on top to get an appointment with surgery. Meanwhile my doctor said he can not give me a propper pain medication because taking it for so long would damage my liver.

[@goldflo91]

@@Monika-ls2qt What's going on in the US must be a reminder to Germans about what happened 91 years ago, if they don't stand up against this situation, they'll repeat their history The problem is, most politicians are submissive to the kind of people who push Reagan and Trump to power, from the "moderate" right to those on the left 🤦🤷. Exactly like the Democrats, who welcome money from billionaires 🤢

[@BonkersAboutAlice]

The 2017 movie SICKO is as valid today as it was years ago. It's a sad indictment of the American healthcare system. The UK NHS has its problems but I know the first question asked of me will be about my health and not about insurance.

[@AureliePoulain]

SICKO was made in 2007, before I left the US for 9 years. When I returned last year, I saw that literally NOTHING has changed. In fact it’s worse. Profits over people.

[@tomfields3682]

So many people dismissed that movie simply because they hated Michael Moore. The ignored that it was based on irrefutable facts.

[@librasgirl08]

That blue shield cancelled their plan to cap the time for anaesthetics is pretty telling

[@HayleyAlexis]

@@librasgirl08 hilarious actually 🥴

[@demetricklouis5710]

"The first amendment is first for a reason. The second amendment is just in case the first one doesn’t work out." - Dave Chappelle.

[@duancoviero9759]

Cancelled for now....

[@wilycoyote2520]

Not a surprise that someone took direct action against the guy running the worst offender in health insurance. UHC denies claims at DOUBLE the rate of industry average. That's a deliberate strategy. The CEO deserves no empathy or sympathy for his just desserts. He ran a company that has made a science of no empathy and took it to new levels. Not a person to be celebrated or even remembered other than as a warning to all other CEOs in the industry about what happens when empathy is removed.

[@Hellkite-er5pg]

Medicare-For-All is the best solution here in United States. Every other developed nation has healthcare for all, why can't the United States have the same thing? Oh right, American greed, extreme individualism, and runaway capitalism.

[@HayleyAlexis]

I agree or at least the option for it to be for everyone.

[@winny4765]

If you exchange individualism with egoism, you are right.

[@jessicaely2521]

Not yet. You need to make university for free wait 20 years and then health insurance for all. The US has an extreme shortage on personal from the entire medical field. You need to get people educated and stocked BEFORE you make insurance free. If you don't, you'll be like parts of Canada. A Canadian woman died waiting for surgery to remove her cancer. After waiting 9 months, she went to New York to have the surgery, but it was too late. I worked in the hospital as a physical therapist on the orthopedic floor. We had Canadians getting hip and knee replacements because they couldn't get it earlier in Canada. Health care professionals away from the Canadian border (Haley is far far, far away from the Canadian border) don't see the people who cross into the US for medical intervention.

[@HelleKurstein]

And extremely low voter participation! And obstacles to even vote! Which in normal, free countries does not take much of an effort/time.

[@phillipevans9414]

You forgot corporate ownership of government and institutions of power. Cheers!

[@savaugeblends8883]

I found it to be interesting that,UNC meeting started on time and thet they only offered $10,000 award for information leading to the arrest to the gunman.

[@PCAGA2298]

I didn’t that.

[@HayleyAlexis]

I found it a slap in the face for Americans but they know how desperate people are for money.

[@sashimster3243]

As a gentleman who has indulged a little too much in Plätzchen this year, I really need to get myself one of those shirts.

[@HayleyAlexis]

I literally.... LAUGHED SO HARD at this comment. 😂 😂 💀 I know the struggle

[@wora1111]

You are not the only one. And Christmas isn't over yet ...

[@norealname1965]

I disagree with ine point: Helathcare should not be for profit. The moment it is it turns out like it does in the US.

[@HayleyAlexis]

Then the German health insurance system (and almost every other health insurance system) in the world would have to crumble.

[@Quotenwagnerianer]

@@HayleyAlexis Actually, the German health care system works exactly like this. In Germany the health insurance companies are not simple private business they are corporations under public law. And as such they are PROHIBITED to make a profit and are not allowed to build up assets. All the money they make has to go directly back to the insured. They can and should make surplus, but that surplus is always funneled right back into the system. So what U.S. healthcare insurances do, would be completely illegal and impossible under German law.

[@HayleyAlexis]

@ ehhh that is not 100% an honest description. One of the Vorstands member of my German insurance company makes about 250,000 a year which is a huge increase from the average German’s Gehalt. My German insurance company was relatively small as well. That money has to come from somewhere….. it comes from the profit of the companies. With that said if you take every company that is offering public insurance and calculate that their salaries for higher ups can range anywhere from 100,000 - to almost 500,000€ a year.

[@Quotenwagnerianer]

@@HayleyAlexis Well then a more accurate description would be that the balance has to be zero by the end of the year. Where all the income and the expenses from paying your employees end up in complete equlibrium. And if they don't that surplus money goes to a pool that ALL health insurance companies pay in their surplus..

[@HayleyAlexis]

I can agree with that description 👍🏽

[@Bruno_Haible]

The more denials they send out, the more profit they make. The more health care they approve, the less profit they make. That's the root of the problem.

[@karenkingrey6142]

YESSSS!!! Thank you so much for this video! I’m sharing it all over! ALL insurance is crooked! Probably the single most crooked industry in America. And, yes, I work in healthcare as well. And have for 23 years! And, expect it to get so much worse in the coming months!

[@HayleyAlexis]

I do see a horrible decrease coming to the US. The majority of people in my graduating class do not want to work in hospitals or bedside because it is a horrible work-life balance and the conditions are tragic. Plus pay has decreased tremendously (or maybe it has stayed the same but workload has increased) with no true protections for healthcare workers but continuous increases for the CEOs and higher executives of hospitals.

[@CyberTom1965]

How can healthcare work, when health insurances are working win oriented, when someone profits from denying something?

[@HelleKurstein]

That is what the majority of US voters have voted for! And even more non-voters were too lazy to vote against!

[@ankra12]

Why do you have a health insurance in the first place? There are other ways to pay for healtcare that is cheaper and covers everybody. Most of the world have figured it out except the US.

[@demetricklouis5710]

I recall either in my first or second year of college taking a course in economics. The professor asked "What happens when there is infinite demand", the provider can charge whatever they want. He then enlightened us to the healthcare system and asked what happens if you need a prescription or an operation to save your life. That effectively amounts to infinite demand. Here we are. Insurance providers and healthcare providers are maxing out costs not because there economic justification, but because they can. Capitalism is a great mechanism for the purchase and exchange of luxury goods and services. But where necessities are concerned the system is apathetic and extremely exploitative. There should be no negotiation where needs are concerned.

[@andreaheinrich2576]

Hi Haley, 67 year old woman here. Born and raised in the USA. Living in Germany now for 43 years. I get where you are coming from. I have to say that for some time now I have been so impressed with your insight into issues, cleared headed intelligent thoughts...and that at such a young age. Kudos.👍

[@OilBaron100]

I never expected access to firearms could actually solve a healthcare problem.

[@OilBaron100]

Love your t-shirt.

[@EndOfThings77]

Use your feeble brain. He accessed and used the gun to mete the proverbial justice to man who because of his money and power is immune from the law.

[@MsStoiber]

Dear Hayley, in my honest opinion the whole health system in the US is wrecked. It‘s not only the bad treatment of people by the insurance companies. All „players“ in the health industry want to make as much money they can as quick as possible. Doctors, the pharmaceutical industry, the manufacturers of medical products and devices…you name it. The outcome is, that the costs of medical treatment could only be covered by horrible insurance rates. As an example the costs of a birth in hospital is, as far as I know, about ten to twenty times more expensive than in Europe. That‘s absolutely insane. The doctors in Europe are still very wealthy people (and most of the hospitals make good money). But as a matter of fact they are not earning millions in a year like many american colleagues. Greetings from Bavaria

[@xcoder1122]

The problem with capitalism is the false assumption that there is always someone who wants to snatch away the other customer and will therefore offer better service or the same service at lower prices. Unless of course he has a monopoly, which is why monopolies are of course forbidden. But even without a monopoly, it is overlooked here that there is no reason for me to offer more or cheaper, I can simply offer the same at the same price and will certainly get a few customers and that may be enough for me and then at some point everyone demands the same and everyone offers the same and the customer has no alternative, he then has to pay this price and be satisfied with what he gets and this is exactly where capitalism fails. And unfortunately this happens much more often than the fans of capitalism want to admit. It's called an oligopoly and as long as there are no agreements on prices or services, oligopolies are completely legal. And in the USA, hospitals, health insurance companies and pharmaceutical manufacturers are all oligopolies and nobody wants to outdo the others here by offering lower prices or more services, thereby destroying their own lucrative market.

[@trappedinamerica7740]

Not that forbidden

[@joannunemaker6332]

Well said Hayley. I agree. This should not be happening in the US.😢

[@demetricklouis5710]

Welcome to late stage capitalism.

[@AlphaCentauri-b2o]

Three centuries ago, to buy a human being and using it as a tool was normal. In the future (if we're gonna have one) profitable healthcare and denying health help will be a crime. It should be nowadays though. People will look backwards to this era and they'll say how barbaric and savage were insurance companies.

[@21MEPHISTO01]

Hayley, du bist Einmalig: So ein ernstes Thema, dann dieser Sweater und dann musste ich mehrmals anhören- Hat sie wirklich gef...t gesagt? Alles Gute- Bleib' wie du bist!

[@HayleyAlexis]

😂 ich bin verrückt aber ehrlich und "generally lieb"

[@michaelmueller9635]

If a "public, working healthcare system is communism", I can live with that very well in Germany. But maybe Americans do get communism wrong and got a lack of experience how a public, working healthcare system works. By the way, public healthcare was introduced by Otto von Bismarkck 1883 at the times of the emperor. So maybe Germany did this for some time and communism didn't exist. And the US is coming a little bit late (like being 140 years backwards) to the game.

[@katyhartmann4105]

Americans generally do not know what " communism" is. ( the definition according to Marx/ Engels)

[@sonkerieckmann7183]

Otto von Bismarck introduced it, as the ruling class was daraus to lose power ro social democrats

[@KiraDaBeastNY]

As an American I will tell you right now Americans don't know shit about Communism. Many Americans call Democrats communist when the party is largely for tinkering only *ever* so slightly with the countries existing system to be a smidge less terrible, in part because many of the parties donors are billionaire's. Frankly I think we need to be a bit more drastic, but the party will not allow it, so we are stuck between a bunch of ppl who barely wish for the system to change in the Democrats, and the Republicans, who are nuts, and court bigots.

[@ankra12]

Its called universal healtcare.

[@sonkerieckmann7183]

@ankra12 actually If you would translate it literally the system in Germany is called "Sick Person Insurance" (Krankenversicherung)

[@kitskivich]

Health care should never be for profit because it is a human right. We cannot let this groundswell die down. We must keep making our voices heard.

[@blotski]

As many others have pointed out, it is cheaper for a country to run a universal healthcare system than the American system with a pyramid of people looking to make a profit. Few or probably no other countries spend as much running their health system just to end up with one that bankrupts thousands or leaves them without care. The problem is that in the USA the present system is a gold mine for a lot of people and they are not going to give it up quietly.

[@gloofisearch]

Well, they made some $20 Billion profit last year, so all good. Just get a new CEO and move on....that's the spirit. As long as the average human being is not valued, the country will never change. Now, that people woke up, they should keep going, but the American laziness will take over and nothing will change. As said many times before. The TV series "Breaking bad" would not have happened in Germany or Europe. Man diagnosed with cancer, send to treatment, done. The TV series would be done in 5 minutes. That sums up the difference between USA and EU.

[@HayleyAlexis]

I wish people would see that corporations do not care about us as individuals...

[@Alias_Anybody]

None of this is new, even in the US if you look beyond human lifetimes. Back in the American frontier days and basically whenever the business class, police and politicians became so outragously currupt nobody trusted them any more, outlaws became folk heroes when they eliminated particularly hated individuals. Vigilantism has always been a very popular motif in US media.

[@sherwinferguson5080]

Someone said it earlier today: Violent crime solved one of the reasons for violent crime. Only true is out there is classism, everything is a distraction. The next thing they are trying to do is have medical bills transfer to next of kin so the cycle continues.

[@stephanie_smith]

Exactly!!

[@petermizon4344]

THE AMOUNT IF MONEY AMERICANS PAY FOR PRIVATE HEALTHCARE, IF THAT WAS DIRECTED TO PUBLIC HEALTH CARE YOU WOULD HAVE THE BEST HEALTHCARE IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM

[@HayleyAlexis]

I know.... the healthiest people and the best medical outcomes for society but we choose to be greedy!!!

[@petermizon4344]

@@HayleyAlexis I KNOW ITS DAD THAT AMERICANS CANT GET AN ORGANIZATION WITH BACK BONE AND GET IT SORTED

[@grahvis]

Per capita the US citizen pays about double that paid in the UK, but get worse outcomes.

[@rails723]

Outstanding and compassionate perspective...not an easy or light burden... so much heartache echoing from all this. So terribly sad, but these things really need to be looked at in the light..by all of us....thank you for being courageous and sharing your light.

[@jasminema]

it makes me so thankful I live in NZ.....I have had 5 surgeries over my lifetime and all have been covered by our public healthcare which is part of our taxes...my recent surgery was a mastectomy and all my treatment was covered by our PHC....the only cost was a few dollars in parking fees and petrol to travel out of town for a CT scan. I would say the cost of my surgeries would be more than what I have paid in taxes over the last 25 or so years.

[@CaroLina-lo1bl]

In germany some people would call you linksextrem, and I think thats an awesome compliment ❤

[@karl-heinzbrohme5890]

So ein Quatsch. Warum so übertrieben.

[@CaroLina-lo1bl]

@karl-heinzbrohme5890 Menschen übertreiben manchmal zu Zwecken der Unterhaltung oder einfach wegen einer Eigenschaft namens Humor. Menschen, die den Kapitalismus kritisieren, werden eben geframet, das wollte ich zum Ausdruck bringen, denke Hayley versteht das.

[@karl-heinzbrohme5890]

@CaroLina-lo1bl Dieser "Humor" feuert genau den Sprech von der anderen Seite, den man nicht mehr hören kann. Die einen finden es lustig, die anderen können es nicht mehr hören. Egal von welcher Seite. So ist es eben.

[@reginafisher9919]

Every other country has a national healthcare system, we actually pay more because we don't it's so ignorant!!

[@joen4088]

Im not defending this CEO, but one thing no one is talking about is the cost of healthcare in the US is out of control, forcing these companies to raise rates or deny claims. These large conglomerate health systems are also to blame. Doctors and nurses in other countries are paid less because they dont come out of school $500k in debt. It's a string of issues.

[@anitapenkert8908]

If only it lead to change! When working in a US-acquired company in Germany we suddenly (after the acquisition) would get e-mails from the US bigwigs who had no insights whatsoever into European labour laws. Two instances stuck out: One time some CEO or similar who was not affiliated to our German branch and whose name we had never heard before suddenly fell sick and was taken to hospital and the whole corporation was begged via e-mail to "pray for his life". Why would I, what would praying help? Another WTF moment was when we received US e-mails about a poor colleague there (totally unrelated to our Germany business again) got cancer and we were requested to collect our "sick days" and donate them to him. How pathetic. I felt sorry for that guy but even if anyone would have been willing to help him, the German labour contracts do not consider "sick days" and thus no sick days can be "donated". What a rotten system.

[@defletcher2902]

I think We the People need to demand a change to healthcare. Currently, it's a grift involving politicians, CEO's, Pharma, hospital management, medical enforcement agencies, etc. The current system has to come down. I'm not sure what should replace it, but I really don't want our gov't running "healthcare for all", if the VA Medical Centers are an example of how well they'd do that job (not). Actually, the whole insurance system (health, auto, home) are grifts. We the People pay in every month (required by law), but they don't want to pay out and deny claims. Just ask some of the hurricane Helene victims.

[@maisha_yangu]

One man has killed the CEO of the UnitedHealth Care Group….yet this company/corporation has already killed thousands of people by denying them their claims, were they not someone’s loved one?, were they not important?, patients/people need to be protected way more than these CEOs. They can replace their CEO, just like they can replace their employees. Remember that horrible incident where a Wells Fargo employee was dead for 4 days and no one noticed……yeah, I understand people’s mixed emotions over this situation. It makes sense.

[@JouMxyzptlk]

Hollywood says: Revenge movies are great! Why else are there so many of those?

[@rachel8186]

We need the link to your sweater!!

[@HayleyAlexis]

I can not recommend the seller because it arrived broken and damaged. I had to fight with them to get a refund/new item :( but the message is funny!

[@KK-vq9vt]

Yes, it is cool 🤩

[@KA9DSL]

Profits before health is very piss poor, I'm sure the insurance companies have just figured out that their not invulnerable.

[@sorceress1963]

Dear Hayley, I completely feel with you. That CEO was what you call in German a "Schreibtischtäter".

[@mreese8764]

But he's still just an employee operating in the confines of the legal structure and shareholder will. Any other CEO in the system will have to apply similar strategies to keep winning the game. Unless the game is changed CEOs can't just act differently. That's normally when industries call for regulation. Then, the game is changed for everybody and can become a better game.

[@geeache1891]

​@mreese8764 Just an employee? Winning the game? Didn't he have any own responsibility? Standing strong against strong shareholders instead of against weak patients? Passing the buck to the system, which is undeniably rotten. Similarly, why can the (large) shareholders do the same.

[@nirfz]

Why should healthcare be for profit? Unnecessary plastic surgery can be for profit, but necessary ones, after an accident, or tumor for example should not be for profit. And with that i don't mean the people working in healthcare should not earn an according living wage. That is a given. But it does not need cooprorations that only exist to create income for the upper % of the coorporation. When the healthcare system is designed to be cost covering, that's fine. -> universal healthcare: everybody pays their share accodring to their income, and everybody gets access and the necessary care. (Has been done, and mostly only fails when someone has the idea that someone should make a big profit out of it.) I always said that the attitude about/towards violence is what causes the high rate of gun violence in the US, not the number of guns, or the guns themselves. And this incident proves it to me. The funny thing to me is that i would predict that the US government (upcomming) probably will reduce the access to guns because of this incident. (and even more likely if there are more such incidents) Even though: 1) the gun is said to have been a ghose gun, so already not aquired via the official way, and 2) many US gun enthusiasts are deadly afraid of the democrats and think the republicans will keep them their hobby. (while #45 has illegalized more gun related stuff than Obama and Biden together, so while they think they voted for the guy who let's them have all their guns and accessories, they didn't. He only wants them to have guns if they shoot his opponents, not one of his pack.)

[@lucombre]

Amen Hayley. Thank you for talking about this.

[@moonchildjs59]

My neighbor in back of me sold their home six months ago and moved to Spain. She retired and planned 5 years in advance as her goal to sell her home and most of her stuff. She knew that Trump was most likely to win the presidency and got out in time to permanently make her new home in Spain. She said she's so glad she got out of the US and now enjoys the slower pace and great health care, food and it's people. The US is a mess. Healthcare should not be a for profit business. I agree with you wholeheartedly. When Trump takes office, he will try to privatize everything. We will fight like hell for him not to take away Social Security and Medicare. Otherwise there will be nothing left for us and we will all face homelessness and poverty. Thank you.

[@jerrihadding2534]

I’m a 75 year old American woman who has lived in Sweden for the last 26 years with my Swedish husband. Good thing too because I would likely have died in the US when I was 50 due to malignant cervical cancer. While I lived in the US I could not afford health insurance, but even though I had only lived in Sweden for a year, the Swedish health care system saved my life!

[@Priority57]

America will go in a socialize government if this corruption keeps up. People are waking up with all this corporate greed.

[@gordonadams5891]

It's fair to expect that health insurers will not change in the wake of this shooting.

[@richardbradbury3658]

I would contest the claim of no empathy - there was plenty of empathy on display, but for the victims of an abusive healthcare system, not one of the principal abusers.

[@DougBrown-h1n]

Forget Hollywood - this story is what's left of the USA in a nutshell.

[@janinelew2483]

I’m a coding auditor educator. As I’m listening to this video, I’m working on denials that we just got back from insurance companies. Some on the reasons are absolutely ridiculous!

[@no_triggerwarning9953]

The US has the best health care money can buy. Mayo clinic and Cleveland clinic are the two top rated hospitals in the world. People of means travel from all over the world for their pioneering medicine. The problem is if you do not have money. Fixing the US health system should be a national priority it is almost double the percentage of GDP of other developed nations and it is funded by employers and the largest funder the US government through Medicare. Singapore and Switzerland are two nations that have largely private health and insurance systems however they are tightly regulated rather than the wild west that is the US system.

[@Why-D]

I am so glad to live in Germany or Europe as a whole. That letter about the wheelchair freaks me out!

[@HayleyAlexis]

The wheelchair letter is so freaking sad

[@timspecial72]

I do this everyday for a health care system so please listen again between 5:20-5;40 of this video. Claims that are especially expensive for the average American you have to appeal or get your doctor to appeal. Just don't accept the denial. This is a two fold problem. 1. Health Care compared to other countries with a single payer system just costs too much in U.S. 2. Most insurance people have is employer based and not going to fit specific needs of that employer. people needed to vote for people who will fully implement the ACA and not just people they feel good about This includes your local and state officials as well.

[@PCAGA2298]

Hayley Alexis, your video just popped up in my feed. You did a great job on this video ❤

[@ribaldc3998]

In Germany, it was reported that sympathy over the man who was killed was very limited.Considering the background, very understandable.

[@HayleyAlexis]

and that is a correct report!!

[@The_Catnip]

Who cares about Germany? You guys are going down on the hill, your govt. is a globalist sellout, you have no free speech (NETZdg or whatever its called), AND you are dragging down ALL of the EU, not to mention how you push W W 3 onto us. Germany was great once, but not anymore. And I didn't even mentioned the w oke bullshttery that is going on over there and the huge drug problem. Pitiful.

[@eze9057]

I think health care for everyone would come easier if the US would close it borders to illegals. Need to focus on the US Citizen and not pay for the whole world. It would also be helpful to stop wasteful government spending and not fueling wars across the globe.

[@oldfrittenfett1276]

My back broke 20 years ago, when I was laying in bed because my bones are very brittle. They screwed me back together again on the normal healthcare plan that everyone has here in europe. I can even walk now. We are not a socialist country, just a normal country where people are taken care of.

[@anitamenig]

This young shooter stuck his neck out for all of us. We are having their attention. It should never have yo come to this. Unfortunately it has. Shame on this very corrupt system. Had to pay put of my own pocket for needed procedure. Insured, but what is the point if you pay anyway?

[@lazyperfectionist1]

6:47 It doesn’t boggle _my_ mind. I remember the sequence that keeps managing to interfere with democracy in the US, at the end of which lies the filibuster. Something like basic gun safety comes to have popular support. A bill that has popular support (in the general population _and_ the Congress) comes up for a vote in the Senate; a bill that has the support of more than 50 senators but less than 60. Someone who opposes the bill invokes the filibuster and it dies. It’s popular, but it does not get adopted. A bill comes up for a vote in the Senate that abolishes the Electoral College and establishes a system in which the President is chosen on the basis of the Popular Vote instead, and again, it has the support of more than 50 but less than 60, and again, it dies by the filibuster. It’s popular, but it does not get adopted. A bill comes up for a vote in the Senate that establishes universal _healthcare_ in this country, and again, it has the support of more than 50 but less than 60, and again, it dies by the filibuster. It’s popular, but it just can’t seem to get adopted. Democracy keeps breaking _down_ in this country. One progressive reform after another _dies_ on the altar of the filibuster, but movements to abolish it can never seem to gather and maintain any _traction._ But the filibuster _has_ to be abolished if the US is truly to be a _democracy._

[@jjinwien9054]

Another advantage of universal heath care to add: CEOs don't get shot on the street/

[@Alex2007MUC]

It will change nothing. The only thing that changed... insurances pull the CV's (pictures) of the insurance/company's CEO'S, CFO's, COO'S and and and.

[@arnodobler1096]

But hey the company conference must have started on time! 🤷‍♂️ Geiler Sweater, Hayley!🤣

[@annepoitrineau5650]

Oh Hayley, this is so heartbreaking (sadly, not the murder, but US healthcare).

[@goldmother2238]

Every industry has gotten this way.

[@IndieUpbeats]

Thank you so much for this video, Hayley. I've been craving a voice of wisdom in response to this tragedy. I so value your perspective on American madness. 😢

[@Unotch]

Don't be sorry for having. Be sorry for hiding!

[@AH-xs3hg]

The system isn't broken, it's working as designed. Learn the history of capitalism. Being afraid for your life constantly for good reasons is the entire goal. Makes people work harder and less able to fight back when you steal their money.

[@wtsalive8210]

Das Sweatshirt ist der Hammer!!!

[@HayleyAlexis]

😂 😂 😂 danke danke

[@quantenfels]

Thanks for explaining this. In Germany this very unknown and hart to get any Information about the Healthcare-System in the US. The shooting of the CEO is also not a big topic in the Media here.

[@HelleKurstein]

In the US the job of the CEO of an insurance company is to make as much money as possible for the shareholders - in competition with the other insurance companies. That is what US voters have voted for! So shut up, if you have not voted against!

[@vtxgenie1]

There is no way to vote against this in the US. The only single person who ran for president in recent history with that view is Bernie Sanders, and he was pushed out throughout his running even though he was widely considered the most popular candidate.

[@MIGBMWLOVER]

my family uses healthcare insurance ontop of the universal heathcare of my country and some companies still deny procedures or treatment that save lives ,but thankfully the system covers most of it. Clarification private insurance can deny anything you do in a private hospital or practice and the government pay a percentage anyway

[@lasttrimestr49califos89]

Your sweat shirt made me subscribe ❤

[@HayleyAlexis]

Thank God someone has a sense of humor :p

[@JayCasinoOfficial]

I agree with everything except the gun issue,,,..Keep the guns! The people in power should not be the only ones to be armed that’s incredibly stupid ! Don’t be so Naive

[@stephanie_smith]

Completely agree!! People need to educate themselves on these big political topics like 2nd amendment rights instead of the surface level skewed education they go with. Can be said for a number of topics that they elitests try to keep the division going with.

[@JustGrowingUp84]

The clown face at 12:20 is perfect! I couldn't finish that video, because the guy's bald faced lies made me too angry.

[@HayleyAlexis]

@@JustGrowingUp84 it got even worse when you listened to the whole thing

[@annepoitrineau5650]

Good luck with the exams xxxx

[@HayleyAlexis]

I am officially done!

[@annepoitrineau5650]

@@HayleyAlexis Time to catch up...on sleep and cuddles first, and then come back to us :)

[@robertfrederick7125]

My mom was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer on 12/26/19 and died 8/6/20. Because of Covid lock downs she couldn't have any visitors and while at a rehabilitation center, she slipped into a comma. She died 11 days later and because she was not rehabilitating anymore, she was denied coverage on the room stay so I had to pay $4,400 dollars to have her corpse released to the funeral home.

[@elleanna5869]

This is just not human. I'm sorry and angry at the same time.

[@daffodil9075]

In most cases, with some exceptions for medigap (private medical supplemental insurance) cannot deny you coverage. I don't know why people keep saying this.

[@joeljoss1916]

What we really need are more sweaters with that printed on them! 😉

[@NotSoPhotogenic]

Well said! 👍🏽🎉 For the record, I live in the U.S., and I remain a staunch supporter of single-payer healthcare.

[@lazyperfectionist1]

It’s _so_ repulsive that, thanks to the principle of profit maximization, the wealthiest people in the healthcare industry have gotten there by getting people to pay their policies and then denying _claims_ on those policies. Whatever the industry, the wealthiest people should be those who do the best job of taking care of their _customers,_ not their _shareholders._ I once viewed capitalism as this system that was redeemed by its ability, in a competitive market instead of a monopoly, to leverage competition between producers to maintain upward pressure on the _quality_ of goods and services on the market and downward pressure on the _price_ of those goods and services. But this central-most principle in business of making the most of revenue and the least of expense means this doesn’t _work_ in health insurance.

[@MortusVanDerHell]

"i am not solely totally against campitalism. [...] I just think, that the gab between the top and the bottom and the middle is hust too freaking big" Sorry, dass ich das jetzt so sagen muss, aber diese gap zu erzeugen ist der Sinn und Zweck des Kapitalismus. Er soll das Vermögen in wenigen Händen konzentrieren und andere in Abhängigkeit zu diesen versetzen. Das ist systemisch eingebaut und somit ein Feature und kein Bug.

[@doc0815martens]

There are things in life that should not be about shareholder profits and gains. These include health insurance, pensions, police and security, courts, military, schools and all the other fundamental things that make up a society and when corrupted, break a society. In war, these people who want to make a profit out of it would be called war profiteers and put in jail. In civilian life, this should also be banned. Here in Europe, probably even most of the world, pretty much every society, every state and every sensible person has understood that. Unfortunately, there are a few exceptions and one of them is the USA.

[@jessicaely2521]

Im going to be the ass here. The CEO 100% deserved this and I don't feel bad. United Healthcare isnt just health insurance;they own hospitals, surgical centers, pharmaceutical companies, etc. A health insurance pays doctors, pharmacists, etc. United Healthcare owns 30% of Medicare (free insurance for old people). Health insurance companies shouldnt own hospitals, surgical centers, etc. They should only own health insurance.

[@1972Ray]

You're right, thats an ass opinion.

[@demetricklouis5710]

Health Insurance should not be a thing. It would be like having Fire Fighter Insurance or Police Insurance. Imagine calling 911 and being asked about your provider.

[@jessicaely2521]

​@demetricklouis5710 😂😂😂😂. You have to have insurance companies. How do you think medical professionals and hospitals get paid ? Germany has insurance companies. There's Substitutive private health insurance (PHI) and Statutory health insurance (SHI). Do you really think German government goes and pays health bills? No they don't. Nongovernmental insurers handles the public insurance. All countries in the world have some kind of Health insurance company. I think you mean health insurance shouldn't be a privilege and I agree with this, BUT University needs to be free or the government needs to pay 70% like they used to (this was 50+ years ago). The US has a shortage of medical professionals now. Everyone having access to medical would put a even more of a strain on health system.

[@AnnetteLudke-je5ll]

The more I get to know about US Healthcare System the more shocked I feel. I find the system is a big scam for Americans. I feel so sorry for people who have to die because of this shitty system...

[@magdavanzyl6141]

Well said Hayley.

[@gilde915]

What is worse then fear of the goverment?....not to care about it. Cause the goverment only cares for you, if they want your best....your work force , your money and maybe your vote. I quote V..."You should not fear the goverment...the goverment should fear you!"

[@chinesecrested9528]

What a surprise. I went to my back pain department and saw new thick plastic dividers installed. People are fed up

[@oakavon]

Everyone… YES everyone in Australia is covered by Medicare. We pay a very small levy on our taxable income like 1.5%pa and private health insurance is a choice.