Medicaid, explained: why it's worse to be sick in some states than others

[@BellaAtkins]

The difference between the US and every other developed nation is that we see healthcare as a basic, fundamental right while the US sees it as a business.

[@Thumbsupurbum]

3:45 Sums that up right there. God forbid a CEO have a give up some of their 500 million dollar pay.

[@_framedlife]

It's their freedom.

[@kevinmboeik5493]

Rohan Mishra their freedom is killing their own people

[@czajkowski2352]

One man's freedom is another man's enslavement.

[@captainweasel-ew4tg]

You hit the nail on the head

[@iammrbeat]

Every American doesn't deserve health insurance. Every American deserves HEALTHCARE. In other words, every American has the right to live.

[@Lonsoleil]

Mr. Beat My worst enemy doesn't deserve health insurance. It's a sick joke!

[@EnergizedGamingGuy]

Mr. Beat it's a privilege and not a right. You're asking for a privilege

[@MrCrashDavi]

America deserves to get nuked.

[@dbahardstyle1]

CrashDavi you support big man Tyrone troll!

[@EnergizedGamingGuy]

Grahamhg I don't think you understand what a human right is. You're saying health care is a human right but you can't force a doctor to work for you because that would be slavery and interfering with his right to be free. Our society offers rights and privileges ex: school is a privilege and the freedom of speech is a right

[@atandraanwesh9049]

The Americans are bickering over how to pay for health-care when in reality what they should be asking is why their health-care costs so much.

[@asrr62]

we have these republican bots thats why.

[@garethbaus5471]

It is fairly obvious why our healthcare is so expensive. it is partially modeled off of a capitalist system, with the option to choose between insurance companies, not one of which is individually powerful enough to haggle for a reasonably low price for any given medication and or procedure.

[@garethbaus5471]

Yes, and that incentivises the insurance companies to try and get lower prices. Although a larger private company is not the answer (a monopoly would be able to raise premiums astronomicaly), having a larger entity to negotiate lower prices for medications and medical procedures would reduce the costs of healthcare in the united states.

[@roskichan3001]

@Agency in Repose haha what and it's in bottom half? Come on! Stop it!

[@dokessezeaka5159]

They also have the most D&R in medication and treatments, why do you think everyone always goes to the US for complicated surgeries? And since Doctors are the richest there why would they want to give up their strong hold

[@nah95]

Greed seems to have ruined a lot of things in America.

[@jamesburgess2k]

nah95 capitalism in a nutshell

[@boobpoocacca2064]

nah95 It's government intervention that makes it so expensive. Pro tip: There used to be a time when people could go to a hospital without insurance and afford it. Healthcare is essentially a scam and it couldn't exist as an industry if it wasn't making money and funding itself.

[@IfYouSeekCaveman]

a legitimate name When was that time exactly?

[@jamie_2314]

a legitimate name government intervention that makes it expensive, yet Americans, who have the least amount of government intervention pay the highest per person for healthcare compared to literally every other developed nation

[@Yzyenthusiast]

nah95 But but hillary hillary she she buy but

[@acmulhern]

I can’t imagine the pain of a parent who can’t afford to bring its sick child to a doctor. Health should not be a luxury.

[@devdotm]

Tell that to a doctor who spent 12 years getting their MD, deserves their enormous salary due to their experience, hard work, and the fact that they have to pay off their loans. You can argue for nationwide healthcare, but you can't say that health is not a luxury. No one is entitled to the hard work and knowledge of doctors, the biomedical engineers who develop essential technology, etc. Medical care is not a "right" when it depends on people CHOOSING to go into that profession. On average, US physicians are paid far more than those in countries with universal healthcare. And they deserve it. Neither you, nor anyone else, has a "right" to their mental and physical stress, precision, and skill in a 6 hour surgery.

[@ef888]

@@devdotm Really? Because last i checked, its a right in nearly EVERY other developed country but America

[@vanthom9185]

@@ef888 its because of republican states

[@thesoup_is_dry1358]

@@devdotm Just like medical profession every other profession is important.. like farming, Army, education... yes the doctor has to pay loans for his MD, but why his MD costing so much, because universities are demanding as much as they want. If the doctor mark his services for 1000$ an hour I can mark the food I make(farming) for 100$ a gram, The problem is the poor are suffering because of one person's greed.

[@scanface3315]

@@devdotm I would say you have a point, but the average US citizen is not a doctor, so most of us don't care about what they went through it's their decision,no one is forced to become a doctor, and yes healthcare is a right

[@Gabriel__-ty4ym]

In the USA gun ownership is a right but medicaid ownership is considered a privilege. Am I the only one finding this fundamentally wrong?

[@mozardthebest]

Gabriel_89_91 Gun ownership is part of the Bill of Rights. And the Bill of Rights are one of our most important founding documents.

[@Azrael_Garou]

What does the right to bear arms have to do with healthcare? How do you defend yourself if you're not allowed to be armed?

[@JediMasterLego]

@mozardthebest's-comment "@Gabriel_89_91: Gun ownership is part of the Bill of Rights. And the Bill of Rights are one of our most important founding documents.": actually the ["]Bill-of-Rights["] is just the first 10 Amendments of the United States Constitution. but i definitely[-]understand what you meant. P.S. i hate that the U.S.-Constitution now is a perversion of what the Founding-Fathers made it out to be[/wrote it to be] (which was [a constitution] based on [what it says[/what it said] in] the Declaration-of-Independence).

[@ADerpyReality]

Well to be fair, the guns are there to form militias to take down corrupt government not deer. America has militias their just pointing the wrong way. Hunting is kind of a no duh.

[@---kp1hm]

Azrael you don’t need to if nobody else has a gun.

[@toniovodka1]

Im an outsider but also a doctor and i think the problem is how USA spend the money, not how much or how little. Everytime someone needs a test, a hospital bed, medicine etc, they fall in to the claws of companies that provide it with a huge margin of profit

[@Julio974]

There’s also another problem, just look at the price of healthcare versus the price of the Irak war… killing people is ok, but helping others to live is too expansive?

[@teenytinytoons]

Our country was built upon greed. One day, it will fall due to greed.

[@kevinolivier1314]

Believe it or not, i have crohn's disease, and it happened once I had an issue with my medicaid so i flew to France (yes, I'm dual citizenship) to get my treatment!

[@voosum]

Kevin Olivier fortunate

[@tomfloydhalvarsson2595]

You should have stayed in france

[@ScrollTD]

Kevin Olivier my dad has crohns and it’s pretty close to ruining his life since the pain, lucky he had surgeries and plenty of medications. Now he is passable as a normal human.

[@crestonediamond]

Lucky you have that option.

[@janejames35]

100% believable and very smart thing to do

[@GBart]

I don't get how they can complain that the US spends more than countries with socialized medicine but gets worse results than those countries and not be arguing _in favor_ of socialized medicine

[@tkoryam1865]

Welfare programs in the US are controlled by people with no care for the benefit of the public. So it's just this massive, counterintuitive mess where people in charge of this have no intent of changing the system because it doesn't directly benefit them and them only.

[@nictheperson6709]

"Where you live could mean the difference between life and death" America in a nutshell

[@Bidness32]

nictheperson Pretty much

[@kingdewoot]

If you live in a French cemetery, chances are you're dead so it's pretty much the same. *L O G I C*

[@emancipatedhost4598]

King Dewoot Lol what kind of logic is that? That's not logic, you're just stupid

[@billqiu4692]

He's technically not wrong, if you "live" in a cemetery you're probably buried. That being said it has nothing to do with the discussion and he is probably just stupid.

[@yashchenko999]

but you don't live if you're dead and in a cemetery

[@kit1063]

I will never fathom why Americans are so against universal *healthcare*. It just doesn't make any sense to me at all!

[@edgarb801]

Dizzee Kipling *Republicans - Also notice how Republican states are the least healthiest states in the list shown in the video.

[@brandonkaminski8679]

Dizzee Kipling usa has 300 million people. canada has about 30million. canadians have universal yet 50k a year come over to the us just to get treated because the waitlists are extremly long. so if its not working for a country with 30 mil. WHY WOULD IT WORK FOR A COUNTRY WITH 300 MILL IDIOT

[@kit1063]

Sharkbyte 9 You do realise there is such a thing as a two-tier health care system, right? Americans aren't getting their health care *at all* because it's too expensive, while Canadians who don't have the luxury of wealth are still able to get their basic health rights met. Think of the bigger picture, buddy. I'd rather be on a wait list when I don't have enough money (despite having a degree and job), than have no options at all because the private insurance system uses *any* excuse to deny me what I paid for. There is a middle ground, but Americans are so afraid of communism that they reject *any* socialist value illogically.

[@isai306]

Swagmasta Suga I'm just gonna say this. If our health care was universally free like our education system we'd be dead

[@f1scherman]

I’m against it as it is another tax for the top 10% to pay 60% of the share. I’m against the Affordable Care Act as my home state already had it covered. We had a law in place that didn’t allow hospitals to turn down patients if they cannot afford care. We said “We already got it fam” while the federal government went “LeTs FiX hEaLtHcArE”

[@myenimtown]

The more i watch these videos the more grateful i am for the NHS...y'all really live at the mercy of business men that's terrible

[@thatsaltybrit2603]

Hello World oh you mean the ones that are a lower percentage of our population than they are in the US?

[@fxtshrahm2012]

@Hello World Muslims make up 20% of the NHS and immigrants 40%

[@UglyApprentice]

Yeah I live in America. I’m moving to the UK after I graduate university

[@trashbank6148]

​@Hello World a lot of muslim immigrants work in the NHS. how many millionaire businessmen are doing surgery on you?

[@luminarymani]

@Hello World gotta love the Islamophobia

[@chrismason6857]

I'm English and I'm a disabled veteran. If it wasn't for our national health service (NHS) I would probably be dead. It amazes me that a country as rich as America doesn't provide medical care for all its citizens. I simply can't believe it. I love America. I love it's people. I love it's values. I love it's patriotism. But I can't get behind its archaic system of privatised health care. Get your bloody act together. Can't you see how ridiculous you look to the rest of the civilised world?

[@marlonmoncrieffe0728]

Chris Mason We're not going to change based on peer pressure!

[@Van_ax]

Marlon Moncrieffe giving healthcare to dying people who can't afford it is peer pressure?

[@marlonmoncrieffe0728]

eBron James Your obnoxious wailing to have America follow other countries' lead IS peer pressure. By the way, America already has universal healthcare for the elderly and wounded veterans.

[@Van_ax]

Marlon Moncrieffe- Did you watch the video? Its by no means universal healthcare and it depends on which state you live in. States can choose which illnesses they treat or don't treat. If most developed countries are engaging in universal healthcare with less GDP per capita than the United States, then there's no reason we shouldn't do it either. You want America to be different just for the sake of being different? Even if it costs lives?

[@Pbdave1092]

eBron James Let Marlon live in his beautiful albeit fictional Republicland.... Where the rich pay the poor liveable wages because the poor has been bullied in lowering their taxes.... Where the rich don't launder their money on some pacific island and actually invest back their money into the community where they made it, because you know, the poor gave up and gave into their demands.....

[@saquerel]

I live in France, and our Medicaid covers the ENTIRE population, and it's working quite well. The poor are cared for, the rich are cared for, EVERYONE gets Healthcare and I don't imagine the number of lives that are saved each year... One day the USA will have a great system too, I'm sure of it ^^

[@HadrosaurHero]

It's scary to say this but, we may not for quite a long time...

[@josephquinto5812]

Synopsis images I am from France. I'm in America right now and I want to move back. I will within the next year most likely.

[@saquerel]

Joseph Quinto because of Trump? 😂

[@josephquinto5812]

Synopsis images No, but because of the division of the people. Its just constant battles between the people. Et je veux parler français à quelqu'un haha

[@lade7880]

Synopsis images I haven't seen a positive comment here and yours just passed by. I appreciate your positivity 🙃

[@Olivia-W]

NY Medicaid- thank you. I owe you my life, more than once. Thank you for treating my dad's back so he could go back to work, thank you for my friend's insulin, so she can live on, thank you for everything you've done for everyone. Whatever my gripes with Democrats may be, they're way better than the literal massacre Republicans are...

[@rickardkaufman3988]

So you get free expensive medication in blue states that are expensive. So, I have to go to California where its expensive to live and homelessness. That's what I have to do. Humm?

[@shrek1140]

Rishi Krishnaswamy Bernies bill cuts prescription drug prices 50% and allows the government to negotiate drug prices and healthcare cost while eliminating surprise cost. If that is radical than you have serious problems

[@rickardkaufman3988]

@@shrek1140 I don't have any problems. I'm actually a Bernie supporter and I know he will win in 2020. I just wanted clarity on the whole issue on Medicaud as I live in India but I follow US politics over there and I hope Bernie wins. I can't vote as I'm not a citizen and I don't live there but I know what's happening over there. I'm just making false remarks to just have someone help me out with my doubts about Medicaid which I strongly support as Neocons and Moscow Mitch just want to take that away as they're bought by Big Pharma which likes price gouge drug prices and cause opiod epidemics. Now, the GOP has know allowed insurance companies to increase unethical drug prices which are legal by their standards and allowed doctors to discriminate you if you're pro- choice or LGBTQ.

[@shrek1140]

Rishi Krishnaswamy Oh well also in Bernie’s bill it makes federal law that health insurance companies can’t refuse to pay expenses and also makes law that insurance companies must be allowed across state lines. So it doesn’t just affect Medicade it affects private insurers to. Trump shifted the Overton window massively which shows how much the Republican Party has sold out. Bush killed 200,000 Iraqis, invaded 2 countries, recked the economy, and he’s still a better president than Trump.

[@skatingmarine738]

Rishi Kaufman Bernie forfeited already.

[@philevans6395]

Can i get a woop wooop for Mississippi at the bottom of another ranking

[@HadrosaurHero]

At least it isn't education.

[@LlamaKing9000]

Hadrosaur Hero Give them time. They'll get there

[@08marsheaj]

Lol and Alabama right behind you guys.. sweet home Alabama 🤦🏾‍♀️my state sucks

[@angiew2324]

sweetshea1310, I live in Alabama too, so I'm right there with you guys! Lol

[@jinjunliu2401]

pssh... so is China better?

[@tomlangford1999]

Americans are so strange. Not only do you not have healthcare, you don't want it and get angry if anyone tries to give it to you.

[@_ethanmc]

'STOP TRYING TO TAKE AWAY OUR FREEDOM AND LET US DIE POOR, COMMIE!'

[@shassybassy4579]

I want better healthcare because i think its a right my government should be giving me and im American. Not all Americans are crazy gun weilding beer drinking nut jobs wearing a shirt with the American flag and an eagle on it. I could list more but eh.

[@alanhowitzer]

America doesn't have healthcare?

[@shassybassy4579]

Alan Fox We kinda of do, its just bad and ineffective. We could have good healthcare but some people in the US are really dumb. *Glares at the Republicans*

[@shassybassy4579]

Nick Not all Americans are like that, you need to stop generalizing.

[@lindabthompson1968]

as a stage 4 cancer survivor with several chronic medical issues that cancer gave me i must contend with the rest of my life, i am terrified. trump does not care about anyone but himself, and he just wants us to die - i am absolutely convinced of it.

[@xfinity1348]

You ok now?

[@salokin3087]

I love my australian healthcare. Shockingly, good healthcare can be mix of private and public. Shocking!

[@robertjiang6456]

Salokin Sekwah that's a lil redundant boi

[@zacf991]

It's even better in the UK (recently ranked no1 healthcare system) and it's entirely nationalized. This is even in the context of our current gov. cutting money from it.

[@freediugh416]

source?

[@eltiochusma]

I'm clutching my pearls. SHOCKED!!!

[@BineroBE]

+ultrashade The UK isn't exactly known for a state of the art healthcare system, but rather known for outdated equipment. The UK seems to focus more on low cost healthcare than quality health care. This is also the reason that the UK healthcare system is incredibly cheap both for people and for the government. The US could literally do a budget cut and still end up with better healthcare than they already have.

[@KingLou97]

yall know who has it bad? College Students who cant afford both college and healthcare. Like i work but i cannot afford healthcare at all. And they have All these crazy high deductibles that cost 4x the amount of the doctors visit. So im paying 2k dollars for a 300 dollar doctors visit. After that im only covered for like 6 more doctors visit a year. Then i have to pay 200 dollars a month for health insurance (minimum). (These numbers are from the last time i tried shopping for health insurance in my state a couple months ago) Solutions to healthcare are very simple. Create a universal healtcare system and stop wasting tax money on useless wars. People complain when their taxes are misused on the poor but never when it is used on wars that kill thousands of innocent people in different countries. Like why tf are my tax dollars also being used in foreign countries. Both democrats and republicans are to blame for this. One is just worst than the other. hopefully you know which one it is. The US has the strongest economy in the world raking in the most money. Alot of the top richest people in the world are Americans. And you're telling me with all the amount of wealth we bring in were 18 trillion dollars in debt? How is it possible that the strongest economy in the world has debt? Like what are we wasting money on. Oh wait useless wars.

[@po91914]

Luis Rivera in China, you can see a doctor for 2dollars 40cents with no insurance, 1.30 with social healthcare insurance. get a CT scan for around 50-60usd . It is so expensive in the us. In India, it is cheap too.

[@e90baby]

@@po91914 yeah but how much does an average Chinese person make?

[@gkrue8295]

Now add a chronic illness like t1d into the mix. Yet I'm told my medical costs don't count as actual bills and I should just move out on my own. (I also work but hardly afford the supplies I need for my diabetes)

[@lofairy5480]

That's not how deductibles work. If you have a 2K deductible, that means you have to pay that much before insurance starts covering. So for example if you had to go to the doctor each month, you would pay the $200 fee each month and once you paid $2k total, insurance would kick in. So, in this example, after 10 months, the last 2 months of the year your insurance would cover your costs. I'm not advocating, that's a horrible plan and no one goes to the doctor each month. Unless you're very sick you'd probably never meet your deductible for the year but you wouldn't have to pay more than the actual cost. Having a high deductible like that is basically like having no insurance unless you have sky high medical bills to begin with.

[@deathlyhallows888]

Late to the party but I am a college student in desperate need of psychological therapy, and I have been told by my family that we/I can't afford both and have to choose one or the other 🙃

[@persimmon93]

US Politician: $1 band-aid?!?! Too expensive!!! $1 billion jet aircraft!?!?! Approved!!

[@HardwareExtreme]

Watching this from a European country is so relaxing.

[@EnergizedGamingGuy]

HardwareExtreme enjoy the taxes

[@HardwareExtreme]

Funny thing is, our taxes a lower than in the US.

[@EnergizedGamingGuy]

HardwareExtreme lies

[@HardwareExtreme]

Max Personal Income Tax: 10% (only after 100k EUR) Max Corporate Tax: 10% Payroll Tax: 22% (This is for healthcare, everything is covered) In the US these are doubled or maybe even tippled.

[@EnergizedGamingGuy]

HardwareExtreme I got 13% tax in my country, higher than US

[@mikebolton2388]

Got a Bernie ad before this... I'm happy now

[@bartacomuskidd775]

Ive got a bridge i want to sell you.

[@NaRisksAll]

Mike Bolton me too ❤ Bernie

[@bartacomuskidd775]

@@NaRisksAll and the mount rushmore.. cheap. i take paypal and DipshitCoin too

[@Welcome2TheOhioState]

Bartacomus Kidd I’ve god a feline-human mix I wanna sell you

[@shanewshal]

@@NaRisksAll yas

[@paytick9034]

England- break an arm or have a disease (No debt and Better healthcare with the NHS) America-Getting a cold(Masses of debt if you need an operation and the prices vary by hospital)

[@joeisawesome540]

Actually they can bill you for emergency care.. they can’t refuse treatment.. you will be on the hook for the debt and bankruptcy

[@navjeetsingh1556]

I don't understand why medical expenses are that high in USA. I am from India, and here you can get a basic medical checkup and medical tests for just around $0.08-0.3. Obviously, if you are earning well here, people prefer private medical care just to avoid waiting time and to get good attention, but that too costs around max $10-$15. For example: Appendix removal operation here in good private hospitals is around $1000-$1600 and in USA its average cost is $33000.

[@FahimFarooqFoto]

Navjeet Singh but doctors and nurses earn more money in the US.

[@pakigangsta5]

its the doctors man, the ACA is the evil organization that rather make more money (avg salary $200k) than slightly make less and have govt healthcare.

[@nicolascommisso3151]

They also earn more in France. Though, an appendix removal costs here 18€ per day of hospitalization + 18€ (plus eventually comfort preferences, like solo room, TV, etc). And these costs are also reimbursed by your additionnal healthcare or by the state if you're poor. Then, it's not an argument.

[@hooziwhatzi3516]

I live in the US. From my observation it works like this: Before the ACA, if you didnt have insurance, the only way to get treatment for anything was to go to the emergency room. Our laws make it so you have to be treated if it's critical. So everyone that didnt have insurance would have to go to the emergency room. Have a sinus infection and just need antibiotics but dont have insurance? Go to the emergency room where they would use up a ton of resources for something simple. Of course the hospital wont allow that to cut into their profits. So they then start charging more for services. In turn because hospital bills are now more expensive, so is insurance. It's creating this snowball effect where we can get charged $100 dollars for a simple tylenol at the hospital. This system is broken and not working for anyone. However, because the ACA was implemented by Obama, and we have a huge population of racists, they want it reversed. He attempted to fix a lot of these issues. Medicaid expansion is one of them. Another is that insurance companies now have to cover you, even if you have a pre-existing condition when they could deny you for it before. The ACA has a lot of negatives but more positives. We need to move to a single payer system. However, hospitals, doctors, and insurance companies are making insane amounts of money. They then use this to 'lobby' our elected officials into voting against it. (They basically give them a lot of money to vote against it)

[@Lonsoleil]

Navjeet Singh You don't understand corporate greed?

[@GlitchyShadow13]

Public healthcare: We treat whoever needs it the most first. Private healthcare: We treat whoever has the biggest wallet first.

[@GlitchyShadow13]

If you have a big enough wallet...

[@Sbeatly]

Patrick if you have to wait that long chances are that it ain't a urgent surgery, and I seriously doubt you'll have to wait years for anything

[@zachmondial2172]

Sbeatly actually you can and it may not be life threatening but you may lose function or other complications while waiting

[@retroreactiveable]

Weird, I'm Canadian and for the two major abdominal surgeries I needed I waited no time for one because it was an emergency and one week for the other. The only reason I waited one week is because I needed multiple other tests to confirm my diagnosis like a CAT scan and a blood test; all that testing plus the doctor's work in diagnosing takes time. All of those tests, plus the two surgeries, plus a total of 12 days in recovery which included antibiotics and other medicine cost me and parents $0 out of pocket. And by paying my taxes every year it ensures that other people in those scary situations don't have to worry about money either, they can just worry about getting better

[@JameZayer]

Patrick Whomever said that was bullshitting you. Same classic scare tactics to ward people aware from a system that stops them profiting.

[@tjaryma]

Poland has universal healthcare paid by taxes.

[@deepsouth5434]

so go to poland

[@andrewj4426]

@@deepsouth5434 go to hell. Because you certainly don't believe in Jesus. Maybe republican version of Jesus but not the real one.

[@strawberrymoon4909]

Poland was on a list of countries that does not have universal care in this video which is an error.

[@Garloth1]

It technically does not, you need to be under 26, over 65(?), paying for it or be on unemployment. The 93% of people are covered though and the prices without insurance are relatively low.

[@hashar9593]

@@deepsouth5434 maybe ypu don't have to pay... but ypi certainly have to wait a lot. i'm having my leg surgery in 2026 :/

[@kristiina005]

Just pointing out a tiny flaw ~ ESTONIA DOES HAVE UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE!

[@strawberrymoon4909]

So does Poland!

[@pdb1995]

Belgium has universal health care too!

[@alexejnovak8693]

Czech republic too

[@kmlac6596]

Hmm! An outdated list perhaps. Hope we can join you all on the other side of the list soon.

[@blitzn00dle50]

Love how Americans always say that we should go to china if we want communism (their word for a society that puts people before the almighty dollar) when China has no universal healthcare

[@centhron89]

I have Crohns disease, but because i live in Norway I pay at max 279.25USD pr. year for all sorts of treatments, I have had 6 surgeries and I get Remicade every 6 weeks along with other treatments, I wonder when people in the US will get to experience a similar or better system..... You deserve it, but you still dont get it, isn't that unfair?

[@brydgetburke341]

centhron89 how easy it to move to Norway?

[@elizabethbennet4791]

YES

[@elizabethbennet4791]

costa rica, much nicer!

[@elizabethbennet4791]

yes bk-me too!!!! thats just why i dont want to live in those countries myself! but free healthcare and education basically

[@TitusRex]

I live in Portugal, and also have Crohn's, and I don't pay anything for my treatments, I'm really glad I live in a country where healthcare is basically free. If I was born in the US I would probably be dead by now.

[@AgglomeratiProduzioni]

4:32 _"The doctor begins to lose freedom, and from here it's a short step to all the rest of Socialism."_ Seriously, America?

[@SandfordSmythe]

It's best to leave that word out of the discussion. There is not standard definition.

[@Shabk200]

America need to learn and understand that healthcare is a right not a privilege. its just a basic human need, you know like food and water.

[@BrianReplies]

That was just...the most terrible comparison. First of all....you PAY FOR YOUR OWN FOOD AND WATER! Second...it is not possible for things that require the services of other people to be "right". That would make them slaves. If healthcare was my "right" then I would be able to demand that a doctor treat me. Whenever I want. Without pay. Because I can exercise my other "rights" without having to pay. Anything you have to PAY for cannot be a "right".

[@sangaperezgimenez6717]

@@BrianReplies You pay for food, water, shelter, clothes and justice, all of them rights according to the UN

[@Jf2jf2jf2]

Thank god I live in Canada

[@vailissocool]

Where you wait months for a doctors visit and have death panels to decide if your life is worth trying to save.

[@henri8286]

Vail DeWan Having to wait 5 months is still better than nothing

[@InternetzHero]

+Vail DeWan The wait times are generally (if it's anything like Australia) for non-critical surgery. Like a hip replacement or knee reconstruction or something like that. In systems like the US poor folks simply can't get access to those type of medical procedures, so there's obviously less of a queue. I mean, if you're rich the US has easily the best healthcare in the world.

[@rhiroyonve7517]

Yeah, sure. Where people wait 10 years for a government-issued surgery and you spend millions of taxpayer money on a check-up.

[@DigitalWaqf]

The wait times for doctors is between 10 minutes to 3 hours, depending on the clinic, which isn't bad. Wait times for critical surgeries are non existent, anything life and death related is treated immediately. The only thing that sucks, is the long wait for non critical surgeries and assessments, like MRI scans, which could range from weeks to months. But hey, at the end of it all, there's no bill or charge... I can't even imagine being handed a receipt after an appointment or surgery lol is this McDonald's for you to be charging me?

[@SpiralBreeze]

NY Medicaid is way better than NJ. I got really expensive biologics covered in three days in NY. Without them, I can't walk.

[@hulkguitar]

You can't compare NY to NJ. NY is way better.

[@earlgreydionne1489]

i fear for my sister who is now classed as American, living in NM, who has just developed lupus and is getting divorced from her husband. She can't work, is newly diagnosed and isn't sure how lupus will affect her life. I have scleroderma and live in the UK. All my health is covered by the NHS though sometimes it's a wait to get seen. Things are not going to get any better in the long term for Americans, as costs will always go up.

[@Kate-bo6sb]

Lupus is a highly variable disease. It hits everyone differently. I personally have have it and also have family and friends with it. The disease can affect different body systems, at different intensities, and with different regularity. There isn't a ton of research on it so we don't have full explanations for all of these differences. It's one of those diseases that most people only have a bit of information on. While some people can function fully, some simply cannot. The swelling can sometimes prevent walking or moving. Lupus can cause an extreme amount of pain. I am happy that your cousin is fortunate to have a great quality of life despite the disease. It can be extremely debilitating even with medical care. While sun, stress, and smoking are some of the known triggers for symptoms, even with never smoking and avoiding smokers, significant rest, and negligible sun exposure, intense episodes can be unpredictable (obviously very problematic for jobs) and it can progress to being more chronic than episodic. It's a rough disease. One I hope people get to understand more. Just a friendly reminder that health problems, especially with lupus, aren't the same for everyone.

[@carmay3600]

Lupus varies in degree. My mother lived with Lupus for most of her adult life until it killed her in her mid 40’s. My twin sister and I were 20 yrs old. The kind of Lupus that she had attacked her internal organs. She never smoked or drank and she limited her time in the sun. By all accounts she maintained a very healthy lifestyle. However, her Lupus was aggressive. She died of sepsis.

[@gary9933]

@MiércolesGomez I live in NM too I thought if your a single teen mother you get everything. How do you get a new car from the state?

[@reddead2067]

Universal health care is the solution. It’s cheaper for everyone and the health outcomes improve.

[@coopsnz1]

No it not in Australia we have expensive cars , owning a car here is way more expensive than Usa . Cars above 50000usd are slugged with 61% taxes

[@laytonjr6601]

@@coopsnz1 Excuse me what? Can you speak with understandable sentences please?

[@unliving_ball_of_gas]

@@coopsnz1 cars? Wait, since when were we talking bout cars?

[@charlescurtis6321]

Question: Why are healthcare costs increasing in the US so dang much, and how do we stop it?

[@robandrews4815]

Too ma y old folks. The only way I see out of it, is to do basic research on THE AGEING PROCESS ITSELF. Keep senile people alive longer is making things get worse. It will take a long time to achieve this, but I see no other way.

[@BrianReplies]

Well...the answer nobody is talking about is... Supply and demand. In particular...the American Medical Association has found a way to limit the supply of doctors. Remember how gas prices were almost $5.00 a gallon in 2008? Then...just a few years later they are $1.54. Prices fell by more than 60%. What happened? And can we do the same thing to health care costs? Well...what happened was America figured out hydrolic fracking. Which increased the supply of oil a LOT. Huge increase of supply. Same level of demand. Prices fell by 60%. So there you go. Just double the number of doctors graduating from medical schools. Oh wait. That won't happen. Why? Because there are only so many residency openings across the nation. A medical degree is not enough to get paid as a doctor. You need to have a 3 to 5 year on-the-job residency training too. Now how does residency training work? Oh yes...I know. Congress pays for it. They decide how much money is going to go to pay the residents at the hospitals since the hospitals don't pay the resident doctors themselves. So if you want to increase the number of doctors and crash the cost of health care by doubling the supply of the people who give out health care....well....you just need to double the number of residency positions. Because then medical schools would take on more students. They are not going to take on and train more students that can't get jobs when they get out of med school because there are not enough residency programs waiting for them when they graduate. But wait. What if I was the American Medical Association? Would I want to see the market flooded with new doctors willing to work for a bit less? Would I want to see a HUGE increase in the supply of doctors so that prices that I can demand for my services fall? No. No I wouldn't want that. Not at all. In fact, I would want to create a situation where there were always TOO FEW residency positions open. That would mean that as the population grew and more people needed access to medical care....there would be fewer and fewer doctors to treat them. Smaller supply would mean higher prices that I can charge. So how could I do that? Make sure that there was always TOO FEW residency positons to train new doctors? Well...I could send my lobbyists to Washington DC and make sure that they never pass laws funding the expansion of residency positions. Yup. That would do it. Most people don't even know about this...that the Federal Government actually restricts the supply of doctors by locking down available residency openings. Nobody's talking about it so we can get away with it...and prices paid to doctors will rise. Forever.

[@daandebeer283]

Also the us government limits the amount of doctors that can be trained

[@unlimitedpower4101]

Well if you didn’t know, almost all healthcare discoveries happen in America and also until medical supplies aren’t scarce anymore, healthcare will be cheaper.

[@fxtshrahm2012]

have a single payer national health care system

[@akbarallardfreichmann2938]

As long as Americans don't look at others as humans...? They will fight about everything, without consider the needs of others. At the end of the day they don't even realize how much is wasted in their short and pitiful live.

[@lj0339]

1:30 notice that the blue states are on the top of the list and red are at the bottom ......hmm 🤔

[@snowieratom6068]

I mean, both parties have ups and downs for all qualities right?

[@matthewrecord3405]

Yeah, but the causal arrow on that is tricky. Does being materially comfortable with high levels of human development lead to your demanding higher quality public services and a willingness to pay higher taxes or is it the reverse?

[@ignaciogonzalez3499]

@@snowieratom6068 it’s not about ups and downs lol is about FACTS you can compare an average election map with the healthcare map that vox displayed here

[@liamwilson5670]

because blue states would increase taxes for subsidized healthcare and red ones wont... It would be more shocking if it wasnt that way.

[@bhendrick7015]

Medicaid has saved me from financial ruin. I was spending more than my yearly salary trying to treat several chronic genetic conditions. It does have some drawbacks like who you can see and the order that you have to try prescriptions but I haven't even had a copay in years.

[@duback1209]

Our healthcare is so bad people could have life-threatening injuries yet they have to be just as worried about the cost

[@HelenEk7]

The more I learn, the more grateful I am to live in Norway. My brothers son, born prematurely in January, had to stay 3 months in hospital. They paid nothing. I'm expecting twins later this year, I will pay nothing no matter if it ends up as a natural birth or a C-section. Happy to live somewhere all citizens have the same value, no matter how healthy or rich they are..

[@MrMMochizuki]

"If someone's sick, they're not morally bad, they're not morally wrong, they just need healthcare." Damn.

[@SandfordSmythe]

Lot of Christians would argue with you.

[@orioool]

For the guy from 7:48: if you really want to save money on healthcare, try to fight against corruption in the government, because medical enterprises such as BigPharma etc. make every single pill, every single treatment more expensive than it should be or more expensive than other developed countries. I currently live in Western Europe, specifically, in Spain, and although healthcare isn't the best, I can't imagine not having the right to have healthcare, to get a vaccine, or furthermore, to live. I'm really sorry, not only for the Americans who will suffer from the Republican Medicaid, but also for every single person in the entire world that cannot have healthcare for economic or other reasons.

[@icaruspyrrhos]

2:05 Ummmmm last time I checked Mexico and Turkey also has Universal Health Care. Chile also has most of citizens under universal healthcare. Also even though Poland has an extensive private helathcare its citizens are still protected by its Universal Healthcare. SO that checklist is wrong.

[@dideroted]

Yep, all you have to do to be covered in Poland is either be employed or registered unemployed.

[@1121494]

The list is wrong in many more regards. It's interesting that Germany and Switzerland are ticked and Luxembourg is crossed. In Germany, there's a dualism of private and "public" options. That said, public is a misnomer as that care is also provided by competing providers, just as a more regulated product and typically no sight of cash flow for treatments. Mine for example making a healthy profit. In private ones you more often have to pay first and bill the provider later. Switzerland is like that with just the private ones only and subsidies for those who need them for private coverage. Switzerland is ticked as with universal healthcare. Luxembourg is single payer proportional to income, but up front own payment afaik and then billing the provider. Luxembourg is crossed out as with no universal healthcare. It's making one curious as how universal healthcare is defined here.

[@Putain138]

I also noticed that the list is wrong about Poland. Also now anyone in Poland 70 or older get free medicines under the Universal Healthcare.

[@Putain138]

If someone has the misfortune to develop an esoteric cancer in USA they are automatically going to get option (C) bankruptcy regardless of their insurance with fixed payment limits and if they survive they will have such a mountain of debt they will only escape it through death, option (D). Wonderful healthcare in USA!

[@Gaby5011wastaken]

A few weeks I had a small mole on my back that was beginning to tickle in a weird way. Went to my doc to get it checked out, turns out it was nothing. I paid 0 dollar for the visit, I love my Canadian healthcare!

[@Deepdowndutch]

Grew up In GA and thought that was the only way it was in the US: Government bad, Jesus good. Then I joined the Marines and was stationed in California and it was, for all intents and purposes, a different country. People were happier, healthier and more secure. I couldn't believe the mental and societal difference. All my life I heard my dad's thick southern twang: "Well it's like this everywhere". I can tell you after living in many states that it is not. The fears that my family and people I knew had - that if you hurt yourself you would lose your job, or if you got sick you'd have to go bankrupt paying for it went away for the most part. This blew me away and yet when I went back home for leave, people were dumbfounded, like they just couldn't understand how it could be so different. Now I live in Berlin, DE on the public option and I can tell you that it's amazing coming from the US. It's not perfect but I've never once had to argue with someone on the phone for coverage. I've never been worried that I'd get hurt or sick and lose my job. I weep for my fellow Americans back home, they are deceived at every opportunity into thinking the people in power are on their side and this is the only way life can be. It breaks my heart and what's worse is listening to Americans fight for the very system that wants to use the pain, suffering and fear caused by medical issues to squeeze every dime from them.

[@thewanderlusteffect]

Everyone deserves the right to healthcare. Thank you Vox for making an intelligent, digestible piece of content that helps bridge the gap of understanding.

[@deepsouth5434]

well you dont have a right to healthcare so you have no point

[@phiksit]

Sorry, but you can't reason with or use facts to educate the willfully ignorant republicons. Some of them would deny water is wet if you threw them in the ocean. And sadly they hold our country hostage with their backward ideas.

[@kebedezewdie8743]

Suriname doesn't Have universal Helthcare either.

[@mudflap2020]

I'm pretty sure we all have the opportunity to receive healthcare when needed, but affordable health Care is another thing... And I for one don't believe I as a healthy individual should be forced to have my tax paying money used so that someone who doesn't work can find a way to take advantage of Medicare. People who refuse to pay $1 for their prescriptions when there are hardworking people who are reasonable without the slightest argument about paying for their meds or health because we know we have a choice. If everyone has to pay for healthcare, taxes will go up.... I would have to work more hours to pay the same rent and Ultimately it's the state or federal government that would be forcing me to pay a straining amount of tax when it should be my choice if I want healthcare, and if I regret it in the future then so be it.... I'd rather pay self pay and eat every bit of the bill than lose out on thousands because other people cannot afford healthcare. It's not fair for the worker or consumer. We are a capitalist nation not a socialist one remember

[@mudflap2020]

They only force it down every Americans throat to have healthcare and penalize us for not being covered because we are expected to contribute to prevent insurance companies from shorting out on money for insured patients... Now that's a tough pill to swallow

[@kogoat7411]

I'm 17 years old and I too have Crohn's disease and have gone through 3 surgerys. And everything went well, currently writing this while I'm in the hospital from my last surgery. But since I'm under 18 I don't have pay a penny and I'm thankful. I nor my parents could have payed for everything without my health insurance which is 10CARE. I FEEL BLESSED

[@HelenEk7]

Where do you live?

[@cmkidd9310]

Here's a crazy idea a,Erica stop spending so much on the military when even you're own army is telling you to stop

[@kounika3655]

A military important to a nations security and the military is asking for an increase not a (edit) decrease.

[@jrulall]

Yeah Erica, GAwd just listen. Becky was totally right about you.

[@goranperssonfanaccount1956]

Cmkidd i for one like the US having a military hegemony. The options for other military world leaders aren't very good

[@jordantan5048]

TheDreamer *you're

[@ChangeUrAtOnYT.comSlashHandle]

TheDreamer *a lot

[@ckom0007]

I’m a regular Canadian citizen. I was in hospital for eight months and nearly died. I’m currently back to being a regular Canadian citizen. Canadian healthcare saved my life! No wait times, got every single test, service and surgery I needed delivered promptly and professionally! And it didn’t cost me a dime out of pocket! Anyone who gripes about Canadian healthcare doesn’t know what they’re talking about!

[@trin.e.t.]

i truly cannot even fathom this. i’ve been slowly dying since i was 16 due to america’s medical neglect, and i’m from a lower middle class family. i had the best insurance i could get and didn’t have one appointment with a specialist the entire year - still haven’t seen one bc get this, i moved to another state and now my health insurance is useless. i hate it here

[@maikijs88]

the sound production and sampling on this video is unbelievably good. it seamlessly switches from being in the background to the foreground. 10/10

[@SaraAnneMiller]

I have Common Variable Immune Deficiency and I'm on Medicaid. I have all the same fears because the treatment that keeps me alive would easily cost over $100,000 a year without Medicaid covering me.

[@Na0uta]

I'd love to address the crazy high prices that hospitals charge in the first place. The cost as a while needs to come down imo.

[@ciangargan]

Whoever does the animation of these videos should be proud of themselves. Vox does a really good job at it.

[@managingbusiness141]

Thanks for this video! My state's Medicaid program has denied my toddlers coverage twice now. The first time, I thought it was a fluke---we're nowhere near the poverty line, and they were covered last year---but apparently that's not good enough this year. Here's hoping we can avoid hospital visits until at least 2020.

[@lexfacitregem]

I'm originally from Florida, and have been living in the UK for the past 10 years. My intention was never really to live here permanently, but as unsettling as this is going to sound, my guaranteed healthcare here is one of the huge motivating factors that's keeping me from even considering going back home (which I was eventually planning to do). Unfortunately, I had a life-threatening tooth abscess which required emergency surgery, a week's hospitalisation, and a considerable amount of work done to my teeth. I can honestly say that I'd be bankrupt if this happened to me back in Florida, as my American employer's 'insurance' plan, with it's ludicrious co-pay and maximum coverage cap was a joke! Every time I start thinking of wanting to go back home, the first thought I have is...what if something similar happens again in Florida? I find myself quite fortunate in that I also happen to have private insurance through my employer here (which I don't pay for and is quite rare in the UK when it comes to employment benefits). That means that I basically can get whatever care I want in private hospitals without having to wait in the queue for non-emergency procedures. Best part of all... I don't have to pay a penny! The last time this came in handy is when I had to have my skin cancer surgically removed last year (which ironically, was a belated gift from Florida). I was able to get Mohs surgery done at the Lister hospital in London in about 2 weeks after I made the appointment. I've never experienced this feeling of having such high-quality care without worrying how it will affect my budget. It honestly makes me lose faith in humanity when I think that doctors are more interested in being able to afford multiple mansions as opposed to being able to work in a system knowing that EVERYONE (rich or poor) has access to quality health care. So yeah.... end of rant. I guess you can consider me to be held hostage here via the insidious use of free health care. And before anyone mentions 'taxes'... I honestly don't see that much of a difference when I get my net pay. So if this country (with all it's shortcomings) can pull it off, then everyone else can. They just need to break up the whole mafia-cartel-oligarchical group that American doctors seems to have evolved into.

[@sergios9338]

Thank god I was born in Mexico. In an emergency I can fly back and get free healthcare, including dental. My wife is Russian, she also has the same option. That’s pretty sad.

[@rachelcurzon7189]

So why do you live in the US? Serious question, I would love to know why so many foreign nationals or people with dual citizenship choose to live and work in this country but fly back to “their country” when they need healthcare? Not defending the US healthcare system at all but it seems weird that so many people come to this “problematic and greedy” country to live their lives and yet never accept this country as their own.

[@fionaanimates8692]

Rachel Curzon maybe because our healthcare system is seen as more of a business to profit off the lives of people, rather than a coherent system that is universal and fair to all. Frankly, it’s sad. It’s an unsustainable system where greed is the top-seller.

[@ziggystardust1973]

american politics are weired

[@dangiscongrataway2365]

not weird, just greed based

[@GamerFish99]

Tobias F They are ruled by money. Politicians get funded into office and then owe whoever funded them.

[@itseveryday8600]

They basically have a system that legalise bribing of the politicians.

[@alyceGoesRound]

well as the other alredy mentioned, it's ruled by money. and if you try to take the money away, you're called a commie and burned at the stake 😂

[@HadrosaurHero]

It is. Though it isn't weird as much if you live in the US since you know why this stuff is happening. (It's not good)

[@McSnezzly]

This was refreshingly unbiased and just explained what was needed. Thank you

[@romanfox5368]

Unbiased, from Vox? lol

[@tabithacrouse8858]

I've had two hopsital stays in the past 2 years, and it cost around $7,000 each time. I don't think that's affordable

[@billsgui]

Did you had to pay for it or the insurance payed for you?

[@satellieroll4742]

So Americans stop their own countrymen from getting healthcare just in the hopes of getting rich. That's a sad reality. Glad I live in Europe and have access to an amazing healthcare service, free of charge no matter how much the cost.

[@tonyrock5313]

I lived in New Mexico for a year. 5 doctors refused to see me because I was 57 years old . All said we fon't want you because later on you may be on medicare.

[@Lords1997]

I live in nyc & have hade Medicaid since I was born & honestly it’s thanks to this program that my little brother & I were able to survive asthma attacks as children & even recently help me with an acute appendicitis. So thank you New York😌 Anyone who would say life insurance shouldn’t be a right are absolutely ignorant & morally lacking..

[@yellowroadtheater-musicfor6626]

Lobbying is pretty gross

[@gs7828]

It depends if you're wiling to really regulate the sector. In America people consider regulating the market as being socialist, so...

[@romanfox5368]

Look how much money crooked Democrats have made. Oh wait, Vox doesn't want to talk about that.

[@angeleyesgreen1586]

It IS disgusting. There's a special place in hell for all the lobbyists using any trick in the book to take away freedom, choice, livelihoods, safety, economic improvements, and health from people the government should be fighting to protect and serve. The only reason those people are there is to serve the masses, yet they serve special interests instead. Disgusting doesn't go far enough, I think.

[@michallacki9462]

It really is beyond me how you can be so focused on profit and ignore everything else... blows my mind

[@phoenixblitz24]

I live in Britain. Five years ago my family was living paycheque to paycheque when my mum was rushed to hospital for terrible abdominal pains. The doctors found gallstones, and during surgery they found ovarian cancer in its early stages. They caught the cancer, gave her a full hysterectomy, hospital care and physical therapy. The whole process took six months, along with regular checkups for the years following. They estimate that if they hadn't caught and dealt with the cancer when they did, she would have been dead in two years. I almost lost my mum at sixteen if not for the fact that we live in a country with free nationalised health care. We could barely afford food, let alone thousands of pounds of hospital bills for all the care she required. So I will never, ever say a bad word against the NHS. It may not be perfect, but it does its job. It saved my mother's life and it saves the lives of thousands of mothers every day.

[@friedwater6519]

did anyone else just pause at the list to find thier state

[@SierraRamblesALot]

Let's just work to get free healthcare, sure you maybe pay a couple hundred extra dollars in taxes a year however that's not going to look as bad when you get kicked off your insurance then you have some type of medical condition that cost tens of thousands of dollars.

[@LeoGawd]

Vox is always there to answer all the random questions in my head .

[@adambiedrzycki6304]

WTF Vox in Poland there is single payer universal health care. Get your research straight.

[@minkyone]

8:30 the increase in percentage terms of healtcare increased more in the US than other developed countries... It has to be said that Europe (in general) has put a lot of attention on a balanced diet, physical activity, reduce stress at work (shorter hours per week, paid vacations), "prevent instead than cure" etc. for much longer. It makes sense that now European older citizens are (in general) healthier than a US counterpart.

[@kevinmoore2501]

I’ve had brain cancer since I was 15, I’m 23 now. I’m currently unemployed, disabled, and do not even have the ability to even get a driver’s license. While my mother’s plan will cover my pre-existing condition for now, I won’t always be under her plan. Once she retires, or no longer works at the institution she does, I’m out of luck in terms of healthcare. I have state insurance as a backup, but, that doesn’t cover everything that I’ll need to keep going. I’m not unwilling to “work for my salt,” I’m just unable to. I’ve been fortunate enough to have been blessed by the kindness, and charity of family, and friends, however, family and friends won’t cover everything. I’m honestly just glad that my cancer is recurrent, and keeps coming back, because, I’m not even sure that I want to live where we don’t want to take care of those who need help.

[@hya2in8]

7:39 "... the federal government reimbursed those states for the added cost of covering more people, some governors in states that didn't expand Medicaid said they were worried about long term costs: ..." subtle but great, love it!

[@alohadave13]

Thank you. I did not understand what MEDICAID was exactly, and now I have a better understanding. Solution: "Medicare for ALL"

[@9UaYXxB]

Vox is an important journalistic source....lucid and measured, clearing away many confusions and misinterpretations, providing meaningful context. Keep it up!

[@Smokeyburr420]

Ive been dealing with Seizures and conversion disorder for 5 years. I Live in Florida and Still dont have Medicaid or health Insurance.

[@gregheffley2]

its your fault for getting seizures (American logic)

[@BenCadetThePastafarian]

But muh trickle down eco'-namics...

[@romanfox5368]

Oh, but finanically supporting welfare queens and illegal immigrants, yeah... that should fix everything.

[@nutsackmania]

Welfare queens whose money is taken and directly spent back into the part of the economy where the wealthiest receive the most compensation/illegal immigrants who do work that make prices low enough that the poor and middle class can, for awhile, proceed with a similar quality of life while the richest people accrue an ever-increasing proportion of wealth. It's kind of funny how that works, eh?

[@marybrown7203]

Roman Fox That is a drop in the bucket compared to the corporate welfare, but someone has convinced you to believe otherwise. That someone is very good at that.

[@marybrown7203]

Roman Fox You don't support illegals, and no immigrant ever took your job. Michelle Bachman received $800,000.00 in subsidies to not grow corn, on her land in Arizona. Yeah Arizona! That's the real welfare problem.

[@ADerpyReality]

Like tax?

[@pauldavidson6088]

Great video.. one of the best extensive coverage of Medicaid i've heard. love it.

[@sanctificate6285]

Lobbying ❌ Clear Corruption ✅

[@andrew4363]

“The United States has the most complex healthcare system in the world” as in it doesn’t have one?

[@tedpiano]

The last sentence of this video might be the realest thing I've heard this year.

[@blackchang1981]

@8:51-8:53 meant to say 1995 and not 1985. Regan was president in 85 and Clinton was 95. Understandable slip of the tongue, overall good post.

[@DeDayanaa]

blackchang1981 omg vox made a mistake😱

[@cyanginpedro]

Dayana Unfortunately a mistake like this weakens the impact of the overall message.

[@LordDark102]

I'm pretty sure Poland has universal healthcare.

[@IvanSN]

LordDark102 It doesn't.

[@LordDark102]

Ivan it does, man. I live in Poland and whenever i have to go to the doctor its free.

[@IvanSN]

LordDark102 That doesn't automatically mean you have universal healthcare. As far as I know, Poland has a mixed system.

[@LordDark102]

Ivan i dont know about that but when my grandma had to get kidney transplant it was free, when i broke my toe it was free, birth care is free maybe there are some exceptions but those must be rare, expensive diseases.

[@LordDark102]

Ivan according to this Poland has universal healthcare en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_health_care

[@jeallen7]

Born raised in Texas got Crohn's and now 27 in over 100,000 dollars in medical debt... I've since moved out of Texas and thankfully my state provides me with Medicaid.

[@jeallen7]

This is with private insurance at least half of that time.

[@maksymilianfrancuz8117]

We in Poland have collectified healthcare called NFZ - Narodowy Fundusz Zdrowia ( National Health Fundage ) and you've putted us in the non-collective group in a table with US!

[@strawberrymoon4909]

So does Estonia and Slovakia

[@989898homo]

I guess it's due to the fact that when you're unemployed you're not covered automatically but you need to ask for an allowance while in countries like UK you can just go straight to GP.

[@XsimD]

Great video by vox!

[@clytnn]

Daniel Xsim You said that right after this was uploaded. How do you know it's great if you didn't even finish it?

[@XsimD]

Barry Slurpentine that's how you get top comment

[@XxTheLastOlympianxX1]

as a college student that's financially independent.. my first week at college i had a 104 fever and urgent care denied me until my parent texted me insurance info, and even after my insurance was taken, i had to pay 70$. i was 18. thanks america

[@UnderTheFear]

SINGLE PAYER. MEDICARE FOR ALL.

[@Accura15]

Seeing Bobby Jindal made me really angry..

[@mainmast8955]

he's a real pissant

[@juliakaz146]

Im 24. Im 113,000$ in medical debt thanks to a near death experience and being in icu on a ventilator. I was in a coma for 4 days, and ive spent multiple long term hospital vists as well. My credit is ruined now

[@adanlopez1011]

I love Vox. Keep doing segments like this. ❤️

[@connorhalleck2895]

7:48 "Every dog we don't spend on Medicaid, is another dog we don't have to borrow from China."

[@tkoryam1865]

This is an r/holup moment

[@animeowza]

Not gonna lie, Matthew's metaphors and analogies at the end completely went over my head.

[@WilliamThoren95]

The states that should vote democrat doesn't. America you don't make sense.

[@henri8286]

William .Thorén This has always bothered me as a non American. Shouldn't poorer states vote more left than right and richer states right, not left? Because there is a correlation in the richness of a state and % of Democrat voters.

[@UnknownFlyingPancake]

Rich republicans have convinced poor white people that the reason they are poor are blacks/jews/muslims/etc while targeting their fear and uncertainty and sometimes religion in order to manipulate their vote. In places like NYC, they're so densely populated that people living there hear more diverse opinions and also see a greater diversity of people, making it harder to be manipulated like that.

[@patb9375]

William you need to consider that many Americans want to work and decide on their own and many good jobs provide benefits like healthcare. Many democrat politicians get caught on camera bragging they want to end things that provide jobs. In Hillary's case she was recorded saying she wanted to stop mining. Before you tell people you want to end their job you need to provide a replacement job not handouts. It is difficult for some people to understand the idea of people wanting to work and decide their future as many people are happy not working. I do think the U.S.A does a good job providing fall back protection but we could do more. I would like to see accessible healthcare for all and where I live all kids can be covered including illegals. The issue with the coverage is providers will not take the insurance, so if the state provides dental coverage but no dentist will see patients with that plan it does not work. There are many facades that need to be looked at and resolved for Americas poor and low income but please remember people risk their life to sneak into here so we must be doing something right.

[@asrr62]

oh well in texas its gerrymandered to be republican so how does it even matter to vote?

[@Epoch11]

SINGLE-PAYER NOW!!!!!!! Come on Democrats......just listen to Bernie.

[@andrewj4426]

@@alec8182 bernie and gabbard are the only two with the courage. AOC has is too but too young to run. All others are corporate puppets. The establishment is pushing camela Harris because they know she is for war and against medicare for all.

[@mariagraciamorenovegas7722]

The fact that US doctors and health care prefessionals fight against public healthcare while here in Spain they fight for a better more socially responsible and non-privatized healthcare system is incredible. Here doctors refuse any sort or privatization because it lowers their wages, shortages staff and equipment due to opperating based on profit (not necessarily efficiency) and actually jeopardizes their jobs since they can be easily fired, or have exploitative and short-term contracts. Here doctors fight for a completely public system and, even though se already have that and benwfit from one of the best healthcare systems in the world, we still are highly critical and fight for equality and quality in public healthcare.

[@hermenegildoc3933]

Los copagos fuera

[@GrumpyAunt]

I live in Greece, a failed state, and I am actually scared of living in the US.

[@JoaoLucas-bl3ge]

Medicaid is my city

[@gnochhuos645]

My name is United States And my healthcare stays POPPIN

[@infectedp9419]

England really is a city, though.

[@alfredosalinas1300]

The Founder Of A City Named England its a city in arkansas its called england

[@itsmegirlygirl5716]

infected p chat da fuaq up

[@MortyMortyMorty]

I laughed so hard my mother asked whats so funny :,D

[@monsieurmustache1]

6:20 they're paying 101% of the bill in Alabama!

[@zRhid]

Source?

[@dylantharp87]

zRiddick do the math of the percentages lmao

[@rohengiralt]

Wow you’re right! I’m sure it’s just a typo, since the dollars add up, but still. Lol

[@shotsfiredandmissed9068]

It's the most complex and the "shitiest" might I add