Frontline: Sick Around the World

Frontline: Sick Around the World

Health Insurance is ruining me. The biggest problem as a business owner and individual that I have. Literally going to break me if something doesn’t change soon.

I saw this program from Frontline last week and it does EXACTLY what I have called for on many occasions: look at all the best health plans in the world and come up with the very best, selecting from the cream of the crop.

There is but one reason why it isn’t happening here and that is because Big Money rule everything. If all my congresspeople receive most of their money from insurance, then why would they vote against their interests? They won’t.

And neither should all you rednecks who keep voting these people in. You should not vote for another person who will not insist on taking profit out of healthcare.

This video is excellent and goes through 5 different industrialized systems in the world and compares them to ours. The USA spends 16% of its GDP on health, where Taiwan has 6%, Japan 8% and ALL others in the world much less than us.

In Switzerland administrative costs for “insurance” is 5.5% (in the USA it is 22%… including massive bonuses, etc) and the other countries have far less than us.

Preventative medicine is key in Great Britain and even tho many services are considered slow compared to here, try living in the rural south and say that. They are improving their systems all the time.

In all of these systems, no one has ever gone bankrupt from some medical expenses… but it is estimated in the USA that some 700,000/year go bankrupt for that reason.

Also note that these countries (and all the others which list ABOVE the number 37 the USA has, in spite of spending MORE money than any other country) have longer life expectancies, lower infant mortality and a much better quality of health and life.

In other words, we pay a shit load of money to Fat Cat Insurance Companies who control our healthcare and make huge profit windfalls from our health and live shorter, less quality lives (if we make it at all) than all those 36 above us who pay a FRACTION of the money (sometimes less than 1/2).

For Profit Insurance is killing Americans and making some dick head rich.

This video is excellent.