Why We Need Government-Run Universal Socialized Health Insurance
A cartoon explanation of why we need a public health insurance option. If you agree that a public option should be part of the health care reform bill, make sure you let your representatives know! And take action at www.YoungInvincibles.org Animated by Andy Lubershane. More comics at http Note: The data in this cartoon is supported by this report: www.ourfuture.org which includes a lot more detail on current proposals for a public option.
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We have universal health care throughout Europe. Works really well. Get it now.
Anyone who believes this douchebag’s video is a fucking moron.
Hmmm. Doctor shortages! WOO HOO!
Works well MY ASS.
What about the deadbeats?
They are always some, but why should that mean that we allow millions of Americans to suffer every year because of a few?
Whoa, whoa there… Millions ALREADY suffer BECAUSE of those “few”. Taxes support poor folks medical bills already.
Millions more will suffer sub-standard health care when rationing goes into effect (and it will).
Health care isn’t a right. If I got “free” health care I will not work another day in my life. Do you really want me to mooch off of you? I hope not.
I don’t want it, but there is little incentive for me to work anymore once my health care becomes provided by the state.
Name for me, one goverment agency that runs smoothly. outside of the military. the last thing we need is more of this stuff. let the markets work.
2 our of 3 numbers on 911 are socialized. You already pay in case MY house catches on fire. YOU already pay in case I have to call the police. In fact, YOU also pay taxes so MY brother can go to public school, so I can drive on public roads.
Do you skip work because the fire department will put out a fire for you for free?
The incentive for profit is essential to keep medical costs down. People generally look to find the cheapest medical insurance so it is profitable to undercut the competition. No profitable business takes any “pure profit” off the top since they are not competitive in a free market. When someone else pays for your health, there is no more incentive for consumers to find the cheapest provider or for provider to provide the cheapest service. You have no idea how a free market works.
You can say let the markets work all you want, they will work but at what expense? What does the “market working” mean to you? Does that mean equal opportunity for all? The market as it is now is maximizing profit., so making it “work” freely with no regulation means letting people fall off the map, and a plutocracy is what we get. The “market” does not care who eats, who has affordable health care, who is in jail, who is going to school.
Another clueless libturd speaks up and throws their idiotic 2c into the mix.
Take your marxist-speak elsewhere, dickhead. I have a fucking laser sight on the back of your fucking noggin the day the USA installs a government that you’d be proud of.
Wow how intelligent! It must be hard to speak so eloquently like that hiding behind a computer screen! Bravo to you! Thank you for adding your 2c to the mix!
i love the “EEEEEEK” lol
The overwhelming majority of the public wants a public option as part of health insurance reform, yet the Senate Finance Committee, in an attempt to kowtow to Republicans and blue dog Democrats who aren’t going to vote for the bill anyway, has decided to jettison the idea.
Why is it that a small minority of disorderly town-hallers and tea-partiers can dictate policy over the clearly expressed wishes of the majority of the electorate?
You did a shitty job at it.
Drop your health care and invest in medical insurance companies?
It goes like this; people who can afford insurances live at least OK while those who can’t probably are the ones you, with your money, rely on for basic services with their low paying jobs, so when people get sick and/or die you lose your underling pool.
And no wonder most of the country wants public healthcare, it says a lot about the economy. Besides, private healthcare will always exist, so it’s a win-win situation. Except for those that profit with your life and campaign against all of this
this sound like what the usa needs.
or so you all prefer the currnt NON system
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Why is everyone saying that the Tea-partiers and town-hallers are this tiny minority of the population? Have any of you actually seen the opinion polls? Barak didn’t win the election by much of a margin, and he spent that margin about a trillion dollars ago.
i’m not sure why this post was hidden, but i think it adds to the conversation.
Because they ARE a tiny minority of the population, just like Glenn Beck and Fox News’ viewers. There may be a million people watching Glenn Beck on any given day, but there are 300 million people in the US. 1% is a teeny, tiny, itsy bitsy minority.
Cool, you got your information from a left wing agitprop website. Make another video when you get real sources brosif-stalin.
Nice logical failure as well, SWEET USE OF THE STRAWMAN.
Nah, medical insurance isn’t essential. This coming from a guy who’s historically been uninsured even while suffering 2nd degree burns and being hospitalized for 2 months. The problem isn’t “OH GOD WHO’S GOING TO PAY FOR THIS”, the problem is “Why the hell is this so expensive in the first place?” Oh, right, because of this insurance based medical care system that was initiated by government years ago. I forgot.