Business of Disaster (full documentary) | FRONTLINE 

xtscarface M, There has been talk of building a gate-like structure to protect the Texas coast, but that's all it's been, because of cost.

@@pamelaporter4750, or more like the politicians in Texas, don't give a damn about their constituents.

@@chadwickelliott1461 because they get vacations and stock shares in the insurance scam...

As a Hollander, I am proud of them

100%!!

Its the other way around. If people would really care it would be on primetime

@Nicholas Howard i wanna beat up some insurance agents hehe

Remember when the City of Flint was having deadly amounts of lead contamination in the city water and Barack went there to do a speech and a whole bunch of people turned out to cheer for BARACK OBAMA TO SAVE THE DAY and declare a state of Emergency and allocate a million bucks or so, peanuts really, of non-discretionary limited federal fund to modernize their water system, just like the work being contracted out to be done all over Afghanistan and Iraq...and he gets up to the podium....and he says...."bring me a drink of water....TAP WATER!" and an audible gasp goes up in the crowd as they wait with baited breath....and he puts that glass of water to his lips.....and.....he.....just barely wets his lips and wipes his mouth on his sleeve and he says "I USED TO EAT PAIN'T CHIPS AND LOOK AT ME YOU BUNCH OF FLINT BITCHES. DRINK THE DAMN WATER OR GET AN AQUAFINA..." and he just throws the microphone down like so cold and then he just walks toward the door and mutters under his breath "a billion or bust" and then he walks out the door and gets on his chopper and flips em all the bird as they take off it was the coldest.

@@eddiew2325 insurance CEO’s*

Also goes to show how politicians visiting disaster areas is one of the mostly useless PR grandstand attempts that accomplishes nothing. Yet year after year people still fall for the fake BS.

With thousands of people affected, how do they not go by numbers? How is everyone supposed to be on a first name basis? Some need help, others try to improperly profit. There are risks living on the sea shore. Risks living on the Mississippi river. The government needs to get out of the disaster business. That's what insurance is for. I don't want to assume risk for people who choose to live in hazardous areas. I will assume my own risk.

@@TheBandit7613 Everywhere has risk of some sort. The average person can understand making cold but necessary calculations. Look up Ken Feinberg. But here they didn't try to make calculations.

Yeah, I knew a guy who went to help with the aftermath of Katrina. Told me he saw the floating arm of what turned out to be a 6 y/o boy. Also said he say a man shoot his sister in the head over a bag of ice. I wouldn’t live anywhere on the Gulf Coast. That being said, there aren’t any places in the country that I know of where some kind of disaster doesn’t strike.

@@SEAZNDragon Everyone has risk. Some more than others. Anyone on a waterfront is 100% going to flood, so they have more risk than average. And too much politics and not enough logic within the system. Nevada flood rates are HIGHER than Florida! It's a damn desert! No hurricanes, no tornadoes, no big hail. Rains twice a year! And if insurance fails to pay what it is contractually obligated, there should be a big penalty that goes to the policy holder. Maybe 2 or 3 times the actual damages. They might think twice before shorting a claim. The whole system is just fouled up.

@@bliss4383 Here in the desert. No hurricanes, no tornadoes. No big hail. No volcanoes. No major earthquakes. No blizzards. No freezing rain. Very low risk of natural disasters here. HOWEVER... Nevada flood insurance rates are HIGHER than Florida! Florida should be 4 times higher. Politics are to blame.

Like, for real. Your lobby system is legalised influence peddling

@@MarcelaElviraTimis You can thank the Republican presidents since Eisenhower for this reality. The supreme Court majority has mostly been Republicans and it was the Republicans on the Supreme Court that did away with campaign finance laws for individuals over the course of three cases: 1976 Buckley Vallejo, 1978 Bilotti, and of course the mother of all cases that gave corporations way more power than average people, Citizens United 2010. No other democracy in the world allows a group of unelected rich people to decide which laws are constitutional and which are not. The Constitution as written did not give the supreme Court that power. Scotus took that power for itself in 1803's Marbury v Madison. John Adams was president at the time. John Adams himself was never a rich man but he really liked rich people and he didn't trust average citizens to vote correctly. So John Adams did not challenge the supreme Court's taking of that power to itself, that power that was not written into the constitution. That's they still have it.

@@Madronaxyz Correctamundo 💯

So congress only costs $150,000,000- lol.

@@MarcelaElviraTimis It's called bribery/corruption and it was legalized under Citizen's United by the f***king Supreme Court.

Trump is bad, Trump is Hitler. - NPR (real, unbiased opinions)

@@alexjuewez1287 Get a life.

Npr sucks, especially on the radio...leftist script readers

@Robert Schlesinger, Well that's US of A!

@@acerrome9672 I agree; always was like that and probably always will be like that.

@@robertschlesinger1342 That kind of thinking is a great way to ensure nothing changes or gets worse.

@@acerrome9672 Greed.

you are right, i remember early last year when i lost everything it was so frustrating for me until i meet Vivian Klaine Morgan, she help me recovered my lost

Accountability . . . knowledge of said past activity must be bought 'to the fore,- must be considered, before any BUCKS are passed 😬

This is exactly correct. It is the only possible way r this program to survive. The taxpayers cannot pay 4 someone bad choice to live in an area that will repeatedly b destroyed just because they think it's pretty there. If one wants to live there that is your choice but u need to have the funds or insurance on ur own to repair it. What happens is these people all get supported by everyone else 4 buying homes in bad areas. 1 time yes, we help it's America but not over and over when it's a proven problem area. Just because people built homes there b4 does not mean it is a wise place to continue to build. These neighborhoods would have been better off being leveled block by block and new homes built. Then many more would b in a home again. You can't b choosy if u r asking for free help. Not trying to b mean but these neighborhoods r now ridiculous with some old homes lifted some new, some on the ground, some. Vacant. It is not possible for the government to build each home separately and it b fair or work out good at all. Where is the engineering firms the civic planners, the hard choices being made 4 everyone as a whole not each individual house. It makes no sense it's chaos. Of course this would b the problem.

Exactly. Just relocate these people and prohibit building on flood-prone land.

As a person at sea level, in Florida, who went thru a cat 5 hurricane......I AGREE WITH THAT!!!☝️

Agree. How much of this is motivated by the denial of climate change?

The problem in the US is that it's not just insurance companies. It's every industry that lobbies congress. There are so many politicians who are being bribed to legislate on industry's behalf. I was a documentary piece recently where Michael Bloomberg had stopped the public housing and claimed his government would let the market run affordable housing. A lot of the buildings or apartments that the city of New York owned were sold to property speculators. Now people who qualify for affordable housing, still have their housing designated to them by the government, who then pay the owners of the buildings every month. One woman that was interviewed showed some paperwork that stated the City Of New York was paying the owner of the apartment she was living in $2,700 a month to rent, but other tenants in the building that were not a part of the affordable housing scheme were only paying $900 a month in rent. All that happened in that instance was that Bloomberg was scheming with his rich friends to rip off the city. That sort of thing seems to happen all the time.

@@Boxing4K That’s absolutely disgusting. It’s even more atrocious absolutely nothing is done about it or legislation is passed to actively make it worse.

@@thelouster5815 I remember in that documentary the woman said "give me the 2700 dollars, I could find a way better place than this" The apartment she was renting had a bunch of building code violations, none of which had been fixed. Stuff like power points missing with exposed wiring, lights hanging from the ceiling, plumbing problems etc. So the city of New York, or rather the taxpayer, is being ripped off to the tune of $1800 a month for an apartment that is not fit for habitation.

Insurance is a Scam! --Louiss Rossman.

George Carlin concept:"It's a big club and you ain't in it."

Why? You know climate change is only getting worse right? All costal property along the U.S is going to get destroyed like this in the coming decades. Rebuilding in the same spot is madness.

Also goes to show how politicians visiting disaster areas is one of the mostly useless PR grandstand attempts that accomplishes nothing. Yet year after year people still fall for the fake BS.

In 2022,😳Wow! Not surprised.

@@Praisethesunson, just so I'm clear, is it your suggestion that people be forced to liquidate their existing high-hazard properties and relocate? If it is; should everyone be required to develop further inland? Would this standard apply to high-hazard properties of the tornado alley region? earthquake areas? wildfire zones? How about properties affected by the hazards of snow-melt in mountainous areas, or arroyo events in a desert region? Can you identify where your proposed relocation strategy ensures the least exposure to any potential hazards? Also, after everyone has relocated, does your strategy include a reliable plan for re-establishing an employment base; so your newly-formed, high-density, urban-center population has adequate earning opportunities available when they arrive? Sorry for the sarcasm; but, I hope it helped you see why a "relocation" scheme isn't as simple as it may first appear...

@@NunYaO Lol you silly baby. The tides don't care about your argument. That costal development will be under the sea. The move will have to happen. That isn't a debate. Your BS that the movement would take work and spooky planning, isn't the knock against relocation you think it is. Also FYI, California is going to have to deal with the wildfire issue. Cause about a fifth of it's population is living in the range of wildfire. That will eventually force those people to move.

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Nepotism and/or corruption.

good question, which this otherwise good documentary failed to cover. maybe they did and their editor was told to cut it out? federal agencies are headed by political appointees, named by special interest groups that contributed to the winning Presidential party insurance agencies contribute to both parties hence they get to name their overseer/patsy FEMA is hardly alone, as the system is designed to keep government incompetent while media could unveil problems so long they do not endanger the system

It's called corruption!

@@Baba-fy1jc get your own channel or write a book! That was long!

Yep....hurricane Charley survivor and it was a nightmare, many elderly died, after the fact, and almost everyone lost their properties and moved away because there was no rebuilding assistance

The government needs to get out of the disaster business except for rescues. Rebuilding is the responsibility of the property owner and their insurance company. I don't want to assume anyone's risk except my own.

@@susiefairfield7218 Wow! That is so sad. I don't live in the U.S., but I was wondering what happened to the properties after those poor people lost their properties and moved away -- whether the properties were snapped up for cheap, or just abandoned, etc...?

How me and my wife felt when we lost everything in floods a few years ago. Got 10k from fema and that was it. On 120k total loss of property

@@JamesCook76131 What kind of insurance. Some people gamble, have no coverage then expect taxpayers to make them whole again. That's wrong. I should not be expected to help pay for someones waterfront property. However, if you were fully insured and they refused to pay what they were contractually obligated, there should be consequences. Like paying you double your loss. Let the insurance companies know that if they get caught ripping people off, they will end up paying way more. And not a fine. The money should go to the person they jerked around. Either way, the government needs to get out of the disaster business.

Thanks for sharing! It just shows the money never goes to where its needed!

Well 2 countries doesn’t equal everywhere.

In my southeast asian country, insurance companies do not cover flood & hurricane for houses & cars as told by my friends. They call them belonging to a category " wrath of God" and considers flood & storm a calamity. Fire is part of house insurance. Our country is prone to flood & hurricane per yr. Many Hurricanes pass by our country. Why will I insure our house if there are so many " exclusions?" That is why, when flood damage houses in our country, we are on our own. Yes govt can help with clothes, food. Same with kind citizens. But usually, we are om our own.

I don't understand this either, it's beyond sick, but we have the largest superfund site in the world just south of us and the federal government is inept.

they do it with automotive insurance too unfortunately. i know someone with a flooded engine and stollen that was denied ( there excuse sofar is it was a act of god lol 😂no way thats a bad guy's and your on the hook to pay for it and or your turn to sue the purps ) interestingly its in a mountain desert 🌵aka it can't float in sea water and had full coverage anyways if it did so = should have been covered no matter what

It's only in capitalist America

@@khongjkc Not true, Sir. In Plato's "The Republic:, he explains how this occurred in Athens 2800+ years ago, and in older market economies. China growth is being built by using Western financing, and "fractional" banking practices. If you are familiar with "fractional banking", you'd know that if you and I did the same, we'd be imprisoned for fraud.

crittercrossing, mam, had did the government flood program do to get labeled corrupt? For goodness sake, developers were building in flood plains and insurance companies were cool with it cause there was only short term upside profits. Now their golden goose is on its last leg and unsustainable, and now the Government is immoral for being abused?

Unfortunately, nothing changes

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Well said!

Excellent point!!

You need to be responsible enough to document your assets properly so when you make a claim, it's clear what your loss is. It must be able to hold up in court because it may end up there.

@Unknown User not true. Nothing in the story indicated that the government got the money. Repeatedly they pointed out how private insurance had a 30% profit margin. The loss of democracy in the United States caused by Republican justices on the supreme Court is the primary problem. No other democracy in the world has a group of unelected people who have the power to throw out laws passed by elected representatives. The Constitution specifically said that the supreme Court did not have that right but that it only had the right to be the final court of appeals on lawsuits I m

Same with charities.

@Unknown User Correctamundo 🎯

2022 UPDATE: Nothing has changed, only become more elaborate.

Update my home damages from Hurricane Florence 2018 is still unlivable. Insurance Companies, mortgage companies, etc want the home owner to pay for damages or they can say the home owner allowed further damages to occur so they don’t have to pay anything!🤬 I’ve cried & have been denied what was covered even when I paid outta pocket. I had them tell me get a 2nd mortgage. I’m widowed & have a handicapped daughter which they could care less about. I just want the right to live in a home my late husband & I worked all our lives have. I live in NC I’m not on the water but it’s near by & our home was only 9yrs old which we bought brand new I’m at the end of my rope. My late husband served 20yrs in the Marines & another 16 with the Post Office before he passed THESE AGENCIES DONT CARE ABOUT US, OR HOW HARD WEVE WORKED.

@@cynthiacolbert4172 I feel for you. I am in Colorado. It’s beautiful here. It might be worthwhile to move. Hurricanes happen every year. It seems like living in a hurricane area is a big gamble.

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The different here is that this is not their money. It is the goverment and tex payers money.

@@CT-gc5rt Taxpayers underpay because they need those tax dollars to pay for missiles to blow up school children across the globe.

It probably seems that way, because what we see on a daily basis, is no longer journalism.🤷

Except they are just reairing old content. Love Frontline, but they haven't been putting out much new coverage. DW from Germany has more content and most new

This is the kind of high quality journalism that only publicly funded media can provide. Corporate media has too many vested interests to be truly objective

They do it be having many production assistants.

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Insurance companies are not in the business to pay out claims. Their brokers and investors are the ones who suffer the most because of the overhead and the cost of inflation when hiring workers to do the job. Much like when a nurse or a doctor screws up in a hospital and the patient tries to make a claim and gets shot down when a loop-hole presents itself in the insurance document. Companies do not intend or do not pay claims because of the corporate level red tape that is involved. Nobody wins when it comes to insurance owners. The last person I read about who had filed a claim to keep himself alive using drugs to fight his cancer died when his insurance adjuster presented a seldom used clause that prevented him the right to fair treatment. All because he was on a different medical program such as blue cross. And like a homeowner, insurance companies look for those well hidden clauses that prevents payouts when a disaster hits such as sandy. All insurance companies really are - are a well oiled pyramid scheme that has congress backing them up just in case it ever went to trial or claims court. And nearly ninety nine percent of those cases were always won by the corporations. Yet the few homeowners who do win will never get a fair amount because of sheer pressure of having to be bought out. It always ends in a settlement far below the set amount.

This only happens in capitalist America

@@khongjkc If you think that greed and taking advantage of the needy is an American way of life, you must not know much about the world.

Further in the documentary, and i am disappointed with that settlement.

Well said. Man v Big insurance companies. You can't win.

I have seen illegals been approved for ss disability benefits in 5 months.Combat veterans usually takes 3-15 years to get approve for federal disability benefits.It's so depressive.

if thats true then they should deny your claim. that, or its a sad state of readiness for our armed forces. the new WOKE military, i guess.

@@sourcesin its abt knowing the right doctor theres at least 1 dirty doctor in every town who can get claims everytime criminals usually know that guy

Ground hog day ..

The thing people forget is that since Ronald Reagan, corporations have gradually taken over the government. It's called regulatory capture. It started because of two supreme Court decisions in the 1970s, Buckley v Vallejo and Billati. Citizens united put industry control of government on steroids in 2010. Less government won't lessen industry control.

I followed the money and it showed that Pfizer was the one who got the most out of this pandemic. They even wanted US military bases in countries in return for vaccines

@@khongjkc look how many leaders have investments in vaccines that's why they are with Fauci and gates who are promoting the whole charade

Even our nation's capital is considered at risk...there is a bigger problem. It's called climate change. These stories have been playing out in Florida for a big part of my lifetime. Fema basically is actively buying out properties to return to barrier green space as our coastlines are receding. Try getting insurance here. Even on high ground and inland, insurance companies have pulled out. They still advertise we can save money by bundling...they shouldn't be allowed to air those commercials.

@@tammystansell406 'Climate Change' -is nothing more than 'weather.' Our environment is constantly changing and has been in flux since its creation. The primary variable is solar activity -not man. People conveniently ignore the fact our planet revolves around a GIANT ball of fire a MILLION+ times the size of our planet. You also have quite a bit of volcanic activity which puts out MUCH more carbon dioxide (which plants need to survive) than man. Study the Ring of Fire. It has been quite active the past 20 yrs. Did ancient man cause the Ice Age to end ten thousand years ago. Too many cave fires perhaps....? I would never buy a home in a place I could not afford or obtain insurance unless I was wealthy and could absorb the loss myself.

@@mikep4745 The scientific community agrees manmade climate change is what is happening. I challenge you to find a reputable scientist or study that says otherwise. I'm well aware of primary school science regarding pollutants, naturally occurring gases in the environment, and what volcanic activity is, etc. The larger point to be made is, it's not just rich people living on the beach that find themselves in this situation. No place is safe from the affects of climate change and severe natural disasters occuring with greater frequency world wide. Follow what's going on in the Arctic for the last two summers? The Atlantic conveyer is also a big concern for those that study it. Kind of "Day After Tomorrow" scenario. If you are following, sooner than you may like, everyone's insurance will go up if you think they will actually pay you in good faith for any claim at all. Migrations are already occuring , but just where is a good place?

@@tammystansell406 No, the 'scientific community' does not agree. Granted, gov't funded scientists they parade on the Idiot Box agree. I believe almost nothing the TV tells me. Generally speaking, the opposite is usually more accurate. But that is me. You do you. Think what you like. It is a free country (sorta/for now). However, understand those preaching this 'science' to the masses do not live their lives like they truly believe it. (Traveling via yachts, private jets, limo's and living in multiple mansions, etc.) Where is a good place...? Good question. I would say anyplace away from major population centers with a reasonable climate that suits you.

Rich enough to live there but too cheap to buy adequate insurance. Fuck them...let them drown. Coastal communities just rip off people who just want to visit.

Okay but most Americans are finding themselves in areas that could be susceptible to flooding and fires. There is no place safe anymore. They could move off the coastline and just get to another area prone to disasters. This problem is hugely climate change and a shitty American insurance system.

@@MeepieNom why do you use the word American?

@@theccpisaparasite8813 is their another word I should use

If most people would stop buying homes near the shorelines, I'll bet my good leg that they would start to offer more protection for those areas because THEY'D be losing money!

@@theccpisaparasite8813 cuz this documentary was about America. 🤦🏼‍♀️

Harrp weather “military device”

Storms are not increasing. Hurricanes are not more powerful or frequent. Water rises and water falls. Glaciers grow and glaciers recede. For 90% of Earth history, there has been NO ice at the poles. None. We are still emerging from an ice age. Not long ago, northern cities were covered with 2000 feet of ice. It melted. As the Earth naturally warms, people will thrive as they have throughout history. Cold. That's where the danger is.

😒 Oh, like any “system” is perfect. Better capitalism then some of the other systems out there. Why don’t you move to North Korea, sure you will love filling out the new manure quota there.

@ruby diamonds in capitalism man exploits his fellow man. In communism it's the other way around.

@ruby diamonds I'm from the Nordics. Notice how the Nordic countries are considered paradise by every single metric from education to health care, from life expectancy to overall happiness. To me the US always looks and feels like a 3rd world country when I'm there, compared to what I'm used to back home.

@@equarg I'm from the Nordics, from Finland. So I'm good thanks. I'll just go back home to a country consistently in the top 3 in every metric worth comparing internationally, the best education, the lowest corruption and crime rates, among the best health care systems in the world, and in the biggest trade block in the world. :)

@@liveoak227 You should probably read more history.

America: “But that’s Communism and Communism creates famines and gulags!!!”

Whoop dee fucking do Reginald

Free...sure bud

Nothing is free! What are your taxes like?

Everything comes with cost

Yeah, some employees of FEMA make only 5 bucks an hour With covid and future climate changes, we need to investigate FEMA BIG TIME

I'm so sorry.

So sorry ZEN ❤🤗

@@missmodern Ty

@@susiefairfield7218 Thank you now my dad to what's going on now. Im so over this happening to our country and them not helping the people idc how wealthy one is or isn't .

So sorry for your loss!...😭🙏

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without insurance, the first emergecy anyone encountered would destroy them financially. this is a very childlike, narrow view.

This is why a lot of us on the right feel that the less the government touches, the better. As the gentleman said in the film, big, slow, buerocratic” in describing government programs. If your mechanic is terrible, you can rate him on Google, Facebook etc and he will either change his business or someone better will take his place as your mechanic. Try going into the DMV and rating the treatment you receive. It doesn’t happen and it doesn’t matter. Granted, we need government for a lot of things so it’s a complicated issue, but there is way too much waste that lines the pockets of those in power. I truly feel for these people.

@@MrGflan You really believe it would be better with less government? Insurance companies in that case legal wouldn't pay crap.

@@mikew2610 I know what you are saying, and capitalists need to be regulated or greed would take over. I just hate seeing so much wasted time and money with the way the government handles certain things. With no competition, there is no reason to do quality work.

@@MrGflan on On very many car repairs, most people don't have the knowledge to know when their mechanic has short changed them. Or the problem shows up later. Go back and read The jungle by Sinclair Lewis. What the meat industry did before there was any government regulation.

@@Madronaxyz oi leave us mechanics out if it! Lol

They were sold to individuals cheap. Then they sold them for profit. There were several where I live. He wanted 16,000 a piece!,

Plus those trailers are extremely toxic making people sick! 💔

storms arent any stronger, there are more people, cameras, and news

@@billyumbraskey8135 Science and data says otherwise. Good try.

@@blaydCA I’m not agreeing or disagreeing but isn’t it crazy how hard it is to find solid truth. Try to look up “are storms getting stronger” half say yes half say no. It’s hard to find reliable info

@@kevinscott9279 While the internet does bring the news faster, AND in times past there have been storms far worse than what has recently transpired, the frequency, duration and force has increased. This is from personal observation and scientific data over my many years. Sadly for those who are recently born it's going to be a major adaptation. I'll be long dead when their suffering really kicks in. Gonna be a lot of "climate refugees" from USA, nevermind the global picture.

@@blaydCA no, they dont. Theres an ever increasing capacity for observation. You dont have the same breadth and veracity of data reaching back thru time to make this inference.