Medicaid Gap: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) 

*Please apply water to that burned/scalded area*

Oh my

Sounds pretty nightmarish to be that dependent on the government.

@@ThatGuy-te9wh better than "be rich or die"

ThatGuy67 it’s better to have a supportive government than one who only cares about the 1%

Yeah man, it's fucking awful living in Europe! You know, feeling really sick and being able to just call up the doctor, drive over there and have an appointment in 2h is pretty bad. Also not getting shot on the way.

+BoarhideGaming Shots fired... Not literally though, it's Europe ;)

+Holly In B4 comment about Yurop being overrun by Mohammedans.

+Holly such a terrorabule thing leting the people who can't afford to live actually get some fucking help

It's horrible to be able to just casually walk in to the hospital and not pay anything over 100 dollhairs

Well said.

Sounds like your poor u bitch

@@davethebabe9238 sounds like you're just a bitch

Fox News speaks for the Rich, to the Racist, about how those who aren't white, christian, and republican are the reason why the non-affluent racist people aren't rich. Point is, most Americans don't take them even the least bit seriously, we just have to survive those who do.

+Holahula Schiff "the European nightmare" ist ein nette Umschreibung, die Meisten Politiker machen die EU schlecht, weil sie dann jemand Gesichtslosen haben der ihre Beschlüsse verantworten kann. Es Gibt Probleme in der EU und ihren Ländern. Aber gegen die der USA ist das Kleinkram, aber schön das die Amis nicht merken das sie im Ganzen Verdammt Arm dran sind.

+Eggdesaster aha, der kommentar sollte jetzt was? mir erklären wie der ausdruck gemeint war, weil ich das selbst nicht verstehe^^ nehme mal an du bist männlich^^ die lieben das ja^^ :-D

The entirety of American politics is basically saying "that's never worked" to things that nearly always work because "communism"

So true. A lot of Americans think that giving people an equal opportunity at life is a horrific idea. They are a perfect school example of how it should NOT be done. Take the lead problem for example. The governments in the European countries knew in the 1920s that lead was dangerous and started banning it but guess what America did? Instead of joining them they basically put lead on EVERYTHING! America is like a stubborn brat that thinks he/she knows everything and does the exact opposite of what a sensible human being would do. And I can guarantee you that things will only go downhill should Trump be elected as the next president of the US but I think they've already hit rock bottom.

God that sounds awful. I'm so glad I live in America where I live paycheck to paycheck, have ruined my credit and my parents' with a 100,000 dollar loan for my education, and can't afford to visit a doctor for any injuries or concerns whatsoever. Europe sounds like a nightmarish hellhole; you learn how to be a man in 'Murica.

+Maty743 Fucking same.

Where do you live?

+Strikerage NZ

+Maty743 To be fair though, it's not the entire U.S., it's just mostly the South that most people tend to avoid anyway if given the choice (myself included).

+Maty743 80%same 20%is for my country F**kin close to China and they Always wanted annexation us

+Hedgeworth It's good you're taking an interest in how an American hospital bill can be so high, but since you're Australian you can start looking forward to your own personal experiences with mysteriously expensive healthcare.

Because once you make health a business, anything can be expensive. If people don't have a choice, you can charge what you want.

The "free market" is not as free as some believe it is.... There are areas where all hospitals are owned by the same corporation - and due to it all being privatized, including the medical insurances - and being subsidized by government funds, prizes sky rockets! In countries with universal healthcare there are much more control with how much it can cost!

GorillaGuerilla In short: america's free market is anything but free. The system is fucked from the ground up. The freedoms you think you have, are an illusion. It's sad, really.

+Hedgeworth It is because the insurance, pharmaceutical, and healthcare equipment industries work together to inflate prices. Without strict regulations, trusts/monopolies tend to form.

Damn. Sorry to hear that. Hope things get better for you and your family :)

don't give up man, you've got a lemon, make your self a lemonade, 50k in debt is bad enough, it will get worse if you give up. you are young, get a college education, get yourself a good job and you will be able to pay off your debt in a couple of years , but after you will be done with that you will have all tools you need for happy successful life, don't give up, talk to people , as for help and you will get it.

Sorry to heae that. Hope you've recovered from the accident.

dont make lemonade, make combustible lemons

krumpll and burn their house down

Yeah.

Honestly, going back and rewatching LWT is like watching a serial drama where no one takes the villain seriously until it's far too late, and S4 is like watching the rebels try to gather and plan. The older stuff has a lot of daily life things and it all feels kinda normal until it doesn't.

mousemuffins I’m glad I’m not the only one who feels the same.

lol liberals got cucked, but they enjoy it. MAGA!

Hello from the future!!! It got bad, real bad, go back!!! Don’t come here!!!

+Roy Harrigan #notallpangolins

+Roy Harrigan Yes they do seem adorable in a strange sort of way.

+Roy Harrigan They're very cute

+Roy Harrigan Man, they are so awesome. Not even lions can hurt them!!! They just roll up into a ball and wait.

Sandshrew used "defense curl." It's super effective!

+Rick Freeman lol

+Rick Freeman It's all in the eye of the beholder. Kinda had a thick neck I thought.

+Silverbleedy I cannot describe it myself how horrible it is never getting a bill from a doctor. it is like they treat you like a baby that cannot pay the thousands of euro it could cost you and all becouse becouse you are not rich... oh wait, we aren´t I guess it is a european nightmare not being rich, but america isn´t either, funny how it is the american dream not being able to afford something that could save your life. Pretty much like abortions. they save lives from being really shitty, but try to tell that american politics

I'm not sure who told you that but we do have that c:

@Bijan Betel Miri you can get private insurance in all of europe, you dunce

@Bijan Betel Miri Because we have it by fucking DEFAULT. I had 2 very complicated surgries and lots and lots of illnesses in my life (about 2 a year) Does not cost me anything.Would habe been hundreds of thousands if you Country in the surgeries of my grandparents (heart and spine)

That's why the Refugees like Europe so much

Lets not complain about refugees but try to make every place one people like

And the really weird thing is, the 'European nightmare' - aka a social welfare State - does more to help the American Dream than 'the American Dream' does.

+a8zg ioasugo who's complaining

Yeah we got the republican half of our government telling the people that its a complete nitemare else where in the world because those same politicians are accepting political funds from medical insurance companies and half of the people in the country are too stupid to figure this out.

Well I'm not a US citizen, and while I agree with Bernie Sanders on everything except Gun Control, I desire a hawkish Republican to steer the world out of financial crisis with imperialistic conquest and to put the russkies back in their place

Bernie Sanders is a joke

+Mavis Bacon #FEELTHEBERN MAVIS!!

+MC Halloumi so what you want is Insanity

+Sean Suarez Not true. Here in Taiwan you can have medical fees you've spent in foreign countries refunded by health care system. That's what should be called unbelievable.

+Karan Chaphekar India has a Space programme and 360 million people in poverty. Talk about priorities! only kidding

+Ben Corrigan That's true but have you seen how little they spent on their Mars program?

REKT BRO

usa is rich nation so health education etc should be basic needs of people satisfied without any issues. The bottom layers of maslow should be satisfied.

guess how much it costs in canada? yeah, free colonoscopies. And yet our economy is not collapsing...

Sadly, it's also the most heavily-trafficked animal in the world.

Quinn plays a mean Pango~

GO CANADA!

I LIVE IN THE US, AND I CANT HEAR YOU OVER THE VALUE & STABILITY OF OUR DOLLAR!

DerpMans Derpyskin Well played.

YAY DOLLAR STTABILITY!!!!111

You really should get that hearing problem checked out since it is free after all. Or fire your doctor if every time you go to see him you experience temporary deafness.

+Twily Sparks remember to vote

Ryan S Yea, ill probably have to now

Thank you, sir.

+Twily Sparks Please vote, my granddad lives in Kentucky and he is republican. He really needs he's medicade, but he is stubborn as fuck....

+Twily Sparks Simple, don't vote for Bevin.

+bassben04 I guess it would be a lot cheaper for her to move into the UK, wouldn't it?

+QuB4ll Or Canada.

+QuB4ll They're currently changing the law to prevent "healthcare tourism." You didn't think the UK was nice, did you?

starlinguk Why would I think that? I just find it ridiculous how expensive some of those treatments in the US are.

+bassben04 I live in the US and the only way its $8k to get a colonoscopy any where in the US is is you go to a hopsital for it or if it comes with a gold & diamond butt plug. Its between $500 and $1000 from most clinics and medical centers and it most areas if you shop around you can find a quality specialist that will do one for under $500.

+Reese We take it for granted. We don't really think its great...

+Reese Well. None of it is free. There are no free things in this world. We pay for our healthcare and education through taxes of all people. Therefore we have somewhat higher taxes. But we don't need student loan (that would smother us for a decade). And besides that: we have much less military spending. I saw the government budged in USA and in Czech Republic (I'm Czech). Military takes like four times larger portion of your budget, than mine. That might be the reason for you having the strongest military in the world, but I have generous retirement and my wife has paid maternity leave.

do you believe you have the best health care in the world?

If the question was meant for me: No, I don't think, that Czech health care system is the best in the world. But I do believe, that it is better than US health care system. At least in some regards. I don't know about "quality" of doctors themselves, but I do know, that in US drugs and examinations are overpriced and that in US, there are many people without access to health care.

OK, lets take Canada for example, they have universal health care system, also they have commercial hospitals with best equipment and personal ( private sector always pays better) , but guess what, most of the population can't get medical attention there because they have no means to pay for it, simple as that. They are getting what government will give them. Only rich can get the best. Now tell me, is it right?

Yep.

+Shark Lord #FEELTHEGRAY :)

+jordanfrazierful #GRAYPRIDE

+Shark Lord Elect him over in Europe.

+Shark Lord #NotMyChristian ...oh, shoot, sorry. Wrong Gray.

Young Frankenstein you are a moron.

+taishaun pelley I though he was winning? or its final and he has won?

1 1 Matt Bevin unfortunately won.

*sigh*

+taishaun pelleyUs virginians partially failed him too. While we got a democratic governor, the GOP still controls the senate.

+taishaun pelley 1401 won by a landslide though, good news for the fight against wildlife trafficking.

+Doubt That sucks man. I pay 30 euro a month for my health insurance and that covers everything from mental health to the dentist

+P. Simons That is absolutely insane, 30-40 dollars a month is keeping you alive while here in the U.S.that could buy you shitty internet or a phone plan. I'm still 16, but I'm pretty sure my parents pay 20k a year for our insurance.

Diego Mejia Yeah its actually 100 euro a month but the government pays me 72 euro a mont because I'm 20 years old. I don't know exactly until what age they'll do that. Probably until I'm 24 I think

+P. Simons Where is that? I pay around 100€ -.-

Diego Mejia I just looked it up and they'll keep chipping in until I make a minimum of 26.300 euro a year. I'm still studying so that would be another 4 years if everything goes as planned

They automatically deny everyone the first and often the second time they apply. Maybe hoping you die in the interim. Please apply again and drown them in paperwork. Also, once approved, you'll get all disability and ssi benefits from the date of your first application. And if you qualify for Medicare, you then qualify for Medicaid. So go to the dhs office in your state and apply immediately after you're approved, all your medical expenses will be covered. It's a crap process to go through with horrifying justification, but this is why you need to be relentless and stick it to them as hard as you can. You have power, don't let them convince you otherwise.

Sending you love ❤️❤️❤️

What state do you live in. I live in KY and we kept our Medicaid. If your below or near the poverty line you get to keep it.

yeah those assholes don't speak for all us Americans, some of us are actually kind sensitive peaceful intelligent and responsible, it's just that we're the minority here.

RainAngel111 : I have a cousin who moved to Europe and never considered coming back.

The US has a higher standard of living than most European countries.

@@jacobedwards4747 for who?

@@gsp4prez For the average person.

like for a czech comrade

Well Czechia has a lower standard of living than the US. So it's weird that you prefer that.

@@jacobedwards4747 We don't have to choose if we will live the rest of our life in debt or if we will die because we cannot affort life saving treatment. We also have a livable minimal wage, unemployment bonuses, free higher education, are one of the safes countries in the world, beer is cheaper than water, lowest unemployment rate in the EU etc. But go off i guess

@@radicalgoose1923 Ok well you can continue live in your fantasy world pretending your country is better when it's not, statistics prove that. Do you realize how ridiculous you sound? What you described with our healthcare system doesn't happen to the overwhelming majority of people. Why do you think it makes the news when it does happen? Also just because something is free doesn't mean it better, our healthcare and universities still outrank yours. The problem with student debt in this country is kids go to way more expensive schools then what they can afford and many don't use their degree after they graduate. If you go to a school you can afford and actually use your degree it's not a problem. Also you brag about your minimum wage but it's literally $4.18 an hour lol. I know your cost of living is lower but it's not half of what it is in the US lol. So your minimum wage sucks as well. Btw here in the US hardly anyone works for minimum wage anymore, people just won't work for that low of a wage. Also where did you get the idea that we don't have unemployment benefits? We do and I had to use it last year because I lost my job for 5 weeks due to the pandemic. Even adjusted for cost of living we make way more money than you and our standard of living is still higher. Like most Europeans, you're a lot more insular than you think and you get your opinion on the US based off of news headlines that are biased and overwhelmingly negative.

@@jacobedwards4747 hey. How’s it going? Did you know that the United States ranks #37th in the world in best healthcare in the world? Cuba ranks #39. The UK ranks 18th. All this according to world population review to cite my source. Over 30 countries in this list have universal healthcare AND are better than the US. We need to understand in the US that listening to others who live on the same planet as we do, and arguably have had a tougher time through war (WW1 and WW2 anyone?) to get to a healthier place than us, might be on something. I love this country; we’ve done some great things, and so have other countries. You’d see less homeless on the streets if healthcare was free, no doubt. . And before you say “our population is way bigger! It would never work.” You know what we know isn’t working, what we’re doing now. Before you also say all of this was just liberal feelings bs, it’s not. Hard data proves that it works better. Please look at it with an open mind.

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ITS SANDSHREW!! ONE JOB YOU HAD ONE JOB

+micky8701 I think it looks more like sandshrew. Probably the lack of huge claws and the shells on its back being flat instead of pointing out.

+Jai Nova JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHN CENAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

+Cornelis Mollberger I, for one generally like my European Nightmare, and wish there'd be more of it

+Just Sayan IIRC, 2% of Europe is Muslim and if we accept all refugees it'll increase to, gasp, 3%. Or something like that.

+Just Sayan who cares though?

8% is still considered a small minority, which mind you is discriminated against. hardly a group that'll convert the entirety of Europe into a "Caliphate".

***** which is a fine thing to do, but I find that without proper context statistics can easily used for dehumanisation and fear mongering. LWT counteracts this humorously which is why I appreciate the show so much.

Super weird to watch in 2020

@@lucaspeckham5823 also because Bevin indeed tried to end the medicaid expansion in Kentucky and was struck down in court.

@@nsiems09 He won? WTF is wrong with those people?

They played the long game

+dune3001 oh have you seen the horror in canada..its dreadful, can you beleive even international students get medical coverage..its a nightmare, most of them have resources to focus on their studies and later give back to the govt.. oh the horror of universal coverage

atomic jacob oh, no, we have free college tuition and the students are also covered medically...the nightmare is spreading! the end is coming!

+dune3001 Lol you guys do know, that an American may start crying, if he or she read your comments :)

+bob joe up until the moment u need one but hey and u know what every year the is a survey "wich country is the happiest" and sadly its always the countrys with 50% taxation that win What we fear makes Happy..... good luck

yeah u have that, so what? better this way than the other But i know the taxation kills ure fantasy busniess

Can I go ?

+classictvguy1 Yes, for the love of GOD don't become like America. I've got family over there so that's supposed to be my escape route when I'm finally in a position to leave this place.

+RE S Agreed. I also want to escape to Canada...so close.

+classictvguy1 now that Harper is out we can avoid becoming the second America (I hope)

+classictvguy1 Here in Alberata, we have a progressive party in power. They initiated tuition freeze and working on more funding for that sector. Lucky for me, my dad is a doctor and paying for my education

v5red Welcome to independence.

+Jeanne Werner btw we live in Wisconsin, one of the states that refused the federal subsidies.

seriously? medical care in the US fucking sucks. you spend twice as much of your gdp on your healthcare as the uk, but we have it for free

At least you dont have to live the gruesome communist neightmare of a tax-payed (almost free its 150 Euro a month which is peanuts considering my families and my health record )

it's because poor people won't work for slave wages if they have government benefits

Or if you choked on the food you mentioned

@@ZebraGER lol!

same

Sleep is for the mortal...

Marshall

lol yeah

Hey Aleks.

+abhishek rawat lol lucky

abhishek rawat Wake up and wait till afternoon.

That and a strong healthcare

+abhishek rawat India has over 400 million living in poverty with no health care. I would not be bragging.

+TM56 yes there are. and ok i shall not brag anymore....

Young Frankenstein nailed it bro

also sandshrew and sandslash in pokemon

Also, like literally the world's most trafficked animal......I kinda thought that was commonly known......

@@tayh3645 Frankly few people even know what a pangolin is

propaganda is dangerous

+sophie m Hope you like Jury duty if need be. lol

+sophie m congrats! Please do!

+sophie m Do it and never stop voting, even in midterms. Old, backwards racist people have too much of a say in things.

^ Especially in midterms!

whitedevil2 I'll make you one for $200

Barth Slung *steal image from RU-vid video* *sells you your mark ass for $200*

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I could knock one up for you, it'd probably run you about 50 bucks plus shipping

Finally! I have been saying the same thing since I learned how behind the US is on pretty much anything that matters in life (education, Healthcare, even wages and benefits). It is so sad...

BUT FIRST SECOND AND THIRD WORLD COUNTRY ONLY APPLIES TO WHO FOUGHT ON WHAT SIDE IN WWII AND AMERICA WAS CLEARLY ON THE SIDE OF THE ALLIES AND NOT ON THE I DONT WANT TO PARTICIPATE BECAUSE MY COUNTRY IS TOO POOR SIDE....sorry caps lock was on.

Not WW2 but Cold War. First World is US and allies, Second World is USSR and allies, Third World is unaligned.

Woops sorry my bad

Rick C I agree. our country is sad.

I hear that xD

+Jeremiah Faison Perfect timing for those of us in the UK :D Nothing like waking up to new LWT.

+Jeremiah Faison Just woke up :D

so you all in the UK are just laughing at us over Healthcare? I love it. And to think of how dead set against Healthcare so many are, we're even more ridiculous.

+Jeremiah Faison Most original comment of the year i believe.

+Kaiser Reminds me of Half Penny, Two Penny.

+James Merett I don't get it either. And I'm terrified for the people in my state.

+James Merett Because you get you news from liberal propaganda machine and never have the full picture. No wonder nothing makes sense.

+DexterMorgan666 You should've mentioned "during Presidential elections".

A huge problem is the millennials leave the state and don't feel like writing in.

Psychological studues show many humans would inflict hurts on themselves if they could hurt others.

Yep! I can get help without worrying about money

+Aditya Salwan As a citizen of a progressive northern state we use to have this before Obamacare but now everything is fucked. I don't care if they repeal it or go all the way like Canada has they just have to do something because the current system is not working.

+Aditya Salwan It's all fallout from the civil war. A hard coterie of anti-US bigots in the south want to ruin things for everyone to pay the good guys back, basically.

***** I like that one, the south is just full of people that have been sitting around twirling their mustaches, knowing that their time has come, they will have their revenge on the north, by not accepting free government money for health care. Muwhahaha!

+Maxime Meis I see what you mean by comparing rights to need and you're absolutely right. However, placing a structure in which healthcare can be delivered by the government is not the same as stealing or forcing someone else to pay for you. There are plenty of European countries that provide health care through their government and the cost is balanced from the taxation. No matter how much the cost for something like healthcare is, it wouldn't be nearly as much as the amount of money the US government spends on military and foreign aid and other unnecessary non progressive spending that it does on an annual basis. US has trillions of dollars of deficit, stock pile of armaments, wars that never end, yet the government paying for a poor citizen's health seems like an ordeal. Charity begins at home. If you can't set a new standard of becoming at home what good can your government be? The new administration that has been elected in Canada promised a deficit for the next 4 years so that they can increase spending to fix things that are wrong within their country. That is worth going into a deficit for. US just needs to unite to get their priorities right and should begin with fixing what's wrong at home.

493 games and counting....

it was a attractive goat and this is isis

it was my attractive daughter and this is wherever donald trump is from

NYC

Dinonid123 waay better

Hanibal Channiblo Even after Brexit?

Undertaker 101 Yeah

@@Scrubjay457 You do know there are OTHER countries in Europe besides just the UK right?.... Right?

Sandshrew is based off the pangolin

Sandslash is based off Sandshrew.

I definitely would have been dead, I would have been choking in the sidewalk in a seizure fit and either hit my head into something and bled to death or swallowed my tongue and suffocated. People would properly have recorded it too. Love America! .

Exactly.

I am planning to try the American dream. I am sick of paying government mandated health insurance each month, and that is one illness our health system won't cure.

@@MegaMementoMori have you tried it yet? How’s it going?

@@siononalundula1699 I was about to do an LLM in Washington a ear and a half ago, but COVID kind of ruined this. I'm going to try again next year.

Lord Acclaim because the the older people who can vote grew up under the Cold War and can't tell the difference between free healthcare and the gulags

Lord Acclaim Because it would be government-mandated, which goes against the basic rule of capitalism: Government shall not be involved in private business. And in America, where nearly every aspect of your life is privatized, and where resides a generation of people, who grew up learning that the east is the beginning of woes and communism... The fear lasts long after the Cold War.

Because *it isn't free!* In Europe we pay the cost of healthcare in taxes and more often then not you don't even use it during the year.

@@MegaMementoMori The idea of health insurance is that you pay small rates all the time to get free medical care when you need it instead of saving the insurance cost and dying slowly if you get injured or sick. So obviously you don't use it most of the time. Most young people don't need to go to hospital all the time. When you do, though, all expenses are covered.

@@onkelpappkov2666 The problem is that, at least in my country (Poland), even when you get sick you often go privately, because the quality of public insurance is often worse then the private one and you are regularly given many month long waiting times. So basically, you pay for nothing.

I know this is a little late but, you have to be a born citizen for that...

I have seen videos of pangolins drilling through walls

I'd define that as a not very fun fact, but still interesting.

My first thought re-watching this in 2021

+James JWC A halloween costume costs $50. Expanding Medicaid costs a lot more than that. Also, I'm not forced to buy a halloween costume on penalty of prison time. I also get to use the halloween costume; I don't get anything back from being forced to pay for more Medicaid.

+dllexport- untill the day you or someone you care about gets really sick. The idea at least in our European nighmare is that we all pay something so everybody gets the medical help he or she needs. And surprise it works pretty good.

Globscho91 And there's nothing wrong with giving *everyone* healthcare. What's wrong is saying, "you don't get healthcare because you can support your family, but you are required to pay for poor people's healthcare." Either have it for everyone or have it for no one. This in-between nonsense is unfair to people who are financially responsible.

+dllexport- "Financially responsible" as in people who don't need supervision to manage their money appropriately? I hope not. That otherwise makes an awful lot of assumptions about the poor and destitute. The US' healthcare model on a whole is entirely messed up, the fact the states can decide just not to offer some things that others do makes it worse. My parents have insurance through my dad's workplace but it doesn't include optical or dental and they can't get supplemental coverage for either because he makes "too much" money, so says the state. I'd like to know what the hell they're supposed to do about the fact they're both too blind to function without corrective lenses and one of them has dentures that are not only poorly fitted but so old they need replacing. Completely screwed up.

Kaidona It means being able to budget properly, not wasting money on frivolous things when you don't have money to waste, getting the most value out of your money, not having more kids than you can support, and getting the education required to move up beyond minimum wage. And yes, many, many people are incapable of that. Just look at all the people who complain that they have no savings and then buy a $4 coffee every day.

The Phantom Fiddler Or... We're boned.

+Ciaran Cassidy You won't be missed.

TM56 Awwwwww. That's sweet.

+Ciaran Cassidy American here. Absolutely love Ireland. I've been there a couple times. We have our problems here, and assholes (TM56), but there are great people and places here just like in Ireland. It's a big country with a huge amount of diversity. You get the good and bad, it's unavoidable. Respect from Seattle.

+Adam Straney Just not in Alabama.

Adam Straney What in my post makes me an asshole?

One of the reasons it is so great is they take time researching the topics so thoroughly as they do...! It's basically high quality/low output vs lower quality/higher output....

homeland security > education > well being. herp derp. not our fault the middle east is so unstable... oh wait..

Trein Heartnet Homeland security...they are using Million of dollars in other countries, Education > Everything. Because education give culture, and with education people can create jobs.

+Darkion We pay a ton of taxes for Education.

Jeremiah B Then why are Universities so damn expensive? Everyone in my country gets a free try in university until they fail, in which you have to begin paying. But the costs are not as high as in USA.

Darkion The US gives everyone a free ride too as long as you are below a certain income level and not a dependent of someone above that income level. So even if your parents wont pay for you to go and you don't want loans(which are available to everyone) you can just get a shit job for a couple years and then go for free. Also you have to fail a lot to lose government grants in the US, basically you have to get kicked out before you will lose funding at most universities. The US also has a problem with overcrowded universities, a lot of people attend not to get a degree but to party for a few years until they get kicked out, and even our smaller universities are in very high demand for foreign students.

I would not say that is a "typical" GOPer...

+The Great Catsby Not quite correct. They also like big government in abortion laws.

Right. And even there their positions only apply to others.

+Nic Soderman It's never about people "not having brains" it is about people who understand the economy and how this program could make our already $1 Million a minute spending in this country grow to a rate we can never repay. Go ahead, look up the US debt clock. Tell me that makes you not want to cut programs and find a way to reduce debt. I personally want to make sure another country doesn't own us, not whether I can visit the doctor without expenses. The answer: nothing about this topic is simple, but I respect your opinion.

+singingismylifeSYV The thing is, the economy is not like your home budget. Cutting programs does not automatically mean reducing debt nor is it they only way to possibly reduce debt.

+singingismylifeSYV There is debt and there is debt. If your debt every year exceeds your income, that's bad. A national debt doesn't mean disaster. There's not a single country that doesn't have debt, except maybe Norway, rich a-holes. :-D But has anyone bothered checking how much a healthy population costs? More Or less than Medicaid? Is it worth sacrificing people on behalf of a little money saved?

+kobeballer Thank you. No one should be allowed to graduate high school without demonstrating that he or she understands that macroeconomics is more complex than balancing a checkbook.

U.S currently pays double per capita than any single-payer country and has 35M uninsured. Single-payer countries cover everybody and more cheaply.

+panicatdx Bernie Sanders is a snakeoil merchant. I'm sorry but I don't care if you support free college, one of his major positions, but it would never pass congress. I'm guessing, seeing as he has been in congress for about 25 years, he knows that and is just trying to get dumb people to believe it and vote for him.

+Jon Parker That's exactly what Bush did to get re-elected. Except Bush supported a constitutional amendment to legitimize homophobia, pandering to the worst people. At least Sanders is in favor of something actually GOOD, that will never happen.

+charles jones That's the first I'm hearing of that Bush Amendment... I would of thought they would make it more known if it was true.

+Jon Parker Bernie has said that for his programs to work it will take us actually giving a shit about stuff like congressional elections. He's very open about that, he even said it in his closing statements in the debates. So no, he's not making lofty promises to get into office, though I understand that cynical assumption, believe me.

Socialism is a joke

+kimnice Yeah, but a single-payer system? Oh my god, that would be like communism and communism is bad because... well, communism! That's honestly what most Americans think.

Well... I think I know where I'm moving... FINLAND!!!

*Secede*, anyway you are not the only one that wishes that.

Nick Gill thanks, spellcheck.

If they secede, I'm moving and never coming back.

I live in the south, people here are nice and polite (maybe only to your face) I would hate to live in a crowded city. ;/

northern states aren't crowded at all. For example, Wisconsin, Wyoming, N and S Dakota Montana Idaho. They are actually less populated than Southern states. Where there are only 2 season hot and hotter, I would hate to live down there.