What Do Americans Think of ‘Socialized’ Medicine? | NowThis 

BK0101 02 ‘Murica: social = bad! ‘Muricans: let’s pile up by the hundreds and swallow gallons of liquor...wooooooo!

Rest of the world huh...you mean Europe.

@@Kyle-kc8cw in Nigeria there's free primary healthcare and people give birth in Government hospitals for free except the hospital runs out of anything and can't get it on time before you give birth so you may have to pay for that yourself out of pocket. Many other African countries have something similar free mosquito nets, free drugs for certain diseases that are common. Many drugs can be bought for 0.15usd in the pharmacy in Nigeria that's impossible to find in the U.S of A

@@Kyle-kc8cw No, almost all of the rest of the world in a stable enough position to

@@Biobele Exactly even here in India ..all kind of treatment in government hospital is pretty much free, if you are under certain income range. And if talking about medications ,I would say India is probably cheapest place to find medicines.

Dave Dunwell America, where people blame everything on guns and not on mental health

Gotta lower the population somehow

I blame guns and republicans

@@djbdyckfbsgsg9176 Well, then it's not like giving guns to those who can have mental health problems (so literally everyone) is a good idea, right?

Lao lmao by that logic most western countries should be having the same amount of public shootings the US does.

Preach

@@johangustavlammers1140 it’s a metaphorical hill. But good to have you alongside.

No it’s a privilege and I totally disagree with you; comes from someone working in a public health care system.

@@abiefbozair2659 that you view it as a privilege is saddening but for the civilised access to quality healthcare is a right and one that many have died for. Every year governments spend unimaginable amounts of money on weapons including weapon systems that should never be used ever and do so as a right and obligation. These governments should spend equally on providing healthcare and healthcare systems that should be used as a right and obligation.

@@stevenredpath9332 I understand what you are trying to say and somehow agree with you on some points that you mentioned in your reply , but you should work as a healthcare provider in a public healthcare system before coming to a conclusion that healthcare is a right not privilege. You see as with many free of charge services , people tend to abuse the system.

and in italy, not perfect ,the stae cover even the cos tof ambulance for example person that has cancer ,is invalid and need to go to the hospital..obviusly no payement for chemio

universal healthcare is the way forward, the USA is ok to visit but the healthcare system here is diabolically expensive wether you have insurance or not.

America, the richest 3rd world country in the world.

I'm having a hard time calling the US a first-world nation these days, and I'm a US citizen. 🙃

America is not a, first world country anymore

I'm sorry, is this some sort of US joke I am to European to understand.

To quote a tweet: "If I get injured, you better call me an Uber. I'm not about to pay 5,000 dollars for a trip in the wee-woo wagon."

it's actually really sad

Every American with health needs knows not to call for emergency transport. Helicopter transport though? It's a laughable amount of money.

Land of free you have all the choice. Poor me gotta call govt ambulance, with a response time of 5 mins inside City. They don't even let me to pay for it, in Austria.

If not - then why is it their job to carpet bomb countries who have the wrong politics? It doesn't make sense to me that you can justify 'defending' a country from tin pot dictatorships with oil fields (and prop others up) while not defending people's health at home.

I would love to ask that lady, what she think´s the Governments Job is. And also what she thinks of people who simply are born Impared and can´t get the Job that they would need to proivde themselfs with the Itmes of need.

No.

She'd much rather sponge of her husbands insurance and call it her own accomplishment of being provided for. It's called 'the american way' Laughable

Seriously!!!

You’re on an international dating platform? Humorous how pathetic and desperate women from the EU are. Thanks for the laugh.

Don't bother, Father son is a liar and a troll. He's a butt hurt American who cannot stand that other countries have it better than the US.

I can't read your replies. :(

@@fatherson5907 The average age of a medical bankruptcy filer is 44.9 years old. 40% of Americans fear they won’t be able to afford health care in the upcoming year. 17% of adults with health care debt declared bankruptcy or lost their home because of it. 66.5% of bankruptcies are caused directly by medical expenses, making it the leading cause for bankruptcy. As of April 2022, 14% of Americans with medical debt planned to declare bankruptcy later in the year because of it.

I'd move to Europe for a woman.

@No Truth Dont Speak To Me the educational system and past racial standards and beliefs, had a tremendous affect on it as well. Since people elected in power and those with wealth have continually gone for antigovernment and anti union, their efforts indeed paid off, since unions are looked down by those that fallow the word of the rich, dont like taxes cause the rich told them to and domt like socialites programs or progressives ones that would better the nation, cause the rich would be hurt or some how it's bad form them to help themselves and others.

@Emily Moss If indeed the young don't embrace the "Greed is good" mantra then with the poor turn at the polls the young are if as you believe so pro one payer system then they hold an even greater blame for not having one. You like many other younger people here want too simple of answers.

Its destroyed them that and insane right wing nut job Christian televangelists

@Emily Moss No what I am saying is that quite simply very few people vote. In an extremely big turn out year only about 25% of the voter eligible to vote show up and vote. If indeed as you say it is us Boomers that are keeping a one payer system of health insurance from happening. Then the responsibility for allowing that to happen falls upon these under 55 for allowing that to happen by not getting out of there armchairs and voting for people that would make that happen. I myself was born in 1960 so am at what many consider the last of the babyboomers. Most Boomers I know are working class and they do support an nationalized health care system. On the other hand most of the younger people I know that have either higher paying jobs or are bosses ot self-employed are dead sets against an nationalized health system. The gist of my argument is that if in fact it is the Babyboomers that have kept a nationalized health care system from happening. With such terrible voter turnouts by Babyboomers, had these under 55 or even 45 truly wanted the change they could have effectively made it happen by merely turning up at the polls and electing these that would have made it happen! You want too simple of answers! The answer is not as simple as the Babyboom generation was against it. Many of my generation have said that an nationalized health care system was the right thing to do since I was a kid in the 60's. It is interesting that over all these of us born in 1960 have not done as well financially as peopleborn in the early to mid 50's and before. The Red Scare of 47 to 57 was the starting point of The Powers That Be (PTB) dismantling the gains that union's took a century to make. Unions were took down by The PTB figuring out that you destroy them by buying off union leadership for starters. There are many more reasons that a nationalized health system hasn't happened in the USA. The ideal that if you work long enough and hard enough you too will be rich. Tribalism and even sexism. Why should someone my age support a system of nationalized health care that I believe should happen when so many your age seem to be saying that we are the total problem? Are you that far from the eugenics movement of the early 1900's that you would deny health care based on age? Perhaps regardless of the fact that people, y age and older agree that health care should be nationalized in order to protect ourselves we must act to keep you weak? Life is not simple. Health care issues are not simple. You want to make a simplistic answer to why an nationalized health care system has not happened (blame the Babyboomers!). My daddy would have said it was time to get you head out of where the sun don't shine. (He used much more colorful language though). Stop blaming and look for answers! One of them is that capitalism must be brought down and I can assure you that the PTB will fight that tooth and nail! The Capitalists in the USA see health care has a sign of their power and will fight to keep that sign under their banner.

@Emily Moss yes I was mistaken on the percentage of these voting. But even the percentage being wrong by 1992 these post Boomers had they all voted with these of us boomers that are progressive would have had a huge enough number to changed the laws. I guess really what bothers me the most about this conversation is that you want to make all of us Babyboomers into A. Holes. While refusing to see all these in your age group that believe if you don't have a good job and private health insurance there is something wrong with you and that if you get sick and die because of that you deserved to die. As to actually getting a health care system nationalized in the US in the near future. After Trump was elected in 16, I believe that it won't happen the PTB would sooner destroy the US economy then let that happen. There are far too many millennium's and younger that have brought the lies of the PTB. And you have brought into the lies yourself when you put total blame on Babyboomers for the health care issue. The PTB has always used the divide and conquer MO and it just about always works.

The government already tells them what they can and can't do.

Finn Jons socialism and communism are like the most scary and evil thing to them

@@rowo175 American police have already embraced communism. They use the most brutal over the top violence with no provocation and arrest people who aren't committing any sort of crime.

Nick Baldeagle what are you talking about? Communism is an economic system, perhaps you refer to authoritarianism (?

In her defense, compulsory social healthcare means you have to pay a monthly percentage of your wage, so the government would tell them that they have to pay (or tell them they can't not pay). What she doesn't get is that although she might not need it most of the time, she will be thankful for that one time she has a stroke or other medical emergency. And people usually get sick a few times a year, so there is that.

All funded by other people because you two are broke bums.

Especially when you either don’t have insurance or you’re not covered? Why are these people so Stupid?

​@stevenclarke5606 they're not stupid. They are brainwashed

They'll still say no because they're brainwashed.

Agreed, but we do need to keep corruption and greed in check politicians have a habit to expense everything and lining their pockets.

@@anthonyhoban673 How about the health care providers in the US. I would say they're the biggest crooks of all. Of course they don't want socialized health care, it would literally be the death of them.

@@johnmulligan455 yeah?

So true, I don't mind paying my taxes and the fact that people don't want to contribute to the greater good is frustrating to say the least.

Or paying taxes for trumps weekly golf trips

But unlike Canadians we can get a CT scan in a couple of days or on the spot in the case of emergency. My buddy wanted 12 months in Canada. And un like the UK the US will do anything to keep a child alive, the UK will let them die instead of trying experimental treatments. Don't believe me it happened last year.

Michael Settles I’ve lived in both the UK and Australia, both countries have universal healthcare. I can tell you as someone who has experienced government healthcare firsthand that I am very grateful and pleased with the healthcare I have received. I have also never heard of a case where British Hospitals allow children to die when something can be done. The NHS is not perfect and waiting times are quite high but I would rather wait than die and to have access to MRI scans, consultation appointments and specialist appointments as well as operations for next to nothing is amazing. That’s not to say that you can’t go private, but to have a universal healthcare for a reasonably poorer family cannot be understated. Of course there’s pros and cons but in the UK and Australia, you can choose to go private or public, so you actually have more freedom than in the US, where you have to go private. People are dying in the US because they can’t afford healthcare, how is that acceptable? You guys need to do something about it because it’s frankly embarrassing.

Michael Settles “We”...you mean people with insurance and/or money? Here, everyone can get a CT scan. If you want one really quickly and you have the money, you can pay privately. The difference is if you don’t have money you still get the scan. Also, you read the Fox News version of what those sick child cases were about.

Any wait times are because of the triage system. They will treat people in need of urgent care first. If you're not going to die from what you have then you can wait. The people in need of life saving care will be treated before others that are in a life threatening situation.

@@miclic1217 the case you refer to had many experts from around the world say it wouldn't work or could cause more suffering to the child

Groomer: why don’t you pay my bills. I don’t want to work!!!

@@fatherson5907 New York declares a state of emergency over polio

Finds work but employer cuts hours so that they don't have to pay for benefits: "Well F me, I guess."

​@@fatherson5907 Anti-Groomer unless the groomer is a priest and Christian. Just like evangelicals. Talk all Christian and all mighty but will not be for feeding children in schools for free.

@@jmgirard7 "But youll be working just 2 hours less at 38 hours a week! its basically fulltime but we strip of you insurance and benefits because we dont care for you!"

The really effed up part is, that’s exactly how insurance works, everyone pays into it! There’s something seriously wrong in the US!

​@@daveg-Vancouver_Island yep, like universal healthcare is paid for just like health insurance, minus a lot of unnecessary admin costs.

Best summary of many American minds!

And how does it make healthcare cheaper

@@fdfsfc1977 There are presumably more factors than I'm aware of, and definitely more than can be listed here. Here are some of them, though: - Stronger negotiation power in purchases of pharmaceuticals, costly equipment, and more. - Less bureaucracy. Insurance companies have a gigantic bureaucracy, designed to avoid covering treatments. Public healthcare simply covers what the doctor deems necessary. In other words: Unlike in private health care, there are no "death panels". - Earlier intervention. People don't delay going to the doctor with health issues. The earlier a serious issue is discovered, the less the treatment will cost. - No built in profiteering.

In two words: Fox News.

That's boomers for you

Neither do they

Boomers, man!!!!

Black Watch there probably from well off families so never had to worry about healthcare costs

Dang!

I would give you another like, but i kinda like how many you've got atm.

Bro, just like bro.

Truth!

Woah!

Completely agree. A lot of Americans are up in their heads and think they’re the “best” country in the world when they’re most certainly not

@Paul - The tragedy is you don’t realize we couldn’t care less what you think.

@@ianalan4367 It is your loss to refuse to learn from those who do it better. It is like Larry Bird giving a basketball lesson but you just stomp your feet saying you do not care and walk away.

Yeah as a thirdwolrder once you get out of the Hollywood phase in seeing America, their country becomes pretty tragic

@@page8301 Yeah you sure it do better with those wait times.

So why aren’t you voluntarily paying more taxes now? You’re full of bs.

Don't bother, Father son is a liar and a troll. He's a butt hurt American who cannot stand that other countries have it better than the US.

@@fatherson5907 😂😂😂

Maybe one day because insurance costs so much more than taxes lmao, please let me just pay a certain amount and not be in danger if i get injured instead of having to call my employer while im bleeding out to make sure i can go to the furthest hosipital im zoned for because it works with my insurance. Its scary when you realize how many people actually refuse healthcare and end up paying way more, or even dying because they could not pay and refused to seek treatment

You know the sad truth is that the tax rate is not all that different at all-your taxes goes to pay for all the US forever wars instead of helping the people

bleaaarghh not true at all.

@@kt550 really?

Allan Foster 20 trillion for Medicare for all

@@kt550 And he's here again. Guys, look at Europe. We have "socialized" health care by much lower costs at all. Your pharmacy industry is bleeding you white.

@@jaredmackey4511 That's the lie you're fed. Insurance and universal healthcare are actually IDENTICAL in concept it's risk pooling your coverage is in fact subsidized by everyone elses premiums and vice versa you're certainly not paying everything yourself or there wouldn't be "insurance" to begin with...

Don't they know, that the PD and FD are paid through taxes??

BRAINWASHED!

Just a crazy old witch

ah well i likr my free air to breathe you know :/

Stephanie B At least it's easy to rip off such people

You believe propaganda because you’re ignorant and uneducated.

They do not know anything else and are brainwashed though the system.

Lmao right on point dude

Freedom is not and has never been free. It is constantly being fought for.

@@bartdoo5757 Yes but not in a physical way! There are always, mostly rich, people that want to take your freedom, fighting in that case means, not giving up! It means vote for the politicians that doesnt want to take your freedoms and gives you more freedoms! Btw, is gun control taking away your freedom? Actually no, in the US its only meant to be making sure that no criminals and insane people get guns! Look at other countries, less killings, but almost as many guns around as in the states! In my country, germany, there is a strict gun regulation, but there are almost 6 million guns out there! You just need a need for it, if its being a hunter, sports or safety! As Taxidriver i could ask for a license, i have to learn the laws, make a test, get checked and then i can buy one, it costs money and i have to lock it up but i can carry it in my job! Btw i have a gun, a P99, but just the version that is allowed for everyone, a blank gun, as long as i only have it at home its allowed, when i want to carry it i need a so called small gun license, less restrictions and regulations but to fire it there has to be a danger for my life. Canada has as many guns as the US, but less problems!

But free =/= Freedom.

that sounds like some ultimate statement of capitalism (and basically stupidity, since oxygen or love or whatever is fkin free)

It blows my mind!!! I'm 60, and Canadian, we have universal health care of course. That older woman was an absolute moron!!!🤦‍♂️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♂️ Unreal...

The dialects also kind of hint at certain political standings, although I do have a lot of southern liberal or democratic friends, which is to say I don't want to stereotype.

@@germnbill She was a Daughter or the Confederacy for sure!

leicanoct then tell us who does?

@@abelis644 sadly when she realizes it's cheaper she still defends paying through the nose.

They are working at creating younger right wing radicals too. Not sure this is completely a generational thjng

@Tracy Lynn fox news and other propaganda organizations (such as religion9, will sadly perpetuate republicanism for some time to come.

My brother had pneumonia last year (UK). He received scans and a hospital bed within 30 minutes of arriving. He actually walked out of the hospital richer than when he walked in as he called into work for sick pay. While receiving free healthcare.

Well boomer doomer virus now looks like something they wished

Most of them retort with the classic argument "there will be an increase in taxes" but in the US we already pay lots in taxes same as Europe. Its just a matter of how the government spends taxpayer money I think. Sounds like a lot of it is going towards the military and not towards arguably more important services. Idk Im not an expert at all

US: gun rights > human rights.

Well, let me tell you that it is a very important question. In my country we have free health care and it is great but then you look at the job offers and people here earn a lot less then in the US. If it was only health care it could work out but trust me, once this starts, many other things will be controlled by the state. I would prefer to have to pay $100 for an insurance while earning $300 more than what I do now

@@miguellazarogil935 how is paying for insurance going to let your earn $300 more

@@miguellazarogil935 The pay disparity is because of the US having a larger market but that market is about to collapse friend because it is propt up in fake revenue. Your better off taking a long lasting fullfilling job out of the US with stronger stable economies. You will never know how long it will be until the next bubble pops and you are jobless again but it is clear the bail outs are getting closer and closer to each other as time moves.

@@miguellazarogil935 If you have a major health implication and can't work, you will be paying more per month then you can afford.

I hope with time itll change, theres been a shift in idologies regarding health and work systems in the US with age, just gotta wait for people to die at this point lol. I just want more speaking on the health of the gereral public and treatment of citizens, but we matter none to corporations, and we have no say unlike they do.

Quiet G u literally described my childhood

@@quietg3712 try canada, i'm sure it's gonna live up to your expectations of what you thought the us would be like.

The healthcare puts me off.... nhs is amazing

Mouloud Aourtilane too cold tho 🥶

@@mouloudaourtilane3262 Went to Nova Scotia with my girlfriend. Had a brilliant time. The people were hilarious and very much like us which makes sense because I'm from Scotland, Nova Scotia means New Scotland and was founded by the Scottish.

Geisterfahrerüberholer as an American, I wholeheartedly agree! I haven’t gone to college also because I can’t afford it, but I’d honestly much rather just get textbooks and learn on my own.

@@labaccident2010 that's a good very good idea. soooooooo....... JUST DO IT

Nice Name

Geisterfahrerüberholer Most of the population of the USA have no idea of what happens outside America. Most don’t even know where Europe is! 😐

The younger people in this video do seem to be reasonably well educated on the matter and know that they aren’t getting the service that they should be entitled to. The older citizens however are very much set in their ways and can’t empathise with someone who is less fortunate. One of them said that everyone needs to look for well paying jobs with healthcare benefits but not everyone can have a job like that. Perhaps employers need to do more for their employees but the government should also be setting a higher standard.

Yet average household debt is lower in the US. Math is hard for you peasants 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Well said, the NHS can also buy medication in bulk so we only pay £9. US citizens are vulnerable to inflated drug prices. The NHS works but our government have not been investing in it sadly.

Yes Brits sure look after their own. I have never seen a nastier bunch other than Australians when it comes to gossip rags and bigotry.

Except when your money is going to violent immigrants who don’t contribute anything to your country and are actively trying to destroy it all while taking advantage of those systems. Britain is being killed from within on purpose.

Please do

People from there come here to Brasil to have treatment so yeah

I mean it's not people fault their government works in a certain way. What deeply annoys me is the lack of information and compassion in that country.

Philipe d. I think of America more as a company that profits on its citizens more than a country itself

Philipe d. What deeply annoys me is ignorant people like you who don’t respect other people’s values (bigots)

No, the right exists in Europe too you know.

Not "any european".

@@8is But he spoken of EUROPEANS in the first place.

@@8is What right?

Not just EU and Canada. There are many others like Australia and New Zealand.

The sad thing is that you’re so uneducated that you actually believe all of that is free. Over 6 million in England alone are waiting *years* for surgery. Years. I’ve never known anyone that waited for surgery but ‘NHS is pride of the UK’ Lucy Letby is a hero 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Don't bother, Father son is a liar and a troll. He's a butt hurt American who can't stand that other countries have it better than the US.

Too proud and stupid to listen or change her mind

social media must be communist propaganda!

@@intercity4553 I have come across a fair number of them who seem to genuinely believe that

agreed just let them die from the covid

@@cacapopocaca4842 Actually you don't have. Demography is in favor of young people. They must go vote, be heard and take the power that legitimately belongs to them!

Cos European r not some paranoid psychopath / big bully that so concern about their “superiority/superpower status” , like US who invested all citizens tax $$$ for weapons instead of the well-being of it’s citizens.....US needs to learn to be civilized

Perspective InsideOut perhaps the United States could afford a socialised health service if it wasn’t subsidising the defence of mainland Europe. Only USA and UK currently pay minimum amount into NATO. Plus American system has its advantages such as very high quality of treatment for those that are covered.

@@maxpowerii7368 Socialized healthcare in the US would cost LESS than the current system.

shingshongshamalama not when you account for stuff like health tourism which costs the NHS tens of millions each year here in the UK.

@@maxpowerii7368 [citation needed]

same thing in New Zealand (minus the crocodiles!)

I find the idea of not dialing 999 (I live in Scotland) for an ambulance when you absolutely need it insane! I do understand why that's the case for some folk over there but that really shouldn't be a thing. I guess I'm just to used to having that safety net should I ever need it.

When I'm in doubt to call an ambulance, it's more like "can they get here and back faster than I can get there?" Works for minor stuff. When a friend got a piece of iron in his eye (literally stopped by the back of his skull) we were more worried about how to explain to the ambulance how to get to where we were, than about how we were going to pay for it.

@assassinlexxlol nobody dies in the Uk for waiting for a doctor...but instead annually 50k Americans die cuz they cant afford doctor...let that sink in...

@@jairoagudelo6843 American (mostly Republican voters) : Well...it is the survival of the fittest isn't it? Rest of the world : ..and that is why we don't treat you seriously outside the military

@assassinlexx if it's that serious they will let you straight in

That's the American Dream! If you're rich, you succeed. If you are poor, just go somewhere else and die.

Maybe she thinks McDonald's provides health insurance?

@@daverhoden445 😂😂😂

she doesnt care that other people have different living situations. their selfishness really stands out in these debates, i think selfishness can cause america to fall down if they keep acting like other people dont matter

Old people irritate me for this reason so much.

Boomers should want free healthcare, you end up using it a lot when you get older.. That old woman hasn't had to call in her insurance big time, wait until she does.

I like how you can’t even string together a coherent sentence.

@@fatherson5907 I love Communism

@@Wishmaster787 Don't bother, Father son is a liar and a troll. He's a butt hurt American who cannot stand that other countries have it better than the US.

Seems like a legit Trump voter to me tbh. ;)

Sometimes social healthcare can be a pain in not-so-rich countries. In my country people whine about long queue lines and the quality of provided healthcare all the time, but honestly I would still choose it over the way its done in the USA.

That blows my mind!

Ikr. As an American, I am disappointed

Sure it's great when someone ELSE is doing the paying.

These people are adding more bad stuff to our name :( people already don't like Americans we don't need more to dislike about us

@@87Wayne That's the fundamental concept of insurance too

Except the quality is far worse and you get put on waiting lists for years. Stop trying to force your third world garbage on us. And learn how to bathe. Why do you always smell horrible?

Don't bother, Father son is a liar and a troll. He's a butt hurt American who can't stand that other countries have it better than the US.

@@fatherson5907 US healthcare ranks 18th in the world.

So why aren’t you voluntarily paying extra taxes? You’re just an entitled Karen. Declaring something a right doesn’t magically make it free. Pay your own bills, KAREN.

You don't need the government to ask more taxes from you, right now you can go and donate 50% of your salary to charity every month. What's stopping your sOLiDaRitY?

@@gabrielflaubert5881 drama-rama. no one is taking 50% of US paychecks.

The funniest part of it all is that the taxes for healthcare in most countries is miles less than paying for insurance, so no matter what you are still losing more money to get treatment in america insurance or not

conservatism is a mental disease

Dustewart It would seem that they have good healthcare so they couldn’t care less about anyone else..

@@objectivemillennial2117 Liberalism is a mental disease.

@@glorymanheretosleep Then it is one which I am happy to have. Me and my $250/month health care premium which covers virtually everything (my wife's hip replacement did cost about $70 though). God, I love being mental. Evidently, it is a gift.

Makes us Brits realise how lucky we are: it's always 'in crisis;' always 'underfunded'... but when you need it in an emergency and the emergency care kicks in - it's first rate.

They are brainwashed, and many are just dumb.

@@CorporateShill66 you can't brainwashed people who already have no brain

America has never been a first world country as where have you been. :/

its literally globally recognized that America is a first world country lol

@@Abyssinian97are you actually this dumb or just trolling?

Don't bother, Father son is a liar and a troll. He's a butt hurt American who can't stand that other countries have it better than the US.

The country doesn’t provide anything. Money doesn’t appear from thin air. Get a job, Karen.

There are 2 camps. 1. People who understand that other people may have different opinions. 2. Fascists

@@fatherson5907 qoward.

@@nottiification Don't bother, Father son is a troll.

3. People who actually have it and call it what it is: "public healthcare". This whole "socialized" nonsense is just to scare 'Muricans to think it's "communism" cause "socialized" sounds a bit like "socialism". How I wish I was kidding.

@@seybertooth9282 I had it for several years under the NHS. It was garbage care, carried out by completely incompetent providers. You’re just obsessed with the US because you’re an insecure coward whose parents did a poor job raising him to have self esteem.

I know lol. I couldnt believe it when she said that.

😂😂😂

Nothing about the nhs is free

Applies to fortnite

I seriously doubt she had any clue as to what was being asked and I seriously doubt she even realised what she said.

If you haven’t moved already I’d recommend countries like: Switzerland, Norway, Germany, the UK and Sweden. All generally have decent to perfect English speakers and have outstanding healthcare.

@@ProtocolAbyss Thank you. I haven't moved yet but honestly the country I was considering is Portugal. Although I will look into the others you have mentioned. I have a very sick parent now that is disabled and doesn't have savings or insurance (they're in a very bad nursing home) so I've been trying to navigate that situation most of this year and it's been extremely challenging. Wherever I move to, it has to be somewhere I can afford to place a full-time caregiver in the home with my mom and I as I can't afford it here in the US. I spoke to a few agencies in Portugal and they were able to give me good costs for placing full-time in-home (actual live in) care, so this is currently my biggest consideration for moving. Thanks for your response.

@@jadexplores2100 Oh those were ones off the top of my head. Others I’d include on the list would also be Italy, Spain, France, Portugal and Canada too. And also no worries, I hope your family gets better and that you guys will be okay! I hope other there in Portugal you and your mum will do well, take care!

@@ProtocolAbyss Thank you so much!

@@ProtocolAbyss I don't know if you still respond to comments, but would New Zealand be an ideal place to move as well? I'm thinking about moving there.

Not Nations, but people within those Nations sometimes do. Usually the wealthy elites.

Yet they’re heavily depending on medical innovation from the US.

@@fatherson5907 US ranks 4th in medical innovation. Switzerland ranks #1, Germany ranks #2, Netherlands ranks #3.

@@fatherson5907 It must kill you that the US isn't number 1 in medical innovation anymore. 😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣

@@fatherson5907 You mean Like the Covid vaccine?

Yep, should have mentioned that to them.

@labcoent co Yep, she was morraly bankrupt...

Horrible people who don't care about the less fortunate members of society, they don't want to have to contribute to help others, I thought that is what a civilised society does...

@labcoent co yes the easiest why to eliminate poverty is to let the poor die! Was Jesus Christ a not capitalist?????? !!!!

Probably gets it from His job

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no it is not. The last three years it has gone backwards 100 years.

It's not a More Economically Developed Country. It's not a Newly Emerging Economy. It's a Shrinking Development Country lol.

Go away boomers. You're holding everyone back.

They be like: it's freedooommmm!!11!!!

My eyes rolled so far back into my head when she answered that 🤣🤣🤣🙄🙄🙄

@@Alan-hq6ei My eyes rolled so far back into my head that it severed my optic nerves, and now I have to get surgery to mend them. It's good that I don't live in the US, or I might have been screwed.

Probably building border walls, deporting brown people, and providing militarised interventionism to other countries that haven't asked for it... but certainly nothing like education and health care! 😂

Killing terrorists obvi

Good one👌🏼

Brilliant! And look where we are today.

Your last sentence just sounds so alien to me. 3 kids and a knee replacement and was covered. In the UK and most of Europe you just go and have your kids and a knee replacement if you need it. Thats it.

Most people who praise socialized healthcare are the same kinds of people who pay 50% of their salary in taxes and then celebrate when they get crumbs in return.

Let's hope so. I am one of the "older" ones, but grew up and returned to my European home country. I have railed against the system in the US for decades.

I'm not sure you should excuse them that easily, everyone knows right from wrong, to not care about the more vulnerable members of your society just so you don't have to contribute shows that you are morally bankrupt, not and not deserving of your place within that society...

Just because it's free for everyone doesn't mean everyone gets it for everything when they need it. Take what my Dad got recently, a hip and a knee replacement. These are often rationed in free healthcare countries. Cataract surgeries also have a rationed waiting list. And others that aren't considered urgent enough. Look it up. Right now, my loved ones can get surgery when they need it. I get that eventually most people would likely get all the surgeries they need in a free healthcare system, but see the statistics (including the ones for people who have died waiting for free healthcare). In the UK for example, they aim not to let people wait over 18 weeks for a lot of things, but their waiting lists are full. I can't imagine waiting 4+ months for some of the things on their list. With free healthcare, there are sacrifices too. There is private healthcare there too, so once again, those who can afford to go private get treated faster than those who can't. But the cost of replacing one's hip privately seems to be about the same as paying for insurance + deductible in the US, but less if you get both hip and knee done in the same year. I get not everyone can get care here because they can't afford it. And something should definitely be done about that. There has to be a way where everyone gets what they need, but government-provided free healthcare doesn't seem to be it. If you read the horror stories about people desperately waiting for care from NHS because they can't afford to go private, how is that so different from people desperate for care they can't afford here?

@@technomewmew there is always a waiting list whenever it comes to the hospital whether it is a socialized system or privatized. But think of the bigger picture, drug manufacturers that profit an insane amount of money off the sick is not morally acceptable in my eyes. A socialized system will eliminate that and allow anyone to walk into clinics and hospitals without worrying about going into huge debt. Now think about those that are recently unemployed due to the coronavirus, they dont have a healthcare plan anymore. Which one is for the people more?

@@technomewmew so what you are saying is uk people pay the same amount to get a premium service as the us have to pay to get a standard service? the difference between uk and us right now is by having an option, in us if your are poor then you are straight up screwed and nothing you can do about it. but as a poor man i would have rather wait than nothing at all.

This is why we need to take away their rights

That woman is sooo dumb... rich and dumb...

Every full-time job I've ever had gave me benefits and Costco gives you benefits part time . But it still should be free

Sandra Mariaca I think everyone realizes healthcare sucks here, however, I still don’t want to work to pay for someone else’s care. I work to give my family what they need

@@jaredmackey4511 So if you need a transplant of blood or organs and you can't getting it from your family, you decline?

Stealing isn’t the right thing.

@@fatherson5907 So why are your healthcare insurance companies stealing from you?

I know right? Like, have you ever had to...pay a parking ticket? Pay rent? Have jury duty? Renew your driver's license? Recite the pledge of allegiance in school? Who do they think makes all these rules that they follow?

Well said

So many people don't realize how much we get for free via our taxes. Imagine paying a firefighter a co-pay each time he had to put our a fire, or the police every time you had a break-in or your neighbor is getting attacked by her boyfriend. Imagine if we had to pay for access for parks, zoos, museums, or even to get an Amber Alert put out for a missing child. Or stopping a rescue team from pulling you out of the rubble: "Uh no thanks guys, I'm good. I'll figure it out by myself, hopefully before the oxygen is gone. Just don't send me a bill."

The 2 women in this stating they don’t want the government involved in healthcare are both very very likely Medicare age, over 65, and already have the government involved IN their healthcare every single day. People like this stating ridiculous opinions crack me up....they apparently don’t want the very free things that they already have & are utilizing, super, we as taxpayers are happy to take them away from you then, since you don’t want government healthcare, works for me.

@@Baybarb27 - Exactly, I wish the interviewer asked if they decided not to opt into Medicare and go for private insurance only. I'm betting they kept their Medicare.

Oh, Jeysus Christ, yes ( I know it is spelled Jesus).

@@ravik007ggn Actually it's closer to Yeshua. The 'J' sound was not in the language.

Kawerau Woods I’d like that better as well. While having a large group would mean that insurance rates for the collective would be lower, having too large of a group would complicate database management and introduce greater data security risks, with the data obtained as an aggregate being more valuable than it would be otherwise. Add in the fact that the government is usually too divided to make these decisions, leaving pretty much everything run by them vastly underfunded, and you have a recipe for disaster with the oven set at the Planck temperature for an eternity, with our congressmen at the dinner table. Plus, you would personally know the people who would run that system and would be able to directly contact them with questions, but those who’d run the state-run alternative would be no-name bureaucrats who’d want everything in triplicate.

@Jackie Tearie Also with xmas (the apparently offensive to christians way of saying christmas) "X" comes from the Greek letter Chi, which is the first letter of the Greek word Christós (Χριστός), which became Christ in English.

One of the saddest things in life is this: liberals are so desperate to avoid accountability that they latch on to videos put out by “Now This News” that push misinformation and don’t bother to question why only students and tourists were interviewed.

Some people willfully ignore facts just so they can be "right"

Spot on. When the woman said something along the lines of free things are not worth having, I thought she'll never understand the concept of universal health care provided by taxation. The basic problem is the differences in the personal taxation systems in the UK and USA. I'm glad I live in the UK.

Ok boomers. Basically the only reason they don't like it is their own ignorance. Come ot the UK, you will struggle to meet anyone whe would rather scrap the NHS, other than conservative politicians who want to chop it all up and sell it to their billionaire friends .

This sums up most old people's attitudes to everything.

@@Kj16V Yep, and that is change = scary & bad

@@michelr8817 well you forget free education you get and what if you had a serios injery? US if you have not the good insurance you have to pay a ton of money compared to Europe where you pay only a part of your income i mean if you are eaning quite less you could apply for social support for paying less

@@calebf3655 but in order to pay the to surgeon he still needed the money he made from meth ;) And given that we have accessible healthcare over here that also won't bankrupt you, his chances of survival would've been fair

@@calebf3655 Actually that top surgeon would be free.... Is it that difficult to grasp this concept.

@@michelr8817 Stop lying. I know many people who moved from Europe to the US. And they all pay triple or quadruple the amount they used to pay in Europe. Yes, it isn't "free" but it's a lot cheaper. The main problem is, American hospitals are incredibly expensive. An ambulance ride which is "free" aka paid by your health insurance in Germany is €600 ($650). That same ride in the US is $2700. Giving birth is $10,000-$30,000 in the US. While in Germany it is €1500-€2000 ($1640-$2180) which again is "free" aka paid by your health insurance. Health expenditure per capita in the US is $10,586 (2018). Which makes it the most expensive healthcare system in the world. In Germany, which is the second most expensive healthcare system in the world, it's $5,986 (2018) per capita. And in "communist" France it's $4,965 (2018) per capita. Making it the fifth most expensive healthcare system in the world. Which is still less than half of what is spend in the US.

@@michelr8817 I'd rather pay some more income tax and VAT if that means that thing like healthcare and education are affordable or free. If university sets you back 30-50k a year and simply giving birth costs north or 10k, you only give the priviledged access to services that are meant for everyone. I support capitslism, but some areas require government intervention and need to be publicly managed. Healthcare and education are one of those areas. What kind of country do you live in when many people that get sick are stuck between avoiding treatment and possibly dying, or selling your house to take the treatment or possibly bankruptcy? In the US, you might be a patient or student, but you're a customer above all else and that idea is sickening

Amazing how ignorant people from the UK are. They are so dense that they believe they are getting “free” healthcare after they give 15% of their salary to the failed, pathetic NHS. So funny that 40% of cancer patients in the UK are waiting over two months for urgent treatment. The NHS is worthless.

@ATHusk you seriously can't be telling me that free healthcare wouldn't work for you. FREE healthcare.

This exactly. You americans are the wealthiest country on earth at time of writing, yet your country provides as much for your people as maybe Somalia. Many americans don't quite understand life in for instance Europe and many Europeans don't understand the gravity of losing the amount of collective support we're used to.

Exactly, some systems in America Baffle me. With some struggle, I was able to understand why people take a Pro-Life and Pro-Gun stance. But, not supporting Universal Health Care..... Especially by people who are Pro-Life..., Mind-boggling stuff.

@leicanoct Interesting. I guess whoever is negotiating the prices that the govt will pay the hospitals is doing a bad job. Coz, both Canada and UK ended up getting a good price.

@leicanoct Coz there is a wait time for non emergencies services in Canada..

@@Argacyan and many Europeans dont understand freedom of choice. Its sad.

Let them eat cake.

@@makoaki9071 Qu'ils mangent de la brioche

I bet if you asked her "should employers be forced to provide healthcare benefits?", she'd say "absolutely not! I don't think the government should tell business owners what to do!"

isnt that obvious? if your homeless, just buy house If you jobless, just get a job

If you're depressed just stop being sad

Plus gas...

@@eland65 ok, fair point, that should take the total to $8.13.

@@James_taylor810 nah, ups's rate would be like 375, american...

@@eland65 XD I laughed way too much at that

@@James_taylor810 yeah that's too much, gonna pass on that.

And talking about individual responsibility and government regulations with little understanding of how it works

@@cathl4953 Also humanity didn't survive living alongside Woolly Mammoths, Sabre tooth tigers and 20 foot sloths or outlast Neanderthals through rugged individualism, humanity thrives when we cooperate.

You mean ignorance over everything else

@@rivertwygzbed543 this is why we made the Neanderthals go extinct, they were not as social as our ancestors but they were stronger, smarter and able to withstand extreme weather conditions.

@@anthonygibbs9245 Stronger together

They wouldn’t be paying less. Your ignorance is giving you an over simplified view. Implementing universal healthcare would cost $5-10T per year in the US. You believe silly propaganda from an extremist news organization because you’re uneducated and gullible.

Don't bother, Father son is a liar and a troll. He's a butt hurt American who can't stand that other countries have it better than the US.

@@fatherson5907 The average age of a medical bankruptcy filer is 44.9 years old. 40% of Americans fear they won’t be able to afford health care in the upcoming year. 17% of adults with health care debt declared bankruptcy or lost their home because of it. 66.5% of bankruptcies are caused directly by medical expenses, making it the leading cause for bankruptcy. As of April 2022, 14% of Americans with medical debt planned to declare bankruptcy later in the year because of it.

Quite a few Americans seem to think they are their own police force, judge and jury though..

As the founder of the NHS, Anuerin Bevan said: "no society can legitimately call itself civilised if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means."

You got that right.

Exactly

In "third world countries" we also have free healthcare. I can't assure it's in all countries but some do have a healthcare system. My grandfather got a heart transplant almost for free in Mexico (30 dollars), my uncle got cancer and his treatment costed 4 dollars a month, my great grandmother got free insulin treatment at 92 years old, she died at 108.

A Third World country with a Gucci belt.

Except nobody is paying $900 per month. You’re ignorant and uneducated.

@@fatherson5907 the average price of health care for a single person is 400$ if you are covering more then one person such as a spouse or yes Child (or both) it will multiply buy how many people you are covering

@@rustcrayfish7675 yes, $400 is not equal to $900

@@fatherson5907 however the average household is 2.53. So for just 2 people it cost 800$ and that’s for basic coverage that doesn’t include add-ons like free doctor visit and copays and that can put it above 900 or even 1000$. I’m not saying a NHS would be the greatest thing ever it has it’s flaws just like everything else however. The US needs this option for lower class family’s who can’t afford health care and need assistance and also so that the Insurance companies have competition so their monopoly ends

@@rustcrayfish7675 so the amount of taxes they would be paying would be double. There is no such thing as “free” healthcare. Only idiots believe that. Low income families get full coverage through Medicaid. You have no idea what you’re talking about. While your beloved NHS is completely failing against the pandemic, you fools are obsessing over the internal affairs of the US (which have no impact on you at all). Mind your own business, Karen.

Canada seems to be infamously bad when it comes to anything related to time. This is not the case for all socialized healthcare

The nhs doesn't work in the uk either. While it's better then american healthcare, it's one of the worst in europe.

@@views-kb6sv True that the NHS isn't perfect, but Canada's healthcare is worse than that of some third-world countries.

The taxes are not the biggest problem It's the choices and also the ultimate privatization like they did with the vets Once the government owns it you have no voice

David true

@Dragon1717 "The tax increase that Bernie proposed would cost me thousands more on an annual basis" NOPE. There's NO evidence that you have to pay "THOUSANDS MORE" annually. "Medicare for All" is easily Possible by paying Fare Share of Taxes in Big Corporations and Billionaires. (additionally, by Slashing Bloated Military Budget.)

@Dragon1717 That "cost effective" employer won't be cost effective much longer, especially when incentives come into play. This system is extremely unregulated, which means they can charge you for as much as they want. If you suffer an injury on the job or fall ill, the costs will soar.

@@studiohq We never had a voice anyway. An unregulated system doesn't care about anyone's opinions on any subjective matter. Tighter regulations means more control over the costs of healthcare, which means less people die as a result of not being able to afford healthcare in the first place. Privatized healthcare literally puts a price on human lives.

I concur. As an USA citizen I would rather live in Australia. But USA is #1..... In military spending. Complete and utter waste of tax dollars.

American Exceptionalism is still believed by many US citizens. The US would be a much better place if this was not the case.

Wow; that’s so true. Well observed.

@@DYKWINNING Not only are we #1 in military spending, we are #1 in bankruptcies and financial ruin caused by insane healthcare costs, we are #1 in school shootings and other gun violence, we are #1 in incarceration rate of our own citizens, we are #1 in lobbyist spending, #1 in sugar consumption, and many other terrible things. Not to mention #1 in COVID cases and COVID deaths. Meanwhile, we are never #1 in positive things. We are #16 in human development (HDI), #19 in citizen happiness (World Happiness Report), #52 in how free we are (World Liberty Index), and #27 in education.

DYKWINNING they still don’t have the best special task force tho, and I oop

Denying treatment for due to pre-existing conditions is illegal. You’re lying to strangers on the internet 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Don't bother, Father son is a liar and a troll. He's a butt hurt American who cannot stand that other countries have it better than the US.

@@fatherson5907 and you think insurance companies wont do that?

@@ProtocolAbyss it’s against federal law. You’re gullible.

Police and fire brigade are funded municipally. Stop obsessing over our healthcare. Fix your own system.

Don't bother, Father son is a liar and a troll. He's a butt hurt American who can't stand that other countries have it better than the US

It's unfair to make people pay for situations they have nothing to do with

@@suptumberlumbertumberlumbe9305 So you don't want the fire brigade to help your neighbours out when their house is on fire? How selfish of you!

Dee Dee exactly, just look at the budget of the us, health care and education are just a joke. How to kill the poor 101 and having dumb and easily manipulated youth... it’s scary

At the very least we need to stop the 700 to 1000% price gouging that would be a great start.

@@julienpastis3355 but it's the youth that advocates for universal healthcare and other social policies.

Under our progressive tax system, half the population doesn't pay federal taxes. Would that be true with Scandinavian or European countries...NO! The problem is not the military budget, the problem is that if people want to receive Health Care, like Scandinavians and Europeans, they're going to have to contribute to the system...hello!

@@dmannevada5981 under your progressive system, people die because they can't pay. We pay taxes that go back into healthcare, retirement plans. Everyone pays for everyone. It's cheaper to get a gun than to have a baby and you want to talk about a "progressive" system? Education must be f*cked up too then

Because... they wouldn't have been able to afford treatment?

@John Galt Because we can do the maths.

Oohh I recently thought about that too. If I lived in America, I would've been messed úp. No way that there would've been care for my leg, for my mother's cancer, for my trauma, for my autism-needs. I would've probably been homeless at this point. Homeless while caring for a stray cat, or dead.

I'm also glad to live in Europe, I live in Norway. In Norway, everyone has the right to healthcare and other stuff. Everything from education to healthcare is free up to 18 years of age, after that you pay a small fee for everything (depending on what it is of course), except necessary treatments / operations, and I'm happy with having to pay taxes as an apprentice.

@@Carlium Karen say if everythings free thats not worth to be have