BBC documentary on dismal US Healthcare

The first out of three episodes of the program "Panorama: What now Mr President" made by the BBC.

Description: "Barack Obama takes over as US President with a promise to dramatically change America and make it a fairer place. He is inheriting the worst economic crisis in almost a century, and a country so unequal that 23,000 people die every year because they cannot afford basic healthcare. To close the gap between rich and poor Obama will have to take on the might of the corporate world, which wields enormous influence in Washington. Can he change the world's most powerful country, and should he?"
charliemsays...

Brits have a bad health system ?
All medicine costs 6 bux...ALL medicine.
Waiting lines for critical care are non existent, and elected surgery lines are very short. You dont have people going broke trying to stay healthy in the UK.

You should check out these systems before criticizing them, the worlds best rated nations on health care all have some form of socialism at work in the health sector.

qruelsays...

yo mharvey42 get with the program, this isn't youtube. Feel free to disagree but how about putting some meat on your arguement instead of vague generalities. VideoSift allows tons of text and hyperlinks so go knock yourself out with googlefu to prove your point.
EDIT: took out innappropriate and unnecessary swear word, my apologies

10768says...

>> ^qruel:
<IMG class=smiley src="http://static1.videosift.com/videosift/i/emoticon/smilecute.gif">yo mharvey42 get with the program, this isn't youtube. Feel free to disagree but how about putting some meat on your arguement instead of shit ass generalities. VS allows tons of text and hyperlinks so go knock yourself out with googlefu to prove your point.


OK, here's some NHS "success stories"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1110054/Starved-death-NHS-hospital-Damning-inquiry-highlights-case-patient-left-food-26-days.html
Britain shamed by NHS death ratesWaiting lists and shortage of doctors blamed for grim mortality figures
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2003/sep/07/health.nhs
UK's system killed 17,000 Britons
http://www.timesdaily.com/article/20080227/NEWS/802270305/-1/searchxml
Dad Dies After Hospital A&E Wait
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Dad-Stewart-Fleming-Dies-After-Six-Hour-Wait-In-Kent-Hospital-Accident-And-Emergency/Article/200812415195509

rgroom1says...

My grandparents fled Spain after the Spanish Civil War to Venezuela. When my grandmother became bedridden with hip maladies, they had to go to government doctors for a hip replacement surgery. The wait for the surgery was bearable, but the wait for physical therapy was not. She became bedridden again and died of hemosepsis. I never got to meet her.
I cannot help but imagine this becoming an actuality in the U.S.

charliemsays...


OK, here's some NHS "success stories"
<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1110054/Starved-death-NHS-hospital-Damning-inquiry-highlights-case-patient-left-food-26-days.html">ht
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Britain shamed by NHS death ratesWaiting lists and shortage of doctors blamed for grim mortality figures
<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2003/sep/07/health.nhs">http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2003/sep/07/health.nhs</a>
UK's system killed 17,000 Britons
<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.timesdaily.com/article/20080227/NEWS/802270305/-1/searchxml">http://www.timesdaily.com/article/20080227/NEWS/802270305/-1/searchxm
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Dad Dies After Hospital A&E Wait
<a rel="nofollow" href="http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Dad-Stewart-Fleming-Dies-After-Six-Hour-Wait-In-Kent-Hospital-Accident-And-Emergency/Article/2008124151
95509">http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Dad-Stewart-Fleming-Dies-After-Six-Hour-Wait-In-Kent-Hospital-Accident-And-Emergency/Article/200812
415195509</a>


How often are incidents like this happening ?
How often are people in the US dieing because they cant even get in ?

Which is the lesser of two evils ?

rougysays...

England has a much better health care system than the US.

To say otherwise is clutching at straws.

People get sick here, and unless they're well-off or luckily insured, they do die, or they go bankrupt.

It's happening to a friend of mine right now. Her insurance company shorted her when she had a huge tumor removed and now she's in a hell of a mess.

Insurance companies in America fuck people on a routine basis.

Even the insurance on my home went up 40% in the last two years and I made no claims. Why? Because there was nothing stopping them from doing it.

Canada, England, most of Europe - Australia - I'll take their health care system over the US's any time.

choggiesays...

Health care in the U.S. involves a simple 3-step process.

Step 1. Outlaw fast-food advertising of all kinds.

Step 2. Legalize ALL drugs, scheduled, home-made, or otherwise.

Step 3. Teach the next 2 generations of children how not to eat poison disguised as, or impersonating food.

Then doctors can go about the business of mending broken bones, stitching skin, and not ass-raping the nation along with the pharmy and insurance gangsters.


Ya bunch of putty, robot, motherfuckers!

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