BILL MOYERS JOURNAL | Single Payer Health Insurance | PBS
Buy the DVD: http://www.shoppbs.org/entry.point?entry=3574816&source=PBSCS_YOUTUBE_ BMJL4306_052209:N:DGR:N:N:609:QPBS Washington’s abuzz about health care, but why isn’t a single-payer plan an option on the table? Public Citizen’s Dr. Sidney Wolfe and Physicians for a National Health Program’s Dr. David Himmelstein on the political and logistical feasibility of health care reform.
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USA is a corrupt …
USA is a corrupt government, and needs to be violently overthrown. That is the only way the will of the people can prevail over special interest money and influence.
For real !!
For real !!
It’s time to get …
It’s time to get rid of the leech insurance industry that is causing the great health care crisis in this country. A single payer health care plan will save billions of dollars and provide health care to everyone, not just rich people. Wake up America and demand universal health care without insurance companies.
PBS stands for …
PBS stands for Public BS liberal media
Single payer is …
Single payer is code words for Government healthcare. Get the Government out of our lives please… Jimmy Carter? The most Failed president in US history….
Yes, AINouveau what …
Yes, AINouveau what you said is absolutely correct! Americans just do not want to believe that they are so far behind when it comes to health care. Yet there are so many that are living the nightmare of being uninsured. Or getting improper treatment.
This is a great …
This is a great video. Single payer health care is definitely what we need in this country. It is time to throw the lobbyists out with the garbage. We are not an ethical moral nation if we allow our own people to be without good and affordable health care.
I worked in health …
I worked in health care for many years. I enjoyed working for a non-profit county hospital. The patient care was excellent because all hospital health care workers were involved in decision making to get the patients well quickly and save money for the county. I’ve also worked at “for profit” hospitals. Totally different. We were worked short handed constantly and forced to give unnecessary treatments without questioning. I’ve seen the greed and corruption of the “for profit” health care system.
Bob Doyle, Newt …
Bob Doyle, Newt Gingrich, Insurance Corps & Drug Manufacturers lobbyists blocked Hilary Clinton’s Health Plan.
They Republicans who controlled the entire Congress consented only on the S-CHIP Bill as a compromise…but in 2009, the Republicans opposed the expansion of that same S-CHIP … but were defeated by the Democratic Majority.
So you have no …
So you have no problem that the U.S. has higher infant mortality rates than Cuba, Slovenia, Croatia and 28 other countries? Countries that have national health care for they’re citizens. You throw out National Socialist Party like it means something. But you don’t really know . What it means is that youve become a shill for the health insurance companies, HMO’s and morally corrupt Politicians on both sides of the isle and you dont even know it.
Then you should …
Then you should have voted for Kucinich! besides, only 6k troops died over a 6 year span of the war, in the same time, 120 americans died here at home just because they lack access to healthcare. How long are we going to allow them to rip us off, its time to get mad. lets all do something about it instead of just hoping and wishing.
WHAT ARE YOU DOING for single payer?
It’s immoral that …
It’s immoral that the US has conived with those s to manipulate the health care system…Definitely, they are IN BED with the health care industry and not only, they are high maintenance lovers, pouring into their pockets billions of dollars.Medication in this country is the HIGHEST on the world, after all they do have to spend 3 billion dollars/year to advertise and make sure ppl get more ad more sick.SHAME
Do something …
Do something constructive. Write/call your state representatives, the leader of the Senate, Speaker of the House, and President Obama; tell one and all not to fear the health care industry and that you want Single Payer Health Insurance. They are in office to serve The People not the health care industry.
I am totaly …
I am totaly embarrassed by our government and about Max Baccus position on a government sponsored Universal health Insurance. It can and it shall be past for the good and the future of our country. Anyone who votes against it shall be voted against in the coming elections. Thank you Mr. Bill Moyers for showing us the truth we trust you!
Agree 100%!
I …
Agree 100%!
I think capitalism rocks. Does great good for all of us.
But that doesn’t mean the profit motive applies well for EVERYTHING. Organizational profit needs to be taken out of the equation for health care. The private insurance system for funding health care is a misguided, broken, amoral MESS.
It’s not “socialism” to let the government take care of the right things. No one sane thinks a privatized military is a good idea. Applies to health care, too.
Time for a change.
And all that listed …
And all that listed is considered EVOL if it’s done by the GUVINMET paid to similar workers!! by conservatives who think shysters stealing sick people’s money is capitalism and financial opportunity…to cheat and steal!
Civic services are …
Civic services are not commodity for profit.
Like water, sewer, library, fire station, public transportation, parks, clean environment, Eduction etc.
Health of citizens is one of them. Healthy citizenry make stronger country.
Public health in the hands of ” for profit Private company”, what an irony?
CITIZEN’S HEALTH IS NOT A COMMODITY. STOP THIS “DRUG” CRIME.
Public health is …
Public health is being traded at wall street for profit, is the biggest crime committed by our elected officials against “We The People”.
We gave House, Senate & Presidency, What stops you Obama? Did you forget your personal stories?
bill moyers is …
bill moyers is totally full of it, BTW….
i don’t care if …
i don’t care if it’s “socialist” or not, but i do care that it will not work. there is no such thing as a premium good/service available to all, in any area of human life. for all you actually dumb/gullible enough to believe that the folks that run the TSA and the IRS are going to do a good job of this, you can have it. in the end, the wealthy will pay for better, like they do in every facet of life.
sorry your liberal college profs fried your brains; mine is still working…..
BYE! Don’t let the …
BYE! Don’t let the door knob hit ya where the Good Lord Split Ya! And don’t bother to come back.
It was probably the …
It was probably the healthcare industry along with the zionist empire conservatives that brought down Clinton. Shame!
The Only Reason I …
The Only Reason I voted for Obama was the end to war in Irag and to give all people health acre so they dont die like the Troops for NOTHING !
Oh NOZ!!! It’s the …
Oh NOZ!!! It’s the evil National Socialist Party bogeyman!! Run away!!! Flee in terror!!!
Nice – but utter and complete drivel.
It is hardly “Socialist” to implement better, less expensive health care. Nor is it the slightest bit socialist to reject the concept of government of the corporations, by the corporations and for the corporations.
Save your scare-words for your three-year-olds – we’re adults.
That sounds a lot …
That sounds a lot like a plank of the National Socialist Party platform.
Nice.