Flint, Michigan should have been granted single payer healthcare years ago, along with thousands of similar high-lead-level and superfund site communities. Healthcare is a human right.

I love that Max Baucus has come to Jesus on universal coverage *now* , when he's useless. And it's rich hearing him say that getting to universal coverage is taking longer than he expected. Yeah it's taking longer because HE was there to get in the way back when he actually had that power.

The thing that kills me is the politicians that are so against what ever you want to call it, single payer, medicare for all, Government run health care. The same politicians benefit from what they are totally against for everyone else. And I'll just bet all the polititions against this are getting big kickbacks from the private insurance company.

It is infuriating that you interviewed Max Baucus. He was the head of a Senate committee when the possible forms of Obamacare were being debated. Physicians for national health plan and national nurses united had both lobbying hard to have Medicare for all considered. The doctors and nurses were making progress with the members of Congress who are on the healthcare committee. Max baucus ran a committee that had nothing to do with healthcare or human services. I think it was some sort of Tax committee. Despite that he called for hearings on healthcare way before anything was organized. Nursing and medical professors from Harvard University wanted to testify in favor of Medicare for all. Max baucus would not allow any of the medical or nursing professors to testify. So we ended up getting a for-profit healthcare plan that didn’t cover everyone in the country. And Max Bacchus is the primary person responsible for that. The healthcare industry paid Max a lot of money to get him to run interference for them. Tens of thousands of people have died because of maxes actions. I would not give him any respect at all. And if I were going to report on Medicare for an interview Max box, I would strongly recommend confronting him about blocking Medicare for all back in 2007 & 2008 In their attempt to be heard the doctors and nursing professors stood up to speak in max Balqis is hearing even though it was illegal. They were arrested and hauled away. Medical professors from Harvard and nursing professors from Harvard were arrested for trying to talk about Medicare for all. They were arrested because Max Barchus wanted for-profit healthcare to keep killing people in this country because for-profit healthcare had given him a lot of money. He’s an evil greedy selfish man.

The sad part is that if the senator was still in Capitol Hill, he wouldn’t say the same because they are getting paid to oppose it. They have to be away from Washington to come to the common sense solution of having a system similar to m4a.

I just donated $1250.00 to more perfect union for content like this.

Bet the company’s owners still came out with money, and living well off. No owners in jail!

Its absolutely insane that it took Senator Baucus, a villian with the Wellpoint lobbyist Liz Fowler at his side during the obamacare fiasco, comes full circle with Harry Reid's original pitch of enrolling people early onto Medicare. Wild. If you want an in depth study of the people and policy that created and ultimately helped the people of Libbey, the book by David McCumber and Andrew Schneider "An Air that Kills" is one of the best. They were the newspaper guys that broke the story in Seattle back around 2000 (yes, 22 years ago!). Lots of intrigue and gov't heroes and villians. Gayla and Les Skramstad should be known as legends. TLDR; asbestos company poisons town, the little guys win health care afterwards.

The fact that the US, as a whole, has no universal M4A or single payer is just an embarrassment. Instead we pay the premiums for whatever private insurance wants to charge us. Who will pay for it? We already are...

Declare an environmental emergency for the whole county and get M4All and infrastructure improvements- no congressional action required. If the courts are unhappy let them get the egg on THEIR face.

Pay and benefits for politicians should be limited to the benefits availavle to those living on social security and Medicare. Then we will see things improve.

your reporter couldn't get an apology from Baucus for being openly against M4A but secretly getting benefits for his own constituents?

Should be Medicaid for all, not Medicare.. I've never understood why the push for Medicare, as it doesn't cover nearly enough.

One of the things that this video talks about is the different parts of Medicare, and how “advantage” plans suck. Most countries that have single payer you have nothing or much less out of pocket.

Yeah, senator, “it’s going to take a lot, a LOT, of time.” In other words, folks, “we’re gonna fight this as long as we can get away with bamboozaling the people.” Just another grifting politician.

As long as the politicians are able to have financial support from private corporations, directly and or indirectly, they are and will not look out for the citizens they are supposed to be answering to .

I love hearing how people come around to accept socialized medicine

The United States Healthcare system is just ridiculous. The U.S. government spends more on Medicaid and Medicare than some countries do on their Universal health care system.

This needs to be made into a shorter clip - public service announcement - and played on every TV channel, in with the ads for as long as it takes until people insist that their Reps and Senators will pass laws to allow Medicare for all nationwide. Healthcare is a human right! See how many other societal problems would disappear if this was the law of the land!

How come no want gets charge for murder? If corporations are people then they should face the same justice? Unreal…..

government: how about we provide these dying people with medicare, to (hopefully) distract them from suing the crap out of us.

Let me guess: not one of the executives were charged.

And people in France pay nothing, no copay, no deductible, nothing. I've seen the French healthcare system first hand, with my own eyes. The doctor came from the hospital AND MADE A HOUSECALL!!

So he was saying people are going to die.Well guess what the the rest of Americans are dieing because of no insurance or crappy insurance.He covered this town that's great he should of took his own advice and he saying it is going take time.Follow your advice the rest of us don't have time.Just like he said no time for bureaucracy . Bureaucracy is how we got the affordable care act which does not even come close.We need to be like the rest of the industrialized nations and cover everyone and get rid of this profit driven, bankrupting system.

6:22 only hospital coverage; toss the sick to private, for-profit insurance wolves for doctor visits, meds (:-(

Maxwell Sieben Baucus (né Enke; born December 11, 1941) is an American politician who served as a United States senator from Montana from 1978 to 2014. A member of the Democratic Party, he was a U.S. senator for over 35 years, making him the longest-serving U.S. senator in Montana history. President Barack Obama appointed Baucus to replace Gary Locke as the 11th U.S. Ambassador to the People's Republic of China, a position he held from 2014 until 2017.

It's going to take a long time. Yes, a long long time. As long as the medical insurance and drug company's can stall it by lobbying congress. That is free enterprise. That is how it works in this country.

Thank you so much for posting this! 😯😒😏😊👍

I have been on Medicare for 2 yrs. It's not that great but it should be a baseline for everyone. Basic Medicare pays 80% for most hospital stuff. That other 20% is still pretty large. Plus $170 a month is taken from my social security. Due to several serious health issues I had to get a Medicare supplement. $200 per month so now it's at $370. Then if you need prescriptions which I do once you hit a certain spend you go into the coverage gap and your meds costs skyrocket. Mine are about $150 a month so healthcare costs me $520 per month. My social security is 2725 per month. Medicare for all should be the bare minimum. Medicaid should be available to everyone below the median income.

My grandfather had this from working at the Coast Guard years ago. He recently passed, he was almost 97.

Love this channel!!

SO GOOD ❣️ Thank you ‼️🇺🇲❣️🇺🇲🙏💊☘️🌠

Medicare for all is not a left vs right issue. It's an issue of corporate profit/payed for politicians vs the people. The proof is the fact we just went through a pandemic with the democrats in control and instead of voting on healthcare they voted on an infrastructure package. Whichever side you support doesn't care about you unfortunately.

thanks for sharing this

Here in Australia we have universal health cover for all, its paid for by a tax levy that everybody pays in the knowledge that everyone is going to need health care at some time in their life. This system that we have here, that guarantees health care for all actually costs less per capita than the system currently in use in the USA. Australia also heavily subsidises drugs that people need so no-one has to go into terrible debt to fund treatments. Americans don't seem to have a problem with government funding stuff like policing and fire fighting and postal services, so why do they have such a problem with health care ?

It angers me that any senior citizen has to pay for healthcare.

Physicians for a National Health Program

Everyone of these politicians once they are no longer in power and no longer tied to private interest come around. Get lost, Bacchus!

The whole fucking cou try should have universal health care. With a lifetime max. U can't spend millions on 1 person. But everyone should have Healthcare. The whole industry should be nationalized.

Love the classroom!

Lol that's funny, right around the time this was originally released I went a vacation with my best friends to Troy, which is right next to Libby. In fact, I broke my hand and went to the hospital in Libby to get my hand fixed, and the medical staff there was great!

This is absolutely deplorable that when you are at your worst point in your life (healthwise) you are being asked to pay for healthcare at the level of buying luxury items (which you will never purchase anyways). It means purchasing healthcare is ironically becoming a status symbol. Private insurance has bought every politician they are able to from making this a reality for everyone.

Plus you got to have other insurance to make sure that insurance is going to pay something for you make a whole lot of sense doesn't it. They want to make sure they're going to get their money from you first and then give you as little as they have to in return. Hell of a system we're living in hey. And this is the great USA we're living in.

WR Grace, as usual. They literally do this ALL over the world.

Declare an environmental emergency for the entire USA.

I've known about Libby for some years now thanks to Matt Bruenig, America's best policy wonk. Now let's talk about Max Baucus' donors before + during the Obamacare debate…grrr

Healthcare Lobbyist: Come back, UnitedHealth! Single-Payer: (shoots Lobbyist) My name's not "UnitedHealth", kid!

Thats my hometown, I was cleared of asbestos, but pretty much everyone in my family has some trace of it.

Single paid is very good you town hais very great leadership for your States that very good.

meanwhile, in flint...

Well done,thumbs up

Bruh... conditions from health disaster cannot be the bar to getting access to any like universal Healthcare... If that's the case I'd like to submit my application based of the wide range of COVID-19 related conditions resulting from and/or aggravated due to federal, state, and local governments responses to COVID-19 pandemic and lack of pandemic preparedness and readiness according to pandemic and all Hazards preparedness act or some shit..

Keep it up MPU!

As long as Wall St bosses run the country than health care will be only for those who can pay. Nothing gets done except that that creates bigger profits for the bosses. If you get sick or die young they just hire someone new. .

This special carve out for one community opens the door to Medicare for All.

#CorruptionIsCancer

" Medicare for all " needs to be implemented all across America.A system similar to Canada. Health care is too important to be a " commodity "

Like the gal mentioned they've got insurance if you want to call it insurance they're limited on what they will do for you.

I love this channel. I love the stories that you're bringing to light. I would like to point out that propaganda is not right wing. You are fighting against all propaganda, not just the most agreejous. The senator in this story is not a right winger. This isn't a fight against the right, it's a fight against the narrative that there just isn't enough of OUR OWN MONEY to help ourselves. Maybe something that can be addressee in another video, but I've never heard anyone talk about what the cost differential is for businesses between having to provide insurance vs. a tax for single payer. We know insurance costs allot for individuals, so it would seem obvious that a company that is providing for multiple individual insurance plans must be spending a lot more than they have to. It's my belief that medicare for all would be cheaper for everyone. Maybe they just like holding that power over the rest of us?

Wow, would be so awesome to have Medicare for all. I wish they could simply try it out in more small towns like Libby to prove to the nation that it's not a horrible idea.... like, it works. And you can still pay for private insurance if you want. It's a shame that we pay so much more for healthcare in this country and get so little for it.

Sounds good but who pays for the coverage and are doctors satisfied with their fees.

Read "YOUR" " Bill of Rights! " Said " No One in America! " Lol...

And this is a great example of why all corporate taxes should be high. Every time there is a corporate created catastrophe the company pays out the people at the top, pays the share holders; then does the least they can get away with before filling bankruptcy and leaving the aftermath for the government to clean up. Once again privatizing profits and socializing loses. But if we don't tax the corporations highly, we will have to rely on the people to fix what corporate greed destroyed.

Yes. YES!! ¥€$!!! Now do this for ALL the people impacted by corporations. The corporations should be paying for this … but so many lawmakers are in the pocket of big pharma.

#$@& Sen Baucus and all the politicians who oppose universal healthcare!

What about the entire state of Massachusetts? They have single-payer universal healthcare.

We've got some of the best doctors and hospitals and innovative healthcare technology in this country. But we don't have "healthcare" as in a functional healthcare system. What we have is a convoluted web of inefficient reimbursement methods, mix of public and private hospital systems, and HCOs that distribute healthcare resources unequally in the communities they're supposed to serve. Medicare for all would just be so much more efficient, fiscally responsible, and people would receive better care as a result.

Montana?

Fun fact: The whole state of Vermont has single-player health care since 2011.

I am for HEALTHcare for all humans, except our current system is not healthcare, it is SICKcare. So until the medical system changes to HEALTHcare, I do not support medical insurance for all, which translates to money given to this sick care industry.

Now I know where I'm going to move to...

There has been too much money put in the cost of everything in the pharmaceutical industry and not enough in prevention like natural path doctors that insurance doesn't payed for . Where istead insurance pays of drugs and surgery. The end result is most everone pays too much for insurance in the United States.

Were a country based on GREED plain and simple,, We certainly can afford a one-payer system which would benefit ALL citizens BUT were motivated by PROFIT and GREED so the average citizen needs are not as important as the bottom line profit margins of corporate america,,, SAD

We have had social medical services in America for veterans for decades and I have been using it for over 40 years as a retired veteran. Why not do a story on the VA and conduct a cost analysis versus veteran population?

Good to show people it's possible bureaucratically to pull that off in this country. But there's needs to be popular media addressing elephant in the room arguments like who should pay for it and how high is too high for a premium. I'm certain there is a good argument for not letting for profit companies profit off the death of individuals. But to get everyone on the same page and reject the propaganda and back door dealing we need to be on the same page

Hundreds of Black and Native towns and cities across the US are dumping sites and other contamination sites, but almost never is anything done for them. You can be sure one small White town gets compensated and cared for, though.

The American Medical Industry neither heals you or cures you of anything

we pay spend THE MOST IN THE WORLD for the worst Healthcare in the world! so we could have Universal Healthcare, and SAVE MONEY?!

Hopefully not the last town to ever have this.

Was not that quick and easy for the rest of us and not that quick. Smile the hell on hopefully you all will expire sooner

Why is Healthcare system this complicated? You get sick, you go to the doctor, pay a simple fee, get your meds and go home. Only in America.

It's long overdue for Americans to embrace the social welfare state. It's the only way forward to a truly just society.

Notice the difference between Libby and Flint?

I would suggest that MEDICARE FOR ALL'S FINE PRINT be read thoroughly. If would like to receive free health care. CONTACT YOUR LOCAL RECRUITER.

Senator Baucus sounds like a hypocrite. Put him in the hypocrite category with every other politician who won't go along with health care for all. THEY all get healthcare, provided by taxpayers.

I guess East Palestine, Ohio is headed for a single payer healthcare system.

The town is so incredibly poor and close to nothing. Housing is so expensive and glad I decided not to move there.

If anyone believes the Democrats are somehow better than the Republicans, they are deluded. Both parties are right wing. Both parties represent the owners of capital. The bottom 90% of Americans are not in this group. We need a people's party for non owners of income producing property, for non capital owners.

Nothing is free in America, somebody has to pay the bill.

You're investigation has a serious lack of information. and the conclusion it comes to are very short sighted.

In these circumstances for Libby Mt I do agree with this healthcare program.They certainly deserve it after being lied to.

The reason why it’s going to take time it’s was because of elected leaders like him. They either change (which almost NEVER happens) or progressives being elected.

So if I go on Medicare I need another insurance policy, where as now I only have to pay for one insurance coverage. That’s f’d . And I’ve been diagnosed fully disabled, but I still can’t get Medicare coverage until I’m 65.

The American healthcare system doesn't exist. It isn't a system. It's private property, no different from McDonald's. The only difference is that people don't die from lack of McDonald's in their diet. People don't go bankrupt and lose their homes and life savings because they can't afford to buy a Big Mac. Healthcare profits - via hospitals, pharmaceuticals, and insurance, are 20% of GDP in America. That means that 1 out of every $5 spent in the US is for healthcare. That's a lot of revenue, all going to shareholders. When politicians say we can't afford public healthcare in the US, they are right, since American politicians represent the owners of the industries involved. Those owners won't give up free money, which is what healthcare spending is. Everyone who ever lived and who will ever live needs healthcare. It's 100% certain. Who would give that free money up? We, the people, are peasants. The US is not a free country. It's a strict, laissez faire economic system just like England was in the 19th century.

Always remember we must repent of our sins (sin is transgression The Law Of Yahuah The Father in Heaven. The Law are The Books: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, & Deuteronomy). We must repent of our sins and Have Belief On Yahusha The Messiah. HE Died and Rose three days later so that we can be forgiven of our sins! Come to HIM🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂

The fact that they still vote republican is mind-boggling. Not that most democrats would be any better... but atleast there would be a chance.

They can,t change federal laws

What is the demographic makeup of Libby cuz that matters……..it’s 85 percent one race, the race doesn’t matter the homogeneity does

I don't think anybody grasp what's actually means. Watch and listen to every word.

NOPE !!...NO WAY PEOPLE... SOON THE GOVERNMENT WILL CHOOSE WHO GETS TREATMENT AND WHO DOES NOT