Why Don't We Have Universal Healthcare?? Follow The Money!

Why Don't We Have Universal Healthcare?? Follow The Money! | Christopher Titus Podcast clip

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In this Christopher Titus Podcast clip, we discuss why the U.S. is the only developed nation - and the RICHEST! - without universal healthcare.
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@lesk.4622 Ай бұрын

This is the richest country in the world and the most neglectful of their citizens.

@thomasdearment3214 Ай бұрын

republicans neglect you not so much dems

@charlie-obrien Ай бұрын

We are only the country with the richest people. We are not collectively the richest country.

@Melissa85Bee Ай бұрын

100% correct.

@MagiRemmie Ай бұрын

@@charlie-obrien I was curious so I looked it up. According to yahoo fiance. "1. China. China has surpassed the US as the richest country in the world by GDP, with a GDP of $35.29 trillion, as of 2024.May 31, 2024" I am 100% not surprised.

@ateamfan42 Ай бұрын

That's because our government doesn't serve the citizens. Our government serves the giant corporations and uber-rich individuals that bought all the politicians elected to power. Change the laws to prevent the massive money contributed to politics, and we'll see the representation start to switch to the people.

@Schaneification Ай бұрын

I am a Ameircan Vet . I live in Europe . I had cancer by bill after 4 months in the Hospital , My bill was $400.00 including Meds !

@sunshine3914 Ай бұрын

A friend had to go to the ER for 13 stitches to the head, the ER bill alone was $44,000. That was the summer of 2016. When paramedics arrived, they asked her the usual questions; her name, day, month, president… completely lucid, she screams , “Oh F*** NO ! HE’s NOT A GD PRESIDENT!”

@christurner1791 Ай бұрын

But ‘socialist medicine’ DOESN’T work! 😂😂😂😂

@tj7870 Ай бұрын

@@christurner1791 some socialism would be the best thing for the poor and working class they ever had!

@christurner1791 Ай бұрын

@@tj7870 of course it would.

@Schaneification Ай бұрын

@@christurner1791 Yea I just works in most Western Courties for over 80 years .

@kingtaco258 Ай бұрын

A Harry Truman quote that still holds true to this day: "The Democrats work to help people who need it. That other party, they work for people who don't. That's all there is to it."

@mattsmith1859 5 сағат бұрын

Since Truman there have been many, many changes for Democrats to put forth a national health service and they failed to each time. This isn't just the fault of one party.

@Brutushungwell Ай бұрын

Here’s what blows my mind. We pay into Medicare all our working lives and then they charge us a premium when we are 65

@janea4777 Ай бұрын

And they call it “an entitlement!”

@donnadumare Ай бұрын

Republican strategy to privatize Medicare😢

@mervynstephens2808 Ай бұрын

I live in Australia and since I turned 65 all my visits to the GP are free and my high blood pressure tablets costs $23.50 for a month’s supply.

@eddielopez5708 Ай бұрын

It's because the health insurance companies co-opted medicare when Congress tinkered with the laws establishing Medicare. We need to pressure Congress (by showing which Congressperson gets money, I mean donations) into getting rid of these parasite companies. One reform I'd advocate is to pay the Medicare recipient (patient) directly instead of companies getting the money.

@QuiltLady 21 күн бұрын

@@eddielopez5708The Health insurance companies have huge number of lobbyists. Politicians get big bucks from ANTHEM/Blue Cross. When I worked there we were urged to give money to George Bush’s campaign. Then they would add it back a the end of the year to our pay! They asked for $500! I told them to take a hike. The CEO of Anthem made over $200 million that year plus perks. Cheaply he gave 10 $10,000 scholarships out a year.

@ShadowXero Ай бұрын

“The money goes from generation to corporation.” That right there just shined so much light on their plot, cause that’s EXACTLY what happens.

@redhotmoon1656 Ай бұрын

💯

@christianlassen7027 Ай бұрын

I’m a Canadian, I had a minor heart attack. One night in local hospital to be stabilized that night I was transported by ambulance 75 miles to a short stay cardiac care unit in that hospital. The next morning angiogram followed by angioplasty 1 stent. This took 22 minuets. Five hours later I rode home with a family member stoping on the way for meds. I’ve been fine ever since. My cost $85.00 for my initial dose of prescription drugs following that it costs me $12.00 per month. WITH NO INSURANCE! If you’re in a life threatening situation in Canada you get looked after, quick. Hope you proud tax paying Americans stand up and get it some day. Keep giving them s**t Chris.

@feral4813 Ай бұрын

And yet here in the Midwest U.S., all we keep hearing, is how bad the Canadian health service is, and how patients are dying waiting in line for care.

@user-wt5bf4rw7e Ай бұрын

@@feral4813 Only fools believe that people would put up with that kind of a healthcare system. Sure its not perfect but its better then what the US by a country mile.

@andrewjameshenderson1389 Ай бұрын

@@feral4813It's just not true...🇲🇶🇨🇦

@feral4813 Ай бұрын

@@andrewjameshenderson1389I'm not saying it is, it's just what's our GOP politicians keep telling us.

@andrewjameshenderson1389 Ай бұрын

@@feral4813 priorities really dépend on how serious the illness or the wound. If you go there with a cold or something minor like a broken toe you could sit there waiting for the next 24 hours. But if you're having a heart attack or bleeding copiously or in horrendous pain they will move you to the top of the list. Once you are in the system things move really quickly. Here the docs décide what to do and not the insurance guys. Thanks. Hope that helps. 😉

@melaniebaran9121 Ай бұрын

I have worked for hospitals for 18 years, they r 100% All about the dollars. I verified patients insurance and had to collect $ from the Before they could surgery n procedures. I left 2 years ago n went to a company that Fight the insurance companies to make those scumbags pay thos3 bills! THE ReblKKLINS ARE frickin Hypocritical At an Epic level!

@redhotmoon1656 Ай бұрын

More power to you! Insurance companies are killing us

@bobhawke7373 Ай бұрын

Americans minds would blow at universal healthcare. My wife has gone to hospitals and had 3 kids. Not only did it not cost me a single cent, I even got presents from the hospitals. I broke my wrist and needed surgery, didn't cost me a thing. I broke my foot and they not only sorted me out for free but gave me a pair of crutches and a wheelchair.

@bazzfromthebackground3696 Ай бұрын

Damn, over here they break your other leg for the wheelchair.

@timotheusvanesch3959 Ай бұрын

and all was covered by our collective insurance. That's how it works, folks.

@richardscripture4341 Ай бұрын

Our healthcare costs are extorted out of our citizens while the politicians who who facilitate the exploitation are given the very best healthcare.

@DerekBarns Ай бұрын

Who do you think funds the majority of the campaigns ON BOTH SIDES?

@MrWascally Ай бұрын

they think nobody sees the irony of their hypocrisy

@AJCsr 19 күн бұрын

Then the politicians have the balls to use words like "entitlements" in a pejorative way while talking about "constituents", us... Like (we) are the vermin !

@thomashammel524 Ай бұрын

You hit the nail on the head! I am a German that moved to Canada at 5 years old. I always had access to medical aid. I then moved back to Germany in 2003 and I continued to receive insurance. When my company moved me to the USA I thought it would be cool. After 8 years in the USA and paying gobs of dollars for insurance, I got out of Dodge! Sorry, I love the USA, but here I am, the source of income for the corporations. I am now back in Germany. (Because)

@KrasMazovHatesYourGuts Ай бұрын

You Germans have the 'Bismarck' system, right? I actually find it incredibly fascinating as it seems to be something that would work really well here in the US.

@redhotmoon1656 Ай бұрын

Adopt me? 😂

@smkandmrr Ай бұрын

😂@@redhotmoon1656

@bazzfromthebackground3696 Ай бұрын

I can't afford to leave, much less pay for medical shit.

@matzrat5006 Ай бұрын

@@bazzfromthebackground3696 but you can vote for politicians that want to bring in Universal health-care. Don't give up, it should be a right.

@josephmisura7968 Ай бұрын

The best math on universal Healthcare is this: Your taxes may go up 4k a year but then you're not paying 6k+ in insurance premiums. Unfortunately, people refuse to accept the math on that.

@timotheusvanesch3959 Ай бұрын

Nah... From what I've understood, your healthcare is triple the price of ours (Europe). So your taxes would go up by 2k, not 4k. While still saving the same 6k on private insurance.

@Duh6666666 Ай бұрын

Canadian guy here, 4 years ago, I was hospitalized for 8 days with a 2-and-a-half-hour surgery that included IVs all the way through, painkillers/meds, and meals, the whole thing for no out-of-pocket cost. Also, women are slowly taking over the medical fields as men fall further behind in education.

@jakeolthof Ай бұрын

Yes as gold diggers become doctors medical standards go down as costs rise. If women can be competent doctors they don't accept Obamacare.

@trevon8864 Ай бұрын

A living wage and M4A would lift all boats. What a great video. Thank you

@Lumi_Lumi13 Ай бұрын

UBI & college debt forgiveness would help as well.

@Julez60 Ай бұрын

Capitalism. The problem is capitalism.

@JoseRamos-ql1gv Ай бұрын

Touché 🥃

@Julez60 Ай бұрын

@@antonionalesnik4706 lol ok baby brain 🤡

@Julez60 Ай бұрын

@@antonionalesnik4706 lol sure bud 🤡🤡🤡

@avinashreji60 Ай бұрын

@@antonionalesnik4706Oh yeah sure dude I’m sure you know what socialism is

@Sunnernite Ай бұрын

The government loves to pay for corporate socialism.

@hisbigal Ай бұрын

I’m so glad I left the US in 2005. I live with the comfort that if I get ill or when I need end of life care, I won’t go broke.

@Melissa85Bee Ай бұрын

Where have you moved to, and how is it? Seriously considering this.

@redhotmoon1656 Ай бұрын

What country?

@dorianvick8932 17 күн бұрын

What country did you move to?

@hisbigal 17 күн бұрын

@@dorianvick8932 I moved to the UK.

@MOColumbia Ай бұрын

You folks missed it, they are still stuck on "THE PILL GIVES PERMISSION FOR WOMEN TO BE PROMISCUOUS" It's still about controlling women's behavior.

@waynetaylor8082 Ай бұрын

AGREE 💯👍! Yet insurance happily pays for "pecker picker-upper" pills? Without with, the situation wouldn't even occur. I don't get it?

@cynthiar6426 Ай бұрын

I keep hearing, "Well, she just should've kept her legs closed." It certainly is all about control over women. It's a poor argument against abortion, too. Lots of women who have planned and wanted pregnancies have miscarriages or other problems that require the fetus to be removed. I always have to point out that merely opening one's legs doesn't result in pregnancy.

@lisaahmari7199 Ай бұрын

100%

@MOColumbia Ай бұрын

@@cynthiar6426 Yup, My Ex had 2 ectopic pregnancies, this was back in the 80s, if it had been now, in Missouri, I'm not sure if she would have been allowed to have those D&C's.

@MagiRemmie Ай бұрын

It's 2024. When are we gonna stop putting sex on a pedestal and accept it's just a normal entertaining behavior? Can we stop shaming sex now or do we need to wait for 2030?

@TheRetroReplay Ай бұрын

When I got a CPAP machine, the company I got it from was charging my insurance like $400 a month for the equipment and me $120 a month. And when I confronted them about it after a year, they immediately stopped charging for it. I looked up my model and it's about a $1500 piece of equipment, so the company that sold it got $1440 from me and $4800 from my insurance. You can't tell me that's not theft

@michelleblanchard4196 Ай бұрын

PREACH!! Canadian here. I could never have afforded to pay for a C-section. Good thing my FREE healthcare paid for all of it. Private room, emergency surgery, neo-natal care and five days in hospital for the two of us to recover. If your country can't provide basic healthcare, you need to FOLLOW THE MONEY!!!!! Edited to add: the US is built on the military-industrial complex. Since WWII, the US has been producing, using and selling weapons, ammunition, tactical gear, and (military vehicles including drones, tanks and aircraft).

@user-mw3mb2uv8n Ай бұрын

Excuse me, this senior in Ontario Canada paid $100.00 for a blood test just over two weeks ago. So yes say thank you Doug Ford for the two tiered healthcare system in Ontario, Canada. Stop this Con!

@user-wt5bf4rw7e Ай бұрын

@@user-mw3mb2uv8n More idiotic lies and hyperbole.

@redhotmoon1656 Ай бұрын

I'd love to be able to move to Canada 😢😢😢

@redhotmoon1656 Ай бұрын

A C- section patient in the US and her baby get kicked from the hospital as soon as she can pee and walk on her own. It's insane

@redhotmoon1656 Ай бұрын

In the US, a C- section patient and her baby gets kicked out of the hospital as soon as she can pee and walk on her own. It's scary.

@claudejackson5590 Ай бұрын

There’s an old saying, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.A lot of the young people today may not have heard of this saying. Just as it was when we were young. We didn’t pay attention to the saying. But as we got older we found out that this saying had a lot of truth behind it.

@marlaalger1601 Ай бұрын

Thanks. Really good to know that batteries on EVs are recyclable. We are told that they go into dump and pollute everything.

@5353Jumper Ай бұрын

Not just recycling. They have a useful life for 10 to 20 years after being removed from the car in lower performance places, like grid scale electricity storage - THEN they an be recycled. The only reason there is no mass industry to recycle these batteries already, is because almost every EV battery ever made is still in use somewhere for another decade before even passing the doors of a recycling facility.

@hippymoustacherides Ай бұрын

@@5353Jumperbeat me to it!!! I think I saw a video covering this on just have a think … or undecided with Matt Farrell….🤔 very cool also a good opportunity for new startup companies

@bazzfromthebackground3696 Ай бұрын

They're typically just hunks of metal soaked in some acids.

@TheNeoVid Ай бұрын

It's because universal health care would save the country over a trillion dollars a year that wouldn't be going into the pockets of corporate executives. Can't have that.

@matzrat5006 Ай бұрын

Canuck here, It's ;like 100 bucks each a month to have universal health-care, cheaper with family plan. I sure hope USA gets universal health-care.

@sunshine3914 Ай бұрын

17 years ago I had a PT job at Walmart, every one of their long term (20-30 years) employees was there for the insurance, some of which were paying upwards of $3,200/month. I found that astonishing. Basically they were working FT just to provide insurance for their family.

@JW-mw7sr Ай бұрын

Our morons prevent us from doing anything rational and humane for our regular folks.

@harvwiberg7414 Ай бұрын

Thats the truth and all of us 60+ year olds are there to supliment social security that we paid into our whole lives with the money getting taken out of our paychecks every pay no choice. Then you want your money because you lived long enough to collect it and dole it out in such small payments no one can afford to live otherwise @sunshine3914

@matzrat5006 Ай бұрын

@@sunshine3914 its just sickening that USA doesn't have Universal Health-care, lots of money for war and the police state, but no Health-care for the people who pay the bills. It's not right.

@alycewonderland5824 Ай бұрын

When my husband died in 2020, his final hospital bill was $525,000 USD. Half a million dollars and they actually had the audacity to try coming after me, now a disabled widow, for payment. The last time I spoke to them I told them that for half a million, they should have been able to keep him alive.

@JP-xs5lo 23 күн бұрын

I’m sorry Obama care was the worst thing to happen to our country modern day death cult slavery. just ask Ben Carson he’s a neurosurgeon he’ll tell you this exact thing I’ve spent at least a half $1 million unrecognized for a brain infection that I cannot get treated for an Obama care system. Then I found out how corrupt and how in cahoots insurance, big Pharma and our government are.

@CharCanuck14 Ай бұрын

So far illness & surgeries in my life are: - breast cancer surgery & treatment - left & right total hip replacements - total right shoulder replacement - herniated disc surgery - gall bladder removal - 9 days in ICU for lung issues - 3 births - numerous admissions for various illnesses - numerous visits to the emergency departments .......AND ALL I'VE PAID FOR WAS PARKING. I feel that if I had lived in the US instead of Canada, I would have been dead or bankrupt a long time ago. Our system here isn't perfect, but it's kept me alive. It would make a world of difference if the States would develop a universal health care plan for everyone. I do hope to see that day come for our dear neighbours to the south. Cheers from the Great White North ps Please don't try the "ya, but look at Canada's wait times....." . All facilities TRIAGE and I find that the people with minor issues that aren't immediately addressed usually complain about wait times the loudest.

@tamikofox-lunn3591 Ай бұрын

I'm in Medellin Colombia,had an aortic mechanical valve heart surgery, plus 3 weeks in coma post surgery. Cost me about 40k and my insurance in Colombia covered everything, no out of pocket. Here in the greatest country in the world,it would have cost 250k, and God only knows the battle with insurance companies I would have had to fought. If Colombia has their shit together, the US is gaslighting its citizens.

@user-wt5bf4rw7e Ай бұрын

That is why so many Americans go bankrupt when they get sick.

@toddhoward1532 Ай бұрын

That’s why i wanted Bernie 😊

@royblomquist2622 24 күн бұрын

I love Bernie too, but he wouldn't be able to get anything done because the Establishment politicians on both sides would do everything in their power to c*** block everything that he would try to do to help the people. It's unfortunate but that's Washington for you .

@lindajallen3805 Ай бұрын

The declaration of independence declared that all men are created equal that they are endowed with certain unalienable right to LIFE. This statement before the 1st or 2nd amendments that everyone is entitled to life to have life you have to have healthcare. That is why healthcare should be provided by the government they promised us in the constitution.

@Rawb-kt7fe Ай бұрын

Well said.

@MagiRemmie Ай бұрын

It is insane we don't have universal healthcare when I believe literally every other western country does.

@timotheusvanesch3959 Ай бұрын

Interesting take! Since I'm not American, I never really read your constitution. In Europe we fight for basic human rights as well and I take for granted the UN Human Rights charter (kind of). But what you're saying here, could actually be a great Supreme Court case, once the corrupted ones are removed.

@ledoutofshadow8004 Ай бұрын

I live in Australia. Since turning 50 I have had 2 surgeries. A very serious appendectomy and a year later a gall bladder removal. In total 13 days in hospital with 5 in the ICU, follow-up care and all medication. It cost me $13. Yes I have been paying for it in taxes, but I lived in the USA for many years and I paid more in taxes there than I pay here.

@budp9844 Ай бұрын

Chris, if you're a car guy, then you know Steve Magnante. He's famous for car journalism, in print, on YT, and he's been with Barrett Jackson's auctions for years. He contracted encephalitis last year, nearly died, and now has to sell off his house, cars and start a GoFundMe, to cover his medical bills. I'm a Canadian, with universal free health care, father of triplets (born in 1988, 13 weeks premature), my wife has had both hips replaced, and I broke my scapula in a motorcycle crash. The only medical bill I've ever seen was for parking.

@dontirkkirk4534 Ай бұрын

You guys are on fire in this segment

@mrgooey8009 Ай бұрын

Oh, please explain to me how members of Congress have stock portfolios and actively trade.

@robertfraser845 Ай бұрын

i live in ontario canada two years ago i had a large blood clot in my right lung i spent seven days in hospital then four days later due to medications reacting to a ulser i had a major bleed and lost a huge amount of blood i was rushed to hospital they got me stable and then was taken to a larger hospital who took me into surgery right away with vitals of low 50.s over 30 after five surgery times and another week in the icu ward i went home all medications all medical costs at both hospitals and ambulance costs were the total of $.0 how can this be in the USA that people die before getting help

@EdjieboaNova Ай бұрын

When my mother died, the State of Texas said, if we use the indigent program for $800 for cremation, we wouldn't get her ashes back as a penalty. They felt the system had been abused. Thank you Texas.

@AlerieHightower Ай бұрын

Preach, guys! One of my dear friends is self employed without insurance, and horrible pain finally sent her to the ER. The diagnosis was stage 4 ovarian cancer. She hadn't had a checkup in years, because of the outrageous prices. Thanks for nothing, 'Murica!

@roberttalarsky4238 Ай бұрын

Great show thanks, I Think it's about Control

@mikemoon5329 Ай бұрын

If you read this by chance maybe this can be brought to the forefront. I was in the hospital 2 years ago for kidney failure. I was made to stay in the hospital 5 days before they would release me. My insurance covered a lot of it, but there was $8500 it did not cover. I tried to work out a reasonable payment schedule with the hospital but it was not good enough for them. It ended up going to a collection agency that ended up suing me in court and winiing the judgement. They put a lean on my bank to take what they could get and luckily I did'nt have much. I did work out a monthly payment with them, ugh!!! What I really want brought to the forefront that could help people like me on a fixed income is the collection agencies buy this debt for around 3-5% and why didn't the hospital just ofeer me to buy the debt for the same cost?

@charlie-obrien Ай бұрын

I'm 64 1/2 and I have a bump on my neck... I guess I'm lucky that I only have to wait 6 months to get Medicare. Thanks Reagan.

@user-dr9sk3ld2n Ай бұрын

On the topic of batteries for EVs, Michigan now has a new plant working on the newer tech of SODIUM batteries. Less toxic than Lithium, more efficient, better over-all for the environment. TY Titus :)

@floydb5668 Ай бұрын

I wish more people understood this whole concept! The stupidity is staggering

@tg360andbeyond Ай бұрын

💙💙💙💙 Thank you! Keep saying it louder! 💙💙💙💙

@Drobert882-ix3zf Ай бұрын

As someone that has been dealing with catastrophic spine damage where every office visit is a grand and every shot 30 grand with a maybe it helps it's a racket,, now I can't work and can't resolve 2 missing disks at l4 to S1 it's all tragic bs

@stubbysidwell Ай бұрын

Everyone should share this episode to their shitty relatives.

@DierdreWolf Ай бұрын

Like we're able to buy what we need, but we still are renting and dont own a home. I got things wrong with me - knee pain, shoulder/arm pain - I know I should go see a doc, my husband wants me to - I'm terrified of what bill we'd get even with insurance. So I dont. =/

@melaniebaran9121 Ай бұрын

The Big 1s.. NRA, OIL, BIG PHARMA AND ALL THE INSURANCE.. If they weren't paying off the freaking politicians and they weren't permitted to do so, we'd live in a much different place

@timotheusvanesch3959 Ай бұрын

Instead you got Citizens United.

@magdrango23 Ай бұрын

Insurance is the biggest problem, from medical to auto and home they never help you yet by law you have to have it!

@bpmtatom Ай бұрын

The truth that a lot of Americans are starting to realize. Unfortunately too many are susceptible to the lies that keep them and this great country down. Another good convo!

@obiwanbenobi4943 Ай бұрын

Because we'd rather pay more for health care and keep all those doctors, nurses and secretaries busy shuffling useless bits of paper around and get paid $50/hr or more. Single payer would put several million people out of work because they'd no longer need them for all that insurance BS.

@gwendolyndebourbon8335 Ай бұрын

My doctor couldn't afford to pay an insurance secretary so he had to take cash only. Between his insurance, rent,payroll he just couldn't survive on the 80% insurance was willing to compensate him

@timotheusvanesch3959 Ай бұрын

Nah. These paper shufflers are always welcome in corporate.

@ELLOGANT Ай бұрын

Sooooo happy to be Canadian. In 5 years 2 knee replacements, shoulder surgery, hip replacement and ankle surgery, and It cost me nothing! I feel so bad for Americans.

@trudycolborne2371 Ай бұрын

Ouch. Sorry you needed so many repairs there bionic Canadian. I'm glad you didn't have to go into eternal debt because of it. I'm happy to have paid my taxes to help you and others. Now it's my turn to make a withdrawal. I just hurt my knee two weeks ago. Long wait at the ER but zero cost to get xray and CT scan, then full leg fiberglass splint to keep it immobile. Back after a week for reassessment, filled out form for a future MRI, had splint off because it was loose when swelling went down, opted myself to not get fiberglass again and instead pay out for a removable velcro closure stabilizer. Maybe my work insurance will pay 80 percent of the $100 for it, maybe they won't but that's all I had/chose to pay because I want to shower instead of taking a face cloth bath from a basin of water. Hopefully my appointment in two weeks with the orthopedic surgeon won't reveal a need for surgery but if it does I won't have to pay. The only financial worry is the loss of wages because I work standing and can't right now. I can't imagine how I would feel if my injury was going to steal money from my son's education fund. Is the Canadian health care system perfect? Heck no. Over 12 hours of waiting at the ER is too long. We need more doctors. I don't see why the Americans can't show us up by having universal health care and doing it better than we do. Make us jealous. We'll secretly be proud of them.

@EdjieboaNova Ай бұрын

*Former healthcare worker, specializing in claims; physicians representative. Insurance classifies a standard visit in 2 ways: 1. New patient visit at a MDs office $500-$600 by average in Dallas, TX. Ins pays: $150ish. 2. Established patient $400-$475. (Expires after 5 years.) Ins pays $250ish It's very important you read your EOB from your insurance each claim. $elf Pays are asked to pay about what reimbursement insurance offers. They may go on either side of that a little bit. Some practices will not budge off of what they're billing the insurance. Once, my family was told it was a solid $500 New Patient as a Self-Pay. Self Pays can be a responsibility.

@Shiznaft1 Ай бұрын

Enjoyed the longer video. It is so nice to hear a "regular" normal well thought out view. I feel the same frustration you guys do.

@ElCapitanDeLaNoche Ай бұрын

ALL governments are socialism in action. This is irrespective of the method of government (i.e.: Democracy, Theocracy, Autocracy, and, yes, as misguided as it is, Communism). Government is a social construct to take small amounts of resources from those within its state in order to (presumably) expend such resources to the benefit of all (i.e.: roads, protection, etc.). Capitalism, on the other hand, is an extraordinarily powerful engine of economic growth, which is why so many western-style countries use it. This economic system has flaws, as all systems do, which is why any government using such an economic system must use taxation and social distribution to ameliorate them. Sometimes (though, hopefully, rarely), this can go the other way, where a government must assist a sector of businesses (or even all - remember COVID?) to get through unforeseen problems and keep that economic engine primed during such times. The sooner that our citizens realize how this all works and expresses their will, the sooner that we get paid education through college and healthcare for our citizens.

@billlonee9470 Ай бұрын

I love my country enough to want it to do better. I believe you do, too.

@karencrafton5591 Ай бұрын

Not to mention how much assisted leaving costs - it’s insane.

@kataliszt1943 Ай бұрын

In mother 'murica, health insurance is just the cover charge to get you in the door. usa. usa. usa.

@wadestclair249 Ай бұрын

The US is the only developed country to NOT have UHC

@user-wt5bf4rw7e Ай бұрын

But the US has plenty of mentally ill armed people. No healthcare but plenty of guns...

@MOColumbia Ай бұрын

AND THEY CLAIM THEY HAVE TO UP THE PRICE TO COVER THE UNINSURED THAT COME TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM.

@cynthiar6426 Ай бұрын

That is to encourage "poor shaming". The USA seems big on that.

@timotheusvanesch3959 Ай бұрын

But they are right? At least by 10%, bc that's the price an uninsured pays and they therefore don't get!

@MOColumbia Ай бұрын

@@timotheusvanesch3959 well sure, in this dystopian healthcare for profit Hellscape system we have. They charge 5 bucks for the plastic thing that goes in your ear when they check your temperature, that's a hell of a lot more than 10%, I can get 100 for 7 bucks at Wal-Mart.

@carolakelleski7905 Ай бұрын

You're right, I'm healthier because of you Christopher😂😂😂 THANK YOU 😊

@kevinplantz12 Ай бұрын

I’m a Disabled Combat Veteran with MS. I receive my MS infusions through the VA that is free for me. Without insurance or additional assistance, this would work out to an annual cost of just over $83,000 per year. This is because Ocrevus is given initially as 2 separate infusions of 300 mg, 2 weeks apart. Then 1 infusion of 600 mg every 6 months. We can’t claim to be “the richest country in the world” and also not have socialized healthcare. It’s insane and sad that people have to go in debt because they have an illness that they can’t prevent.

@dailyrider2975 Ай бұрын

2018 picked up a I-miev for going to work. Cost $9k (used). Way less then $3k on insurance, tires, air filter, battery and few other minor items. Put 25k miles on it over next 4yrs. Got totaled in a Arby drive thru, got $7.5K from insurance. So for $5k I got to drive 25k miles or 20 cent/mile + electric, but I have solar at home and charged at work as well for free. I even was allowed to park my car on campus next to my office and use it like a golf cart during the day because it was so small. Best car for leisure Sunday drive. I'm riding a motorcycle now, because I've always wanted one. But it's currently running $1+/mile discounting purchase price. I'm sure it will go down over time, but it is hard to beat an EV for running costs.

@susanhayes5186 9 күн бұрын

Thank you Chris!

@micageorge387 Ай бұрын

I live in Canada. A few years back I needed a pacemaker. The multiple tests that I had done to determine why I was feeling so run down, the MRI that mapped my blood vessels, the 3 visits to the emergency room using an ambulance, and the surgery were all FREE! In Canada most people pay 35% income taxes on a median income of $63000 CA, whereas most Americans pay 20%. I'm so glad I left the US and moved to Canada.

@bobbafett1849 Ай бұрын

"Generations to corporations" no truer words have been spoken

@bobhawke7373 Ай бұрын

Healthcare IS a human right. It's the main one

@matthubbard8789 14 күн бұрын

YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT WITH EVERYTHING THAT YOU ARE SAYING I'M 54 YEARS OLD AND CANCER AND MEDICAL BILLS HAVE BEEN KICKING MY ASS THANK YOU FOR SAYING WHAT YOU WASN'T SUPPOSED TO SAY OUT LOUD

@isisnmagic1812 Ай бұрын

Thank goodness I live in the UK, i had a cardiac arrest and then a bypass , now on meds for life and am not bankrupt and they never asked me for insurance.

@andrewpeppin4769 Ай бұрын

There was a tv show, can’t remember the name, they were discussing medical bills. They asked “What is this $400 for an ‘electrolyte suspension’?” The reply was “That means they served you jello.”

@paulj8539 Ай бұрын

Michigan born, but living in Australia (Dual citizen). About 2% of my wage goes in tax to the public healthcare system (i wouldnt be upset if they doubled that, especially if they brought in dental care!) for that, i get free healthcare. Nothing to pay, unless i decide to go to a private hospital (which seriously aren't worth it)

@latashahowell8090 Ай бұрын

Thank you!

@SkyP1e Ай бұрын

A hundred years from now when capitalism only exists in history books future generations will look back at us with pity and disbelief

@lisaahmari7199 Ай бұрын

Yes...as we in the second Gilded Age look back at the first in horror, not realizing we are on the brink of being just as bad. We have a few more safety nets than they had....but they are fraying fast.

@LegoDork Ай бұрын

Future generation at best. We're fukt.

@cbbcbb6803 Ай бұрын

The high income states have always given handouts to the low income states. California and New York, among other high income states, have subsidized the low income states for years. We need a yearly breakdown of who is receiving and who is giving. People need to know. This is not said enough!

@kenobanion6493 Ай бұрын

AMEN BROTHER!! Love how you speak the truth. I was caught up in this same healthcare BS. I had a lump in the left side of my groin. After 6 months of scheduling, I was finally able to see a doctor. It was determined I had an 'unknown' object in my groin. The oncologist who was consulted, looked at the tests/ x-rays and was quoted as saying "What the F is that?" So my doctor reluctantly scheduled me for surgery to excise this object. it wasn't a long procedure and it was able to be removed without problems. The doctors were not sure what it was so it was sent in for a biopsy. It took them another 6 months to determine it was a non-cancerous 8oz. tumor (which I named Tommy). I was left in limbo wondering if I was healthy or not! Just the stress of not knowing what's going on in my own body gave me anxiety and panic attacks (which they want to give me meds for to the tune of $900 a month, and also are not covered by my insurance). Our government REALLY needs to figure this sh!t out!!

@user-wt5bf4rw7e Ай бұрын

Its the people you elect, so you have to demand it from them. That is why progressives are the only ones pushing M4A in DC

@rafram4132 Ай бұрын

follow the money, great work Titus

@72carguy Ай бұрын

Well done, crew. One of your best posts yet. Please keep up the great work. There is tremendous waste and shenanigans going on in the world of military and healthcare spending. It’s outrageous! I do love our country tremendously, but we can (and must) do better. “It’s great to be here in America, the GREATEST country in the world…….if you haven’t travelled much..” - Daniel Tosh

@tamarabuckallew3765 Ай бұрын

Hello Titus and Friends !! I would like to say from my resent experience in our sick care as I refer to it. They found me then they fixed me up with Drugs such as Antidepressants and other drugs that are for 1 thing but prescribed for another, I slept for 10 years not even understanding why I was so sick and in Pain they wouldn't treat.. About 3 years ago they started pressuring me to go to a methadone clinic for pain knowing I did not use opiates or street drugs.. They kept changing my arthritis meds and such until I caved one day and went to the clinic , I died for real within 30hrs of taking methadone !1 Then they overdosed me 4 more times in the ER trying to treat me like i was a heavy drug user. I quit going to doctors learned how to treat myself and I have NO Pain, And am back to work and ready to drop disability.. Now I'm Smiling and Happy !! Thank You for Questioning these Crooks.. There Killing Us..

@ericboyer4123 Ай бұрын

French Canadian here 43 years old. So far 5 left knee surgery, 2 kids with on c-section hospitalized over 20 times for asthma attacks plus around 40 yearly physical nothing out of pocket beside the TV hookup in my semi or private room. Yeah it took a while for my first knee surgery but it wasnt life threatening. When i couldnt breath i went at the front of the line and still nothing more to pay.

@RippenGriff Ай бұрын

The rest of the world is moving to EVs, we should be a leader of EVs not a follower. 1 of my 4 cars is an EV, and that is the car that I choose 90% of the time to drive.

@Superneuf70 Ай бұрын

About 80 % of vehicles on the road in Norway, are electric.

@user-wt5bf4rw7e Ай бұрын

@@Superneuf70 To be fair Norway nationalized their petroleum industry and the profits went to the retirement fund of their citizens instead of private pockets. Norway is the only country smart enough to do this, despite Justin Trudeau's father coming up with the plan for Canada in the early 1970's.

@bryanedwards5909 Ай бұрын

As an Australian I find the US healthcare system to be insane, my other half had a brain aneurysm burst, she was in the ICU for 6 weeks and had follow up care after she made it out of the hospital and it cost us nothing, zero, zilch. If this happened in the US I suspect that my grand children would still be paying that debt off

@gobob2220 21 күн бұрын

I spent 8 days in a Chinese hospital with no charge to me. The nurses and doctors were first class.

@SirSmoldham Ай бұрын

Brilliant.

@spir5102 Ай бұрын

Thank you guys for talking about important issues. Every American should be asking, WHY DON’T WE HAVE UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE?? I’M SO TIRED OF GETTING SCREWED OVER WHILE THE BILLIONAIRES AND CEOS BECOME EXPONENTIALLY WEALTHY, AND THE REST OF US SUFFER!

@lynnees9828 25 күн бұрын

My friend went from floor nursing to an insurance job. She'd basically rewrite some stuff, as it must be updated, and suddenly was making over 100K a year. The profit motive is what keeps them churning. CEOs making millions. Traded on Wall Street as a privatized corporation. Medicare is one huge business they all want BUT it only covers 80%. My husband and I have said, if either of us gets cancer, we will just quietly go because we cannot afford a supplement plan and he is working still at 72. Thank God he loves his job, helping others.

@Gloppp Ай бұрын

Awesome post guys, I really enjoyed the segment on critical thinking skills, & on a similar note it's nice to peruse the comments here as most of the peeps are able to articulate their point ☝️ 👇

@TheBunnyodeath Ай бұрын

Ty chris

@patmullen7597 6 күн бұрын

We had $60k in the bank to buy our first home. One month later, at the age of 43, I was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer. The company I was contracting with didn't renew my contract, timed perfectly with my diagnosis, which cost me my health coverage, and every saved penny was gone. And that was just the first three months.😢

@MagiRemmie Ай бұрын

I'm 33, my generation has the potential to live through three centuries so hopefully by the 22nd century we get our shit fixed.

@HoraceAymett Ай бұрын

BNA here in Nashville just finished a major upgrade.

@seankrug4995 17 күн бұрын

In 2010 my parents vacationed in Europe. When they were in Germany, my dad had a medical emergency. The bill they gave him for the procedure was $500 for what would have been thousands in the US. And my parents are US citizens.

@johnsparrow9549 Ай бұрын

Freedom to assemble Titus

@arbriggs3010 Ай бұрын

Some USA drug costs and what they charge insurance: 30 day supplies: Stelara: $19,000 , Skyrizi: $14,000 , Rinvoq: $7,500 (30mg) $15,000 (45mg). Basically unaffordable without insurance for most citizens.

@SuburbanSavage Ай бұрын

When I was pregnant, my husband's employer wouldn't cover prenatal care because no other man in the department had a wife. My husband works for the government. I had to get prenatal care from my regular doctor until 2012, when part of the ACA kicked in, allowing women's reproductive care to be covered. When I got the bill from the insurance company, I learned that they were charging me $1100 for every time that I held my infant. Plus I was charged $500 for socks, $2000 for Tylenol, $1500 for TV, $1000 for sanitary napkins, etc. When I called the health insurance company about this, they were surprised that I read the bill and they took those charges off. The rep said that they pad the billing hoping that we just blindly pay it and most do. We're being conditioned to accept that corporations are our new government.

@ryanlarson4700 23 күн бұрын

I worked in a hospital fixing life support and diagnostic equipment. The hospitals are not quadrupling the prices of the “little plastic tube” or anything else. Hospitals are getting screwed by THE VENDORS that are forcing the hospitals to pay insane markup’s on everything that goes into it. An MRI suite here in the USA from GE is millions of dollars but the same MRI suite is less than a million dollars to hospitals outside the USA. A $2.00 outlet costs $10 or more because it has a green dot and is “hospital grade”. It’s the same deal with companies charging $300 for a hammer to the military. Greed.

@BobDacat-py6so Ай бұрын

After her first stroke she received a bill for $1800 for treadmill therapy. Treadmill therapy.

@buffalomusic57 Ай бұрын

One more thing, It was in 1988 this secret bass was built just for that purpose. These are facts and I was there.

@elwhapposanchez7926 Ай бұрын

oil price fixing is the reason for our rampant inflation right now.

@rclc161 Ай бұрын

No, its greedflation by oil companies

@Sully365 Ай бұрын

I'm a car guy..and EVs are f'ing awesome. 100% torque off the line, 0-60 in 2-3 seconds, f'ing insane. love them. i've had a plug in for 8 years now and i refuse to go back to regular. Plug in hybrid or full ev, they are just better

@KarenPaasche-qj6tf Ай бұрын

As a senior with only SS/Medicare to live on (lost everything during COVID, long story), I am resigned to the fact that if I get cancer or other terminal illness, I will die as Medicare won't cover the treatment. Also, about employers whining that they can't find workers, I'm a fit and healthy 65, willing to work, but even the local McDonald's won't hire me because I'm "overqualified." SMFH

@hillbillyhippie23 Ай бұрын

You never see a medical bill in Canada, you can ask to see it but nobody does.

@DonaldWest-qk1dt Ай бұрын

emissions don't kill the planet... just our ability to live on it.

@aprilthompson3863 19 сағат бұрын

My daughter is type one diabetic and the insulin is lower but it the dexicom to watch her sugar balance is and the insulin meter she has to wear so she can stay consistent are extremely expensive. It depends on what the insurance covers.