Comments by "" (@grmpEqweer) on "How KFC’s War On Arby’s Ruined American Healthcare. No, Seriously." video.

@mw4507 Also, about 48,000 people a year die from lack of health insurance. We pay almost 3x per person what the next most expensive country does (Switzerland) for care, and people are allowed to die anyway.
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@mw4507 In Canada and the UK, people don't die like my friend did, when he ran out of insulin. Or my other friend, who ran out of diabetes meds. I almost died from asthma b/c I was afraid to get a giant ER bill. We're already in the horrorshow, sparky. It's just going to get worse, because for-profit companies have to increase profits, quarterly.
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@mw4507 Your argument falls apart when you look at the results that other countries with a public, or public/private system get. France's is the most highly rated by users.
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@mw4507 I live in Texas. My friend died in Arkansas. My other friend died in Iowa. ...Apparently you don't like a fellow voting American who disagrees with your indoctrination. Edit: I'm 50, BTW. Maybe you haven't lived long enough to lose someone to our healthcare "system".
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@mw4507 Mhmm. My channel has some videos posted from my backyard in Houston. But I'm really in Beijing. Yup. The Kool-aid is strong with this one.
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@electric6877 Oddly enough, I actually get socialized medicine: the Harris Health system is a low income health system serving Harris County, TX. Doctors who work in it don't get the bonuses that docs working for private care do? They get their salary. BUT, they don't have to spend hours fighting with insurance providers. They just do their jobs. While it's slow and creaky, I get the treatment I need. I get better care than people on insurance-I don't have to fight for it. So, my experience, socialized medicine is pretty decent.
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@mw4507 The docs aren't making the vast amount of the money here. The hospital owners are. Dr Glaucomflecken tends to skewer insurance companies and for-profit hospitals in his skits, they're surprisingly educational.
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@highcouncil1302 In my experience, we don't get to reject low wages, because low wages are industry standard. Sure, individuals can get out of the service sector. ...But that's 20% of the workforce that everyone expects to work for less than a living wage, then get by with government assistance ( ! ) ...Which means that entire business models are based on keeping people in poverty and using government help to keep their workers alive and housed. This often includes billion-dollar businesses.
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@butwhytho4858 IMO, we ought to make it a lot more affordable to become a degreed professional, period. But especially ones who provide a public service. We complain about the scarcity of doctors, nurses, teachers, social workers, therapists, and mental health professionals. We should do something about it. But then again, anyone who earns a college degree is almost certainly going to pay that back in increased income taxes.
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@goodmaro That's a false argument. Nobody's saying they shouldn't be paid and paid well. Nonprofits often do great work. And pay their staff. The US military does...well, a lot. And it doesn't make a profit in and of itself. The hospital administrations and owners, the insurance company admins, owners, and shareholders, are making ENORMOUS profits. The doctors, nurses, support staff? They're stretched tighter than a rubber band to improve profits...and this is k1lling patients. Insurance companies delay and deny care to improve profits-and this is k1lling patients. People are dying for their bottom lines. Other countries don't allow people to die for corporate profits. They DO have superior health outcomes, for MUCH LESS MONEY than we spend.
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@Greeniykyk True. (I use a pseudonym b/c being nonbinary, non-Christian, antifascist, and socialist could cost me jobs in Texas.😉 little circumspect.)
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@goodmaro We'd eliminate a lot of profit-skimming and paperwork by having one insurer-the government. By virtue of being the single insurance provider, the government could demand an end to price gouging and profiteering. It would get it. As for hospitals and clinics, we DO need to actually build a rural hospital and clinic system. The private system has failed the rural areas. We have large areas that do not have sufficient healthcare facilities any more. They've been shut down. In that case, we do need a government system. Like the government system I use. The county I live in has a low-income health system. It is really good. So, to me, the people who are screaming about the horror of government care are really funny. I'm already getting it. It's good. Probably better than what some insured people get.
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 @mw4507 Nationalized healthcare would actually be cheaper. Multiple studies agree. We're getting ripped off by private healthcare.
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@uptoolate2793 The Affordable care act was written to keep the insurance companies happy. Single-payer would pretty much wreck them. Edit: Obama was disappointing to me in many respects. The ACA was a band-aid on a spurting wound.
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@Aaron.Thomas Well, maybe I am a paid commie scum...or something. Not really. But then I keep getting told George Soros was supposed to pay me for those demonstrations I went to. Neither George or the Chinese communists have cut me a check.😥 Where's all this money I'm supposed to get? (Better not quit my day job.)
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@MegaLokopo All publicly owned corporations are required to maximize shareholder value, and thereby ignore any moral or social considerations. That's why corporations operate the way they do. It's bad. I believe it's been that way since the 1800's.
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@goodmaro Medicare has a lot less administrative overhead-meaning less paperwork, and less employees to process it. They have a 6% administrative cost. Insurance companies have about a 20% overhead cost. ...If you have a monopsony-one buyer, that buyer can command prices. Single-payer means the government is the single purchaser, and they would set fees for services. Of course, the fees would still keep hospitals and clinics in business.
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