Comments by "Don Taylor" (@dontaylor7315) on "American Abroad Able to Access COVID-19 Test Easily, Compares to U.S. | NowThis" video.

"You have to embrace the private sector" is code for "we have to fit this emergency into a for-profit business model."
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@kt550 If you're asking "Who is better?" then apparently you were able to walk into a clinic and get tested on the spot, no questions asked, like the American in this video did in Iraq. At what clinic did you have this experience?
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@gamechamp85 & Kaitlin Taylor "Oligarchy" and "plutocracy" are both accurate but I think "corporatocracy" is more specific.
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@kt550 You're taking Kaitlin's comment literally. I'm not. Her point is that Iraqi healthcare doesn't extract a profit from people who need testing.
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@kt550 Just face it, all of civilization and a large part of the undeveloped and developing world bases its healthcare on ethics and health while America bases its care on profit. I noticed you've steered clear of the European and Nordic models as if only Iraq deviates from the your-money-or-your-life philosophy of care. Simply admit it: Civilization practices ethical medicine and America practices greed-based medicine.
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@kaitlintaylor2835 Thanks for the Jeffrey Sachs quote and your summation is beautiful!
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@kt550 You say that with such apparent confidence that it would seem you're pretty sure of the answer, so go ahead - tell me. Your posts all seem to imply the US for-profit system is doing a better job in the crisis than the public healthcare in other countries - which suggests that in Iraq, for instance, they're turning away their own citizens while a foreigner was able to walk in and get tested easily. So let's hear it, what's your basis? I won't engage any further if it turns out you have no response other than another insipid question.
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@kt550 "Where are their statistics?...They don't have any..." What's your verification of that? Link please, preferably from a credible source.
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@kt550 And the corresponding statistic for The US?
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@kt550 Impressive in comparison with a non- first-world country. And UK/France/Germany/Scandinavia/Netherlands?
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@kt550 Obviously she's leaving because she's an American. If she said at any point in the video that Iraq's healthcare is more efficient or as advanced as that of a first-world country, I missed it. What she did say is that the test she got was free and that our system is cruel. She's correct on both counts.
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@ItchyKneeSon Thank you! This kind of testimonial is vitally needed in the fight to end the tyranny of profit-based healthcare in America.
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