Comments by "whyamimrpink78" (@whyamimrpink78) on "Infuriating Story About American Health Care" video.

  1. I like how Kyle started out saying that other countries have gone past  these problems, as if they don't exist in other countries http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2486789/Natasha-16-complained-headaches-She-died-13-doctors-failed-diagnose-brain-tumour.html If we have had socialize healthcare in this country she would be dead.  At that point, with her being technically dead, there is no point in reviving her according to the socialized system.  She is dead, caring for her can easily be avoided. 
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  2. I see all these comments on single payer and socialized healthcare, I hope people know that just because the government provides healthcare doesn't mean it will exist.  We simply don't have enough doctors and hospitals to meet consumption if all these people all of a sudden start receiving healthcare, some of the care being unnecessary. 
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  3. Leon Bailey And what? The fact is that just because the government "provides" something doesn't mean it exist. 
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  4. Leon Bailey Not really.  In the UK you have women giving births in bathrooms due to lack of hospital beds.  In Canada you won't be able to receive elective specialized care such as knee surgery due to it being expensive and them not having enough doctor.  I posted a story just recently on how a teenage girl bounced from doctor to doctor and had to wait months to get her MRI where in the state you wait a few days.  That girl died. In a case like this the women here would have been dead under socialized care. If she was in a coma and was technically dead the system would have saved money and just let her died.  It would have been written up as a death by heart attack and she couldn't have been saved.  No one would have mentioned it because she was in a coma, plus the "experts" (the government) knows best.  In the US they revived her because the US system actually works compared to others.  The only problem with the US system is cost, but quality is actually good.   
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  5. Leon Bailey It is mostly bankrupt, not many people die.  People mostly die in socialized care because specialized care in those countries is rationed out so much that people can hardly access it.  In a case like this the women here would be dead because she was in a coma and recently had a heart attack.  One can easily let her die and say that she couldn't be helped.  Wouldn't even make the headlines.  In the US the system rushes to their care because it isn't being overran with people getting frivolous care.  She lived, she may become bankrupt now.  If she doesn't like it she can always kill herself because that is the other alternative.   
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  6. Leon Bailey It doesn't matter if people have insurance if the healthcare isn't available.  We simply don't have enough doctors to cover everyone, not many countries do.  We see that in other countries when care is rationed out.  In US people get covered, it just cost a lot.  In other countries people don't get covered.  They don't die, they just suffer (in some cases they do die).  Put it this way, there is a reason why the US is near the top in productivity and research. 
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  7. R Law Funny, a colleague of mine, who is Canadian, couldn't get knee surgery in Canada, he got it in the US.  His cousin had to get heart surgery in the US since Canada couldn't do it.  The US is number one in responsive care, people don't wait months for an MRI.  If they do than customers go someplace else.   
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  8. Leon Bailey And there it is, when you refuse to listen to the other side or have an intelligent rebuttal you just call someone a troll.  Way to be myopic.  
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  9. Leon Bailey http://www.realclearscience.com/lists/top_10_countries_with_greatest_scientific_impact/honorable_mentions.html?state=stop
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  10. Leon Bailey Yes, I know what the H-Index means.  It involves being cited as well.  In science when you are cited than that is really important and the US is near the top in that as well.  Being cited means you are having an impact on current research and others are building on it. As a person who studies science myself it is clear the US is leading the way in research in it.  There are some areas where other countries do better, for example research in the f-elements because China has cornered the market in it since they can open mines easier than in the US.  But as a whole the US is better.
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  11. Gripen1974 You can't compare overall population because not everyone studies science.  You also have to consider that not every document is purely from one country.  A lot of publications have authors from multiple countries with a US author being on a lot of them.  And look at the most recent Nobel Prize winners in the past few years, most were from the US. 
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  12. Leon Bailey There are people in Europe who don't believe in climate change as well, just depends on what you read.  Also, when someone mixes belief in with science than I feel that is being ignorant in science.  As a scientist myself I don't believe in anything because a belief is best left for religion which is faith base.  So to say that someone doesn't "believe" in climate is being ignorant is not true.  I don't believe in climate change, I support it and feel it is happening but I keep a shred of doubt like anything in science. And just because a country has a group of people who are ignorant doesn't mean that those on the top are not superior. 
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