Comments by "Dan A" (@DanA-nl5uo) on "True cost of US healthcare shocks the British public" video.

American healthcare is the ultimate example of why a profit motive has no place in a service you will die without. Because there is no price which is simply too high when the alternative is death. There is simply a price you can't pay.
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Everyone in the USA has to see this. It is a wakeup call to see how outrageous our system is to people who have single payer healthcare.
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@ERROL007 in the USA it is considered just how life is that healthcare is expensive same thing as the sky is blue and rain is wet. Seeing people in the UK react to our prices is refreshing or surprising because it shows our jaded we are here.
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@shaun1293 showing the price isn't the issue with American healthcare. Tell me when you call an ambulance are you going to ask the price and shop around or tell the 911 operator wait it cost $2500 never mind I will just crawl from then car crash to the hospital? Or oh that drug that will save my life cost $1,000 per month so I will just die instead? No because the reality is when the alternative is death there is no place for "free market" pricing based on what the person is willing to pay. Healthcare isn't a commodity like an iPhone where you can simply choose a cheaper option. When your life is on the line you will sell everything and file for bankruptcy then steal from anyone you can because the alternative is unacceptable it is death. That is why simply knowing the price up front like trump proposes is stupid it won't change crap. When you die without care you won't say oh that is too expensive let's negotiate a lower price or oh well I would pay $100 to live another month but $200 no I would rather die than pay $200. No rational person thinks like that.
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@shaun1293 no when you are sick and your life is in jeopardy the last thing you want to do is shop around for the lowest cost. By the way the proof of that is that insurance companies do know the cost of different services at different hospitals. But it hasn't worked to control costs. What is has done is allowed insurance companies to build networks and force you to not see the doctor who has a different treatment better suited for your illness because that doctor is in an out of network hospital. There are some things where a profit motive simply doesn't work. Fire departments police forces and healthcare are a few examples of where it simply becomes extortion on the customer not completion for the service provider.
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@audreymuzingo933 it is actually even worse that that with an ambulance here where I am. I needed on to transport my mother about 3 years back so I called the hospital to arranged transportation they literally told me we can't dispatch the ambulance from here you have to call 911. Now keep in mind the hospital is less then 7 miles from my house and the nearest alternative is over half an hour away so clearly I had no choice but was also forced to use the 911 system anyway.
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@FailedFlea93 so that makes you more aware then most Americans. Did you have another point to make?
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@lovemoviesful2 yup everyone who stands to profit off the billions spent by the pharmaceutical industry and the health insurance industry will defend them. It is hard to convince someone of something when their income depends on not believing it.
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@pip1855 clearly you didn't read my other comments because I am an American pointing out how these reactions show how jaded Americans have become that we just accept these prices as normal.
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@HeyMildred what you fail to understand is that you can have health insurance in the USA and still not be able to afford to pay for your portion of the medical costs. Half of all Americans can't afford a $400 emergency but most poor people are forced onto health insurance plans by their employer which have a $2000 deductible and after the deductible you still are responsible for 20% of the bill. So tell me when you are poor and can't afford a $400 emergency how do you cover the deductible and 20% of the hospital costs when your wife has a child and the hospital bill is $30,000? There is simply no way you can cover that cost. So every single Republican who is against abortion should definitely be outraged that people are forced to have an abortion because they can't afford the hospital bill to have the child.
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@eromod deregulation you are an idiot the last thing we need is drug companies to be able to see unregulated medicine. We tried that once in this country look up the term snake oil sales man from the early part of the 20th century. If you allow companies to sell unregulated products for medical purposes you only insure that more people will die.
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@ryanmccarthy2033 across state lines only allows one state like Delaware to become the shame insurance capital of the country same as with credit cards. It hasn't lowered the fees or rates on credit cards and it won't lower the cost of healthcare what it will do is make a race to the bottom as all 50 states try to be the most friendly to the insurance companies to get the billions of dollars in business in their state. So you will find it is as hard to hold your insurance company accountable as it is to get your credit card company to reverse a negative credit report on your credit record.
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