Obamacare: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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- Опубліковано 25 лют 2017
- Congressional Republicans could soon vote to repeal Obamacare.
John Oliver explores why their replacement plans are similar to a thong.
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I live in Norway, a country with free healthcare. We don't give a shit that we have to pay a lot of taxes. I'm healthy and I don't need medication, operations or anything like that but i'll gladly pay taxes if it means that people who are sick can get the proper health care that they need. Why? Because I have human decency that's why...
Lies! Deep down you hate that your taxes go to help fellow Norwegians instead of senseless war, regime change, corporate bailouts, etc that you never get to vote on and help only a sliver of the population. The latter is just so much better because thats what I was told to believe in my freedom loving country that I was forced to pledge allegiance to at age 5. #BESTAMERICA
'Murica fuck yeah!!
So... Is there much in the way of room in Norway? How's the weather?
B-but, *socialism!*
musikal, that is exactly what has happened as insurance companies have taken over healthcare. It has nothing to do with government, and it started long before the ACA. The biggest problem with the ACA was that it left the insurance companies in charge.
“This is the start of a communist takeover like Hitler in Germany”
This is why history is important
Hitler is a socialist
@@Ahmedqamislo The parties name might of had Socialist in it but the Nazis were far from being Socialist, they imprisoned them and were far right not far left.
@@Ahmedqamislo that’s like saying North Korea is a democratic republic because their official name is the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
@@paulnjeru2005 exactly but do you think he understands?
The education system has failed us
That one chick screaming when John Oliver said "parents can keep their children on their health plans until they're 26" is literally me. As someone fresh out of college who is trying to pay off student debt, the fact that I'm still on my mother's health insurance plan is a literal life saver. Thank you, Obama. No, seriously. Thank you.
I am black so you're welcome 😊
@@daveyhouston Unless you’re Obama’s dad, I don’t see why we’re thanking you.
@@daveyhouston we owe you no thanks, Obama and his cabinet created Obamacare, not you...
By your logic, we owe every white man thanks for creating America because most if not all the founding fathers were white
Awww dam student loans are a trap from which it is hard to escape I pray for you
Totally true!
...and I don't think that was a girl btw.
The United States of America, where the right to own firearms is considered a basic right but access to healthcare is not.
apotheos1s Does the government provide the general populace with weapons? Is there some sort of gun welfare?
ever been to a gun show?
the guy down the street provides me with weapons. Even the fat baby gets a gun
Obviously my gun is supposed to be your healthcare plan and vice versa.
It's called the Constitution, if your not an American you will never know what it is like to be a truly free person. I have never been without healthcare insurance in over 40 years ,just look for a decent job,employers provide it.
Our irrational fear of "SOCIALISM!!!" is quite astounding, really.
To some Americans, anything slightly to the left is basically communism. If they saw how the Netherlands (my native country) handled things, they'd know no better then seeing tall, blonde Stalins everywhere lol.
socialism sucks giant dick - Swede
Thomas Kole My parents (Trump voter) think that Europe is just one communist bloc that takes all of your money away with nothing in return.
Most American voters hear anything that sounds even remotely leftist and immediately think "THEY WANT TO BRING STALIN BACK FROM THE DEAD"
And, funny enough, the poor fears it the most lol
"You wanna kill my grandparents!? You come through me first!"
This aged well...
😂😂😂😂
**Cough, cough**
Does that mean he's in favor of the Covid Relief package so his grandparents can get vaccinated? Of course not!
My first thought, lol.
1 million dead americans. There's actually good chance that that did actually happen. Mr come through me didn't use mask, and now his grandparents are dead. Oh well at least he got early inheritance.
I love how republican voters say "I like the act but I hate the name why call it after the President?", the thing is Obama didn't called it that, that was an insult invented by republicans and then Obama used it by saying "Obama does care" using that as a slogan, but now they hate the name, maybe you shouldn't have called it that from the begining
There's a video of an old woman that was seething at the thought of obamacare. She HATED It.
She loved Medicaid though. I don't know of It racism or propaganda. But damn she HATED It!!!!!
@@benjaminmadrigalperez9010 It has to do with partisanism and a bully mentality, a bully hates it when you take an insult and use it as a compliment, because you are using it as a shield so they can't hurt you and that drives them insane
Another example is the the Squad it started as an insult, but when they used it as their name, the republicans wanted a squad of their own
Its because, on average, republicans are alot dumber. That and theyve been manipulated. If youre only source of news is Fox News or friends who watch Fox News, youre being fed propoganda.....same with MSNBC to some degree.
@@Yannis1a Similar to Dark Brandon, I guess.
The Republicans who called it that very much intended for Republican voters to hate the name.
I noticed the GOP's entire business model seems to revolve around ousting things without having something to replace it.
"Imagine having health care"
"Imagine having ambassadors"
"Imagine having an actual functioning human being as president"
Spiny Justspiny this comment fucking killed me😂😂
"Lower taxes!" _5 minutes later_ "Bigger military!"
"More freedom! Less government!" _5 minutes later_ "No drugs! No Abortions! No Immigrants! No Sex toys! Guns are fine..."
"Free markets are the best!" _3 months and several Oscar wins going to feminist writers later_ "Fuck Hollywood!"
Well when you are trillions of dollars in debt... it actually makes sense to cut trillions of dollars of things without replacing them...
+SergeofBIBEX And we are in debt because of the Republicans. It was Reagan who put us in great debt and Bush Jr. who sent the debt sky high after Bush Sr./Clinton got it back under control. Debt in fact has been a Republican strategy to indirectly destroy public aid programs - "Sorry, have to cut them because we have too much debt!" Stop being afraid of it and letting Republicans scare us into handing even more riches to the super-rich.
Ranillon in fact it was obimbo who raised the national debt to over 19 TRILLON. more than twice what it was in 2008!
I like how although this is a liberal show, John isn't afraid to call out Obama for some of his bs like being extremely trigger happy with those drone strikes.
JosayyLmao John Oliver isn't a liberal. He's a realist.
JosayyLmao I was thinking the same thing.
gotta criticize both sides (even though trump is comedy gold)en shower...heh..
JosayyLmao I'm pretty sure the chain of command doesn't go up that high in order to do any drone strike. Most likely it'll be the commanding officer or officer in charge who will approve of it.
That's because it isn't a liberal show. It's a reality show.
Autocratic Snowman Obama can't do anything without bi-partisan support. Republicans stopped him from doing anything.
“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.”
🇺🇸James A. Baldwin
Oh yes, indeed. The poor, who can't afford a big box of detergent to clean their clothes, for example, pay far more for a tiny one-time-use pack to do their washing at the laundromat. In fact, everything costs more for them pro rata, including food. How can we let this go on? This also happens here, in England, which is less capitalist than the USA, but both economies are predicated on the fantasy of the poor somehow becoming richer. The America dream - do me a favour. This is the 21st C, not the 19th. In the 19th C you got rich by fulfilling hopeful entrepreneurs' ambitions - whether mining, building, trains, communications, or consumer goods. Today, it's betraying yourself, your data, and everyone else to a global digital company, whose CEO is the richest man in the world - or at least among about the top 4 - it keeps changing. And one of whom, at least, is fantasizing about putting innocent, and stupid, people upon the planet Mars. "Terraforming," they trill. Yeah, right. Mars lost most of its atmosphere millions of years ago, so what makes you think you can restore it, and which is why it is totally hostile to human life? And if you can't, the naive pioneers will all die. I know it's good to be optimistic, but you also really need to be realistic.
We need to kick the rich out of office
José Mujica, nice president of Uruguay and one good guy who lived long
yes
Beau Littzen if you hate taxes, why do you like the military? They are paid entirely through taxes and would not exist without taxes
Beau Littzen I’m a veteran myself, I understand why military is needed and why taxes are required, I also know that as a Canadian, you can use taxes for more than Defense enriching people
There is something the Americans don’t seem to be aware of: Every developed or developing country has some sort of affordable healthcare act - and has had for generations. As far as know you are LITERALLY the last to have a controversy on „if“ rather than “how“
So true some people are just dumb they scream socialism which is just dumb America is the black sheep of the western world
and they're still screaming GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD everywhere, they're pathetic
We’re aware lol. The majority of people want it as well. The problem is not everyone not being aware of it the problem is 1) the government not enacting it even tho the people want it and 2) the effects of the red scare and McCarthyism cropping up in the most vocal idiots who make it seem like all (or even most) Americans actually thing healthcare is communism
Even Morocco and Columbia have better healthcare solutions than the US.
Many of us do know and many of us know other things that other countries give their people that we don't get
"'I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Dean Champion But god is a horrible person...
Gandhi was a perv who cares what that child molester thinks
+pat lyons lol he saved India from the British and gained their independence. what have you done? that's like saying "who cares what that black person MLK thinks?"
Matthew Gunter and your source??
please don't speak on things you know nothing about
Matthew Gunter idiot.
That moment you live in Europe and are wondering what the fuck is wrong with the USA.
Many, many things. It's simply too large and has too many diverse cultures under the same governmental structure. The fact it's become this politically and socially toxic is unfortunate. If you had to nominate a single thing as the 'leading cause' then I would personally nominate a bipartisan system as it. Encouraging factionalism and thus infighting is not conductive to healthy government. Even in the few where it benefits someone (Feudalism, where the King want's the nobles at each others throats rather then his) it's still bad for the nation and it's population.
I'm an American living in Europe. One day I had a severe migraine aura where I dissociated and hallucinated, it was later diagnosed as what I said and it's harmless and can be prevented, but at the time I feared it was epilepsy because it ran in my family. That day I didn't see the doctor to later, but I basically sat down outside for a half hour waiting for it to calm down and then walked home. My wife later asked me "why didn't you call an ambulance?" And I'm like "why the fuck would I do that, we can't afford that" and she's all "they don't charge you any money if it's a real emergency and potentially having a brain issue definitely counts".
I had to explain to her that Americans are trained to never call an ambulance until it's a choice between "ambulance or definitely die". I had a coworker fall and hit the back of her head on the ground. Someone called 911 and paramedics were all around her, she kept saying "go away, don't check me, I didn't call you, I'm not paying for this!" which unfortunately was not an unreasonable thing to do, because even if she was insured, an ambulance ride would have still cost her hundreds of dollars just as a copay.
This is the unfortunate reality that exists. It's why the ACA got the kind of support it did. It's why changing that will be at best a nightmare to do and at worst outright (effectively) impossible.
I have seen zero evidence the current administration has a plan prepared, or even the outline of one, to address the same set of issues. If they did, I could at least state my view of how bad (or good) it is. The fact that I STILL think this is the best nation to live in on Earth at the present time, doesn't mean I don't see the decline in progress.
Fortunately, I highly doubt that it's even possible from Trump to be reelected, which means in 4 years, someone will face dealing with the damage. I wish that person and their allies well, because they will need god's help I think.
What do you mean "what the fuck is with Europe"? Unless you're referring to the sickening rise of far-right nationalism, in which case you'd be correct, otherwise I'm not sure what you're getting at. I'm an American living in Germany and it's awesome that I have high quality health care that I don't pay a penny for, whereas if I were still in the US I'd be uninsured and fucked.
Let me tell you about the german healthcare - As a german worker i´m paying about 15.4% ( may vary by promille depending on the insurance company ) of my gross income ( and my employer 15.4% too) for medical insurance . My kids and wife and insured by my insurance . Retired persons , unemployed also insured by my dues and so will i , when i´ll be retired .
I have never complained about it and I think the majority of all other contributors does not .
Three and a half years later, and they STILL are claiming they have a great plan, but have yet to show us ANY part of it.
Just watch this today October 28th 2020 unreal that this video was 3 years
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"God forbids us from actually helping people with less money than us."
-Every Republican politician since 2008
Republicans are more likely to donate money, time, and blood than leftists.
Diana Peña the fuck are you talking about that is just an empty statement.
Diana Peña They certainly put more cum in it. Mainly because they keep fucking them over.
Diana Peña bullshit they suck the rich dicks dryer then the Sahara desert.
'more likely', I am also more likely to be President than a peach but what is 'likely' is not what actually happens, what matters is what you've done and Republicans have done fuck all, they never spend a dime on the people.
"It is now their turn to come up with a plan"
-3 years later
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA, good one John. Imagine, amiright?
2020 Update: Republicans still have no replacement for the ACA.
because the ACA was their plan. Its romneycare on a national level
@HeyMildred Except it is, that is why governments exist.
2024 update, I think they forgot
If they repel Obamacare, they better have something better in place, or I am going to die.
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I'm living off a single bum kidney that requires dialysis every few months, I'm 21, make about $10 bucks an hour, and I can't afford to pay $2,000 four times a year. Nobody wants to insure me, and they tell me a donor is about 6 years away.
cooldude56g I feel you, man. I'm 17 and can't get a job because I live in the rural part of town and can't afford Driver's Ed to get a car. I have severe Crohn's and need to pay about 4,000$ every two months (which my parents cover with Obamacare). I would probably die if not treated due to an abscess and then an infection. The fear is real, man.
My condolences for the tough situation you are in. I do not know the specifics of your health status but have you tried investigating applying for Medicare in the case of what appears to be ESRD requiring dialysis? www.cms.gov/Medicare/Coordination-of-Benefits-and-Recovery/Coordination-of-Benefits-and-Recovery-Overview/End-Stage-Renal-Disease-ESRD/ESRD.html
If it does happen pick up a gun and blow the brains out of your local rep. This is America, I'm tired of arguing with ugly rich men about how long I have to live, if you can't guarantee me LIFE, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness I will guarantee you do not receive those either.
Jesus. Hoping all turns out for you bud
cooldude56g so in your opinion because you have a shit kidney we have to pay for it? And what about those who can't even afford Obamacare? They have to pay penalties essentially making the poor poorer. My taxpayer dollars will not go to your new kidney if I had my way about it.
I have a neighbor who has a poor family, and most of the adults in his family voted for Trump because he promised change for the poor. I told them to go support Bernie back when he was in my state and was still running but they persisted on Trump. Now I'm a foreigner and to be honest, I don't give that much of a shit about American politics, but upon discovering that an elderly man in their household was in hospital being supported by Obamacare and that they were furious that their own candidate was set on taking their life support away, I found it pretty hilarious. How could they not have know this would happen beforehand?
50 Dollars It's so depressing.... How blind people are...
Bernie or bust wasnt a campaign slogan, it was a fucking warning!!!
Why didn't you tell them to support me?
Ah yes, I too have family who voted Trump and told me Bernie Sanders was a fascist because he visited Russia with his wife 😖 (yes, they only watch FOX news and Facebook)
But also receive aid from the state/government. It's so backwards it makes me wanna scream. I don't understand it.
Dani Koob Why not me? I love poor people.
I know this sounds completely insane but if you cut back a little on the military and on golf trips for the White House then there would be finances for a healthcare system 😅
Single payer is actually 17 trillion dollars cheaper than our current system
no, bombing foreign people should be top priority
Or knowing how corrupt politicians can be, why not lower taxes drastically and let people decide what to do with their money
@@HybridSoldier777 Let poor people with little income decide what to do when they get into a life threatening situation they can't afford to get fixed. I guess the decision they have is how quickly they want to die?
Or they could choose education in not only a better paying job but also in finance management.
Saw this one and decided to watch. Came to the part where he says, "Time is ticking and Republicans say they have a plan" Well, nearly 4 years later and still no plan. Republicans really hard at work.
Our tax dollars at work. Glad I'm not a Republican, but then I'm not Democrat either, even though Republicans lie more. Politics is only for people who are politicians. They are the ones who make (waste) the money.
The plan is the same plan as always... to trust that Americans are stupid enough to not understand how time works. When in power, they take credit for the results of policy decisions made by the previous administration, and when the other party is in power they blame them for the results of their own party's policy decisions. That's why we've been flip-flopping which party is in charge for my entire life.
What in the hell is America's problem with universal health care?
My country has it since 1867 ...
Zepha21
That's probably why your country did not begin the mass production of penicillin.
Sebastian
That's probably also why they don't have a massive problem with 40,000 people dying annually without access to healthcare.
Sebastian Jimenez Bienen but penicillin was made before Europe started their health coverage
Also the U.K. State red the mass production of penicillin at the same time as the US
Source www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/flemingpenicillin.html#wwii-penicillin-commercial-production
Have you been to a hospital in America, Jesus Millan? Walk into ANY hospital, or call 911 and tell them you are dying and see if you dont get any help.
They've had years and years to come up with a plan better than Obama care but instead they wasted time saying what they want to do & complaining about Obama care.
Battleballs I don't need a better plan it's called amend Obama care to make it ideal for everyone instead of leaving everyone assed out.
+batteballs You could apply your statement to North Korea without changes... If people do not like decisions, in the USA they still have both the right and the duty to discuss that with their congress representatives.
Battleballs Either you're trolling right now or you don't know which party makes up the majority of congress. Which just leads back to my original statement.
Daniël Kunenborg Trying to speak to congress right now would be like speaking to a brick wall. Some of us may be screwed if they repeal healthcare without a replacement.
Why would you want a Democrat or Republican solution that is inferior to that provided by the free-market solution? Let the people who want Obamacare cover each other's cost. When government has to subsidize them with printed money, give he same to those who knew better.
Just got yelled at by my dad for watching your show John, so great work. This means one thing, high quality. Keep it up Mr. Oliver.
May I ask why he yelled at you exactly
MrHistory 808 he doesn’t want me to be a democrat. Two major rules in my house: don’t be gay, don’t be a democrat.
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Sorry dad
@Allena Smith wow I can imagine he only watches Fox News...are you a liberal ?
MrHistory 808 yes. My dad is a huge conservative and we don’t see eye to eye on most things political.
Allena Smith wow my parents vote for different parties and they are still married :) I can’t imagine living like that personally I am pretty liberal but I also support gun ownership (with some restrictions) and I got that from my father things like that
"He'd've just ordered a drone strike and declared them enemy combatants."
Obama is still coping with that 3rd-Degree burn to this day.
You do know that under Trump twice as many drone strikes were conducted?
2 words: Predator drones.
" *these bees aren't fucking around* "
-John Oliver 2017
#overprotectivedadsagainstbees #parenthood
bees are dying at an alarming rate... they need to be fucking around
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That woman on Obamacare that detests the name is just perfect. It answers the question, “tell me you’re a racist without saying I’m a racist”
Is Ketanji Brown Jackson the first black woman on the Supreme Court?
Three years later and we're still waiting for that republican healthcare plan.
That Obama drone joke was so full of truth that the audience couldn’t handle it
i live in denmark.
i once had a sharp pain in my stomach that would last very long and keep rising. i decide to goto the hospital.
i went in. said hello. told my Card number (had forgotten it)
got shown to a waiting room. sat in agony for 20 mins.
talked to doctor. who said i should get painkillers and get a examination.
i was then guided to a hospital wing. got morfine. a bed. (they would not offer food, since it was a gallbladder attack) (otherwise i could have gotten food)
i finally was painless. they said they diddent have the full scanner personel because it was late in the evening, so it would be in the morning first., Slept fine in a 2 man room (i was the only one there)
Got up the next day. (they said no food yet. still because of the stomach region issue. (but otherwise i would have had breakfeast)
they carted me to scanning (though i was fine really at this time since the pain had stopped and the attack was way over)
got scanned right away. doctor confirmed 2 gallbladder stones. told me all about it, said it was unnessesary to do surgery unless the attacks got frequent, whichj they would remove the bladder.
got dressed and walked home, and finally ate some food.
.... Yeah i diddent take out my wallet or my infomation , nothing was charged to me. i walked in. Medicine Slept, Scanned., Home
oh.. wait
the doctor said i should perhaps go buy a morphine pill to keep around in case it happened again (and if it kept happening. should make a appointment for surgery)
DAMN MORPHINE WOULD COST ME MONEY!!!
FCKING COMMUNISM!!!...wait CAPITALIS...wait... oh yeah diddent pay full price for the medicine... since i was also covered alot on that part...
soo...
*dances off into all this lack of freedom, he keeps being told about not having in denmark*
Wow... you had to pay for morphine? That sounds horrible my dear neighbour.
I'm here for you if you ever need any support
BOOM. Belgian here, it's not completely free here but insurance still covers almost everything. I _really_ don't get what's the big problem in America.
Killaim I dream of a day where this is the universal standard in health care.
oh nonono i "barely" had to pay for it. like almost nothing.
but i will accept paypall and written checks. thank you
Denmark rules. Bang & Olufsen!
I like the fact that Oliver had the intellectual honesty to go over the very real faults of obamacare. This shows he's not just an empty headed and blind ideologue. On same areas he does have a strong bias, but it's certainly not as bad as some... let's call them anti-SJW'ers like to think.
Beastly BS. At 12:34 he deliberately misses the point.
Yes, because you can't bring up anything arguments against his points... can you?
Beastly Love that term "anti-SJW'ers"
Dude, he said Obama's way of killing people was to drone them at 3:10 in a savage reference to the number of drone strikes Obama ordered during his tenure. That easily puts aside any suggestion of a bias.
Beastly if he ignored its faults and only praised the ACA he'd just be considered biased and no longer taken seriously by anyone who isn't a hardline supporter of his. Neutrality requires discussion of both the good and the bad.
Before Obamacare, my grandmother couldn’t get health insurance because she had breast cancer. She survived it and was in remission, thank God, but because she had it, she couldn’t get coverage.
I remember watching the Bush/Kerry election night and I asked my sister who were rooting for.
And she pointed to the blue half of the bar at the top of the screen and said: “these ones care about people”
Then she pointed to the red half and said: “and these ones don’t”
And it’s been amazing to see over the last 16 years how’s little Republicans have done to convince me otherwise.
as a european i struggle with the fact that healthcare is even a debate in the US lol.
BF Dijidox as it turns out many Americans are terminally stupid and incredibly selfish. They'd rather not put in a few extra dollars for something up front if some 'brown person' might benefit from it, regardless of whether they'll be trapped paying more down the line to clear up the preventable issues they willfully ignored.
What an absolutely disgusting culture the US has. So focused on their 'freedom' yet they have no fucking idea what it really means
whataboutredlorry I used to defend Americans, but I can't do it anymore.
whataboutredlorry I used to defend Americans, but I can't do it anymore.
Because even though we are the most religious nation on earth we could care less about our fellow man
Blackty 37 The US is not the most religious place on Earth. There are places where religion is law and athiests are beat. :/
"Tick tock, motherfuckers."
I'm dying right now.
:)
You Daymon you covered, bro?
Watching this from 2020 pandemic.
(Not having national health care plan,
is like having a peeing section in a swimming pool!)
I hope that coronavirus forces Americans and the government to realize how fcked up our healthcare system is we need Universal healthcare
What's so funny is 3 years ago, they were all, "You can't kill my grandparents. You're gonna have to go through me first.". And NOW they're like, "Welp, if opening the economy means sacrificing grandma, I guess that's just what we gotta do. There are more important things than living."
So is do-it-yourself pandemic control.
6:56 This actually happened to me as a child. An angry swarm of bees. He did the best he could, but one bee got me.
After moving to the US (from Canada), I find the whole system here insane. Although the thing which really gets me is how brainwashed people are. The most common thing I hear is "I don't want the government telling me what doctor to see", I simply ask them why they see the doctor they use and the answer is always the same: "I use one my insurance takes". In Canada the government does tell you what doctor: Any fucking doctor. You're being told by a company which doctors you're allowed to use and that's somehow okay?
I also hear "I don't want to pay for other people's healthcare with tax". Uh... Do people not realize they do that already and are fine with it? Police? Fire departments? Public schools? The list goes on and everyone is fine with it. But healthcare is the end of the world. haha
Canada is not perfect, Brock. If you live in Quebec, there is a chronic shortage of docs to see. Specialists require a waiting period. I won't even mention St. John's -- horrible. Wait time average in the US ER is 58 minutes to see a doctor. We have an awesome healthcare system. The quickest way to f___ that up is to put the government in charge.
No system is perfect. But in this system people can easily end up not getting medical attention despite having insurance because they're freaked out about it not being covered over some technicality.
A coworker had some work done and ended up with a $7,000 bill despite it all being approved by the insurance, because the approved doctor didn't do some work in the same office or some nonsense. Just the threat of random shit like that happening is enough to scare people away and that's a terrible thing.
+Peter Brockie Yes, but you see, the difference for lots of Americans is that the insurance companies are private companies and so American citizens consider that different because it's not a state entity. If the government determines whether or not you get health care, then Americans see it as an oppressive act of a tyrannical state. But if a private company does the same, then it's the act of a capitalist body exercising its right to determine how it spends its hard-earned money. You see, Americans draw a distinction between parallels not in action, but in designation.
If Hitler had perpetrated the Holocaust through capital policies as head of IG Farben, then Americans might have caught on. But so far, we haven't had a historical precedent of capital entities being as bad as dictatorships so Americans remain ignorant.
Theomite Eh... East India Company.
Hence the american revolution
"Okay children"
Room literally made of all adults.
arkayen666123 even more senior citizens.
To be fair, he couldn't argue on facts so he had to demean the citizens making valid points.
arkayen666123 yeah he was trying to say that they don't have to deal with it but one look and they were all up there.
It was at that point that I believe I would've approached the speaker and offered to demonstrate a new use for his microphone.
Everyone is a child.
"It's like a father saying to his daughter 'I will always keep you safe', but what about bees?" That gets an entirely different weight after the whole murder hornets thing.
As a german student I really envy your system. I get free healthcare. No one has to pay to visit some of the best universities in the world, plus I get enough money just for beeing a student so I wouldn't even have to work.
But it's sad that we pay for that with our freedom of speech... Wait we don't, so that's fine... forget what I said.
loool
Made me cry.
To be fair, you have to pay back half of your bafög money (no interest), but since the semesterly fees are only one to three hundred euro, you should be fine compared to the US
@@martalaatsch8358 it's capped at 10k though, 8k if payed at once, due 5 years after graduation and includes a masters and several semesters on top in foreign countries and a couple of semesters in a different major.
It's all about undoing Obama's legacy to the GOP, at the expense of Americans. It's sickening, on top of what Trump is doing, who the fuck can stomach Republicans?
Red88Rex obviously a solid amount of people can because he was elected president
Red88Rex fuck obama! my work doesn't provide me health care.. and I can't afford it. so guess what when I filed my taxes I lost all of my little tax return because I had to pay a fucking tax for not being able to afford Obama Care!
I would've had to shell out $200/month on health care making just under $2,000 after taxes with $700 in rent and $300 in student loans.....yeah I stayed on my parents plan until I got a job that actually gave competent benefits. Who ever ACA benefited great for you, but it sure as shit did not help me out. At least it gave me nothing to look forward to at 26 y/o
Nico Greco Because of ACA you can stay on your parent's insurance until 26. So much for not helping out
It actually isn't. You want men in dresses taking pictures of your 5 year old daughter in a bathroom stall?
I don't know what America would do without Republicans. Probably just make rapid progress and increase the well-being and happiness of the general public.
j jay lol nah, you would be a 3rd world Jesus Thumping shithole with no money to spend on your department of defense since all the blue states wouldn't be caught dead around you. MUH FREEDUMB
j jay Nope, our country would be a complete cesspool of human scum without them. And this is coming from a conservative.
That assumes the establishment corporate Democrats are any better. The apparent next Democrat Presidential hope Corey Booker voted against a plan to get cheaper drugs from Canada because he takes a boatload of phrama donations.
Roboterize Previous Republicans? We'd be terrible. Modern Republicans? Life would be great.
Dani Kbob Um... reread what you said.
John Oliver is a real straight shooter and Always tells it the way it is! Kudos John!
I'd like to find the guy who said "if you want to kill my Grandparents you have to go through me" and ask him what he thinks about Trump's covid-19 policies
I wonder if he listened to Dan Patrick's statements a few months ago about how older people needed to suck it up and take the hit for the economy and said - my grandparents first!
@@Val_Emrys The truth is I don't think most of these people are reachable, my friend who is a Trump supporter spent 2 months under medical care (5 weeks in a hospital and 3 weeks in a rehabilitation center) with Covid-19 he's now spent 6 weeks at home and he has another two weeks before he will be allowed to go back to work - a week after he got home from the rehabilitation center he started to post on FB that Covid-19 was being over hyped - if he had waited another day before going to the hospital he would have probably died - now he writes like it's a hoax- I've given up trying to convince him of anything it's a lost cause.
@HeyMildred Trump withheld information about the severity of Covid-19 and nixed a program that would have distributed millions of masks in April - and what surge of rapid testing? I'm in WNY and in June it took 5-7 days to get the results back from the tests - If Trump had told his followers and demonstrated proper mask wearing and social distancing tens of thousands would be alive today and the economy would have opened up months ago.
@HeyMildred The nonexistent contact tracing. The lack of a cohesive strategy for all of 50 states. The every-man-for-himself approach to dealing with a deadly airborne pathogen. The mixed messages about best practices coming from the WH. The insistence of holding super-spreader events. The fact that not one single state is trending down in new cases...You know all the things every successful country has employed to flatline their outbreaks except the US.
@HeyMildred Also, you know fast tracking a vaccine isn't actually a good thing, right?
Pushing through a vaccine to win an election that isn't effective is going to kill people. There's a good reason pharmaceuticals take years to manufacture and test, and it's to ensure safety and efficacy. If the vaccine is not effective, but they put it out there anyway, people will feel like they are protected when they aren't and we're going to see another spike in cases, and considering that the high risk groups are going to be the first to be vaccinated, we are going to see more deaths.
There's a parallel, here. Something about a thong and your dad's ass?
Whoever yelled when he said that people under 26 can be on their parents insurance is my favorite
GL0CKSTER69 yep, I'm not American and I'm 21 and still on my parent's insurance. It's great because I still go to school, only have a minimum wage job and still live with my mom. Once I'm finished studying I'll be able to pay for my own health insurance but until then it's so much less expensive for everybody if I'm on my parent's health insurance.
GL0CKSTER69 Without that being in place, I won't of got the care I needed for my depression. It scares me to think I might not have something in place if case I accidentally fall off the wagon again.
Kael M I was also benefited from the ACA passing when it did because it meant that I could keep coverage on my parents insurance for my debilitating migraine headaches I get everyday. Disability where I live is a bitch to get into and takes forever to approve you. I'm trying to get disability now because I'm reaching the age I get cut off my parents insurance which I've already been. I know just how critical it is to have health insurance and republicans do not get it, they don't understand it and they don't care. If it's not affecting them personally they couldn't give less of a fuck, we can die on the street and they'd be happy. The republicans that actually make policy are rich and have more than adequate insurance, so saving money to them by cutting benefits will not affect them whatsoever. If it's not happening to them personally, it's not a problem worth fixing and never will be. This is how they think, empathy is a weakness to them. If it's happening to them you know something will be done about it immediately, otherwise they will promise the moon but in practice will give you less than crumbs.
Nobody fucking cares. Youre a damn kid. Go play xbox or some shit. If i had a 25 Year old kid sitting around my house, he would need some medical insurance after I get done with him, if u Know what I mean LOL. Go get a job, loser.
yeah thank you fucking God I'd be so fucked.
Tick tock motherfuckers. I love this man.
Go IN, John Oliver! The man is on fire lately - unfortunately, so is our country right now.
healthybeautylv let's just give them time, because when the time runs out there most likely just throw out "obumercare" and move one
Alex Jones said the NSA was spying on the public before it was revealed by Edward Snowden. Alex Jones predicted 911 and said they would use Bin Laden as a scapegoat before it happened. Alex Jones snuck into the famous Bohemian Grove and got footage of American Political leaders dressed in robes doing a ritual. Alex Jones > Mainstream Media
healthybeautylv 18:34 made me spit out my juice XD
atleast troll right dude , your troll must be believable
"Communism, like Hitler did in Germany"... no Hitler was a right wing nationalist who had nothing to do with implementing a healthcare system
Otto von Bismarck, a conservative antisocialist implemented Germany's healthcare system I think.
@@randyzhu8797 after coal miners had already created the first sickness funds and retirement funds and because there was pressure from the population to get this as a universal option the real people getting this done were the coal miners, if Bismarck hadn't done anything people would have voted in more left wing people into parliament and Bismarck was a royalist, so he much rather listened to the people than get his political opponents more power
Hitler came 40 years after Bismarck retired and under a different political system after the loss of a war, he too used social politics as a ploy to get more votes, but in his case it was more surface level, because the Social arm of the NSDAP pretty much dried up completely under his leadership, his version of lowering unemployment was taking women and so called "undesirables" out of the workforce, we was a far right nationalist, not a socialist and what social policies he did implementing served the greater purpose of survailance and indoctrination.
The amount of money we would all save with universal coverage would be astounding. A very large chunk of what we all pay winds up going to overhead costs and profit for the insurance company. They have to pay thousands of people to design and price plans for employers, unions and individuals. Then there's billing, claims adjusters, customer service, executive pay, and profit. All that before your premiums ever get to an actual provider. Then the providers have to spend time and money dealing with the insurance companies. Getting claims approved and paid, cost negotiations and adjustments, billing and collections to the patients; all that takes time and money away from what's important: actual healthcare!
over here in germany we laugh our asses of how pathetic the gop's excuses are 😂😂
the dragon
I'm moving to Germany after college
the dragon thats ok. we laugh at you guys becuase your germany.
Jacob Woolf fair enough nobody is perfect ( not even countrys ) the diffrence is that while we laugh we don't have to fear Hospital bills in case we get a cancer. Also don't get me started on how we are aided if we lose our jobs and don't have to work up to three at once....
the dragon One thing Americans do have are far lower taxes
Please bring that laughter over here to the US so that the constituents of Republicans can hear it. That way they might think twice about the fact they're getting screwed.
So I'm recovering from an appendectomy and taking Percocet for pain, but am I that high that I heard the Congressman talking about a goat in his house? Or did he really say that?
ForsythJC
You're high for doubting it.
I hope you get better...
LOL! Okay, thanks! Just making sure. I was about to go back to the doctor and ask her what the hell she put in my medicine. Cuz it's some good shit! Hahahaha!
ForsythJC Bruh percs ain't even hallucinogenic.
who are these people who vote for guys like that to run the country? seriously, i dont understand how anybody (liberal, conservative or other) can say that this dude is competent to be in office. and there are some many like him in the us congress and the white house.
Yeah for example their president lol
3:00 these are the same "grandparent defenders" who soon after, when it came to COVID, "they're old, let them die. Grandpa would want to give his life for the economy"
"So good news, 'Fugitive Slave Act,' you're finally off the hook!"
Interesting how the Bible explicitly says *not* to return runaway slaves to the people they had just escaped from, but the US *still* required people to
I explained to a bunch of Americans how the healthcare in the Nethetlands work and they found it Amazing. Then I explained that Obamacare is basically the same or at least based on the same ideas. They didnt believe me... Americans sometimes get incredibly blind just because they hate or disagree with a certain president. How America still has so much problems with Health care baffles me :/.
IamZani based on the same ideas can be vastly different than the same as...
IamZani
America has problems with healthcare depending on how you look at it. America does have problems with healthcare coverage, but it does not have problems with healthcare quality. It has arguably the best quality healthcare in the world (if you can afford it). The reason why this is such is also the reason why it's so limited and expensive for people to afford it: that there are incentives in place for pharmaceuticals and healthcare providers to invest in research and development and innovation. You would not have penicillin if it were not for these incentives, and you wouldn't have a lot of the advancements of modern medicine that everyone now benefits from. If you look at the world at large, it's actually convenient in the long run to have the American health care industry structured in this way. More discoveries, more treatments, more years in everyone's life, better for the species as a whole
Sebastian Jimenez Bienen the moment u say the best healthcare in the world... Sir... the only thing you're the best in the world is fat people and stupid people... and that won't change --'
Sebastian Jimenez Bienen it doesn't matter if that exceptional quality is only accessible to few. The thing who need to wrap your head around is that one person alone doesn't make society; many do. A society that cannot take care of its human capital is a weak one. It would be impossible to mobilize the American population in 24h because the level of health and fitness of the majority simply sucks. The life expectancy in this country is decreasing, we have an abnormal obesity rate, and the level of child mortality is among the highest in the developed world. All these indicators should sound the alarm. A better and cheaper healthcare system that focuses on wellness and prevention would save us more money as a nation than the crap Republicans are trying to implement.
But the whole point of insurance is that its a game of risk. Insurance companies are willing to pay your bill because you are healthy and are probably never going to use it for emergencies. It's an agreed upon game that I play. If I end up in the emergency room, I'm going to get treated, but I also agree to take the risk of paying a larger bill, unless a company offers to pay for me as long as I pay monthly fees. And that's the problem. It's not about health care, it's about the crippling fees you get from it. Sure, in the short term poor people will get covered and get immediate relief from crippling debt. But if every person is mandated to buy it: 1. It's immoral. 2. Healthy people will take the penalty while sick people get insurance, forcing insurers to drive up prices, driving more health people to leave the market and take the penalty fee. Even Aetna is leaving the insurance market for this exact reason. So now you're forced to choose: either be in debt from a healthcare bill or be in debt from an insurance bill. Your choice. Or, you can continue to bankrupt the government and make it insolvent, thus never getting money to cover for your bill.
People dont want their taxes going for peoples healthcare....well i dont want my taxes used for war, the military and alot of other shit but guess what? It does and i cant stop it. If in forced to oay taxes i should atleast be able to get decent healthcare.
See. You are rational. But Republicans and many paid off "Democrats" think it's not your money. It's the ultra Rich's money. And it should all go to them.
Personally. I think if I am losing 20% (rough estimate) of each paycheck, I should decide what government programs it goes to.
Health care in US: The three step rip off.
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Like i could afford tax but i might no be able to afford a health care if i have a prexisting condition
I agree, but the military is pretty damn important unless you want to live under Hitler III and be speaking German.
@@sofijeffrey9797 That would be Osama II and language Arabic.
I'm my personal experience, goats are surprisingly easy to get out of houses.
Nearly two years ago I was in the U.K. visiting friends and I inhured my knee from a fall. My friends took me to the local medical facility, I never saw a bill, and even received a follow up call. Nearly a year later I sliced a good portion of my right thumb off, while working on my car. Off to the emergency room 1 hr to check in, 2 hrs waiting for surgeon, total 2 days in Hospital, co-pays , not covered expenses, $1987.00 and no call
John Oliver and his team are the most thorough and fact oriented source for information that I have come across today. It's such a breath of fresh air and fucking hilarious! All other sources, liberal or conservative, seem to base things outside of facts and provide no evidence. Thank you! And please keep it up, we need a reliable source based on facts and verifiable data.
James Wagner can't tell id serious or ironic
If*
Why would he be sarcastic? Oliver says something then shows people the fact or proof. You may disagree with his comments maybe but you cant say he is lying
Praising them is great and all, but why don't you do like he says in the Journalism video:
Give some recognition to the reporters that he and his team get their info from. John is offended when you sully the name of reporting by attaching it to his show.
James Wagner I heard he was tied to the Hillary Clinton Campaign...
"Tick Tock motherfuckers" ~ John Oliver 2017
As someone with universal healthcare, I'm always baffled by the US system. Why not just create an universal health care program? We all have it. You're the only one left out. What the hell is negotiating for health insurance? Why? Why is health a for profit business? Seriously. Who came up with your idiotic system?
Because politicians profit off of people not having healthcare
Yep.
John Oliver is a national treasure. You heard it from me...he is a national treasure.
Glad you recovered from that nasty head wound thanks to universal healthcare
Ilan Smolders I’m simply the ghost of presidents past. I’m like Santa Claus. I see all decisions and advancements made as they happen with each and every president. For instance I can see trump failing to combat the coronavirus each and every day.
@abraham Lincoln- John Wilkes booth is looking for ya,
I hope he finds you!!
@@abrahamlincoln8748 i see.
I still don't understand how everyone having health insurance can be presented as a bad thing, especially in a country where healthcare cost is so high.
Because it would mean higher income taxes. Americans such as myself don't want higher income taxes and especially so for those of us who don't live in a state with an income tax. Everyone having healthcare is a nice fantasy land... if it didn't cost so damn much it would be even better.
Shadow Force that's why Bernie wanted to go all the way and implement single-payer. If literally only the government is allowed to set costs, companies cannot price gouge like they do now. Medicine and treatment costs something like 5x as much as actually needed on average, so the government forcing these companies to charge a fair price or GTFO would lower our prices and even tax burden in the long run.
Roman Nasuti But supply and demand says that government price caps will create a shortage.
mastertoad2 there's one critical flaw with that argument: medicine is a lot like drugs in that it doesn't neatly follow supply and demand to begin with. No matter the price, medicine will always be bought because, at some point, it becomes a critical necessity for life. Companies charging as much as they are isn't out of necessity or following market demand, they're price gouging because they know people will have very little, if any choice otherwise. Forcing them to a reasonable price point wouldn't destroy supply because the entire industry doesn't neatly follow conventional economic forces to begin with.
Roman Nasuti This. I'm an economics major. Healthcare should be a public good that is non-rival and non-excludable in nature, since for many people it's necessary to survive. However, since this is America, our country decided to monetize the shit out of it and charge way more than necessary simply because they could.
Jon Oliver. Thanks for criticizing Obama in what he did wrong as well. Acknowledging that makes your positions more believable
情勢国際 him actualy putting ads on tv during morning news hours to "teach trump" sold me already, this is just icing on the cake!
honestly, obama was a fucking horrible person looking back on everything, he dropped over 20 thousand bombs in just one year in office, made the affordable care act, and then did NOTHING.
Captain Homosexual But Obamacare saved lives and is better than what was there before???
Yes all that progress on lgbt rights and criminal justice and clean energy was nothing.
you do realize that he had nothing to do with lgbt rights other than saying nice things, approved bulldozing through native american land through their burial sites to make a giant oil pipeline, and never actually did much involving criminal rights in general, right? saying nice things isn't the same as doing them, and saying nice things and only doing 2 or 3 of them doesn't make up for the deaths of tens of thousands of people in poor countries by his orders and approving the bulldozing of native american burial sites to build oil pipelines next to the natives clean water rather than next to the clean water of the people building the pipelines.
Three years later and still nothing... lol
Well thank god John McCain ensured Obama care would stay and republicans did present a plan and It failed miserably
It's funny seeing Paul Ryan saying we we we but then he took off real quick LMFAO
I'm young and healthy, I don't mind paying for insurance because it's great to have if I ever needed it, and if I never needed it I would just treat that as a service to my country and hope that the money I pays helps support the less fortunate.
Neku Exactly my opinion, but tons of trump supporters aren't willing to give up the few extra dollars, even if they do help save someone's life.
I'm also young and had never needed insurance before but recently I had a small issue with my leg and thank the fucking heavens I had insurance because I essentially walked into the hospital then out without having to pay a cent. At that moment my eyes were open as to how useful and fucking awesome l health insurance is.
So what are we talking about here are you willing to pay at least 40-50% in tax? Because that's reality.
sir u must be a rare American who has a brain hahahha trump suporters are willing to live without healthcare just because there is a obama ward attached to it :P but are willing to pay 20+ billion for a wall that is usles hahaah
Ramboness What are you talking about? No one's paying that high in tax. You just pulled that number out of your ass.
when you get 8 years to do your HW and the due date comes up and you still ain't do shit.
One of the funniest comments I've ever seen. xD
Sotir Moliko I know Hillary did an awful job learning from Obama..
Gotta love how John Oliver can keep track of a bunch of different continuous jokes at the same time 🤣. He kept up with the thong and that Grant guy at the same time 🤣🤣🤣.
As we all know the GOP failed to annul it. There is a basic rule that once you give the public something you can not take it away. To tell millions of people who now have health care for the first time that you will be taking it away is just plain impossible.That is why at the end the GOP just gave up trying to get rid of it
Step 1: Repeal
Step 2: ...
Step 3: Profit
Karl-Henrik Smith *Step 2: [Placeholder]
Karl-Henrik Smith Yea its a great time to be in the Medical insurance game.
Me: "Ooh you need insulin to live? Well give me 65% of your weekly paycheck and I can make that happen! Or if you don't like that, then you can just go into a diabetic coma."
Karl-Henrik Smith Step 2 is a lllloooooooottttttt of people dying.
it's so christian, i'm about to cry! So kind!
Republicans make Jesus rolling in his grave at the speed of light.
@@jackbrennan1125 Here I am 2 years later, seeing democrats for what they are
John Oliver's stuff became pure propaganda by now, heh.
So sick of the infighting in our Congress over practical Healthcare coverage for Americans who really need it! I hate both parties, especially the Republicans, over their continually undermining the Affordable Care Act instead of helping to fix it! It's just more proof that the "well insured" Senators & Congressmen in our government do NOT give a shit about Americans' healthcare!
Tango Bango we just need to increase birth rate and decrease average age *cough* medieval times level *cough*
Your mommy pays your healthcare? Now I get it.
The Republicans are the one who broke it.
Show us the FIX! AND those Tax Returns. AND also the 99 other things you said that you would do when u had your fingers crossed behind your back!
And they were the ones that wanted it in the first place!
Going back to the 1970s, the Republicans were the ones that wanted universal healthcare passed, except 30 years later, a Democrat beat them to the punch.
This didn’t age well. Trump promised a month ago they would introduce a health care plan in two weeks.
Two weeks later....
two months later...
no worries, he has a plan for it when he becomes king god of earth when reelected... inanother dimention
How is it that so many Americans don’t see the worth of providing healthcare to someone regardless of their ability to pay?
They think it's being Socialist/Communist and totally UnAmerican
@@lukewright9031exactly
we're going to save so much money **spends 10 million on security and traveling in just 1 month**
Carl. J *JUST*
thoughtcatalog.com/daniel-hayes/2016/03/i-will-literally-pay-someone-to-kill-trump-and-88-other-death-threats-from-twitter-in-march/
Do you genuinely take anonymous death treats on twitter seriously, or only when they're directed at someone you like?
Does this mean Donald Trump is Anita Sarkeesian?
+Levi For Waifu
Dude, literally everybody gets Death Threats on Twitter. I've gotten Death Threats on Twitter and I only have like, 20 followers. Welcome to the internet.
Levi For Waifu But has he spent 11 million dollars in a month on vacations after saying he is for the people? Stop deflecting.
Its all they know how to do, deflect.
Woah boy I should be asleep
TheOfficialChalupay same
It's almost 3:00 in the morning and I haven't done jack shit as far as homework goes.
yup
Kevin Johnson same, friend
Sleep is hard though.
2024 and I still feel that “ooowh” for letting u stay on your parents insurance until 26
I am not american but how I wish we had such a show in Kenya. It's not just satirical and funny, always well researched and informative. It is here where the real news and what matters is dissected.
Pro life = Fertilized eggs have a right to live. Poor people - not so much.
People who cannot afford kids should be smart enough to realize the consequences of having sex. Also there's adoption. Not trying to start a fight that's just how I feel.
Cameron McKown they do know the consequences, it's just you just can't stop adults from having sex lol. And you know there's millions of other kids waiting to be adopted. There's a large chance that the kid will not get adopted.
SoLittleMuchUA-cam oh I agree you can't stop them and I don't want to. Perhaps we can agree that Adoption needs to be made way easier by the Gov?
minski76 nobody is murdering poor people because they are inconvenient
Fetus at 5 months isn't a "fertilized egg". If you have to suck the brains out of it, it's not an egg anymore.
I'm starting to really love John Oliver. He is funny and explains things on point.
EchoVids2u the show is a decent starting point, but his show is satire and done for comedy. Tax refundable credits and HSA make a lot of sence. They aren't the sole solution, but they have solid economic theory behind them. In the case of an HSA, you are less likely to run off to a hospital to get care you might not actually need, as opposed to being fully insured where someone else is picking up your hospital bill.
HSA make sense in "theory" but not in practice. Take for example someone with a bad cough that doesn't go to the doctor because they wouldn't want to waste money on care they "don't need". That cough develops into something serious until they HAVE to go to the hospital possibly being admitted and requiring much more treatment at a much higher cost. Most of that cost would have been prevented if they had been treated early when their illness was simple to treat.
One of the ideas behind the ACA is preventative care. Many health problems can be prevented altogether or, at the very least, are easier to treat if they are caught or measures are taken to prevent them early. We don't want people skipping their yearly physicals, men foregoing prostate exams, or women pushing off mammograms to save a few bucks. These things, for example, save lives and lower costs.
It makes sense when you can shop around. There is no medical "market" in the US. Nor do medical professionals have an incentive to make one if all we have are HSAs. Which the Paul Ryan plan wants. Basically you trade in employer based insurance for an HSA similar to a 401k. If there was the equivalent of Amazon for medical procedures, then yes an HSA kind of makes sense for those that make a high income. The median household making $53k a year isn't going to be able to save enough for it to really help with any sort of emergency though, but could help with planned expenses like having a baby which is around $10k to $15k in the US. They could save for that but heart attack? Stroke? Really any life threatening emergency? You're talking more than they make in a year if not multiple years.
EchoVids2u Translation: I am a special snowflake who needs to be in safe places with someone with the same view points as me.
YEAH CANT BE A NEW FAN AND TELL ANYONE THE FUCKING TROLLS COME OUT......
Hi its from 2020...
Well done America...
You guys have solved the problem of health care ...
God knows how many times I've seen this episode, but I swear I can't help but get tickled by the "orthopedic sweaters" bit. You, and your writers, deserve *all* of the Emmys. All of them.
I know that the majority of this comment section will be full of toxic hate, but for the few who see this have a nice day.🤙
Morgalor I plan on it friend. Thanks! I hope that you have an amazing and blessed day.
Morgalor thank you
Ohhhh, happy days for all and for all a good LastWeekTonight!
you too!
This is really sweet, bless your heart.
"Who's gonna pay for it?"
I was half expecting him to say "Mexico".
DabIMON that makes no fucking sense, stupid joke very stupid.
Y'know, I had to go through chemotherapy, surgeries, and a few hospitalizations last year. Not one Republican has asked me how to make the process better.
So, where the hell are they getting the idea that they're working with patients?
When I think about who I want to make the decision about whether I get life saving treatment or not, I deifnitely want it to be some suit at an insurance company. As always, good job America!
And the 2017 Academy Award for Best Actress goes to....Blump Shartcracker!
I should have been president.
+Crooked Hillary Clinton biiitch you best stay in the woods
STFU -
Crooked Hillary Clinton #Meryllsayshi
meh. i think it would have been less catastrophic if she was prez
Honestly if they want to get legislation everyone agrees on they should start working on it the way the founding fathers did: In the middle of summer, with no air conditioning and no open windows, dressed from head to toe, and they can't leave until everyone agrees. Also no indoor plumbing. They have to use an outhouse (for authenticity). They'd have an acceptable program in a month.
Tyler Boring lol
Tyler Boring This brings up an interesting question: What would the founding fathers think of us now?
Jessica Nguyen they'd be completely disgusted over how a certain religion has taken over this country and finds its way into some of our laws.
Tyler Boring theyd have it done in a week, and it would work
Jessica Nguyen Probably a bunch of partisan war-mongering idiots giddy to put party before country...
I mean, Thomas Jefferson wanted us to rewrite the Constitution completely every 20 years or so; he felt that current generations shouldn't be held prisoner to previous and deceased generations. I know he would be appalled to see that we still use a 200 year old document for our government.
Two things I hated about ACA. The end of the year penalty and how expensive it was with very high deductibles (even on the "best" plan). I checked the website and their best plan was $350 a month for me only (without my wife and 2 kids) with $7000 deductible and 70/30 copayments. It was absolutely ridiculous. I wasn't able to afford health insurance in the first place then I was fined $1000 every year from my tax return money. I hated that shit. I'm hoping for medicare for all.
100% agree!
3:50 that baby cute though
What this entire (otherwise spot on) analysis completely ignores is that we are the ONLY industrialized nation on the planet that clings to a for-profit healthcare system. If we eliminated the profitability from healthcare, we would not be in this mess.
Not exactly true. Even in countries with universal health care/socialised medicine there is a for profit system in parallel for those that can afford to pay for it. That's fine, if more affluent people want to pay their own money for quicker access through private only doctors I have no objection to them doing so. Now if they pay and push non-affluent sick people out of the way (figuratively), then there would be an issue.
If Republicans really cared about reducing costs, lowering per capita spending on health care they would stampede towards universal health care, but as they only care about maximising the profit for wealthy donors who run insurance and medical companies, they prop up a for profit, inherently iniquitous system.
In the US my pancreatitis medicine would be $3000/month out of pocket without insurance. In Spain, where we are moving (because of healthcare) the same meds will be $245. My private insurance here in the US is $800/month with a $7000 deductible. In Spain my insurance will be $200 with a small copay. BIG difference.
And your statement was misleading.
"In Switzerland, for example, any profit that insurers make on basic services must be plowed back into reducing premiums."
www.tampabay.com/news/politics/national/politifact-no-one-does-for-profit-health-insurance-like-the-us-does/1079521
America is a death economy. The Military and Healthcare in this country are the obvious examples of this. When MLK Jr. said, "...this business of killing human beings with napalm..." he was speaking to the actually profiting from death, I mean he said later on that the result of all this leads to "injecting poisonous drugs of hate." Because those that profit from this death and fear knows that it serves to perpetuate the cycle, thus, allowing them to continue to profit from the death they cause.
Omg 800 a month!?! No wonder people are so desperate, this really sucks.
America isn't clinging to for-profit healthcare, for-profit healthcare is clinging to America.
In Europe, health care is a right. In the USA, health care is a privilege. It is all about making choices.
Don't forget, healthcare is not a right in america but having a gun is. These priorities
Patrick Verschuren In Europe however shitty healthcare is a right
The painful truth
Raphael Schmidpeter why is owning a gun bad?
Hey, as long people aren't dying in front of them, they don't care.
US is what i call "wild capitalism". Where people care about their money more than anything else, and the simple thought of it going to help someone else in the larger picture of the country is just unthinkable...even tho they already do it, by paying for roads, firefighter, the army, police, bridges and many other services with their taxes.
Why does John Oliver make me so happy watching home.... but makes me so sad with these gd topics that just make me feel like I cannot make a difference .... God. I love John Oliver.
Healthcare for profit is so sad. Who would want to restrict healthcare coverage for our citizens? I know who ... a politician who votes against affordable healthcare for all!
You know all of this is really quite funny John. That is until you realize that it's all actually happening. They should have named it ReganCare. Or, for all you true Republicans out there, JesusOurLordAndSaviorCare.
Meanwhile Jon Stewart is just about waking up confused on the side of the road in the middle of the desert tied to a cactus.
You should have your own show
+Joshua Kastle with a dead clown tied to it too*
Fresh beans a dead clown... named Stephen Colbert
+Joshua Kastle and tied with a dead clown
"I killed in plain sight for none can remember my face, I am Grant....we've now met 7 times" looool
Have I ever met you? u say ur name is Grant.....
pahul gill yes my name is grant and we have now met four times.
During Covid-19 situation, Americans need a healthcare bill like Obamacare
lol this video is three years old and the Republican health insurance plan still ends with "placeholder".
yep