Why We Need Government-Run Universal Socialized Health Insurance
A cartoon explanation of why we need a public health insurance option.
Now that the health care bill has passed, my friend Andy Lubershane (the animator) has made another video about a topic near and dear to my heart: Climate and Energy. Please check it out here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uf7IO3678ng
Animated by Andy Lubershane. More comics at http://www.earthlycomics.blogspot.com
Note: The data in this cartoon is supported by this report: http://www.ourfuture.org/healthcare/hacker, which includes a lot more detail on current proposals for a public option.
Duration : 0:4:38
June 9th, 2010 at 1:13 pm
we need …
we need consumer-run healthcare.
June 9th, 2010 at 1:13 pm
no healh insurance? …
no healh insurance? krankenschutz24
Health Insurance from Germany for US-citizen for US$50/month
June 9th, 2010 at 1:13 pm
Canadian healthcare …
Canadian healthcare failing.,overcrowded and failing socialized medical system in their country they have set up private membership clinics where, for $2,000 a year, patients can access well staffed and equipped clinics and avoid the long waits and compromised care of the public system.
June 9th, 2010 at 1:13 pm
@Inflectum We don’t …
@Inflectum We don’t NEED firefighters?? Without training, none of us have the skill or equipment to fight a modern day house fire. God hopes your house doesn’t catch fire, I’m sure you’d be the first whining for help. We don’t need police?? THe fact you actually think that is mind boggling. You can treat your own wounds with proper training?? Not even doctors treat themselves. And who said you need a farm to grow veggies? Small garden, and gun for wild game, and you are good to go.
June 9th, 2010 at 1:13 pm
@MadHabber93
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@MadHabber93
Indeed. You can also treat your own wounds, provided you have the experience, skills and equipment needed to do so. Just like with food. We could dump you in the middle of a farm and let you grow your own food, but good luck surviving without any practical knowledge on how to do so. Similarly, we could put out our own fires, treat our own waste and protect ourselves from criminals if we had our own equipment, skills and experience in those matters. We don’t NEED any services.
June 9th, 2010 at 1:13 pm
@Inflectum But we …
@Inflectum But we don’t NEED General Mills to survive. We can grow our own food. Bad analogy.
June 9th, 2010 at 1:13 pm
Yeah, the …
Yeah, the government should cover all essential services, because….. well, just because, okay!?! We need government run, socialized, whatever you want to call it FOOD PRODUCTION! It is essential, and evil companies like General Mills take PROFITS out of our FOOD which we NEED to survive!!!!
I’m sorry, that argument is crap. I’d like to chose who provides for my essential needs, thank you very much. And for 2-3% administrative costs, Medicare sure is awfully bankrupt.
June 9th, 2010 at 1:13 pm
@daveme7 well yea …
@daveme7 well yea it wouldn’t be profitable to them or you because within 2 years you’d pay more for insurance then the insurance value of the trailer. Its like getting a health insurance specifically for the common cold.
June 9th, 2010 at 1:13 pm
single payer is …
single payer is good for passing on your medical bills to suckers down the line.
works good if you are the type that runs up big medical bills.
June 9th, 2010 at 1:13 pm
well europe has …
well europe has this, and its pretty crappy, not to mention the health bill was for health insurence companys anyway, and with so meny burucrats in england running this thing its ipossible to get rid of it, there are more goverment officials then docters in the field!!!!!!! its wrong!
June 9th, 2010 at 1:13 pm
at 2:36, ya, …
at 2:36, ya, medicare is a perfect example of government run healthcare, do i really have to explain it, heres it short
Medicare is BANKRUPT but not technically government really cant go bankrupt until someone wants to collect, china, UK, Saudi Arabia, Middle East, Japan, South America
so the money will come from you and me forcibly by the government you think can run it
government is inherently the same around the world always looking for power over its people dont hand over ur health to them
June 9th, 2010 at 1:13 pm
@kubaniski Exactly …
@kubaniski Exactly my point which obviously you can say it much better than me( live in 45 yr old trailers stuck together out in the country and not many companies will touch this place for insurance)
June 9th, 2010 at 1:13 pm
@Aegius And thats …
@Aegius And thats the problem in “reading” about a thing rather than living the experience.
June 9th, 2010 at 1:13 pm
@davijeph I have …
@davijeph I have been reading about the NHS. Long lines. Waits for months or even years. Costs skyrocketing. Dentists fed up so they are leaving in droves and setting up private practices. Scandals in hospitals. Shortages galore. Worse rates of cancer and heart disease survival. Your NHS is a disaster.
Costs go through the roof w/gov running them as gov doesn’t care via passing costs to taxpayers and w/o concern for keeping it down. End run: bankruptcy as in Greece, California & MA.
June 9th, 2010 at 1:13 pm
Did anyone ever …
Did anyone ever hear the quote that, “The trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.” And yes I know the US passed the Healthcare reform bill (Universal healthcare reform) and people will tell me to stop complaining and get over it. But the thing is in this country the US a majority did not want it the way it was. So it will hopefully be altered after the november elections. Also look at the tax rates for countries with this kind of healthcare, pretty high.
June 9th, 2010 at 1:13 pm
Sorry I was being a …
Sorry I was being a little sarcastic I don’t have a “company” in the sense you mean.I have my own private home and contents insurance true but “fire insurance”, as in paying for a private fire service? Please tell me you are kidding. I like all UK citizens pay for professional run service out of tax like our tax based NHS it works.In the US you pay less in general taxation but pay out far more than we do covering things like health care and it seems fire insurance. Regards
June 9th, 2010 at 1:13 pm
@davijeph you said …
@davijeph you said “not if your in it at the time” which im guessing was about fire insurance, and i don’t know about you but my home insurance covers all fires so long as i did not burn the house down intentionally. But otherwise they cover me.
June 9th, 2010 at 1:13 pm
@kubaniski Explain …
@kubaniski Explain please?
June 9th, 2010 at 1:13 pm
@davijeph what? …
@davijeph what? which company are you with?
June 9th, 2010 at 1:13 pm
On Medicare and …
On Medicare and social security-in about 2080, these two programs will be 84% of the budget where today it is about 13%. This will see a liability(what we would have to borrow to pay this over 100 trillion dollars in 2080. All this talk of profit when most see taxing 37% just to pay these programs in 2080. Perhaps the inefficiency of governemnt in this area is because they dxo not pay enough for administration
June 9th, 2010 at 1:13 pm
@daveme7 Not if you …
@daveme7 Not if you are in it at the time.
June 9th, 2010 at 1:13 pm
I always thought …
I always thought house insurance would cover you for a fire destroying your house. The federal government does not run the volunteer fire company and does not manage health insurance-this is a state function based on state laws and in all of this, the government stick it to the states in this health care plan. So when my state controls healthcare-less money for infastructure and decent schools who also run our public schools.
June 9th, 2010 at 1:13 pm
@Aegius Only if you …
@Aegius Only if you live in the USA