How to Fix America’s Health Insurance Crisis: GET SOME
March 26th, 2009 | by Rick |ReasonTV asked:
Reason.tvs Nick Gillespie knows how to get coverage to at least half of the 45 million Americans who need it. Call it the Gillespie Plan: If you want health insurance, get some.
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25 Responses to “How to Fix America’s Health Insurance Crisis: GET SOME”
By MELVIN on Mar 26, 2009 | Reply
WILFRED
It’s virtually free. The government sets a certain amount that medicare can cover for the treatment, but if a doctor charges a bit more than what’s set you have to pay the leftover charges yourself, which usually doesn’t amount to much. Still, it’s better than the system they have in America, by a long shot. I think it’s worth the wait, too..
By RODNEY on Mar 29, 2009 | Reply
RANDALL
We don’t have free healthcare in Australia. It’s heavily subsidised but not free.
Waiting times are a ***** too…
By IGNACIO on Mar 30, 2009 | Reply
BRET
Congratulations you found some people stupid enough to spend money on partying instead of health insurance. Yes they can get health insurance. Plenty of people in Australia and England can probably afford health insurance too, but that doesn’t invalidate the idea of universal health care. How about instead of wasting your time roaming the streets of LA for the biggest idiots you can find, you travel to Australia and see how free health care really works, and then make up your mind.
By ARTURO on Apr 1, 2009 | Reply
ALDO
It’s because government is so obviously less authoritarian.
By JEFFERY on Apr 3, 2009 | Reply
SILAS
Why don’t we just force them against their will, to buy health insurance from a large health insurance corporation? Like car insurance today except for your body.
Fascism Now Fascism Forever!!!
Obama forever!!!
By GILBERT on Apr 3, 2009 | Reply
CARSON
HMO’s aren’t part of a free-market system. HMO companies were a dramatic failure, but they lobbied for protection, and the HMO Act was passed, making them a permanent fixture in American health care. Also, our government makes regulations on drug companies so tough that they can’t afford to get drugs to the testing stages. A D.C. court even said that AIDS patients didn’t have the right to experimental drugs that already went through preliminary testing.
By DARIN on Apr 6, 2009 | Reply
ROBBY
as danthemango said, canadian healthcare costs less than half as much per person as american healthcare.
you said the government being involved in US healthcare is what makes it cost more than canada. this implies that the government isn’t involved in canadian healthcare, does it not?
considering “free” healthcare everywhere in the world is less expensive than corporate healthcare in america, p.j. o’rourke was dead wrong.
By MORTON on Apr 8, 2009 | Reply
DUDLEY
I doubt that health care is cheaper in Canada. But if it is, it is because there are more MRI machines in Omaha, than in all of Canada. Did not mean to leave the impression the government is not involved in Canada. As P. J. O’Rourke has so famously said, “If you think health care is expensive now, just wait until it’s free.” There is much confusion between health care and health insurance. They are not the same thing.
By DAVID on Apr 10, 2009 | Reply
OTTO
the government isn’t involveld with the medical system in canada? that’s a new one.
By EDGAR on Apr 11, 2009 | Reply
GUADALUPE
Because the government got involved and screwed up the medical system. Everything the politicians touch turns to crap.
By CARY on Apr 12, 2009 | Reply
EMMANUEL
These are more mainstream things. I think they probably wanted to talk about the unsung topics. If the 45% of uninsured who could by insurance did, that would really help.
By TREVOR on Apr 12, 2009 | Reply
GIL
Because wasting money is a proud tradition that liberals hold near and dear.
By THOMAS on Apr 14, 2009 | Reply
ELMO
can’t afford insurance, that is
By EZRA on Apr 15, 2009 | Reply
DWAYNE
Several million of those uninsured in the 47 million number actually make either 50-75k or 75k+. You want me to believe a person or even a spouse making at least 50 grand can’t afford a little healthcare?? Maybe if they had 10 kids (of course, no one should have that many), I’d understand why healthcare is out of reach, but still…
By DUSTY on Apr 16, 2009 | Reply
MERRILL
The 47 million number is a complete misnomer. It’s actually closer to half that if you bother to actually dig deeper, like I have. BusinessWeek and other fine publications have torn the 47 million myth apart dozens of times. In fact, the Kaiser Foundation found that only about 8-13 million of the 47 million actually can’t afford healthcare long term b/c of income. A large portion of that number consists of people who SHOULD be able to afford it based on income, but they “can’t.”
By PETER on Apr 18, 2009 | Reply
VALENTIN
I was going to subscribe to this channel based on their healthcare “solution” in this video.
Reason has failed to see the real problem and their solution will not work either.
Read REAL solutions at LewRockwell or Mises . org and you will realize that what gov’t needs to do is get rid of health insurance requirements for employers and get rid of Medicaid/Medicare in order to bring down costs.
Then we would be able to go to a doctor w/o insurance and would be able to pay for it out of pocket.
By JERALD on Apr 20, 2009 | Reply
JERMAINE
why is it almost twice as expensive to have healthcare in the USA than in Canada?
By ELLIS on Apr 21, 2009 | Reply
BRETT
if you have a life threatening or debilitating illness, i guarantee there’s a charity out there willing to help. the reason insurance is so damn expensive is people expect insurance to pay for everything, even things easily treated with over-the-counter medications. waiting in the emergency room because your kid has a cold? Ridiculous! spend 7 bucks on day-quil instead of wasting the insurance pool money on a $300 doctor’s visit.
By ISMAEL on Apr 23, 2009 | Reply
ELBERT
everyone’s complaining about “pre-existing conditions” and all that mess. options are out there for everyone. people are too proud to apply for help from a local, state, or national charity, but have no problem accepting a check from the government. if you look around, you can find multiple charities that will help people out, especially for children.
By WINFRED on Apr 26, 2009 | Reply
CONRAD
Depends on where you live. Here in utah, could get full coverage for about 60 bucks a month.
By STANLEY on Apr 26, 2009 | Reply
DEVIN
$100 a month? LOL. That will only get you basic major-medical insurance, and only if you have no significant history of illness or pre-existing conditions. However, if you aren’t in perfect health… good luck getting insurance.
By EARLE on Apr 29, 2009 | Reply
REX
You disingenuous little fuck, you have never tried to get personal insurance, and you have never been sick. 100 dollars a month? Eat my fucking ass; if you can get me $100/month healthcare that covers preexisting conditions and intravenous drugs like chemo and emergency surgery and doesn’t have a clause that says they can drop me if I ever actually get sick, I will slam my own **** in a door. I know people that have cystic fibrosis that can’t even get fucking medicaid.
By GERALD on May 1, 2009 | Reply
LESTER
A sharp line between innocent child, and responsible adult needs to be drawn. Aside from that, I completely agree with Robert, and the subject of this video.
I bring up this argument, because a while still reasonable and Libertarian (I think), it seems ‘moderate’ to the knee jerk socialists; I hope some of you find it useful. Given that I live in Soviet Canuckistan I have to play to this crowd constantly.
By GRANT on May 3, 2009 | Reply
BRAIN
Children are brought into this world by others volition, not their own. A child born to *********** parents deserves intervention (which will entail an infringement on other people’s right to property); a child born to parents too stupid and poor to afford health insurance (or a child born with an unexpected congenitive defect that 99% of parents couldn’t afford) deserves healthcare, acquired by infringing on other people’s property. (I am aware that childcare IS currently covered.)
By DOUGLAS on May 4, 2009 | Reply
CYRUS
While I agree with Robert’s argument (and have argued such many times before), in the realm of healthcare I think there’s one exception: children.
Simplistic Libertarianism works well if you imagine a society composed entirely of adults, but to include human realities (which are the engine driving the socialist argument) some deeper thought is required.