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Why We Need Govt Run Healthcare Today

A cartoon for the simpletons who have no clue about the US healthcare issue today....

Why We Need Govt Run Healthcare Today

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  • 42Adams
    42Adams 2009-09-04T06:09:51Z says:

    video stream not found...

    • 42Adams
      42Adams 2009-09-04T17:53:36Z says:

      You know what? I think government run health care is going to suck, but i still want it. I want it because it will provide blanket coverage for everyone, if you absolutely need it, and it will also force insurance companies to offer better coverage/services if they want to be competitive. Personally, i kind of hope it sucks, because if its too good, it will force private insurers out of business and we will be left with the government as our only option, and that's not much better than where we are at now.

    • El_Wanko
      El_Wanko 2009-09-04T17:58:54Z says:

      Where we are is bankrupt with a failing economy...

    • yak
      yak 2009-09-04T20:21:17Z says:

      your failing economy isn't to blame on just your government overspending on military and shit.. its also the failing of your corporations to understand economics it seems..
      lol@the idea of insurance companies trying to be competitive tho... they will just keep denying claims for any reason whatsoever so they can turn a profit.

    • El_Wanko
      El_Wanko 2009-09-04T20:56:30Z says:

      The corporations are nothing, only a name, an abstract idea. There are humans at the top who are playing to win for themselves. The government made it pointless to try to stay competitive long term by telling them how to run their businesses. Banks were forced to give bad loans as a result of regulation (eg. community reinvestment act).

      Then they got bonuses for taking risks and turning good profits when the bubble was inflating, and they took more bonuses as severance packages while their failed companies got bailed out.

    • HankChinaski
      HankChinaski 2009-09-05T01:34:19Z says:

      Blah, blah, blah.

    • El_Wanko
      El_Wanko 2009-09-05T01:48:51Z says:

      Blah blah blah, my name's hank, I don't know anything but I know obama is right, blah blah.

    • El_Wanko
      El_Wanko 2009-09-05T01:49:26Z says:

      5 banks down so far tonight. Are you out there Kirk? I might celebrate by getting drunker and going in to the chat.

    • HankChinaski
      HankChinaski 2009-09-05T06:24:00Z says:

      I know lots of things, broken record.

  • Rolandofgilead
    Rolandofgilead 2009-09-04T06:36:48Z says:

    This video isn't currently working for me, I sure do wish the government would fix it.

    • HankChinaski
      HankChinaski 2009-09-04T15:35:55Z says:

      I bet when there is a pot hole in the road you don't get out and fix it yourself.

    • Bootface
      Bootface 2009-09-04T15:39:46Z says:

      Well if people had to fix their own roads we wouldnt pay state taxes for state workers to fix them.

    • HankChinaski
      HankChinaski 2009-09-04T15:49:43Z says:

      Duh.

    • Rolandofgilead
      Rolandofgilead 2009-09-04T15:54:47Z says:

      If it was my road, I'd break my back to fix it. If it was your road, and you asked, I'd help you fix it. If you demanded my labor/money to fix my lazy neighbors road while he ate cheetos and watched oprah, I'd tell you to go fuck yourself.

    • El_Wanko
      El_Wanko 2009-09-04T16:40:57Z says:

      If there's a tree branch across the road, people will remove it. If someone goes into the ditch, someone with a truck will help them out. That's how it was where I grew up. In the city people see a tree branch on the road and turn around and hope someone else calls the police or something to take it away and the people who get stuck in snow wait around for a tow-truck and wonder why the government won't help push their car. Those people just finished driving by 5 other stuck cars and did nothing to help.

    • HankChinaski
      HankChinaski 2009-09-05T01:38:24Z says:

      We still rely on govt. for road maintenance, as it is and should be, and as health care should be, yall's "good ol' American DIY" anecdotes notwithstanding.

    • CruelHM
      CruelHM 2009-09-05T01:41:35Z says:

      Hey, whatever you're saying - just stfu Dr. Weakness.

    • El_Wanko
      El_Wanko 2009-09-05T01:43:59Z says:

      The gas tax was supposed to pay for road maintenance. Now it pays for that plus a shitload of other stuff, so we'd actually save money on a toll system.

    • HankChinaski
      HankChinaski 2009-09-05T06:24:35Z says:

      Dr. Weakness. Lol.

    • Rolandofgilead
      Rolandofgilead 2009-09-05T06:28:04Z says:

      Well shucks, usn's who ain't city folk should stick to suckin' on weeds an banjo proficiency.

      *pulls rumpled pouch of Beech Nut out from dirty overalls

  • Pudding
    Pudding 2009-09-04T10:01:13Z says:

    More cartoon, less education.

  • PUSSYHANDS
    PUSSYHANDS 2009-09-04T10:01:30Z says:

    If you believe these propagandized horseshit lies, you probably voted for this stupid nigger. Which means you proly watch Katie Couric while your open your welfare checks and read Mucho.

    • Pinjas
      Pinjas 2009-09-04T10:32:39Z says:

      Agreed

    • BruceMate
      BruceMate 2009-09-04T10:32:45Z says:

      Or you live in any one of the dozens of countries that has this sort of Government run health system and have seen how it works just fine.

    • drumplum
      drumplum 2009-09-04T15:11:53Z says:

      England's doing fine with Socialism, thanks very much Pussy.

    • HankChinaski
      HankChinaski 2009-09-04T15:37:14Z says:

      Medicare is extremely popular among senior citizens.

    • doovoodoo
      doovoodoo 2009-09-04T15:53:41Z says:

      And illegal aliens!!!

    • El_Wanko
      El_Wanko 2009-09-04T16:41:40Z says:

      And fags.

    • 42Adams
      42Adams 2009-09-04T17:39:44Z says:

      i hope your house burns down and the fire dept just watches you burn you ignorant racist prick

    • El_Wanko
      El_Wanko 2009-09-04T17:46:36Z says:

      "Ignorant racist prick" doesn't really narrow down which mucho member that comment was aimed at.

    • El_Wanko
      El_Wanko 2009-09-04T17:53:52Z says:

      Also why should my house burn down when I pay a fuckload in property tax each year? They should have a fucking guy at the end of my street just watching the houses for smoke for the amount I pay.

      Fire dept would be way better if funded entirely by the community on a volunteer basis with volunteer fire-fighters. You have to be fucking stupid to think the only choice other than government run is to have fire insurance and fire trucks that won't put out the houses of the uninsured.

    • Oranjeboom
      Oranjeboom 2009-09-04T18:07:20Z says:

      They didn't used to.

    • 42Adams
      42Adams 2009-09-04T18:28:49Z says:

      wanko, if you dont like how much you pay in taxes, stop paying. while your at it stay off of public property, never call the police/fire dept for any reason, and refuse medicare/social security. Oh, and you should probably stop eating food that's regulated by the FDA, because taxes pay for that too. the government is not perfect by any means, but it does provide quite a bit for millions of people.

    • El_Wanko
      El_Wanko 2009-09-04T18:41:02Z says:

      The choice to stop paying does not exist.

      I have never called the police or fire department for any reason, I've never used medicare, and I doubt there will be anything left of social security by the time I'd qualify for it.

      The problem is not the services, the problem is that there is no choice. I would support a community run fire hall and police department (that would concern its self with crimes that have victims only), and make contributions towards it. I'd be happy to pay a toll towards road maintenance (I pay a few thousand bucks in gas tax as it is, which was supposed to go towards the roads).

      I wouldn't support the FDA or a welfare program. I would help people that were short on cash that I had sympathy for.

      I might support a community run health program if it was run well and not corrupt.

      The point is choice. We have none.

      Fire departments will exist even if we have the choice of not paying for them. They existed before that choice was taken away.

    • HankChinaski
      HankChinaski 2009-09-05T01:41:30Z says:

      "Fire dept would be way better if funded entirely by the community on a volunteer basis with volunteer fire-fighters."

      Haaaaaaaahaaaaaaahahahahahahaaaaaaa haaaaaaaaahahahahahaha.......*sniffle, sniffle, giggle, wheeze, chortle

    • El_Wanko
      El_Wanko 2009-09-05T01:44:58Z says:

      Funny that's kind of my reaction to this whole video.

    • s0nn3
      s0nn3 2009-09-05T01:49:53Z says:

      People will die on the WAITING LIST with this shit.

    • PUSSYHANDS
      PUSSYHANDS 2009-09-05T02:13:30Z says:

      There are many communities that have privatized firefighters. I like how you think you have the heartbeat of America in your palm while in Japan, that's why you say stupid shit like that and vote for Al Franken.

    • HankChinaski
      HankChinaski 2009-09-05T06:26:06Z says:

      He didn't say privatized, ass for brains. He said volunteer. Learn how to read before you try and talk to me.

    • Rolandofgilead
      Rolandofgilead 2009-09-05T06:30:17Z says:

      Like I said, Sandler 2012!

    • Rolandofgilead
      Rolandofgilead 2009-09-05T08:49:10Z says:

      Just out of curiosity, how would you compare the taxes you pay in Japan to those you'd pay in the U.S. working in the same profession including sales, property, state, fed, etc, and do you feel you get more from your "contributions" to the government there than you would here?

    • Rolandofgilead
      Rolandofgilead 2009-09-05T08:57:09Z says:

      Also what percentage of your gross income would you estimate goes the way of the govt. there, after all is said and done?

    • El_Wanko
      El_Wanko 2009-09-05T12:11:25Z says:

      The taxes are almost a red herring in this case as Japan's debt to gdp is insane. They have nearly as much debt as the US with less than half the population and 1/3rd the GDP.) They're running on borrowed time. As high as the taxes are, they're not nearly enough to cover everything and the difference is made up through borrowing.

    • jimijames
      jimijames 2009-09-05T13:43:41Z says:

      In th UK i pay approx 22% of my gross to the govt and they do all the shit.

      Until recently i was abroad and was paying approx 33% and that just seemed to fund a lazy assed, job for life with pension civil service.

      I know which i prefer.

    • El_Wanko
      El_Wanko 2009-09-05T16:57:45Z says:

      We should tax all foreigners living abroad.

    • PUSSYHANDS
      PUSSYHANDS 2009-09-05T17:31:58Z says:

      Hank a privatized fire station is run by volunteers, sorry I thought that was understood. I forgot I was speaking to a retarded foreigner with no understanding of capitalism.

    • Rolandofgilead
      Rolandofgilead 2009-09-05T17:33:19Z says:

      *voters

      I'd estimate mine at 30%, yet nothing is free for me. I don't benefit a fucking dime from the man. The eradication of the middle class under the guise of charity is the flavor of the day in the U.S.!

    • Rolandofgilead
      Rolandofgilead 2009-09-05T18:11:01Z says:

      By those standards I should have free health care, a personal masseuse, and a fucking pony.

    • PUSSYHANDS
      PUSSYHANDS 2009-09-05T21:50:44Z says:

      30%? I believe you forgot to add in state taxes, luxury taxes, gas taxes, property taxes, etc.

  • Steven_Seagull
    Steven_Seagull 2009-09-04T10:23:24Z says:

    hahahahaha! i'm glad that our healthcare system works at least barely...good luck america!

    • fukUgoodNight
      fukUgoodNight 2009-09-04T13:48:40Z says:

      So what your saying is that your Cuban?

    • Steven_Seagull
      Steven_Seagull 2009-09-04T15:38:35Z says:

      no what im saying is that even our rotten healthcare system owns the american one big time, which might even be true for cuba.
      but i have no knowledge of that because i'm not cubanese.

    • maybach
      maybach 2009-09-04T16:25:07Z says:

      Cuba has an awesome healthcare system dumbshits, with a lower infant mortality than the US and the highest physician per capita rate in the whole fucking world.
      It's sadly one of the fewer positive consequences of a socialist regime however.

    • s0nn3
      s0nn3 2009-09-05T01:50:46Z says:

      Waiting list is a couple years long to get into a Retirement/Assisted Living home in Australia... many people will die before they get into them.

    • HillaryTaint
      HillaryTaint 2009-09-05T02:02:30Z says:

      Fuck your couch niggah. Fuck your couch.

  • -Morph-
    -Morph- 2009-09-04T10:33:55Z says:

    i agree withthis 100%

    if im going to pay out the ass for insurance why not pay directly to those who can help instead of a third party who takes a profit off of the money. its like paying someone a dollar to pass the money i owe to the person who i owe

    • Rolandofgilead
      Rolandofgilead 2009-09-04T13:26:53Z says:

      Makes sense until you look where the money goes. Republicans funnel the the money into large corporations they are affiliated with, and get rich. Democrats funnel it into corporations disguised as government and get rich. When it's a tax you can't opt out.

    • HankChinaski
      HankChinaski 2009-09-04T15:38:15Z says:

      But you can get your broke arm fixed.

    • El_Wanko
      El_Wanko 2009-09-04T16:43:56Z says:

      You have to figure out why it costs $5000 to fix a broken arm before you can talk about fixing the health system.

    • DeadSkinMask
      DeadSkinMask 2009-09-04T18:17:19Z says:

      Couldn't of said it better myself Wanko.

    • HankChinaski
      HankChinaski 2009-09-05T01:44:45Z says:

      You couldn't say anything better than him, because you are a dumbass. Now shut up.

    • Kojach
      Kojach 2009-09-07T14:35:06Z says:

      what you dont know how to make a fuckin splint? or pop it in place and put it in a sling? you dont need some douche that was retarded enough to go to graduate school for every little thing

  • Pinjas
    Pinjas 2009-09-04T10:43:49Z says:

    I was impressed by the way this was pieced together. About the only thing that doesn't run fucking pathetically is the fire department. The rest of the system is garbage, cops? Who could argue that the police are a worth while expense? Hes got a gun? That's nice, so do I. In fact, everyone should have guns. Another not so shocking detail, public water works are not fantastic, sure the water doesn't kill you immediately. But were you aware that they deliberately put poison in the water that inhibits your ability to think? Fluoride is not good for you.
    Fedex blows USPS away, maybe that's just my opinion, but it does.

    Who needs the coast guard though? What do they do? Stop mexicans from boating in drugs? We have a navy, it is tremendously giant, I think that's plenty more than enough. Fuck socialism, fuck capitalism.

    • Steven_Seagull
      Steven_Seagull 2009-09-04T11:06:10Z says:

      ^retarded...

    • antispeziesist
      antispeziesist 2009-09-04T11:28:52Z says:

      people fail at replying!

    • bigtowron
      bigtowron 2009-09-04T11:54:00Z says:

      No doubt, the government does such an awesome job with all the "programs" they already run, why not add health care/insurance, hell we should just let them run our finances too, they can pay my monthly bills, a lot me money for food and clothes, I'll just hand them my paycheck every week and they can give me what they feel I need

    • fukUgoodNight
      fukUgoodNight 2009-09-04T13:50:45Z says:

      Thats right fuck homosexualism..

  • antispeziesist
    antispeziesist 2009-09-04T11:28:19Z says:

    I can only assume that you have a very small penis and therefore like guns because you can simply buy a bigger one. but there will always be someone with a bigger gun and if you cant call the cops he's just gonna make you his bitch.
    thats why police has to be run by the gov. it just doesn't mean necessarily that the gov will do a goop job when providing you with police forces. but in that case you need a better gov. but since the people elect the gov you just need better people. and thats the main issue here. people are just too fucking stupid.
    Therefore I say: fuck people!

    • antispeziesist
      antispeziesist 2009-09-04T11:29:54Z says:

      oh fuck! this is a reply to Pinjas.

    • Steven_Seagull
      Steven_Seagull 2009-09-04T12:00:25Z says:

      well you said it yourself up there...

    • blingbling
      blingbling 2009-09-04T17:46:56Z says:

      fuck people?

  • TiredGuy
    TiredGuy 2009-09-04T12:23:56Z says:

    socialized medicine? no thanks. i like paying hundreds per month for insurance so i can go to some asshole doctor who overcharges like mad and i still have to pay out the ass for stuff i need.

    i can't believe anyone would trust the govt with health care. i mean police, surveillance, war powers, veterans affairs, international diplomacy, these things i leave to the govt without a problem--but paying my fucking doctor? that shit be whack mang.

    last i knew the USPS was totally self-funded.

    at 00:47, second from the left ... that's me holding my massive, bleeding cock. i should probably have it cauterized or sumpin.

    • Rolandofgilead
      Rolandofgilead 2009-09-04T13:09:47Z says:

      Then don't pay the fucking insurance company every month, pay the doctor when you need care, and cut out the middle man. My truck needs an oil change, why won't the gov pay for that? If I'm too fat to wipe my own ass, or too stupid to read, surely the government should pay someone to cleanse my stool shavings, and orate aloud the the latest Dr. Seuss novel at the cost of the tax payer while I plan my next food-stamp spending spree.

      Minarchists?

    • Rolandofgilead
      Rolandofgilead 2009-09-04T14:04:43Z says:

      Also this video portrays the government as benevolent and thrifty... LOL!!!

    • TiredGuy
      TiredGuy 2009-09-04T14:22:56Z says:

      ^ that was quite possibly the lamest argument ever made for anything, anytime, anywhere.

    • Rolandofgilead
      Rolandofgilead 2009-09-04T15:14:22Z says:

      Far be it from you to sift through the frass of my argument to ascertain the crux, as the elite are pardoned from such tasks... right?
      My point was that without the interference of government and insurance companies, health care would be affordable to everyone, and yet we look to the entities who created the problems for answers... but what do I know? I'm just a simple cave man.

      *bangs rocks together and flings feces at tourists for fun

    • HankChinaski
      HankChinaski 2009-09-04T15:43:56Z says:

      Trust the free market to provide our health care!

    • Rolandofgilead
      Rolandofgilead 2009-09-04T16:16:16Z says:

      If the market was free, as it should be, it would.

    • El_Wanko
      El_Wanko 2009-09-04T16:45:13Z says:

      Government can't run a whorehouse without losing money. (That's not even a joke - they've tried.)

    • HankChinaski
      HankChinaski 2009-09-05T01:47:58Z says:

      Why would it?

    • El_Wanko
      El_Wanko 2009-09-05T02:44:40Z says:

      The government seized the mustang ranch twice back in the 90's. First time because of a tax fraud case, where the original owner actually bought it back at auction for less than the owed taxes that he never paid. Second time a new owner got it but they lost money again.

    • HankChinaski
      HankChinaski 2009-09-05T06:27:01Z says:

      I wasn't talking to you.

    • El_Wanko
      El_Wanko 2009-09-05T12:27:48Z says:

      Well as I said below, in countries that aren't buttfucked by their government, most operations are affordable to most middle class people. That's how a free market operates. Setting a broken leg and applying a cast doesn't cost $5000 in a free market.

  • rock_strongo
    rock_strongo 2009-09-04T14:08:32Z says:

    Remember this guy's argument is that health insurance is free for everybody because it is paid for by everybody, no wait it's only funded by tax payers.

    • doovoodoo
      doovoodoo 2009-09-04T15:59:58Z says:

      And you can't discriminate against non-citizens because that would be racist!!! And you can't exclude people without jobs because its not their fault that they got laid off or too lazy or too stupid to keep a job!!!

    • HankChinaski
      HankChinaski 2009-09-05T01:49:46Z says:

      Spoken by a young dick with very little life experience/sympathy. Lots of people get laid off due to no fault of their own. Are you really that fucking stupid?

    • AquaLunaTik
      AquaLunaTik 2009-09-05T01:58:43Z says:

      Apparently ,he is.

  • toolman961
    toolman961 2009-09-04T14:54:18Z says:

    I'd take anything right now. My wife's operation is still on hold because no one will insure us without an astronomical payment that even Donald Trump doesn't have. I'm going to call Action 5 news. That will get um.

    • HankChinaski
      HankChinaski 2009-09-04T15:45:29Z says:

      You should be able to pay for it yourself.

      *sarcasm*

    • El_Wanko
      El_Wanko 2009-09-04T16:48:29Z says:

      I don't know what the operation is but in countries that aren't insured up the ass most operations are affordable to middle-class people.

    • Oranjeboom
      Oranjeboom 2009-09-04T16:55:47Z says:

      In England it would be free. The more sever the problem, the quicker you get the op.

      Simples!

    • Oranjeboom
      Oranjeboom 2009-09-04T16:57:09Z says:

      Suck it, you non NHS having motherfuckers!

    • Oranjeboom
      Oranjeboom 2009-09-04T16:59:48Z says:

      If I wanted to, I could jump off a bridge, break all the bones in my legs, puncture my lung, crack a few ribs and damage the old arms.

      If I call for an ambulance before I jump, I'll be picked up within 8 minutes, taken to hospital & rushed into surgery. Spend a few weeks eating hospital food, which actually seems pretty good, then get a taxi home without a care in the world.

    • Oranjeboom
      Oranjeboom 2009-09-04T17:00:34Z says:

      Yeah, universal healthcare fucking sucks....

    • MrFugsmucker
      MrFugsmucker 2009-09-04T17:09:30Z says:

      You'd have to pasy for the taxi though...

    • MrFugsmucker
      MrFugsmucker 2009-09-04T17:09:42Z says:

      *pay

    • Oranjeboom
      Oranjeboom 2009-09-04T17:16:37Z says:

      I know, it's diabolical!

    • El_Wanko
      El_Wanko 2009-09-04T17:43:44Z says:

      Oranje the problem is that everyone else has to pay for your choice to jump off a bridge.

      Why don't we have a system where everyone pays my car repairs if I choose to fill the tires with gasoline and drive into a brick wall?

    • Oranjeboom
      Oranjeboom 2009-09-04T18:08:53Z says:

      Healthcare shouldn't be classed as a luxury

    • El_Wanko
      El_Wanko 2009-09-04T18:32:22Z says:

      So everyone has the right to healthcare?

      Then shouldn't you pay even more to guarantee health care to poor people in other countries?

    • Oranjeboom
      Oranjeboom 2009-09-04T19:07:05Z says:

      Yes

      haha got you there!

    • Oranjeboom
      Oranjeboom 2009-09-04T19:17:13Z says:

      Only kidding. I'm all for helping people in 3rd world countries countries, like Belgium, so long as it doesn't effect me in the slightest.

      Since you're better at this than I am; why don't supermarkets donate the food they would normally throw away to charity instead or dumping it? Not the off stuff, just the slightly damaged/passed the sell by date stuff.

    • El_Wanko
      El_Wanko 2009-09-04T19:30:50Z says:

      I really don't know.

      No good deed goes unpunished. I'm sure if you ran a store and tried doing something nice like that you'd find yourself in a shitstorm. Probably if any of the food was bad they'd be crawling up your ass with accusations of trying to poison the poor.

      I took a bunch of canned shit from a dead dude's house to the food bank once and they bitched at me because two of the cans were dusty on top. Never did that again. Fuck those cocksuckers.

    • yak
      yak 2009-09-04T20:14:38Z says:

      places don't donate food anymore because they are worried about being liable. which is of course retarded.

    • Oranjeboom
      Oranjeboom 2009-09-04T20:55:49Z says:

      Fucking Health & Safety

    • AquaLunaTik
      AquaLunaTik 2009-09-04T21:55:53Z says:

      OJ,"diabolical" lol .

    • s0nn3
      s0nn3 2009-09-05T01:54:16Z says:

      Oranje, but if you need a surgery, you can sign up on the waiting list and HOPE you live long enough... emergencies arent the only medical need of most people you dolt.

    • HankChinaski
      HankChinaski 2009-09-05T02:02:04Z says:

      Oranjeboom 7 hours ago says:Healthcare shouldn't be classed as a luxury

      El_Wanko 7 hours ago says:So everyone has the right to healthcare?
      Then shouldn't you pay even more to guarantee health care to poor people in other countries?

      Typical Wanko argument. Extends the argument to ridiculous conclusions. If everyone in America deserves health care, then everyone in the world deserves it, so you can't think about universal health care for America unless you are also planning universal health care for the world.

      Therefore, the implied conclusion, if anyone in the world lacks health care at this moment, America shouldn't have universal health care.

      Really silly reasoning. Of course, everyone in the world should have access to some decent, at least basic, health care. America needs to get it's health care sorted. The world governments and aid organizations need to work together to get health care in places in the world that don't have it, also.

    • El_Wanko
      El_Wanko 2009-09-05T02:53:32Z says:

      No I'm just saying that if you think it's an important human right to have health care, you should be willing to help out those who really need it.

      Health care sounds great when it's free for you because it's mostly paid for by those who are more wealthy, but if someone asked you to pay 3k a month to provide health care to Zimbabwe you'd probably tell them what to suck on.

      It's all about where you are. Easy to ask others to sacrifice for you, much harder to do it for others.

    • HankChinaski
      HankChinaski 2009-09-05T06:35:11Z says:

      Wtf are you talking about? Do you not live in America? Is this not one country? Nobody is talking about Zimbabwe.

      It seems like you are saying a community in another part of America is like Zimbabwe to you. They are far away, you know noone there, so you don't care about them. Unfortunately, until America breaks up into smaller countries, you have to deal with the fact that it's one country. Some areas are richer and some are poorer. So what? All deserve affordable health care.

    • El_Wanko
      El_Wanko 2009-09-05T12:15:07Z says:

      Based on what?

      Why should this be at the national level and not at the state level?

      Just because you made a feel-good statement that all Americans deserve something?

    • yak
      yak 2009-09-05T13:11:41Z says:

      you do realize that zimbabwe isn't in the usa right?

    • jimijames
      jimijames 2009-09-05T13:49:29Z says:

      i just wanna see Oranje jump

    • El_Wanko
      El_Wanko 2009-09-05T17:01:38Z says:

      It will be once I buy it. I have 10 trillion dollars, that should cover it.

  • El_Wanko
    El_Wanko 2009-09-04T16:47:14Z says:

    So we'll trust government that gave incredibly power to private health insurers and drug companies to save us from the private health insurers and drug companies. Ok.

    Next stop, hiring teachers from the sex-offender registry...

    • HankChinaski
      HankChinaski 2009-09-05T02:02:39Z says:

      That might give me a reason to move back.

    • El_Wanko
      El_Wanko 2009-09-05T02:56:34Z says:

      Good luck. Cruel's been applying to be a grade school boys gym teacher for 12 years already, I think he'll get it before you.

    • jimijames
      jimijames 2009-09-05T13:50:24Z says:

      Hank, is that comma in the right place?

    • HankChinaski
      HankChinaski 2009-09-05T15:31:46Z says:

      I didn't type a comma.

  • royalrexford
    royalrexford 2009-09-04T17:35:47Z says:

    "If I wanted to, I could jump off a bridge, break all the bones in my legs, puncture my lung, crack a few ribs and damage the old arms.

    If I call for an ambulance before I jump, I'll be picked up within 8 minutes, taken to hospital & rushed into surgery."

    Rushed into surgery? Think again. Average waiting time in the ER is 12 hours in Canada. Bitch is, if some dick comes in with a bullet hole, he gets firsties. He's get some more bullet holes if I were waiting 12 ma' fuckn' hours with broken ass limbs, Sons!

    In Canada, people still choose to pay to see a doctor because it's faster.

    • MrFugsmucker
      MrFugsmucker 2009-09-04T17:40:03Z says:

      The point is, in England you would be rushed into surgery without having to pay someone to queue-jump you.

    • El_Wanko
      El_Wanko 2009-09-04T17:41:35Z says:

      It's pretty hard to pay to see a doctor in Canada unless you want to travel or happen to live near one of the private-ish clinics.

    • Oranjeboom
      Oranjeboom 2009-09-04T17:48:17Z says:

      My friend ran into a fence when playing football, snapping his arm & forcing the bone through the skin. Ambulances have a target of reaching people within 8 minutes, and they achieved that when coming to pick him up. He was taken to hospital, went straight for an x-ray to determine if there was any other damage. After they reviewed the x-ray he was drugged up popped his arm back into place & took him through to surgery for a few metal plates to be attached.

      Now his arm is fine, apart from a few obvious scars. He has no bills to pay & noone cares about Canada.

    • El_Wanko
      El_Wanko 2009-09-04T17:56:31Z says:

      He better not have bills for the amount of taxes he pays. Or that someone else pays for him.

    • Oranjeboom
      Oranjeboom 2009-09-04T18:10:04Z says:

      We do have National Insurance contributions taken from pay cheques, but not many people would complain about those.

    • yak
      yak 2009-09-04T20:18:13Z says:

      uh what canada are you from where the average waiting time in the er is 12 hours... LOLOLOL
      what fucking propaganda are you idiots listening to.
      fugs and oranje are correct.. and its exactly like that in canada as well.. priority queue..
      i can't believe you would even claim that the average wait time in the er is more than even a couple hours max and thats with something that isn't even a huge emergency...
      i can't believe you guys are fed such bullshit in the usa and you believe it :P

    • El_Wanko
      El_Wanko 2009-09-04T20:57:37Z says:

      I'm living in Canada right now...

    • yak
      yak 2009-09-04T21:03:33Z says:

      go to an emergency room.. say you have stomach pains.. film it and send it to me.. i want to see this 12 hour wait.. lol...
      just stop fucking lying. ok?

    • El_Wanko
      El_Wanko 2009-09-05T01:16:55Z says:

      Well the Ontario Hospital Association seems to think the average wait time is 7.3 hrs.
      http://www.oha.com/CurrentIssues/Issues/Alternate%20Level%20of%20Care/Kevin%20Smith%20Handouts.pdf

    • HankChinaski
      HankChinaski 2009-09-05T02:04:35Z says:

      Wanko eats up the propaganda as long as it agrees with what he already believed.

    • Oranjeboom
      Oranjeboom 2009-09-05T02:21:42Z says:

      It would be nice if you guys could get along.

      I think one of you should compromise o your beliefs to make me happy.

    • El_Wanko
      El_Wanko 2009-09-05T02:32:16Z says:

      Hank read the fucking thing, it's Ontario's plan for reducing waiting times. How is it propaganda unless they lied about their own wait times to make it look worse than it is so they can spend another billion in tax dollars.

    • AquaLunaTik
      AquaLunaTik 2009-09-05T02:36:42Z says:

      To keep people in the USA from going to Canada .

    • DejaVu
      DejaVu 2009-09-05T12:04:44Z says:

      regarding wait times... i've been in emergency a few times, and never waited more than an hour. i was even in once with something not as severe as the american who punched a window and his hand was in a bag of blood and went in before them :) regarding that link... i had to wait 2 weeks for my ct scan, and mine wasn't an urgent matter. i think they're basing most of those times off of the few major cities

    • yak
      yak 2009-09-05T12:17:03Z says:

      those wait times are also taking into account *FULL* visits to the er, as in not how long it takes you to see a doctor or get assessed or anything, but how long it takes for you to get out of the er period (you get into a car accident and you are in the er for 48 hours for example.. thats 48 hours into the er)... however the length of time that person had to wait to see a doctor? i'm guessing around 1minute... max... nowhere does it say in that article that its wait times to see a doctor or anything like that... if anything its wait times to be moved to another ward (from er to intensive care etc)

    • HankChinaski
      HankChinaski 2009-09-05T15:37:51Z says:

      It doesn't say full visits or anything like that in the thread Wanko provided , although I'd be interested to know if that was the case. It just says wait time. Another site I read said that, yes, it is the major cities that register the 7.3 hour avg. wait times. Outside of the big cities, it said wait times were 1-4 hours.

    • El_Wanko
      El_Wanko 2009-09-05T17:10:01Z says:

      I thought it said full visits were like 35 hours on average or something like that, so I assumed the 7.3 hours was waiting time meaning just sitting and waiting.

      I hear a lot in this city that waiting at the hospital is pointless because you'll be there all day. Was out hiking with some friends (also in ontario) and someone broke an ankle, this was near a small town at about 9:30 pm, and there was basically no waiting time.

      Most people live in the cities though, so most people have to deal with the long wait times. The walk in clinics around here are not much better, I had students who went to get a Dr. note so they could miss a test and they'd be in there waiting from opening in the morning until 3 in the afternoon. The school had it's own doctors but they didn't right notes all willy nilly so the kids had to go the walk-in clinic.

    • maybach
      maybach 2009-09-05T19:34:44Z says:

      fake. you're a muchoer, you don't have any friends and never go outside.

    • El_Wanko
      El_Wanko 2009-09-06T02:27:58Z says:

      I go outside to scream at people on my lawn. Or near my lawn. Or looking at my lawn.

  • DeadSkinMask
    DeadSkinMask 2009-09-04T18:25:01Z says:

    Can the United States afford national healthcare? No. End of discussion. And Wanko was right, why don't you guys go figure out why health care cost so much and fix that, instead of running into problems and saying "Government save me!".

    • Oranjeboom
      Oranjeboom 2009-09-04T19:22:22Z says:

      The United States couldn't afford to leave a tip in a coffe shop. You need to go out for lunch with your Chinese/Arab friends & hope they pick up the tab.

    • s0nn3
      s0nn3 2009-09-05T01:57:16Z says:

      Hahahah how about we dont pay and when you ask for the money we shoot the fucken place up. Thats how we roll, Nukes FTW.

    • HankChinaski
      HankChinaski 2009-09-05T02:05:13Z says:

      Lol.

  • El_Wanko
    El_Wanko 2009-09-04T18:43:34Z says:

    There should be a movie like this to present the other side of the argument. Unfortunately, the people who would make something like that actually have jobs and no time to be busybodies going around telling people how to live.

    • Oranjeboom
      Oranjeboom 2009-09-04T19:05:17Z says:

      A few have got some spare time since Lehman Brothers...well, ya know.

  • AquaLunaTik
    AquaLunaTik 2009-09-04T21:53:21Z says:

    The film,Well done.But, some idiots will still fail to understand.

  • RyanCorpse
    RyanCorpse 2009-09-04T22:58:35Z says:

    Good luck if you've got medicare. Doc's don't give fuck about you if you've got medicare.

    Medicare = Doctors working on you without pay.

    • HankChinaski
      HankChinaski 2009-09-05T02:06:41Z says:

      Medicare is extremely popular with seniors.

  • ClaudeBallz
    ClaudeBallz 2009-09-05T00:39:26Z says:

    WTF? The Federal government runs "the" fire departments? Fuck this probably-15-year-old-still-sucking-off-his-parents-gets-all-his-information-from-Wikipedia-bed-wetter.

    And if you accept what he says as facts, you're an idiot.

    • AquaLunaTik
      AquaLunaTik 2009-09-05T00:49:13Z says:

      I keep a couple of 5 gallon buckets of water near, just if needed.

    • El_Wanko
      El_Wanko 2009-09-05T01:17:41Z says:

      What age are you supposed to stop sucking off your parents?

    • HankChinaski
      HankChinaski 2009-09-05T06:37:15Z says:

      You've still a few years left. Don't worry about it.

  • Plantshit
    Plantshit 2009-09-05T02:16:28Z says:

    if you don't like insurances then don't buy one! And if you get sick no one else need to pay for your sorry ass. PWND!

  • BetterThanYou
    BetterThanYou 2009-09-05T06:50:13Z says:

    What a load of shit.

  • royalrexford
    royalrexford 2009-09-05T07:34:50Z says:

    If Canada's priority system allows people with more severe problems in first, is it safe to assume that if you wanted a simple check up or scan done you would have to wait until every last person who's fucked up to get looked at before you can get looked at?

    Watch that sentence run on...

    • yak
      yak 2009-09-05T11:56:33Z says:

      if you want a simple checkup or scan done you don't go to the fucking emergency room now do you? you go to a walk in clinic or you go to your family doctor... if you go to your family doctor you schedule a visit just like anywhere in the world... if you go to a walk in you go there... and wait like 30min to an hour (depending on how busy the clinic is of course) and you get a checkup or "scan" done.... what kind of simpleton are you?

    • toolman961
      toolman961 2009-09-05T12:06:46Z says:

      I could have told you that.

    • HankChinaski
      HankChinaski 2009-09-05T15:41:19Z says:

      I had an infection in my finger nail looked at a few weeks ago. 3 minute walk, no appointment, 15 minute wait. Routine dental work done recently...Yeah, what Yak said.

  • royalrexford
    royalrexford 2009-09-05T19:31:23Z says:

    When did I ever say emergency room in that last post, you fucking shit head? Fuck, you Canadians are all the same. I'm asking fucking questions to find out more about your fine country because apparently everywhere else I get my information is propaganda, only to get shit on for asking.

    The day I'm corrected by a Canadi...

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