Healthcare in the US and the UK is crazy different! Connie Glynn, OhItsJustKim, and Evan Edinger (me!) chat about our experiences! Hope you enjoy!
Also, what are your thoughts on my recent editing style change to throw more sources into the video when info is given that’s not just personal? I’m digging it!
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If you’re new to my channel and videos, hi! I’m Evan Edinger, and I make weekly “comedy” videos every Sunday evening. As an American living in London I love noticing the funny differences between the cultures and one of my most popular video series is my British VS American one. I’m also known for making terrible puns so sorry in advance. Hope to see you around, and I’ll see you next Sunday! 🙂
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So you want to improve the quality of health care. But what, specifically, should you aim to improve? In this video, IHIs Former CEO Don Berwick describes a 2001 report by the Institute of Medicine, Crossing the Quality Chasm, that laid the foundation for health care reform all over the world.
Republicans have now had a decade to figure out a better approach to American healthcare but still haven’t come up with a single viable plan. But don’t worry, Donald Trump’s acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney swears that Republicans just had a super great meeting last weekend and they are so close to having a healthcare plan ready for the public. It’ll never happen, and even if it does, it’ll be a complete disaster for American citizens. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.
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Last saturday, a group of Republicans met at Camp David where they did their best to spend about half a day trying to come up with a new health care plan for the United States. They spent about half a day working together thinking that they could come up with a healthcare plan just in a few short hours. Um, after the meeting, Mick Mulvaney, Donald Trump’s acting chief of staff told Fox News that, yeah, we’re uh, we’re very close. I mean, we’re going to be coming up with a plan very soon, so you just be ready for it. Fox News and all our Republicans because we’re totally, totally have something real that’s going to come out. Uh, let me read you the exact quote. I do think you’ll see a plan here fairly shortly. Republican’s have better ideas than Democrats. We should not be afraid to talk about that. We want to run on this. I W I wish there was more. I wish I could give you details of this awesome plan that’s so much better than the Democrats. Unfortunately, Mulvaney didn’t elaborate on any of that. He didn’t say exactly when. We’re going to get the plan, but just that it’s going to be so amazing that Republicans are totally running on this in 2020 and that only leads me back to the point I’ve been saying repeatedly for many, many months now. And that’s Republicans have had 10 years to come up with any kind of healthcare plan. Yes.
And they’ve repeatedly failed to do show. I’m literally, you guys have been running on this issue since the 2010 midterms after Obamacare was actually passed. And even back in 2009 when it was being discussed and in debate and, and being drafted, and we had these conferences together, we had the town halls of it. We had meetings, we had everything you guys had nothing to say and nothing to offer except to tell us the Democrats are dumb. You’ve had a decade and you think you’re going to fix this issue by meeting at Camp David for a few hours on a lazy Saturday. No. Okay. Nobody in this country should trust any republican elected official on the issue of healthcare.
Okay. After 10 years, you still don’t have a plan, but you swear that it’s coming just around the corner and even though you’re still talking about repealing Obamacare, you don’t have a replacement for it. Donald Trump said he wants to make the Republicans the party of healthcare, the party of preexisting conditions, and I don’t disagree with them on that because I do believe that the Republican Party has some kind of preexisting condition and I think that needs to be looked at and examined by mental health professionals. But aside from that, this party has no plans. Why?
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Could a single-payer, government-run health care system work in the United States? We already know the answer, because America already has single-payer, government-run health care. Author and commentator Pete Hegseth explains.
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Would a government-run, Canadian-style health care system work in the United States, a nation of 320 million people?
Well, we already know the answer. Just ask America’s veterans—they’ve had government-run health care for decades.
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (known as the VA) runs the largest hospital and health care system in America. The VA employs over 340,000 people—twice the size of the Marine Corps. And it has a 0 billion annual budget, making it the second largest department in the Federal Government. Only the Department of Defense budget is bigger.
The VA is a true single-payer health care system. It runs over 150 hospitals and 1,400 community-based clinics across all 50 states. The doctors, nurses, administrators – everyone that works for the VA – is a government employee. The system actively serves some 7 million patients—one-third of the 21 million veterans alive in the U.S. today.
Sounds impressive, right?
But for the past few decades—and especially for veterans of the war in Vietnam, as well as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, where I served—the VA has been an abysmal failure: inefficient, bureaucratic and sometimes deadly.
Among veterans, horror stories about the VA abound. These stories were tragically brought to light in 2014, when whistleblowers in Phoenix revealed that 1,700 veterans there had waited an average of 115 days just to receive an initial appointment. According to the VA’s official policy, that wait time should have been no more than 14 days.
As if that wasn’t bad enough, the Phoenix VA then lied about it, releasing falsified waiting lists to the public to cover its tracks.
Phoenix turned out to be the norm, not the exception. The VA’s inspector general found systemic problems across the country.
In Fort Collins, Colorado, for example, clerks were instructed to falsify records to show that doctors were seeing more patients than they actually were.
In Columbia, South Carolina, delays in diagnosis and treatment directly led to the deaths of multiple patients. The VA program there had nearly 4,000 backlogged appointments despite a million grant earmarked to reduce delays.
And in the VA’s hospital in Pittsburgh, in 2011 and 2012, there was an outbreak of Legionnaires’ Disease that officials knew about for more than a year before informing patients. At least six veterans died as a result.
The Obama Administration’s own Deputy Chief of Staff, Rob Nabors, revealed that VA health care has a “corrosive culture” with “significant” and “systemic failures.”
The politicians’ response to this debacle? Spend more money — a lot more money. The VA’s budget has almost doubled since 2009. They’ve hired 100,000 new people in the past decade. Wait times have actually gone up, yet not one administrator was fired for the wait-list scandal.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders on the president’s push to kill Obamacare — and why he does not support incremental improvements to the law.
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In which John discusses the complicated reasons why the United States spends so much more on health care than any other country in the world, and along the way reveals some surprising information, including that Americans spend more of their tax dollars on public health care than people in Canada, the UK, or Australia. Who’s at fault? Insurance companies? Drug companies? Malpractice lawyers? Hospitals? Or is it more complicated than a simple blame game? (Hint: It’s that one.)
For a much more thorough examination of health care expenses in America, I recommend this series at The Incidental Economist: http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/what-makes-the-us-health-care-system-so-expensive-introduction/
The Commonwealth Fund’s Study of Health Care Prices in the US: http://www.commonwealthfund.org/~/media/Files/Publications/Issue%20Brief/2012/May/1595_Squires_explaining_high_hlt_care_spending_intl_brief.pdf
Some of the stats in this video also come from this New York Times story: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/02/health/colonoscopies-explain-why-us-leads-the-world-in-health-expenditures.html?pagewanted=all
This is the first part in what will be a periodic series on health care costs and reforms leading up to the introduction of the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, in 2014. Video Rating: / 5
Fresh off the Mueller investigation, President Trump is supporting a ruling that calls for an elimination of Obamacare. With no replacement in sight, a battle over health care could end up deciding the 2020 election.
SOURCES AND FURTHER READING:
Democrats Pivot Hard to Health Care After Trump Moves to Strike Down Affordable Care Act
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/26/us/politics/democrats-trump-affordable-care-act.html.
Federal judge in Texas rules entire Obama health-care law is unconstitutional
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/federal-judge-in-texas-rules-obama-health-care-law-unconstitutional/2018/12/14/9e8bb5a2-fd63-11e8-862a-b6a6f3ce8199_story.html?utm_term=.a6a46d11e489.
Getting rid of Obamacare would be a headache for Trump
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/27/politics/obamacare-affordable-care-act-trump/index.html.
Here’s what happens if the courts kill Obamacare
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/26/politics/obamacare-lawsuit-doj-impacts/index.html.
Trump Administration Says Entire Affordable Care Act Should Be Repealed
https://www.npr.org/2019/03/26/706869835/trump-administration-now-says-entire-affordable-care-act-should-be-repealed.
Trump’s ‘party of health care’ promise bewilders Republican senators
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/27/politics/gop-senators-obamacare-reaction-congress/index.html.
‘We need a plan’: GOP shaken by Trump’s healthcare demands
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/27/republicans-trump-health-care-1241142.
Democrats Won a Mandate on Health Care. How will they use it?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/10/us/politics/health-care-democrats-congress.html.
KFF Health Tracking Poll – March 2019: Public Opinion on the Domestic HIV Epidemic, Affordable Care Act, and Medicare-for-all
https://www.kff.org/health-reform/poll-finding/kff-health-tracking-poll-march-2019/.
March 26, 2019 – 84% Of U.S. Voters Want To See Mueller Report, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Dems Divided On Support For Israelis Or Palestinians
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President Trump is promising to replace the Affordable Care Act, but said a vote on an undefined GOP health care plan wouldn’t be held until “right after the election when Republicans hold the Senate and win back the House.” Video Rating: / 5
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Hint: single-payer won’t fix America’s health care spending.
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Americans don’t drive up the price by consuming more health care. They don’t visit the doctor more than other developed countries:
http://international.commonwealthfund.org/stats/annual_physician_visits/
But the price we pay for that visit – for a procedure – it costs way more:
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The price you pay for the same procedure, at the same hospital, may vary enormously depending on what kind of health insurance you have in the US.
That’s because of bargaining power. Government programs, like Medicare and Medicaid, can ask for a lower price from health service providers because they have the numbers: the hospital has to comply or else risk losing the business of millions of Americans.
There are dozens of private health insurance providers in the United States and they each need to bargain for prices with hospitals and doctors. The numbers of people private insurances represent are much less than the government programs. That means a higher price when you go to the doctor or fill a prescription.
Uninsured individuals have the least bargaining power. Without any insurance, you will pay the highest price.
For more health care policy content, check out The Impact, a podcast about the human consequences of policy-making.
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