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Broadcast on September 22, 2017
As long as there is huge corporate money in politics, no, there won’t be medicare for all in 10years.
Stanton Bentley I live in British Columbia, Canada. Right now we are also fighting private clinics. Our fear is that with the introduction of private clinics, government would stop properly funding public healthcare and it would lead to a slippery slope of privatization
Optimus Fine
It’s an old tactic but one that works slowly but surely; hold back funding. You just have to fight it. Pretty much all developed countries have a form of universal healthcare. But ‘privatization’? Please Canada, don’t go all Yankee on us! Note: I don’t care what spelling you use! Just teasing.
Stanton Bentley We are fighting it and just elected a left leaning provincial party last year. I can assure you, Canadians don’t want to go Yankee on healthcare haha
Optimus Fine a lot changes in ten years
Bernie 2020! . It’s time for progressive domestic and foreign policy
Brent Showers he’s too old to run again. 🙁
PC Principal not really. As long as he gets a young female progressive vp he’s fine or a young male vp progressive. Female I think is best in this case for a plethora of reasons I can get into. Nelson Mandela was 79 when he became president of South Africa and fdr he died in office not to mention the first 100 days matter more than the 4 years of a term based on legislation. Bernie he died at all we would have someone waiting in the wings to pick up his legislative agenda which is more important I would rather have 100 days of bernie pushing through pure legislation and get a progressive if he died as vp in line than someone who’s not a visionary like Bernie
Brent, Bernie has NO BALLS, he was owned by 2 lil BLM girls. Trump is taking care of domestic and foriegn policy JUST FINE!
Maybe shave a few % off the defence budget and scale back to being bigger than only the next 10 largest forces (combined) – and, you know, make sure that everyone can see a doctor. A lot of advanced nations have been doing this a while, and it works out well. DOC PS State funded higher education is also a pretty awesome thing – kind of like an investment in the population.
Doc Savage And guess who makes up for that gap in their defenses? Thats right we do…
Adam Smith … One of my points, badly made, was that having a military equivalent to the next 13 largest, globally, combined, might leave room for legitimate reduction. DOC
If we don’t have single payer within 10 years, we will have failed.
We will see. If the new generation is as conservative as some claim we will end progress around then
Center Progressive Conservatism is on the way out. The newer generations will be increasingly progressive. Conservatives only say that so they can feel better about themselves.
I think it may be sooner than that
We can only hope
Will we have a country, in 10 years?
Exactly , the way we are going right now ,I’m not sure if there will be tomorrow ??!!
Joe Shmoe NOPE
No, we’ll have it within 5 years.
The problem with doing it at the state level is that you don’t have the bargaining power of federal government to bring down costs. Single payer is not going to work unless we bring down costs to what they are everywhere else in the world. That is going to be the difficult thing to accomplish. We spend about twice the percentage of our GDP on healthcare as other industrial nations. We would need almost revolutionary reform of the healthcare industry and we’d have to heavily regulate the cost of medicines and medical procedures in order to get costs down to the norm of other nations. Removing the insurance administrative waste would help but it won’t be enough. The costs of the care itself would have to be slashed to make this workable. I recently needed a topical treatment from a dermatologist that cost $517 dollars to my insurer. That same exact treatment in Canada and Germany was under $40 when I looked online. That is the main problem.
I’ll be happy if we have democracy in ten years
State single payer would only hurt people living in ‘red’ states. I feel this is wrong. Health Insurance Company’s are so close to having a monopoly that the Federal Gov’t HAS to step in. Is it easy to overlook that if you live in a ‘blue ‘ state? Everyone has to have a fair shot, or more civil unrest about healthcare will occur…. you do realize both concerns right? Your words have a lot of influence. ‘You get what you asked for’ doesn’t get us any further. Please do another, more informative video. Why is everyone avoiding the real issue- They should be working for us, not ripping off to the point we have one of the most expensive healthcare systems in the world. This will NOT be fixed unless Federal regulations are put in place to control how much profit they make off sick & dying people. Also, no matter how well single payer works in one state like NY, does not mean another state like AL will respect it. Hence more division, more uproar. *Please do another video from a more inclusive viewpoint! You’re very intelligent, enough to see when you missed a point in your logic*
dbg0206091 Medicare for all will happen within next three years….As more stand up more will fight. Check out The Humanist Report on YouTube.
*That is the separatist viewpoint that got us into this mess.* I agree with some of what you said. Don’t you realize it will only worsen the situation (piggybacking, refugees, etc.) ?! Don’t you realize there are progressives in red states? It’s a logical fallacy to blame the few voting and doing their best, on the ignorant whims of the majority. Have a heart, or please don’t claim you’re ‘progressive’. This kind of closed mindedness and lack of dialogue is a part of why we’re in this mess. We all stand together, or lose to big corporations. It is best to look out for all of humanity in this country, or one day you’ll end up paying too. To surmise “When they came for the Jews, I remained silent; I wasn’t a Jew (Muslim or ‘red’ state would also fit) *When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out.* We will rise together, or pull each other down. I am working towards rising together.
Joey C- That’s what I’m talking about, and working for. Thanks for a good channel recommendation! Just subbed.
@Rose- Great point. However, the U.S. is different. Health Insurance & Pharmaceuticals companies here make an outrageous profit off human beings. Unless the industry is curtailed by federal laws, this problem will only grow larger. The U.S. should learn from the experience of other countries who have better healthcare. America is number 50 out of 55 countries that were assessed in a report by Bloomberg. 37th in World Health Organization Ranking; The World’s Health Systems, 2017. Canada still ranks better. You did point out many faults, that should be addressed. In the U.S, by not stopping the unlimited profits being made, leaving it too the states won’t matter and will only cause more division. Just read the comment up above where someone in a ‘blue state’ doesn’t care about those like-minded that have been suppressed by the majority in ‘red’ sates.
I would say that depends entirely on the collective will of the American people. If you don’t get behind it and support candidates that do support single payer it will never happen.
Justice Democrats will fail. They mean well but they are very narrow minded and uncompromising. They do not know how to face the cruel reality of politics. They refuse to support democrats who disagree with them on even one thing. If you believe in medicare for all but not universal college, they wont support that democrat. They have a checklist of beliefs that are imprtant to them, but they should be ranking these politicians on a ABCD scale and supports As and Bs, but they only was the A+++++, which they are never going to get.
Yes, we will, or else the US will collapse because it can’t take care of its citizens properly.
UNFORTUNTELY NOT
As soon as loons like Pelosi and Chuck Schumer retire, we’ll be on a fast track to a Single Payer or at least a Public Option.
People like Kamala Harris and Corey Booker are on record for supporting an implementation of Medicare for All (not just the concept, but one with actual form) and will be doomed the moment they backtrack from a policy they co-sponsored.
In 10 years, the US will have a 1 trillion dollar defense (empire) budget. Bet on it.
NOPE
You know David, you could have mentioned all the democratic senators in the photo you used:
https://thinkprogress.org/even-more-senators-are-co-sponsoring-sanders-medicare-for-all-bill-1403fcfa1fea/