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What the US health care system assumes about you | Mitchell Katz
Visit to get our entire library of TED Talks, subtitles, translations, personalized Talk recommendations and more. The US health care system assumes many things about patients: that they can take off from work in the middle of the day, speak English, have a working telephone and a steady supply of food. Because of that, it’s…
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Theodore Vegh
October 24, 2019 at 11:55 pm
“Rules For Good Health” by Mr. Theodore Alexander Vegh, B.S.
Theodore Vegh
October 24, 2019 at 11:59 pm
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. – Proverb
Theodore Vegh
October 25, 2019 at 12:00 am
“We Want Prosperity For All” by Theodore Alexander Vegh, B.S.
Theodore Vegh
October 25, 2019 at 12:04 am
Clean up our cities. Deport and exclude all illegal immigrants. We can’t have prosperity for all Americans if we allow 100% unrestricted immigration. – TAV
Tenmil
October 25, 2019 at 12:42 am
Here in Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 when I was young we had a great hospital that provided free health care for anyone and they took care of you the same day !!! Now we have to wait days to see a primary doctor just to get a letter to see a specialist which will see you in a month if you are lucky 🍀 and if you work and have just enough to pay rent food gas and electricity you still have to pay doctor fees even if it means you have to become a beggar and ask for hand outs !!! It is so degrading !!! America did that to Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 for their own self gain in riches !!! America corrupts everything is touches !!! The only person who is helping us now is POTUS Donald J Trump !!! Where were the lousy Clintons and Obama’s ??? They were running America and Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 into the ground !!! Trump for 2020 !!! ❤️❤️❤️👍👍👍♥️♥️♥️
Mac Bizzo
October 25, 2019 at 1:08 am
The Federal government assumes States will comply with federal law. If States complied with ADA laws, many of the needs you mention would be met for persons with disabilities.
Sownheard
October 25, 2019 at 1:17 am
The US Healthcare system is what you get when you make short term profits the norm and monopolized businesses the law.
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October 25, 2019 at 1:38 am
Thank you! Unfortunately too many people are so self-centered and narrow-minded, they simply cannot put themselves in other people’s shoes and see things from others’ viewpoints and imagine that things may not be for others as it is for themselves. And it’s not just about health-care, but in general. Far too many people are unable to think of or consider other scenarios and explanations. It’s nice to see that some do. 👍
W A
October 25, 2019 at 2:51 am
AMEN!!!! THANK YOU. I feel like most doctors need a reality check about the realities of lower-income life. Thank you thank you thank you
KnightsWithoutATable
October 25, 2019 at 3:13 am
Our social safety net system in the US is utterly broken. It needs recreation from the ground up with a modern and permanently funded system that includes tons of social workers and resources to lift up anyone whose life takes a turn for the worse. We also need to incorporate mechanisms to prevent people that are in free fall from hitting rock bottom and to allow anyone to attempt to climb upwards from poverty towards self sufficiency if they choose to. We have the money to do it. We just lack the political will. The greatest nation on earth with a massive GDP and we still have hungry children, sick people that have no healthcare, and people dying in the streets.
When the social contract starts letting the bottom fall out of society, other, far more expensive problems arise. The country also begins a slow decline since a strong and healthy middle class that includes as much of the population as possible is what makes economies run since you then have everybody buying your product, can find people to make your product, and have the wide talent pool to have innovation improve products and invent new ones. This is what made the USA a great nation and a super power on the world stage. We can have this again, it would just take some really small changes and time to repair the damage to our society.
Giovanni P.
October 25, 2019 at 6:41 am
Antineoplastons
Escape Felicity
October 25, 2019 at 6:46 am
I keep hearing the reality-optional folks say there is no overpopulation.
kcotte59
October 25, 2019 at 6:46 am
being low income is not a genetic affliction, it is more like a lifestyle choice.
Dudley Doleft's channel
October 25, 2019 at 12:39 pm
Close to 1 in 3 people in the United States are low income.
That’s not a “lifestyle choice.”
That’s a system that chooses to allocate very little resources to its bottom tier workers, but gives an outrageous amount to those at the top.
And you’re blaming individuals for what is mostly a social problem.
To be honest, some, with luck and hard work, can claw their way up. But not EVERYONE CAN. Get it?
The system cannot accommodate everyone getting out of poverty. They can’t ALL get out of poverty.
Kinda like everyone can’t win the lottery, right?
You see…
The top 10% of people hold 78% of the wealth. That leaves little for the rest of us.
So most poor people can’t get out of poverty, no matter how good they are, how hard they work.
kcotte59
October 25, 2019 at 7:02 am
Low income people do not live as well or for as long as people with high incomes do. And I’m going to remedy this injustice. With your money.
Maged Saad
October 25, 2019 at 7:30 am
I watch this video just to improve my English but I respect this man
Eric Knight
October 25, 2019 at 8:47 am
This guy seems to be on the right track
Eric Knight
October 25, 2019 at 8:48 am
UBI would also solve these issues… just saying
Dudley Doleft's channel
October 25, 2019 at 11:56 am
Um, I take more than 1000 dollars worth of meds a month.
The UBI would not cover rent in a lot of locations for disabled, not working people.
So the UBI just by itself isn’t a cure.
by Daniel Chiotis
October 25, 2019 at 9:01 am
They don’t assume anything!
They have a generalized checklist that they know peoplesheeple will be categorized and defined by, and then couple that with what’s trending at the time or what new concoctions pharmaceutical companies have invented that they want to use in a unanimous Perpetual series of test groups… and all the work has been done for them by the people that pay the ultimate prices.
It’s not much different in that way then the system of government that exist for law enforcement and regulation sue the DMV…… or the tax collector’s office or Healthcare institutions.
WakeyWakey 🙂
Paul O
October 25, 2019 at 9:24 am
The uk is at risk of this under a Tory brexit….
Milan Vosáhlo
October 25, 2019 at 10:31 am
This only proves how stupid the US is. Glad to be European, if sth goes wrong you are taken care of, the rock bottom here is asking your country to help you out. We all pay for the certainty.
Paldeep Singh
October 25, 2019 at 10:37 am
Well at least we are not living in INDIA
Its much much much worst there
Dudley Doleft's channel
October 25, 2019 at 11:49 am
45,000 people die per year from preventable causes due to lack of insurance in the U.S.
500,000 people declare bankruptcy due to medical bills.
1 in 10 people are not taking prescribed meds due to cost.
For this we pay considerably more per person than any other country.
Zhu Bajie
October 25, 2019 at 12:19 pm
One of the best talks. The medical community lives in such a judgemental bubble.
Jonathan King
October 25, 2019 at 1:39 pm
US healthcare is a joke
Ali kh I
October 25, 2019 at 1:45 pm
that’s great
PP
October 25, 2019 at 4:16 pm
I can not imagine to live in a country where you cant get off from work and you loose the money for this day when youre ill.
In germany, where we have the “evil” socialistic healthcare, you get youre complete paycheck for the month and you dont have to work when you have to go to the doctor or if you are not able to work
After 6 weeks without working you still get, i believe it is 70% or something like that, from youre normal paycheck.
When you get ill, you dont have to worry about surviving like in america. Thats one of many reasons i would never want to live in america.
I love those socialistic part of our democracy! They simply and only help us.
I can not understand why so many people in america doesnt want a system like we have, which is obviously way better if you are in the middle clss or below.
Hi There
October 25, 2019 at 4:52 pm
There are people who killed themselves rather than put their families in debt after they got cancer. That’s the system we have now.
scott denoncour
October 25, 2019 at 6:12 pm
what a nice real person .
Cheryl Carlson
October 25, 2019 at 10:11 pm
Don’t even think about having a rare neuromuscular disease in the US. First you are crazy then untreatable but a snide office note can deny disability sending you into poverty. EPIC health care over evidence based care is the norm
Rachel Hannah
October 25, 2019 at 11:05 pm
USA healthcare is awful because it is profit based rather than care based. Before it became profit based it was the best in the world. Before our culture and society became solely profit focused we were the best at almost everything. Remember?
Aviri Char
October 25, 2019 at 11:40 pm
So this is what Max Goodwin goes and does between seasons.
Sukey Pan
October 26, 2019 at 2:58 am
This issue is not isolated to the us – I’m a healthcare worker in Australia, where we have a free medical system for all Australians but we also struggle with similar issues with the social and cultural situations of patients.
Stamp and Scrap
October 29, 2019 at 8:38 am
But they do not have the added problem of not being able to see a medical practitioners
Sukey Pan
October 29, 2019 at 9:24 am
I suppose I’m not writing this to say who has it worse… but accessibility is a problem in Australia, not regarding financial problems, but lack of rural support.
Sukey Pan
October 26, 2019 at 3:00 am
Primary care is the most important and neglected part of the health system
FrakU2
October 26, 2019 at 3:45 am
We have embraced the madness we call a “healthcare system”.
Now when someone comes along and wants to remake it into something that is actually better, we think they are crazy!
Our entire media refuses to send one single reporter, or journalist, to do a piece on the matter. We are actively being deceived and we don’t even know it….
casawife11
October 26, 2019 at 10:12 am
This man is a TRUE healer! Our system could benefit from CARERS at every point of contact EVERY patient makes. It costs nothing but love.
Albert Wang
October 26, 2019 at 10:16 am
We need money and AI for these ‘maybe’!
karen stauffer
October 26, 2019 at 4:25 pm
There is an MRI place blocks from my house. The last time I got one, my insurance company required me to drive to one 45 minutes away. What if I didn’t have a car? And it took a half a day off work instead of just an hour.
Κωνσταντίνος Χουσιανίτης
October 26, 2019 at 4:59 pm
Okay, except some of his claims and arguments that are true and very much important to be solved, I think that most things he accused of the system are things that can not be done because they are either of little significance or even things that no other health system, even European ones, can do anything about them.
Liz G.
October 27, 2019 at 12:30 am
The health system screws everyone lets be realistic, low income, middle class, homeless, immigrants, in few words we live in a culture full of judgmental people, the way you look, how much money they assumed you make/have (to cover for service, and other medical expenses) type of insurance you have, if you are a person of color(👩🏽👨🏾👳🏿♂️🧕🏿🧓🏿👵🏽) or have an accent, because “that’s a give away”, as if that actually meant anything as far as whether the individual is here legally or illegally, or they treat them as if they were stupid, without realizing people whom might have an accent is sign of them being able to speak more than one language, since when is being able to speak more than one language consider stupid or makes someone stupid?, and the list goes on and on, and if you add to that the fact that most of not all drugs because they are drugs they are not medicine, medicine heals, it cures, drugs conceal, trick you into thinking you are better ,numb you, killing you slowly. Most doctors and nurses are not passionate about their jobs anymore, and I get I mean when you in industry where you as a healer are limited as far as what you are allowed to do for someone, when you just don’t care whether save a life or your next patient is here now and gone tomorrow, or whether they become addicted to the drugs you are prescribing them, you know we have a failed system that needs to be rebuilt from the ground up, just like the education system they both are limited, and broken, and last but not least I’m sorry but what this doctor is exposing is not an eye 👁 opener it doesn’t takes to be a doctor, nurse, medical professional to be aware and see what’s happening it takes one trip to an appointment to see how they treat people vs how they treat you sometimes you are in the other end sometime you might be the spectator, and others you might be that corrupted doctor/institution abusing of the lack or you patients insurance. Bottom line we need to take over our health, learn about our very individual,unique body and try to better our diets, use natural alternatives, and don’t even start with alternative medicine is bs it doesn’t work blah blah, keep consuming those lies if you like, those lies are the same lies that keep most people sick, and addicted, yes it is a lifestyle, you have to make major changes and yes it can be expensive and they want to keep it expensive, they make it expensive is more expensive to have a healthy diet that will make you and keep you healthy And one that will slowly kill you, we need to change and keep moving forward from what’s not working anymore, we need unity, and EMPATHY we need to start caring more about one another only together we can make a change that will be felt to improve our life and the one of those around us, what we all need is obvious, is the getting there that scares most
dazza1008
October 27, 2019 at 7:21 am
What a fabulous doctor
dazza1008
October 27, 2019 at 7:22 am
I’ve heard that traditionally Chinese doctors only got paid when the patient was well. They didn’t get paid when the patient was sick
Infinite Domain
October 27, 2019 at 7:40 am
Brilliant talk
Anders Andersson
October 27, 2019 at 6:17 pm
The US healthcare system is sick. / A Swede.
Titania Sky
October 28, 2019 at 3:27 am
I worked a job that screwed my mental health so much that I ended up in urgent care 4 times in six months from physical symptoms caused by my anxiety. Unfortunately they don’t have a prescription for “mental health days,” and thats why I do doordash now. It pays just as well and I don’t end up puking with anxiety over the idea that if I call off I might get fired.
Public Guy
October 28, 2019 at 4:17 am
This man needs to be in Bernie’s cabinet!
Naughty Nookie
October 28, 2019 at 5:58 am
*This pathetic impotent fool. Hope he die in his wheelchair!*
Stamp and Scrap
October 29, 2019 at 8:34 am
USA Healthcare puts everyone at risk.
If someone who was poor got airborne really contagious virus. They would likely goto work spread the virus until such point that their illness reached such a point that they collapsed.