'So If You're Poor, You're Dead'? Watch These Brits Gasp When They Find Out Cost of Healthcare...
Published on Tuesday, December 03, 2019
by Common Dreams
'So If You're Poor, You're Dead'? Watch These Brits Gasp When They Find Out Cost of Healthcare in the United States
"The cost of American healthcare is literally unimaginable to most British people."
by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
Britons in a video released Tuesday expressed incredulity and shock at the high cost of healthcare in the United States and thanked the United Kingdom's publicly-funded and administered National Health Service for sparing the country's people such exorbitant prices.
"So if you're poor, you're dead," one young woman tells the interviewer from Joe Politics after hearing an asthma inhaler in the for-profit U.S. system costs between $250 and $300.
Two different men appear shocked when told Americans can be charged $2,500 for an ambulance ride.
"For real?" one asks. "Why?" asks another.
Link to tweet
"I've said it before and I'll say it again," tweeted historian David Walsh, "the cost of American healthcare is literally unimaginable to most British people."
The person-on-the-street interviews that make up the four minute video come in the wake of reports in late November that the ruling Conservative Party, which faces off against left-leaning Labour on December 12 in national elections, is planning on opening the U.K.'s health system to a more U.S. approach after leaving the European Union.
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if you're an insurance executive or a hospital chain administrator you might become a trillionaire on the backs of all those overweight sick people! A trillionaire!!!!! Wow!!!!!!!!
(I'm guessing this is the kind of thing Nigel and Boris and their fellow Brexiteers have had their eye on all along.)
But more chronic weight problems leading to more chronic medical problems has been an observable trend for decades, one that should have prompted government officials to do what's necessary to make health care more affordable and available rather than more profitable for a few.
Bye, Felicia. 
when really there are middlemen in all levels of the system who add little to no value, each one getting some juicy profits and benefit from keeping prices high.
These people are asking the right questions. More Americans should ask these questions until we start getting answers. If the free market encourages competition to benefit consumers then more companies would sell inhalers and insulin while competing on price and quality.
The UK charges about 9 pounds or about $12 for most prescription drugs because those damn socialists are trying to kill their people with death panels. Next we'll see jolly old Britain roll tanks down the street like in Venezuela. Rationing is coming to kill you.
And his family won't ever sign up for Obamacare because, well, it's Obamacare. And they've been told to hate it because all they know is the conservative smear machine. Which they're only hurting themselves because he'll never get the proper medical tests he needs to determine the long term damage he's done or medication because of it. Conservatives are only digging that hole further. 
And isn't it our duty, collectively, to assure them of very nice, lush and lavish things? Somebody should have them.
I mean, do unto others. The insurance companies have been chosen to not even ask in order to receive, and why should my pesky health be impede their success? This is a capitalist country and so, we can die for it. 
