Protect Insurance Companies PSA from Will Ferrell

Humorous look at "Socialized" medicine.

A prototype ad from the Rockridge Institute:

A sample TV ad, designed using George Lakoff's theory of moral politics, intended to increase support for universal health care in the United States.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/sickaroundtheworld/countries/

In Sick Around the World, FRONTLINE teams up with veteran Washington Post foreign correspondent T.R. Reid to find out how five other capitalist democracies -- the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, Taiwan and Switzerland --deliver health care, and what the United States might learn from their successes and their failures.

 

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/05092008/watch.html

In this weeks BILL MOYERS JOURNAL, Rose Ann Demaro, the Executive Director of the California Nurses Association, argued that calling America's approach to health care a "system" is inaccurate. If you look at health care in America, there is no health care "system." There's a health care industry whose major objective is profit-making - which means not providing the patient all of the care that they need, discharging patients early, patients without insurance being treated differently than wealthy people, frankly. And that is the health care "system" in America. Those who can afford it get to live and those who can't suffer needlessly.

 

by Richard Knox | NPR Morning Edition

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 Mention European health care to an American, and it probably conjures up a negative stereotype - high taxes, long waiting lines, rationed care. It's not that way in Germany. Very little tax money goes into the system. The lion's share comes, as in America, from premiums paid by workers and employers to insurance companies.

by Joseph Shapiro | NPR Morning Edition

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"When you're a new mother, you're very well taken care of in France," says Rodwin, a professor of health policy at New York University, who is also affiliated with the International Longevity Center. "They take very good care of their mothers when they're pregnant. There's, of course, no problem of uninsured mothers. They get good prenatal care, and they have house visitors - nurses who come to the house and help the first week."

by Julie Rovner | NPR Morning Edition

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92106731

Switzerland's health care system could be the perfect political compromise for the U.S. Those who can afford to buy insurance are required by law. For those who can't, the government provides subsidies. Swiss citizens, like Cecile Crettol-Rappaz, say they wouldn't trade it for any other system.

by Joseph Shapiro

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92419273

In 2000, health care experts for the World Health Organization tried to do a statistical ranking of the world's health care systems. They studied 191 countries and ranked them on things like the number of years people lived in good health and whether everyone had access to good health care. France came in first. The United States ranked 37th.

http://www.house.gov/mcdermott/pr080715c.shtm

Watch and Listen to His Remarks Single Payer Health Care House of Representatives. Tuesday, July 15, 2008

 

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A lot of people come to work sick, according to a new poll conducted by NPR, the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health.