Video – If Air Travel Worked Like Health Care

By Friday January 8, 2010



35 Comments
  1. Low Reimbursement says:
    1/8/2010 at 7:10 am

    “Government managed healthcare:
    a) Call the doctor of your choice to make an appointment.
    …

    It’s called Medicare”

    Ha! Unless the doctor of your choice is one of many who don’t accept Medicare because it doesn’t even pay enough to cover many of their costs.

    Great example champ.

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  2. tcc3 says:
    1/8/2010 at 7:49 am

    21 – you mean how insurance lets the patient see any doctor they want? As long as they get a referral, and as long as hes on the preapproved list, and as long as he doesn’t cost too much…

    Way to call the kettle black, champ.

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  3. Mr. Fusion says:
    1/8/2010 at 8:21 am

    I see the right wing nuts still are in denial.

    #6, Eric,

    Plainly put, BULLSHIT!!!

    A prescription is NOT a health record under HIPPA. An eyeglass prescription is no different than an antibiotic prescription. There is no need for it to be faxed. You are perfectly entitled to take the prescription to ANY eyeglass outlet you like, in any city. (Who pays for it though is between you and your insurance company)

    Why you would insist on posting such blatant garbage is beyond me. It is, however, true to the right wing nut course of lies and fabrication.

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  4. chuck says:
    1/8/2010 at 8:24 am

    #7
    You forgot:
    d) hand over 20% of your income (over and above your current income tax) to pay for it all.

    Medicare may work, but without massive increases in funding, it will be bankrupt.

    Here in Canada the process is:
    a) Call doctor and take whatever appointment is available. Maybe next week or next month.
    b) Visit doctor.
    c) Not much paperwork.
    d) Prescriptions? Pay for them yourself.
    e) Need hospital care? Ok, we’ll have that operation ready for you in 18 months.

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  5. chuck says:
    1/8/2010 at 8:27 am

    I almost forgot:
    f) pay only $60/month/person for health-care “premiums”, then pay 20% income tax.
    g) depend on the US for most military defense (thanks) and if you want to skip the waiting list for the hospital, drive to the nearest US hospital and hand over your VISA card.

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  6. qb says:
    1/8/2010 at 8:53 am

    #24 Chuck

    Salut mon ami. I wasted about three hours last month fighting with Great West Life and SunLife over health claims. Sometimes it’s almost better to pay it yourself.

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  7. pedro says:
    1/8/2010 at 9:52 am

    #19 Man, you’re burning up in fever.

    #23 said: “I see the right wing nuts still are in denial.”

    No, is your detachment with reality that makes it look that way.

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  8. Wretched Gnu says:
    1/8/2010 at 1:25 pm

    Well, everybody knows the Airlines are highly regulated and, therefore, Socialist.

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  9. FRAGaLOT says:
    1/8/2010 at 4:12 pm

    wow that’s quite an eye opener, and I love how the man just sums up the insanity at the end there.

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  10. FRAGaLOT says:
    1/8/2010 at 4:20 pm

    You know what? I already get free healthcare at my local county hospital. I just got released from the ER today have having a bad infection.

    I’ve been battling a fever for 4 days now, and I couldn’t stand the shaking, headaches, and my brain being slow-roasted at 102′deg.

    The nurses, techs, and doctors fixed me up, handed me a prescription (which is also covered FREE), and sent me on my way in about 4 hours feeling a whole lot better. Waiting at the pharmacy was another 2 hours to get my script filled, but it wasn’t that bad.

    And no I don’t live in Canada… California actually. :)

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  11. Lavi says:
    1/8/2010 at 6:45 pm

    If I were a BUM, I would get to fly for FREE on Air Healthcare…

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  12. deowll says:
    1/8/2010 at 9:02 pm

    #1 I’m not actually familiar with free market health care. According to my mother it used to work pretty well. The prices were reasonable and everything. They did away with it about the time I was born. Where did you see it?

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  13. rr says:
    1/9/2010 at 12:57 pm

    Chuck,
    “e) Need hospital care? Ok, we’ll have that operation ready for you in 18 months.”

    Source the statement. Median wait times for surgery are 4 weeks. There are no waiting times for emergency surgery.

    Medicare is going bankrupt because people don’t want to pay for the commitments they make. Americans have chosen to pay whatever it costs to delay the death of the elderly, if those people so choose. However, Americans refuse to pay the cost for that decision in the form of higher taxes.

    This is why the ignorant “tea bag” right is destroying the country. They demand an unlimited right to end of life care for the elderly without the commitment to pay for it.

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  14. topiwale says:
    1/10/2010 at 8:30 am

    Sato Travel is full service travel management company specializing in cwt sato travel for active-duty and retired military, Civilian DoD and Federal Agency employees.

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  15. Muhammad butt says:
    4/8/2010 at 7:43 pm

    Health is the big problem and Government must pay intention of it and make the country health and sound.

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