An amazing new video is gone viral on social media posted by the Twitter account politics,
Joe underscore U K and in this video, Britains were asked how much they think American citizens
pay for certain kinds of healthcare. You know, certain services at the hospital or at the
doctor or certain medications. And all of them were shocked at how badly American citizens
are getting screwed with our healthcare system. Here's a brief sniff a snippet from this video.
Take a look.
So two EpiPens. How much do you reckon they are? $80. $600. $40? I'm afraid not. More?
More. A hundred dollars? $150? More. $250 More. Shut the fridge. 300 pounds. $600? What?
Why? That's a very good question. $600 yeah.
For me it's more like just hives and shortness of breath. So it wouldn't be like an immediate
death situation. But like, so I've been fortunate about how to use it, but it's something like,
keep on me. Like I have my backpack right now. I have it on me. Cost of childbirth.
She's um, 50 grand, something ridiculous. Now I've blown it. I've blown the figures
up in your head. And I have an odd cause they're large. It's the highest generally speaking.
About 30 grand. Okay. Okay. Reasonable, reasonable. It's so, it's just like now I'm like a what?
A benchmark.
A hundred $200. Yeah. Uh, the average is about 10 grand. It can go up to 30,000. 10 Grand
for a baby? An inhaler. $100. Yeah, you're pretty close. It's a bit more $120? $250 - $350?
For an inhaler. Yes. So if you're poor, you're dead.
I believe the young woman said it best when she said, so if you're poor, your dead, which
is pretty much how the United States system of healthcare operates today. If you're poor,
you're dead. Her little soundbite, right? There needs to be a campaign video, but only
for the politicians who are actually pushing universal healthcare. Medicare for all single
payer plans. Not for your Medicare, for all who wanted people, but for your Bernie Sanders
types. If you're poor, you're dead. And that's not an overstatement. That's not hyperbole.
That's what's happening in the United States today. People are having to ration their medicine.
They're having to hop the border both North and South to go to be able to afford medications
to stockpile it so that they can actually afford it. And again, this is a uniquely American
occurrence. Other countries do not pay the markups that we pay here in the United States.
Their governments negotiate drug prices. We don't because we've made it to where we can't.
We have promised drug companies that we're not going to do that because those drug companies
are the ones who fund most of our politicians. The healthcare industry funds them to the
insurance industry funds them to the hospital corporation. Every part of the healthcare
system has their dirty little fingers on at least one politician making these rules, allowing
these companies to continue to gouge us at the point of service. This has to stop and
the only way to stop it is Medicare for all. Not all who want it? Medicare for all period.
End of policy. That's the only way. And you can't phase it in either. I'm sorry you can't.
I do like Elizabeth Warren, but her, let's take our time. Put her feet up, just gradually
get to Medicare for all. Nope, that's not good. That's not good enough. People will
still die. So let's Institute a plan that, yeah, guess what folks? It's going to be a
little painful at first. It's gonna be a little hard to figure out in the first couple of
weeks and after that, everything should be okay. Change is hard sometimes, but not as
hard as losing a loved one because they couldn't afford their insulin. Which would you rather
have a couple of weeks of confusion about healthcare or sticking someone you love in
the ground because of the price gouging from big pharma.