Understanding Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's Health Care Reform Proposals
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In which John Green compares the healthcare plans of U.S. Presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. For more information about health and health care policy, check out Health Care Triage: https://www.youtube.com/user/thehealthcaretriage SOURCES & FURTHER READING: Rand's analysis of the reform proposals of Clinton and Trump are nicely summarized here: http://www.rand.org/blog/2016/09/estimating-the-impacts-of-the-trump-and-clinton-health.html Full analysis of Hillary Clinton's plan (who is the Democratic party's nominee) can be found here: http://www.commonwealthfund.org/Publications/Issue-Briefs/2016/Sep/Clinton-Presidential-Health-Care-Proposal And full analysis of Donald Trump's plan (who is the Republican party's nominee) can be found here: http://www.commonwealthfund.org/Publications/Issue-Briefs/2016/Sep/Trump-Presidential-Health-Care-Proposal Understanding the Healthcare System of the United States: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN-MkRcOJjY Why Are American Health Care Costs So High? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSjGouBmo0M The Kaiser Family Foundation explains the high cost of health care in the United States compared to other rich nations: http://kff.org/health-costs/issue-brief/snapshots-health-care-spending-in-the-united-states-selected-oecd-countries/ And this series explores health care outcomes in the U.S. vs. other rich nations: http://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/how-does-the-quality-of-the-u-s-healthcare-system-compare-to-other-countries/?slide=1 The Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) has resulted in a significant drop in the uninsured population in the U.S. http://www.cnbc.com/2016/05/17/obamacare-brings-record-low-for-us-health-uninsured-rate.html Fuller data and complete report here: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhis/earlyrelease/insur201605.pdf A single-payer health care system would not, in and of itself, magically bring costs in the U.S. down to 10% of GPD, as explained by Aaron Carroll here: http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/single-payer-is-not-sufficient/ Trump's plan to allow insurance companies to sell policies across state lines is extremely controversial among health policy experts: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/01/upshot/the-problem-with-gop-plans-to-sell-health-insurance-across-state-lines.html The Wikipedia article on Health care in the United States is also excellent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_the_United_States And lastly, this comparison tool from the Commonwealth Fund is pretty cool. It allows you to see side-by-side what Clinton and Trump have proposed to deal with various problems with the health care system: http://www.commonwealthfund.org/interactives/2016/sep/comparing-candidates-health-proposals/ FIND OUT HOW TO VOTE IN YOUR STATE: http://youtube.com/howtovoteineverystate Huge thanks to Rosianna (http://youtube.com/rosianna) for graphics and to Aaron Carroll (https://www.youtube.com/user/thehealthcaretriage) for fact-checking. Any errors are my own. ---- Subscribe to our newsletter! http://nerdfighteria.com/newsletter/ And join the community at http://nerdfighteria.com http://effyeahnerdfighters.com Help transcribe videos - http://nerdfighteria.info John's twitter - http://twitter.com/johngreen John's tumblr - http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com Hank's twitter - http://twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's tumblr - http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com
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Would like to see a current review of stock market as its as high as ever can faith in economy last forever. Almost a future predictions vid
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Mate you should do more to explain this like I'm an idiot. its way more gifted to be able to explain things simply and make a point than to explain things like everyone went to harvard
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I suppose my biggest opposition to ObamaCare is that if you do not get health insurance you get a fine in your taxes. This is literally forcing people to buy something. This is not the place of our government. I am sorry but what this advocates is immoral.
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This definitely has a liberal slant. $90 billion in deficit is not modest. If that $90 billion was given to people they could have 30 million people could have $3000 added to their medical saving account a year. Surgery Center of Oklahoma charges less for the complete operation than most people pay in deductibles and copays. The democrats have fleeced and robbed America.
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Other counties have to pay less on protection and military spending.
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Maybe Americans would be more indepedent and less in need of a healthcare system if we went back to eating organic foods like we used to. Why are corporations like Monsanto still allowed to get away with not labelling their toxic GMO foods? This leads to hidden long term health problems for Americans, and makes certain people with corporate investments in the heathcare and cancer industries very wealthy -- the Medical and Big Pharma Mafias. This is why other countries that have healthcare systems for their citizens have outlawed toxic GMO's. They have seen the scientific evidence that has been kept hidden from Americans. If the human body is organic then the foods that it is fed should be organic too. Are we ignoring the fact that the Creator of this reality gave us everything we need to heal our bodies through the intelligence of Mother Nature? Maybe prevention is the missing key. I suppose that the blending of Western and (ancient) Eastern medicine might be an intelligent idea, too. By the way, one of my ex husbands is a surgeon, and he told me that in Medical school they are taught absolutely NOTHING about nutrition. Might this be because those that fund our medical schools and institutions have made a large part of their vast fortunes (Rothschild, Rockefeller, Monsanto) off of the backs of ill sheeple? THE SYSTEM "IS" RIGGED!!!
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I bet this guy is in favor of SOCIALIZED healthcare.
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is being independent worth..?
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Single payer, only thing that works.
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The whole concept of Doctor-Insurance-Patient is rigged to fail in the upcoming years.
The main factor is the increase in cost of living: As the years pass by, both the doctors and insurers require a hike in their salaries. That speeds up the increase in cost of healthcare by almost 2 times compared to a single payer healthcare.
Well, the politics are keeping the doctors' salary at a stagnant rate; while the insurers make more profits and in turn buy the politics. Everybody loses, except for the insurance companies.
If only at least 50% of the people of US were smart enough to understand this, there would be some hopes. Funny how everyone has more concerns about grammar, racism and what not. -
We are hoping you will try be the future president
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Well, guess Trump just wants me to be sick and die😞
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Excellent Video! Very informative.
It is patently false however, to state that the tax deductibility of health insurance would only benefit the wealthy. This is false. In fact any middle income person especially those living in big cities with two household incomes, would benefit massively. The real issue is that many middle income earners in these areas don't get the benefit of some tax deductions because of the AMT which hasn't been adjusted in over 4 decades (PLEASE do a video on the AMT), which results in many deductions being dissalowed.
It makes a lot of sense, in any event, that under either plan, that all health insurance costs should be tax deductible. If the government gives you no choice but to purchase the insurance then it is government mandated and clearly, a portion of one person's premiums is going towards another person's cost who received a discount. As a matter of principal this should be tax deductible.
As for the exchange, I personally participated in it in New York and as I was self employed it made insurance "available"
The problem is that the all the policies had radical increases in deductibles. Radical. And it was accross the board except for those policies that were "prohibitively expensive". We had a hospital visit and frankly, I would have ratherred not being covered.
I was insured prior to the exchange as well and deductibles were never as high. Clearly, in order to "participate" in the exchange, the insurance carriers all offered lousy plans and almost all of them increased deductibles and coverage.
In summary, the ACA removed "freedom of choice" as to whether one wants to or doesn't want to be insured. By removing that choice from the tax payer, the Insurance companies knew that they would have a "captive" audience and had a field day with premiums and deductibles.
Either way you look at it, in the end, you couldn't keep your plan or, if you did want to keep the plan you had before, it went up massively in price.
When I was younger, I got insurance for my wife and then 1st kid, and then my other kids as they came along. Eventually, I got coverage as well when I could afford it. But at least it was my choice. -
Mr Donald J Trump needs to lean on the FDA ASAP! These people have been dragging their feet for well over a year. Actipatch works and Bioelectronics, an American company, has sold more than a million patches over the counter in 50 countries around the world! These patches could be helping America overcome its pain pill epidemic! The FDA is controlled by it's largest employer, Big Pharma. Actipatch competes with pain pills and is most likely exactly why the FDA is stalling clearance of these proven safe, effective and very affordable pain patches. This patch helped get me off of pain pills. I have to purchase the HealFast Pet Patch Loop from Amazon to get around the FDA. It's the Actipatch for pets but identical to the human version. It's sad to see the corruption which is so blatantly obvious within the FDA!
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As a foreigner, it seems that the Trump programme seems to only benefit higher income families.
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Basically Clinton is offering more "free stuff" that will just tack on to the next generation to pay off. If you're increasing the debt - you are not actually doing anything right.
Secondly, Trump had not completely outlined his new plan so this is just all speculation on his health plan without looking at ALL of his plans holistically. This is the same for Clinton - you can't just take out ONE segment of what they want to do without looking at the entire picture. -
Two conservative ideas:1. Add the unemployment percentage rate to the top tax bracket. Higher unemployment means higher top tax brackets. Lower unemployment means the rich pay lower taxes. Win-Win.2. Trump needs to say: "Health insurance companies NEED prices to be high. Why? Because they sell insurance NOT medical services. Why do you need insurance? Because the prices are high. Why are prices high? The AMA and the insurance companies want them to be high. How do you fix high prices? Increase supply. What supply? Medical services. Our goal should be to increase the supply of medical services until the prices fall to the point that you don't need insurance. Yes, it is possible
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Gave exact quotes on Trumps plans but gave extremely vague "kind of's" for Hillarys..... Why did you even bother making this video?
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This is so biased.
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Well informed, great starting video to get people better informed on our current situations great videos all around
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