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beings, except where such orders at conflict with the 1st law show your identification. we should be very careful about on personal intelligence. at the point, obviously is to trace truck rather than fear a job with artificial intelligence. real, somebody with a robot must protect its own existence with ah, in
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a j b you shaken with well, i'm gonna put alon prepared to wait. don't don't come through to get my eyes checked. i haven't been able to get them checked since 1982 . they have been waiting patiently for hours while i got here that for you. oh mm hm. um have driven hundreds of miles to get here with the most has spent the night in their cars. oh, really to because we need to be patient.
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i. when i say your walk, me show me your take it, you know? yeah, sorry. you're with all are desperately waiting for free medical treatment. i can i help you with for your eyes? oh, these american families aren't homeless. most of them are middle class. and yet they have no choice, but to come to this clinic with sal allison is $26.00. this uninsured mother has just
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given birth. i'm going to have guy jack, who's 4 days. and then junior here, my 4 year old i don't feel great that i have a 4 day old baby out in. so i, i mean there's so technically flu season and there's the germs everywhere. but i mean, we had to be here. so i have to take him with me. i had any glasses sent the high school like he graduated like 40 years 10 years ago. so i've just been wearing the same payer. so i definitely knew i had to come to get some new ones today and where it's free and it's same day i can leave with glass. it's just it's frustrating. it really is frustrating that there's just nowhere else to go to actually matter. i let's go with,
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i can't say that at all. like allison 28000000 people in the united states live without health insurance. a originally created to deliver medical aid and developing countries. this mobile clinic provider now operates mainly in the united states. a. these volunteers give their time every weekend for holding 100 clinics a year. ah, the world's largest economy. decent medical care is a luxury. most americans simply can't afford. ah, we are behind every country pretty nearly in europe in this matter of medical care
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for austin. ah, with obamacare is a complete and total disaster. ah, united states medicine has become a, you're standing there at that point. you given them money or you die and, and you give them the right. mm. it is not a fair system. us health care system is lethal. it is killing people. do what? no parents should have to deal with that. hold your child. if they die a needless death, a human rights
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for. mm oh, i get up every morning and i do some kind of exercise. i run, i ride my bike, not working out to lose weight. it's because i have to just by getting outside and getting my heart pumping and making it strong. so that would prolong my life for years.
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a normal blood sugar would be about $100.00. my blood sugar is 4. 05. which is extremely high. so yeah, i mean i need to take insulin to try to bring it down. insulin isn't essential to life just like water and just like air, it's life or death. if i don't have insulin, i would die within a few days. probably it doesn't take long. karen is 30 and it's been living with diabetes since she was 12 years old. or medication, which would be covered by the state in europe is very expensive in the united states. when i go down to the pharmacy and they say, oh, what's going to be a $1000.00 i'm, i'm used to hearing that. so i just leave without the insulin. my solution right now is just to ration to
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a dangerous degree. i know that i need to stop doing that. ah, unlike in europe, there is no universal health insurance in the united states. the only americans to benefit from a limited public healthcare system are the very poorest members of society, any over 60 fives. every one else is either covered by their employers who pay most of the cost of health insurance. or they have to take out an individual health insurance plan like karen and her husband, eric some one of the site right now to look at the plans for next year. okay. although they both work, they can barely afford the costly insurance premiums. oh, so for me, the premium is $695.00 and
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need to be covered in the united states. you must 1st pay a monthly premium. these are very high and the average premium for a family of 4 is $15000.00 a year. and on top of this premium, you pay a deductible on the set amount paid each year for healthcare. before a plan starts to share, the cost difference deductible is nearly $8000.00. after meeting the deductible, you pay a percentage of medical expenses. the insurer pays the rest. this is known as co insurance, on average, policyholders pay 20 percent. mm hm. it doesn't cover insulin, no. karen's health insurance plan covers very few medical services. ah, the things that are super important for me,
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they don't cover like being able to get insulin or going, you know, to have my eyes checked was diabetics really need to do? so it's almost useless until we reach $15000.00 and even then they might not pay for certain medication for spend almost half her income just on his years. that doesn't really cover anything. so it's aggravating and stressful to say the least that we're buying this plan just in case something terrible happens. so i would need to go to the hospital. i was getting hungry. the young couple can't afford to set up whole 9 years after their wedding. they're still living with karen's mother. i mean i oh, yeah, yeah, monster. ah,
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in the united states, you have to be rich to be able to afford enzyme insulin. is luxury good for sure? my insurance company controls a lot of what i do and what i get this man is a former health insurance company executive, a whistleblower and reformed insurance, propagandist mm. after 20 years of loyal service, revolted by the brutality of america's health system. wendell potter cracked and decided to expose the cynicism of his industry. my job, along with everyone else who worked for the company, was primarily to make our shareholders richer than they were. now the most important people to these big companies and it's not taking care of people. if
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you're denying payment for someone's care, your make life and death decisions and determine who gets to live and who dies to me that's less getting away with murder. ah, it at the expense of life the system that benefits a minority, not the majority of americans. ah. the us health care system, we spend about $3.00 trillion dollars a year on it. people like to say that that's about the size of the g, d, p of france, just for health care, which is a little bit crazy. despite having the most expensive health care system in the world. we have poor life expectancy. we have higher infant mortality.
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we have more deaths from readable causes. so americans are suffering every day from it. oh, how did this system come about? ah ah, o russia, this class of car was discontinued more than 20 years ago. even though, staying with a sort of can you sell it to proposal that you're dealing with just important factors? it took 5 years to close the gap on the world car industry from the drawing board
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to the 1st finished model. kepsa will show the excellent roles key of dealing with the notion from a small school. well, we'll shoot for almost a couple of cookie at the football with marshall football, driven by a trainer shaped band center. so those with stairs sinks. we dare to ask
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oh, any time of war as in time of peace. in 1945, after the 2nd world war, europe adopted the principles of the welfare state. france introduced its social security system. britain founded the n h s. inspired by this model, democratic u. s. president harry truman proposed a universal national health insurance program. harry truman couldn't do it because the american medical association in particular, was very opposed to creating a system like most european countries have. an they began using the term socialized medicine. keep in mind that this was during the early part of the cold war, when there was a great fear in this country of communism. in the early 19 sixties. now back in power, the democrats again tried to introduce a european style system. in this plan to met with resistance,
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a massive publicity campaign was launched to warn the american people of the dangers of socialized medicine. the propaganda paid off and the democrats bill failed to pass. in 1965, they got their revenge. president lyndon b johnson signed into law to public health insurance programs, medicaid for low income families, and people with disabilities and medicare for the over 65. mm hm. mm. witnessing firsthand the despair of americans who cannot afford treatment. prompted
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the former insurance executive wendell potter to change his life ah, 10 years ago. on his way to visit his parents, he ran into a mobile clinic close to where he grew up. ah, it's broke my heart to see what was happening. people are just completely out of the lot. they have no means of getting the care health care that they need is if these people don't count i think that's a big reason why i was so affected by the remote area. medical plan are almost somehow walked into a refugee camp. i very possibly could have been one of those people
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in 2008. he became a whistleblower and spoke out in the press against the health insurance industry's expletive practices. mister chairman, thank you for the opportunity to be here this afternoon of a special respect a year later he testified before the u. s. congress doing something, i think very courageous and very, very brave. i saw how they confuse customers and dumped. so all they so also they can satisfy their wall street investors. he wages his campaign in washington, the heart of power. i know how the game works cuz i was a part of it on the other side. now the change team said we're working to try to make this a better system. i like it a lot better,
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much better. i sleep better at night to achieve his objectives. he's joined forces with other advocates of health insurance for all together they hope to make it the number one issue in the 2020 presidential elections. so i think number one is to get that issue kind of going in people's minds in a talk about because co, the bottom line health care has always been a divisive issue. the splitting democrats and republicans, you guys have really nice idea, but we can't for republic. us say, well, let's leave it to the free market and democrats, they will, that's not good enough, but you've got to also somehow break through the noise and the opposition that the other side is creating. and i used my old job in charge of propaganda and it's, it's extraordinary. successful propaganda is the weapon of choice.
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while working for an insurance company. wendell potter was involved in a landmark campaign. the year was 1902. bill clinton had just been elected president a year later, he asked his wife hillary to draft a universal health care bill. after we saw what the clintons were doing, that we would do what we could to keep it from ever passing. so i spent a lot of time in washington working to create this propaganda campaign is to get people to fear change to make them feel uncertain about what's being proposed. and to doubt that those who are proposing it dis, campaign sabotaged bill clinton's reform bill. new
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one man learned from this barack obama elected president of the united states in 2008. he made health care reform a priority. it has now been nearly offensive. nearly every president and congress, whether democrat or republican has attempted to meet this challenge in some and that is the issue of health. i'm not the 1st president to take out this cause, but i am determined to be the last obama knew he would be attacked from all sides to succeed. he decided to negotiate with the 3 powerful players and the health care system. the insurance companies, hospitals, and drug companies all were given a seat of the table that only a seat there were given the responsibility of actually writing big parts of the legislation. so he gave away
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a lot of things that were valuable. i think to him personally, in order to get something, anything done that was important, the obamacare compromise imposed 3 core principles with, with the individual mandate, every american was required to have health insurance or pay a penalty. the purpose of this measure was to increase policyholder numbers in return, the insurance companies promised to lower their rates. obamacare also expanded medicaid coverage from the poorest members of society to a new section of the population. those just above the poverty line. another positive development. no health insurance could discriminate against individuals based on their medical history and allergy, asthma,
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diabetes. in the past this was used as an excuse to increase the premiums or even to deny coverage. on march 23rd, 2010, the legislation was signed into law these measures were really met with enthusiasm. it made it better in a lot of ways that it offered 20000000 people received coverage that had not had it before. obamacare was a historic step forward for the united states. the number of americans without health insurance had not dropped as much since the 970 s. but this reform was not enough. every year, 45000 uninsured americans die due to lack of access to health care. i amy layla lost her daughter 4 years ago. ah.
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that whole feeling of anger. i had to find a way to let that. so release it. nothing's ever going to bring back my daughter. she's dead. mm. everything around here. mine's michelin, i remember saying when i 1st moved here, thinking that's so great. we're really close to a it looks like a new hospital and i was very excited about being close to hospital little did i know what it was going to mean for my family. this building represents
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loss. members, it represents pain to me. ah, she came here right behind me here at the hospital. the red sullen lake and i went to the emergency room. the 1st thing i asked her when she got in there was do you have insurance? and she did. it. started with the receptionist telling her its gonna be really expensive. you can leave now and it won't cost you anything. can you get your parents insurance? it started there. and then all the way through to the back was to where she was supposed to be being treated. at the time, her daughter's shaelyn was 22 years old. between jobs, she had no health insurance. 3 weeks after being turned away from the emergency department, shaelyn went to cardia respiratory arrest amy raised to the hospital and found her
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sister already at her daughters bedside. and emma running down the corridor and i saw my sister's outside of the waiting area and i was yelling, you know, is he still alive? no parent should have to see what i saw. and i remember to sit in the house like, please make me strong. strong, pull through please don't die, please. and then they told me that she had a pulmonary embolism and i was like, what do you mean? i said, and they said well, she must, she's her leg is still swollen. as she has a massive clot still at her leg. and i remember thinking, wait a minute, she was just in the emergency room. what do you mean? alleys like i don't know how they missed us. and i held her like
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a head held us through the baby with her hair and i was thinking the song i used to sing to her as she was at it. and when i knew they were going to be turning off the sheet, i can be a little bit of time please. you with this machine with a flat right. that is the reality of a deepest death as why ah, because she could provide proof of issue. ah oh,
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in the united states, hospitals have increasingly become businesses. and so they act like businesses by often in terms of maximizing the revenue they can get from insurance companies and from patients. ah, if you want something done, right, do it yourself. the acronym d i y, i do it yourself, has now become the name for a new genre of online videos. we do, coupled with any summit for the ups store that you are looking at. the wasn't working with any motor up a deal if people use grad materials and whatever's at hand to rig up all
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