Fox commentator admits America has Third World health care

[eridani]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/03/16/1285230/-Fox-conservative-commentator-admits-America-has-Third-World-Healthcare

Aasif Mandvi of The Daily Show used his wit to force the truth out of Fox conservative business commentator Todd Wilemon. It was a smooth takedown that left the professional in a fight for words.

When asked to name five countries with better healthcare systems than the US, Brock ran off a litany of countries in excess of the five. It turns out the US is ranked 37th in the world.

Mandvi then confronted Wilemon with what he had found out without telling him that the place with Third World healthcare conditions is Knoxville, Tennessee. He told him the place he came back from had shockingly poor healthcare conditions and was still reeling from the loss in the Civil War. One quarter of the people are living in poverty. They have high rates of cancer and heart disease. How did Wilemon respond to that?

“This is how bad it could get,” he said. “If we keep going down the path of more government control, less innovation. I don’t know if we can be that place unless a great catastrophe happens in this country.”

Mandvi tells Wilemon he is talking about Knoxville. Wilemon goes into a 13-second silent panic. “People do fall through the cracks,” he responds. But it gets worse. He starts making comments like, everyone will get care but they may have to wait. Some people will get great health care while some will just get good healthcare. If you are poor, stop being poor. That is the healthcare system Wilemon and his ilk want. That is what Obamacare fixes.

[BlueStreak]

1. What I don't understand about The Daily Show

How do they get these idiots to come on their show? For a long time, I thought these people were just actors playing the role of buffoon for comedic effect, but it seems like these are the real people. Don't they understand how ridiculous they sound?

[cui bono]

3. Yeah, and I thought perhaps they just edited them to make them look extra stupid

or answer a different question than was originally asked.

But sometimes you can tell that was not done, that they really are that stupid.

[Gothmog]

2. The look on the Fox Business contributor was priceless

This was a great segment

[Aerows]

4. The number 1 problem in the US with our health care system

is that we have ZERO pricing controls on medications and services. There is no standardization. It all boils down to charge as much as you can. In no other country in the world would they put up with this, and none of that has been addressed with the ACA.

When a medication costs $15 dollars in the UK, but costs $112 for the identical medication in the US, we are being ripped off.

I am stunned that there are people that do not realize this. Look up any number of studies. We pay many times over what people in other countries pay for medicine alone. And it isn't like we are getting something better, we are just paying a fuck ton more for the same identical thing.

[Separation]

5. Here is the problem with American Health Care

www.slate.com/blogs/business_insider/2014/02/26/chart_u_s_defense_spending_vs_other_countries.html

Now, I'm not one to say slash the military so that we would be totally defenseless, but when you are outspending 10 countries something can be done about that.

The F35 is a good example. The guys on the ground hate it, CAS at 20,000ft? No thank you. Keep the A-10, battle proven many times over and a squadron of A-10's cost less than one F35. But for some reason somebody is saying scrap the a10's and go ahead with the unproven F35 that has problems flying in the rain.

It boils my blood at the waste and downright fraud being laid on the American taxpayer by high ranking beltway Generals and the politicians who who won't stand up to them.