British Citizens SHOCKED To Learn How Badly Americans Get Screwed On Healthcare

In a video that has now gone viral on social media, Britons were shocked to learn how much American citizens pay for healthcare expenses. One woman rightfully pointed out that “if you’re poor, you’re dead,” which is the best way to sum up American healthcare. Our healthcare system is the laughing stock of the planet, and it is beyond time that we get with the rest of the modern world and declare healthcare to be a basic human right. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

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.

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