Can universal health care work? | CNBC International

A right for all people and a service providing the highest standard of care - can universal health care do both or will politics stand in the way? CNBC’s Tom Chitty explains.

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[White_Oak_]

Kind of a silly question, considering it's been working in many countries for decades.

[billyhunter]

Countries with universal healthcare include Austria, Belarus, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom.

[jballs]

70% for all care? That's amazing. Mine covers 0% until I meet my deductible.

[jobokidd]

Amount of people in the US that go bankrupt because of medical bills around 650, 0000!!

[ucqgpqw]

What do you mean "can it work" ? Its already working all over the world

[Vik]

you did a story on universal healthcare, talked about the UK socialized system, and Frances hybrid system but did not talk about a single payer system like Canada has....weird.

[fcllc]

Probably not in the United States because our health care system has become one that lacks quality and accessibility. Much of this is because our insurance industry is now a for profit business. Before the late 1970's it wasn't for profit, it was a more patient centric system. But unfortunately, now doctors have trouble getting their patients medication or treatment because of restrictions on insurance coverage. Insurance companies are looking at how they can make their investors money, not how they can help their patients get and stay healthy.

[austingoodwin]

Misleading part about fee to see a doctor in France. The €25 in the video is the BEFORE price before l’assurance maladie (medical portion of Social Security) covers 70%.

[chrispepler]

You always sound like you have a great background knowledge of the topics you talk about not to mention a great sense of humor which doesn’t go a miss!

[aliciaambrus]

I think the USA should have healthcare tax. That way everybody pay something in. I like the idea France has where they pay 70 percent of long care and you pay the rest.

[tekeyaradford]

This video definitely gave me a better understanding on universal healthcare. Now I won't struggle with my assignment. Thank you YouTube

[schadenfreude]

The simplest model for the US would be the Dutch and Swiss system: private healthcare, but insurance is compulsory and the state pays the premiums of the unemployed as part of their unemployment benefits. That's immediately achievable tomorrow, as opposed to pipedreams about nationalising the entire health sector.

[guillermorojasc]

How about spending less in wars and army and spend that money on health care and medical technology research?

[dabox]

Check Panama Caja del seguro social and health care system its not perfect but it have a big advantage to make it a stepping stone. in addition, all doctors have to serve for some small period of time every certain year at the government hospital to keep his/her license. in other word, that guarantee that the best doctor are also available to improve the quality of the service given.

[steampunk]

The reason the French system, which is manifestly superior, is not quickly emulated in every country, is only ignorance and greed. Of course people should be required to pay a portion of their healthcare costs, and government should only subsidize care which fits a reasonable definition of “medically-necessary.” Otherwise, the system would quite naturally be overused and abused, and therefore become prohibitively expensive. Further, a national sales tax, or VAT, could easily fund such a system. But within those bounds, there is simply no excuse for the failure to implement such a system immediately.

[johnw]

Common charge for an ambulance ride in USA is about $2400. With negotiated rebates, insurance companies pay $400 to $500. But, if people with no insurance or wrong insurance get charged the full rate. Same is true for many other health services, the uninsured being charged 4 or 5 times more than insurance companies. It is morally indefensible.

[sun]

"Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in healthcare is the most shocking and inhumane." - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's 1966 speech to the Medical Committee for Human Rights.

[vovan]

I think that the graph of "Health care spending" is wrong because it suggests that in almost all of the countries listed in it the private share is bigger than the public when the situation is actually the opposite.

[rapr]

Why does the Main stream media seem to completely ignore that just about every other first world country has universal healthcare? They act as if its some sort of impossible goal, yet you don't even have to go far. Our neighbor to the north has had the system for decades

[MrMajorChris]

Impressed. Its informative and shows the both sides