Ok first of all. Before you listen to this, if you like homeopathy for whatever reason don’t turn this off because of his first comment regarding homeopathy. You can do whatever you want and if you think it helps you, more power to you.
Secondly, listen to the WHOLE thing. Put aside your prejudices about everything. Listen to the whole thing with an open mind. Healthcare is broken. It’s on all of
us. None of us are passive participants in this national mess. When you hear him say Bernie is a moron don’t turn it off. Listen to why he says that. Open your mind. Healthcare is broken and needs to be fixed first. Listen to his opinion about the fact that we bomb the shit out of other countries and treat our
own citizens this way. He is not a healthcare apologist. The AMA is part of the problem. Listen to his statement that we have medicalized the problems in our country – (let the children get diabetes from eating McDonalds and then let the doctors figure out how to fix it. Let drugs and homelessness run rampant and then let the healthcare system deal with it.)
My son just graduated from med school and is now in his residency. The process of medical school is beyond grueling and the interview process for residency is just as grueling. He and his wife are lucky. They interviewed at Hahnemann. They ended up staying in Richmond. I know first hand the stress they endured and endure and the PASSION is the reason they do it. They are, together, $400k in debt. So yeah, they didn’t do it for the fucking money. In the past two months their peers found out where they were going for residence, said goodbye to the lifelong friends they made in med school, uprooted their lives (some with families) to go, with great excitement and anticipation, to the next step in their
medical education. Those who went to
Hahnemann, like my son and his wife, work in the city, not some cushy suburban hospital. But this isn’t about them. The lives of the resident who are learning at Hahnemann, the lives of the staff at Hahnemann, the PEOPLE WHO ARE SERVED by these tireless passionate people are now turned upside down because of PROFIT. It’s so fucking sick I literally feel like throwing up right now. Listen to man.