Some More News: Healthcare of the Rich and Famous
Some More News
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🗓️ 16 April 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Hi. Healthcare sucks in the U.S. We all know that. But did you know that rich people get a secret, better form of healthcare that somehow makes all of ours worse? Get the world's news at https://ground.news/SMN to compare coverage and see through biased coverage. Subscribe for 40% off unlimited access through our link.
Hosted by Cody Johnston
Executive Producer - Katy Stoll
Directed by Will Gordh
Written by Ella Yurman
Additional Material by Cody Johnston
Produced by Jonathan Harris
Edited by Gregg Meller
Post-Production Supervisor / Motion Graphics & VFX - John Conway
Researcher - Marco Siler-Gonzales
Graphics by Clint DeNisco
Head Writer - David Christopher Bell
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| 0:00.0 | Nah! |
| 0:01.0 | Hi, here's some news in the form of a series of questions. |
| 0:07.0 | Do you ever think about how expensive it is to go to the doctor? |
| 0:10.0 | Does that ever make you mad? |
| 0:12.0 | And does that anger ever make you want to do something, something drastic? |
| 0:16.0 | Like you might want to track down whoever is responsible for making it so expensive and take |
| 0:20.9 | them out. |
| 0:21.5 | Just take them right out of their shells with a good jump on the head. |
| 0:25.4 | Except you can't, because maybe their shells are too slick, and you slip and twist your |
| 0:30.2 | ankle. |
| 0:31.0 | Now, you can't jump on anything, and you have to go to the doctor. |
| 0:34.8 | And the healthcare industry is incredibly dense and complicated. |
| 0:38.3 | And that's by design. |
| 0:39.6 | Sort of like how the financial industry created its own impossibly complicated jargon |
| 0:43.4 | to describe comparatively simple concepts. |
| 0:46.1 | So that every conversation with an investment banker sounds like Worf put the rules for quidditch through Google Translate. |
| 0:52.3 | But being rich is like having a decoder ring for all of that. |
| 0:56.1 | When you're rich, you don't have to understand any of it. |
| 0:59.2 | You have people who do that for you. |
| 1:01.7 | Some of them won't even want to, but they will. |
| 1:05.1 | That's what being rich means. |
| 1:06.9 | It's just like that movie In Time, starring Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seifred. |
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