Some More News: Healthcare of the Rich and Famous

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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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