Allison Hunt: How I got my new hip

	Duration: 07:45 minutes Upload Time: 2007-07-26 14:30:45 User: TEDtalksDirector :::: Favorites :::: Top Videos of Day
Description: http://www.ted.com TEDster Allison Hunt's five-minute talk finds humor and marketing strategy in the most unlikely of places -- her own hip-replacement surgery. As the world scrutinizes broken healthcare systems, this particularly timely clip shows how sneaking to the front of a 2-year waiting list can have an altruistic effect.
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SaamAzargive ::: Favorites haha nice 07-07-31 23:01:38 __________________________________________________
cropperb ::: Favorites "but with tax cfredits, they recieve more than they put in" That would mean the government is manufaturing wealth and handing it out. That is just stupid. The government is an expense, not a producer. 07-07-31 16:38:53 __________________________________________________
Lewismadmax ::: Favorites not really Cropperb, Canadians pay 50% payroll and higher sales tax and higher manufacturing costs resulting in goods costing more. Most people in U.S., not only get ALL of their taxes back, but with tax cfredits, they recieve more than they put in. Verses an 80/20 plan that costs a family of 4, 400 a month, your statement is fallacious. 07-07-30 15:44:17 __________________________________________________
cropperb ::: Favorites "US citizens spend more than citizens of other countries on healthcare. " Not only healthcare, but everything else, too. Americans are rich : D (Its because of our freedom.) 07-07-30 01:50:49 __________________________________________________
tangospring ::: Favorites True. US citizens spend more than citizens of other countries on healthcare. Indeed they have to pay three times: first arm and leg to get insured, then another arm and leg once they get sick. Plus the intangibles: the anxiety, the time investment and the paperwork. 07-07-29 15:59:57 __________________________________________________
tangospring ::: Favorites Free nation is the nation in which citizens do not have to fear bancraptcy when they get sick on top of getting sick. 07-07-29 15:32:41 __________________________________________________
tangospring ::: Favorites You are mistaken. She has mentioned "free" medical care about five times. That's clearly the most disgusting and revolting aspect of the universal, single-provider health care for insurance companies PR flacks. 07-07-29 15:28:26 __________________________________________________
oxxiox ::: Favorites Youtube comments scrape the bottom of the barrel that is humanity. 07-07-29 13:58:51 __________________________________________________
cropperb ::: Favorites Socialized medicine has helped no one. No one at all. Everyone would be better of in a free nation. Socialized medicine is a travesty. 07-07-29 12:05:06 __________________________________________________
s0cialAnimal ::: Favorites Well one would hope she isn't self-centred enough to denounce a system that treats everyone without forcing them into bankruptcy because of her personal pain and inconvenience. One would hope she realizes that the system that has caused her some suffering has alleviated it for thousands of others. One would hope. 07-07-29 05:20:26 __________________________________________________