“Not Going Quietly”: Paralyzed with ALS, Ady Barkan Continues Fighting for Medicare for All
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ส.ค. 2021
- We speak with healthcare activist Ady Barkan, the 37-year-old lawyer and father who, since his ALS diagnosis in 2016, has devoted his life to campaigning for universal healthcare. He has continued to speak out even after losing his voice and now uses a computerized system that converts his eye movements to speech. Barkan is the subject of “Not Going Quietly,” a new documentary following his cross-country activism. “Only a truly radical departure from our exploitative, for-profit model to one that guarantees healthcare as a right for all will ensure that we no longer live in a nation where people go bankrupt on account of their medical bills,” Barkan tells Democracy Now! “We need Medicare for All now.” We also speak with the film’s director, Nicholas Bruckman, who says he immediately saw a “spark” in Barkan after meeting him in 2018.
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It is hard to put into words the heroic efforts this man is making on behalf of the American people at the most difficult time of his life. If we all could have a fraction of his determination, we could hold our Congress accountable and force this most important and life saving issue. Thank you Ady for your inspiration .
Ady is a true American hero. God bless this man.
People in other countries don’t spend their dying day fighting with insurance companies.
The USA is so backwards.
there should be no insurance companies in the healthcare industry. we need to modernize and put these criminals in jail for taking healthcare for themselves and creating a system where we are victimized for trying to take care of our health. filth
@@yourmajesty1630 agreed
I do remember medical insurance was unheard of in South Asia until less than 2 decades ago
Medical treatments were very affordable for everyone
Now that isn't so
We are back to the 50’s
I'm on my sixth denial of care. I have insurance. I was rear-ended and went through 13 major surgeries. I still need 3 more. I'm sitting here in tears because this is my hero. This man fights harder for me than most able-bodied people. I will be promoting this movie everywhere and to everyone. Thank you for having my back.
you should not have to beg for healthcare. people in government give themselves healthcare for pretty much free, and deny the average person. they are criminals and they should be put in jail i swear to god.
Keep at it Iam being denied healthcare here in Canada. Govt here is trying to murder me.
@@sleepsmartsmashstress740 they do it for profits here.
@@iversonmatthew I know that US system is bit fucked up with the corporate twist to healthcare. It inserts a ton of inefficiency and bureaucracy. Lots of managers are lining their pockets by profiting from the misfortune of sickness of public. Lawyers to profit from misfortune of others. In Canada the system is public funded but it sucks. While they say it is free for everyone. But quality of care is so shoddy that there really is no care at all . Free for all but then you are free to die while you wait for being treated. That counts as being free.
@@sleepsmartsmashstress740 that sounds like propaganda to me. Don’t bullshit me. I grew up in Germany. -
If we could all muster a fraction of Ady's strength, compassion and love, we really could make this dream of health care for all a reality.
Good man 💛
This Man Ady Barkan is a true hero and a humanitarian. M4ALL NOT GOING QUIETLY
WOW! What an inspiration. My troubles and my hurt are so minuscule comparatively.
His battle... his movement, Medicare for all, is a battle worth winning.
I've been following, Ardy, for a while now. The brave young man is brilliant and has done much to help the cause. 💔
Crying! As a retired Nurse, I have had ALS patients, and it is once of the worst illnesses. He is so brave! The families have to be brave, too. Shame on Biden and any other politician who have closed their minds to HEALTHCARE, free for all!
It isn't 'free. We are paying our taxes just instead of the money serving us and our neighbor the war profiteers are robbing US of OUR money and using it to murder innocent people around the world and rob them of their oil and other natural resources like the filthy criminals they are. So its not free it would just be appropriating OUR money in a sane, appropriate manner. Nobodies asking for anything free, except the politicians who have made it legal for them to steal OUR money and then give themselves Healthcare for free (practically. They are the only ones getting free Healthcare the criminals in government
When I am done crying I will spread the word about this film and the underlying struggle. I am speechless and have no idea how to explain what is wrong with our society. The time for change has already passed. We have to make changes right now.
Thank you Sir the world is a better place due to you. ❤❤
To the very end, he thought about others! Such an heroic, fearless man, husband, father, and advocate for us all against greedy corporate America and those politicians serving bottomless corporate greed. R.I.P. Ady Barkan; condolences to those whom he loved and who loved him.
“Thank you for stopping by”… seriously??
Did he not visually take in what a grand feat it was for this brave, highly intelligent gifted and gentle man to “ drop by” in his wheel chair and dying body? You just can’t fathom that quip!
This Brave ALS Patient
(LAWYER) IS A HUGE HERO !!!
A FATHER !! A HUSBAND
& A KIND MAN TRYING TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
GOD'S SPECIAL BLESSING'S FOR ADDY
BARKAN ALWAYS !!!
This man has been an inspiration for years!
God bless this man and his family.
Biden's rudeness to this guy during an interview was pretty shameful.
When did this happen? Where?
@@ClockwiseCat biden shot down his support for Medicare for all in a blunt and dismissive way (in an interview with Barkin just before or after the election). It was similar in tone to the way he addressed civil rights leaders at the time. "Straight talk", perhaps, but not too nice saying it to someone's face who is suffering so directly from the current system.
@@seansmith3058 well , biden is a politician not a human. At least he isn't a monster like our other "choice". These people we have to vote for, take the dignity from our country and our people along with our lives
Powerful!
And just WHERE do insurance companies think sick people are going to get the THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS they need for care WHEN THEY'RE SICK???
we must elminate insurance companies in healthcare. we nationalize healthcare. they are not supposed to be in a position to be thinking about where we come up with money. we pay our taxes and expect it to be spent on healthcare not wars of invasion that profit the few.
What are you willing to give? That is powerful. My respects, gratitude to Ady and his family, truly inspiring, hope is not a lottery ticket, wow amazing, the result of hard work…what an amazing segment, words, and yes here a true testament of a person who’s making a difference. Thank you Ady and your beautiful family, thank you.
Thank goodness for this talented director and for seeing the story and not waiting to tell it. M4A is the only way. Why can't we just do this.
A Blessed soul.
Crying here not just for Ady and his family but 4 the ppl like him who suffer loss and struggle to have a basic right to healthcare.
We are the wealthiest country with shameful policies and lack of our rights to be insured especially when we really need to be. It’s obscene that the richest among us pay no taxes while the rest of us do without benefit of them. We go without a universal healthcare system and ppl die often because of that one aspect alone?
No ok
Ty 💙as always 4 shining the light in the darkest of times we’ve ever seen ~Democracy Now~ we need your light~with great appreciation to all~*
And Jeff Flake did lose his job 10 months later. He also voted FOR the tax bill, & not against it like Ady urged him to.
As a Canadian, I find the lack of universal health care in the world's wealthiest nation as nothing but insanity. I'm not saying that I live in a paradise. There are many forces in Canada that work to dismantle our system of universal health care and replace it with a user-pays system, or some kind of "two-tier health care system". There are many abuses of our national system of health care, and we have some of the longest examination wait times in the Western world. However, if I need to, I can go into any hospital or clinic in any province or territory in Canada, and, as long as I have my provincial or territorial health card, I will be examined and cared for for free because I contribute to a common fund through my taxes. I also require a very expensive immunosuppressive drug administered intravenously every 10 weeks that I would never be able to afford in the USA, but that costs me essentially nothing because I contribute to this national fund.
long examination wait times has nothing to do with the type of healthcare system you have. it has to do with how many doctors, nurses, tech, equipment, supplies and technology you have in relation to the number of people seeking those services are. so wait times has zero to do with whether a healthcare is nationalized.
There is money to be made inserting private insurance and healthcare providers into these national systems. The UK is experiencing the exact same thing. And in the USA we have private health insurance forcing its way into Medicare with Supplements - selling them with cheap add ons to pull people away from the Medicare-provided extensions, all the while applying the same for-profit approach in denying claims and limiting payouts. People have no idea what they are giving up! I constantly hear of old people not getting the care they think they are due because they have picked up Medicare Supplement/Medigap insurance.
Medicare for All HEALTHCARE IS A HUMAN RIGHT. Medicare for All
I cried many times watching... What a story! While doing it I only could think about what being human really means, how we all take this miracle for granted and how we all waste it. Arts, religions and philosophy should be the levers and anchors to people not get away of it but...
I'm starting a book (in paper!) by Bernie Siegel, who you could have on your show to talk about a world in desperate need of self healing, it's called "The art of healing", and yesterday a phrase struck me although not a novelty: "What travelled across the world and across generations was not matter but intelligence" (pg. 07, original version).
And Ady's growing as human being while his body's abilities leave him just proves not only that but makes me wonder what, then, our body experience, being "incarnated" is needed for? Maybe that's what we are going to learn through ecological collective demise, what individuals learn when experience the loss of physical and spiritual well being. What does it mean to be human after all ? If all of us know that greed leads nowhere, everything goes to ashes and what really matter are those rare and born-to-be-gone moments of joy and encounters with life - through people, Nature and our own inner world: why in the hell we as a society still can't be better than that?
Maybe suffering is one of the roads to learning but I think it's a twisted one, it doesn't need to be like that, there are ways to go through pain to knowledge and learning without it, at least in ordinary material conditions we can and should be less dumb than we are in general unless that stupidity is rooted in the inability of being fully human, (great that Ady, in the clip on the politician's office, first said that simple although neglected truth before talking the "language of power" which is a way of being human foolishly). Paraphrasing Siegel, how do we live (in the) as matter intelligently? I don't know, maybe that's not an individual ability and not only needs to be learned in social relationships but to be practised every day, like sleep or feeding. Our collective extinction is being preceded by the individual's as an entity. And ironically profited off by those who think that individual and collective are mutually exclusive when they are in true sense interdependent. Is it humaNature?
Thanks for this moment of truth in a show of lies that is the daily news everywhere.
Sampa/SP, Brazil, 13/august/2021 - 13h40 (-3GMT).
Amazing man!!! It’s a horrible disease!!! Heartbreaking 💔 and inspiring!!!
What an incredible human being. He gives hope for maybe a better world. Our corrupt and incompetent so called leaders certainly don't. Rest in peace, you beautiful soul
Very meaningful piece. Thank you Democracy Now!
Incredible, ty ❤
Ady you are my hero! Watched your story today on PBS. Wishing you and your family so much love. ❤️✊
ALS. This is the same condition that Stephen Hawking had. If Stephen Hawking had been born in America, instead of being an astrophysicist, he would be going through this same struggle and he would not have lived into his mid 70s. The American healthcare system sucks!!!
Thank you Amy. And Ady - you may end up the catalyst that changes everything for us.
Liz Warren's friend, but she turned on M4A. Shame on her, good on Ady for being stronger than everyone in DC
Politition warren is not coherent
I'm so speechless, what a hero 👏🏽God Bless Adi 🙌🏽🙏🏽💙
Hearing him say F*** yeah, was great.
Rest in peace Brother!!! you brought them a good fight every one of those POS!!!! you had shaking in their boots!!! have no shame and they have no life that's why they rather get rich they have nothing better to do. True American Hero your courage Your strength and the pain truly inspired me and America's alike so proud to live and see you fighting for America!!!!!
I needed this inspiration today. Sending all the love your way 💜
so incredible. the documentary is so powerful. watched January 26, 2022.
I respect his voice fighting for what every American deserves. You never know how difficult healthcare is until you need it. If it wasn’t for the help of my family, I would be dead. That’s the truth. Waiting on government for healthcare when I worked all my life was ridiculous. I never realized how important my voice and vote was until that time. His son has so much to look up to. Even when that day comes, his son will be proud of what his father achieved for this country.
WHY HAVE I NOT SEEN HIM BEFORE? I MISS HIM ALREADY. WE MUST CONTINUE THE FIGHT.
rThe U.S. ranks last in the world in healthcare. We must have M4A.
Our time on this earth is the most precious thing we have and so is our energy to live that life. If the rich plutocrats are going to exploit that, than They owe us justice and not thievery.
Damn. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I am an admirer of you, Amy! This piece of work has greatly enhanced my respect for you. Love from India.
RIP 🙏 thank you for all your hard work you put into this nation 🇺🇸
Rest in peace Ady, you are a hero! ❤
RIP Ady 🙏🏽❤️
You are a true Hero 🫡
I have had to declare bankruptcy because of medical bills. My 9 year old had cancer, we had the top tier health insurance and that 20% co- pay would of put us out on the street, if I didn’t go through bankruptcy. The stigma and humiliation of that process was awful. When I was young I grew up a military “ brat”. Expand that healthcare that dependents get via military. That’s another answer along with expanding Medicare.
I can't stop crying watching this.
For the algorithm 🍀
No way! Ardy lives nearby? wonder how i can link up and give time.
My heart goes out to him & his family. May he RIP. He was so right in saying about profit. Yes you see now from what's going on that profit has replaced morality & even humanity ...sadly
Medical insurance companies were unheard of in South Asia until the 90's
Up until then, hospital bills were minimal & common medicines mostly inexpensive
Now medical treatments have become unaffordable for many ever since medical insurance was made mandatory by the governments
'They care for us'
He's an inspiration. To have that goodness in that situation...
A hero through and through. No anti-M4A politician will engage him in a frank and open discussion, because they know they are wrong. Cowards.
Thank you Ady!💚🌷I remember what Biden told you!
HOPE IS ACTION
I am so so SAD To see and hear this HERO.
He will never see his little boy grow up.. .. most depressing
Thank you Ady
My Dear Sister where are you from? Do you follow the Christianity???
More power to him
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This country has money for other countries but not for their own people
Friends this time of pandemic is not an ordinary time We have to realise thise even still We are not fully aware that weather it is an indirectly attack on US or a natural pandemic phenomena may be some one have studied our careless and ignoring social structure. We should take ourselves as in an imergency condition.We have a heroic historical past as US had been greatest among the world countries. We had great leaders in past who led the US to these heights.We must do something more dedicated to save the lives of our people.
People need Healthcare during ordinary times too
We can't have medicare for all until we reform medical care. No country could pay for the cost of medicare for all in the current practice of medicine. Doctors are paid to prescribe vastly overpriced drugs, devices, and treatments . So many drugs are possibly more harm than good and cost tens of thousands of dollars a year. And dentists are only interested in getting you big loans so you can have a total mouth makeover. Hearing Aides start at $5,000 and you may not even need a hearing aide. My 80 year old friend went to a hearing aide place and was diagnosed and prescribed a $5,000 hearing aid, He went to the doctor, and his ears were full of wax, that removed his hearing was fine. Bad people are bad. And high priced meds are prescribed "off label" and insurance pays!
Humbled...
someone please find the endo-papyroid system. Anciently said to be of the backbone.
😢❤
It still boggles my mind that someone who's fighting for M4A actually supported Elizabeth Warren over Bernie Sanders in 2020.
She supported M4A. She just did not think it was possible to flick a switch overnight and wanted to introduce it via a public option within the ACA. Not a fan of this approach myself unless costs are spread across all policies issued and heavily subsidized since it is likely to attract the sickest and poorest in the early days.
@@tammiew746 - In other words...Warren is just another dem party puppet who doesn't want to taint Obama's legacy by replacing his ACA completely with something much better.
@@1985loner I don't know. It's dead easy to throw cynical labels around I suppose. As I said, I didn't like that approach having spent half my life in the UK under the NHS - which has its own problems but those are largely down to conservative governments chipping away at its funding and trying to turn it into a private system. But I do understand that the majority of people here support a universal healthcare system and don't really know how to get there. Majority buy in would probably support incremental and to do that, you need to use the public option within the ACA.
@@tammiew746 - Whether it's incremental or straight to single payer, we have too many bought-off rep's & dem's to pass either. The first order of business needs to be minimizing big money's influence.
@@1985loner You won't get any argument from me on that score!
M4A
Didn't he support Warren who wasn't in support of MFA?
Biofilm = ALS ? Medical Upcoding RAMPAMT
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We maybe could've gotten a president who would have seriously pursued m4a, but he chose to endorse Warren, further fracturing the left during the primaries...
Sorry Ady Barkan " Now is not the time" - Rep. Alexander Ocasio Cortez