Yep. It's fun being in the disabled / chronically ill community. People in our community aren't able to make enough online...and then they stop posting, and you never hear from them again. And you're left wondering, though you know what probably happened. We deal with the reality of this constantly, seeing members of our community desperately posting again and again, trying to raise enough to not die of preventable things. So this video hit pretty close to home. It's honestly harrowing. Stuff's fucked up, yo.
@@starlittardis2049 here in the UK we just re-elected boris johnson, so if you could recommend how to really pinch those pennies and not die because you can't pay for medical treatment, I would really appreciate it, especially with my student loans which boris is probably gonna triple so he can buy more wine boxes to turn into buses that would be much appreciated
@Inebriatd In a few countries, in this era, the right of humans to live healthily is actually something that's put forward and enforced by governments, even if these people do not match an (arbitrary) popularity contest
Most of these CEO things are exaggerated, so i went on GoFundMe to see how much it was. The first 3 i saw were paying for the funeral cost of a guy who died of brain aneurysm some old lady's journey for a new liver and a baby moving hospitals to find better treatment. They weren't kidding its just straight sad.
I actually find that impressive, instead of letting it go and saying that it is not his problem, he has taken the initiative and is trying to push on right places to solve it, really nice.
GoFundMe agrees, tweeting on Feb 11 2021: Millions of Americas are struggling to pay for life's essentials right now. Every day we see fundraisers for rent, utilities, and even groceries. But GoFundMe was never made to be a source of support for basic needs, and it can never be a replacement for robust federal relief.
Was watching some old college humor before bed to fall asleep with a smile…. Man this has me depressed. It’s actually pretty hard to look at the US from outside (now live in Europe) and being unable to do anything as an “outsider”. Most people in Europe don’t realize how shitty things are in the USA. When i describe it to them, they are shocked, some even laughing thinking i’m joking. To lost of (western) europeans, the situation in the USA is unthinkable, impossible, unimaginable. It’s insane really.
@@GravitasZero An American here. What really bothers me is when I try to solve an issue, and get accused being unpatriotic. Had an arguement with a co-worker, and I swear he was almost pround of the fact that we don't any kind of safety net for the uninsured.
@@MalcontentFlower yeah, I don't get that - I want things I like to get better. If I hated something, I wouldn't *care*. Saying you can't make any criticism is just stupid.
Tho, that makes it even more depressing. That people have to sell their own kydnies to known criminals, just to help out one of their family members stay alive
The video had a quote, something along the lines of: "The US is the only develop country without a health care system" - that's not how the rest of us thinks of the US. We think of the you as "The richest third world country in the world".
This message hits different when you hear that Brennan actually has a story where he couldn't afford a medical procedure and received a donation to cover those costs, bringing him to share this message with us today.
@@amelooloo Having looked it up now, not believing it until I saw it... "Who Wants to Be A Millionaire?" Season 14, Week 11, Episode 51-55 - he shows up at @40:23. I've yet to seen how much money he won, so I'm going to leave that a surprise for the following viewers.
Sadly, it is very morbid. You hit the nail on the head with that truth! I know because I'm a cancer survivor after given a 10% survival rate. Quality vs Quantity. My 27 yr old son died 6mts prior and all I could think about was his brother worth my 10% to fight to live or 10% to go ahead and bury me. I eventually moved in with relative closer to the hospital. I had nearly 3 years of treatment but am 3 yrs cancer free, better than the 6 month odds! Nor true for others. I had 2 morbid incidents with death, I sincerely chose to die alone in the few short minutes I was coherent enough to respond to calling my son. No way did I want him to stand by and watch me die. Just recently, he did stand by as his dad died from lung cancer. His last words my son remembers is "how much longer do I have" Thousands of stories like this not just from cancer but many diseases. You spoke the truth..how morbid cause that's how I felt! However, I want people to see Hope and support!
"Our funky little Kickstarter turned into a dystopian pressure valve that, while helpful, is only delaying our collective reckoning with our society's pathological hatred of the working class, and now we all need therapy."
@@Seattle-Corporate-Massage The youngest people able to vote then are now 59. To say today's working class shot themselves in the foot with that is a touch misleading.
@@Seattle-Corporate-Massage most working class people now had nothing to do with Regan’s win, it was the older generation who fucked it up for everyone. Like the other guy said, most people responsible for his election are 59 or older
y is that people like u believe that the working class is so dumb that voting for a guy u don’t like immediately allows u to talk condescendingly down to them as if they are too stupid to make an educated choice on who they want as president. It’s a little contradictory that u both claim to be on the side of the working man but also mock and ridicule them as soon as they vote against u and ur politics. And this is coming from a guy who doesn’t like trump, so I feel like I have prob a little more authority and u can’t just go out with the instant “here come the trumpets”.
@@miso_to_zari He means because a lot of the go fund mes on there are people who are desperate for help and are asking for money. So he is feeling guilt because people using the sight are begging for help.
I think what makes this one funnier is out of all the CEO characters in this series, the Gofundme one actually seems the most like a decent person. His "I hope Jene and those cats are okay" killed me because Brennan delivered it with what sounded like genuine concern.
Okay, this confuses me... almost all the CEO's series CEO's are good people, with the exception of maybe Skype and Movie Pass. Oreo dude just want his people to relax and collect their pay checks for not having to do anything, Jule's doesn't want to sell Ecigs to kids, Tide's is trying to stop people from eating Tide/using it for medicine and rants about wanting to actually help health care workers, and ABC's off camera comment is about wanting to bring a divided country together and how they can just sell shows to Fox.
In a rather depressing case of sketch comedy becoming reality, GunFundMe's CEO wrote an open letter to Congress the other day, as an op-ed in USA Today. I would link it, but TH-cam doesn't seem to like that.
Imagine for a moment that you ran a grocery store. And you found out that no matter what you charged, the government was going to start giving you money to give away free food to hungry people. You could charge literally whatever amount you wanted and the government would start paying. Now the other grocery stores around you raise their costs by 10x, and because they do this the distributors begin raising their costs. You COULD be ethical and keep your costs low so EVERYONE benefits, but then you can't afford to stock your store anymore. What would you do? Because that is EXACTLY the situation that happened with US healthcare.
I used to have an acquaintance from US who shared similar medical history as me and also was an illegal immigrant (as I was as a kid in US) from a central European country. Unlike me she had cancer, however she was clear when she emigrated and yes - it did come back in US. Progressed fast and she died. Never made a gofund me but her husband did for the funeral as had to fly her body to her hometown.
"I run a website that host popularity contest where if you lose you die..." That's a line a villain usually has. Someone with morals this is devastating.
I feel like the real ceo is probably having a moral crisis as on one hand it is actually acting as a source of healthcare coverage for less wealthy Americans while on the other hand it's a popularity contest that causes the losers to die, so really his conscience is probably tearing him apart. At best he'd have to acknowledge the popularity contest is a necessary evil so that his website can save some lives but at the same time he has to live with the guilt there's a lot of dead people who may have been relying on his website for health care coverage.
Imagine for a moment that you ran a grocery store. And you found out that no matter what you charged, the government was going to start giving you money to give away free food to hungry people. You could charge literally whatever amount you wanted and the government would start paying. Now the other grocery stores around you raise their costs by 10x, and because they do this the distributors begin raising their costs. You COULD be ethical and keep your costs low so EVERYONE benefits, but then you can't afford to stock your store anymore. What would you do? Because that is EXACTLY the situation that happened with US healthcare.
@@sleepy1697 The good news is that there's an incredibly simple solution, in which the government uses its authority to enforce lower costs on the part of the stores and distributors. No need to enter a prisoner's dilemma when you can, and should, enforce compliance with the solution that most benefits society.
@@sleepy1697 …that analogy doesn’t make sense? If the government is “giving you money to give away free food” then you only get the money if you give away free food. Not if you charge for it. And especially not if you charge higher. You’re describing the full opposite of a logical scenario
We always ask "which ceo is next" When we should be asking "who and why is Dimitri, oh God they took the moviepass CEO, they're coming for me next, oh God oh please, help me"
All the other CEOs were often energetic and charismatic even when going off the deep end but throughout this entire video Brennan was just clinically depressed
“Jan’s insurance company is denying coverage because Jan recklessly chose to be secretly poisoned by the asbestos mill upriver from her house for over 40 years.” Ah yes, Jan had United Healthcare.
@@Drace90 An iterative series begins with a defined term. So I'm assuming they're gonna rely on an episode of west wings which by itself a review of another show.
@@Drace90 probly nothing since there was no previous podcast it would just be them sitting still saying nothing for one hour. Then the next episode is gonna be comments on last episode and so it begins.
@Aiden Pearce Turns out it was going to be a good podcast the twist was that its actually a time travel themed sci-fi story podcast where the characters make this stupid idea for a podcast and future versions of themselves come back to stop it.
“A corporation poisoned Jan and are now suing her because the fact she’s been poisoned makes them look bad” is just the American economy in a nutshell.
The real kicker is that GoFundMe's actual CEO said we need more COVID relief because it's not meant to be used for "basic needs". Satire has ceased to be satire.
@The Bloody Doctor They were never really making that much money even at their best. Most of their funding was Wall Street over-hyped on the next big thing.
@The Bloody Doctor Chill out bro, comedy is subjective and to call it trash in a REPLY to one of the top comments is pretty rude. I'm sure you're much funnier.
Imagine for a moment that you ran a grocery store. And you found out that no matter what you charged, the government was going to start giving you money to give away free food to hungry people. You could charge literally whatever amount you wanted and the government would start paying. Now the other grocery stores around you raise their costs by 10x, and because they do this the distributors begin raising their costs. You COULD be ethical and keep your costs low so EVERYONE benefits, but then you can't afford to stock your store anymore. What would you do? Because that is EXACTLY the situation that happened with US healthcare.
Give it a few more years under a Tory-led Brexit and you'll start needing Gofundme for the same reasons. Y'all need to elect a Momentum/Militant-style Labour government ASAP.
@DJ Lee I live in Poland and....Ding! Ding! Ding! You're right! It's is kind of a shithole right now but at least people aren't getting shot in the streets. And my country being bad doesn't mean that yours isn't.
This is so sadly true. Also, "We could use a few fun ones" - every time I see a GoFundMe-campaign that would be fun, there seem to be dozens of comments saying "This site is not for helping you with fun things! It's for raising money for those who really need it!" Sooooooo yeah. Fun projects on GoFundMe seem to be doomed to failure right from the get-go.
It’s super cheap right now, but I know what you mean. One time I needed to cancel it or a month & when I went to cancel it, they gave me the month for free. Bless their hearts.
I make $75k a year, but I recently had to file bankruptcy because of medical debt. The two mile ambulance ride alone cost me over a thousand, of which my insurance only paid $9. The two day hospital stay was astronomical. To make matters worse, even though it was all at the same hospital, I got bills from like a dozen companies, and all want paid separately, and with a short timespan (with monthly payments totalling upto $7,000, which I don't even make that a month) Another time, I had to see a podiatrist for to plantar fasciitis, and get custom orthotics made, none of which was covered by my insurance because I don't have diabetes. Our medical system is horribly broken.
I'm in a similar boat and I've told my wife that they can get what's left of "their" money when they pry it from my cold dead fingers. We were there two days. They can have what I make in two days and be happy.
@@gardnereric10 problem is, hospitals are getting really sue happy, and can garnish your wages. My wife works as a legal assistant for a law firm that specializes in collections law. A year or two ago, most suits were from title loan companies and stuff like that, but now hospitals have over taken that by a large margin. That's why I knew bankruptcy was about the only option for us.
Healthcare and capitalism are incompatible. Paying for an ER visit not the same as a buying a TV. You can wait for a sale when buying a TV meanwhile you can’t wait for a life saving operation. Private Insurance companies are pure evil and have nothing good to offer. They are worthless parasites that need to be shut down.
Don't take it too hard, America. Your healthcare system also gave us Breaking Bad, because if Walter was in just about any other developing country, he'd get some treatment without having to become Heisenberg. So yeah! Great show. Best TV ever.
@@ATemplarIGuess By the end of Breaking Bad Walter is responsible, both directly and indirectly, for the deaths of almost 200 people (assuming you count the plane passengers that died as a result of Donald's grief over Jane's death, WHICH I DO) as well as a myriad of other offenses including the frankly insane amount of drug trafficking he's responsible for. Dolores was a really shitty teacher and government stooge with Draconian ideas of discipline who made a bunch of kids kinda miserable for like, six months. They are not even _remotely_ comparable as villains.
I won't even ask as much as Single Payer, I'd be happy with just holding pharmaceutical companies responsible for 600% price increases on drugs initially developed with taxpayer money
@@Crystal_Dylan I'm fine with them charging larger amounts for new drugs/research. But there is ZERO fucking excuse for a broken leg costing 10 grand to fix. Fucking vikings new how to set a bone, and the only advancement we have made since then is xraying which was invented in 1895... nearly 125 years ago
A good thing about Single Payer is it has collective bargaining built into it which keeps prices low, but I could see some technocratic organization be created, like the National Institute of Health, that could moderate drug prices, we just can't have politicians doing it because they can and do take money from big pharma.
“I had no notion of how severe the problem is. You read about the debate about single-payer health care and all the issues, the partisan politics. What I really learned is the health care system in the United States is really broken. Way too many people fall through the cracks.” “The system is terrible … there are people who are not getting relief from us or from the institutions that are supposed to be there. We shouldn’t be the solution to a complex set of systemic problems.” - Rob Solomon, the CEO of GoFundMe
Imagine for a moment that you ran a grocery store. And you found out that no matter what you charged, the government was going to start giving you money to give away free food to hungry people. You could charge literally whatever amount you wanted and the government would start paying. Now the other grocery stores around you raise their costs by 10x, and because they do this the distributors begin raising their costs. You COULD be ethical and keep your costs low so EVERYONE benefits, but then you can't afford to stock your store anymore. What would you do? Because that is EXACTLY the situation that happened with US healthcare.
Someone tried arguing with me that the US system of bankrupting anyone who falls ill is better because it means that they can put resources into funding high tech procedures. I shut him down with 2 points. 1) On a more general note I pointed out the futility of that if nobody can actually see the benefits of this research bar the other countries with healthcare. 2) How my own medical issues would have left me and my family homeless many times over and more than likely see me dead... They didn’t respond after that. Wonder why.
Plus it's literally just cheaper anyways to fund that through government research grants and not let private companies charge extortionate amounts for it.
who would have thought that markets that aren't in the control of the consumer need a state solution or heavy oversight? Huh everyone who isnt an anarchocapitalist? i see
there's multiple problems with their idiotic argument. for one: the us doesn't fund high tech procedures. we haven't for decades now. we've long since stopped putting our government funds towards actually increasing infrastructure or scientific development, the bulk of our money goes towards the military and contracts to private interests. it's why our development has stalled so much and why it feels like we're perpetually stuck in the 90's/00's but with a fresh coat of paint--because we literally are. there's other issues with that guy's argument, like the basic morality of letting people die for "hiGH TecH" but it's a moot point. what a moron.
Just when you think this bit is getting stale, he revitalizes with cutting socio-political commentary and puts a single-payer endorsement, its absolutely amazing while still being in the CEO series.
*"Sickness As Storytelling: How To Make Your Cancer More Marketable"* (Made me literally laugh out loud.) Insured US citizen here. First week of 2020, "Happy New Year, you have cancer!" (Insurance deductible met in under 2 months.) By the day after April Fool's Day, "Congratulations, it's metastatic!" It's been stressful over the past 6 months, but how much worse it'd be without health insurance!! I can't move away to be closer to family if/when I get sick because I'm insured via employment. Not even GoFundMe can help with that. Broken system is broken.
Wow, that sucks. I always found it strange how I had to get insurance when heading to the USA and figure out how it works, keep that card on me at all times, etc. But I can travel to the EU without such issues...
Sad when you have to beg other citizens for money just to pay your medical bills. I am sitting here at my desk in Australia after spending Saturday in the hospital with busted ribs thinking; "I got an x-ray, CT scan (to check that I had not punctured any organs) and enough painkillers to down a moose and I did not pay a cent."
I get panic attacks. My first big one felt like I was having a heart attack. I thought I was dying. I went to the ER, got an EKG and a x-ray and talked to a doctor for about 20 seconds. Just lost my job so I lost my insurance. $6 thousand dollar bill. This shit is a nightmare.
Live in Philadelphia, on the East coast, and an ambulance ride cost above 2k. Unless you're throwing up at least 2 cups blood or about to pass out an ambulance ride can wait. Best call someone you know to take you to the hospital for that broken bone cause if the insurance company decides not to pay for the full fuckin bill Raman noodles is gonna be the meal of choice for the next couple of months.
@@nominatorchris5591 2K USD for an ambulance? Unless that thing has a Warp drive and a flux capacitor ain't no way that's a reasonable cost! I can literally buy an ambulance in India for that amount!
@@xmlthegreat ikr it's insane. My father had almost passed out while we was walking so i called a ambulance the ride to the hospital was around 10 minutes. Week later he calls me and said the amount before the insurance payment was a bit over 2k but he only had to pay 3 dollars are so.
@@nominatorchris5591 that was insanely lucky, I've heard of and has experience where insurance will screw you over for those kinds of things. I had broken my arm once and the insurance refused to pay for additional X-rays that the doctor wanted after the cast got removed, luckily it was like equivalent of 11 bucks for an X-ray here.
"Look, ultimately, I'm not even saying we do anything as extreme as single-payer healthcare..." And this is why the United States of America continues to have a fifth-world health system. Because the majority of Americans _still_ see single-payer healthcare as somehow being "extreme".
it IS extreme! wanna know why healthcare is so expensive?? because of government programs! if you are a hospital and the government keeps writing you blank checks that will pay you whatever you want, guess what? prices GO UP STOP DEMANDING EVERYONE ELSE PAY EVERYTHING FOR YOU AND TAKE SOME RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR OWN LIFE!
Glarson Yen no? This is common for people with red hair, his eyebrows are red they’re just not bold, and sometimes when people with red hair cut it it can regrow brown
gingers are weird. my brother and I are both strawberry blonde, which looks pure blonde in some lights, completely red in other light, my brother has beautiful ginger brows, I however have shit super pale blonde brows naturally though. and some gingers also naturally get more and more brown hair when they get older.
Brennan is a redhead as far as I've seen. But it's probably the lightining combined with the fact that it's winter. My hair changes to a more strawberry color right after a shower or in the summer, sometimes but gets darker in the winter. Gingers are weird. Also, I've noticed that dark ginger hair has a tendency to appear less ginger in pictures and video. It's really hard to capture ginger hair on film, for some reason.
I know, right? And even if they did care, they have a fiduciary responsibility to maximise profits. If they prioritise *anything* higher than profits (e.g. worker safety, consumer protection, etc), the board of directors can have them fired.
There's probably legal reasons for that - if they used the real names, then they'd be more likely to get sued for libel against the CEO of the company, so they make up a fake name to cover their asses. (The business as a whole isn't likely to sue for libel, because as a public entity, precedents set by the courts allow for a greater degree of scrutiny and parody, compared to the CEO, who's a private individual.)
The only CollegeHumor CEO sketch where the CEO is unequivocally a good person, AND his employees are not jackals, but the situation is so fucked up it doesn’t matter
Ok. Last time for all the gullible Americans who think people die waiting for treatment in Canadian ERs .... it doesn't happen. I took my mom to the ER last month because we thought she might be having a stroke. She was taken back right away and we were in and out in less than 3 hours. She had a CT scan and blood tests and god knows what else. Fortunately she wasn't having a stroke. And it cost us nothing. When she called me I just about lost my mind but I didn't hesitate to get it checked out. I can only imagine how terrifying it must be to wonder if a loved one is dying and not be able to get that piece of mind without worrying about going bankrupt. How would I have felt if we were in America and I said gee mom, I can't afford to take you to the hospital so hopefully it's not a stroke but hey if it is can you make it a killer because I can't afford to care for you if you're just permanently disabled from a stroke we didn't treat quick enough. In America how many people end up seriously injured because they wait because they know they can't afford treatment. Seconds count. Ffs America wake up!
Sneaky Bunny it’s great that your mom got the CT scan she needed! I still remember the American actor who was injured in a skiing accident in Canada, and died of treatable injuries while being airlifted to the nearest CT Scan machine 100 miles away, you know, because Canadian healthcare dictates the rationing of equipment.
@@PantsuTaigas but do you remember the tons of patients who died or lost everything due to treatable illnesses eveywhere in america? American healthcare rations access to it.
Canadian healthcare has saved my life on multiple occasions. I have had brain surgery twice in my life. Normally, the procedure is valued at $100-$200,000. What middle-class family can realistically afford to pay that much money out of pocket? USA, you need Medicare for All.
It's actually just one CEO changing his name and moving from venture to venture after the last one collapses. You can tell this because he always refers to his crew as "gang"
It's so weird to hear that the website was initially made for stuff like honeymoons and vacations, I thought it was made for serious stuff from the beginning. I need to make one for my family but at the same time, I feel bad for potentially taking away help from someone who needs it more.
@@carboncopy4183 Sadly, the quality is utterly irrelevant if it's exclusive to a tiny subset of the populace. Crummy Healthcare but for free is by definition superior to great healthcare but no one can afford it. Care you cannot afford is not care at all.
My father had an operation this year. We're talking, even here in Germany, of sums that would have ruined him. Plus the rehab, medication, wheelchair and so on. Fortunately, there is health insurance in Germany. (To stay fair: the system is also not perfect. BUT: we have one!) All he had to do was focus on becoming healthy. I hope the USA will somehow get a solution. And in general: This quickly changed from comedy to a dark horror story.
Exactly. It's not perfect and needs a worldwide restructuring. To get free healthcare I shouldn't have to wait 9 months for an appointment about my cancer. My doctor shouldn't have zero incentive to make sure he gives me the best treatment and diagnosis possible because the fucking janitor is making more money than him.
@@gmork1090 The work of the doctors and nurses really should be honored more. Financially too. (Although, this should also apply to the janitors. I don't want to know how much more sick there would be without their work!) But a lot would have to be changed. This is not possible without a clear goal. The USA has a start with the PPACA. Here you can see what doesn't fit and improve it. A perfect system from the start would be great - but is unrealistic. And for us in Germany: We have a shortage of doctors and specialists. The privatization of hospitals has shifted the focus from healing to cost savings. Saving is not bad - but after a while, shortcomings arise. Politicians are now trying to counteract this with more money. Of course that won't help. But not everyone likes the other solutions. We also need more training places and hospitalization should not be paid as a lump sum. (If, as a hospital for illness x, I only receive money for y days, then after y days I come to the conclusion that the patient is allowed to leave!) So much to improve - everywhere.
Well that is the thing with free healthcare - because everyone can afford it there is a lot more patients and same amount of doctors. In really difficult field like cancer treatment there are just few doctors, it is really hard to become specialist doctor. Even if those people had better pay, not much more would be able to become one, it is really hard field and not many people have stomach and are smart enough for it.
As an Australian I went to the USA go fund me page and honestly I have no words. It’s so shocking how many children with cancer are begging for money to afford treatment. I’ve seen snakes, crocodiles and deadly spiders but nothing scares me more than the idea of parents having to beg for money for their children cancer treats
As someone living in the UK I have never never had to worry about healthcare, and I have never felt the impact of paying taxes. It is such a miniscule proportion of most people's wages. I am now terrified at the prospect of losing the NHS. My government is systematically dismantling it, and selling it off to American investors
When the government controls your care they control who is too sick for treatment because there’s never enough money to go around. In the UK your wealth factors in as a positive for getting treatment. That’s fucked up. I’m not saying get rid of thesystem but don’t use it as a model for other countries. Us in the uk should keep our problems to ourselves.
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“I run a popularity contest where if you lose you die!”
I never thought of gofundme that way. That is so depressing.
It's mad how accurate that statement is.
Yep. It's fun being in the disabled / chronically ill community. People in our community aren't able to make enough online...and then they stop posting, and you never hear from them again. And you're left wondering, though you know what probably happened. We deal with the reality of this constantly, seeing members of our community desperately posting again and again, trying to raise enough to not die of preventable things. So this video hit pretty close to home. It's honestly harrowing.
Stuff's fucked up, yo.
Why stop at just gofundme? Have never though of the whole of america before this point as well! It's even realistic with how minorities are treated!
@@starlittardis2049 here in the UK we just re-elected boris johnson, so if you could recommend how to really pinch those pennies and not die because you can't pay for medical treatment, I would really appreciate it, especially with my student loans which boris is probably gonna triple so he can buy more wine boxes to turn into buses that would be much appreciated
@Inebriatd In a few countries, in this era, the right of humans to live healthily is actually something that's put forward and enforced by governments, even if these people do not match an (arbitrary) popularity contest
Most of these CEO things are exaggerated, so i went on GoFundMe to see how much it was. The first 3 i saw were paying for the funeral cost of a guy who died of brain aneurysm some old lady's journey for a new liver and a baby moving hospitals to find better treatment. They weren't kidding its just straight sad.
Welcome to America man. If you win at life it's super great, but if you loose it's super bad.
Erutan Egaro and most people are gonna lose.
God is dead and we killed him
@@Sir_Bucket He didnt say he was american there are more countries
@@Sir_Bucket except you're so much more likely to lose
And now the actual CEO of Go Fund Me is begging Congress to do their jobs to make his website slightly less dystopian.
I actually find that impressive, instead of letting it go and saying that it is not his problem, he has taken the initiative and is trying to push on right places to solve it, really nice.
Yea
so sad to hear about his impending suicide
@@thomasbertrand8204 ‘self inflicted’ gunshot to the back of the head?
@@joelwilcox5424 gunshots* but yeah otherwise
GoFundMe agrees, tweeting on Feb 11 2021:
Millions of Americas are struggling to pay for life's essentials right now.
Every day we see fundraisers for rent, utilities, and even groceries.
But GoFundMe was never made to be a source of support for basic needs, and it can never be a replacement for robust federal relief.
Was watching some old college humor before bed to fall asleep with a smile….
Man this has me depressed.
It’s actually pretty hard to look at the US from outside (now live in Europe) and being unable to do anything as an “outsider”.
Most people in Europe don’t realize how shitty things are in the USA. When i describe it to them, they are shocked, some even laughing thinking i’m joking.
To lost of (western) europeans, the situation in the USA is unthinkable, impossible, unimaginable. It’s insane really.
@@GravitasZero An American here. What really bothers me is when I try to solve an issue, and get accused being unpatriotic.
Had an arguement with a co-worker, and I swear he was almost pround of the fact that we don't any kind of safety net for the uninsured.
Land of the pathologically selfish
@@MalcontentFlower yeah, I don't get that - I want things I like to get better. If I hated something, I wouldn't *care*. Saying you can't make any criticism is just stupid.
Yep. And under their post you have a bunch of “your just lazy” mindset… and honestly I don’t get why some people are just so against relief programs
No one is talking about the real story: those surfers were willing to sell their kydnies for their bro. True bros right there.
at first it was steve tad and devin then tad changed to john lol
Tho, that makes it even more depressing. That people have to sell their own kydnies to known criminals, just to help out one of their family members stay alive
They were definitely more than bros...
*kidneys
Man, I wish I have friends who'd sell their Kydnies for me. Too bad they only have kidneys instead
This might be the first CEO sketch that made me laugh, while simultaneously making me sick to my stomach. What a confusing feeling.
Hard same
That’s the destroying feeling that our country has no universal healthcare and people are going into financial debt because they want to stay alive.
The video had a quote, something along the lines of: "The US is the only develop country without a health care system" - that's not how the rest of us thinks of the US. We think of the you as "The richest third world country in the world".
@@tokeivo welp I knew we would be there eventually. Thanks for confirming my suspicions on if we lost our first world status or not.
I was about to comment the exact same thing
His ability to do the died inside expression is flawless.
That's what happens when you're dead inside.
Ye
Brennan is a ginger
@@ClickBeetleTV faxx but walso 😂😂😂😂😂
That’s the key...he’s always dead on the inside
This message hits different when you hear that Brennan actually has a story where he couldn't afford a medical procedure and received a donation to cover those costs, bringing him to share this message with us today.
he did?
Yeah, then he won money on who wants to be a millionaire and was able to pay it back. This sounds like a bit but it’s 100% true.
wait where can i read about this?
@@amelooloo Having looked it up now, not believing it until I saw it...
"Who Wants to Be A Millionaire?" Season 14, Week 11, Episode 51-55 - he shows up at @40:23.
I've yet to seen how much money he won, so I'm going to leave that a surprise for the following viewers.
@@amelooloo If you want to hear Brennan tell the story look for "adventuring party, but it's brennan's emotional roller coaster".
"I am the CEO of a popularity contest, where if you lose, you die.
Would you be okay?"
God that's morbid.
And sadly accurate
Isn't that just America though? What with the whole minority thing?
Murica
God bless murica.
@@peanutbrainedbuffoon7913 God is dead. We have forsaken him. He would have forsaken us, and had good reason, but he died before he could escape
“How to make your cancer more marketable” Christ that’s so morbid:( but hits the truth
I thought that this was going to be a funny one but man it went dark fast
It did get dark fast though. I cried a bit. Then laughed, then cried again. Rinse and repeat.
they made a lot of deep messages here to the fact, this might not even be satire 😶
If I remember correctly that's just straight up a real thing they did. Gonna go try and find it
Sadly, it is very morbid. You hit the nail on the head with that truth! I know because I'm a cancer survivor after given a 10% survival rate. Quality vs Quantity. My 27 yr old son died 6mts prior and all I could think about was his brother worth my 10% to fight to live or 10% to go ahead and bury me. I eventually moved in with relative closer to the hospital. I had nearly 3 years of treatment but am 3 yrs cancer free, better than the 6 month odds! Nor true for others. I had 2 morbid incidents with death, I sincerely chose to die alone in the few short minutes I was coherent enough to respond to calling my son. No way did I want him to stand by and watch me die. Just recently, he did stand by as his dad died from lung cancer. His last words my son remembers is "how much longer do I have"
Thousands of stories like this not just from cancer but many diseases. You spoke the truth..how morbid cause that's how I felt! However, I want people to see Hope and support!
This guy is literally the best college humor actor you've ever had
Yup
@Deku Adam Ruins everything was ruined by Joe Rogan
His Tide Pods skit still brings me to tears of laughter....😅😂
U mean the last exceptional one they have. I mean grant and mike and evon are still good. But it feels to forced now...
@@Future_Imperfect Joe Rogan is involved?
"Our funky little Kickstarter turned into a dystopian pressure valve that, while helpful, is only delaying our collective reckoning with our society's pathological hatred of the working class, and now we all need therapy."
@@Seattle-Corporate-Massage The youngest people able to vote then are now 59. To say today's working class shot themselves in the foot with that is a touch misleading.
@@Seattle-Corporate-Massage most working class people now had nothing to do with Regan’s win, it was the older generation who fucked it up for everyone. Like the other guy said, most people responsible for his election are 59 or older
@@Seattle-Corporate-Massage ah yes, the Reagan era, when I didn’t even exist yet and my parents were literally babies 🥴
@@thatoneguy9615 Considering how many working class people voted for Trump, it's fair to say many today have shot themselves in the foot
y is that people like u believe that the working class is so dumb that voting for a guy u don’t like immediately allows u to talk condescendingly down to them as if they are too stupid to make an educated choice on who they want as president. It’s a little contradictory that u both claim to be on the side of the working man but also mock and ridicule them as soon as they vote against u and ur politics. And this is coming from a guy who doesn’t like trump, so I feel like I have prob a little more authority and u can’t just go out with the instant “here come the trumpets”.
“there might be an issue with the prompter because their faces are staring out of it begging me to help”
What?
What?
What did it mean tho I dont get it
giannis_a a *there are*, not their
@@miso_to_zari He means because a lot of the go fund mes on there are people who are desperate for help and are asking for money. So he is feeling guilt because people using the sight are begging for help.
"are you ok?"
"i run a popularity contest where if you lose you die, would you be ok?"
Yes
all right would you be all right
Yeah alright
Fine. Would you feel just fine?
Black Mirror anyone?
I think what makes this one funnier is out of all the CEO characters in this series, the Gofundme one actually seems the most like a decent person. His "I hope Jene and those cats are okay" killed me because Brennan delivered it with what sounded like genuine concern.
Okay, this confuses me... almost all the CEO's series CEO's are good people, with the exception of maybe Skype and Movie Pass. Oreo dude just want his people to relax and collect their pay checks for not having to do anything, Jule's doesn't want to sell Ecigs to kids, Tide's is trying to stop people from eating Tide/using it for medicine and rants about wanting to actually help health care workers, and ABC's off camera comment is about wanting to bring a divided country together and how they can just sell shows to Fox.
In a rather depressing case of sketch comedy becoming reality, GunFundMe's CEO wrote an open letter to Congress the other day, as an op-ed in USA Today. I would link it, but TH-cam doesn't seem to like that.
I'm sorry this is too funny. GunFundMe. GoFundMe's weird cousin where people ask for money to buy firearms.
@@fyrewolf7805 Gunfundme, imagine the hospital bills after a month of that.
Excuse me wah?
Imagine for a moment that you ran a grocery store. And you found out that no matter what you charged, the government was going to start giving you money to give away free food to hungry people. You could charge literally whatever amount you wanted and the government would start paying. Now the other grocery stores around you raise their costs by 10x, and because they do this the distributors begin raising their costs. You COULD be ethical and keep your costs low so EVERYONE benefits, but then you can't afford to stock your store anymore. What would you do? Because that is EXACTLY the situation that happened with US healthcare.
Don’t forget the hundreds of posts asking to cover funeral costs.
kelly McGregor yeah my cousin’s funeral had a GoFundMe page which was great to talk about with my friends and beg for money
kelly McGregor give the corpse to the government and tell them to deal with it.
"You wasn't able to market your cancer? Hey, we help you market your funeral"
Was waiting for this.
I used to have an acquaintance from US who shared similar medical history as me and also was an illegal immigrant (as I was as a kid in US) from a central European country. Unlike me she had cancer, however she was clear when she emigrated and yes - it did come back in US. Progressed fast and she died. Never made a gofund me but her husband did for the funeral as had to fly her body to her hometown.
"I run a website that host popularity contest where if you lose you die..."
That's a line a villain usually has. Someone with morals this is devastating.
Basically "Would You Rather"'s villain, except he has to do it, but doesn't want to
We people around other people were villains all along that's life
Sounds like a solid thriller/horror movie.
I feel like the real ceo is probably having a moral crisis as on one hand it is actually acting as a source of healthcare coverage for less wealthy Americans while on the other hand it's a popularity contest that causes the losers to die, so really his conscience is probably tearing him apart. At best he'd have to acknowledge the popularity contest is a necessary evil so that his website can save some lives but at the same time he has to live with the guilt there's a lot of dead people who may have been relying on his website for health care coverage.
@@d.n5287 He's now spoken in front of Congress saying that they are "not meant for basic needs"
I made a GoFundMe and I was shocked at how many were like "Hey I have cancer." So I felt really bad trying to ask for funds for a D&D community
I don't know jack about DND but I really hope you can get the funds together for it!
Do it for the bard
Link ?
then don't lmao
@@cipreste bruh
That aged it really well
2021, reality:
"GoFundMe CEO urges Congress to pass more relief: We were not meant for 'basic needs'"
Satire is dead
@@Doublee73 I think it's more accurate to say sometimes satire is the diagnosis, sometimes it's the eulogy.
What is a eulogy
@@june8705 when you're at a funeral and someone stands up to say something (generally nice) about the dead person.
He has a point
Was this supposed to be a parody cause it's hitting a little close to home
I think technically speaking it's satire
@@ramonathomson6575 Yea, all the CEO things I've seen are based on factual situations
Wow predicted his own future. Crazy
Yeah, satire will do that sometimes.
That might be your liver
This is the most depressing College Humor sketch I've ever seen.
Mark Rogers “I run a popularity contest where if you lose you die”
"Alabama’s Other Abortion Options" is pretty depressing too
Most depressing couple of years being an american
Yeah, I’m not doing well over here
EVER!
So ive noticed a clear correlation between being a CEO and being ginger.
Really, it's the LEAST believable part of these skits
They are all Dimitri
Brings a new meaning to "soulless" corporations.
Wake up people the Irish are ruling the world behind the scenes. The Hibernian conspiracy is real
It’s because you have to be soulless to be a ceo.... I kid I kid.
The way the ACTUAL ceo of gofundme pretty much just said this
Imagine for a moment that you ran a grocery store. And you found out that no matter what you charged, the government was going to start giving you money to give away free food to hungry people. You could charge literally whatever amount you wanted and the government would start paying. Now the other grocery stores around you raise their costs by 10x, and because they do this the distributors begin raising their costs. You COULD be ethical and keep your costs low so EVERYONE benefits, but then you can't afford to stock your store anymore. What would you do? Because that is EXACTLY the situation that happened with US healthcare.
@@sleepy1697 The good news is that there's an incredibly simple solution, in which the government uses its authority to enforce lower costs on the part of the stores and distributors. No need to enter a prisoner's dilemma when you can, and should, enforce compliance with the solution that most benefits society.
@@MaxLennon"b-but capitalism"
@@sleepy1697 …that analogy doesn’t make sense? If the government is “giving you money to give away free food” then you only get the money if you give away free food. Not if you charge for it. And especially not if you charge higher. You’re describing the full opposite of a logical scenario
@@sleepy1697 Maybe I'm too european to understand your analogy.
Outside of the US, healthscare doesn't have competition. It's just healthcare.
I live for these at this point, he’s such a good actor.
If you want more of this acting, watch dimension 20
Lol same. Brennan really kills his roles.
I think he's channeling real distress into these characters
We always ask "which ceo is next"
When we should be asking "who and why is Dimitri, oh God they took the moviepass CEO, they're coming for me next, oh God oh please, help me"
Correct, we should all be very scared of Dimitri. He will get us all.
I'll do you one better when is Dimitri
@@lucidkrunch2524 WHEREUPON IS DIMITRI
I certainly dont know where he is.
Dimitri Rascalov?
All the other CEOs were often energetic and charismatic even when going off the deep end but throughout this entire video Brennan was just
clinically depressed
He runs a website that hosts popularity contests where if you lose you die, would you be alright?
He was shook from the start.
@@brandondiaz1118 the original intent as a really fun idea with a lot of potential.
The reality is really fucking depressing when you think about it.
Ford Prefect he’s gonna need a go fund me for that
Thats facts man.
“Jan’s insurance company is denying coverage because Jan recklessly chose to be secretly poisoned by the asbestos mill upriver from her house for over 40 years.”
Ah yes, Jan had United Healthcare.
That's how you end up with another killdozer situation.....
Never forget at one point the top 2 GoFundMe's were:
To fund the Wall.
To fund ladders to climb the wall.
Well at least they weren't about medical bills!
Which isn't helping at all!
Trump 2020
@HKZ P Bernie is a socialist lmao. Trump 2020
@@ArkSucksAtGames Bernie is a socialist lmao. Bernie 2020!!
"Podcast called podcast where they review the previous episode of their podcast"
My sides 😂
Zeeno SwagMaster I haven’t heard a podcast that bad since West Wings n’ Wings.
But the question is... what are they talking about in their first podcast?
@@Drace90 An iterative series begins with a defined term. So I'm assuming they're gonna rely on an episode of west wings which by itself a review of another show.
@@Drace90 probly nothing since there was no previous podcast it would just be them sitting still saying nothing for one hour. Then the next episode is gonna be comments on last episode and so it begins.
@Aiden Pearce Turns out it was going to be a good podcast the twist was that its actually a time travel themed sci-fi story podcast where the characters make this stupid idea for a podcast and future versions of themselves come back to stop it.
“What is the brand image of an asbestos m-what is an asbestos mill?!”
„God I hope Jan‘s alright“
asbestos used to be used for home insulation until it gave people respiratory disease.
@@lelandsknerdyknowledge6788 and it's still used as a lining for things that need to be fireproof.
@@toasterofdoom9629 No it isn't a quick google search says they use Nomex or Kevlar
@@lelandsknerdyknowledge6788 We know what asbestos is, but what is an asbestos mill? Is it a place that makes asbestos, or what?
“A corporation poisoned Jan and are now suing her because the fact she’s been poisoned makes them look bad” is just the American economy in a nutshell.
Well more like the American legal system in a nutshell.
It's both @@sleepy1697
“This sites for more than just ....begging for your own life” 2020
I spit my drink
Let’s raise some money to keep this guy from killing himself
"One giant GoFundMe every year that just pays for everyone that got sick that year".
If only someone thought about that....
I know right
vote bernie?
I was thinking it seems like it's becomeing a Sanders campaign or medicare for all ad.
Neat idea but I just checked with our friends to the north and a lot of them come down to the U.S because they get better healthcare
@@driftingwolf0 lmao I'd like to hear a source for that. Because everything ive read has said its the other way around
The real kicker is that GoFundMe's actual CEO said we need more COVID relief because it's not meant to be used for "basic needs". Satire has ceased to be satire.
Just learned that College Humor needs a GoFundMe to stay afloat.
@The Bloody Doctor Their Dimension 20 stuff is pretty good
@The Bloody Doctor Brennan's staying
@The Bloody Doctor Maybe not their old writers, but they need a new direction
@The Bloody Doctor They were never really making that much money even at their best. Most of their funding was Wall Street over-hyped on the next big thing.
@The Bloody Doctor Chill out bro, comedy is subjective and to call it trash in a REPLY to one of the top comments is pretty rude. I'm sure you're much funnier.
"I run a popularity contest where if you lose you die."
So the Hunger Games?
Wow yeah, that's looking less and less dystopian and more and more like an allegorical stand in for America huh?
@@eoincampbell1584 Welp, Time to kill myself then...
😝🔫
or UFC / wrestling
More like the chemo games.
No, the Hunger Games is a popularity contest where if you die, you lose.
In addition of the medical GoFundMe, there is a whole 'memorial' category that people use to pay for their funerals.
"I run a website that hosts popularity contests where if you lose, you die." It's so extreme, but true. The American Healthcare system is so broken.
Broken implies that at one point it actually functioned
Brennan losing his mind because he’s upset about how many people need money for healthcare is so sweet and so sad
"Is only delaying our societies collective reckoning with our pathological hatred of the working class"
Damn Brennan just go on chapo already
What's Chapo
brennan go on trashfuture challenge 2020
@@paytonogallagher3284 a podcast named chapo trap house
@@shmuels1383 Thanks
... Aren't they political extremists?
Brennan is absolutely brilliant when it comes to the "In every way except the physical, I am dead" look.
Good thing, considering how often he has to play characters with that as their Default Look.
probably because he actually legit felt it in this one
+
woof?
And now GoFundMe has put out a statement to this effect. Life imitates art, I suppose...
Imagine for a moment that you ran a grocery store. And you found out that no matter what you charged, the government was going to start giving you money to give away free food to hungry people. You could charge literally whatever amount you wanted and the government would start paying. Now the other grocery stores around you raise their costs by 10x, and because they do this the distributors begin raising their costs. You COULD be ethical and keep your costs low so EVERYONE benefits, but then you can't afford to stock your store anymore. What would you do? Because that is EXACTLY the situation that happened with US healthcare.
It’s unfortunate that these CEO sketches are the best of college humour these days. I love this guy, his delivery is fucking hilarious.
But they also tell the truth
Dafuq u mean by "unfortunate"?
@@MorganEdgy I think he's saying the other stuff isn't good
“Asbestos is harmless!” Is a trademark of Aperture Science dba Aperture Laboratories
Aperture science, we do what we must because we can 😬
I miss cave johnson
Aperture Laboratories “something about life and lemons”
@@earthling_parth for the good of all of us... except the ones who are dead
@@petsgamesandrobots438 but there's no sense crying over every mistake.
You just keep on trying till you run out of cake
God I'm glad I live in England - and England is a dumpster fire right now....
Give it a few more years under a Tory-led Brexit and you'll start needing Gofundme for the same reasons. Y'all need to elect a Momentum/Militant-style Labour government ASAP.
America is done. Please take us back UK
Aye, knife crime Central up in london rest of it (including london) is brexit and drugs
@DJ Lee yeah that's definetly a healthy attitude to have towards your dumpster fire of a country, doesn't sound nationalistic at all
@DJ Lee I live in Poland and....Ding! Ding! Ding! You're right! It's is kind of a shithole right now but at least people aren't getting shot in the streets. And my country being bad doesn't mean that yours isn't.
i love that this ceo is actually just a decent sensitive guy
This is so sadly true.
Also, "We could use a few fun ones" - every time I see a GoFundMe-campaign that would be fun, there seem to be dozens of comments saying "This site is not for helping you with fun things! It's for raising money for those who really need it!"
Sooooooo yeah. Fun projects on GoFundMe seem to be doomed to failure right from the get-go.
I can't afford dropout. I'm saving for the inevitable need of healthcare.
we need a GoFundMe to distribute Dropout passes
It’s super cheap right now, but I know what you mean. One time I needed to cancel it or a month & when I went to cancel it, they gave me the month for free. Bless their hearts.
I make $75k a year, but I recently had to file bankruptcy because of medical debt. The two mile ambulance ride alone cost me over a thousand, of which my insurance only paid $9. The two day hospital stay was astronomical. To make matters worse, even though it was all at the same hospital, I got bills from like a dozen companies, and all want paid separately, and with a short timespan (with monthly payments totalling upto $7,000, which I don't even make that a month)
Another time, I had to see a podiatrist for to plantar fasciitis, and get custom orthotics made, none of which was covered by my insurance because I don't have diabetes.
Our medical system is horribly broken.
I'm in a similar boat and I've told my wife that they can get what's left of "their" money when they pry it from my cold dead fingers. We were there two days. They can have what I make in two days and be happy.
@@gardnereric10 problem is, hospitals are getting really sue happy, and can garnish your wages. My wife works as a legal assistant for a law firm that specializes in collections law. A year or two ago, most suits were from title loan companies and stuff like that, but now hospitals have over taken that by a large margin. That's why I knew bankruptcy was about the only option for us.
Healthcare and capitalism are incompatible. Paying for an ER visit not the same as a buying a TV. You can wait for a sale when buying a TV meanwhile you can’t wait for a life saving operation.
Private Insurance companies are pure evil and have nothing good to offer. They are worthless parasites that need to be shut down.
This maybe the greatest ad for universal healthcare on TH-cam.
I'm from the UK. No idea how the US,m system works (just how it fails). How much was your monthly insurance?
Don't take it too hard, America. Your healthcare system also gave us Breaking Bad, because if Walter was in just about any other developing country, he'd get some treatment without having to become Heisenberg. So yeah! Great show. Best TV ever.
i think i hate walter white more then Deloris umbridge.
@@FosukeLordOfError that's pretty bad
@@FosukeLordOfError how is drug man worse than evil teacher
@@ATemplarIGuess By the end of Breaking Bad Walter is responsible, both directly and indirectly, for the deaths of almost 200 people (assuming you count the plane passengers that died as a result of Donald's grief over Jane's death, WHICH I DO) as well as a myriad of other offenses including the frankly insane amount of drug trafficking he's responsible for.
Dolores was a really shitty teacher and government stooge with Draconian ideas of discipline who made a bunch of kids kinda miserable for like, six months.
They are not even _remotely_ comparable as villains.
@@funnyvalentinedidnothingwrong wasn’t she like a wizard Nazi that wanted to do a genocide.
I won't even ask as much as Single Payer, I'd be happy with just holding pharmaceutical companies responsible for 600% price increases on drugs initially developed with taxpayer money
Out of The Hat drug companies love taking money from the taxpayers and acting like they funded it solely by themselves
Well that's Single payer.
@@Crystal_Dylan I'm fine with them charging larger amounts for new drugs/research. But there is ZERO fucking excuse for a broken leg costing 10 grand to fix. Fucking vikings new how to set a bone, and the only advancement we have made since then is xraying which was invented in 1895... nearly 125 years ago
A good thing about Single Payer is it has collective bargaining built into it which keeps prices low, but I could see some technocratic organization be created, like the National Institute of Health, that could moderate drug prices, we just can't have politicians doing it because they can and do take money from big pharma.
Why not single payer AND allow the government to negotiate lowering drug prices like every other god damn developed nation does
This is both comedic genius and heartbreakingly necessary social commentary.
I feel like the producers are trying to say something
*But I can't seem to put my finger on it*
Is it that people have shitty healthcare service and because of that service, they’re turning to GoFundMe?
Revolution ?
@@ZELYNER *me,being aware of French Revolution * : we're about to end this systems whole career
@@arifahmedjakaria874 I actually see these comments a lot.
@@MommaMolly Don't forget the Russian revolution. Or the Chinese one. Or all the other instances where monarchs got killed for greed.
“I had no notion of how severe the problem is. You read about the debate about single-payer health care and all the issues, the partisan politics. What I really learned is the health care system in the United States is really broken. Way too many people fall through the cracks.”
“The system is terrible … there are people who are not getting relief from us or from the institutions that are supposed to be there. We shouldn’t be the solution to a complex set of systemic problems.” - Rob Solomon, the CEO of GoFundMe
Imagine for a moment that you ran a grocery store. And you found out that no matter what you charged, the government was going to start giving you money to give away free food to hungry people. You could charge literally whatever amount you wanted and the government would start paying. Now the other grocery stores around you raise their costs by 10x, and because they do this the distributors begin raising their costs. You COULD be ethical and keep your costs low so EVERYONE benefits, but then you can't afford to stock your store anymore. What would you do? Because that is EXACTLY the situation that happened with US healthcare.
Someone tried arguing with me that the US system of bankrupting anyone who falls ill is better because it means that they can put resources into funding high tech procedures. I shut him down with 2 points.
1) On a more general note I pointed out the futility of that if nobody can actually see the benefits of this research bar the other countries with healthcare.
2) How my own medical issues would have left me and my family homeless many times over and more than likely see me dead...
They didn’t respond after that. Wonder why.
Plus it's literally just cheaper anyways to fund that through government research grants and not let private companies charge extortionate amounts for it.
@@nessanderson6460 Who’d of thought public services removing profit incentives makes it better for people
who would have thought that markets that aren't in the control of the consumer need a state solution or heavy oversight?
Huh everyone who isnt an anarchocapitalist? i see
@@DimT670 America Man...
there's multiple problems with their idiotic argument. for one: the us doesn't fund high tech procedures. we haven't for decades now. we've long since stopped putting our government funds towards actually increasing infrastructure or scientific development, the bulk of our money goes towards the military and contracts to private interests. it's why our development has stalled so much and why it feels like we're perpetually stuck in the 90's/00's but with a fresh coat of paint--because we literally are.
there's other issues with that guy's argument, like the basic morality of letting people die for "hiGH TecH" but it's a moot point. what a moron.
Just when you think this bit is getting stale, he revitalizes with cutting socio-political commentary and puts a single-payer endorsement, its absolutely amazing while still being in the CEO series.
"I can't do this anymore. I actually can't do this anymore." I felt that so much a little part of me died 😂
"A part of me died *smiley face*"
@@Liv-bd1ft "a part of me dies" :smileyface: is top millennial and also truth
Disguising our pain with laughter and emoji's...
@@RuefulCenturion we discuss our pain with laughter and emojis because our gofundme for therapy didn't go viral
@@TristanDoingGood They said I need to put more pheonix down.
3:10 Ah, the pinnacle of absurdist humour. A sentence so obscenely morbid, so absurd yet fully truthful, that the only response possible is hysteria.
Brennan’s acting skills are impeccable, his expressions to convey a loss of hope and emptiness are so expressive with such little effort.
here's a twist: that wasn't acting >:)
little effort?... how would you know the effort it took or how much practice he's put in?... just curious :)
Arron Bates maybe he is Brennan.
Arron Bates ‘little effort’ as in subtlety
“I run a popularity contest where if you lose you die.”
Wait wasn't that a Black Mirror episode?
Yeah
I have not seen such a perfect narrative building takedown of the problems in our society since Stewart retired. GIve this man a show!!
boy do i have some good news for you about a little show called dimension 20
You should check out Trevor Noah, John Oliver, and Samantha Bee.
"How to make your cancer more marketable"
That should not be a phrase used in the English language.
The only reason to say this is if you're the wingman for a friend born in June
is it better in swedish? XD
"hur man gör sin cancer mer säljbar"
*"Sickness As Storytelling: How To Make Your Cancer More Marketable"* (Made me literally laugh out loud.) Insured US citizen here. First week of 2020, "Happy New Year, you have cancer!" (Insurance deductible met in under 2 months.) By the day after April Fool's Day, "Congratulations, it's metastatic!" It's been stressful over the past 6 months, but how much worse it'd be without health insurance!! I can't move away to be closer to family if/when I get sick because I'm insured via employment. Not even GoFundMe can help with that. Broken system is broken.
damn. hope you get well soon
I truly hope you don't lose your job somehow. You're a human, you deserve to live even if you aren't generating profits.
Wow, that sucks.
I always found it strange how I had to get insurance when heading to the USA and figure out how it works, keep that card on me at all times, etc.
But I can travel to the EU without such issues...
I really hope you're doing okay and that things got as better as they can!
America the "greatest nation/ country" in the world. Whomever came up with that line was either stoned as f*ck or just extremely sarcastic....
Sad when you have to beg other citizens for money just to pay your medical bills.
I am sitting here at my desk in Australia after spending Saturday in the hospital with busted ribs thinking; "I got an x-ray, CT scan (to check that I had not punctured any organs) and enough painkillers to down a moose and I did not pay a cent."
I get panic attacks. My first big one felt like I was having a heart attack. I thought I was dying. I went to the ER, got an EKG and a x-ray and talked to a doctor for about 20 seconds. Just lost my job so I lost my insurance. $6 thousand dollar bill.
This shit is a nightmare.
Live in Philadelphia, on the East coast, and an ambulance ride cost above 2k. Unless you're throwing up at least 2 cups blood or about to pass out an ambulance ride can wait. Best call someone you know to take you to the hospital for that broken bone cause if the insurance company decides not to pay for the full fuckin bill Raman noodles is gonna be the meal of choice for the next couple of months.
@@nominatorchris5591 2K USD for an ambulance? Unless that thing has a Warp drive and a flux capacitor ain't no way that's a reasonable cost!
I can literally buy an ambulance in India for that amount!
@@xmlthegreat ikr it's insane. My father had almost passed out while we was walking so i called a ambulance the ride to the hospital was around 10 minutes. Week later he calls me and said the amount before the insurance payment was a bit over 2k but he only had to pay 3 dollars are so.
@@nominatorchris5591 that was insanely lucky, I've heard of and has experience where insurance will screw you over for those kinds of things. I had broken my arm once and the insurance refused to pay for additional X-rays that the doctor wanted after the cast got removed, luckily it was like equivalent of 11 bucks for an X-ray here.
Love the CEO series, this one just tears my heart out. I laughed a little, but just kinda came out feeling hollow and quietly nodding.
Tragedy and comedy are often intertwined.
"Look, ultimately, I'm not even saying we do anything as extreme as single-payer healthcare..."
And this is why the United States of America continues to have a fifth-world health system. Because the majority of Americans _still_ see single-payer healthcare as somehow being "extreme".
Someone called America a "Fifth world country with a Gucci belt" and they weren't wrong
In my opinion, if the us is the only developed country that doesn't have universal healthcare, it should not be considered a developed country
@@jonathanjimenez2420 Hard to argue with that.
it IS extreme! wanna know why healthcare is so expensive?? because of government programs! if you are a hospital and the government keeps writing you blank checks that will pay you whatever you want, guess what? prices GO UP
STOP DEMANDING EVERYONE ELSE PAY EVERYTHING FOR YOU AND TAKE SOME RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR OWN LIFE!
@@InitialPC “lol”, signed the developed world.
People on GoFundMe don’t have to beg others for their lives.
They have the *_opportunity_* to beg others for their lives.
They have the FREEDOM to beg strangers for their lives! And that’s what makes America great!
*uncontrollable sobbing*
@Jacob S and what kind of horrible monster would want to take away that "freedom"?? /s
Now you're thinking with capitalism :)
John Remmers The American Dream *TM*
Is it time to say "vote Bernie" yet?
I’m confused... his hair is brown, his beard is red, and his eyebrows are blonde????
Weird Americans genetics i guess
Glarson Yen no? This is common for people with red hair, his eyebrows are red they’re just not bold, and sometimes when people with red hair cut it it can regrow brown
@@kodakblank Oh ok i stand corrected.
gingers are weird.
my brother and I are both strawberry blonde, which looks pure blonde in some lights, completely red in other light, my brother has beautiful ginger brows, I however have shit super pale blonde brows naturally though.
and some gingers also naturally get more and more brown hair when they get older.
Brennan is a redhead as far as I've seen. But it's probably the lightining combined with the fact that it's winter. My hair changes to a more strawberry color right after a shower or in the summer, sometimes but gets darker in the winter. Gingers are weird. Also, I've noticed that dark ginger hair has a tendency to appear less ginger in pictures and video. It's really hard to capture ginger hair on film, for some reason.
"pathological hatred of the working class"
.... beer time.
That's what got a lot of us in this mess in the first place. That and overworking. And living.
Yes pretty much
"I run a website that host popularity contest where if you lose you die."
Maybe the hardest hitting line in any Collegehumor video.
Have to admit this was a funny take on if CEO’s cared if people lived or died regardless impact to their profit.
Man what a world that would be
I know, right? And even if they did care, they have a fiduciary responsibility to maximise profits. If they prioritise *anything* higher than profits (e.g. worker safety, consumer protection, etc), the board of directors can have them fired.
I am your 69 like
@@smaakjeks So, maybe if there was no board of directors and the workers owned and operated the companies democratically? Maybe we should try that.
@@gnarlin4964 the idea of communism will always prevail!
@@gnarlin4964 United forever in friendship and labor
Oh great another one! Yay!
He looks more broke than in the previous CEO’s
which is why he needs a fundraiser for his mental health treatment
More than MoviePass?!
Add Infinitum hmm I mean tbh this to me is somewhat sadder.
Emotionally broken perhaps.
@@AsobiMedio Yeah, he doesn't look more broke, just more sad.
"While we do take a grim sort of pride being the only option..."
me: *nods in agreement*
When your countries Health Care is so bad people have to play a popularity contest to hope they don’t die.
America feels so dystopian, and Republicans really just die on that hill that America is the best country ever.
"What is the brand image of an asbestos m...What is an asbestos mill?!" lol! But yeah, our healthcare is some balls.
The way he says, "Oh?" with...so much understated sarcasm.
I love how they don't even try with the names of the CEOS. Harry Pancake, Mr. Spoon...
"Hi, I'm , CEO of..."
@@chrisrebert9271 I stupidly thought they might of actually gotten the real guy so I googled Dan Spoon and some weird tribal thing came up
Wow I’ve never thought to actually google the names, I thought they were all accurate hahah
There's probably legal reasons for that - if they used the real names, then they'd be more likely to get sued for libel against the CEO of the company, so they make up a fake name to cover their asses. (The business as a whole isn't likely to sue for libel, because as a public entity, precedents set by the courts allow for a greater degree of scrutiny and parody, compared to the CEO, who's a private individual.)
The only CollegeHumor CEO sketch where the CEO is unequivocally a good person, AND his employees are not jackals, but the situation is so fucked up it doesn’t matter
I love how Brennan always opens everything up with “hey gang”
I am the brand image of an asbestos mill
Your name makes this funnier
@@suspiciousbacon asbestos is the bestest
I really like asbestos. They are really good insulator.
You are the Асбе́ст!
Ok. Last time for all the gullible Americans who think people die waiting for treatment in Canadian ERs .... it doesn't happen. I took my mom to the ER last month because we thought she might be having a stroke. She was taken back right away and we were in and out in less than 3 hours. She had a CT scan and blood tests and god knows what else. Fortunately she wasn't having a stroke. And it cost us nothing. When she called me I just about lost my mind but I didn't hesitate to get it checked out. I can only imagine how terrifying it must be to wonder if a loved one is dying and not be able to get that piece of mind without worrying about going bankrupt. How would I have felt if we were in America and I said gee mom, I can't afford to take you to the hospital so hopefully it's not a stroke but hey if it is can you make it a killer because I can't afford to care for you if you're just permanently disabled from a stroke we didn't treat quick enough. In America how many people end up seriously injured because they wait because they know they can't afford treatment. Seconds count. Ffs America wake up!
Sneaky Bunny it’s great that your mom got the CT scan she needed! I still remember the American actor who was injured in a skiing accident in Canada, and died of treatable injuries while being airlifted to the nearest CT Scan machine 100 miles away, you know, because Canadian healthcare dictates the rationing of equipment.
@@PantsuTaigas but do you remember the tons of patients who died or lost everything due to treatable illnesses eveywhere in america?
American healthcare rations access to it.
Canadian healthcare has saved my life on multiple occasions. I have had brain surgery twice in my life.
Normally, the procedure is valued at $100-$200,000. What middle-class family can realistically afford to pay that much money out of pocket?
USA, you need Medicare for All.
EBFilmsMan somehow Americans still get brain surgeries
@@PantsuTaigas somehow SOME americans still get brain surgeries. There, fixed it for you.
This is perfect. This is absolutely spot-on dark satire, and that's VERY hard to do well and stay funny. This is the mark of MASTERS.
It's actually just one CEO changing his name and moving from venture to venture after the last one collapses. You can tell this because he always refers to his crew as "gang"
Upcoming sketch: A message from CollegeHumor's CEO: We just fired everyone, this is fine...
"GoFundMe, cause you can't afford The American Dream on your own."
Maybe make sure your dream is within your means to obtain.
@@jfangm What if my dream is to be able to make ends meet and not go into medical debt?
@@ellienoir4092
Get a job that offers good benefits. It isn't my responsibility to pay for your problems.
Jason Mimiaga ok boomer
@@jfangm Yeah. Because 'Not dying from cancer' - Oh come on friend, keep it real...
It's so weird to hear that the website was initially made for stuff like honeymoons and vacations, I thought it was made for serious stuff from the beginning.
I need to make one for my family but at the same time, I feel bad for potentially taking away help from someone who needs it more.
Jokey jokes aside, this is really dark. Good satire, I just wish it didn't make me hate my country.
you SHOULD hate our country. our country is one of the worst in the world.
I can’t think of a developed country with a worse healthcare system than America. It’s literally the worst. Maybe... nope. It’s the worst.
@@carboncopy4183 Sadly, the quality is utterly irrelevant if it's exclusive to a tiny subset of the populace. Crummy Healthcare but for free is by definition superior to great healthcare but no one can afford it. Care you cannot afford is not care at all.
Dislike the rulers, not the land.
“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.”
- Mark Twain
John Comtois haha same
‘UUUUUUUUGHHHHHHHHHHH I HOPE JAN IS OKAY’
Callie Johnston she’s having a hard time getting over micheal
@@stampedarc1509 That's what she said.
“That’s what” -She
Callie Johnston oh how the turns tabled
Yes I also watched this video
4:04... That's a sweet headshot of Brennan. The look says both, "If I could kill you with a glance," And, "please kill me," at the same time.
The real GoFundMe just tweeted about this exact thing.
Hilarious and depressing.
My father had an operation this year. We're talking, even here in Germany, of sums that would have ruined him. Plus the rehab, medication, wheelchair and so on. Fortunately, there is health insurance in Germany. (To stay fair: the system is also not perfect. BUT: we have one!)
All he had to do was focus on becoming healthy. I hope the USA will somehow get a solution.
And in general: This quickly changed from comedy to a dark horror story.
Exactly. It's not perfect and needs a worldwide restructuring. To get free healthcare I shouldn't have to wait 9 months for an appointment about my cancer. My doctor shouldn't have zero incentive to make sure he gives me the best treatment and diagnosis possible because the fucking janitor is making more money than him.
@@gmork1090 this. Healthcare shouldn't be monetized, period. Not everything has to require money, and eventual ir probable won't
@@gmork1090 The work of the doctors and nurses really should be honored more. Financially too. (Although, this should also apply to the janitors. I don't want to know how much more sick there would be without their work!)
But a lot would have to be changed. This is not possible without a clear goal.
The USA has a start with the PPACA. Here you can see what doesn't fit and improve it. A perfect system from the start would be great - but is unrealistic.
And for us in Germany: We have a shortage of doctors and specialists. The privatization of hospitals has shifted the focus from healing to cost savings.
Saving is not bad - but after a while, shortcomings arise. Politicians are now trying to counteract this with more money. Of course that won't help. But not everyone likes the other solutions. We also need more training places and hospitalization should not be paid as a lump sum. (If, as a hospital for illness x, I only receive money for y days, then after y days I come to the conclusion that the patient is allowed to leave!)
So much to improve - everywhere.
Well that is the thing with free healthcare - because everyone can afford it there is a lot more patients and same amount of doctors. In really difficult field like cancer treatment there are just few doctors, it is really hard to become specialist doctor. Even if those people had better pay, not much more would be able to become one, it is really hard field and not many people have stomach and are smart enough for it.
@Tuho I agree with you, I was replying to Chris D but youtube is a bitch and doesnt add @name when replaying from pc at least for me.
When I clicked on play, I was such a hopeful person.
What a fool I was. A silly, hopeful fool.
"A Brand Image" is an anagram for "Brain Damage." Things suddenly make sense.
That's a search term I believe.
😯😯😯
@TraversEarth Why is he crazy?
As an Australian I went to the USA go fund me page and honestly I have no words. It’s so shocking how many children with cancer are begging for money to afford treatment. I’ve seen snakes, crocodiles and deadly spiders but nothing scares me more than the idea of parents having to beg for money for their children cancer treats
"Half of cancer patients deplete their entire life savings in 2 years" : ^)
As someone living in the UK I have never never had to worry about healthcare, and I have never felt the impact of paying taxes. It is such a miniscule proportion of most people's wages.
I am now terrified at the prospect of losing the NHS. My government is systematically dismantling it, and selling it off to American investors
Horrifying.
Good. Lose your NHS.
PoofyRandAlThor lol what an awful thing to say, you want his healthcare situation to be as bad as it is in a few western countries like America?
Agreed, as a UK citizen, the idea of losing the NHS keeps me up at night. It's one of the few good things we have as a country.
When the government controls your care they control who is too sick for treatment because there’s never enough money to go around. In the UK your wealth factors in as a positive for getting treatment. That’s fucked up. I’m not saying get rid of thesystem but don’t use it as a model for other countries. Us in the uk should keep our problems to ourselves.
"I run a popularity contest website where if you lose, you die.
Would you be doing alright....?"
I think that is one of the funniest saddest truest thing I’ve ever heard.