What would be your case for a National Health Care System in the US?

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Coach: Why should the government pay for education? Who is the government anyway? Shame on you

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Answer 1

We need a health care system in this country and it will be hard to get. You know who is in congress. pro business!

We need a way to pool the Monet, an have some say into some things, like costs!

HMO's who have people who are paid over 2 million a year plus bonus, plus their stockholders. They are taking all that from you before they have paid a thing!! There are over 450 HMO's in NJ!

When I retired from the state, all of a sudden the HMO who represents retired state workers can get pills that I was paying over $12.00 each, I can get a 3 month supply for $4.00! That's right! $4.00 for three months!

Medications is too expensive and needs to be brought under control. I don't have an issue with someone making a profit, but a 14 Million dollar income for 1 person in an HMO? That is obscene, and they have at least 3 more making more than 2 million a year. Now multiply that by the # of HMO's and the money they return to their shareholders, who didn't work a damn day!. That's a lot of money that goes to everything but health care.

I have a ton of those example's, and I am sure we have enough smart people, who are not politicians, who can come up with a health care plan. What do you think an HMO is?

Answer 2

good point coach. Why should anyone pay for someone else's injuries? I don't want the government here to run anything it can't handle. Did you ever go to the post office lately? ever wait forever for the clerk to get your package? Having national health care in the US would be socialist and I am dead set against that kind of philosophy. If they can't get the post office right then what would make you think that they will do a good job with health care?


Wow! The answer below me (by .45 peacemaker)is very good. Right on the money. Hit the nail on the head too.

Answer 3

Why should the government pay and be rersponsible for health care of other people. I earned what I have and I pay for ehst I need. Let others do the same. Why should you or I pay for their health care?

Answer 4

More than 22,000 veterans who underwent prostate biopsies at veterans' hospitals across the country are being warned that improperly sterilized equipment may have exposed them to deadly viruses.

Officials said Friday it was unlikely someone could get infected by the equipment, and no patient is known to have been sickened.

Still, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs decided to offer free blood tests as a precaution after officials in Maine questioned whether the cleaning procedure was thorough enough, said VA spokesman Jim Benson.

The prostate biopsy equipment includes a probe that, if improperly cleaned, could retain traces of body fluids containing the viruses that cause hepatitis or AIDS.

Since April, the VA has alerted patients of potential inadequacies with the biopsy cleaning procedure at 21 medical centers in 18 states, plus Puerto Rico.

So far, about 7,000 vets contacted the VA after receiving the letter and about 2,000 have been tested, Benson said.

"It's too soon to have any information on their test results because each of the potential diseases we might be worried about require not only initial tests but confirmatory tests as well," Benson said. "Right now our first priority is getting information out to every veteran."

Dennis Maki, an infectious disease expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the prostate examination technique involves inserting a stainless steel scope about the diameter of a pencil into the rectum. Then doctors use a hollow needle to draw a sample from the prostate gland.

The standard sterilizing procedure called for the equipment to be flushed with a disinfecting solution, but officials grew concerned that blood and fecal residue might remain unless the tube were physically scrubbed as well.

It's possible but unlikely that someone could get infected that way, said Michael Erdmann, chief of staff of the Milwaukee VA Medical Center.

"We're concerned for the safety of our patients, but really, the odds are really quite low," he said.

The problem wasn't manpower so much as cleaning instructions provided by the manufacturer that didn't specify the need for a brush, Erdmann said.

The equipment was made by B-K Medical Systems in Denmark. Company officials from neither B-K nor its Massachusetts-based parent company, Analogic, immediately returned phone calls by The Associated Press on Friday.

Michael O'Rourke, a spokesman for the Veterans of Foreign Wars, said he was satisfied with the VA's response. "I don't know what more they can do," he said.

Peter Gaytan, the director of veterans affairs for the American Legion, said his group is reaching out to veterans to make sure the VA has addressed their concerns.

"What the American Legion wants to make sure is that this mistake isn't the responsibility of overworked VA staff, and if it is, they need to hire more people," he said. http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/06/02/D8I0C6MO0.html

have gone to websites where those who whine about those who don't have health insurance and we really need to take care of people. I tell them two things: Check out the veteran's Administration, this would be the system we would have if we changed. And the other is based on their resentment on how the government responded to New Orleans. Asking them, "Would you really like your health care controlled by the government after the response to Katrina?" I don't get a response, because when you aren't consistent and you base everything on emotion you never have an answer, and they can't admit that they are wrong.

The article that I linked to talks about what happens when government throws money at a problem. It has a shotgun effect (for those who are wusses that means it goes all over the place) never going where it's supposed to.

Government is only efficient at protecting this nation, unless the Gorelic Wall is up, or the NSA isn't capturing calls from the monster. Government can't provide for peoples needs. The mentality that government can provide borders on the blasphemous, by the government providing everyone's needs it becomes a god.

This is America. People used to loose fortunes and rebuild without the government helping. So to those who want to be subservient to the government I offer this for your thought go to China, I want my freedom to choose how the doctors treat me, not some pencil pusher that has never met me.

http://dakotaranger.blogspot.com/2006/03/one-of-my-reasons-i-oppose-socialized.html

Since this is the closest we have to socialized medicine in this country and this is what socialized medicine would devolve into because when government is involved money has a way of disappearing we would get the cheapest health care money can buy. Remember China has socialized medicine and they also control the number of children a person can have. I have heard reports that Canada is seeing private clinics starting up because no one wants to wait for poor quality of care.

Just something to think of

http://dakotaranger.blogspot.com/2006/06/if-we-really-want-socialized-medicine.html

Answer 5

Just look at what we have now , could it be any worse ??