Isnt it time for ameicans to demand a govermant health care system for the middle and lower class and we should make the rich and butthole doctors and pharmeceutical companies pay for it since they keep jacking up the price.
2006-07-02 04:25:23 · 8 answers · asked by JOHN T 1 in Health ➔ Other - Health
Health care is self care...no one else can eat for you, exercise for you, sleep for you, breathe for you or think for you. It is up to us to get educated and learn how to make better lifestyle choices.
A live food diet will prevent and reverse almost all of our dis-eases. Of course, we still have to exercise, sleep, and basically interact with our environment in a better way.
2006-07-02 04:31:29 · answer #1 · answered by theoneandonlytao 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
And while they are at it they can make my house and car payments too!
As for having the government in charge, are you kidding? There won’t even be social security when I retire for a starter. Really when has the government done a good job at running anything?
Have the rich pay for it? Most big corporations (and the rich people hide behind the corporations, its set up that way by the government) pay less in taxes than I do. So guess who will be footing the bill? If you answered anything but “you and I” your wrong. Gets back to above, I want to be in charge of my decisions and money.
Doctors. Yes there are a lot of butthole ones and they should be weeded out. But even the good ones need to have liability insurance because we as a nation are so sue happy. That coverage is a big part of that high bill we are charged. Yes they still have a good standard of living but if I went to school for years to get a stressful job dealing with peoples lives I wouldn't do it for 30k a year. Tort reform should be a bigger priority. On second thought why would an insurance company even cover a bad doctor? Say one that’s had three or more claims. No insurance – no practice.
With drugs there is a lot of R&D even before the FDA testing. That cost money and that drug may only be meant for 5% of the population with a particular ailment and they only hold the patient on it for so long. Their window for a profit is small relatively speaking. And they need to make a profit or they won’t stay in business. Makes me think of a carpet company in my town that advertises “ I don’t want to make money, I just want to sell you carpet”. I bet some people believe that.
Oh and finally I am not connected in any way to the medical field.
I just play a doctor on TV ;-)
2006-07-02 12:13:25 · answer #2 · answered by Wile E. Chipotle 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Socialized medicine is not the answer - the countries that have socialized medicine have long waits to see specialists, problems with getting the latest technologies, and other issues that are well documented.
The problem with the American health care system is that it's moving more and more to managed care, where the decision of what is medically appropriate is taken out of the hands of the patients and the doctors, and put into the hands of suits who are more concerned about the bottom line than the quality of life of a single person. In working as a customer service person for a health insurance company, I talked daily to the people who the decisions affected, and wished there was more that I could do for them.
In a capitalist society, we're always going to have some sort of inequity. Unfortunately, that's a price that we pay for freedom in general.
2006-07-05 19:08:46 · answer #3 · answered by Swampkitty 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The United States of America (I assume that is the basis for your question - for the world, it is REALLY a long way away) is a litigious society. Can you remember Thalidomide? Part of the high costs are simply the most extensive testing of products AND services in the medical field in the world, to prevent really expensive lawsuits, both against doctors, and against pharmaceutical companies. For both, malpractice insurance costs are literally ruinously expensive. I suggest you review the rapidly dropping obstetric practices across the United States for a specific example - OB/GYN doctors cannot afford to deliver babies as part of their practices. I understand some states have single figure OB practitioners for the state.
2006-07-02 11:59:12 · answer #4 · answered by marconprograms 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Socialized Medicine.
2006-07-02 11:28:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
GOV need to make a universal health care
but will doc treat patient the same
that their part so
think
money in some case make the world go round
2006-07-02 11:33:29 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Vote Democratic in the next 50 elections and we will get it!
2006-07-02 11:29:20 · answer #7 · answered by wmp55 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yep, socialized medicine. And damned necessary too.
2006-07-02 11:29:12 · answer #8 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋