"People who make less then 25,000 a year, should they recive free health,dentail,and medical ins.?bepositive".

Answer 1

Nothing is "free". Who is going to pay for it? Not me if I can help it.

Answer 2

I think everyone should receive free basic medical and basic dental. However, I do not live in a socialist economy nation and it is probably too late for a mass change.

It is really hard to put a salary cap on who should or shouldn't get it for free. $25,000 a year is a livable income in the U.S. That is over $12 an hour. There are a lot of people who would love to make $12 an hour. If it is a cost of living issue, then it would be good to find another place to live. $25,000 may not be feasible in downtown L.A. or N.Y.

If you are going to cap it, you should say poverty, which is under $10,000 for a single person in the U.S. (less than minimum wage). However, then you have to determine if that person is working a full time or part time job, if they are actively seeking to better themselves or just using the system, etc.

I could go on for life on these subjects. This really isn't a yes or no question, there are a *ton* of factors invovled. Inflation, quality of care, local cost of living, etc.

Answer 3

Yes I think that would be fair. It's not right that some people can't afford to go to the dr when they're sick because either their job does not offer benefits or they can't afford to pay them because of the high price of health insurance. A lot of people wind up going to the ER when they're sick because they can't afford to see a regular dr and in most states, ER's can't turn a patient away. They can bill them to death, which they often do, but they can't deny them medical care. If people who made below $25,000 a year were given free medical insurance, they wouldn't be clogging up the ER's with simple colds and the such that can be treated with basic antibiotics. Besides they are people too. They should be able to receive the same care someone who makes $100,000 a year gets.

Answer 4

25,000 a year is $12.00 an hour. Most factories pay that in the area (Wisconsin). I don't think it should include free benefits. That is how so many unions have ruined companies. Somebody has to pay for the benefits, nothing is free in life.

Low income families generally receive some sort of aid that myself and every other tax payer supports whether we want to or not. Frankly, I am a bit sick of paying for everyone else. There needs to be some sort of reform, but expecting consumers or tax payers to pick up the tab is a bit unreasonable and I for one am sick of it.

Answer 5

Means testing should be part of the formula for determining how much a person needs to pay to get services of any kind. The more one makes, the more they pay by a pre-established sliding scale.

The USA also needs to return to the Progressive tax code where tax's are collected on the basis of, "the more you make, the higher percentage you pay in taxes. The Republicans changed to tax code in the 1980's, and, subsequently, America now has homeless people on the corners and billionaires above them in high rises. It stinks!

Answer 6

No I don't believe they should. I do however think these should all be free to our seniors. If having socialized medicine for the general public is that important to an individual then they are free to move to a country where those programs are provided. They just need to understand that its going to cost them. Nothing is free, and no government is that generous. These programs are paid for by the tax payer.

Answer 7

Yes! People such as myself can't afford health insurance. I had to drop mine in December. The monthly premium was $500 a month with a $5,000 deductible. I couldn't afford to go to the doctor. I'm taking my chances with an affordable accident policy and a cancer policy. It's the first time in my adult life that I have been without health insurance.

Answer 8

yes they should because the average cost of living per person per year nationally is 30 thousand a year. If you pay 1000 a month in rent, thats 12000 a year. Now 300 a moth for your car, thats 3600. Now lets say 300 for lights, heat, and hotwater, thats another 3600, now lets say 200 a month for groceries thats 2400, which already adds up to 21600. Leaving you 4400 a year for clothes, shampoo and others stuff, gas, cable, phone, christmas, birthdays, taxes, vet costs, college, ect. Never mind if they have kids. Its not easy for one person to survive on that kind of money. I know cause there are four of us in this houshold and we wish we brought in that kind of money comined, let alone seperate.

Answer 9

Nah, it would end up encouraging mad heads to do the easiest jobs and/or the least amount of work while still enjoying the benefits that are normally reaped via skills and education. It'd be like the welfare system-- just keep having babies and collecting checks.

Answer 10

I think they should use the low cost avenues that are available to them, but I'm not sure that they should receive anything for free. Being "free" doesn't mean that it is without cost to anyone. There would have to be people who pay for that in order to be able to provide it. I wish it were available, but it ends up costing too much.

Answer 11

health care insurance costs about $11,000 per year. How do you tell someone who works their butt off to raise their income level, that all of that money will go to insurance? I think perhaps a sliding scale would work better, make less, pay less. But not 'no' cost.