Who feels we should have national health care state your reasons for or against?

Question

I am for it because the person with our insurance was me at one point. I was barley making ends meet and my job did not offer insurance to me, even if they did I could not afford it. I was hospitalized four times in six years and could and can not pay for the bills. I now have bad credit because they went to collection agencies. People like me and thousands more are out their why can’t we all just have the same access

i am just waiting the seven years for the bills to clear from my credit because i will never be able to pay off those bills.

Answer 1

Do I believe we should have socialized medicine in this country?
Oh, yes indeed I do.

Too many people show up at the ER or needing help in the Hospital
that will not get what they need because of our current system. The idea
that we can put everybody under some insurance plan will die under its
own paperwork.

I don't know of a front-line doctor out there who doesn't think we need it
and soon.

Ultimately, I believe the effect of socialized medicine will be to decrease
the average cost of a treatment and reduce litigation.

It will also mean that people can spend more time actually dealing with
illness and less time figuring out which form they need...

Yes, having better preventative health care would also help reduce
other health care costs, but I'm not going to try to convince people
that it wouldn't end up increasing taxes.

However, when you consider what we are paying in health care and
to the insurance companies, that doesn't offend me even slightly.

Answer 2

Against. When has getting the government involved ever improved anything? The only health services that have ever come down in price have been those services not covered by insurance - Lasik eye surgery and cosmetic surgery.

Let the free market do what it does best - create competition. Let consumers choose their services and make them shop for the best deal they can find. It might take a while for prices to come down, but once they start, it'll become much more reasonable. Eliminating insurance and going with health savings accounts would put that consumer burden back in our hands so we can make the choices that are best for us - not the government.

Answer 3

In reality we have one...

Many hospitals have the same insurance coverage/company that we at individuals have. When someone goes to an emergency room and they don't have insurance, the hospital can't just turn them away. So, the emergency room personnel tends to their medical needs and bills the insurance company..that same insurance company many people pay into.

The hospital sends the bill to the insurance company and the insurance company passes those costs to everyone who is a member. Everyone, including me. I am paying for someone who can't afford health insurance.

With a national health care plan, everybody pays into the system through the taxes they pay into government. It becomes cost effective, for me. This way, my health insurance costs and premiums won't be as affected. The base of paying into a health care system would be broad based and cheaper for me.

I have friends of mine who are finding it financially difficult to pay for private health care for a parent. Billions of dollars go towards foreign countries while we 'debate' the need to care for our own citizens.

It stinks.

This idea of making everybody pay into a private insurance had its greatest threat during Hurricane Katrina, Many insurance companies, who are the insurance carriers for the victims of Hurricane Katrina, were also the same insurance carriers for homes throughout the nation.

And, there was talk of bankruptcy by insurance companies who held policies againt the homes devastated from the hurrricane.

The Federal Emergency Management Association came to the aid of the victims of Hurricane Katrina and to the insurance companies who would have had to pay for the damage caused those poor victims affected by Hurricane Katrina. The cost would have been passed down to every policy holder in other states not effected by Hurricane Katrina.

It is important to discuss the matter of health care, openly and publicly, without any pre-seet agenda.

Answer 4

I'm with you, we should have it, I had perfect credit until I had a major surgery...emergency surgery..now I'm over 60 thousand in debt. I have a friend who's over 80 thousand in debt same reason. It really sucks, I tried everything to get the state to help. I battled with them for over a year, notarized letters proving I didn't make enough to pay that. I was out of work for 3 months and lived off of my savings account to pay rent and bills. Now I'm just in debt forever I guess.

Answer 5

that would be great, but think about the quality of the "free" healthcare that we would get. It wouldn't be to great. We would never see the same doctor more than once, and we would have to wait for HOURS for an appointment, only to get half *** treatment.

It's a good idea though.

Answer 6

No, I don't. That would make doctor appointments almost impossible to get. It would decrease the quality of our hospitals and doctors. Health care would not be as good (subjective) as it is today.

Answer 7

i agree but the government can't afford it they always find something else to waste taxpayers money on

Answer 8

I'm not insured,in England I would be.