2006-09-09 18:28:09 · 14 answers · asked by hehehehe 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
yes ...the people are the goverment without them there would be no goverment......people work all there lives to pay taxes ..the least their goverment can provide is health care.there has to be more to life then death and taxes ................
2006-09-09 18:36:03 · answer #1 · answered by gry w 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, if for no other reason health care suffers. I have had two personal incidents that illustrate this all too well. When I was only 18 years of age I was already married to a Native American woman. She had become pregnant, fortunately American Indians have treaties which provide free medical care. Free was too expensive they were rude and cruel to her and all of the other women we spoke to. I had just gotten a new job that paid well, when they started the poor treatment of her I lashed back with the "I am paying for this" confidence of an upper middle class white boy with a good job. The situation changed immediately, in fact a Doctor was fired over it. If I was not in the position I was in it would not have changed. I still worry about the other women who have to have such a level of care.
I joined the Marines later on from this. For months I had a pain in my side but I could not get a Marine or Navy doctor to look at it. I was at a movie with a civilian friend and collapsed. They took me to a civilian hospital and I had my appendicitis removed, a few hours later and I would have died. I would have died waiting on government health care.
Even if it is "free", it still must be paid for, through taxation or through very poor care.
2006-09-10 01:43:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think it should. Our government is already involved in our health and welfare with all the laws it has put into place which are suppose to be for our benefit , although most of them were instigated in order to save insurance companies money. There is no reason why we can't follow Canada's example. Health care in this country has turned into a nightmare situation for the average working class, the poor, and the elderly. The cost for care and drugs is out of control. It all boils down to corporate earnings and greed. As long as we allow our government and corporations to go arm-in-arm, we will never see it happen.
2006-09-10 01:57:53 · answer #3 · answered by taboobiker73 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe that a Government should offer all citizens with health care.
It ultimately costs more in the long run NOT to have nationalized health care.
1) There are people who cannot work due to medical or mental health issues. If they were able to get medical treatment, many of these people could work.
For example, I know these cases personally
A person with a bad knee who is too much of a worker's comp risk.
A woman with an eye patch over an oozing eye
A woman who smells so bad, that you have to deodorize the room after she leaves
Several people with migraine headaches who cannot maintain attendance
Several people with bad backs who cannot maintain attendance
All of these people, if they could get treatment could hold down jobs.
2006-09-10 01:36:30 · answer #4 · answered by Searcher 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Public health services -- inoculations and treatment of TB and other infectious diseases -- should be free because they could spread to the rest of us and make us sick, or worse.
Diseases that are the fault of the sick person -- lung cancer, for example -- or the result of sinful behavior -- AIDS, VD -- or that are a punishment from God -- Leprosy (it's in the Bible) should be quarantined to protect the rest of us.
Industrial diseases and environmental ones (toxic torts) and problems caued by physician error (medical malpractice) have spurned a whole industry of lawyers who have actually CREATED disease and done MORE HARM THAN GOOD. These need to be recognized for what they are: unfortunate collateral damage, that are simply a COST OF PROGRESS. They should be thrown out of court and minimal palliative treatment paid for by workers compensation.
For the rest: I'm tired of every ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT coming to America to have a baby and get a free nose job. The borders should be SEALED and those who get through the desert anyway REFUSED treatment of any kind.
As far as I'm concerned, sick people who don't like America and have no money should go to socialist, communist CANADA where they have free provincial health service.
JUSTICE must not be just for the SICK. It's for the rest of us who have to PAY, too. God should have his say also: If we're rich, it's because He made us, and not that other sick guy, rich.
2006-09-10 02:07:39 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just take a look at the countries that provide free health care. Canadians and Britains that can afford our system, flood here.
Free health care over does the demand, and overcomes the supply. America needs to turn up the supply of health care. Then the demand, and cost, will deminish.
I've seen too many Muslim doctors over here. They need to go and help their own.
I'm not a racist. I live in a rural town, but we need to provide more American doctors.
2006-09-10 01:44:07 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The US need to do a better job with health care. The uninsured numbers are growing and the costs keep going up. The only people that will be able to afford health insurance will be thoughts that have enough money to pay for their care anyway.
2006-09-10 01:34:07 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The American Government may not be just but, it should provide health care for the citizens that is comparable to that coverage provided for politicians.
2006-09-10 01:37:17 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
they do it in canada. I got a buddy from there and he says that he doesnt like it cuz there is so many trying to get help that it takes forever to get in and the service is so so. You get what you pay for. Im in the military and I get free health care and it sux. The doctors get paid whether they help me w my prob or not
2006-09-10 01:48:51 · answer #9 · answered by dave d 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, No, No. That is not the responsibility of the government. More government control is socialism (As the lib-socialists love). People should take care of themselves and that inculdes health care.
2006-09-10 01:35:34 · answer #10 · answered by TexMan98 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Certainly better than funding failed institutions that are no longer competitive in the world.
Certainly better than funding space antimissile projects
Certainly. If you cannot take care of the health of the citizens what can you do?
Let the drug companies peddle their very expensive medicines on primetime TV?
2006-09-10 01:33:32 · answer #11 · answered by spiritualseeker 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋