I mean, has the health system of your country to be paid directly by the pacient or is it paid through taxes, which is the case of my country (Brazil)?
Is there public hospitals where anyone can be assisted for free? Or they all are just like the American universities: all are paid.
In my country, there is a system called SUS (Sistema Único de Saúde), where the population don't need to pay at the time of the assistence. It's for free. The problem, the only one, is when the assistence is done (bc the hospital queues are in general big).
How is that in the USA?
Tnx,
Ie - B r a z i l
2006-10-02 04:26:49 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
Both...most people in American have health insurance which the people pay with help (sometimes) from the company they work for. If you have a very low income then you can qualify for state health care at a reduced cost (sometimes free). We do not have public hospitals with free services, but a hospital cannot turn you away because you can't pay (they have to treat you, then they go after you for the money) Hope this answers your question.
2006-10-02 04:31:00 · answer #1 · answered by naughtykitty94 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh, man, it is so bad here. The leading cause of bankruptcy in the US is medical bills. Millions of us don't have insurance. I've had friends who've broken fingers and just taped them up because they couldn't afford the doctor's bills. When I had strep throat this summer, I let it go several days before I finally went to a doctor, and I was pleasantly surprised when the doctor's visit and the prescriptions were less than $200. Thank god I could afford that.
Don't let anyone here tell you that it's great here. Yeah, you have to pay for your insurance via taxes, but I'd much prefer that to paying for some of the other nonsense I have to right now. And you're insured. That's huge. It must be wonderful. My job does not come with health insurance, and if I want to pay for it myself, it'll cost me hundreds of dollars a month and I still won't have great coverage. If I was in an HMO, the administrators would be pressuring my doctors to keep my visits short and to not administer expensive tests. A for-profit health care system has got to be the stupidest, cruelest idea we've ever come up with.
2006-10-02 04:37:03 · answer #2 · answered by random6x7 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is not free for me, and I am sure this is true for the majority of hard-working Americans. My employer covers my health insurance at a cost of several hundred dollars a month, but it does not cover much.
I have to cover a $500 deductible before the insurance will pay and once I reach it, I still pay a percentage of the bill. It is totally ridiculous.
Even worse, I pay over $500 a month to cover my wife and kids. Each of them has a $500 deductible. The end result is that I have paid for nearly all of my medical costs and the insurance company is getting rich.
Why? Because this country sucks when it comes to taking care of its people. Health care should be free for all. Take it out of my taxes, increase my taxes, so I don't have to let the insurance companies nickle and dime me to the poor house.
2006-10-02 04:42:52 · answer #3 · answered by strider89406 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have news for people. There is no such thing as free health care anywhere in the world. You are paying for it with your taxes. In the United States you will never be turned away for medical treatment in an emergency room. By law, they have to treat you. But we have a private health care system. This keeps our quality and health care standards amongst the finest in the world. I have seen Government run facilities and I will fight to the death to keep that from happening to our country.
2006-10-02 04:31:32 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Immigrants seem to get access to experimental lab-rat programs by medical personnel in training or not licensed! Legal Americans are in fear for there lives in these programs even their VA veteran of war hospitals are playing games with peoples lives in some cases killing them off in secrecy etc.
2006-10-02 04:47:24 · answer #5 · answered by bulabate 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NOTHING in this country is free...unless you are a rich repulican who is good friends with the current president, or an illegal immigrant under the current administration.
2006-10-02 04:35:13 · answer #6 · answered by fairly smart 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you have VERY DEEP and VERY FULL pockets, you have nothing to worry.
On the other side, if you can not pay for the hospital services, GOD HELP YOU, and long lines are the smallest problem.
2006-10-02 04:30:33 · answer #7 · answered by Franklin 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not free; it's just that the money is confiscated from you (via taxes) before it even makes it into your wallet, thus creating the ILLUSION that you don't have to pay for it.
2006-10-02 04:28:57 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is not free in the US unless you are poor
2006-10-02 04:28:09 · answer #9 · answered by dwh12345 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes it is free here if you have a job
2006-10-02 04:28:09 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋