Health Care Reform Debate?

Question

I am doing a debate on Health Care Reform, primarily in America. It's based on two sides.

I'm on the side which feels that the Health Care system should not change, which means the opposition feels it should change.

I'm not looking for a report here, but what key points could the guys/girls who are for the change could use? I can't really think of anything.

And what key questions should I bring up, in order to make them question their motives? Thanks.

By the way, I'm not sure which side I support. This is just what I was assigned.

Everybody was crying about being on the opposing side of mine, and now I'm pissed about what I'm stuck with. :(

Answer 1

i think u are on the wrong side, u will have to show that the existing system is working fine (which it isnt) and that a change would destabilize the status quo

Answer 2

Health care as it is today is certainly not idealistic by any means. We've gotten less and less every year as they change our benefits. HMO's are inhibiting due to you don't get to choose the doctor you prefer to go to. Many people in our society have no health care plan at all. If you are on Medicaid or Medicare, you have to take the physician who will accept you and they are not usually the better ones. Millions of people in our society have no dental coverage at all and many do not have vision plans. Can you imagine having an abcessed tooth and have to just live through the pain because you don't have the money to pay to get it pulled? Many children have vision impairments and their families are poor and cannot afford glasses for them. Sure, some charities help out, but there's not enough of them to cover all. Medicaid doesn't accept everyone either. Until you have no health coverage at all, you can never understand the reasons we should have socialized health care in our country. It doesn't mean the person who is rich will have to go to inadequate doctors, but the poorer ones may have to. In a country supposedly as rich as ours, there should not be one single person go without medical care when they need it. Take a walk on the other side of the tracks and see people suffering and even dying because they have not health care.

Answer 3

hmph... this is tough for this time of night

current healthcare: those who have insurance often can't get expedient healthcare when they need it. Like you're sick but can't get an appt for 2 weeks. Or you have a bad back problem but no decent ortho's can see you for 2 months. You can get a referral for a specialist but that doesn't mean you can get an appt with them within a reasonable amount of time. And all of the "service" is on you -- you have to follow up about referrals, YOU have to follow up on blood tests, you have to follow up with the world when a place doesn't process your referral correctly.

Things for it: guess that we have a healthcare system in place. If you have enough money or no money you can pretty much get coverage. (It's the in between ones who can't.)

Answer 4

The government should grab the pharmaceutical companies and squeeze them by the cajones until they drop their drug prices to affordable ones.
The mark up on medications is absolutely astronomical.
What do the politicians care?
They can afford what they need.......
*the crooked S.O.B.'s.......


*son, you are on the wrong side of the debate!!!!!!!!!

Answer 5

DANNY, I AM 44 YEARS OLD. AND I AM SICK AND TIRED OF THE ELDERLY HAVING TO PAY FOR THEIR MEDICINES, THEY HAVEN'T GOT MUCH MONEY, AND THE MONEY THAT THEY GET ONCE A MONTH GOES TOWARD THEIR MEDICINES, SOME EVEN GO WITHOUT, THIS HAS GOT TO STOP. LET THESE PEOPLE HAVE FREE MEDICINES, AND LET THEM SPEND THEIR MONEY ON OTHER THINGS.

Answer 6

It needs to be affordable to everyone.