Why are there so many against socialized health care?

Question

Correct me if I am wrong but, this seems like an opportunity for everyone one to get health care. This way no one is left out, right?

Answer 1

ask any doctor and you will get the same answer. Doctors LOOSE money when they accept socialized health care. This is why you are already loosing family practice doctors by the droves because of the free child health care and illegal immagrants.

Heres an example. Child medicare gives 4Dollars for visit.
A mother brings in a child on the ambulance for a sunburn. (yes this happens, its free why not. The staff treat them the doctor uses electricity, pays the staff, uses all the materials needed and gets 4 dollars. You have 20 of these a day you make a grand total of 80 dollars a day. You cant run a business like that. This is why canada has 2 week waits for check ups. there is not enough familty doctors to treat the sick. Have you been to an emergency room in texas lately. you will spend all day their if you get seen at all because of all the illegal immagrants. This will be the same with socialized medicine. It would be possible but it would take major medical practice reform and TAX after TAX.

plus putting the govt in charge of yet another organization. Tell me how thats worked out for us. Social Security and the likes.
and for you saying everybody deserves treatment. yea, but it was that same liberal thought that caused medical practice costs to go up. Medical lawsuit reform has to be taken care of soon or nobody will be able to afford medical care.

Answer 2

When talking about socialized health care most people believe it will be free but research it on the Internet using just Canada as an example show some shocking facts......

The Costs of Free Care
The first thing to realize is that free public medicine isn't really free. What the consumer doesn't pay, the taxpayer does, and with a vengeance. Public health expenditures in Quebec amount to 29 per cent of the provincial government budget. One-fifth of the revenues come from a wage tax of 3.22 per cent charged to employers and the rest comes from general taxes at the provincial and federal levels. It costs $1,200 per year in taxes for each Quebec citizen to have access to the public health system. This means that the average two-child family pays close to $5,000 per year in public health insurance. This is much more expensive than the most comprehensive private health insurance plan.

As demand rises and expensive technology is introduced, health costs soar. But with taxes already at a breaking point, government has little recourse but to try to hold down costs. In Quebec, hospitals have been facing budget cuts both in operating expenses and in capital expenditures. Hospital equipment is often outdated, and the number of general hospital beds dropped by 21 per cent from 1972 to 1980.

There is no way to supply all medical services to everybody, for the cost would be astronomical. What do you do for a six-year-old Montreal girl with a rare form of leukemia who can be cured only in a Wisconsin hospital at a cost of $350,000 -- a real case? Paradoxically for a socialized health system, the family had to appeal to public charity, a more and more common occurrence. In the first two months, the family received more than $100,000, including a single anonymous donation of $40,000.

Answer 3

If you can learn anything from Canada, learn that socialized health care is the worst thing ever. Unbelievable waiting period ( weeks even months before you can get treated). Health care quality is really poor. If anything, socialized health care should be only for serious illenesses, not for your common cold. It's not a joke, this is what we see here in Canada, i had to wait for over 5 hours to see the doctor because 60 patients in front of me had a cold, or bruised their finger.

Answer 4

I take no side in this issue because I am an observer of life, not a participant.

I think many people are against socialized medicine for several reasons.

-They fear they will have to wait 4, 5 and 6 months just to get an appointment with the doctor.
-The quality of medicine will go down since the number of people using the system will increase along with costs
-Non-motivated people who live off systems will be given a further reward for doing nothing making them more lazy.

Answer 5

Personally, I am against socialized health care unless the US can come up with a model unlike any other.

I do not want the government to "take care of me." I do not want the government to decide who gets treated and how.

It is not a question of money, because I am self employed and pay BIG for medical care. It is a question of government control.

Answer 6

You would think most middle class folks would be all for it. Hell, the auto industry is lobbying for it due to health care costing them more per car than the steel it takes to make the car.

People are against it because they are scared into believing that taxes would go through the roof and their health care may suffer. This is an out and out lie sold by the health care industry to keep profits up. Take the profit out of health care and I gurantee every American could afford it just with the taxes they already pay.

Answer 7

Nope, this is not govt. control. Healthcare is a necessity just like education is. Every citizen is entitled to it. Rich or poor.

An option where the rich can pay their way if they are not satisfied with the level of service. But this is not a good option because it dilutes the very premise on which the universal healthcare was to be set up in the first place.

It is about time America has healthcare for everyone at no cost to anyone. Well, almost no cost - taxes will increase. But then we are spending Billions in Iraq. Was it planned? Think about it.

Answer 8

Because then the government will decide how and if you get treated and what is acceptable and what isn't. Insurance companies do the same to some extent but letting the federal government decide? No thanks, I'll take my chances with the insurance companies. And in my state children under 18 can be insured in a state insurance program called AllKids for people who can't afford it.

Answer 9

health care should be a human right and everyone should be entilted to it. At least give it to all the children. What did they do to deserve being born into a family who cant afford their medical bills. people can be very self-centered and ignorant.
oh and wait....
excuse me
we cant afford it??
what about all the f***ing money we spend on things like bridges to nowhere and senators paychecks, maybe we should cut back on the money we are spending on things like that and making it a priority-no exceptions- to make sure all our citizens are healthy.I means I know all those politicans NEED all that money, but maybe if we sweet talk them they might give up their direct tv or something so that a few kids can see a doctor.

Answer 10

We can't afford it.


Some of us will be paying higher taxes to pay for it along with our insurance bill. How fair is that?

If you take the profit out medicine then it won't be long till there are no dr.s left, since no-one will want to undertake all that schooling for nothing.