Are any determined opponents to socialized healthcare in America aware that, in countries that have adopted this system, everyone is still free to use private health care providers either instead or in addition to the national healthcare providers. But at least everyone has access to medical care.
2006-11-26 16:10:07 · 17 answers · asked by newcalalily 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
Because my relatives in Canada tell me the horror stories of socialized medicine. My Cousin had to wait 4 months to have blood clots removed from his leg, then my Uncle had to wait 8 months to have a hernia repaired. No thanks, keep your socialism.
2006-11-26 17:55:36 · answer #1 · answered by Beavis Christ AM 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It´s no longer a lot that it really is a foul element...that's that, with politics contained in the U. S., a bill receives written, and then a gaggle of riders get placed on that are thoroughly unrelated. and then the bill receives rejected, no longer inevitably because the unique bill became undesirable, yet both because it became badly written, or there have been riders on it that weren't needed. also...our monetary gadget is so equipped upon the capitalistic idea of drug organizations and medical human beings and the equipment and the reassurance organizations creating wealth the way they have finished for thus long, that if we purely bounce right into a socialized gadget, our finished monetary gadget would crumple! The docs will be decreased to operating for a salary. The coverage human beings, all of them, will be out of work! The revenues human beings, the adjusters, the human beings who answer our telephone calls, the human beings who RE modify our charges, because they are continually overcharging us....everyone! the human beings who construct medical machines would have their earning decreased. the human beings who make drugs would have their earning decreased. The attorneys that manage malpractice suits will be out of work! imagine about it! medicine will be very much streamlined, yet a lot else would purely disintegrate! So it must be pronounced, and rediscussed, negotiated, and debated. that's been happening quite somewhat 20 years now! and then....in the adventure that they ever pick something, what would our flesh pressers do? they might might want to bypass abode! lol!
2016-11-29 20:03:13 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think most Americans are ignorant to the potential solution to socialized health care. Unfortunately, most of the people that would benefit from said health care are working 2-3 jobs, and do not have Internet, and are unaware that there is a better option out there... You could be the one that blows the lid off of this if you so choose, and leaving your mark in such an incredible way could be the legacy you've always dreamed of!!
Good luck, and if I can be of any service, let me know!
2006-11-26 16:22:16 · answer #3 · answered by purplepartygirrl 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I think that is slowly changing as the cost of medical insurance and medical care escalates. I think that socialized health care is an excellent idea as long as it is implemented with an option to continue your own private insurance if you so desire which is what Canada did. England, however, did not provide that option to its populace. Unfortunately, any form of socialism is looked down upon in our society simply because it is falsely equated with Communism. The USSR was socialistic in name while totalitarian and communistic in practice.... but just try explaining that to the average American.
2006-11-26 16:50:33 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have access to free medical
Just go to the doctors and when they send you the bill, throw it in the trash....now its free!!
Veterans get free healthcare, as they should be.
Illegals get free healthcare, they shouldnt be.
Politicians always get free healthcare, they shouldnt, they are liars and cheaters.
Free healthcare in America is a good idea, but since the govt cant even do a good job regulating what we have now, I wouldnt even trust them, but who knows.
I think the medical industry and insurance industry is lobbying congress to keep that from happening, cause they might loose billions.
2006-11-26 16:35:57 · answer #5 · answered by Jimmy1575 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Between Medicaid, Medicare, and health plans provided by employers, etc., a lot of Americans already have their health care provided for. There are also a lot of unisured people, but probably not enough to make a universal system a political winner.
2006-11-26 16:17:03 · answer #6 · answered by michinoku2001 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because they have health care and don't care about the other 20-25% of the country that doesn't.
2006-11-26 16:17:54 · answer #7 · answered by neo_maxi_zoon_dweeby 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
We all have access to health care in this country too. If you are truly poor in America and you get a big Hospital bill, the hospitals have a kind of insurance that pays the bill for the poor. Regular clinic visits are not as expensive and clinics will usually let you make payments.
2006-11-26 16:25:55 · answer #8 · answered by dakota29575 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
"Socialism" is like a curse word in America. It's widely misunderstood, and people assume that if more people have more, then that means everyone has less. And, as sad as it is, the class gap fuels the American way of life. Socialism would destroy this.
2006-11-26 16:14:14 · answer #9 · answered by geektacular 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because they believe the propaganda, and being ignorant of the rest of the world, erroneously think that they have a higher standard of living than people in Western Europe. The fact that most Americans work harder and longer and have less to show for it than others is not nearly as preposterous as their continuing to voluntarily elect officials dedicated to keeping them economically strapped. And, for all of their BS about right-to-life, they do not care that Canadians, among others, have greater life expectancies (to accompany their higher quality of life) and lower infant mortality rates than Americans.
2006-11-26 16:28:36 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋