are you for or against socialized medicine?its for a social studies fair project.please give your answers and why you choose to be for or against it so I can take a poll.thanks!
2006-12-03 07:56:20 · 8 answers · asked by tiye h 1 in Social Science ➔ Economics
I'm for it. As a Canadian I see how the system really works! Sure, it isn't perfect, but no system is. You typically have a lot of American anti social medicine types criticizing and jumping all over any of our problems to hide the larger problems with your system. Line ups? The US system decides who gets operations based on who can pay. If you can't pay, your line up is infinite. If you can pay, you don't have to wait at all, you get the operation even if you don't need it.
Most of our problems have to do with limited resources due to a small population and tax base. Most that want to change it are filthy rich.
AND our total debt and per capita debt and annual deficit are a fraction of the US.
2006-12-03 08:25:29 · answer #1 · answered by JuanB 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I'm for something. I don't hear that many Canadians complaining. Anybody waiting six months for surgery must need something in short supply AND not have the money to pay for it outside the system. Also, America pays the most for medical care and gets the spottiest coverage (uninsured's pay the MOST - that's just plain stupid). So, yeah, something. I just don't know what yet (being as I have a job today and have some coverage).
Also, I'm a little peeved that most of the cost of actual medical care is hidden. If you work your employer pays some and you pay some. Neither of you knows the cost of your healthcare (so if you decided to quit or maybe switch to a job that doesn't include some healthcare coverage you don't have a clue what the replacement value is). We can't just shove all the cost of insurance onto employers or the government or none of us will ever have an incentive to economize on medical care.
2006-12-03 16:17:28 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
I'm against it but it's the direction we're heading in. Hope I die before it happens don't want to live through that mess.
The reason is simple. Just imagine if the government ran the grocery stores, and decided what would be on the shelves and how much it would cost. I don't think anyone would go along with that. The difference is that for medical care people don't understand the choices they have or the cost of a government controlled system.
2006-12-03 21:37:21 · answer #3 · answered by Roadkill 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Ask all the millions and millions of people without health insurance, 6 months for a surgery is a god-send.
I am from NZ, we have a socialised system and it is full of problems. But when you are a young family, say with children 10 and 8, and one of them falls ill to cancer, i think the last thing you need to worry about is how are you going to afford treatment. It does work.
Also as a little thought. How many trillions has the US spent of terrorism on the last few years (than before 9-11) - how many people have died - a few thousand (including iraq soldiers deaths)
How many people have died because of poor or no medical treatment? how many people die each year period?
What use is a government if they won't protect the lives, and care for the health of its citizens?
Would more people be alive if that extra terror money went into healthcare? I would think so. Would more people have died through terror acts? I am not convinced, It was poor intelligences and arogance that lend to that tradegy, something money was not needed to fix. I have wandered i know.
2006-12-04 05:42:48 · answer #4 · answered by holdon 4 · 3⤊ 4⤋
Absolutely NOT.
That would require forcibly taking my money and forcing me to pay/participate against my will in a mandatory government program. That is anti-liberty.
People can use all the warm, fuzzy sounding, compassionate words they want. Government force is not liberty.
I want the government out of my life.
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2006-12-03 17:49:20 · answer #5 · answered by Zak 5 · 3⤊ 4⤋
I am against "Socialism" of any form, all freedom loving individuals are, Socialized medicine simply does not work, this country currently has such a system in place, they are medical entitlements, payed for by our shrinking middle class tax payers. If government would get out of the way, market trends and competition would drive down health care costs and everyone could afford quality care.
2006-12-03 17:19:45 · answer #6 · answered by sergeant151 2 · 3⤊ 7⤋
Against. Socialized medicine is bad becuase it makes people dependent on government and give handouts to the people. It will increased a huge debt and deficit, is not right.
2006-12-03 17:01:08 · answer #7 · answered by cynical 6 · 5⤊ 5⤋
Against it. All you have to do is look at Canada and see way it won't work. Having to wait 6 monthes for a surgery
2006-12-03 16:00:22 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 5⤋