2006-12-07 00:45:11 · 12 answers · asked by Marlene D 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
doctors couldnt make 800,000 a year then.
2006-12-07 00:47:04 · answer #1 · answered by David B 6 · 4⤊ 2⤋
National Health care is estimated to cost American tax payers 339 billion dollars per year. Imagine the tax hike that would incur.
For all that tax money, we would buy surprisingly little health care.
The one common characteristic of all national health care systems is a shortage of services. For example, in Great Britain, a country with a population of only 55 million, more than 800,000 patients are waiting for surgery. In New Zealand, a country with a population of just 3 million, the surgery waiting list now exceeds 50,000. In Sweden the wait for heart x-rays is more than 11 months. Heart surgery can take an additional 8 months. In Canada the wait for hip replacement surgery is nearly 10 months; for a mammogram, 2.5 months; for a pap smear, 5 months. Surgeons in Canada report that, for heart patients, the danger of dying on the waiting list now exceeds the danger of dying on the operating table. According to Alice Baumgart, president of the Canadian Nurses Association, emergency rooms are so overcrowded that patients awaiting treatment frequently line the corridors.
This is just a few of the follies we would face. I see some people parising theses countiy's health care systems, yet they really don't know much about them and what really happens.
In the end, we lose money and health care we could have gotten in an emergency room. National health care is not for us....
2006-12-07 08:57:14 · answer #2 · answered by Q-burt 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Free? Even in a socialist country, where you get 'free' medical coverage, it isn't 'free'! Taxes pay for it there and taxes would have to pay for it here. Now I don't know about you, but I'm not interested in paying for the health care of someone walking over the boarder when I can just barely afford my own health coverage!
2006-12-07 08:55:41 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
To many people in this country are looking for government handouts. Go to work, work hard, do your job and pay for health care for you and your family. That's the way it should be done.
If your lucky enough your company will have a health care sponsored program.
People need to stop looking for free handouts and quit blaming others for their problems and start taking responsibility for their lives
2006-12-07 08:58:15 · answer #4 · answered by kjlh58 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That is one hell of a good question.I'am retired and disabled.My Grand father my Father and I all payed into Social security.They had never received one cent in health care,and now I have to pay for it and it is not worth a damn.I still pay for a lot of my medicines.WE are only are alowed so much a year then they don't pay.Some people think we retired folk's have a free ride.That is not true.We all worked hard for the very very little we are getting back.
2006-12-07 11:16:02 · answer #5 · answered by I'm Jerry 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Insurance companies prefer it to be privatized. Americans are an independent lot. We're not about to let someone "freeload"; better to let them get sick than to get well and be able-bodied citizens at no cost to them; they need to be a drain on the healthcare system and the rest of society. Americans trust the free enterprise system to deliver competitive pricing more than elected officials to deliver a solution. We can't afford it; we have spent too much fighting fanatics, paying for our healthcare. We are too busy and spend too much time, money and energy watching each other Americans spending money exercising, getting fat, bloated and sick. But let's make sure our elected officials have access to healthcare for life. Crazy, huh?
2006-12-07 09:01:50 · answer #6 · answered by huskerbidwatcher 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Excellent question,after all,our tax dollars pay for all of our elected officials health care,it would seem to me that as long as tax money goes for their health coverage,it could just as well pay for everyone.Or they more deserving than the people that are paying for their benefits???
2006-12-07 08:50:55 · answer #7 · answered by festeringhump 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Need to look to Bill Clinton for the answer. He promised us national health insurance within 90 days of his taking office and spent alot of money, with Hillary Clinton in charge. As you know nothing was ever done.
2006-12-07 08:50:49 · answer #8 · answered by Michael 5 · 4⤊ 3⤋
Because we're too busy giving it to illegal aliens and people who don't work for a living.
We're a capitalist country. You're legal. You work. Pay or die!
2006-12-07 11:54:59 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
We haven't reached socialist status quite yet. We're allmost there though....
2006-12-07 08:55:53 · answer #10 · answered by delgados12 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
So we do not have the incredible tax rates you do! If you pay at the office or you pay thru your taxes your still paying
2006-12-07 08:48:24 · answer #11 · answered by mark g 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋