if you were homeless and unemployed could you trust the federal government to provide adequate healthcare?

Question

i was wondering how other people feel about the current level of care provided by federal, state, and local agencies when it comes to providing healthcare and other essential services to those who can't afford them. feel free to go into detail here.

Answer 1

Nope. I think their healthplan under those circumstances is summed up in three words...don't get sick.

Answer 2

The US is the last country to institute nationalized medicine.

The reason for that is because the insurance and pharmaceutical companies pay big money to senators and congressman to prevent it from becoming a law. What's really cute about that is that they themselves get the best healthcare there is almost free of charge.

Remember when pharmaceutical companies started jacking the price of prescription drugs up to the point where you had to make a choice of buying your prescription of paying the rent? When people started to go to Canada they tried a propaganda campaign saying that Canadian drugs weren't as good, YET THEY WERE MADE BY THE SAME COMPANY! Canada just has a ceiling on what they can charge for drugs.

When that didn't work, they had Medicare Part D put into effect. They still charge an outrageous amount for the drugs, but now the tax payer is forced to pay it to the insurance companies who have already jacked up their premiums and stopped covering many drugs.

I could pick up one drug I take regularly from a country in Europe for $10.00 for 1000 doses that I pay $212.00 a month for here, but the law says you can't buy drugs from Europe and bring them into the US. Why? Because then the pharmaceutical companies would be forced to lower their prices to compete. Our lawmakers protect them because the pharmaceutical companies pay them to do so.

Hospital costs are outrageous. They try to make it sound as if the reason for it is people sueing them all the time, but that's a lie. It's greed pure and simple.

And does it really cost $10,000.00 a month to warehouse an old person in a nursing home who doesn't need any extreme care? No, again it's just greed pure and simple. The Lutherans have made a huge business out of nursing homes.

Any presidential candidate that says they will push for nationalized healthcare has my vote.

And for anyone who thinks you can walk into the nearest welfare office and get help just like that, you better hope you never have to do so because it's not like that at all! The only ones who get immediate help are illegal immigrants.

Answer 3

Why would you want the federal government to provide this type of service. The point of distributed government is to free you and me to address problems locally. When was the last time you helped at a shelter. When was the last time you lobbied you county or state legislature on behalf of the poor. When was the last time you gave money to a helpful organizational that do the type of work that helps. Complaining about the federal government is insane. If you really want socialism move to Belgium, they do a pretty good job of it. Our system requires action and activism by its citizens if they care. If we don't care and we want to abdicate personal responsibility we also have the right to blame the federal government.

Answer 4

The federal gov't does not provide healthcare benefits (unless you're military), the state does. Homeless and unemployed are not criteria for free healthcare because lots of people who are otherwise able to work choose not to. Some find themselves in those situations due to abusing drugs and alcohol. Benefits are based on NEED and are available to those who qualify. There is welfare, food stamps, WIC, medicaid, social security, etc.. I know it's tough on a lot of single women out there who have to balance child rearing with working but a lot of them refuse to report the deadbeat dad to social services so the agency can begin child support collections. Here's a hint ladies, if you get into a sexual relationship with a man that may produce a child, make sure you have his Social Security number. If he skips out on you and your baby social services can garnish his wages for child support. There are so many people in genuine need. Unfortunately there are ten times that just looking for a free ride. Agencies have to have stringent guidelines about who is in need.

Answer 5

You're kidding, right? The Federal Government fails miserably on almost all levels in terms of the types and levels of service it provides to people who need it. But here's where the argument becomes difficult.

On the one side, you have people saying that the Federal Government should provide health care for everyone. They give examples of other countries like Canada and Sweden who (supposedly) have a much better health care system than we have here, and they wonder why we can't do the same thing here. On the other side, you have the people who say that putting the health care system in the hands of the Federal Government will only make matters worse, while at the same time giving the Federal Government more control over private citizens and raising our taxes at an incredible rate -- all for crappy medical services.

Who's right? Good question. In a fair and just society, those who are unable to work would be cared for and provided for, but there's a big difference between giving someone a hand-up and giving someone a handout. The U.S. is not doing a good job of taking care of people who truly need taking care of, but we're also promoting an entitlement society where people believe they have the right to sit on their lazy @$$es all day and receive money and other aid from the goverment at the expense of your average hard-working taxpayer -- for doing nothing but sitting on their lazy @$$es all day. Is that fair? People who refuse to work continue to get money while other people who need help aren't getting it? What's wrong with this picture?

There is no one good solution, but the first step in the right direction is to stop handing money to people who don't deserve it and do nothing to support themselves or society. You can't work because you have a physical or mental disability? No problem -- we'll take care of your needs, including your health care needs. You're having trouble finding a job? No problem -- we'll take care of your needs, including your health care needs, and we'll send you to job training so you can learn a skill that will enable you to get a job and support yourself. You're perfectly capable of getting a job but have chosen not to work? PROBLEM. If you can't even be bothered to try, we can't be bothered to help you.

Answer 6

sure, because of the fact at this element i don't see that we've lots selection. i'm not too massive on trusting government. yet, as we've considered, privatizing well-being care below the small government, Milton Friedman, Reaganomics, trickle down, loose marketplace kind purely makes the wealthy richer and the unfavorable poorer. The U.S. presently has between the costliest and least effectual well-being care systems interior the international. thankfully the government is made out of human beings. If we as electorate are careful to get the terrific human beings in place to deal with the undertaking and take an brisk pastime in that is persevering with progression, we'd at last have a well-being care equipment that works. Taking it off of the capitalistic, for income equipment will in all likelihood be mandatory. related to your comments approximately congress: once you're shocked that the democrat's small majority's overall performance differs from its campaign supplies, you have not been following politics for terribly long. in case you think of the democrats administration the domicile or Senate, you do not understand the powers that our founding fathers meant the minority events to have...the powers the minority events could have to be sure that our equipment to artwork. i've got heard allot bearing directly to the secretive nature of the Bush administration (I nonetheless haven't any concept why Bush has executed a brilliant number of the failings he's performed as president, or maybe much less of an concept approximately what he will do with something of his term), yet that's the 1st i've got heard some secretive streak interior the congress. i think, because of the fact that they are so secretive, it may well be pointless to invite you for information of the reality. If by using "OUR very own supplies" you mean oil, i'm hoping we don't ever see anymore relatives drilling. Oil is evil in a brilliant number of procedures and on a brilliant number of stages that my answer is already working too long to checklist them. Ethanol became into Bush's concept and purely as undesirable as his different innovations. Sustainable green skill possibilities might contain photograph voltaic, wind, hydro, micro-hydro, tidal, geothermal, electromagnetic...and so on. not ethanol, nuclear, hydrogen or greater drilling.

Answer 7

right now the level of care is below some third world country,s but now that the dems have some power look for that to change as soon as bush leaves and a democrat is elected president....once the focus of the country is not iraq and giving tax breaks to oil company,s more funds will flow into health care..unless the voters want the same old same old....

Answer 8

The only thing in federal government you can count on is Victimizing the legal citizens & pampering the elite & thier gainfully employed illegals!

Answer 9

No need to go into detail. If you're looking for adequate healthcare for the poor and homeless, you need to look to Canada.

Answer 10

You have to ask... "why can't they afford them?"
What has the individual done or not done to support their self?
The government equals the working taxpayers. The working taxpayers work to support themselves. Are the working taxpayers supposed to take care of those that don't work to support themselves also?

Answer 11

Hell no.

We can't even trust them to increase our horribly low Minimum Wage...or even trust them to make decent decisions for the US population...or any other country they are trying to rule.