What if you are born super smart and get rich, but you don't like to work that hard and retire early.
What if you were born smart enough to get a good job, but it doesn't pay great and you have to work until you are 65.
Who deserves better healthcare?
Is that fair?
2006-12-19 06:46:39 · 33 answers · asked by Derek D 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
The wealthy probably get better healthcare because they can afford the better healthcare, but I think everyone deserves good healthcare. It isn't fair that most wealthy people get better healthcare.
2006-12-19 06:49:32 · answer #1 · answered by churtles465 2 · 0⤊ 5⤋
People who bust their you-know-whats for a living deserve better healthcare. If you sit on your bum all day, you don't deserve healthcare at all, but for some reason, the liberals in this country think that you do.
What's more fair? I graduated high school with honors, and got an academic scholarship into college. I went to college for eight years (four at a University, and four in medical school... I'm not including my residency and fellowship).
Needless to say, I busted my butt for over ten years, and paid my dues, while some of my peers were partying, doing drugs, and not working at all.
For those of us who have paid our dues to get where we are, your question makes no sense. It seems to me that the only people who are really complaining about this issue are the people who don't make enough money for luxurious healthcare, or for those who are liberals in the middle-class who think that EVERYONE should have luxurious healthcare.
If you don't like where you are, change it. I wasn't born in a privileged family. We had nothing when I was a kid. I had to depend on God, grades, and working part time jobs to get to where I am today.
It's fair if you have worked as hard as I, and so many other Americans, have to acquire what we have now. I'm not going to bust my butt, and then be forced to hand over what I earn to people who are too lazy to work, or so unmotivated that they don't care to better themselves.
By law, though, I DO have to render healthcare to anyone who enters the ER. Whether I get paid or not is a different story.
2006-12-19 08:55:54 · answer #2 · answered by <3 The Pest <3 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate. Doing what you're told doesn't get you anywhere, doing what you have to get what you must, does. Not that your life has to become a "John Q" situation, but perhaps "The pursuit of Happyness" would be a better example. More money will alot you better healthcare. Look into side incomes and hobbies which create revenue, to increase your net worth. With more money, your health should be well taken care of. Write a book, or Join some form of investor or financial group. Ebay possibly, or if you were to Look into stocks and the like would all be good options for increased revenue. Become an upper middle class citizen rather than your average middle class victim, which seem to be common these days. The only difference between them is a bit of sophistication in their financial decisions.
2006-12-19 06:56:42 · answer #3 · answered by Answerer 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
In America, it is extremely fair.
You can get whatever level of health care that you can pay for.
The amount of money you can pay for it, shows the value of the person that earned that money, to society.
So the people that earn enough to buy expensive healthcare (and their families) are more valuable to society and thus purchase better healthcare.
Doesn't get more fair than that.
Someone above said "Everyone deserves the best healthcare available". That is entirely wrong. Healthcare is an expensive luxury and needs to be earned. It's not something you deserve merely by being born. Anything different is socialism or communism and we all know how that worked out.
2006-12-19 06:55:35 · answer #4 · answered by Ricky T 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Is it fair that some people are born with an IQ of 90 and some with 130?
Is it fair that some people are born with the talent for music or sports and most are not?
Is it fair that some people are 6'2" and some are 4'11"?
Is it fair that some people are good and kind and die at 15 and some are evil and die at 90?
Here's a clue for you: life is not fair. Never has been, never will be. It is NOT the government's job to try to make life fair. It is not your job to try to make life fair. It is only your job to do the best you can, with what you've got. And stealing from others, just because they have more than you is a crime. We put people like that in jail.
2006-12-19 07:07:02 · answer #5 · answered by Aegis of Freedom 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It doesn't seem fair, but healthcare is a privilege in this country, not a right, and it costs alot of money. It's the middle class who gets the bum rap. The working poor may not have health insurance, but they still go to the hospital and get healthcare. The middle class pays in insurance premiums and higher healthcare costs to make up for it.
2006-12-19 06:49:52 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
You don't have to be wealthy to get good health care, a decent job and common sense works very well. A person that was born smart and has a low-paying job isn't considered too smart.
2006-12-19 07:12:04 · answer #7 · answered by Mr.Wise 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That's the tradeoff we face in a more fully open market -- less equality with better chance for success.
Socialism--even democratic socialism--is a difficult proposition in most industries as it does hinder growth and encourage complacency, even if people are treated "equally." Of course, even in those countries, the elite class (or those who somehow have become rich) get treated better (like flying to the U.S. for medical treatment, etc.)
The question is HOW MUCH we help to "level the playing field." We offer public schools to those who cannot afford private schools to guaranty a base level of education (although many public schools are failing for a whole bunch of reasons). Do we offer a similar base level of healthcare to guaranty that children can lead healthy lives and that we don't waste time and money with uninsured in emergency rooms? What will that do to overall health care quality? These are the issues we're talking about.
2006-12-19 06:52:17 · answer #8 · answered by Perdendosi 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
thats capitalism for you..
obviously, the paycheck you get is not always what you deserve, if we talk about fair... but that's how the economic system works. Of course a celebrity, earns a hell of a lot more money that a pediatrician. (and I'm not even talking about the great actors and musicians.. let's look at Paris Hilton, that, besides the money she was born with, she keeps making more... money.. buy more money...)
So, the person that can pay for better heathcare will get better healthcare..
2006-12-19 06:51:17 · answer #9 · answered by Danii 2 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Life isn't fair. Get used to it.
What if you worked your *** off to get rich and some bitter ****** thought it wasn't fair and stuck it to you?
What if people who would be the most skilled doctors decided to get into a different field because of caps placed on earnings in the health field by embittered ******* who felt it was their Constitutional right to get the same product, for less money, as those with more money.
2006-12-19 06:59:02 · answer #10 · answered by Gamer 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If someone held a gun at you, and demanded your money, would that be "fair". I think you'd agree that it's criminal, and unfair. Even if they were doing it to rob from you to pay for the health care of some hard-working, but poor person.
But for some reason, many people think it's OK, if the "someone" demanding the money is the government.
Why do you think that it's OK for some people to be "forced" to pay for the healthcare of others?
Is that fair?
2006-12-19 06:52:44 · answer #11 · answered by ya_jerry 1 · 4⤊ 1⤋