What can we do to fix it?
2006-12-19 13:58:37 · 13 answers · asked by trenchwatch 2 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
I think the biggest problem in health care is that not everyone is covered. Everyone should be covered regardless of their economic standing. Universal health care would be the answer but I don't know how we'd get there. Health care is way too expensive. Why can the same drug be more expensive in the US than in like say Canada. I live in MN and they frequently offer bus trips across the border to Canada for people to fill the prescriptions and this is usually for 1/3 or less of the cost of the US cost...same drug...same strength...etc. I wish there was a way to make sure people who were working eligible to receive benefits like health insurance through their employer without it costing the employer an arm and a leg. And for people who don't or can't work for them to receive the same benefits subsidized by the states. Health care should be a right not a privilege. I am a single female who worked 2 full time jobs while going to college and then I got sick. My health insurance did not cover all of the bills and I ended up having to pay (and am still paying) on $75,000.00 in medical bills. It is sad that in a country the size of the US we can't find a better system to make sure all people a covered with the necessary medical insurance. Great question. Hopefully there will be an answer soon...we need one!
2006-12-19 15:03:02 · answer #1 · answered by Tiggers 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Financing, obviously. Almost all Americans think of health care as a public utility, and though it can't be considered a "right" it is something we should as a society provide to all. And though everybody can't have every treatment it would be nice if we could have a rationing debate that didn't immediately devolve into class warfare.
Next I'd like to see a public discussion of the role of physicians in society. Just one example: the requirement of a prescription to get many drugs is at its basis a public-safety measure, but has been lost under the fuss of money. It's quite normal for a patient to be angry when not prescribed the drug he wants, and to think the doctor's interests are not his, just because the confounding factors are so much in the patient's mind.
2006-12-19 15:55:30 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
One of the biggest problems in health care is the insurance companies. First they want to play doctor and tell you what doctor you can see and when you can see them. Next they want to tell you what medicine you can take and how often you can take it. You go to the doctor and pay $60-$80 or more for an office visit then go to the pharmacy and insurance doesn't want to pay for what the doctor says is best. I give a thumbs up to Walmart in starting the $4.00 plan.. If they can do it then other pharmacies can too. We need affordable insurance that will pay for what the doctor says and not what they want you to take. I work in a pharmacy and it's sad to see that elderly people on Social Security struggle everyday to get by and having to decide on food or her medicine for the month.
2006-12-20 12:44:00 · answer #3 · answered by jennifer b 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The fact that more and more people can not afford the insurance. Besides the fact that insurance companies are ran by greedy a-- h---s, the government should pay our health care costs instead of throwing our money away on their whims. Although I am not a fan of Hillary, I seem to remember her suggesting this several years ago.
2006-12-19 14:56:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The problem is that our health care system is based on profit, not your health. How do you help fix this? The FDA must be monitored for starts. The drug companies have too much influence. If a cancer cure is discovered it must be a drug or the FDA will keep it in limbo instead of having it approved. Cancer is the drug companies potential cash-cow. It's profits before people.
2006-12-19 16:44:57 · answer #5 · answered by The professor 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the USA, it's insurance companies.
As most of the civilized world knows, you cannot run health care for profit. Health is a human need and a human right and should not be in the hands of greedy corporations. It's not an industry.
2006-12-19 15:20:49 · answer #6 · answered by The Gadfly 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nicely the answer to this starts with an ethical characteristic that human beings have lost in recent many years, shame. human beings trust they are "entitled" to health care(both medicare and medicaid). nicely, that is basically not so. beforehand the finished Society human beings were seen as detrimental for buying authorities promises and courses because it replaced right into a very last motel, now its the first element they could imagine of and do not care how they are seen in others eyes. you want to fix the health care disaster, in case you'll, reload uncomplicated concepts of shame and independence into human beings minds.
2016-11-30 23:47:06 · answer #7 · answered by anuj 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The biggest problem is that so many people don't have any health care!!!
2006-12-19 14:06:25 · answer #8 · answered by averyanne77 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think it is the cost of health care which is a result of the insurance they have to purchase to practice which is a result of lawsuits.
2006-12-19 14:17:19 · answer #9 · answered by Yahoogirl 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no one can afford it. and i am one of them....... keep gettin more hospital bills and i cant afford that either.... find a way to lower the cost. i think if it were more affordable for people like me than that would definantly help. i am single female that has a job, pays for apartment, car, car insurance, phone and feeds myself and my sister most of the time.......even if i didnt have to feed my sister i still could not afford it
2006-12-19 14:32:01 · answer #10 · answered by kooneyedkellie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋