Why should the hard working American people have to pay for the health care of the lazy?

Answer 1

Hey all of you fans of Government Health Care or Socialized medicine---

Do you really want your Hospitals and Doctors offices run by the same civil service lackeys who brought you the DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES and the INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE?

Do you want the best? Or just the lowest bidder?

Answer 2

Your question poses a bit of a quandary. I don't live in New Orleans, so should my tax dollars go to rebuild that city? I am a veteran but don't support the war in Iraq. Should my tax dollars be spent hand over fist to support that war? I have my own retirement account separate from social security, so why do I have to pay FICA every week?

The reason is that the government has decided what to do with our money, and we have no say in the day-to-day hemorrhaging of cash in Washington. Most currently receiving government subsidized health care are not lazy, they are people who have had a run of bad luck.

I, being compassionate, have no problem with my tax dollars going to help someone out of a tight spot. Someone else mentioned the "hand up not hand out" rule which I think applies very well here.

Health care is expensive -too expensive for those making $5.35 an hour. We need to look at ways to bring down the cost of health insurance (through tort reform, allowing importation of drugs from Canada, etc.) as well as making sure that everyone makes enough money to afford it. At WalMart, for example, 52% of their employees are not covered by health insurance, either because of ineligibility or inability to pay. These are working people, not lazy people, and it is despicable...

I am not "bashing" you or your question, because it is an important one. It could have been stated a little better, though.

Answer 3

The American people should not have to pay for the health care of every American, but they are responsible for the greater health and the wellbeing of all citizens. The only way to change the situation is to guarantee every American who wants to work a decent job with health benefits. Until that happens, universal health care is the only ethical system available. Any society that deprives citizens of work, and then allows children to die, is barbaric.

Answer 4

In the state I live in, one in four do not have health insurance. that doesn't mean they are not working. we don't have a 25% unemployment rate. It means that health care has gotten too expensive for many Americans. the cost of health care has nearly doubled in the last 5-6 years. On average, one out of every 6 dollars spent in the U.S. is on health care. that is too much. Something needs to be done. We need health care reform so that more people can afford to buy insurance.

Answer 5

You must live in California, in today's paper the arnold has proposed a new health care system. Every company with more than 10 workers has to provide health care for them, or pay 4% of the company payroll to the state. This money would provide healthcare for the poor and lazy.

Answer 6

It's not those that have no healthcare that I worry about.

It's simply creating a national healthcare system. It has been proven not to work, straight up. Those that say "look how great europe is or Canada" are ignorant of the facts. For example, you are more likely to die waiting for heart surgery in canada than you are on the operation table.

Sorry, but I do not want to have to wait that long for healthcare. i also do not want to have to pay that much. By going to a national healthcare system I would get an increase (based on other systems) average of more than 400 dollars a month out of my current paycheck. Sorry...but I can't afford that...and neither can many other people either.

Answer 7

Please explain the term "lazy"! Is an unemployed person considered lazy? Are pensioners, invalids, mentally incapable considered lazy? Who will be the judge to decide anyone is lazy or not?

The strength and the quality of any society is measured by level about caring its weakest persons. There will be some real lazy persons getting in and getting "free lunch". But it is better than disregarding the weak, poor, incapable part of the society.

Answer 8

Dude, who do you think is paying for health care now. Ever buy a new car, the CEO of General Moters just come out and said that $1500 of every new car goes to pay for health insurence. This has to be the norm in all industrys so a portion of every thing you buy is health insurance. A hidden tax so to speak. The insurance industry reaps huge profits from health insurance. Take that out of the system and fund it from the federal or state budget and the cost of health care goes down dramatically. Currently there are 45 million people that do not have access to affordable health care. They simply cannot afford it and neither can their employers. That is 1/6 of the population. Who do you think ends up paying for these people if they have a major illness or an accident and has to use the health care system. You do, thats right. Would you not rather have the 8 or 9 hundred dollars that your employer pay's for your heath insurance in your pocket to spend as you wish with maybe a 10% of all purchases tax to fund health care. Doesn't it make sense to you to save money on it. Canada has a good system, ask a Canadian, do not believe what is a myth passed down from one conservative to another that they have to wait months to have a heart attack. An emegency is an emergency regardless and you get immidiate treetment, now if you want to have bigger boobs you have to wait. I say duh, and besides you can always go private and pay for that yourself. No, you are wrong, but it is what you believe unless you do some real research and find out both sides and make an intelligent decision, I have done that and I have made mine, I say yes to socialized medicine in the next decade.

Answer 9

No. They shouldn’t…it’s better to ban abortion and when the child later becomes ill with a serious disease such as Angio Sarcoma and the parents are unable to afford thousands of dollars worth chemo therapy..let the child die in a tragic, painful death..…all because the working, middle class parents fell into that “lazy” category. Commpasionate Conservatism indeed.

Answer 10

We shouldn't. I have no problem spending my tax dollars on people who can't work because they have some type of disability, and I also have no problem helping people who don't have jobs but are trying to find work and can't. There's a big difference between giving someone a hand up and giving someone a handout. If you can't be bothered to do anything other than trot down to the welfare office once a month and say "Gimme my check" then my answer is to throw your worthless @$$ out in the street and let you starve -- and if you have a bunch of welfare babies that you brought into this world just so you could get more money, we'll take them away -- along with your parental "rights" -- and give them to people who will give them the love and care they deserve.