"free healthcare"?

Question

do you liberals really think our gov't can run our healthcare system w/o killing everyone in america. i mean, look at the fine job they ve done with tax codes, veteran admin and just about everything else they put their hands in.
who s going to create the new drugs. these drugs cost millions for r and d and that money just wont be available. what doctor is going to goto school fr 10 yrs to pull in 60 grand a yr? waiting lists for anything routine and long waits for emergency problems will be the norm.
think about it, it s wrong and no good. just think about the taxes we ll be forced to pay.it aint free if you have to pay for it

Answer 1

I dont want my hospital run like the DMV, so I completely agree with you. And people say free but it isnt free, taxes will have to pay for it.......

EDIT - Tolnac, I pay about $35-40 a month for my insurance, so you think thats all I woudl pay in taxes?

Answer 2

Nashnal 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....

Answer 3

Free Fallin' by Tom Petty Freedom Overspill - Steve Winwood Freelove - Depeche Mode

Answer 4

No such thing as a free lunch - Milton Friedman


It has to be paid for somehow.

Those useless wars such as the War on Poverty which has been going on for over 40 years.

I say once the welfare system is resolved and everyone has a job, then we can have free health care.

I don't want the same people who brought me Katrina, the Post Office, No Child Left Behind, and the IRS to run health care. And I'm not talking about Bush. I'm talking about the bureaucrats who will run it.

Answer 5

We're already paying for the millions of uninsured with our taxes.

Do you pay for medical insurance? The amount you would pay in taxes for universal health care would most likely be less than what you pay for individual insurance.

The US and South Africa are the only industrialized nations that don't guarantee health care to their citizens. I'm thinking the other 90 countries must have found a way to make it work.

Answer 6

You only need look at other countries with such a system. It doesnt work cause government lacks the incentive structure to make it happen.

Answer 7

I was going to answer this...but I'm not going to even bother. Why don't you do some research into the drug companies, corporations, the FDA, Title 26, and the gov't before you talk about anything related...good luck.

Answer 8

No such thing as free health care... everyone will eventually have to pay for it in the end.

Answer 9

And all the liberals say " watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat"

Answer 10

Don't forget about the bangup job they are doing in the Department of Education...

Government healthcare is flat out SCARY!!!!