Many, many people in the U.S are beginning to see the advantage to a healthy country. Even some repuglicans are beginning to see that the health care system in this country is broken and needs replaced or repaired. Do you think that Universal Health Care is needed in the U.S. Would some people in England or Canada please comment on the plus's or minus's of their system. Thank you to all that answer reasonably.
2007-01-27 00:03:21 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Government
I'm a retired (after 34 years service) veteran. I get all my healthcare from the VA except dental. I support a Universal Healthcare program. I think we should have had this in place 50 years ago.
While Canada and the UK have a healthcare system that has problems atleast everyone that needs healthcare can get some.
Here in the U.S. at the present time many people cannot afford healthcare plans and must pay cash or put on a credit card the expense of healthcare or don't get any healthcare.
While i get my healthcare for free, to and including prescription drugs, i'd be willing to take a pension cut of 5-10% to pay for any universal healthcare. That would amount to about $237 a month just for myself.
2007-01-27 00:12:49 · answer #1 · answered by michael_trussell 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
First you start with health care, then later someone will say that having electricity is a right and that the govenment should pay for that too. Then comes fuel, food, etc. Before you know it, we are the new communist union with food lines like they had in the former Soviet Union. So no, universal health care is a poor idea that should not even be considered in this country. I personally do not want to pay any more in taxes than I do. I already pay about 40% of my income in taxes. Because of this I still live paycheck to paycheck after busting my butt for over 9 years in higher education past college.
2007-01-27 01:16:47 · answer #2 · answered by rwill54287 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If its like what they have in most countries with universal healthcare, NO No NO!!!
Expensive, uncaring and inefficient? We need something that is well designed and serves the people, not something that is a political toy that raises taxes without being a benefit to the people it is supposed to serve. Given the history of our government's incompetence I would strongly oppose it because the quality of health care for everybody would be garbage.
2007-01-27 00:16:44 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes, I believe we do need universal health care. Right now I am sick and have been for 3 weeks. Cannot afford physician visit. I worked hard all my life and had healthcare but now that I am unable to work because of depression/anxiety issues, if I am sick, I am not able to be treated because I have no money. If I go to emergency, because I can't breathe, I can't pay the bills. I'm not asking for someone to take care of me, just to help me out, and I can't get it because I do not have minor children. Sucks?
2007-01-27 00:13:30 · answer #4 · answered by Suzan 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Ms. Hilary Clinton has asked on Yahoo Answers, “Based on your own family’s experience, what do you think we should do to improve health care in America?” Not surprising that as of this writing she has received over 36,000 answers.
These answers range all the way from “Make good health care affordable to everyone. Maybe charge for it on a sliding scale, but everyone can participate regardless of income. Health care should not be a privilege in this country it should be a right.” to “Keep the government just as far away from the doctor as you possibly can. Anything on this earth that comes under the crushing bureaucracies of the federal government is doomed to excess. Medicine is a necessity. Please keep the government away so the people can get what they need.”
Not surprising, that as a Libertarian, I support the later view and disdain the former. Those who claim that health care should be a right never explain from which this right springs. Does one’s need give the right to another’s property? That means that if I am hunger I have the right to come in your house and take the food out of your refrigerator, right? No, they will say, but the Government should subsidize health care for those who cannot afford it.
Well Hell’s Bells! Just how does the Government get the money to pay for that subsidy? Taxes? You bet your sweet *** they do, and just you try and not pay those taxes and see where that gets you. It will get everything you own confiscated, and if you resist that you will be put in jail. And if you resist that they will kill you. Taxes are force as long as you are compelled to pay them upon threat of life, liberty, and loss of property.
At what point of acquiring wealth does it become all right to steal from a person? If it is wrong for me to walk into the rich man's house and take his money from his safe without his consent what makes it all right to get together with my elected representatives and pass laws requiring him to feed me, give me shelter, and free (to me) health care?
Suppose we had our representatives’ pass a law that required women of a certain age be required to provide sex for any man who wishes her services? Would that be right? Well Hell No! We should not be able to pass laws to force anyone to do something they wished not to do. Our Courts would strike down any such law as unconstitutional because they recognize the right of the person self-ownership. It is your property that they do not give you the right to own. The Court has always recognized the Government’s right to decide what you can keep for your own pleasure and what you must surrender for their disposition. The power to tax is the power to destroy.
Sir Winston Churchill said, “The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. Please remember Benjamin Franklin’s warning, “When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.” And as Will Durant pointed out, “Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty; and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that is so pruned as to keep the rich from denuding the poor by ability or subtlety and the poor from robbing the rich by violence or votes.”
Now in closing I would remind you of what Orson Scott Card said, “If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side.” I urge you to beware of the Government when it offers to take care of you. One thing I know for sure is that the Government will take care of itself!
2007-01-27 00:13:00 · answer #5 · answered by thecarolinacowboy 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Sure. The time for the IDEA of universal health care has come. It will be a wonderful campaign promise. Get a lot of dimwits elected.
Next, we will have to wait for the IDEA of who is going to PAY for that universal health care.
If any knows the answer to that question please let me know.
2007-01-27 00:14:21 · answer #6 · answered by John H 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
That is socialized medicine in its worst form, and you saw the deterioration of medical care in UK and the taxation to pay for the social programs.
2007-01-27 00:56:27 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
No people have to earn their prevention of diseases. Lazy slobs don't deserve to get a free ticket!
^^^ that's sarcasm. Of course it should. **** all you capitalist pigs!
2007-01-27 00:12:57 · answer #8 · answered by pnatt89 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have seen VA healthcare. No thank you! How and who do you want to pay for this change?
2007-01-27 00:12:14 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I say yes. Too many are falling in the cracks. Am I my brother's keeper? Ya, his untreated venereal diseases, TB and other nasty germs are catching, and he doesn't have health care.
2007-01-27 00:09:01 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋