Which health insurance plan do you want to happen in this country? Republican or Democrat?

Question

Interesting but ....Repubs want it to be government funded private insurance. Dems want the government to take over. Either way they want it to be controlled for public health. So one way or another its an inevitability as I see it. Prisoners are healthier than the general population. Now if you are paying for your premiums I think they will leave you alone but if you are a drain on the system, I think this is where it is gonna kick in? Which system do you prefer? Are you ready to change your ways if you are not wealthy enough to pay your own premiums?

Answer 1

I think we should have the option to self insure. Make the 125 flex accounts role over year after year. If we could do that people could put money in the account now and if they are healthy and have healthy life styles they can do with out paying for health insurance. We pay $3500. per year and our employer pays $3500 per year for our health insurance. It is not good coverage, no orthodontia, no vision, no chiropractic. There is a cap of $1000. per person per year for dental. Oh and did I mention the $1000. deductible we have to meet before they will pay for anything? We put $2000. in a flexible savings account that we use for all of our medical coverage. so add it up 3500+3500=$7000 then add the $2000.= $9000.00
The real problem is the insurance companies. They are thieves.

Answer 2

Insurance?? Government?? Why? Gov't paid health has never worked in Canada, many Canadians have to come down here for serious (timely) treatment, the wait for an appointment is months in their own country, and taxes go up a LOT (25% higher than US and the system still doesn't work). Canada health care is a train wreck. Solution? Ask why big high dollar churches don't have free walk in clinics staffed by volunteers? Doctors donate a few hours a week? Let the big hospitals take care of seriously ill. It is totally immoral to have to pay a $150 office call the get a $12 prescription for cough medicine. Get the bulk of profit on illness out of the pockets of insurance companies? Real solution maybe?

Answer 3

Either way you look at it, from rep or dem perspective...it will still be government owned. In the rep way, it is not run by government, but by funding it, they will certainly own it. So the end result is really the same.

That said, it doesn't need to be either, exclusively. Corporations can be taxed a little higher, with the difference going to the health system. Yes, it will mean higher taxes, but if you are paying premiums now...its really the same thing. But this way, it will always be available...and still accessible to you, even if you lose your job. And can't afford the premiums.

Looking at this new plan with a sense of inevitability allows you to look at aspects and benefits that you never realized possible.

There isn't some dirty plot to control the population...just a desire - from both parties - to make sure that the Greatest Nation in the World retains its title with the healthiest population on the planet. Not so bad, huh?

Answer 4

I can't stimulate one brain cell so I pass on this one. I'll say this, I'd like to keep private insurance. Eventually that would not be an option. You can beleive the president all you want about how there will always be the option, but that's only for the weak-minded. Think longterm and it will not work. It will be fine at first but as healthcare devolves the level of care will not be as good as it was when private care was still an option. And if it's so good over there then why do people come here to get life-saving procedures they would have to wait for back home? We aren't talking about your routine checkup, we are talking life-saving procedures and tests that take forever to get with that socialized medicine. The term "crisis" makes me laugh. Because everything is a crisis with you people.

Answer 5

Even as a Liberal I prefere a government funded private insurance program.

We have got to create a system that relieves business of the burden of health care. Sure they can contribute to any government/private hybrid system, but they should no longer have to watch the terminal illness of just one employee practically bring the whole program to its knees.

Every year, my employer provided healthcare benefits get worse and the future is grim.

I really want a universal health care program for all Americans, where we are never out of network and if we change jobs, we don't have to wait for coverage and be raped by Cobra.

And by removing the albatross of health care from American business we could make an overnight leap into competitiveness versus global competition.

Answer 6

this is my answer.
Why so many people from Canada and all over Europe come to the USA for medical treatment?
Don't you think that if they have a good free medical system they will use it?
No doubt that something must be done to help people without insurance, including these people helping themselves

Answer 7

So --- let's see. Government funded health care is no good because they will screw it up much like has happened to the military. BUT, it makes more sense to have government funded health care paying big bucks to big business. Makes good sense to me.

Answer 8

Have you heard about the UK system. Its crashing. Thousands of Doctors are being let go and dental is taken away. Government health care in ruins. Keep it private here.

Answer 9

I'd rather not see socialized medicine. Why do so many wealthy Canadians come to the US for treatment? Because they don't want to wait. It'll be just as bad here.

"Free" healthcare won't be free. It'll be a tax increase... to individuals, not corporations. And there's still no guarantee the costs would be controlled.

We really need tort law reform to solve the healthcare crisis.

Answer 10

We need Health insurance like the Canadians have.FREE!