U.S. Health Care - If you became the President of the U.S. what would you do to change health care?

Question

Universal health care? The politicians will never do anything because they have the best medical coverage in the world. Idea's anyone?

Do we not already have privatized health care?

Answer 1

I would deport all the illegal aliens in this country! It costs the states, federal government, and cities billions of dollars a year to pay for the health care of illegal aliens and their children. Most of the illegals are poor so they go to emergency wards for treatment, which is the most expensive way to treat them.

Deport them all and the US will save billions of dollars. We cannot afford to have universal health care for Americans when we have 12 to 20 million illegal aliens in this country, most of whom have no health insurance. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens. Senators Kennedy and McCain are now working on legislation that would give amnesty to 10 million aliens who entered the country illegally. Contact your Congressmen to oppose this horrible idea!

Answer 2

Since when did politicans have the best medical coverage in the world ?

Politicans have the exact same medical coverage as every other federal employee does.

IE: your Congressmen has the exact same Health Insurance Plan as the Janitor at your states Social Security Office does.


But I do agree that affordable health insurance has become a political issue, with neither party really trying to solve the issue.

My Opinion :

The Democrats want universial health care, but they also try and prevent any measures that might help more people have health insurance, if it doesn't include everyone.

IE: we help everyone or no one.

Facts: The democrats have blocked allowing small business nationwide to form health co-ops to buy health insurance at discount rates.


The Republicans do not want universial health care, but have tried to pass measures making it easier to buy health insurance.

IE: They try to reduce the number of uninsured to what they think is acceptable numbers.

Facts : The Republicans have tried to make health co-ops legal.


Additional facts:

Universial Health Care has been before Congress three times:

In 1973, 1978 and 1993

All three times the Bills never got out of committee to be voted on.


I believe that untill the large American employers like GM, Ford, Crysler, Dell, IBM decide that their health care cost are unsupportable and are hurting their profitabliity, we will not have universial health care in America.

A single Federal Single Payer Health Care Plan would cost about 1.5 trillion dollars a year ( based on what we spend per patient per year on Medicare and what other countries pay Canada, Britian, etc)

That would take a huge overhaul of the current Federal Tax System to bring those health care dollars now spent privately, into the federal coffers to fund such a program.

Answer 3

Yes, we have privatized health care.

We do not have universal health care.

We should follow France's health care plan, which is socialized.

My daughter and her husband went to France last summer, and took his mother. She became very ill one night. They called the concierge in their hotel and a doctor was there within 10 minutes. He diagnosed the mother with the flu, and gave her a prescription. The hotel ordered the proscription, and it came within 20 minutes. The total cost was $25.

Answer 4

Repeal the law forcing hospitals to give service to anybody that comes into the E.R. Hospitals should be like any other business and be allowed to choose to whom they provide service.

Discontinue the practice of assesing punitive damages. They do not punish anyone except the general public that is forced to pay for them. No doctor or hospital ever paid punitive damages, their insurance company pays it, and gets it back by charging insane premiums. It is a stupid system.

Universal health care will just make the current system more expensive, more corrupt, and generally worse all around. No government system has ever, in the history of mankind, been better than a private system.

Answer 5

The simplest and most effective way to improve healthcare is to lower costs and make it more accessible. The easiest way to do this is to create laws to discourage frivolous lawsuits. Many doctors are sued for malpractice without any substantive case made against them and still lose. As a result, many are forced to get malpractice insurance at a premium. This drives up the costs for the consumer. John Edwards made his fortune as a lawyer suing doctors for malpractice.

Bush, reps, and even some dems tried to push a bill that would discourage these suits, but it didn't pass. Very sad.

Answer 6

We have the best health care in the world. You get what you pay for.

Answer 7

Well, more government involvement would most likely not help things any. A national health care service doesn't seem like a good idea. Especially when I hear about Canadians, who do have a national system, coming to America because they have to wait too long to get any help.

Answer 8

the government needs to end the close association of the FDA with drug companies and it's close association with health care providers, I think some kind of anti-trust legislation may be in order to insure that we have a truly competitive marketplace

Answer 9

I for one do not want the governent involved in my or my family's health care. I prefer to make my own choices.

Providing me and mine with health care is not a function of the government.

Answer 10

Privatize it. We certainly don't want the government in charge of our health.