Are you for or against a national health care system?

Question

Personally, I think it will crush us economically and assure mediocre health care with ridiculous waiting periods.

Canada's healthcare system is a disaster! What are you talking about?? Many Canadians come to the states because they have a four month wait back home!

Answer 1

I think you are correct...if it does go forward it would be nice to require our dear politicians to use the exact same system IE doctors, offices , waits etc...with their own butts on the line they would never pass it..

Answer 2

I don't like politicians using the phrase "cost benefit analysis" in reference to my health care. The idea that the government can deem my medical procedure as not cost effective is a little frightening. I lived in the UK under the NHS. I know that what we have here is better, despite it's flaws. There is no way that the government will be able to run the health care industry without doing some (if not all) of the following things : A) Run the deficit up. B) Attempt to curb costs by rationing care, or limiting access. C) Increase taxes on everyone. Depending on the poll, 75-85% of the population is happy with their health care. I have yet to see where any of these bills address the increasing cost of health care, tort reform, government expenses, and other root problems of the health care industry. This is just off the top of my head......but I could keep going on.

Answer 3

For! The US is already being crushed economically by our healthcare problems and most people have mediocre health care.

The US currently pays more per capita than anyone with the worst healthcare. A 12 year old recently died in Maryland from a toothache! The tooth became impacted, developed an infection. We all know pennicillin fixes that but instead of $150 or $300 solution, which the family didn't have, he was eventually taken to the emergency room. The infection had spread to the brain and over $200,000 was then spent(who do you think paid for that?) and the boy died anyway. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

I have a neighbor, who worked at the large, local hospital. A good hospital in a good neighborhood. She recently was diagnosed with inoperable cancer and will die. They now say she's probably had it for perhaps 4 years. After 23 months of tests and treatments, her portion that the insurance won't pay is $26,000. This is good insurance in the USA?

Another woman had curable cancer. Her insurance company cancelled her policy then and she found other insurance at $27,000 a year, while she makes $60,000.

It's bad for the economy, bad for our citizens and bad for capitalism.

Answer 4

I seriously doubt it would crush us economically, I might point out that France and Canada both have national health care systems and their economic systems do quite well. In fact, Canada comes in just behind us and France is actually a stronger economy.

As far as mediocre health care and long wating periods, I could see that as a possibility. I don't think it is guaranteed as such, but I could see it happening. The major problem here is that what will probably happen at first is that the rich will have to wait longer than they used to, while the poor will finally actually be able to see someone. But since the rich have the ability to gripe more and be heard, it will look much worse at first. Then the rich do what they always do, slip a nice little bribe to a doctor or receptionist (or whoever can get them in quicker), and everything will drop back more or less to status quo, but with the poor at least having a chance to be helped medically.

So in the end, simply because more people can be helped this way (the poor along with the rich), I got to go with a national health care system being the better choice.

Answer 5

As proposed, I'm against it !! Even though I'm self-employed and find it almost impossible to get insured !! As you mention, one only has to look at England / Canada to see the incredible drawbacks.

ONE thing that might help would be a change in laws regarding lawsuits / malpractice / insurance policies. It's sad that many doctors after becoming buried in student loans are then buried in insurance costs.

I'd LIKE to see a national health care system for CHILDREN... preventive health.

Answer 6

I have to agree with you. In my opinion, everything is better when left to free enterprise. Health care included. Without good competition, quality, service, and more tends to head in a downward spiral. The only thing I do not understand is the extreme cost of health insurance. However, there are more and more companies coming up with affordable plans. That will force the other companies to follow if they want to compete. I just recently got health insurance through my employer. Up until recently, health care plans were just not affordable for the small business I work for. But, we did our research and found a company that has a pretty good plan and it is affordable for both employer and employee.

Answer 7

For! I'd like everyone to be able to choose their own doctors and receive excellent medical care. And if you just took a few minutes to do your own research, you would realize that we spend more of our GDP (Gross Domestic Product) on healthcare than any of the nations that have Universal Healthcare. And we are not all covered as all of the people in those countries are. We could actually help our economy with the correct national health care system.

Answer 8

We have to try something. Why should illegals and low life citizens reap all the rewards. This is what is a major issue crushing our economy as you put it.
My father served in WW11, my brother in Viet Nam, his son in Iraq. I raised two good tax paying citizens, worked all my life. The company I worked for went out of business and left me with no health care. But I am not old enough to qualify for Medi-care and not idigent enough to get Medi-cal. I have to have major surgery soon, but I cannot get any help. This just isn't right.

Answer 9

Yes, I've talked to doctors that came from Canada to get away from socialized medicine. They tell of waiting lists and patients not getting the care they need in a timely manner.

Answer 10

against, but the lefty communist loving libs in charge now, will probably make it a 3rd world reality for us. way to be like cuba!

I have govt healthcare being in the military.... YOU DO NOT WANT GOVERMENT HEALTHCARE, trust me, just remember that the more you hear of the walter reed scandal.

All it will do is force the great doctors already in the system drop out of the system and do private practice, while all the mediocre and doctors who may have had a license removed from a state or two, remain in the system. the wealthy will provide for their own healthcare from those gone private practice, and the rest of us plebians will be forced to wait in line (like the canadians) and wait in line for "doctor Nic" from the simpsons.



france has a better economy?!?!? have you seen their unemployment rate? puhleaze