What do you think of the Health Care System in the USA?

Answer 1

It is pathetic.

The U.S. spends more per person on health care than any nation in the world--some $1.3 trillion, or 13.5 percent of the country’s gross domestic product. Yet the U.S. is also the only industrialized country that doesn’t offer universal health care, and it ranks 37th in the overall quality of the health care that it provides, according to the World Health Organization.

Today in the U.S., the vast majority of people who receive medical coverage from their employers are enrolled in for-profit health maintenance organizations (HMOs), which long ago surrendered medical considerations to the quest for profits.

We can do so much better. It is a priority of our Government to take money from the bottom of society (and the middle) and funnel it to the top. It is a priority to wage wars for profit, corporate profit, to hell with global warming, to hell with Hurricaine Katrina victims (poor), to hell with working people, to HEAVEN with rich pigs who want more more more...

I say to hell with the business class political parties and their foolish candidates and to the neighbor who votes for such candidates.

We need a populist reform movement.

Lets do it people; be bold or die.

Answer 2

In the US business interests of a small minority has the PRIORITY over intelligence, rationale and well-being of humanity...hence they have a privatized health care system based on profit instead of a non-profit public system. Consequently there is a very BIG difference between health treatment for the rich, especially the super rich and the rest of us, and about 45 million of the citizens don't even have health insurance. Furthermore, a vast number of the public has been conned, or at least stupefied to look at public health care as a communist plot, without realizing that it is the powerful private health corporations who are feeding this non-sense in order to continue making lots of money from a misinformed public. I hope the American public becomes aware that they could have a better system if considerations for the well-being of people was an essential factor in policy making. And it's very unlikely for such alternatives to come from either of the parties that run America.

Answer 3

When my nephew was ran over by a car and we brought him to a hospital and he was about to die, they didn't do anything until we provided some form of health insurance. Doctors were walking around and my brother was literally panicking! Thankfully we had enough faith and God healed him!

I work at Best Buy and go to college. Best Buy does not provide health insurance for part timers. I cant' even afford one! So, if I'm poor and I don't have money for insurance, I will die and no one will give a s**t!

Another example; I was beaten by a spider and thought it was something else major or dangerous. I just wanted a nurses opinnion.... Well, it took her almost an hour to get to me, and before anyone even looked at the bite, I was checked for fever, blood pressure and all kinds of crup, left alone for another 30 minutes and than a doctor came and looked, told me it was no big deal and let me go! I paid 145 dollars out my thin student pocket! I do not feel safe in America as far as my health goes...

My mom was diagnosed with false cancer and she stressed out so much. It turned out that the doctor just wanted to make more money having to check on her every other week! How lame is that?

Answer 4

I, personally worked all my life and paid for health insurance. I feel I have had good health treatment in the U.S. and wouldn't think of going to another country for my health treatments. The large law suits in America have driven the health insurance up more than anything else. Ignorant jury's and greedy lawyers have done more harm than anything! Bush tried to put in a law that limits lawsuits to $200,000 which would help bring the high insurance costs down for the Dr's and in the long run this could help. As it stands now, most of the poor are getting free health care. It may not be perfect but I still think it beats other countries health systems.

Answer 5

The poor qualify for Medi-Caid but the taxpayers carry that burden. The middle class has massive co-pays and deductibles that can break them financially. The rich have people fawning over them trying to give them the superstar quality treatment. You tell me: Is that a fair system?

For those of you who think US is better than other countries, have you actually been to other countries?

Answer 6

I have a HMO....the cost is $190 a month. As long as I need no more than a flu shot or antibiotics , it's fine. But if I had to go to a hospital for more than three days, I'd probably be bankrupt. And that's as good as it gets for me... and that's much better than most Americans, who have no insurance of any kind.

Answer 7

what health care system? we can find money to fight a war based on lies but not health care... the american people know where we stand

Answer 8

Pretty good I don't want the government to touch it for everything they touch turns to ashes.

Health care system look at Walter Reed and that is what you have coming for the nation.

Now lets look at Canada they are doing something right with drug prices and so people here go to Canada.

Canadians have tough time getting into see a doctor or get surjury so them come here.

Why don't we figure out what they are doing right about drug cost and keep the medical service the same and let the Candians work on what they are doing wrong about seeing a doctor.

Answer 9

The USA has a health care sysytem?

Answer 10

It is a miserable failure except for the very rich.