If we went to a universal healthcare system and it is run like social security?

Question

will my grandchildren or great- grandchildren be paying for somthing they cant use?

Answer 1

Probably.... Americans will wake up to a harsh reality when Social Security crashes.

Answer 2

Yup. If it were set up as a colossal bureaucracy at the Federal Level, that might happen.

I've said it before in another post. The best way to do universal health care is not some massive program like Medicare, but a much smaller, more manageable hybrid; half private industry/half government. Perhaps at the state level where all 50 states plus D.C. would contract with private insurers for services and an independent watch dog commission would watch over the system and handle any complaints/problems.

Universal Health care is doable. It just can't be done at the Federal Level.

Answer 3

The answer is not universal health care but affordable health care. There is a difference. Currently insurance companies call the shots. They don't want to pay for much of anything but you can bet their greedy little hands are out come premium collection time. Charge premiums based on who can afford it. Employers could take care of that with regular payroll deductions. For the unemployed, under employed or the low income elderly there may be no premium or very small premium and all would have a copay of 5 or 10 dollars per doctor visit and a copay of a few bucks on medications. With a coalition of government and private insurance companies as well as public and private health care providers the system can work to everyone's benefit. Let doctors make decisions as to what is best for patients rather than bureaucrats. It can work but not in the universal health care sense of socialized medicine.

Answer 4

well... if ANYONE borrows money from anything (be it a business, bank, or any government program) and doesn't pay it back... it affects the whole system...

and that's a major failure of SS... there have been surpluses in the past that have been borrowed and never paid back by the government... so when the system needs that surplus from the past to function, which is often the case with most programs... good times and bad times... it's not going to be there...

but I health care will be available to everyone... that's the difference... and people won't pay for a service that they aren't getting... the only reason people pay for SS now is that many are confident it will be "fixed" somehow...

and if SS isn't fixed... those politicians will be fired/voted out, and those than can fix it will be elected... it will become that large of an issue... especially since the elderly vote, on average, more than any other age group...

Answer 5

If we go to such a system, it could be a huge disaster. Canada has universal healthcare and they have 3 year waits for urgent surgeries.

The Medicare Drug Program was the most fiscally irresponsible new legislation since the Great Society of LBJ. To finance it, tax revenue will have to double by 2040, while the workforce will continue to decrease as more people retire. Otherwise, we'll have to continue borrowing money and we've almost reached our credit limit as it is to finance the misadventure in Iraq and decades of Big Government. Universal Healthcare is likely to speed up the bankruptcy of the United States government.

At this very moment, China is deregulating their economy and recognizing private property at the same time that we're on the verge of bankruptcy. The Federal Reserve Note could be run into the ground anytime by the Chinese who could dump their dollar reserves and switch to Euros. If that happens, we're going to see massive inflation which would likely result in a Depression.

We probably can't afford to stay the course with the government at its current size and universal healthcare would probably cause the house-on-a-pole that we call our economy, to collapse.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Healthcare costs in the US are twice what they are in other industrialized nations. It's killing our manufacturing bussinesses. The cost for a US made vehicle is $1000 more than one made in Japan due to healthcare.

I'm all for free enterprise but there's certain things government can do better and healthcare is obviously one of them. Our system is broken.

Answer 8

I have news for you: our government's finances are in such disarray that YOU have paid for something you will be unable to use. A massive financial collapse in America is just around the corner. Who's at fault? Every Republican and Democrat who has served in the House of Senate for the past 40 years or so.

Answer 9

It will be bigger than SS as all of us use the health car system everyday while many never use SS as they have to reach a certain age of have a disability. If it is run like SS, which it will, we will be in so much trouble and the majority of our fed budget will be to entitlements thus we will never have budget controls.

Answer 10

You can bet on it.What ever happened to personal responsibility.Uncle sam takes from you and me to give to everyone all these great benefits.Show me where it states in the constitution where the gov. becomes mom and dad and takes care of your health care.Why should I pay for your health care?????????? Wake up it all comes out of your pocket!