From what I am able to gather from those in Britain, Canada and America doctors, socialist healthcare is an abysmal failure. If you are seriously ill they will put you in the hospital and should you be fortunate enough to survive a week you will get to see a specialist who may have enough experience to take care of it, otherwise you are just dead.
If you consider how well the American congress does everything else why would you trust them with anything much less the care of your and your families health. Keep in mind this is not FREE healthcare, when the socialists are involved there is a substantial cost increase over the free market, you know to support all of the socialist administration of the program, and then you do not have a choice to opt out should you choose to not partake.
I do not want to be forced on this issue, I do not want the government involved in my healthcare or healthcare decisions.
DO YOU? DO YOU TRUST CONGRESS TO DO THE RIGHT THING?
2007-03-26 02:32:02 · 15 answers · asked by rmagedon 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
For those who bemoan the fact that a very small percentage of people do not have insurance, consider this, go to any hospital in the USA and you will receive the highest quality of treatment in the world, and they will not try to bankrupt you if you cannot pay. ALL HOSPITALS TREAT ALL PATIENTS REGARDLESS OF ABILITY TO PAY.
In their operating budget they have a line item for indigent care, so you see there is healthcare available to all, just maybe not healthcare insurance. So maybe we should look at insurers. Did you note that Hills second largest financial supporters come from insurers? Ever wonder why?
2007-03-26 03:14:42 · update #1
I believe in the Constitution. It does not give the power to provide health care to the Federal Government.
That said, there are proposals out there would reach the goal of universal health insurance coverage without the Federal Government providing it. Look at the Newt Gingrich proposal. I would not object to that methodology.
2007-03-26 02:44:06 · answer #1 · answered by Jacob W 7 · 1⤊ 4⤋
No I don't trust our government to regulate our health care properly. That's why I have been fighting against Socialized Medicine here in the US, since Mrs. Rodman-Clinton first started spouting off about it during Bill Clinton's first term as President.
Edit: What? Is it just Minnesota that has programs for low income people? And when I didn't have Insurance I wasn't looked done upon. I was still treated and I paid my bill. It was only when my clinic wanted me to make higher monthly payments that I pushed to the point of having to prove I could hardly pay them what I was paying them each month and they wrote off the remainder of what I owed them. So there are ways out there to get the medical care you need and the clinics aren't such hard noses that they won't treat you and help you get your medical bill paid.
2007-03-26 02:40:12 · answer #2 · answered by Mikira 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
This is a tough one. Some sort of program is needed but since the government can screw up a maggot sandwich, are they the one to do it? It seems to be a great opening for tossing bushel baskets of money down a rat hole and be wide open for corruption both from the health care providers and governmental regulators.
I'd like some sort of insurance to be available for all Americans. And I'd like some of the folks running for the Presidency to offer some alternatives.
2007-03-26 02:39:19 · answer #3 · answered by iwasnotanazipolka 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I have no health care and am being penalized because I couldn't afford my policy and had to drop it in order to put more groceries on the table. I am treated like some scum bag when I tell some doctors I have no health insurance. I have thousands of dollars in medical bills.....the atrocity is that if something catastrophic were to happen to me (heaven forbid) then I'm screwed. They aren't going to take all the measures they could to help me. (my sister is a nurse and says this is common)......I'm terrified. Any health care is better than none.
2007-03-26 02:39:58 · answer #4 · answered by Yogini 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Healthcare in Britain is a total success, and about the only thing britain has to be proud of. The only time it is a "abysmal failure" - is when the private sector gets their hands on parts of it, sack everyone, asset strip, cash in their shares and disappears with the cash.
2007-03-26 02:48:49 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Yes I do support universal healthcare for Americans that need or want it. Basic healthcare is a right for most of the world...except the USA! 45 million Americans are uninsured, and that is a crime.
Even if Congress passed it....Bush would veto it.
2007-03-26 02:40:05 · answer #6 · answered by Villain 6 · 2⤊ 4⤋
No I don't. But to make the health care system work as a free market should, we need to dissolve the insurance industry as well.....they violate the antitrust laws established to protect customers.
2007-03-26 02:41:53 · answer #7 · answered by Michael E 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
It would be an abysmal failure here to and would only lead to another bloated bureaucracy. The thing is that it's exactly what Democrats want because it will provide that many more patronage jobs for them to trade for votes.
2007-03-26 02:36:08 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋
Maybe in some form or other , but not run by Congress . Just look at their oversight of Water Reed Hospital
2007-03-26 02:37:19 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
The thing that I worry about is that if government run-universal health coverage is put in place, it will be labeled as just another entitlement program which the Republicans will continually push to underfund. In effect, they will make true their predictions that it will not work.
2007-03-26 02:39:07 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋