Dont you think that everybody should have access to health care, especially children.?

Question

Every child should have free health care and access to it whenever they get sick or need it.

I have health insurance.

Answer 1

No, we must force them to be born then let them die a horrible death with no health care. That is the republican way.

Answer 2

I think we all deserve universal health care. The Bush Administration wants to give to Iraqis. If it's good enough for them...why not Americans....???

Universal health care doesn't necessarily have to be free and certainly could be privatized with the government bidding out the regional contracts.

Folks, we are Americans, we could come up with a program that made health care universally available that was still more a privatized program than a public one.

Why should employers be responsible for your healthcare. Most employers are busy reducing benefits and raising the costs, because healthcare costs are so burdensome. Imagine the cost competitiveness of American businesses if the health care burden were lifted from their shoulders.

Here in Oklahoma we lost a potential Toyota plant that went to Canada instead, because in Canada, they don't have to foot the bill for their employees healthcare.

And all of you folks who are so dead set against any kind of universal health care...have you really thought about it....or do you simply believe what the lobbyists tell you?

Answer 3

I agree that health care should be available to every American. This is possible too.
With the population being over 3 hundred mil. The fact is, our tax dollars are being wasted on many unnecessary projects, or there are many mean people in this country. I notice that the word "Social" tend to upset some people. Listen, there is strenght in unity and power in numbers. Thus, it is a matter thinking of logical solutions. The problem is now affecting businesses, therefore,the mean people in our society will be feeling the effects too.

Answer 4

Yes. I very very much believe that. It is disgusting to me that some people would let a child die because they happened to get unlucky when fate chose their parents.

I tutor low income children who have to go to the hospital when they have mild illnesses because they aren't covered by health insurance. This causes their medical bill to be ridiculous, often resulting in them not getting help when they need it because their parents can't pay and therefore won't take them to the emergency room.

As a below minimum wage volunteer worker, I also don't have good access to health insurance outside of clinics because my health insurance is so basic. This hasn't been an issue for me because I am healthy, but my roommate who also is a volunteer had a freak seizure earlier in the year and is still struggling to pay those bills.

If a child is sick, even parents with good jobs can end up paying off that debt that they incurred while making them better for years and years.

If you're really scared of terrorism and needlessly losing human life and anti abortion, it boggles my mind to think that you'd deny health care to those who can't pay, especially the children who can't do anything about their financial status.

Edit: I do realize that kids can get health care and people can't be turned away from Emergency rooms. This is more a rant at the attitude that even those basic rights should be taken away.

Answer 5

They do honey, its called medicare. Some states also provide there versions of free health care for the underprivileged. The ones that complain the loudest about health care are the ones that say they can't afford it, because they wouldn't be able to make there Jet Ski payment.

PS. To the guy below me, if your sufficiently disabled by law, you get social security & MEDICARE, and that whether you have parents or not!

PSS. Stop scaring our canadian neighbors that know no better, every child that needs Healthcare gets it, no it depends on if their parent are off drugs enough to realize their kids need a doctor, but they can get it!

PSS, Uh Oh, a Brit weighs in LOL Because we all want the American dream brit man, not the british dream, we all want big caddys, 3500 square foot houses and a jet, not some dingy apartment, and taking the bus or tube everywhere. And to you brit, you can keep your free system, its not that great!

Answer 6

Absolutely. And dental care.

The problem is employers like Walmart who leave their employees without enough to live on OR coverage and throw them to the state for care.

Lordy lordy lordy. Proper health care would keep kids from having to end up in ER. It is PREVENTATIVE care that is needed, not mop up.

"Let the American taxpayer fund our expenses" Walmart Founder

A Look At Wal-Mart's Costs
Wal-Mart does $260 billion in annual sales, and $180 billion of it is the cost of merchandise, and the rest is land, buildings, advertising, etc. Wal-Mart employs a staff of attorneys and accountants, whose sole function is to shift expenses to the Federal, State and local governments aka the tax payer. States pick up health insurance, unemployment taxes, real estate taxes, electrical, bond financing,etc. They will negotiate a special fee from their electric power supplier, and guess who picks up the tab.

Something stinks when it is the children of hard working employees who pay for such greed is it not? No one can possibly hold this situation the parents. There are so many who work and have NO benefits and are afraid to unionize or anything.

Walmart has put 100,000 stores out of business, as of 2 years ago. They have shipped millions of jobs overseas. The Tennessee housewife has been replaced by a girl making $1.20 an hour. That housewife made $14.40 an hour, plus health insurance benefits. The housewife paid taxes which paid for local schools.

The children suffer. And costs mount on a Fed level as a result of such business practices. Do not always blame those left in need as some in here seem to be doing.

Answer 7

Well there is the CHIP plans in the US. which are low cost childrens health insurance plans, ran by states with federal subsidies and oversight.

If you want free healthcare for children well, do I as a person with no children have to pay tax money toward this program so someone else who doesnt have a job that provides insurance and has 8 kids can have coverage?

Answer 8

Parents are responsible for their children, not government.

That being said, there is not one child in the United States that does not have access to healthcare if the parents so choose to take advantage of the multitude of programs available at the federal, state and local levels.

In the state of Minnesota there are about 10 different healthcare programs available to people. In fact, several of these programs are getting less & less users so the government is actually advertising and trying to find ways to get people on the programs. Your tax dollars at work.

In any event, there is no healthcare crisis in the United States. It is a manufactured problem so that politicians can promise people things in order to get votes. Unfortunately, when politicians do this it always costs us efficiency and revenue.

We need less government intrusion and more personal responsibility.

Answer 9

Yea, universal health care sounds great, but this Democrat Scam is to continue to line the pockets of the ACLU, and other attorney lobbyists, We cannot afford Health care in this country neither public nor private without Legal reform FIRST. Don't listen to the Democrats, they just don't want you focused on the REAL problem, they know they cannot deliver universal coverage without the Republicans, and Republicans will never give on this issue without LEGAL REFORM.

People don't be sheep, I can't afford Medical insurance but I know the true cause of the rise in costs. Contact your congressman and demand Medical Legal Reform.

So Sayeth the Impaler!.

Answer 10

actually i do. even though i tend to lean more conservative in my views i don't think that children should be punished for the problems of the parents if the parents cannot provide healthcare. i believe that everyone should be provided health care from prenatal before they are born till they are twenty one when many can start to provide for themselves.

Answer 11

Everyone has free access to health care. There are laws that prevent an emergency room from turning away anyone. What you want is to take those working hard and giving to those who don't the emergency room for the sniffles their kids get - no I don't support that.