Should anyone have to pay for any kind of health care?

Question

I have noticed i my last question people are asking why they should pay for thier medication.

So why should we be paying for medication. I do understand there is a cost to these but surely the fact that some is healthy enough to work pays off any medication that they may need through taxes. Here we have a set amount a family can pay set at €72/month. Therefore if my family need to pay €1000 on a particular month, after you cover the first €72 everything else is payed for by the government.

The other problem is that when a company makes a really effective drug, they charge silly money for it. Making the desease market very worthwhile. Why not use the GAP or WTO to make a set percentage of profit on these drugs instead of messing people over non stop, they would finally help us out for once.

A sub question is why are people so stupid as to keep electing governments that make us pay for medical care when IT IS as basic human right?

Answer 1

So tell me why there would be a motivation to create/make the drugs? I understand that it's cool to think that everyone is going to do things because it's nice, but do people really work that way?

And how is it a basic human right? Is it an absolute? Who instated that right? Was it a right 5000 years ago? At what point did it become something that HAS to be offered? That's part of our problem, we rely on our government for things that can "save" us. Many of the things that plague western cultures are diseases brought on by their own indulgence in excess.

We don't live in a Star Trek society, unfortunately. We do need to encourage innovation in order to make progress.

Answer 2

I think the companies should make back in profits what they spent to do research and development and testing (and employee paychecks). And a bit more so they keep happy. (They aren't doing this for free or at a loss!) And some drugs they work on just don't make it to market because they didn't work out. So they need to recoup the costs for those, too, or they will go bankrupt. (Remember, if they hadn't created it in the first place, it wouldn't exist and no one would have any.)

Here in the USA, I believe the companies have a set time period on their drug's "patent". When the patent's time period is up, other companies get to jump in and make the drug cheaper. I like this idea.

As more people age, I believe more officials will be elected that will make medical care less expensive - because "us old people" don't want to pay all that money. This, of course, pushes the cost into taxes which will end up being paid by everyone - and mostly by the young people who are still working.

I am thinking SOME medical/dental care should be paid by the government (which means taxes which means by us). I am just selfish and don't want to pay taxes to pay for ALL medical/dental care.

Answer 3

Forgive me, but I think your question is too simplistic.
Do you understand, how many years can be spent, in trying to produce a drug, which is safe and which will cure, or ease a particular disease? It can in many cases, take many years.
Who should pay the researchers???

You say that medical care is a basic human right, but you do not say, who is going to pick up the tab, for the wages, of the doctors,the nurses, the surgeons, the physiotherapists, the cardiologists, the porters, the cleaners, the cooks and all of the other staff, involved in healthcare, that I have unfortunately and not deliberately, missed out.

I think that it is time that you grew up and faced the real world.

Answer 4

Yup the UK has a *free* health service but there are enough problems attached to that - long waiting lists, doctors with quotas to meet etc etc. Its paid for by those working and yet when those working go to get their medication from the pharmacy we still have to pay for that. In other words my tax benefits others completely and me only partially. Is there an idiot-proof answer?

Answer 5

that reallies on the government too much for money. Meaning more taxes. Plus say you wanted a good doctor who had a 90% chance in a surgery and then there was a doctor who had a 65% chance that cost 3000 dollars less. gee, i wonder which one the government would pick seeing as you don't have a choice

Answer 6

With all the wealth in the world today no one should have to pay for medical or prescription drugs, also education should be free, most people have vary short memories when it comes to electing governments, in Canada we send more money out of the country than they spend in and on the country, unfortunately we have a lot of knuckle heads in this country that keep voting in corrupt politicians.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

In the UK, you're not charged for medical care, but *most people* are charged a hefty amount when they pick up their pills from the chemist's/pharmacy. Personally I think that's a tax on health and should be done away with.

Answer 9

Yes, drugs that can save and improve lives should be available to all. If the richest nations in the world can afford to wage war on another country then it can afford health care for its population - whose taxes are going on funding the wars.

In England people are not getting the cancer treatment that could save their lives but we can afford the olympic games? It doesn't make sense.

Answer 10

the wealthy run the governments and they pay for their own health care - they don't want to pay the taxes to support the healthcare for others. It's simply the old class conflict.