How many people in America believe the myth that universal health care is not affordable?

Answer 1

Far to many!!
Mostly because the Health Care, Insurance Industries and Politicians tell them so.

They have pumped so much fear and disinformation into this topic to try and stop any movement towards Universal Health Care.
There is simply far to much money involved.

Mean while back at the ranch people are dying and suffering needlessly . Unable to afford Health Care or Prescription Medications.

It truly is a National Disgrace.
And it's time for a change.

Answer 2

Almost no one. There is no such myth. That myth is a myth. The issue in the US is not affordability, it is that we would create "socialized medicine." That we would have waiting lists for routine medical procedures, but the rich would be able to afford private doctors and hospitals that ordinary folks would not have access to. (See Canada and Great Britain for examples.) We have that already, of course, so the other myth is that only the current system of providing health care is the acceptable one: health insurance, with the government excluded from everything but Medicare, which itself has been limited, so we have "Part B" that has to be paid for by private insurers. And now, for prescriptions, Part D, which I defy anyone to understand.

It wouldn't be so bad if people understood what insurance means: spreading the risk. The more people sharing in the risk, the cheaper the insurance. But insurance companies have bought Congress and the public into believing that they should "cherry-pick" the least likely to need medical care, and the rest are unworthy of insurance at anything less than high costs because they are high risks.

This nonsense argument is belied by the fact that insurers provide "life" insurance, really death insurance. Everyone will die. That's a 100% chance. Yet insurance companies make a lot of money from life insurance. But they say they can't insure everybody against things that won't happen to everybody! It should be laughed out of history, but it isn't.

Answer 3

If the US was to go to a Universal Health care system the money of the rich and the foreign would no longer monopolize the front of the lines for treatment. There would also be a leveling of the type of treatment between big money and no money.

There would still be the spa hospitals, but everyone's lifetime and life abilities would not be attached directly to the amount of money they have.

Answer 4

Not me, the time has come. The country is now in a crisis where only the most poor (on medicaid/medicare) and the super rich (who can afford it anyway) have healthcare. People need to add up what they pay for insurance premiums, deductibles, and out of pocket expense. Then maybe they'll realize its time for us to join the rest of the developed world and universalize our health care system.

Food for thought: The best, safest, and most successful heart surgeries are being performed in India.

Answer 5

Sadly, too many.
Countries like the U.K., Sweden, Canada ect have excellent health care and it's paid for by the goverment.
But the American hospitals have become big buisness and the almighty dollar speaks louder than the need for people to have affordable health care.

Answer 6

The only myth here is universal health care, since that is a myth then it can not be affordable because it does not exist.

Answer 7

most of us

Answer 8

I do.