Universal Health Care doesn't work in Canada and other countries why would we want it here?

Answer 1

1. Liberals want more and more control over our lives.

2. Their followers are too uninformed to learn the truth.

The solution is always free enterprise.

Answer 2

Works better then the health care system here and not to mention the number one country for providing Health Care is France....oh and that is universal. So great job making no point at all...

Answer 3

It works just fine in Canada and many other countries. In fact, lifespan, infant mortality, and many other indicators of health are much better in Canada and Europe than the United States. Right now, we spend WAY more for health care per person than any other country in the world, yet the average health of our citizens is worse many other countries!

Why are you so against saving BILLIONS by taking the private, for profit insurance companies out of the equation?

Answer 4

I think we just need a better preventative health care system. Like having everyone entitled to a free physical each year so that problems get caught before they get more serious and more expensive.
I don't think other aspects of social medicine will work here, though. We had a big complex of major hospitals where I lived in Texas and we met a couple that came down from Canada for the husband to have surgery because the waiting list was too long till he could get in for the surgery he needed. They have rules in Canada, too, that if you are over a certain age, you cannot get certain procedures done because you don't have enough years left on your ticker to make it worth giving it to you versus someone younger. That is how they keep the costs down.
In Britain, some 'elective' procedures, such as surgery for vericose veins, the wait time could be as long as a year if you go through the public medical system.
We lived in Germany for 7 years and they had socialized medicine there, too. You could wait hours to get in to be seen for something that could me serious because you had to wait your turn in the GPs office behind people that came in for just a sniffle because everyone was entitled to care. It was taxing their system tremendously both in manhours and monetarily.
My husband is in the military and our medical care is provided free of charge for most things. But there are waiting lists for appointments sometimes, long waits for referrals to some of the specialists, and some times they act like an HMO deciding which treatment is best for you despite the dr saying something different.
As far as infant mortality rates, we have that because we have such a high teen pregnancy rate and alot of them don't get prenatal care even though most qualify for it through Medicaid (welfare medical)
Would you want our whole healthcare system run the way Medicare is? I THINK NOT!!!!!

Answer 5

if it doesn't work than why does every progressive, industrial nation have it?
if it was an isolated policy you'd have a point and a question. but since we are one of the only powerful countries without it it must be something good.

moderation is the best system for everything. as is compromise.
if we had private and public health care then the poor could get public and people who dislike/distrust like public can pay for private

Answer 6

Talk to some people who have their health care. I have and they don't like it. Why? They wait in lines, they have no specialists, Dr's are overworked.

You people hate that Dr's become rich, right? Well take away their incentive and guess what. Do you really think they'll spend several extra years specializing in one field if they're paid the same fee as a private practitioner?

Socialism doesn't work. Take away incentive and you rob the mind!

Answer 7

Health costs keep going up. In a few years, fewer people will have access to Health Insurance. There has to be a solution, and jacking up health insurance costs every year isn't one.

Answer 8

Be specific - in what ways does it not work? Are they the same as the ways our system does not work?? Our system needs work but saying oh no we can't do that is not a solution.

Answer 9

Do you live in Canada? Have you gone to a Canadian hospital? Until you do, don't think you know it all. Don't think it doesn't work because someone told you so--that's being a sheep.

Answer 10

The British people I know say their system is horrible.