Do you think the US will ever have a socialized health system?

Question

Do you think it will ever come to it?

Answer 1

Hopefully not. The health care system in America is fine the way it is. We have some of the best, most affordable health care on the entire planet. So why change it?

Answer 2

We already have it, its called ADAP (AIDS Drug Assistance Program), Medicaid and Medicare. Currently our national leaders get a huge “campaign” donation in exchange for promising high profit margins to pharmaceutical companies (a drug may cost $40 per person per month but is guaranteed $950 per person per month through ADAP or one of the other social insurance plans) and via title written into each program, we can force people to move to specific regions of America to be eligible for available services this guarantees specialty clinics will get all of the cases and will control who is diagnosed with what.

It is these guaranteed prices (fixed prices) that drives the coat up for competitor insurance companies and for those who cannot afford insurance but earn too much to be eligible for the social insurances their tax money provides for others.

It has made a mess of our health care. The cost of health care today is more about CEO’s salaries and benefits, people hired to decipher insurance forms and claims and investigating insurance fraud than what actual treatment costs.

Also by guaranteeing fixed prices and granting eligibility for certain drugs (monopolizing the market) health care providers are encouraged to prescribe as much medicine as a body can tolerate rather than what it actually needs. Each medicine we take will have some side effect on our body- are we taking many extra pills to counter act the negative effects of each other or are all the drugs benefiting the person taking them?

Answer 3

Yes, it will eventually happen.

However, the people who want it aren't going to like it when it gets here.

Why?

It will start off costing one amount, then quickly escalate and keep escalating until it bankrupts several health care providers and severely unbalancing the national budget. If you think the defecit is bad now, just wait until national health care gets here.

How do I know that will happen? Remember that people cried for cleaner gasoline, so Congress mandated cleaner formulations...and gasoline prices doubled.

Answer 4

Hopefully not, we cannot support it. Watch the socialized countries over the next few years. The baby boomers are not iunique to America. You will start seeing several systems collapse.

Answer 5

Yes in the North American Union there will be a socialized health system.

Answer 6

hope not and will vote against it every chance I get. Everyone in America has healthcare don't let them fool you. you can go to the ER without insurance and they must treat you or send ou to someone who will. Privitized health care causes competition amongst carriers thus lowering the price of Healthcare.

Answer 7

I hope so. The purely for profits thing isn't working for us. We have a number of socialized institutions like the fire dept and police dept, why shouldn't our health care be that way too?

The HMO business is for the industry to make the most amount of money with doctors doing the least amount of work.

Answer 8

I hope not. But, the way things are looking it looks like not only socialized healthcare but a socialist government in general. The way liberals are running things, it won't be long.

Answer 9

Hopefully not. The government can't run anything well. That's why public schools are far behind private schools. Vets get free health care, and their system is in the crapper. Now imagine that system for 300 million people.

Just... no.

Answer 10

Yes, it's inevitable. I don't think the American people can tolerate the fact that 50 million people do not have any health coverage at all and the U.S lies at #37 in the world for health care.