Why not free health care for every one? Its time has come """as america is 37th in health care /?

Question

Why should they make a profit in private health care as it is life and death and we have many social like fire dept welefare etc etc

Your companies that"""pay for your health ins is beginning to restrict many things in your health pkg. and a larger co pay .

Answer 1

Free Healthcare means higher taxes and longer waits for surgeries. No Thank You. I don't want the government involved in my healthcare.

The healthcare crisis would be helped if people purchased a high deductible catastrophic plan instead of $150 tennis shoes.

Over 50% of bankruptcies are due to medical bills. People need to be responsible. Get health insurance to protect your family!

Answer 2

Sorry to burst your bubble, but free health care exists no where. You will either pay insurance premiums to private companies or pay higher taxes to the government. Either way you ARE paying for health care.

I find it interesting that some people think that putting a large government bureaucracy in charge of health care is going to make the system better and more efficient. You only need to look at Medicare and Veteran's care to see what I mean.

Answer 3

I think it's a little strange the way people want to fix what's wrong with health care in the US, by emphasizing the worse things about it.

I mean, it sucks - really hard - that insurance adjusters and HMO administrators are making decisions about our medical care, instead of us making the decisions with our doctors. It's not a good thing that Americans are insulated from the cost of thier health care by (often employer-provided, pre-tax) health insurance, rather than negotiating and paying thier own bills (it decreases the elasticity of demand for healthcare, supporting higher prices).

So, the solution? But the decisions in the hands of bureacrats, and go to a single-payer system, where you never see how much the health care you demand costs.

Brilliant.

Answer 4

Are you prepared to have your taxes doubled to pay for that? Health care is expensive. Providing it for everyone in America will be astronomically expensive. In addition, the quality of health care will inevitably drop since there will be no incentive for health care professionals to excel (other than personal gratification). Every procedure will cost the same regardless of the talent and ability of the person performing it. It will cost the taxpayers the same amount for a surgeon who can barely make an incision to perform an operation as it would for the world's leading surgeon to do it. This is good as long as the world's leading surgeon is the one who operates on you. Hospitals will become meat factories where people are shuttled in and out like cattle.

I agree something needs to be done, but universal "free" healthcare will just create a series of new problems.

Answer 5

Cons seem to believe with 45-47 million Americans without health insurance, 50% of all bankruptcies caused by health care costs, and over $15 billion taxpayer dollars going to healthcare for the un-insured ANYWAY, we already have the best healthcare system in the world.

Also, plans introduced by Barack Obama and John Edwards are NOT single-payer, socialized medicine. The only candidate to propose that is Kucinich. Rather, Obama and
Edwards' plans both allow people to keep their own private insurance plans if they already have them, encourage insurance companies to cut premiums by switching to paperless documents, encourage more employers to offer health coverage, help small businesses that can't afford it as of now provide it, and offer a federal plan for those who still can't afford it.
And yeah, they would raise taxes, but only for people who make $250k-$300k+. I'm pretty sure people in that income grate can survive the change. People who aren't in it might literally not survive without it.

Thus, the plans are actually pretty moderate and not at all socialist like a lot of people say without even looking at them. Just goes to illustrate how closed-minded most cons are.

Answer 6

If congress had the guts to get rid of the thousands of
million dollar earmarks in their bills, it could be done.
The fact that there are Americans who are totally
without health care, is a disgrace.

Another problem I have with today's health care is how
the insurance company can dictate the care your doctor
can or cannot give you. It' a mess. Something needs
to be done. Maybe health insurance companies should
be run by MD's only. Wouldn't that change things.

Answer 7

As the guy at the top pointed out - it isn't free. We would all pay taxes as a group to cover everyone.

The good news is the average american should be able to pay half of what they pay now. We'll live longer, be healthier, not have to worry about putting the family into bankruptcy for a catastrophic illness, and we'll all be better off for it - Employers, families, everyone.

Answer 8

I used this on a question concering Sicko, so I paste my answer here.....

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Instead of giving you just my opinion on US...I'll talk to you about the world's healthcare (US included). Full perspectives are necessary.

Most countries out there have a form of universal healthcare. The difference vary, but they're fundamentally similiar. Universal healthcare is usually still privately operated, but government-funded ie you're taxed, but the hospitals are still private operations.

Costs are said to be low, but that's really not a clear perception of the given. Many people compare US costs to foreign cost, but they don't take into account 1)The relative difference in wage earning compared to their country and the cost of living that associates with a higher standards 2)The costs involved with fraud and it's detection 3)Economic effects.

Let me focus on economic effects. Throughout Europe you're seeing a lessening of the productive class. What's happening is there's not enough people being born. Due to the inequities, there's a growing older population. This population will consume vast amounts of the healthcare system, and stress the tax base (which it already is). The same occurences are also happening in America, but to a different degree and extent.

Europe will at one point not afford their system. They'll have to privately operate and they'll have to focus on proper birth rate...fully expecting immigration to take those short-falls is a very bad route to go for.

Mind you, the biggest job growth in America has been due to medical demands, and this has added significantly to wage earning in that sector.

Now America's problems are dealt with structure. We have government/employee dominated system. That must change.

First of all, setting up an employee system (which is organized and mandated by law to be collective in nature) is heavily influencing an upward trend on healthcare costs.

America must:

1)Allow individuals to write-off medical expenses.

2)Allow individuals to buy insurance from any state in the union. Currently they're are state regulations in the way, but the commerce clause allow Federal intervention, and it's necessary.

3)We must slowly divest ourselves from SS and medicare. These programs should be sunsetted over a long coarse of time. The reduction in taxes should be given to the individual contributors, which must be put in 401k, money markets, etc. They must allow tax-free usuage of these funds for medical expenses. This will increase savings in this country and produce a higher efficiency out of our capital. Reducing deficits and producing a free-market system.

High deductable or mid-size deductable insurance plans could be implemented and paid for easily. And gains over a lifetime will still be sufficient for those medical expenses and retirement. Not to mention the tax burden would be reduce incredibly.

4)We should have some sort of mandatory high deductible for everyone. Like car ownership, but for your body.

I have many more ideas, but frankly there's a lot of aspects that can be improved in America. Looking toward Universal Healthcare as a solution, is both inadequate and backwards. Anyone that take a clear look at this issue forsees a more reputable method to clearing this issue from our slate. Of coarse the particulars must be refined and must be presented honestly.

Answer 9

By whom is it ranked 37th? Does that organization have a bias? Why don't you lead by example and start paying your neighbors' health costs?

Answer 10

Reducing the cost of Pharmaceuticals and capping malpractice awards would help a lot.