The united states is the richest country in the world I don’t know why they cant give everyone universal healthcare for Pete sakes Cuba has universal healthcare and they are a poverish country. I think its the lobby groups from the insurance companies that are keeping us from having universal healthcare. there shouldn’t be a price on a persons health shame on the government. all these people care about is profits and more profits I think its sick. all the candidates are all talk and no action they don’t have a plan to fix healthcare.
2007-06-21 16:31:49 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Other - General Health Care
It sux. I am in an HMO and I don't have to suffer too much, but the insurance rates and drug costs are so high without insurance, and if you don't have an employer that helps pay for the insurance you aren't gonna be able to afford either the insurance or the castastrophe. The US is like 38th in healthcare, right ahead of Slovenia. I would gladly pay higher taxes for universal health care.
2007-06-21 16:38:03 · answer #1 · answered by G S 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it works in every other Industrialised country, in France, Denmark, The UK, Australia, New Zealand and Germany they have Government run healthcare systems, but you can still buy private health insurance if you need want to, but everyone is covered by a Government program and everyone has a right to healthcare, all those countries spend less that half per capita of what the US spends on healthcare and everyone is covered. Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John F Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Jimmy Carter and even Republican Richard Nixon all supported Universal Healthcare. If Franklin Roosevelt had lived to serve his full fourth term, the United States would have had a Medicare-for-All healthcare system for the last 66 years.
2016-05-17 07:25:51 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow! I liked your question but your synopsis of the system is pretty painful to witness.
The fact is, we already have socialized medicine. Just go to any emergency room. I don't think you want those inefficiencies.
I wish there was some way that the health care system was free. Isn't this a system that rewards sickness, though? And is anything really 'free'? And do we want our government running a health care system that has proven it can't follow through on social security and medicare?
I'm a son of a capitalist and bleed red, white and blue. Competition and freedom from government is what made us. I'm not sure why we want to turn back to sucking a nipple that resembles anything back in the mother country.
Who's gonna pull the wagon when everyone rides? There's no insentive to remain healthy and pull the wagon when we are rewarded by paying nothing and being sick, my friend.
2007-06-21 17:03:14 · answer #3 · answered by Kenny G 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
do you know how good medicaid coverage is? they pay for just about anything. it is by far the best insurance to have in the world. it pays for things most private insureres wont pay for. and the program costs several hundred billion per year. if anything, we need less government healthcare. and like the people from other countries are saying, everyone wants it until they get it. then people find out it sucks because the goverment makes it even more beurocratic and they were better off before.
and its not that canada's drugs arent good, there is no financial incentive for drug companies to come up with new medications so they dont have nearly the innovation that US companies have.
2007-06-21 16:57:37 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree. My daughter has a rare illness and we make to much money for state insurance and my husbands insurance wont cover her pre-existing conditions so we are paying thousands of dollars out of pocket each year and have went into debt to keep our child alive. We actually considered moving to Canada just for the healthcare. Its all about the money, our government is more interested in lining their own pockets and the insurance companies are just as bad, they dont care that people are dying from things that could have been prevented if they had just seen a doctor, as long as they are living the high life, nothing else matters.
2007-06-21 17:06:01 · answer #5 · answered by Lorelei 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm not disgusted
I have excellent health care offered by my Corporation where I work
a friend lives in Canada and comes here to the USA to have any surgery or for any serious medical issue,
he says the Universal Health care he has is gosh aweful slow and that he was going to have to wait for over 6 months to get a necessary surgery scheduled
2007-06-21 16:41:21 · answer #6 · answered by Mopar Muscle Gal 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I absolutely agree with you! I am baffled by the lack of equality in this supposed "land of opportunity" and "equality for all." Drastic measures really need to be taken in order to resolve this growing issue. The issue needs to be magnified and exposed to the world as American pretentiousness. We are supposed to be a nation of equality, so why would health care diverge from that notion of "equality?" I plan to attend medical school in the future and I hope to make some changes. I can't do it alone, but at least I can try to initiate change.
2007-06-21 16:44:59 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Socialized Health care. How would you like to need heart bypass surgery and have to WAIT three or four months before you get your needed surgery because of socialized healthcare? How would you like to have to travel 500 miles to get needed treatment because it's not available in the area you live under socialized health care?
The Power you give the government over your life the more they can control you and your life....
2007-06-21 16:40:36 · answer #8 · answered by ♥♥The Queen Has Spoken♥♥ 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
i debated this topic in forensics, and i won overall because i researched the topic like crazy. i had to debate both sides of the issue, and i can honestly say that there are so many pro's and con's to our health care system, that changing it would only make it better in certain aspects, and lag in other aspects. soon, you'd have comparisons about the parts that the "new" system lacks in with the parts that our "previous" system excelled in.
though i, too, have complaints about our system, its just way too hard to get an "ideal" health care system. financially, it isnt possible. and the argument about canada's system is somewhat illegitmate, because their drugs are supposedly not as good, or something. I'll have to look back at my research, but if you want to talk about the issue further, email me!!
2007-06-21 16:42:22 · answer #9 · answered by Gators08 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
While it may be ssick, remember that we are the richest country in the world because everyone demands a profit for their work. Cuba may have free (second rate) heathcare, but the reality is that they have nothing else.
If you really need healthcare, you will get itt.
2007-06-21 16:40:51 · answer #10 · answered by billyandgaby 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋