Healthcare System Anger / worried about AMERICA!?

Question

Is anyone else LIVID at our administration? I'm very angry, I dont have cancer, but I have a long family history. I am afraid that one day I will get it, and I won't be able to afford to go to one of those places that can acutally help, that they'll just send me home to die. I am so angry at Bush, I'm angry about the war, I want America to be America instead of the place it's become. Do you think that with a different president in 2008 we can become a nation of healers again? Even President Chavez has very good health care for his citizens. I'm worried about out country.

Answer 1

As the health care dilemma in the USA spirals more and more out of control, countless suggestions, both good and bad, have been put forth. The best of these suggestions is the idea to enact a system of universal health care. Despite what this system's naysayers might argue, a universal health care system will reduce spending and will also take better care of the American people.
However, before we get into support for a system of universal health care, let us explore the arguments against it. One of the biggest arguments against universal health care is that it could raise taxes. This may actually be true. The costs associated with installing a new governmental department along with paying employees and then administering the health care would be likely in the billions. On the other hand, most folks are already paying into a private health insurance plan. Would taxes be higher than the current premium most people pay? Not likely. So the individual would end up paying less.
A further argument against universal health care is that it would involve government too much, and everybody knows that when government gets involved, things slow down. True enough. Bureaucracies are cumbersome and communication between levels and departments is often at a snail's pace. However, there is a solution to this as well. There should be federal oversight, but the universal health care would actually be administered by the state governments. This state-administered plan would be modelled after Mitt Romney's program in Massachusetts. That's right, residents of Masachusetts all have health care.
A final argument, this one quite irrational, against universal health care is that it is simply another word for socialized medicine. It certainly is. However, what is wrong with the word 'socialized'? It seems like we are in the fifties again, with McCarthy's subcommittee at it again. Socialism equals communism, and everyone knows that communism is evil. Right? Wrong. Communism did not get the job done in many ways, but there are plenty of republics and democracies with socialized medical care systems in place. Like Japan and Taiwan and many others. So enough with the paranoia, eh?
On to some further support for universal health care. Fist off, what better way to spend taxpayer money than to keep Americans healthy and cared for? Think about the image our country has abroad. The richest nation in the world, but we don't take care of our people on an equal basis. Only the wealthy have access to the best care. This is absurd. We are talking about health here, not business.
Furthermore, the current system of private insurance is sickening. The insurance companies, despite what their ads say, do not actually care about the people. The bottom line is and will always be to make money. Of course, getting and keeping customers and keeping them happy will contribute to this, but what about people who can't afford such insurance? Companies don't care at all about them. Moreover, these low-low-income people are still entitled to health care, but it is basically the cheapest care possible. And they are mooching with no sign of being able to contribute and pay the other tax-payers back. Universal health care will require a standard contribution to the plan. Everybody pays it. Everybody. It might get subsidized for a short time, but not forever.
It is obvious that big insurance companies, with all of their lobbying money and power, are continuing to impede any solution that takes them out of the picture. Why are we allowing this?
Finally, instead of posturing and shoring up constituencies, shouldn't our politicians be actually looking for a solution? Let's get after a solution and stop worrying about offending CEO's and consortiums. That solution may just be universal health care.

Answer 2

I'm worried about America because in our politicians drive to get more power they keep giving away money to freeloaders. People who do no work and provide no benefit to society. If you are poor you get free money, you get a free college education (yes, merit based scholarships only awarded if you parents have no income), free healthcare (Medicaid), etc. If you think Chavez is so good then get a visa to emigrate from the US and immigrate to Venezuela. I welcome you to.

Otherwise, figure out what you can get rid of to lower your monthly bills enough for you to buy health care. Or get a second job. Quit telling me I need to pay for you as well as myself.

If you get cancer and go to the emergency room, you will be diagnosed even if you have no coverage, you may get a large bill if you don't qualify for Medicaid, so buy the insurance. I bet you have insurance for your car, don't you?

Answer 3

We have the best healthcare in the world. We just have a horrible system to pay for it. Chavez provides the payment but his citizens do not recieve the quality.

What would your solution to the problem be? If we weren't so dependent on the idea that someone should take care of it instead of ourselves the system might be better off in the long run.

Answer 4

Universal health care sounds nice, but we're already 8 trillion in the hole and counting. What do you think is going to happen to that number when the government takes on the role of providing insurance to every American?

If you want to be angry about the war, go ahead. There's a lot to be angry about. But linking it to universal health care is comparing apples and oranges.

Answer 5

If that is your greatest fear, take some self-responsibility and take out a cancer protection policy. Don't expect someone else to take care of you.

And by all means, don't elect the woman who was responsible for the broadest one stroke pillaging of insurance benefits in the history of our nation.

Answer 6

You are just a Socialist "Give Me".
If you want Socialist Health Care go live with Chavez.

Answer 7

You want "America to be America instead of the place it's become"? Um, what defines "America" to you? A quick glance at the Constitution would tell you that the Founders and every subsequent generation of American leaders had absolutely no intention of redistributing wealth to pay for your health care. We don't have universal health care and we never have. We have government-provided need-based health care, but that's a very recent development. Shouldn't you be saying, "I want America to be Europe instead of the place it has always been"?

Listen, I have a long history of cancer in my family, too. My grandmother had cancer--twice!--my great aunt had cancer, her daughter died of cancer, and my great-grandmother's sisters all had cancer. Needless to say, I should be worried. But I'm not as entitled as you are. I don't want to die, but I'd never argue that 1) health care is my right because I'm too lazy, selfish, unambitious or unlucky to provide for my livelihood and 2) that it's positively un-American that the government won't take care of me. In fact, I'd argue just the OPPOSITE. It's un-American to expect your fellow Americans to take care of you. It's your responsibility to take care of yourself.

To the guy above me: I agree, but keep in mind that you get what you pay for. The reason our health care is superior is because it's expensive. We pay doctors a lot because their expertise is worth a lot. Our drugs are expensive because we're paying for quality and research. If we stop paying as much, and if we remove the incentive, then we'll sacrifice our quality. I think the cost is worth it.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

Yes, I would seem majority of the nation is concerned, and has always been concerned about our wealth fare and health fare system.
Don't focus on the family history of cancer. It will just bring you down. My family has a history too and I am scared to death about even thinking about it.
I don't think we can afford the medical bills if that one of us came down with this horrible disease. We probably loose everything.
Let's just hope for a better future and a better president.

Answer 10

How did America grow and why is it now crumbling?

CORPORATE GREED DESTROYED AMERICA!
it isn't MONEY they are after! It's the POLITICAL POWER they can buy with that money!

The Pyramid scam of American politics (It costs money to be elected) has collapsed like all pyramid scams do.

Once the wolves got in charge of the henhouse America crumbled.