2007-07-04 17:48:09 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Current Events
Who do you think should pay for this health care? Free is not free. Someone has to pay.
2007-07-04 17:51:24 · answer #1 · answered by SpursFan123 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
This is an illogical question. What does being a great country (I'll ignore the superlative) have to do with free health care? One has nothing to do with the other.
Wouldn't you prefer a country have *good* health care rather than *free* health care? Bureaucratize health care and you'll see the quality spiral. People will see a doctor for a headache. They'll see a doctor for a hangnail. They'll see a doctor for anything because there is no economic disincentive to *not* see a doctor for something. Then poor people (i.e. the ones the rest of us are paying the way for) will take the most advantage of this. Once you have a legitimate medical concern you'll be waiting in line behind someone with a wart.
I don't want to sound like a Cassandra and predict doom and gloom, but it is *extremely* difficult to maintain both quality care and such a high volume of patients. Look at the impact free health care is having on border hospitals.
2007-07-05 00:56:40 · answer #2 · answered by Peter D 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
First, health care is not free. You should say universal centralized healt care. We could have it tomorrow. It would just take voters electing officals who promise to install it.
Also we are not willing to come to terms with a tiered system, meaning some people get better care, we try to make it all the same and then ration the supply to those who can not pay.
The US spends more on healthcare as a percent of GDP than most contries. That may mean we have lower efficency or people are for the most part pleased with the system, ie they keep putting money into it.
2007-07-05 00:59:41 · answer #3 · answered by Gatsby216 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No matter how great the country, nothing in life is free. I prefer the system here that the ones in Europe. I was born and raised in Europe. BTW, Europeans in most countries have money taken out of their pay check that go toward the national health care fund. In England (I have many relatives there) you usually cannot choose your own doctor, you are assigned one depending on where you live. I would hate that.
2007-07-05 01:11:53 · answer #4 · answered by scarlettt_ohara 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because the ideology is to encourage new treatment technique and medicines. These medicines take long development, testing and FDA approval periods. If they take the profit out of it as they have with the HMO programs, we will have free health care but more restrictive choices of treatment and medicine. The fact is if you can afford it then not having free health care is best but if you're like me and the majority then free health care translates into restrictive but at least available health care.
2007-07-05 01:05:51 · answer #5 · answered by gm8888 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Free is not free it means long waits for surgery and people dying during these waits! It means shortages of doctors and nurses much larger than we already have now and it means we wait like rats in a cage for someone to give us that 1 minute of time to go with our "Free Healthcare"!And out taxes pay for this ridiculous system that people in Canada and other such places complain about daily! God Bless America!
2007-07-05 01:01:21 · answer #6 · answered by brenda r 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
who me,why is it i constantly here about this alledged land of freedom.freedom is not a notion exclusive to america,and freedom emplies there is a democracy ie the candidate with the most votes is instated.and that didnt happen did it so how free are you.everybody should take alook at scandinavia and how that opperates ,and how many negative stories do you here from there in comparison to your land of freedom and oppurtunity,only if you re in a certain income bracket so id say land of the unjust.
2007-07-08 14:26:06 · answer #7 · answered by wbos 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cause America is not the greatest country in the world. (use earmuffs if you can not handle this statement or eyemuffs, place your hands over your eyes)
2007-07-05 01:13:02 · answer #8 · answered by AO099 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
the world's greatest country? by what measure? sure, great military, and alot of rich people, but theres a hell of a lot of poor people. scandinavian countries **** all over it in terms of living conditions.
2007-07-05 00:53:44 · answer #9 · answered by Yobbomate 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Is this your opinion that America is the greatest country? I like having socialized medicine.
I don't think America is good.
2007-07-05 00:57:40 · answer #10 · answered by Colonyhkman 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋