If it works elsewhere, why doesn´t the US have Universal Healthcare?

Answer 1

Because some of us dont want 50% of our income taxed so the government can pay for everyone ELSES medical care. Thats why. I dont want anyone reaching into MY pocket to pay for their own or somebody elses bills. I ask no one to pay for any of my bills, I expect the same respect. I own a business and I already have a hard enough time staying in business with all these damn taxes I pay so everyone else can benefit except me. I am tired of it. I pay for medical insurance every month, and I just had 22,000 dollars worth of surgery. I dont need national healthcare, as I have my own. It is just another excuse to tax us even more than they already do. I prefer to keep the money in my pocket and spend it as MY need arises, instead of giving it to the government to spend on anyone who happens to walk through an emergency room door. First it will be national healthcare, then it will be a law that requires hospitals to treat illegal immigrants, next it will be my tax money paying for illegal immigrants to live better than I do, without even having a job. I dont think so.

Answer 2

Where does it actually work??? I mean, not just exist but work??? And work for all since it is supposed to be universal. And where is it equal for all, not supported by a working minority paying the way for the non-workers?
I honestly do not know anywhere where Universal Healthcare is fair to everyone universally.

Sageandscholar writes: "Again we see people queueing up to tell us universal healthcare does not work elsewhere - without a single example or any rebuttal of the facts that are out there." And where does he offer an example it does work????????
He continues: "The World Health Organisation recently ranked out (sic) health system 37th in the world. It is however number one in cost - up to twice per capita what most people in developed countries pay." It is actually the hi cost factor that resulted in the rating - not the quality of care. And why is the cost so high? Partly because those who have insurance are also paying for those who do not. Those who work pay for those who don't. Expanding the idea that 50% of the citizens pay for 100% of the medical needs simply is not a fair equation. Taxation without representation since those 50% who pay have no say so as to how the 50% who do not pay live their lives or seek medical care.

I did see at least 1 person mention Norway (I think that was the country) who he believes has a working universal healthcare system. Out of how many countries with universal healthcare? One? Yea, that's the system I want.

Answer 3

Again we see people queueing up to tell us universal healthcare does not work elsewhere - without a single example or any rebuttal of the facts that are out there.
The World Health Organisation recently ranked out health system 37th in the world. It is however number one in cost - up to twice per capita what most people in developed countries pay.
What do the 36 countries above us have in common - no citizen goes without health insurance.
Continuing to pay extra for a system that so evidently fails us is not the answer - look for a better way.

Answer 4

Universal health care does not work elsewhere. The US has the best health care in the world (despite what Michael Moore says). The reason is the free market. What is threatening our healthcare system is government mandates that make it too expensive for the people who are responsible enough to pay for their care through insurance while they subsidize irresponsible people who do not pay for their care. The more involved the government is, the more expensive it becomes and the lower the quality becomes. If you what inferior care and higher prices (taxes) then you want universal healthcare.

Answer 5

it doesn't actually work that well at all in most of those other countries. also, countries that offer universal healthcare have much, MUCH higher taxes...which shouldn't be considered a bad thing by any means. if you want that service and you're willing and voting to raise your personal taxation to do so, you're not a bad person. the only country that has an even moderately good health system is France and they have something like a 20% taxation rate.

Answer 6

The whole idea that if it works somewhere else then we should do it is flawed reasoning.

Every situation is unique.

Before we go to univeral healthcare we need try every option with the private industry first.

How many times you heard people say our Social Security System is going to go bankrupt? Let me remind you...that is run by the government and two, if the government has a rough time running social security with only those 65 and over..do you think it can run a program for the entire population?

Let's think about this more...before we carelessly say "if it works somewhere else then we should do it " mumbo jumbo.

Answer 7

It doesn't work elsewhere. In the UK their system is literally bankrupt, they've run out of money. Many face extreme wait times for 'non-essential' surgeries, and actually end up coming here to get their care. Many doctors have abandoned countries with socialized medicine, adding to the shortage of care available. Canada is in the same boat, though it's not that bad yet. I work as an EMT at the largest hospital in the city, and we regularly have Canadian citizens come in for care they would have had to wait months for otherwise.

Answer 8

It doesn't work elsewhere...name one country where when the people who can afford it , does not come to the US for the serious operations??....if you want to see government health care in action go talk to a vet about the veterans health care and hospitals.....it would also be the end to development of new products and procedures....and it would tax the working man to a point of where insurance would have been cheaper....

Answer 9

If you think the HMO system is wonderful then you would love universal health care. There is nothing like giving the government the say so in whether you receive medical care.

Answer 10

Have you seen how austere and lower middle class people live in countries where the Tax base goes to paying national health? I thought not, The Unites States has the best health care available to its citizens than anywhere in the world. Why 100's of thousands fly here each year for care they can't get, or must wait too long for in there own countries.