What can we do to demand our elected representative to vote for Universal Healthcare for all American?

Answer 1

Universal Healthcare is one the WORST things that could ever happen to this country . I personally have crappy health insurance with very very high co-pays, but still do not want univeral health care. Why would you want this to be a socialist country?

Answer 2

I am guessing you do not fully understand Universal Healthcare. If you want to look at the United States provided healthcare please look at the VA hospitals that are poor run and have even worse services. Additionally having family from Canada (who still live there) will tell anyone how poor their system works. Waiting weeks or months for proper treatment. What people dont realize is that the United States has the best healthcare in the world. As far as provided services and the technology we are what the rest of the world strive to be. Is our system perfect? No. Hell is out tax policy perfect? No Is out government perfect? No But for some reason everyone wants to be an American, so we must have something that the rest of the world does not.

Answer 3

I think something should be done about Health care for all Americans. But I'm not sure to what extent. I know personally many many people in certain age brackets that don't have health care. I, myself, for one. My company relocated after I had been with them for 28 years. I was a single Mom raising three children alone. While I was fortunate enough to work until they were grown but when I became without a job, I didn't even qualify for Medicaid because I had no children at home!!!! So between the ages of 55 and 65 Medicaid can't help or won't. And in the county I live in jobs are very very scarce and the ones that do come open, they want the younger generation. Doesn't matter how much skill one has. And in our county in NC, there are thousands in the same boat. And most of us live on a fixed income and can not afford the astronomical cost of health care. Many become disabled and have to wait a year before they become eligible for Medicare. Specialist won't even see anyone unless they have insurance. Medicaid won't even approve one unless they have been approved for disability. In addition, young adults, especially those that start college late, or only working min. wage jobs that have no benefits can't afford their own health ins. policy and most ins. companies have a cut off date for many young people that don't go to college. Does ANYONE understand what I'm saying?
There is a huge need for some health care assistance to these certain individuals. But I don't think a Universal Health care is necessary. In addition, I feel that our government does need to put some rules and regulations on the health care industry itself, as well as the health insurance companies as to the amounts that can be charged somewhat like the Medicare program works. I have not seen a health care provider yet that uses a sliding scale for people that don't have any kind of insurance and that just does not seem fair. Under the Medicaid system, children can be qualified for medicaid, but parents can't. If the parents can't stay healthy enough to take care of those children, who will. One more issue - Dental. Dental insurance barely exists anymore. But dental is just as important to a persons overall health as anything else. So, I think these issues that I have mentioned should be seriously considered.

Answer 4

Nothing short of starting a revolution...
I have to re post after seeing these people post about why social medicane would be bad. If you believe that social medicane would not be better then out health care plan now then I must believe ur high on Xanax or Perk's. Our Healthcare is in shambles because it has become single bidder market which basicly means they don't have competition!!!! It isn't even a free market for Health Care and that would make it better. Companies have Monoploy's On their Markets!!! I'm not even gonna get started on this but I just want people who read this to know I have Personal Choice its one of the best and I still come out and say its all B.S.!!! My brother lives in Greece, where they have a free health care system but also have a paid one, where you hve to pay for it and I believe something like that could go along way. sorry i cut it short, I could have went alot longer

Answer 5

what possible reason can you give to support your question? you evidently haven't done any research on this. we should not be trying to enlarge government by demanding universal health care. we should be petitioning congress to weed out the unescary regulations that have gotten us into this perdicament. the government has already caused a number of emergency rooms in our hopitals to close because they have to care for everyone and because this is so they can not any longer afford to operate. most cases that enter the emergency rooms are cases thata should be handled by a doctor and not the er. people are not willling to wait a week or so the see their doctor so this is what can happen. giving treatment to the illegal people is another set back in proper health care. and a root cause of closing our er's if you ran a buisness that required you to handle government paper work and this can only be done by union personel the costs of doing business must rise. lets not give government more power but let us take some of the power back and lower the price of health care so everyone can afford it.

Answer 6

One way to show your support and get used to UHC is to write a check to your elected representatives in the amount of all the hard earned money you have already made and for all the money your mom and dad made. Then each pay check should be forwarded to the government so you can support that system and make UHC available to everyone around the world who comes here because YOU are sooooo generous. And if you don't like the current system, I might suggest migrating the Communist China where they have UHC!!!! Makes you wonder why tens of thousands of Chinese risk life and limb to get to the USA despite no UHC.

Answer 7

Funny enough freakzilla your income taxes are being used to take care of hard working americans who can't afford healthcare. I can afford healthcare for my self but no insurance company will accept me because I have a 12cm localized morphea that has been dormant for over 10years. Blue cross did the biopsy 10years ago and concluded it was dormant, 10 y ears later still dormant, they deny my request based on rating my morphea as high risk.

Universal healthcare does not have to be free, but it should be affordable and available to every legal resident/citizen. Our tax dollars already go towards things we don't care about or want, i'd rather it go towards healthcare. Voting in opinion polls and identifying healthcare as a priority should help. When contributing to candidates indicate a reason why you support (their stand on universal healthcare)

Answer 8

Try moving to a Socialist country and experience what you want first hand.

When you have waited 4 to 5 months for an emergency procedure like the Canadians, Brits, French and lets not forget the Cubans, than ask this silly question again.

Answer 9

Instead of universal healthcare, I would go for some special program where everyone make their own saving's account; so that one day if they had to go to the hospital, the money would be ready right there.

Answer 10

First of all, let me just address the idea that socialized medicine is in some fashion ineffective.

It's difficult to hold this conversation right now, because Sicko just came out, creating two distinct groups. The first consists of liberals who went and saw the movie, took everything at face value, and are now convinced that Canada/Britain/France are healthcare utopias. This is, of course, crap. There are problems with all three of these systems. Are they improvements to what we have now? Absolutely. It's pretty much impossible not to improve on a system governed on the basis of profit. I'd much rather have the government telling me I've exceeded a healthcare quota (Which, for the record, is also crap,) than have a company tell me they're unwilling to spend the cash, just so their CEO can get a bonus a few million thicker. The government sucks, but the healthcare industry sucks so much harder as to be almost incomparable.

The other group consists of those, mostly republicans, who have sucked up everything every conservative news media/figure has been posting about the movie. 'It's all a pack of lies. The wait-times in Canada are huge. Months and months for surgery!'; that kind of stuff. I'd hardly consider myself an expert on healthcare in other countries, but as a reasonably well-informed individual I'd like to point out that these legendary wait times are not for life-saving procedures. Nobody waits a year for cancer surgery and dies in Canada, and nobody is ever denied that surgery because some fat CEO... you get the idea. These waits are for things we Americans have come to expect rather hastily. Getting wisdom teeth removed, having your tonsils cut out - we get these things done in a matter of weeks where Canadians wait months for an appointment. Is this a problem? Maybe. I personally couldn't care less, but consumer polls show that America ranks highest in terms of healthcare satisfaction, so I guess others think it's a big deal.

Finally, taxes would, indeed, be raised. However, if you think about how much you/your employer spends on healthcare now, and how that effects your paycheck at the end of the month, you come to the inevitable conclusion that the loss would be much slighter than you imagine, and you are, after all, getting virtual assurance that nobody will deny you an operation because you screwed up a medical form.

Oh... right. The question. I'd write your representative, of course, but much more importantly; vote. Find a candidate who shares these values and stick behind them. Share their position with friends and family members. You'd be surprised how many Americans are starting to push for universal healthcare, and the sort of movement you can start just in your community by speaking about it.

Edit: I have to throw this in here. If you're answering this question with something along the lines of 'You'd have to pay for everyone else and if you don't like America you can get out,' go kill yourself. Seriously. Not only are you a wretched stereotype, your lack of compassion towards fellow human beings - fellow Americans - is a disgrace to your family, your country, and humanity in general.