Social Security is under funded becuase there are to many old poeple and not enough workers to fund them, so in a free health care system wouldnt to many sick people drain the funds of the free health care to the point of it being unusable and underfunded? im not sure how the canadian or britain system works and sorry if my facts are off, i prob need to do more research.
2007-07-10 03:51:19 · 14 answers · asked by chevydan6 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
Social Security is under funded becuase there are to many old poeple and not enough workers to fund them, so in a free health care system wouldnt to many sick people drain the funds of the free health care to the point of it being unusable and underfunded? im not sure how the canadian or britain system works and sorry if my facts are off, i prob need to do more research.
Edit: I understand that a free health care system isnt free money wise and will come from taxes.
2007-07-10 04:15:32 · update #1
no look at London and Canada- HELLO people!
2007-07-10 04:11:25 · answer #1 · answered by BeLiZe Gyal 4 · 2⤊ 3⤋
I am a nurse and I work with some nurses form Canadian. What they tell me is this.
It works great if you are well or just get hurt But falls apart if you get sick or have a long term illness. The last time I check the only times I needed heath care is when I was sick. If you come in with a problem that needs sugary but not urgently you are put on a list that will take 6 to 12 mos to get the help you need. In the US it is with in 7 days. The problem there is you get sicker and sicker till it becomes urgent or you die. The way the government looks at it "Hey we saved some cash on that one" (if you die). Again it works great if you shot or have a broken leg. But just do not need a joint replacement you will get a 12 to 18 mos Wait and end up in a wheelchair before you can be helped. You tell me just what would happen to a old lady if she had to be in a chair for 12mos?
Most of the Docs are from out side North America and they are few in numbers because the pay for docs is so low. It is hard to get people to go to school for 12 to 16 years and not pay them well.
2007-07-10 11:11:04 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The US already spend more that any other country, yet 18,000 a year die because of lack of health care. Those that are "insured" are likely to experience extra costs and problems when they actually try to use their insurance. A friend with cancer is now drawing on her death benefits to pay the co-pays. Her insurance pays 80%, the other $75,000 a year paid by her death benefit. I'm not sure what you do if you get a non-fatal disease.
Social security has been borrowed by the government, the social security has a surplus but has been borrowed by the US government and is not included in the deficit. I guess that means they won't pay it back. If the US government defaults on the treasury notes, it will be the first time in history.
A woman recently died in a US hospital emergency room lobby for lack of treatment. A 12 year old boy died because of a tooth infection that went to his brain.
You deserve better and should demand it. Yes, research a little more.
2007-07-10 11:13:55 · answer #3 · answered by Middleclassandnotquiet 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
We pay more (FAR more) for our healthcare than anybody else in the world and we receive the thirtieth-best service for our money.
This is at least in part because on average 30% of our healthcare expenses are administrative costs that go to cover the Insurance companies' executive pay and even the lawyers who dispute line-by-line what they will and won't cover!! 30% of the 2 trillion we spend per year on health care is $600 BILLION EVERY YEAR that goes to attorneys, administrators, executives, and shareholders instead of towards our actual medical bills.
As to Soc Sec, it is underfunded because it has been raided for years for other projects, not because the money was never there.
There are many possible ways to make universal coverage work. the Canadian single-payer system; the Australian national care/optional private insurance model; the German tightly-regulated universal private insurance model, or something we decide we'd rather have instead...
Nobody should have to face bankruptcy and the loss of their home over one illness or injury, though, and that's what we have right now.
2007-07-10 11:46:52 · answer #4 · answered by oimwoomwio 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's not quite the same thing. In the 1930s, there were 8 working people for every retired person. Now it's down to like 3, because people are having fewer kids and people are living longer. But the number of healthy people for every sick person stays pretty much the same. Or increases, if anything.
2007-07-10 16:12:31 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Vote Mike Gravel for president in 2008! He wants to do a national health care voucher system and he wants to put real money into the social security trust fund. check out his site:
gravel2008.us
2007-07-10 11:17:32 · answer #6 · answered by Billabonggg 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes because people will attempt to see the dr more because it is free then the waiting lines and rationing will begin and then people who can afford it will start going to private clinics and then... Not to mention the fact that the government has NEVER been more efficient than private industry.
2007-07-10 11:26:18 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
come on, in the last 40 years, more people have paid in to social security that ever. where is the interest this account should have? the feds borrow from it and when the time comes to pay it back, this is their answer: oh, well, we borrowed so much, its unrealistic to even think of paying it back. and so their cronies agree, congress does not make them repay. its bs about social security, its all scare tactics.
guess what the newest businesses are in england? PRIVATE DOCTORS. ya, more and more brits are going to private doctors and so they are having trouble getting docs to work in their socialized medicine, hence importing doctors with questionable............um patriotism.
2007-07-10 11:05:42 · answer #8 · answered by Buk (Fey) 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
They'll just tax us more and more. All systems have their faults but at least here in the US you don't have to wait months and months in order to get an MRI or to see a specialist. What really scares me is, can you name one government run agency that is run well? There is so much waste when the government gets involved, look at our school system and that's how we want our health care?
2007-07-10 10:57:54 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋
Social Security is currently bringing in more money than it is paying out...you can select this as a best answer for my free educational service.
2007-07-10 10:58:37 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
You presume that a nationalized health care system would be "free"; nothing could be further from the truth. To pay for it, we would all be taxed.
Why should I have to pay for someone else's health care, hm?
2007-07-10 10:55:26 · answer #11 · answered by Mathsorcerer 7 · 3⤊ 3⤋