Supporters of Universal Health Care...?

Question

Why do you think that the government is responsible for providing your health insurance? Isn't that YOUR responsibility?

Answer 1

No, I think it is my responsibility to provide for my neighbor. That's why I'm in support of universal health care: I'm not greedy and selfish. I believe in helping poor people pay for medical bills.

If you need a fiscal reason, it's simple: healthy people (gasp) are better workers, which means that they produce more and make more money. Which then means that they pay more taxes and support themselves better.

Answer 2

The government isn't responsible. The taxpayers are. The British worker earning median wage pays a full one-third less in healthcare taxes than the equivalent worker in the USA pays in taxes and health insurance. The National Health Service covers everyone, regardless of earnings or state of employment. Treatment in the UK is based on need, rather than the individual's ability to fund the cost.

I have good health insurance. So does my wife. We are taken care of, but there are millions of people who do not qualify for Medicaid who cannot afford health insurance and who do not have it provided by their employer. Just imagine what it would be like paying LESS for the same medical treatment and knowing that people less fortunate than you have access to the same high-quality care. Surely that is a good thing?

Answer 3

Yes I support the right for all people to have medical care! Some people are working hard for their paycheck and they have no health care! Would you tell a young Mother working at McDonald's that you could care less if her baby were to die from lack of health care? Because health insurance is not part of the paycheck?And private pay is out of the question because she is working at such a low paying job. Don't you know that your own health is not a guarantee? What if you were to become disabled tomorrow in a crash and you were to loose you good paying job? What would you say then? Have you ever thought about putting yourself in the other person's shoes? How can people be so hard hearted?

Answer 4

How many Americans can afford a $900 a month to $1400 a month premium for their family's healthcare from private insurance. Why should health care be reserved only for the rich? On top of the fact that many insurance corporations won't cover catastrophic health care or even some life saving proceedures if it happens to members of your family. Apparently, you just don't get the issue.

Answer 5

Let me spell it out for you, Tom, in large letters with sidewalk chalk:

The United States is the only industrialized nation that does not guarantee access to health care as a right of citizenship. 28 industrialized nations have single payer universal health care systems.

Federal studies by the Congressional Budget Office and the General Accounting office show that single payer universal health care would save 100 to 200 Billion dollars per year despite covering all the uninsured and increasing health care benefits.

The United States spends 50 to 100% more on administration than single payer systems.

There would be free choice of health care providers under a single payer universal health care system, unlike our current managed care system in which people are forced to see providers on the insurer’s panel to obtain medical benefits.

Answer 6

I support a 2 tier system so poor people will have a place to go to get health care

and those of us who work and have productive lives will still have a choice


and just for the record ... the government doesn't produce or provide us with anything, and they never have

those are our tax dollars

Answer 7

no, it isnt. It is the responsibility of the government to ensure that the entire population has access to health care, not that it is reduced to a priviledge for the wealthy. Should only rich people be allowed to sedn children to school? To drive on the roads? To have firefighters put out fires on their property?

The answers are obvious, unless of course you are an american, in which case I suspect you think that only the rich deserve these things, and the poor should be left to rot.

Answer 8

well... it's all in how you define it.... some say yes, some say no...

I would say yes in a capitalistic system... but the current system isn't set up to allow people to get it for a reasonable cost... $500 for an aspirin... $1,000 for a band aid... there is no competition with prices like that... the system is broken...

but here's a question for you... what if it was in America's best interest to have universal health care?

I mean... you could make your same argument for education... why is that the government's responsibility?

but it sure is best for America overall to have an educated populous...

Answer 9

It is simply incredibly IGNORANT people like you that spew your lies about universal health care.

Listen up you spewer of lies.

In all the CIVILIZED western democracies except of course the US,citizens provide their own health care insurance.

They do it this way.

Being a DEMOCRACY,and after decades of seeing their families and lives ruined by un-expected expensive health care crises,A MAJORITY OF CITIZENS through their democratically elected representatives demanded a SINGLE PAYER system (to minimize costs ) and have the government NOT A "FOR PROFIT INSURANCE" company run the health care system.

Ignoramuses like you even believe this health care is FREE.

Well stupid,it isn't free and we citizens in countries that have universal health care pay fully for our system through TAXES while Americans pay through INSURANCE PREMIUMS and that is the only difference.

Being responsible citizens and not liars as you have evidenced yourself to be,we provide and pay for our health care period.

Being a fundamentally Judeo-Christian society we MORALLY by the Christian moral/ethical code made sure that MONEY was not the requirement to get health care in our country and therefore included all citizens including the poor etc.

In so typical monumental US hypocricy ,they, while "wearing their Christianity on their sleeves" don't essentially give a damn about what Christ referred to as "..the least among you". and allow 47 million Americans to be without health care .

The fact that the US is the richest nation on earth is further proof of their moral/ethical bankrupcy and anti-CHRISTIAN MORALS.

ANOTHER fact FOR you TO MUSE OVER.

Americans pay some 15.5 % of their Gross Domestic Product (GDP) on health care while Canadians pay only some 9.5 % of their GDP for a UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE THAT INCLUDES ALL CANADIANS ; some 50 % less .If one included all the 47 million Americans which do not have health coverage,the 15.5 % would be more like 20.0 % .

Most of the difference of course is PROFITS TO THE INSURANCE COMPANIES/HMOs in the US etc.

We in Canada believe it to be immoral to make profit off a basic necessity like health care and with the government administrating the system,their is no profit margin.

Now please stop spewing your lies about Universal Health care.


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Answer 10

They don't understand that Universal Health Care will also lead to the government having control over your Entire life... They can ban what they want as long as it effects your health. No more Personal choice to go eat that whopper with cheese. No more having fun out on the town and drinking as much as you want. They can control ALL of that if they have to control your health care as well. Sounds good and all... But if I want to smoke a cigarette and kill my own lungs by personal choice, I don't expect other people to pay for my mistake. But with Universal Health care I won't even have that choice perhaps.

And for those who don't think it's possible, IT IS!! You give the government an inch and they are gonna take a mile.