I kept hearing in Michael Moore's film Sicko the phrase "free healthcare". I just wonder does anyone believe that this is economically possible? That any national healthcare program raises taxes to pay for such a program?
Do we in the US really want bureaucrats controlling our health care program?
2007-07-23 12:24:00 · 10 answers · asked by SolarFanatic 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
Nothing in life is free. Someone is always footing the bill. This would be the working taxpayers. Mr Moore is ignorant of this undeniable truth of life.
2007-07-23 12:30:38 · answer #1 · answered by sam simeon 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course nothing that the government administers can be free.Bureaucrats are already administering our individual health care plans. They are allowed to do pretty much whatever they want.
I favor "universal health care". The taxpayers would have to pay for it, like they already do in the other 24 of the 25 top industrialized countries of the world. The cost would be almost nothing compared to the cost we are ringing up for the war in Iraq.
Also, it might not be so simple as just having the government pay for it all. I mean, what about cosmetic surgery? Should I ahve to pay for another woman's breast implants if she is not a cancer survivor who had surgery? There would be a lot of details to work out and we want to get it right.
Right now the system is broken. Since I am technically self-employed, I have very few health insurance options open to me. I pay more than $2000 a month for myself and my healthy 19 year old stepson. Why? Because I am trapped in a rip-off system. We can do better.
2007-07-23 19:39:46 · answer #2 · answered by Zelda Hunter 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not free but it would be cheaper because we would cut out the middle man. So it will cost less and the ones losing the money are the big insurance companies that drove prices up in the first place.
I would much MUCH rather have bureaucrats controlling our health care then people who have a vested interest in not giving people the care they need to save money.
2007-07-23 19:30:06 · answer #3 · answered by crushinator01 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nothing is free. But mine is free to me. No healthcare system has unlimited funds.
Running health care? No. Administering the payments? Ain't that what the prez does- administration?
Germany & Canada have administrative costs of about 17%. US cost = 32%. Go to single payer, government or private, and reduce the cost of healthcare in America by 15%.
Assuming that excess isn't swallowed up in the name of corporate greed. Oops I mean profit.
2007-07-23 19:32:39 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have had NYS state controlled benefits all of my life. My mother worked for NYS and I work for the NYC Board of Ed. In between I had federal health care while I was in Peace Corps. I have always had fantastic benefits and my health care in Peace Corps, which was 100% Federally funded was the best I ever had.
2007-07-23 19:28:59 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
We already have bureaucrats controlling our health care system. What would you call the people that process claims and determine coverage?
2007-07-23 19:27:51 · answer #6 · answered by CHARITY G 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No country has FREE health care. That is part of what their taxes pay.
2007-07-23 19:32:25 · answer #7 · answered by Mathsorcerer 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not yet, the nation already going to ____ in a handbasket, but i agree with MM, in one of the richest nations, we should have Health Care for all, cut out the insurance & RX companies, it's all about the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ ========SAD
2007-07-24 00:21:52 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope. You gotta pay for it somehow. Those like the UK or Canada that have "free" health care have taxes that are through the roof.
2007-07-23 19:28:08 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
no free lunch
2007-07-23 19:27:49 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋