Why are you willing to pay insurance premiums but not the same or less for Univesal Health care?

Question

It could be taken out of your paycheck like your insurance premiums already are.

Once the paperwork is eliminated in the cost of overhead because of all of the different insurance companies the cost to every person would be lower.

And EVERY citizen would be covered!

So if the cost is the same or lower per person already paying for coverage...... and the quality remains or perhaps gets better....what's the problem?

A streamlined system would be more efficient and better for everyone......except maybe the then unnecessary health insurance companies!!

Not to mention the money it would free up to the business owners who provide health insurance to their employees.

It could result in freeing up that money for higher wages!?!

I hardly think I am a 'pinko' because I think every citizen should be able to see a doctor!!
I hardly think I am a 'pinko' because I think a person's life should come before an insurance company's profit margin!!!

I think so of you have answered with rhetoric that isn't necessarily true and is an exaggeration by the right ...like that people wait 6 months for life saving procedures in countries like Canada that have Socialized medicine!!

AND I think calling someone like Michael Moore 'Anti-American' is ridiculous!
He's very Patriotic and angry enough about the corruption in many parts of our system to take the chance at being ridiculed by many to hopefully cause change to that corruption!!

People attacking the messenger instead of listening and debating the message!!

Remember the Jews didn't like Jesus's message in his day either and killed him because of it!!!

Why are some of you so afraid of change and hard truths?

Answer 1

Kelly Kelly Kelly...

I pay my premiums...I control my own events. If the service is not to my liking, I can complain, switch companies, even sue.

You want to take my money, give it to the government, and let them run it with the efficiency of Homeland Security and the IRS...the rules mount higher and higher, the service gets poor, and if I have a complaint, or service is not to my liking...guess what...you can't fight city hall.

I prefer liberty.

How you predict that costs could be lower...is bizarre.

How you guess that quality perhaps get better...is lunacy.

Answer 2

No government run program has ever been less expensive than what the private sector can provide. There are several reasons to prefer to pay for private rather than governmnet provided health care.

The main reason is that the constitution does not allow the federal government to be in the health care providing business. That is important when we are talking about transferring one seventh of the economy over to the central government.

Secondly, if I am dissatisfied with my health care provider or my insurance company I can switch to another whenever I wish. Not so if the government runs it.

Thirdly, the best and the brightest will not longer be entering the healthcare business as doctors, specialists or nurses. They will be able to earn more in other professions.

Fourth, there are over three hundred thrity million Americans. At best only about thirty to forty million have no coverage. That means almost everyone already has coverage and a high level of service. It seems stupid to scrap the best health system in the world when only less than 10% don't have coverage.

Fifth, I do not want healthcare that seems like it is being run by the department of motor vehicles.

Sixth, what in the world makes you think for one minute that the cost would be lower or more streamlined or more efficient or better in any way? There is plenty of historical information about how the federal government runs every program it gets its hands on. One thing that it has ever achieved is efficiency, lower cost or higher quality.

Never be dopey enough to believe that bureaucrats can ever do a better job running a governmental monopoly compared to free market competition.

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Answer 3

Well Mrs. Clinton's last Health Care Scam, was terrible.
The American Public wants free medical care, just like Canada where you can wait in excruciating pain with your gall bladder attacks for as long as 6 months before they have time to take it out. Just elect Hillary and this is exactly what will happen, you'll get it, maybe even forced to enroll.
You have to join, if you do not, there would be a $5,000.00 fine for you.
If you joined, and miss a premium payment, there is a penalty nearly has high as the price for not joining the plan.
If you not on the plan, no doctor can treat you. If a doctor treats anyone that is not a member, he can be fined up to $150.000.00 plus go to jail.
Plus, the waiting lines will go on forever. If you need surgery, it could take up to a year or more.
Wake up people, this so called streamlined system would not be good for us. Universal Health Care is a trap.
If your not in the plan, and your baby is crying and sick, for get it, no doctor will be allowed by law to give that baby medical help.

Answer 4

You tell me how ANY of this will help our economy!? What money we have will be going towards paying the premiums and taxes! I heard yesterday, like! OH!!! make the elderly PAY for being old! and make them pay 4 times what they are paying now, cos they are the ones who get sick the most! How to those apples grab you!???? Suppose I have to pay - this is NOT the right amount, but let's say I pay $400 a month for my healthcare under Obama's Plan. I only get $1100 from Social Security, and have no other income! That leaves me $700 to pay my rent, food, utilities, clothing, medicine and the upkeep of my car, gas, so I CAN get to go see the doctor! Suppose, I am pretty healthy, and only go see the doctor 4 times a year - actually, I have seen him LESS! THAT would figure out to cost me $1000 a pop just so he can take my blood pressure, which I can do myself at home, a pulse! and tell me I am doing great for my age, and send me on my way! ALL this is WITHOUT my supplement insurance!!! I could very well save all that money, and only go to the doctor when I REALLY have to!! If his fee is $87.00 for the visit, I would be money ahead! and put the rest of the money aside just incase something really went wrong with me!!! I keep hearing, with ALL their planning, and discusions, there are STILL going to be millions of people who WON'T have healthcare! Who are they talking about?? The bottom line is, WHY in God's name, are they even considering such a Universal Health Plan in a time of recession at all!? Look how many people are out of work? What is the matter with these people in the Administration?? The people who are barely making it now, will become homeless, I dond't know who they are talking about the MIddle Class Population, not many of us MAKE $200,000 a year, so, I would say Midle Class means everybody who makes LESS than that, especially today!! You want a figure? How about 85% of us!!! The 15% consists of people like Bill Gates, and other manufacturing owners, the Government officials, Lawyers, Doctors, Drug companies, Investment companies - come on! get real! do you really think these guys are going to fund this Healthcare for us?? There isn't enough of them! Obama should start with those guys he bailed out!! Forget about owning their businesses, just get the damn money back! The Administration talks about money like it grows on trees - US! What are they going to do when our well runs dry?? Even if they gain control of all the Banks, insurance companies etc, what good will any of them do them, if the people can't support them anymore!!??

Answer 5

The one example I will use about universal healthcare is in England, a 108 year old woman has to wait 18 months for an appointment to get a hearing aid. Here, if you have insurance, you can get seen relatively quickly.

Unfortunately, nothing our government does is ever streamlined. Our bureacracy knows no bounds. However, what I would like to see instead is an insurance company run by the federal government that would have to by law be accepted by all doctors and hospitals. You can have the choice of staying with your current policy or switching over to the federal policy, or you could have the federal policy and pay for a secondary insurance. If the federal health insurance is good, all private insurance companies would have to compete to maintain business. A federal insurance policy would have to accept anyone and your co-pays is based on your ability to pay. I think that is more fair than the current system we have now.

Answer 6

Go up to Canada and try to get surgery. Then you can try and shove socialist medicine down my throat.

Simple fact is, every citizen is already covered. It is illegal for any hospital to turn away someone in an emergency situation. Couple that with all the free clinics and medicade.

To get a good look at a "streamlined" government system, do yourself a favor and visit your friendly neighborhood DMV, airport, post office, or VA hospital.

I just don't see why people whine about the inefficiencies of government non-stop, then turn around and talk about socialized medicine as if it were a gift from God.

Answer 7

Privatizing the DMV, the unconstitutional Federal Dept. of Education, and a host of other government bureaucracies full of red tape would speed up services because private companies don't spend $600.00 for a hammer and can be held to standards.
Ever here of the long lines and waiting time at urgent cares in socialist countries?
I'd rather keep health care private and receive better care. I don't wish to wait in line while in pain like I was at the Dept. of Motor Vehicles!

Answer 8

Universal health care is a great thought but in a world walled with cash we have restrictions. 20% tax like in Germany to pay for universal health cares not in my book. I say universal care for children, assistance to the poor, and basic cover for general check ups for all citizens. But when an idiot who smokes all his life gets lung cancer I'm not too fond with spitting out cash to pay for his treatment. Besides doctors, med people, and insurance people would spend more time protesting the fact that they get paid nothing now then actually working on patients.

Answer 9

Because Kelly B, I want my own choice. I don't want the DMV to schedule me for my own Doc appointments for me, and for my wife and kids. I want to be able to see the whatever doctor I want, when I want. I also want to be able to get second opinions. I want the U.S. to continue being a fee market so we able to find and develop new cures for diseases and better treatments. I also don't want the DMV to able to tell me that my surgery is not a priority to them and put me at the bottom of the list, and wait and wait until it's my turn. What about transplants kelly, so the DMV(aka some government pencil pushing weenie) is gonna determine if I need that type of medical care for me or my family are you taking crazy pills? Also Kelly, I have worked hard to get where I am in life, why should I pay a higher federal or state tax to support others on welfare for medical care? That's ridicules, I already waste tax dollars on illegals who get medical care in sanctuary cities and states. Also Kelly, you want us to go thru government red tape just to get meds we need? But they Government says we dont? Also why do so many Canadians croos the border for medical care? Because there system sucks!!!

Answer 10

The most obvious and simple answer to your question is.... that when the government is put in charge of something, especially healthcare, it doesnt get better, it gets worse.


Ask a Canadian. They have government health care up there, but the lines and delays are so long that the people with money (rich ones) come to the USA to get health care.

government run health care does NOT WORK...ever!