Considering 47 million Americans don't have any health care plans, would you favor national health care?

Question

The arguement that is usually presented is that it takes too long to see a doctor under any health care plan. It may take 2 or 3 days. But, at the end of those 2-3 days, those 47 million Americans, who would not have been seen at all, would eventually have some hope at seeing a physician.

I have seen people in crowded elevators, public transportation during rush hour, patrons in cafeteria's during lunch time, etc., sneeze and cough during the winter months and often wondered if they have anything I should concern myself about that will impair my health when I am seated/standing next to them because they don't have a health care plan to have that sneeze or cough checked out.

Are you satisfied with the curent health care provided by private insurance companies?

Would you favor a national health care system for everyone?

It may be cheaper than the existing system because it would free up the payroll deduction and put that money in your pocket and not go to private insurance.

Answer 1

YES, I would favor national health care! We currently have no health insurance (cannot afford it), and I am always concerned and worried about this issue. We are at the age in our lives (my husband and myself) where we are going to experience declining health (mid forties and fifties) so I have this issue eating away in my mind all the time!!

Answer 2

i would go along with natinal health care plan everyone here should have something. its sad some can't affordit and those that can sometimes have hard time also the meds are very expensive and this new thing about which its 4 bucks for meds well let me tell you about this. first of all some pharmacies try and let you know and some dont'. for instance its only some will say if you let yur insurance pay itsthis much not 4 bucksand they wont' tell you what the cost it. so you are not sure what is happening then alll of sudeen someone tells you if you have insurance you have to pay well i finally found that if you don't want ot use insurance for this you can get for 4 bucks and there is a pharmancy (CVS( THAT won't tell you that its for that much without insruance. yes sir reee. that is true so there fore i moved all my stuff to walmart and get a godo price and its not because you are low income is what they will tellyou they want their money and wont' help with lower prices or yes if you find out somethign they will give some discounts but 10 bucks isn't 4. how about that?

Answer 3

No. This country is based on free will. I dont want the governments idea of what health care i should get. If 47 million americans think that health insurance is a bad investment, so be it. I could care less. maybe the government could offer a lower level insurance for impoverished people, but health insurance is not THAT expensive. But most people go without it because they want all the flashy things in life instead of caring for themselves and then ***** and whine about not having a national healthcare system.

Also, this country is based on capitalism, and being so people should be able to choose pretty much everything for themselves, just as long as it doesnt infringe on the rights of other people(which is why you HAVE to have car insurance)

Answer 4

I am against a national governmental controlled health plan. I don't want the government to tell me when I can or can't go to the doctor. The government didn't respond well to the Hurricane Katrina victims and FEMA didn't respond as quickly as they should and the trailers that were given had asbetos in most of them. Hello? My advice to anyone that doesn't have health insurance is try to find a job that offers health insurance. Free health insurance is already offers by the government for children without any insurance.

Answer 5

Our taxes would skyrocket if we had a national healthcare plan. For those of us in generally good health, it's cheaper for us to pay out of pocket when we need a doctor.
Most Americans don't go to doctors when we only have a sneeze or a cough, because it's usually just a simple cold that will go away within a few days time. It's kind of pointless to see a doctor for a cold and be charged anywhere from $50--$100 just to walk in the door to talk to them......then there's the outrageous cost of medicine.
We prefer to tough it out most of the time unless it's something more serious.

Answer 6

yes- I would like to see some form of a national healthcare program in this country. I worked 11 yrs as a medical billing specialist, and often people who have no insurance wait till a small problem becomes a big expensive issue, both to them and to the hospitals and doctors who see them.
The cost of processing claims and bills, the cost of sending a person to collections - both to the individual's credit scores and to the added costs of farming out the bills to a third party collection, is huge.
As a life and health insurance agent, I have seen first hand what this so called system in our country does to our seniors- it can and does wipe out life savings, ruins estates that people wanted to pass onto their families, and drained the emotional, as well as financial bank accounts, of many senior citizens, and their adult children.
I have seen what parents who have no health insurance on themselves go without preventive screenings and work hard to be able to pay the everyday expenses and not have luxuries , get sick and then really wind up sicker because of the emotional toll the stress causes because they now have a medical bill to worry about - NO ONE SHOULD EVER HAVE to THINK TWICE about going to a doctor. Most of us never ask to get sick, and most of us can't afford to practice good preventive care with proper yearly check ups and such.
I myself am guilty of that one - I could not afford to pay to go to the doctor with a sore throat, and could not afford to stay homw and rest - turns out I had strep, and it ended up costing me $199.00 for the office visit, and then $30.00 for the Rx, and three days work. Since at the time I made $9.00 an hr, and the visit was only 15 min long, the doctors office made $13.66 a minute, and cost me , in hours, 22 hrs to pay anything toward the bill.
So yep - it is past time to take the greed out of the health insurance companies, and put a socialized healthcare system in place - the sooner the better !!

Answer 7

no longer in basic terms is there no longer adequate team for such issues, there is not any longer adequate money, and as one here reported , " They wont be making appointments for nonsense matters as they do immediately". human beings, is this no longer a awaken call? Who makes a decision what's nonsense and what isn't nonsense? We cant enable the administrative.to choose for the style of concern. What in case you have had a foot aching for an prolonged time and no person has been waiting to offer help to? So , will the administrative.now say, " Oh, that's barely a foot matters its a nonsense concern, permit's wait till a extra severe project comes up." ? I assure you in case you are the single with the foot soreness, you will think of that's extremely severe. we can not ever flow away such issues in the palms of the government, who has of course shown they cant even run the government on a funds, yet they insist we do. enable us to awaken u . s . a .. it somewhat is yet another slippery slope we are waiting to slip down on. And, the place do we finally end up? in basic terms a query to contemplate on. talk up u . s . a .. it is the only thank you to end the style of concern.....