Should the government help the poorer adults in our country with health care?

Answer 1

My mother always said charity should begin at home. We should have health care for all in this country before we worry about making sure other countries have it. Are you aware that a person in Iraq can go to the military medics there and get treatment for free that a person in this country cannot afford? There is something wrong with this picture.

Answer 2

yes, and it's not so much the poor adults, but simply those that need medical assistance and cannot afford it.

i think that all employers should offer medical care to their employees, even the part time ones...they should offer an affordable partial treatment, something that will cover emergency room visits, at least annual check ups and generic medications. I don't think that is too much to ask

I am only 21 and i do not have medical insurance, not because i am poor but because i can't afford a $300 a month premium. i go to school full time and have 2 jobs and i can barely make it till next pay day.

Jasonb how can you say that health is not a right? your saying that people do not have a right to be healthy and get the help they need when they need it...so you rather see someone die of cancer or neumonia simply becuase they dont have the means to pay the medical bills?! wow...why not just have another holocoust and throw all the people that cant afford the basic necesities in life in the gas chamber?!

Answer 3

Yes! The United States is the only industrialized country without some form of national health care. Economically it makes good sense. People without health insurance become ill, but do not go to the doctor. When they become sick enough, the go to the public hospital where is costs expotentially more to care for them than it would had there been government assisted health care in the first place. This adds to the number of days of work missed and contributes to a decline in productivity.

People who are ill go to work or school and spread their germs. Colds and flu are contagious. Yes, I understand people with insurance do this, too, but without health insurance peo

Picture, if you can, a map of Texas. Brownsville is a the Southern tip of the state. Follow the coastline almost to Louisiana and you will locate Houston which has public hospitals. There are NO other public hospitals along the Texas coast.

What does this mean? It means than unless your condition is "life threatening," the emergency room can turn you away without treatment. Simple fractures, normal pregnancies, gastritis , most cuts and not life threatening. If you double over with pain, but triage determines it's not life threatening, you might not be seen by a doctor.

The United States is one of the wealthiest countries in the world, yet we cannot provide health care for all residents. Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas have infant mortality rates reviling those of third world countries. Something needs to change.

Answer 4

So what, your solution to peope who can't pay is what? To let them die?

It's a bit ironic, don't you think that we REQUIRE insurance on cars, but people bulk at health insurance?

I don't have it. I would like to. I have 2 jobs. Neither provide it. By the time I pay for mortgage, utilities, gas, car payments, car INSURANCE, homeowners INSURANCE, food, I don't have enough to pay for the $385 a month it would cost me for health insurance. I make too much to qualify for Medicaid. But not enough to pay for private.

So what is the problem with getting the government involved with this? I'm not asking for a handout, just a little help.

Answer 5

No, the government is not your mommy. Citizens need to be able to contribute to society so that they can pay for their own medical care.

The problem with our health care industry is big, and complicated, but more government involvement in it is NOT the answer. We need LESS.

And hospitals need to have the authority and ability to deny care to those who can't show an ability to pay. Those people are driving up the costs for the rest of us who CAN pay. We're having to pay not only for our care, but for those losers in the Emergency Room that are bottlenecking the system.

Answer 6

There are other options out there. There should be a level of free health care in this country, available to everyone.
Right now, it is in the hands of corporations whose sole responsibility is to make money for shareholders, not to make people healthy.

Answer 7

Since you and I would pay for this eventually, you had to ask yourself if you are okay with paying for the insurance of a homeless person with TB and sitting behind him for a few hours in a doctors office, waiting to be seen while this homeless person coughs TB germs in your face.

Because, that's the hard reality of government-sponsored healthcare.

Answer 8

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with inherent and inalienable rights; that among these, are LIFE, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness ...
- Declaration of Independence as originally written by Thomas Jefferson, 1776.

And the problem of helping people remain alive would be....?

Answer 9

I truly believe that "Giving from the heart is CHARITY"
and "Gifts via the I.R.S. are EXTORTION"!
Therefore, the Government should supply ONLY the basic minimum necessary to fill in the gaps.
NO. we shouldn't let those in need "free-fall", but we should NEVER just extort money from the productive thus suppressing economic growth!
We already have VOLUNTARY Socialism. It is called INSURANCE!

Answer 10

NO. The federal government should eliminate all social and non essential spending and use the money to pay down the national debt and cut taxes which will lead to more revenues.
Health care is not a right. If you need health care you should go get a job and get health insurance.