Why Do People Think "Free Health Care" Is A "Grass Roots Movement"?

Question

Well known lobbyist companies are being used for the "movement". Right now the "movement" is mainly a state by state "movement".

A free health care program would cost trillions of dollars per year. There are hundreds of billions of dollars to made off the government if free health care was given to everyone in the U.S.. To me, the "movement" looks like it has nothing to do with caring about people.

A very large percentage of people without health care insurance are undocumented workers (and their kids), and foreigners with work permits.

Health insurance in America is affordable in many states. In many states, good private healthcare insurance only costs around $100 a month. The problem is old insurance laws block the insurance from being sold from state to state. That stifles competition. Consumers should be allowed to purchase insurance directly from HMO's with no middlemen involved.

President Bush Delivers State of the Union Address,
"Allow Health Insurance to be Purchased Across State Lines "
http://www.whitehouse.gov/stateoftheunion/2006/healthcare/
Reforming Health Care for the 21st Century

"Why can't people buy health insurance over state lines?"
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ao0eomAKXMcJAyprF3hnaMTty6IX?qid=20070813004202AA9jlt0

Canadian patients come to the U.S. for high quality care.

"Canadian cancer survivor: "There’s no question that going to the United States saved my life"
http://www.ccac-accc.ca/news.php?id=53

Canadian government:
"Four years ago when Suzanne Aucoin was diagnosed with colorectal cancer, she had to travel every week to the United States to buy life-saving cancer drugs " Medical Tourism Boosted by Long Wait Times - Embassy - Newspaper http://www.embassymag.ca/html/index.php?display=story&full_path=/2007/march/28/tourism/

Answer 1

"Grass roots" has that warm and fuzzy sound to it, like "we the people" want it.

Answer 2

Now this, this is a difficult question, personally though I can think of two more Southern Rock Songs that can hang with the two You mentioned for sheer extended Guitar Solo awesomeness... Fall Of The Peacemakers by Molly Hatchet Highway Song by Blackfoot However, Freebird will always be number one so I'll choose it. Hughie Thommason does rock the hell out of Green Grass And High Tides though, doesn't He?

Answer 3

What!!!! A hundred $ a month.
I got news for you. My family plan cost me $13,000 per year. You couldn't even get dental coverage for $100 a month. I don't know where in the world you live where you can get full medical coverage with prescription medicine for only $100 a month.
No wonder so many people are against heath coverage reform. You don't have any idea of the cost. If you are getting coverage for $100, it's garbage coverage. Don't get sick.

Answer 4

Please do not use our Canadian Health care to bash a program in the U.S. until, and unless you know what the hell you are talking about.
Most of you spout the AMA, and pharmaceutical line, without ever finding out the true facts, and they could not be farther from the truth.

Yes health care is expensive, but it saves lives, wars like yours, are expensive, and they take lives.

I have seen comments that the standard of health care suffers, and that is Bull.

I have also seen that you have to wait for months to get an appointment, that too is a lie.

NO Canadian is ever turned away because they cant afford treatment, and even though we are always working on ways to improve the system, we are very happy to be living in a country that cares about its citizens, rather than who shall we bomb today.

Answer 5

OK... let's stop with the "free" word. Health care is NOT free, never will be. But let's look at a very personal example. In 1996 my ex-husband and I were taking care of three relatives who were terminally ill and all on hospice care. I quit my job temporarily so that I could take care of them (we couldn't afford in home care and the hospice nurses and staff only came in a few hours a week). My husband worked for a large, well-known pizza delivery service that did not offer health insurance.
My husband's mother passed away in May with a stroke, his father 8 weeks later from congestive heart failure. My sister, against all medical predictions, lasted until June of the following year. We were very strapped financially at this time. Then...
my husband had a heart attack. Hopsitalization.. $165,000... which they sent to us as a bill that was "now due and payable." And three months later, in excruciating pain, I was admitted to the hospital with an infected ovarian cyst. In the bed of the hospital someone came up from the "office" and said we had to put up $1,000 for me to stay in the hospital. She relented after noting I was already hooked up to an IV.
We filed bankruptcy in 1998 after being faced with over $250,000 in medical bills.
Who paid for all that? You did. I did. We all did.
Health care is never free. But it will be a LOT cheaper with a universal, single payer, non-profit health care system.
OR we can institute policies that refuse treatment for people like by husband and I, who were just trying to take care of our families, and let us die and "reduce the surplus population." Just pray it doesn't happen to a member of your family. Is that what we stand for in this country?

Answer 6

Free health care?
You think the US has a nursing shortage now?
I for one will not be a nurse if free health care comes about.
Medicare/Medicaid and insurance rip offs have most nurses with a stagnant wage scale as it is. No way will I "give" away 14 years of hard earned experience.
Doctors with free health care?
You will have a few nutcases to take care of you and you will be on your own.
Nurses do it because we can but the American in us expects good compensation for a college education and we also PAY for our nurse's license.

Answer 7

That's actually a pretty simple question. If somebody believes that FREE health care exists.. they're obviously an idiot.

We all know that a government run health care system would be horribly inefficient, hard to use.. and if we use the socialized health care system in Canada as an example, would be of FAR lower quality than we now have.

Paying more for less just doesn't make sense to me. Leave the government out of it, private business does it so much better.

Answer 8

If you haven't noticed the US has a sick care system. The only time you get care is when you are sick. A true health care system helps the population to stay HEALTHY and promotes preventive care before one gets a catastrophic illness which consumes millions of dollars to treat. How is it that the US can promote preemptive WAR but can't figure out Preventive Health Care?

Answer 9

eve are you really naive enough to believe that our politicians are going to work for the people of this country and not the special interests of the pharmaceutical companies etc. where have you been for the last 50 years - it is blatant now more than ever - they screw up everything they touch where it will turn out to be a giant horror story - for the middle class - the poor -the rich -everybody - ronpaul2008.com

Answer 10

You guys lack the sophistication and can never come up with a free health care system if you tried. You're too busy screwing each other as always.

Just emigrate...it will be the best think you could ever do for yourself.

Only the rich will stick up for the health care in the USA...when you have enough money you can be treated as good as the President of the United States.

The rest of you aren't good enough and nobody cares....don't you get it yet?

Best you invest in LIFE insurance for your loved ones. At least your funeral will be covered.

The rest of you are better off smoking those grass roots than worrying about them.

Answer 11

And which health care company do you work for?