If Universal Healthcare is not the answer, what do we do about millions of uninsured?

Question

Any solutions?

Answer 1

Some low-cost alternatives. Competition or legislation, but minimal emergency-coverage health care needs to become like cellular service, so widely available that ANYONE can get it.

There's nothing wrong with paying more for better service, but basic ER coverage can't be something only the well-to-do have. We ALL wind up paying for the uninsured!!

Answer 2

1. The employer must offer insurance to any full time employee of at least three months (and everyone who has been with the company is full time by three months) with government and state incentives to the employer so folks can be insured without the state raising minimum wage (a no win situation).
2. Tell them that if they are so dirt poor they can get free health care from the state.
3. If they have a preexisting condition, move to Canada and become a Canadian citizen, realizing they'll have to wait at least one year if they need any kind of surgery (unless you have a lot of money). If you have only six months to live or even eleven, I am very sorry: that is the principal of universal health care for you if you are poor.
4. Don't allow the pharmaceutical companies to rip off the insurance companies and the uninsured by billions of dollars each year. Make the price of medicines a certain percentage above the cost of manufacturing and make sure it will not bankrupt the pharmaceutical companies.
5. Use homeopathic remedies whenever you can.

Answer 3

I think that universal health care is a great idea. Personally I have health insurance through my job I't a pretty good health plan. However there are hard working people who have little coverage or none at all. I have a friend who works 60 hours a week . She pays $400.00 a month for coverage. And still there is a $1000.00 dollar deductable per year, as well as a co-pay. If She had a family it would cost even more. It's not right. There should be affordable coverage for everyone. Universal health care provides everyone with Healthcare. Yes your going to pay for it. But at least you can have peace of mind knowing that if something happens like you lose your job. You can still recieve Medical attention for free. without going into debt, and losing everything you have worked for.

Answer 4

We need to reshape the whole concept of healthcare. It should focus on the prevention of disease, not the treatment of disease.

As soon as society realizes that diet and exercise are far more important for health than the latest prescription fad, we will not need so much of the bs that goes on in healthcare. (remember: more bs=higher prices)

And while were at it, could someone figure out why "medical coding and billing" is a billion dollar industry?

Answer 5

If fellow Americans don't give a rat's *** about the millions of Americans who are uninsured, what CAN anyone else offer to do about it?

Geez, there are so many possible solutions but none of them are acceptable to Americans because they have their heads too far up their collective ***es.

Answer 6

The people who don't want it probably are the people who are making mega bucks off people's premiums. I only have the option of Kaiser at my work, and pay $103 a week, if we all paid premiums to the government for universal we could have a great system for everyone.

Answer 7

I think the plan is they can limp thier pains away until they breakdown and have an early death like they always have.

Educate them on proper living and reasource management through traveling pamphlet mobiles and state social workers. Public group health plans or something like that. Community Clinics for basic needs. Basic medical training for everybody!

Answer 8

They should have these pharmaceutical companies come down on there prices.The medical profession should be investigated for the outrageous prices that are charged, health care should be looked in to as well, you pay a fee but then are charged a co-pay too, is that fair....Personal responsibility for ones health care is needed for each person, it would not be fair for say a healthy person to pay more for insurance because someone has many medical problems, perhaps the persons with more health problems should pay more that the healthy ones do, that would be fair.

Answer 9

Universal healthcare is the answer. The free market in healthcare has been proven to be a disaster, except for the rich. The refugnicators only care about the rich.

Answer 10

We'll figure out something. But keep in mind, more than 275 million people in the US have the best healthcare of anywhere else in the world. We don't want to screw that up.