2007-09-04 07:59:47 · 10 answers · asked by SEXIEST AVATAR™ is HERE. 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Not soon enough! I can't wait to have to be on a two year waiting list to get my knee fixed. Yeah!!!
2007-09-04 08:04:55 · answer #1 · answered by panzernaker 1 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Unless Congress plans on limiting the influence of lobbyists It will never happen in the near future. I know that a lot of candidates talk about universal health coverage and I know that a large number of Americans put healthcare coverage as a priority to be addressed but the fact is that insurance companies and the physicians have large lobbies.... the insurance lobby is one of the hugest. They will do anything to keep this from happening... they will buy every senator that they can collect to vote against this. And they will win.
Lots of candidates are giving lip service to national healthcare but believe me they are only talking about this for the votes... whoever wins (Dem or Republican) will completely forget this issue once they are elected.
2007-09-04 15:12:32 · answer #2 · answered by cattledog 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know of any government run program that works right, healthcare won't be any different. Personally I don't want my healthcare to be run like the school system.
FYI, Dems have been working on it. If you paid attention you would remember when Hillary tried it with flu shots. Government run flu shots soon the companies making the shots couldn't get them made due to red tape, and financial rules & restrictions. Many companies went out of business then remember what happened? THERE WAS A FLU SHOT SHORTAGE!!!!!
If you need health care and can not afford it there are already government programs that will help you.
Please don’t MAKE the rest of us that can take care of ourselves use government programs!
2007-09-04 15:35:11 · answer #3 · answered by froghugger 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There are at least 3 states working on it. The Democrats have a plan at the national level but getting it passed through the Republicans in Congress and signed by a Republican president is futile and so there are more important issues right now apparently.
2007-09-04 15:12:17 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yep, the republicans are fighting it too. As far as you 'signing up'. Probably will be a long line...
The official poverty threshold in 2006, which many experts believe to be too low, was $20,614 for a family of four, about $16,000 for a family of three, around $13,000 for a family of two and a little over $10,000 for an individual.
Last year, according to the census report, about 47 million Americans had no access to health insurance. Once again, official figures suggest that most of those who lack health care are individuals and families from non-white minorities.
In Spivek's analysis, Hispanics, American Indians, and Alaska natives are three times more likely than whites to lack access to medical care.
Noting that currently the U.S. government spends about $720 million a day on the war in Iraq, Joyce Miller, a human rights activist associated with AFSC, said that amount could buy school lunch for 1 million children.
With that money, according to her, the government could also provide over 400, 000 children with health care.
Recent studies point out that over 23 million Americans seek emergency food each year. According to a study carried out by the California-based Institute for Food and Development Policy, about 13 million American children worry where their next meal is coming from "because their parents do not earn enough to pay for food, rent, heat, health care, and transportation."
The AFSC figures on the Iraq war are based on a statistical analysis done by Nobel Prize-winning economists Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes of Harvard University.
Their analysis includes $410 billion in Iraq supplemental funding bills, $160 billion embedded in the Pentagon's annual budget, $290 billion for Iraq veterans' medical expenditures, and $191 billion in interest on the war debt.
"America's shameful poverty rate should lead every one to ask how we want to spend our tax dollars," said Miller, "on war or on education, health care, job training, and affordable housing?"
2007-09-04 15:09:40 · answer #5 · answered by oldmechanicsrule 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Simple solution.
Just move to one of the 40 some odd countries in the world that have better and cheaper health care than the USA.
Short of that, keep voting for Democrats.
2007-09-04 15:03:34 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
hopefully, NEVER! Please tell me why I should pay for yoour halth care? Can I also tell you how to live? Can I dictate that you live according to MY definition of a "healthy lifestyle"? If I am paying yoour health care costs, I intend to do just that! There is nothing in the Constitution of the United States that allows the federal government to be involved in health care, anyway.
2007-09-04 16:03:23 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Drink me- that's ridiculous. I'm from Australia and I can walk in and see a doctor IMMEDIATELY when I'm there. Now that I'm living in the US, it has taken me up to 3 MONTHS to see a doctor here on numerous occasions (average of 2 months).
I'm talking regular doctor- not even a specialist!
2007-09-04 15:07:00 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
Apparently you think it's supposed to be a giant freebie. It's not. You'll have to pay into it. What would you expect for nothing?
2007-09-04 15:04:48 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
You keep holding your breath about that?
2007-09-04 16:57:41 · answer #10 · answered by mad_1240 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋