I think it's a good idea. I don't make enough right now to afford health insurance, which is something like $200 a month. For me, that's a big chunk of my take-home...that is 1/3 of rent. I can't afford that. Luckily I'm young and healthy, but if I have a medical emergency, I'll go bankrupt. It would be nice if I could go to the doctor and pay a reasonable fee based on my income, with the government subsidizing it.
I don't believe in free handouts...I'm not on welfare, food stamps, or anything. The only thing I take are subsidized student loans (I have to pay them back) and veterans benefits (I served my time for these) I just think that health care should not be a benefit for the rich.
Then why do so many people hate the idea of "socialized" medicine?
2007-09-04 09:52:07 · 14 answers · asked by redguard572001 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
Healthy people in other countries think it works well. But ask them how they like it if they really need something major or something that isn't life threatening but would raise their standard of life.... well, the government is on a budget... they can deny your request easily... you didn't need that arm anyhow, right? Why do so many doctors leave Canada for the US.... hmmm... they don't get paid what they should.... how many new medical discoveries come out of these counties? Oh... sorry, not many... no money to fund those things. And boy oh boy... if we get it here why even work? Free healthcare... free welfare... free housing... free retirement... Who pays for all this again?
2007-09-04 10:08:33 · answer #1 · answered by Mr. Perfect 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because when someone is giving you something they decide who gets what and who deserves it.
Medicare is something controlled by the government. Paid for...but they held the purse strings. At first it was GREAT. Everybody got the best there was to offer. Then the demands increased and the benefits decreased. Each year it gets less and less. Quality is less and less. Coverage is less and less. Till many are refused what they need. Not a problem when it's somebody else....is when it's somebody you love. It eventually boils down to who's worth more and who deserves more based on their chart. What happens when your child is disabled and it costs the government too much to keep them alive? Especially when their organs could benefit someone else? Do you want to make that decision or do you want them to? Do you want them to mandate you get this drug because the drug company needs some guinea pigs to test this out or not? Government gives out vaccines and mandates them but they aren't responsible if there's something wrong. Fine if it's somebody elses kid who gets hurt.......not so cool when it's your own. What if they decide to try you out on some new artificial blood? What happens if it's a nightmare for you?
Food stamps don't allow you to buy whatever you want. They give you a choice between a few things. Welfare lets you get care with just a few people. Affordible housing doesn't let you pick where you want to be. It's an illusion of choices but they are controling what you can choose. After enough pressure....those choices get less and less till you have no choice left but what they want to give you and if you want it or not. Won't be peas, beans, corn, tomatoes, etc. It goes to peas beans and corn....then corn. Take it or leave it.
Beggers can't be choosers. It ends up like that.
2007-09-04 17:17:02 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's because when people look at universal health care abroad, they only look to the bad portions. Then they make assumptions about how America would react with no proof, even from these looks abroad. The idea that in taxes we would pay more for healthcare is absurd, and any country under that system proves that. The assumption that doctors wouldn't have any control over their practices is strange too, because they have plenty in England, France and Canada. Most of the arguments have no basis, pure speculation. And the wait time idea is even more ridiculous. Anyone who has ever been to a hospital with anything less than a life or death emergency knows that wait times in this country are already insane, and that in other countries like England or France those times are much lower.
2007-09-04 17:05:01 · answer #3 · answered by whiteflame55 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I completely agree with you. I think it's a great idea. Even people with health insurance get slammed with huge bills they can barely afford to pay sometimes. I also can't afford health care right now. I'm in school and working, but like you luckily I'm young and healthy. If I can just stay that way for at least a year more I should be able to land a job with good health care. But, I totally agree with you. I look at other countries and I wonder why we can't have something so great here in the U.S. People seem to be terrified by the idea here not realizing it could save their life one day. It's too bad we haven't cought on here.
2007-09-04 17:02:50 · answer #4 · answered by Laura 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think it's a great idea. But I already have health care and I don't want to pay for it for other people. 99% of the people who oppose universal health care have health care and simply want control of their money. Their is nothing you can offer them short of immunity from paying into the system to get them on board. If everyone that had health care was exempt from paying into the system, we're back where we started: some people have health care and the people that don't want it.
2007-09-04 16:58:18 · answer #5 · answered by Pfo 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Most importantly, it takes away our freedom to choose. Some people don't want to buy insurance. Some people are so rich, they do not need health insurance or nationalized health care.
Socialism fails every time it is tried. For every dollar spent on health care, 50 cents would have to be spent on the bureaucracy to run the program.
Have you tried to find a better paying job?
2007-09-04 17:04:29 · answer #6 · answered by regerugged 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Because I don't want my health care to operate with the efficiency of the DMV, the USPS, and airport security. Think about it. I can wait a few hours to get into the airport, but I don't think I'd have that much time in a medical emergency.
2007-09-04 17:05:59 · answer #7 · answered by DOOM 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
So you think youi would like paying for your health care AND other people too.. you would be taxed higher for the health care and the government would choose your doctor and the type of care that you would get.. Is that what you really want?
Im not rich, but I have paid my way.. If I need a doctor I want the choice..
2007-09-04 17:00:28 · answer #8 · answered by Antiliber 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Most Americans have no clue how national health care works in other countries. I live in Canada and I've gotten very tired of correcting lies and bullsh!t written by Americans about how my health care system works. Throw in the word "socialized" and you've done to an American what waving a cross does to a vampire.
2007-09-04 16:57:10 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋
Look at how much it is going to cost us for the socialist VA health care for Iraq Veterans. Hundreds of Billions of dollars.
2007-09-04 17:00:14 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋