If we educate every citizen in the country, why don't we provide health care?

Question

And if you don't like your school system, you can pay to put your kids in a private one. It could be the same for health care, if you wanted more personal care, you could go to a private hospital.

I just think we do an injustice to people by allowing so many to go without health insurance. Our health care system today benefits the rich - those who can afford plastic surgery out of pocket, and hurts those (like me) who can't afford the $200-300 a month out of my paycheck for insurance. If I have a medical emergency, I'll have a lifetime's worth of debt. There should be something better.

Answer 1

And if I don't like my car, will Uncle Sam buy me a BMW ? I didn't think so........

:-o

Answer 2

I couldn't agree with you more. It's appalling that we pay more for healthcare than anyone else; our life expectancy is 72nd in the world, and our infant mortality rate is about 40th.

And the cost? Because what should be a $10 clinic visit really costs $147 (I had to go last month), and if they can't do that, they end up in the ER "for free", only it isn't, and WE ALL pay for it. Since we all already pay for it, why not make the most of the money spent, and get the sore throat when it's still ten bucks, before it turns into twenty grand worth of pneumonia at public expense.

The problem is the $600 billion the insurance industry made in administrative costs last year. How much healthcare you think $600 billion could buy? They don't want to give it up. Even if you have insurancem your premium pays the lawyer to pick apart your claim and try to deny as much as he can to improve profits, which are dividends paid to investors, and not healthcare delivered to policyholders. Dang! I fear I ramble on.

You're right, anyhow. Keep it up!

Answer 3

You've got to love this argument..

Let's make every working American pay thousands a year for "free healthcare" and then tell them if they want decent care they're free to go pay tens of thousands more on top of that..

But the real amusing thing is you say you can't afford to pay $200-$300 a month for insurance.. and yet that $300 - $400 a month in extra taxes would be just fine.

Answer 4

You are so right. This is one of the reasons that voting is so important. If citizens do not demand these issues in campaigning letters, emails, phone calls, editorials, etc. to their Congressmen, Senators, Mayors, Governors, every elected official they vote for- their voices will not be heard. What really is awful is that we all believe this, but we are all scattered throughout the US and it takes organizing and pulling things together to make demands for change. So many people just sit back and 'take it', or wait until someone else does something. Health issues are even greater today. I also believe that we have cures for certain diseases and illnesses but because the demand is so great for pushing pills on people, the pharmaceutical companies are almost running the medical system!

Answer 5

Health care was prizatized by Nixon with the creation of the HMO. We may never have free health care as there are too many people profitting from private health care now. It's sad as we are #37 on the WHO's list of the world's best health care.
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Obviouslly some people need to educate themselves on different health care systems in the world. We've been brainwashed by our govt into thinking that socialized health care is bad.

Answer 6

The federal Government, does not educate every citizen.

There are no Federal laws requiring free education.

It is State constitutions that mandate free education.

And States are free today, to offer any health care plans they want to, in fact many do.

Answer 7

we do provide health CARE for all via the emergency room system at hospitals...what we do NOT provide to all is health INSURANCE...and while the need for reform of the health care system in america is obvious, it should not be paid for with the folly of socialized medicine. we don't need to make it worse and that is exactly what will happen if we go down that road.

Answer 8

For the simple reason that I am not any more interested in paying for your health care, any more than you are interested in buying me a new car. Most public education is deplorable, God help us if the government gets to decide what MD you get to go to. Imagine your health care managed by the same people that manage the U.S.P.O. or DMV.

Answer 9

It would cost too much money. It would cost trillions of dollars per year.

Also, most people don't know Canada sends its sickest patients to the U.S. for treatment by HMO's. Where would the U.S. send its patients to once everyone has a crappy government health insurance plan?

First of all, there is no hole in the system since there are hardly any uninsured in America. When lobbyists count the number of uninsured they are including the estimated 32 million undocumented foreigners in the U.S.. ( 32 million is the most accurate estimate.) There are hundreds of billions of dollars to be made off of the government by providing free health care to everyone.

Canadian cancer survivor: "There’s no question that going to the United States saved my life"
Colorectal Cancer Association of Canada - CCAC
http://www.ccac-accc.ca/news.php?id=53
"In Canada the average wait for procedures such as neurosurgery is more than four months; for cancer radiation treatment, over two months. The average wait for treatment after consulting a specialist for coronary bypass clocks in at up to 52 weeks, with four to 12 weeks for angioplasty. That’s the reality in our backlogged public health system, according to a recent survey by The Fraser Institute, a think tank based in Vancouver. In the United States, you can often be on an operating table within a week or two of referral to a surgeon."

Answer 10

I would agree with you, if our public education systems were actually educating people in this country sufficiently. I have no faith in the governments social programs.

Answer 11

Because public schools can push the government's agenda.

"I pledge alliegence to the flag..."

The history books, civic classes and socialization of our children are 12 years of brainwashing us on how GREAT America is. Without public education, this corrupt system of government would have ended years ago.