2007-09-12 14:35:00 · 20 answers · asked by hanna 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
richest in which way, different statistics show different levels of progress
we are not the richest in terms of savings
we have one of the highest levels of debt per person
we are one of the highest taxed countries when all taxes state local federal combined with all hidden taxes
there are many variables , too many to make a statement like we are the richest
2007-09-12 15:02:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
First of all, there is no such thing as "free health care". Somebody has to pay. If the government pays, through taxes, then everyone has to pay. Have you tried to get an appointment with a doctor lately? It isn't easy to get in to see one right away. Think about what it will be like when everyone who waits, because they can't afford it, decides to go see the doctor because it is free. "Free health care" is nothing more than the privilege to get on a waiting list.
Before this happens, we will need to more than double our number of healthcare professionals and hospitals. Who is going to pay for that?
Do you really want your healthcare run by the government. When have they ever done anything right?
If healthcare is so important, then people need to do what it takes to stay alive. Personal responsibility. What an interesting concept. Kind of like work or starve. You have the choice in a free country. Live or die as you wish.
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2007-09-12 16:06:29 · answer #2 · answered by John H 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I'm assuming you are pretty young to ask such a question. Think about it for a minute how could it ever be really free? Do you think doctors and nurses are going to work for free? How would they pay their bills? So you have to figure government is going to pay for it right? And where does government get it's money? They don't produce any goods they govern and make laws. So it ends up being us we the working people who end up paying for your "free" healthcare. If a liberal democrat does become president and the congress stays in the power of the libs and if they ever get back to work and stop whitch hunting every republican they can think of then it will probably pass and you will see when you have to go out in the real world and go to work just how expensive "free" can be.
2007-09-12 15:24:17 · answer #3 · answered by crusinthru 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No nation on Earth has free health care, except for the poor and indigent.
In Canada and England, it comes out of their paycheck before they ever see it. And for the quality and timeliness of the services rendered, it's no doubt more expensive that what I -- as a self-employed US citizen --- pays.
I at least know exactly how much my medical care costs. I doubt that Canadians or Brits have any idea; just as Americans don't know who much they've lost in earnings by having money flow into the Social Security Administration instead of a well-planned portfolio.
2007-09-12 14:49:16 · answer #4 · answered by Boomer Wisdom 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-10 11:38:24 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because there are many people who have swallowed the lies of the insurance and pharmaceutical companies which want to keep the profit in health care. They have been brainwashed into believing that the best care in the world would regress. They don't understand that many hard working people are forced into bankruptcy by medical bills. They can't understand that many hard working people can't afford health insurance premiums. They won't take the time to study the issue instead of spewing back the lies they have been fed.
They don't take the time to consider if we have the best medical care in the world, for those who can afford it, then why are we 37th in the world concerning longevity? Go here to study more on the issue:
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2007-09-12 14:53:28 · answer #6 · answered by Slimsmom 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Why in the world would we want a socialist health system? Goodness, the socialism already in it is costing us an arm and a leg!
Why would the richest nation in the world want to embrace a system that destroys it's rich or chases them off, lowering the standard of living for everyone as jobs and companies leave in droves for other countries?
How in the world do you think we BECAME the richest nation in the world? It wasn't by socialism. It was by capitalism.
2007-09-12 14:44:36 · answer #7 · answered by mckenziecalhoun 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
I'm sorry to inform you of this but nothing is free. Everything has a price tag, including your precious "free health care". Why don't you ask the average U.K. taxpayer, how much he/she pays in taxes every year. Or ask Canada how much their "free health care" costs their taxpayers. The first rule of economics "there is no such thing as a free lunch."
2007-09-12 14:45:45 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Because Health Care isn't free. Doctors aren't free. Med School isn't free. Nursing school isn't free. You get what you pay for.
2007-09-12 14:45:54 · answer #9 · answered by ancabet1 1 · 3⤊ 1⤋
It didn't say Americans were the richest, it was speaking of the Government , and they're rich because they don't care for those that support them.
2007-09-12 14:44:02 · answer #10 · answered by fuzzykitty 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋