8 MILLION children without healthcare...Good or Bad thing?

Answer 1

It's bad. I wish their parents would postpone having a family until they are prepared to deal with this issue. I know, in the US, it's very do-able.

Answer 2

I thought we already had medicaid to fix that problem. Isn't medicaid for those who don't have health insurance?

And I would just like to see a group of those 8 million children with no healthcare. Of the many hundreds of students here at my place of employment, few have no healthcare. So where are those 8 million? I have yet to see more than 2 in about 1,000. That would mean we would need some 4,000,000,000 children just in this country. Heck they don't have that many in China, yet.

Answer 3

Bad thing. In retort, I will fire off a few questions that naturally follow.

1. Why are there 8 million children without health care?

2. Is socializing health care the way to assure it's available for all those kids?

3. Would the cost of health care be more or less expensive without government's already massive intervention?

4. Recognizing that individuals providing health care in a truly free market would indeed fail on occassion, are we willing to also accept that government bureaucrats have already failed on a massive scale?

5. To the extent that we accept government's current failures to assure proper health care, why are we talking about giving them even more money?

6. When a private company fails, does it get more money?

7. When a government program fails, does it typically get more money?

8. What would be the public recourse if (when?) socialized health care fails?

I could certainly go on. My point is though that most people honestly want these kids to get the care they need. The enormity of the problem tends to evoke knee jerk reactions. I for one (if you didn't get the sense of my leading questions) am very much against government providing these health care not because I don't care whether these children get care. It is precisely because I do.

Answer 4

Say's who you mean there are 8 million orphans but wait they would have healthcare so these children must have at least one parent so why don't they have healthcare oh wait they can go to the Emergency Room where everyone gets seen OK I give who or where are these 8 million children or is this one of those liberal rhetorically question's based on fantasy rather than fact

Answer 5

The Federal Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act mandates that any hospital with an emergency facility must treat anyone who shows up for care. That's anyone and everyone, period.
Every city in this country has clinics that treat the poor for less serious conditions, including dental care.
Even as a conservative, I'd have to say those are good things.
In short, as evidenced by several of your answers, no one in America - including people here illegally - has a legitimate excuse to not seek care when they are ill. No one - especially the "8 million children" you elude to in your question.
It is a fact that many people in America do not have health insurance - it is simply deceptive and misleading to imply that they don't have health care.
We really don't need this type of misinformation designed to pull on my purse strings and force a social, universal health care plan on all Americans. We don't need to take an ax to a problem that needs a scalpel.

Answer 6

That number is misleading because some families choose not to have health care. And if someone switches jobs and goes 90 days without health care, (most jobs require 90 days before benefits are offered) the kids are included in that number.

Answer 7

No one has to go without healthcare, although far too many choose to spend their money on things other than health care insurance. Many people choose to spend their money on things other than car insurance, too, or life insurance, homeowners insurance, renters insurance, flood insurance. Granted, some people simply do not have the money for health insurance premiums, but the majority don't have it because they aren't responsible with their money.

Answer 8

What's with healthcare and politics today?

Answer 9

Well Hilary is advocating mandatory health insurance. You better go buy some.

Answer 10

I see this as a weighing mechanism. The weight is between money and lives. Surprising thing is, money always wins. I know, it doesn't make sense to me either.