Hell, even Cuba has free healthcare.
2007-09-19 06:57:20 · 19 answers · asked by COLTSfansince1994 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
I hear it takes a long time to schedule a doctors visit because it's so overcrowded. I don't know about you, but I like getting right in to see my doctor. And I also hear doctors don't make as much money compared to here. Money is a huge incentive to go into a certain field. A lot of people want to help others, but even more will want to when there is a lot of money involved. And plus, in Canada, doctors work very hard for a large chunk of their lives...they deserve to get a nice salary.
2007-09-19 07:07:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Unless it is illegal in this country, people from all over the world come to the States for medical treatment. That alone is a very big testimony.
Most people seem to have the idea that if one throws enough money at a problem, the problem will be solved.
It did not work in public education. College graduates now know far less than a high school graduate just a century ago. Public education is a failure.
Public medicine is doomed to failure.
An old joke said: "What do you call the person who graduates at the bottom of his class from a medical school?"
Answer: Doctor.
That is the whole thing: most doctors are incompetant, yet they treat patients. Even if their neglect, stupidity, etc., causes deaths, the doctors keep on practicing. Their records are kept from the public; the medical profession "polices" itself.
These health care systems you brag about are not all that great. Just go ask the people who HAVE to use the systems. It is like the VA here. One guy went in for a colonscopy and DIED. The doctors merely told his wife that the man wasn't supposed to die.
No kidding!
What we have is bad enough; the VA and county health departments are the worst.
Be careful what you ask for: you might get it.
2007-09-19 07:25:57 · answer #2 · answered by Nothingusefullearnedinschool 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In some counties in Ore. they are (or were---not sure now which!!!) trying a new "health care" program for seniors. Very low premiums on health and prescription drugs.
Basically, what it is SUPPOSE to be is that your insurance payments are taken out of your SSI before it is sent to you. Medicare pays the Ins. Co. and the Ins. Co. pays the provider after Medicare pays their share. You have to pay a co-payment EVERY time you need anything medical that they cover(?)---you have to go to the DR.s or facilities on THEIR list or pay for it yourself.
My neighbors are ELDERLY seniors. They don't have a lot so it sounded like a good deal to them. They signed up last Oct. and the plan was to have kicked in in Jan. Since then it has been total disaster!!! I know this because they can not understand what is going on with it and I try to help them keep on top of it. It's becoming an impossible task!!
In May, they got a notice from SSI saying they were being sent a check of $76.50----reimbursement for money taken out of their SSI for the medical plan and they were not signed up for it. Following that they received a notice from the insurance company saying Medicare had not paid them and they owed $140. None of the numbers matched anything!!! I called Medicare to find our what the $76.50 was for. They said my neighbors had not signed up for medical. They only had the prescription plan. Medicare had taken the cost of the prescription plan out of the reimbursement before they returned it. (Why didn't they say so!!!) I called the Ins. co. to see if or what coverage these people had. They said they were signed up for both, but Medicare had only paid on prescriptions--- thus they owed $140 for medical. I told them the premiums HAD been taken out of their SSI since Jan. blah blah blah!!!
I finally got that straightened out and their bank account in order.
Two days ago they received a notice from Medicare. They are to receive a reimbursement, and Medicare will no longer be taking the premiums out of their SSI. (No explination as to WHY or if that also includes the Prescription Plan) They can have automatic payment to the Ins. Co. from the bank or have direct billing from ins.co.
Now we aren't sure yet, if they even have ins. since Medicare has not made the payments for several months, even though the money has been deducted from SSI payments. Don't know if Prescription plan is still in effect.
Sound confusing??? YA THINK!!!? Try figuring it out at age 80+!
This is just some people in a few (test) counties. What happens if this were Nation wide!!!!!?
Do we really want the government in control of our health care?!!!! I shudder at the thought!!!
2007-09-19 07:55:48 · answer #3 · answered by DixeVil 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmm, as of now, I can be a walk in patient and still be in and out of the doctor's office in 30 minutes. I prefer not to risk having the hospitals and doctor's offices even more overwhelmed than they already are. I worked my *** off to get a college degree and find a job that provides health and dental insurance for my family. I prefer to keep it that way.
2007-09-19 07:06:04 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The only advantage of the socialized system is drugs are cheaper, Canadians come to the States for faster and more competent service all the time.
2007-09-19 07:03:14 · answer #5 · answered by Rational Humanist 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Free health care? You have got to be kidding. Someone has to pay for it. Here is a clue, the government does not make any money they just spend it. Works that way in Canada and England also.
2007-09-19 07:01:38 · answer #6 · answered by ken 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
No,
Because then where would Canadian politicians and the wealthy of those nations go for health care? We have the best health care in the world. Why monkey with it?
2007-09-19 07:13:49 · answer #7 · answered by lundstroms2004 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
holy crap....you frickin liberal hippies need to wake up and stop living in dreamland....i understand that most of you dont work and live off welfare but there are some of us who do work every day and pay taxes
life in socialized medicine: 8 months to get a brain scan to see if you have a life threatening tumor
also ever wonder why ever1 is coming to america for our doctors???? cause they are the best...why do the best come here??? because our hospitals pay the most......with socializd medicine doctors get paid alot less which mean alot of them will leave
2007-09-19 07:07:20 · answer #8 · answered by schmittie692000 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Hi, my name is George , I'm 17
your question interested me cause i ask myself the same question all the time...
you really need to watch "sicko" by Michael Moore...
health care industries make money by denying their own clients medicine, operations and other needs. The health care industries pay the government to NOT have universal health care...
that's how they bribes Hillary Clinton to shut up about universal health care.... and she did... a couple thousand dollars and they shut her mouth...
what makes you think that if she goes into office she will get us universal health care?
she will just get bribed again by all the companies...
personally I think France is a great country for offering free universal health care for its citizens and tourists...
if any of you need surgery in the U.S. and don't have ten thousand dollars, its cheaper to get on an air plane and go to France...
what a shame that our government cares more about money than it does about its own people...
2007-09-19 07:08:45 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Yet they come here by the plane load to get health care. Hell even poor Mexicans and other people from 3rd world countries come here to get health care.
OWNED
2007-09-19 07:04:12 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋