Today, since healthcare has now become a political issue, your neighbor, your State as well as people you do not know are now involved in issues that were once considered private as well as personal. How does this address privacy standards in re to medical treatments and access to a Medical Professional?
2007-09-23 04:22:09 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
When socialism gets involved there are no private issues........
2007-09-23 04:26:17 · answer #1 · answered by Brian 7 · 5⤊ 7⤋
Health insurance costs are high and continuing upward. Many Americans are uninsured or underinsured. Medical costs are a leading cause of personal bankruptcies. Many employers are no longer offering health insurance.
Emergency rooms are being overused at a very high cost, sometimes for illnesses that could have been prevented through preventive care and early detection. Many people who have health coverage are not happy with the limited choice of physicians or limited coverage that they have.
Individuals are concerned about leaving their employment and losing coverage. Americans are aware that other industrialized countries have universal health care.
The above are some of the reasons that health care has become a major public issue. There is no medical privacy issue involved in providing universal coverage. Medicare and Medicaid, for example, do not involve individual medical privacy issues.
2007-09-23 11:44:50 · answer #2 · answered by tribeca_belle 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
All of the proposed health care plans would still involve private insurance companies and the employers. The theory is that with a larger group, the insurance would cost less. It would cause competition between the insurance companies to decrease costs and add benefits which would give them the power to drive down health care costs. It is not socialism. Its capitalism as it was meant to be. You still would have the right to choose your own doctor, etc, and your privacy would remain the same.
This has become a political issue because it is destroying people's lives. Many people.
2007-09-23 11:39:55 · answer #3 · answered by BekindtoAnimals22 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Health care became a public issue when 40 million people became uninsured. The figure is now up to 48 million.
It's ironic that the people who are so concerned that universal health care will infringe on privacy rights are the same people who say that the government should outlaw a woman's private medical decision to terminate a pregnancy. They are also the same people who say that it's alright for the government to eavesdrop on Americans' conversations and email without a warrant, and who are all in favor of electronic medical records.
2007-09-23 11:42:48 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋
Since the cost has risen so much> Hospitals closing> Emergency rooms so full there are 8 hour waits>Citizens not have health care> & the illegals walk in & get medical care for everything including having babys>And are not even asked to pay >And you ask why it's a public issue>It's a National issue>
2007-09-23 11:34:01 · answer #5 · answered by 45 auto 7 · 3⤊ 3⤋
It became an issue when hardworking middle class Americans are going without health care because of cost and how difficult it can be to obtain health care to those who have some sort of pre existing conditions. Every human being has the basic right to have access to quality health care at livable prices. The insurance companies are making billions of dollars off the people of this country and they don't care about anything but that. Screw the insurance companies. Families in this country our going bankrupt trying to stay alive without medical care. Enough is enough, this have been a long time coming. We are the only superpower on this planet who does not provide for ALL of it's citizens, GO HILLARY YOU HAVE MY VOTE!
2007-09-23 11:35:35 · answer #6 · answered by yummymummy 2 · 2⤊ 4⤋
great question!
We now see things like smoking and fatty foods being banned in a supposedly free country due to the view that individual health is now a public issue.
It's downright frightening.
But this is ALWAYS the result of socialism. I don't understand how people who call themselves "liberals" can't see what is happening in this country.
The government is now involved in regulating our diets. How's that for PRIVACY and FREEDOM?
Sick.
2007-09-23 11:34:10 · answer #7 · answered by charbatch 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Because we all are paying for it (higher premiums)due to 47 million uninsured Americans.
This FACT alone makes it a huge public policy issue .
2007-09-23 11:31:01 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
um ... it's been "conservative" policy to have the government standing in a woman's doctor's office seeking to involve itself in her and her doctor's decisions concerning her uterus so there's a privacy invading precedence.
when a visit to the doctor costs $100 just to walk in the office door 47 MILLION Americans can't afford to go to the doctor (i'm one of them) and tho "conservatives" are willing to blow 3 BILLION dollars a WEEK on a pointless war they scream with indignation at the idea of spending a few billion a year on the health and well being of their fellow Americans.
make sense of that, if you can.
2007-09-23 11:40:53 · answer #9 · answered by nebtet 6 · 4⤊ 3⤋
the issue isn't free healthcare; the issue is pharms and a medical system grown corrupt and unresponsive to the hypocratic oath.
2007-09-23 11:31:37 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 2⤋
There is no loss of privacy involve din the bebates over health care. The theme of most debate is the growing cost of and shrinking access to health care and health care coverage.
2007-09-23 11:27:03 · answer #11 · answered by fangtaiyang 7 · 5⤊ 5⤋