is this the problem with healthcare?

Question

People just don't want to pay for it.

Answer 1

It's not necessarily that people don't want to pay for it. Many simply do not have the funds to pay for it. We need to get at the core problems. Insurance is all well and good, but this allows healthcare providers the opportunity to overcharge the public at such a high rate that raises insurance costs to the point of unaffordability. In turn, when a patient is diagnosed with a catastrophic illness, an insurance company may very well cancel coverage. If that person changes his career at any time in the future, the insurance is stopped. At the time when insurance should normally be started at the new firm, the new insurance policy will most likely add a clause barring any new claims if that illness should return.

Answer 2

No. You have three different categories of problems--none of which are being addressed by either party:

1) in the past 60 years, a large part of the American population has gotten health care through their employers--asa job benefit andor at low cost. However, for a number of reasons, including skyrocketing costs, corporations are backing off from providing health insurance. This is leaving millions of people either uninsured, or having to spend a really significant part of their incomes for insurance--and most simply don't have that kind of money.

2) A badly eakened public health care system. Contrary to the propaganda of the neoconservatives, public health care has always been a part of the American health care system--and plays an important and vital role. Inthe past, it has worked as a "partnership"--with private and public institutions working together to provide health care and insure that we had virtually universal access to health care for everyone. However, over the past 12 years, the pulic component of health care has ben gutted by the neoconservatives.

3) Corruption. This is larely--but not entirely--due to the neoconservatives (let me emphasize, though--this is NOT just a GOP problem). Our Medicare policy is dictated by nursing homes and other special interests--and is costing taxpayers a bare minimum of $50 Billion annually (no, that is NOT an exaggeraation) for ineffective care--with the money going into the pockets of those specialinterests. Add in billions of dollars in subsidies to the pharamaceutcical industrie (which is the most profitable in the country!) and you get the picture.

The "reform" created by Romney and adopted by Hillary Clinton--is not a solution. Look back at my first point. The "mandated health care insurance" simply institutionalizes the abandonment of health care insurance provision by corporate America--and legally requires workers to assume the costs. In effect, firms are transferring soe of their costs to workers--and this plan (a GOP idea borrowed by the Democrats) legally forces individuals to sholder tha tburden.

Answer 3

No. People don't want to pay outrageous sums of money for it. There are people, for example, that have good jobs without insurances (some may be self employed) and if they want to pay for their own health care premiums it is $600 per month. That's a mortgage payment for many people.

The problem with healthcare is the costs are out of control.

Answer 4

Canada and France are on track with free healthcare. I cant afford insurance because of outragous prices, a snowball effect of doctors, hospitals, and insurance companies making ridiculous amounts of money. But i do not want to trade healthcare standards for access to care.

Answer 5

People think the government owes them healthcare, and some politicians think they can get elected by telling the people that the government will pay for their healthcare.

Answer 6

CONGRESS DOESN'T PAY A NICKLE FOR THEIRS.IT'S ON YOU PAL. SOCIALIZED MED. WOULD WORK HERE ,BUT THEY WON'T TELL YOU THIS .THERE ARE 800,000 DOCTORS IN THE U.S. COMPARED TO HOW MANY IN ALL THE REST OF THE WORLD?MAYO CLINIC MINNESOTA, SERVES 5,000 PEOPLE A DAY AND HAS A STAFF OF 10,000 DOCTORS ,WHO DO NOT HAVE PRIVATE PRACTICES OUT SIDE THE CLINIC.GOOD PAY ,INSURANCES PAID BY THE CLINIC AND GREAT BEFITS KEEPS THEM MORE THAN HAPPY.HARDLY ANY TURN OVER CHECK IT OUT.BELIEVE THE POLITICIANS ???NOT ME!

Answer 7

Our health care is the best in the World. Remember that People from other Countries that have Socialized Government Controlled Health Care travel to the USA FOR TREATMENT. Why? Because they do not want to DIE while waiting to see a Doctor in their own Country.

Answer 8

That isn't true, When heads of HMO's are making up to 28 million a year, maybe they shouldn't want to pay for it. None of that money goes to them, or health care. Just someones pockets, and it is their money! And don't tell me anyone is worth $28 million a year.

One-half of American taxpayers make less than $25,000 a year, and someone is getting rich off their backs! Like you Republicans with no conscience!

France and Canada have life expectancies far exceeding the US, (we are just above Cuba) and our infant morbidity and mortality is wost in the industrial world, even though we have most of the neonatologists!

Answer 9

Ding, ding, ding.

Pay the man, Shirley.

Answer 10

Ever think that some people CAN'T pay for it?