Why can we have health care for the poorer families?

Question

This country has 500 billion to spend on a war that we are not winning. Yet bush wants to veto a 20 billion dollar bill that would give poorer americans health care. This is one sad A S S country we can help another country while our country is going down the drain............. Im confused

Answer 1

Don't be confused. America is slowly becoming a third-world country where you have wealthy "green zones" and poor/dangerous "red zones". Democrats and Republicans are enacting laws at every level to privatize what was normally considered government work. Those "for profit" corporations are trying to minimize cost and limit services to maximize their return to their shareholders. Legally the board of directors is obligated to do this.

Wealthy individuals can afford to pay for good health insurance, private neighborhood security, country clubs, excellent schools, and all the other excessive resource demands that they feel that their social class deserve. That leaves bad infrastructure, deteriorating roads and bridges, limited public transportation, faulty levies, poor schools, poor health care, and dangerous/violent neighborhoods for everyone else. Cameras and surveliance will not increase security, although it may help our prisons fill up. This disparity hurts most Americans, but we should know that our government and media take orders from wealthy corporate interests (as it has been since they came into existence). Our neighbors in gated communities need to get out of thier limited circles. A disparity in incomes can be to their advantage.

Of course, a democratic America could have chosen to provide health care for every American regardless of income, however, the interests of oil, weapons industry, and other industries with heavy resource demands will always trump the needs of the average person.

Answer 2

Gentle Winds: here's a news break for you: I being a senior citizen and disable, had to apply for Medicaid because I didn't meet the new co-pay this year they imposed on me, I needed $800.00 in medicine that I couldn't afford, some for my heart and, some for my spinal disease and, bone disease. The Medicaid turned me down, do you know why..... here's the million dollar line.....I made three (3) dollars over the limit and was told they had to draw the line somewhere. When I got through with them, they told me to leave or they would call the cops, I told them fine, my wife was already calling the local newspaper.

I gave ten years in the Army: a Ranger in 'Nam, wounded twice. Now a disabled senior citizen and can hardly eat, we had to make hamburger, a pound last for four days but, were thankful for the pound.

Thank you mister Bush and for the new $129 billion bill for the war next year. Stick it where the sun don't shine. This is what the Seniors of this country are getting and, the vets.

Answer 3

My thoughts exactly!

Someone in here said we have health care for poor people and it's called medicaid. That might be true for the dirt poor people, but what about the families who are JUST above the cutoff point? They are denied because they make a few bucks just above the poverty line. So making... let's say.....$5 dollars more than the cutoff point means that suddenly they can afford to spend hundreds of dollars a month on medical insurance? PLEASE!

NOT A CHANCE!

And someone else said to sell your house and cars to afford the insurance!!!?
LOL
What if you don't own a house? What if the only car you own is a 1986 beater with a cracked windshield? Should you sell it and invest in a skateboard and squeeze your entire family on the back of it? Roll your child to school in the rain? Should we resort to selling off a kidney or run a prostitution ring? You think every ones situation is that cut and dried? That their situation is just like yours?

In a country this wealthy there's no excuse for this! People should be making enough money to afford the basics in life without struggling!

Answer 4

I have mixed emotions, few want children to be denied health are, but from what I had read not only does it cover the kids but in some cases the parents as well I also think it takes away the responsible of the parents to provide for their children. I have seen some friends and relatives that the opportunity to get health insurance from their work, but opted out because the premiums were too high, but then took vacations and purchased news cars. I do not feel I should have to use my tax dollars to cover their choices

Answer 5

Elected politicians , from Presidents to Governors to city officials, don't give a flying flip about health care. They just make noise about it.

In Congress , they and their families are set for life. But most Americans do not have health care. It is not possible for a working man or woman to have $500 deducted each month for a very basic HMO for their family. No one should have to rearrange their lives just to provide decent health care; that's absurd. And forget dental and vision insurance. No on has that. I have a friend who had a successful car dealership for years. He sold the company and retired. Now his insurance is over $1000 a month. If you have health issues, you better work until you drop dead so your employer can help fund your monthly medicals.

Answer 6

When I was single I had no health insurance...I was young and healthy. When I got married, my wife had a job...she was covered under her employer as a single and so we were OK. When she got pregnant with our first child, I applied for health coverage with my employer...it was better than hers for just a few dollars more. When our son arrived, my wife quit work and stayed home to raise him. The cost of my employer sponsored health insurance dramatically increased when it became employee, spouse and family. What did we do? Canceled the digital cable. Sold our individual vehicles and got a family vehicle. Stopped eating out four nights a week. We changed our lifestyle to accommodate the change in family structure. We did without what we could not afford under the higher insurance premiums. Why can't people do what we did...and yes, by national standards we are considered poor and we qualified for Kentucky's state sponsored health insurance for our child. We flatly refused to take it when we could make due with less. If it came to it, we would have sold our house and moved into a shack if that is what it took. And don't bother asking about those extreme cases where what we did is impossible, you cannot make general policy based on a fraction of the population's reality. Am I cold and calloused? Perhaps...but delayed gratification is very underrated these days.

Answer 7

he also vetoed the bill for you to get drugs from other countries on line. thus directly killing the idea of a free market.

Answer 8

We do, it is called medicaid.