I feel really strong on this subject. I feel it should be free because what if people can't afford it and there daughter/son is about to die. I've heard many story's of such a thing, its sad to see that in America this is happening. Am I wrong to feel this way?
2007-10-01 08:44:24 · 4 answers · asked by Erica 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Free health care will not solve the problem, only create a new ones. A lot of countries that have free health care have serious problems with the quality of service as well as the amount of time free health care patients wait for routine treatments. Plus when health care is free Dr's make less as well as nurses and because of that they tend to accept bribes or payments to supplement their low wages thus you end up again with a health care system that is not free... as romantic as it sounds this is not the best solution.
2007-10-01 08:53:10 · answer #1 · answered by Petra 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's a basic conflict between ideals and practice.
As long as we pay health care workers and use medicines, bandages, mavchines and other resources, it is economically impossible for health care to be "free" - someone has to fund it (even if its the government, taxpayers are paying for it).
But I do support the premise of accessible healthcare regardless of income... as long as people show a basic level of responsibility as well (using preventative care/check-ups, etc).
But we must note that there are serious questions as to how this could be funded, and how it would be implemented.
Long waits, delayed care, poor-quality care, hospitals underfunded and filthy, abuse of services, inequal access to services (rura/urban or regional) are just a handful of issues that would arise if the US went that route. Also, in a single payer system, there would be avenues for price gouging (think Halliburton) as well.
It's a great ideal, but implementation would have a lot of issues to be worked out and policed.
2007-10-01 08:55:52 · answer #2 · answered by kent_shakespear 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'll bet you pay full price for your gasoline.
How about food, how about a house, clothes, how about a car? How about working to provide for your own family? If you can not afford a fillet mignon, and all you can afford is beans, is that wrong? Why should a doctor take care of you for free? Or under orders from your bully government who cheats every doctor in the USA all day long. The gov't delays pay to the doctor on EVERY case and deducts 90% of his bill on EVERY case. Who wants to work for these kinds of people? You are getting what you pay for.
It is easier for the gov't to cheat people from really poor countries who come to the USA to work for pennies on the dollar which compared to what they could earn in their own country.is a fortune. Until they figure out how much they are being cheated here also.
Besides, if you take your daughter who is about to die to any ER, they will take care of you for 'free' if you are truly 'poor'.
2007-10-01 09:10:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
there is nothing free. if the hilarries get ther way it will be so expensive and of such poor quality it will blow your mind. you can't see how badly this has worked every where it's been used?
2007-10-01 08:51:03 · answer #4 · answered by andy c 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋