Do you believe it is up to the Federal Government to sponsor/provide socialized healthcare?

Question

scratch socialized -- i didn't proofread my question before i asked it.

Answer 1

I think there's a problem nationally that is beyond the power of individuals to resolve, and that impacts the resources of all levels of the government, and that it is a problem that the federal government should be involved in resolving. But I'm not sold on what the solution should be.

Answer 2

No--but that's where we're headed. And if that's what we end up with--the fault is going to be with the Republicans, not the Democrats.

Why? First--our health care and health insurance systems are a mess. They are not functioning well, getting worse, and riddled with corruption and special interests. That does NOT mean that we should go to federal provision of healthcare. It does mean that we--Americans from BOTH sides of the political aisle--need to start taking a long hard look at the system and take realistic steps to reform it.

However, the only proposals we are hearing are coming from the Democratic side. Some of those are good. Some, frankly, suck. But those are the only actual policy proposals being put on the table. What we are hearing--exclusively--from the Republicans is nothing but knee-jerk sound-bytes and ideological rants about socialized medicine.

But--when it comes to needing medical care--people are not going to give a damn about the political slogans. They will opt for what is available. So--if the Republicans don't want government-run health care--they had better stop the crap and start offering some real policy proposals. Real ideas--not political slogans.

Otherwise, they'd best resign themselves to a greatly expanded government role inhealthcare.

Answer 3

Under the Constitution? Nope. Not a word of that is guaranteed to us by the Constitution.

As capitalists? Most definitely not. It is hardly cost-effective for a business to pony up for health insurance for their employees, but without offering benefits, the best and the brightest are suddenly no longer interested in working for you.

Ethically you could argue that guaranteed health care is a right, but think twice before you take for granted the opportunities already afforded to you as an American. Although some nations have socialized health care, they pay out the nose in taxes, which is something we Americans really really hate. Some nations are not so lucky; they depend on the FDA rejects to be distributed to the indigent who have no idea what our American health care is like... The federal government does not have an obligation to ensure any freedoms or perceived rights that are not protected by the Constitution.

Ultimately is it the responsibility of the American people to decide what is best for this country, and to voice that opinion to their state representatives (those people we elected to speak on our behalf in congress).

Answer 4

No because the government is usually incapable of handling money properly. Why do people become doctors (besides the obvious reason that they want to help people)? They want MONEY! Socialized medicine means that the government controls how much they are paid and it won't nearly be as much as they are getting without socialized medicine.
if they could figure out a way to hold Insurance/healthcare companies responsible for high prices and actually helping their customers, then healthcare might be much better and more people could afford it.

Answer 5

National Health Care just makes sense to any one that looks beyond the propaganda put out by the insurance industry.

The concept of insurance is to spread the risk among the greatest pool of subscribers.

In a National Health system, the risk would be spread among the entire population rather than a tiny subset.

In our current system, the risks are spread across many small groups.

That increases the risk to the individual and increases costs.

Privatized insurance also creates more overhead that serves to increase costs more.

Private insurance companies are in the business of making money, not of ensuring quality health care.

They have a financial incentive to DENY health care to their subscribers.

Private companies hold allegiance to their shareholders, not to their subscribers.

To continue to increase profits, they must continue to cut services.

The profit driven health system also places a heavy burden on business in general.

Employers are forced to pay higher health care costs that lead to higher prices for goods and services.

Low paid employees and their young children that can't afford health care in the profit driven system are more likely to become ill which leads to more time away from the job and decreases productivity.

The average American pays more money and receives less care than the average citizen of other nations from Europe to Cuba.

Every American should watch Michael Moore's "Sicko" to dispel all the myths about National Health care that are propagated by the insurance lobbies.

Answer 6

the place interior the form does it say human beings would not have the skill get to well being care except they are able to have the money for it? i'm sorry, yet I view get entry to to high quality well being care as a topic-loose human appropriate. the US presently has a gadget that limits get entry to in line with a man or woman's skill to pay or their insurance. bear in techniques that as quickly as i exploit the term well being care, i'm no longer only conversing approximately scientific care of sickness and harm. i'm additionally conversing approximately preventative care. in certainty, i've got faith well being care ought to actual fall below those unalienable rights Thomas Jefferson wrote approximately interior the statement of Independence: "We carry those truths to be self-obvious, that each and every physique men are created equivalent, that they are endowed via their writer with particular unalienable Rights, that between those are existence, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." @bypass forward Make My Day: How precisely do you return to the top that income taxes are unconstitutional? The sixteenth replace exceedingly says, "The Congress shall have potential to place and assemble taxes on earning, from even if source derived, without apportionment between the incredibly some States, and without regard to any census or enumeration." Am I someway incorrect and the Amendments are actually not certainly section of the form?

Answer 7

I think it's a good idea and in the end, it will cost less than the hodge podge of private insurance providers that we have now. The administrative cost savings alone will be huge. I think it will be a plus for industry because it will be one less headache that the Human Resources dept. has to deal with. Plus it will level the playing field as far as benefits are concerned.

I broke my pelvis back in May and so far have paid about $2,000 in co-pays and I HAVE health insurance.

And for all the fools that think the Federal Government can't run anything, they run tons of stuff and are quite efficient. Social Security administrative costs are about 1%.

Answer 8

The Constitution and Bill of the Rights do not impower the government to educate or provide health care for the people.

Answer 9

No, it is not up to the government at any level to take money from people and give it to other people "who don't have enough." It doesn't matter whether it is social security, welfare or socialized healthcare, the government doesn't have the right to take my money at gunpoint and give it to others.

Answer 10

NO! We already give a form of health care to poor people, and we are paying for it through the SSI taxes that come out of every paycheck. The money that is supposed to be supporting us when we get older is in fact supporting everyone on welfare. We pay for the poor's groceries through food stamps, they get to pay $150 in rent when everyone else is paying $750 through the Section 8 program only offered to low to no income families, we pay for schooling and all the extras through financial aid that is only granted to the poor. This all has already broken the bank, and now you want to give it to EVERYONE... I don't think so!