Is Socialist Medicine really a "good idea" seeing as how the UK's is on the brink of collapse?

Question

Thursday October 11, 2007

Special care baby units in Britain are "near breaking point", with some babies being turned away because they cannot ensure adequate care, a charity has warned.
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1287911,00.html?f=rss

Answer 1

It's a lousy idea. Anytime you give government control of an entity, it becomes one more way for the government to invade your privacy, and control your behavior. Hillary has already talked about "requiring" yearly exams, and making yearly mammograms mandatory for women over 50. No to mention the "employment contingent upon having a health insurance plan", plan. Since there won't be enough money to support such a program, the liberals talk about adding a "sin tax" to cigarettes and alcohol. What do you think will happen with that? As cigarettes get too expensive, many people will quit. Sooner or later those sin taxes won't be able to support the cost of socialized health care. There will be measures in place to weed out certain individuals with "bad habits". If you smoke, don't count on getting health care treatment from Big Daddy Government. If you're overweight, it opens the door to the possibility of being denied care unless you participate in a mandatory exercise program. The liberals already control our freedoms. We can't smoke in public, and there is legislation in California right now that will ban smoking in your own vehicle with a minor present. Liberals want to control the public waaaaaayyy too much as it is. They couldn't resist the temptation to have us jerking on the end of a puppet string.

Answer 2

Would you propose we stop medicare?

America's health care is good for SOME people. Not everyone.

Actually, what we should do is make the drug companies stop spending so much damn money on advertising. That is obscene. We are one of TWO countries that allow that. This Adam Smith vision of Health Care has it's benefits. But how can you look yourself in the mirror and say "Well, some people deserve cancer treatment, some people just don't.?? "

Look at Australia-there is a good example of a compromise. America will most likely get this Australian style Health care anyway, not the UK's.

Health care, like education, is a right in a civilized society.

Answer 3

The salient point is that, as the previous person who answered, is that we need AFFORDABLE health care for all. My family and I are well-insured, but, as a former hospital social worker I have seen hard working people with no insurance slip through the cracks when a little assistance provided as a safety net would have them functioning and productive again. They would not then have to seek determination to be categorized as permanently disabled.
There are European nations who are very happy with their systems. I do understand from English friends over the years that there are negatives to their system. It is good, however, that those who cannot afford insurance have SOMETHING available while those who can afford it can have private care.
Medicare and Social Security can be argued to be "socialist" and what about all those farm subsidies that pay people NOT to plant crops and other such "programs". Like it or not, we do have our socialist elements as well.
And, for those who might be wondering: I am "conservative" on some issues and "liberal" on others.

Answer 4

How many social programs does the government run well now?
Social Security? Whoops.
Welfare? Darn.
Public Education? Not sure.

Wish I had more time for this answer but I gotta go get signed up for my Physical. If I'm lucky, I can get in sometime in 2010.

Affordable Healthcare. Read between the lines.

Answer 5

No, it's not. Even Canadians know to come to America when they have need of cutting edge medicine. That will end forever if we, the last advanced nation with capitalistic medicine, give up that system. And it's all downhill from there.

BTW, the last time I needed medical assistance, I got it using the hospial's Medical Indigent Program. The poor ARE able to get medical care at present. NOBODY gets turned away from emergency care. Why do you think illegal immigrants keep pouring in here?

Answer 6

Because some people will say anything to get elected...and unlike yourself, many are falling for it...Truth is it will ruin the best Medical Care in the World...

"g" we have allot of unhealthy Mexicans who are contributing to our specks, so just you keep on believing the bull sh*T!
When you get cancer and cannot get an appointment for 6 months, then "people' like you will regret your decision, unfortunately it will be too late!

Answer 7

isn't that the conclusion we have already arrived at. the plan has been set in motion and by 2020 our national debt will double our GDP. two months ago the administrations economic advisers said their plans could only sustain themselves with a robust economic growth forecast sustained at 3.5%... earlier this week they forecasted next years growth to hover at 1.6%. that barely keeps us par with inflation. our economy has stagnated and we will no longer have the means to pay down our debt. i'm moving to argentina.

Answer 8

People need to wake up. Government health care is socialized health care. And it has failed everywhere it has been tried. The UK is a perfect example. Private industry is springing up to fill the void the government cannot fill. Private health clinics. Private health insurance companies. Private hospitals. Private doctors. And UK residents who can afford it are flocking to the privatized system. A privatized system modeled from OUR current system.

Answer 9

No one running for president is advocating "socialist medicine". Get a clue.

This question shows that the darlings of the far right will say pretty much anything to protect the insurance saleman who call highway robbery "good business" as is usually advocated by a dishonest right.

Why oh why in your Xtian bleeding heart of hearts is helping poorer people get the care they need with an insurance plan such a bad thing?

Reason: They might survive and thus vote Democrat, that's the only reason.

Answer 10

Check out the Austrailian news realtive to health care. Japan seems to be having problems too.

We don't want it.