There is free health care in other countries. For example Australia, France, Canada.
2007-10-15 16:05:13 · 36 answers · asked by Barticus 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Civic Participation
Because we spend more on our military than all other nations COMBINED.
(Not to mention the additional $500,000 per MINUTE headed to Iraq.)
2007-10-15 16:08:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 5⤋
There is no such thing as free health care in any country. The reason most real Americans don't want it is because the minute the government begins to administrate something it just got way more expensive. Besides that do you really want to have to request your health care and wait for government approval? If the Canadians are so enamoured with their "free" health care why do so many come here and pay to get it? I wish you socialists would just go away. You're so tiresome. Always wanting a free lunch.
2007-10-15 17:30:13 · answer #2 · answered by rick b 3 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Its not FREE, in Canada the dirty little secret they keep from you is that when Canadians get their paychecks, about 48% of their money is 'GONE' Where did it go you ask, hummmm, it went to a govt bureaucracy that divvies up this huge re-distribution of wealth and pours it into a health care spending cycle that is comparable to the efficiency of the American DMV. When your wife gets a lump on her breast she has to call and make an appt with the nearest DR. in her general "area". Then about six weeks later she will be seen by a specialist that will tell her that is they had caught it in time she would have had a better chance then she does now.
The rich in american will not stand for this kind of system, they will go to exclusive clinics possibly overseas and all of the best medical talent will go with them. Just like all f the medical professionals did when castr took over Cuba. I have a friend whose grandpa falls int that category
2007-10-15 16:18:12 · answer #3 · answered by Ancient Warrior DogueDe Bordeaux 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Good question, though far from new. It is a well known fact that these other countries have universal health care. We don't have such a thing because, for one we are a country that is leaning very heavily towards, if not in the state of, having a corporationalist government. This means, that maybe we should have included separation of corporation and state in the Constitution, but we didn't. Government plays the "you scratch my back I'll scratch yours" game with the biggest of the monopolistic corporations in the United States for personal satisfaction.
Also you have idiots like Jimmy J and others who have already answered your question with lame renderings of the OBVIOUS. Of course someone pays for it; everyone pays for it, equally. Is that not better than a huge portion of people not having any insurance at all? People who need it can't always afford it now can they? People go bankrupt over hospital bills; something they cannot control. Yea, so open your eyes a little wider than you vanity mirror and stop being an ass. I hate greedy, ignorant, self-centered people like that who care only about what they loose, rather than what so many people, INCLUDING themselves gain.
If you can overcome ignorance, greed, (in Corporations, government, and several of your fellow Jesus-loving citizens) then we could establish a Government ran Universal Health Care.
2007-10-15 16:25:56 · answer #4 · answered by guber83022002 1 · 1⤊ 3⤋
The right wingers have made a big deal out of the fact that health care is not free, but we understand that you meant free at delivery. You have to be precose, or the Bush Leaguers will nit pick at you in an attempt to change the subject.
For the fool who said Canadians pay higher taxes, they do not. Americans pay per capita as highly as Canadians, but the lobbyists for the HMOs and pharmacy companies have succeeded in painting any public health care as unpatriotic and socialism.
We are the only developed western democracy that cannot manage the thing. Great Britain has had it since 1949, and thay are not socialists yet. We don't have what they have because our democracy does not work as well as theirs.
2007-10-15 16:25:28 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
You need to research before you post mate. There is no free healthcare in those places. They pay for it too. In the form of high taxes.
Many Americans dont want to pay for someone else to get health care while sitting at home and not working. Yes there are people who are out of work becuase of medical reasons but they are covered by medicare and get medical treatment as it is now. Why should hard working people pay for someone else to have something that they wont work for themself?
Plus Socialized Healthcare isnt all it is cracked up to be. I know I live in England and get to see it 1st hand. It is scary at times. Plus the taxes I pay to have it are almost crippling, Yet you see the guy who is a profesional at being on the dole getting the same healthcare as someone who works their butt off
Read the link below and see what you get with socialized healthcare and the reason they list it is like that. Underfunding and not enough healthcare workers cuasing the ones who work to be overstreatched
2007-10-15 16:13:02 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
It is not in the best financial interest of the AMA members. The American Medical Association is the richest and most powerful lobby in the US. Through the AMA lobbying and political monetary contributions it is able to prevent Congress passing health care bills.
2007-10-16 04:17:23 · answer #7 · answered by Ranger 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Barticus it's not free in any of those countries. All the taxpayers are paying for it regardless of wether they feel it's right to pay for someone elses bills or not.
Why should I or even you for that matter have to pay out of your pocket for ANYONE elses health care bills ? Whats next ? Will you pay for their food, clothes, housing, transportation, entertainment ?
Free healthcare is NEVER EVER free it comes at a great price.
2007-10-16 04:41:59 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
the comparable element that helps all the different industrialized international places interior the international to do it; taxes and subsidies. that's from the Cuban shape: "all of us has the superb to well-being risk-free practices and care. The state ensures this authentic by utilising offering loose scientific and hospital care by utilising skill of the installations of the agricultural scientific provider community, polyclinics, hospitals, preventative and surely good scientific care centers; by utilising offering loose dental care; by utilising advertising the well-being exposure campaigns, well-being training, usual scientific examinations, everyday vaccinations and different measures to sidestep the outbreak of ailment. each and all of the inhabitants cooperates in those events and plans interior the process the social and mass companies."
2016-10-07 00:26:37 · answer #9 · answered by threat 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No country has FREE health care.
Doctors don't work for free.
The Doctors in Austraila, France, Canada, England and Germany (who, by the way, don't work for free) COME HERE for their surgeries because their healthcare stinks. Meanwhile, the residents of these countries are broke because their taxes are so high and sick because their healthcare stinks.
If you want "FREE" healthcare, move to one of these countries and die happy. (Probably at a very early age of something treatable.)
2007-10-15 16:16:11 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
None of the above are free. Somebody must pay for the care. Taxes ususally pay for it. Or simply put, the healthy pay for the care of the ill. the longer you live, the more illness you pay for. what's the incentive for a healthy individual with meaningful paycheck to provide for others. This is simply redistibution of wealth.
2007-10-16 07:02:23 · answer #11 · answered by Ursa 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋