Do you support or oppose Nationalized Healthcare?

Question

Do you currently have Health Insurance?
Do you have it from your employer or personally?
Do you get it through your spouse?
Why do you support Nationalized Healthcare?
Why do you oppose it?

Please answer which apply. I realize this does not have anything to do with R&S, but I want opinions from persons in this category to get an idea what these groups think.

Just a note: Those who say they want to be able to pick specialists, etc., I'm just wondeing if you realize that you'd still be able to do this if you wish to pay for it...

Answer 1

Yes
Employer
No
I don't
The devil's in the details. People will start going to the doctor for every little paper cut. When someone really does have a problem, she'll have to wait weeks just to see someone and by then, it might be too late.
Either way, someone gets screwed, but more will get screwed by national healthcare than by managed care.


edit: You people who keep giving people thumbs-downs are stu pid. You're booing someone for not agreeing with you? You're ridiculous! Everyone's allowed their own thoughts and you shouldn't discourage them from voicing them just like you voice yours.

Answer 2

Yes, I have Health Insurance which I get through my employer although I have to pay a fee for it. I oppose Nationalized Healthcare because I'm relatively healthy and I don't want to have to pay for health services other people are using. This would increase my taxes and put more of a financial strain on me. I would rather keep that money in my pocket and invest it so that when I need healthcare in the future I will be able to afford it and can choose my own doctors and specialists.

Answer 3

Support.
Do you currently have Health Insurance?
Yes.
Do you have it from your employer or personally?
Employer
Do you get it through your spouse?
Spouse gets it from me.
Why do you support Nationalized Healthcare?

A friend's 19year old kid is in the ICU right now with viral pneumonia, kidney, liver and heart damage because he didn't have the money to go to a doctor and pay out of pocket AND he thought the emergency room would bankrupt his family. As a result, he ended up needing the ICU and an ambulance.

Waiting a week or more for a surgery? How about waiting the 10 years my best friend did because the ER thought it wasn't life threatening ENOUGH and she had to wait to be insured?

Answer 4

No health insurance now, and in the last 15 years, when I've had insurance I also worked 80 hours a week and never had time to go. I do my own dentistry, I've done minor surgery on myself, etc... So of course I support national health care. In response to the idiots repeating the republican talking point "the quality will go down"; what about Cuba? Huh? Tiny little poverty-stricken Cuba has better health care than america. I think it's despicable to put a toll booth in front of the necessities of life. Food, water, shelter, energy, transportation, health care should all be government managed as the free market has amply evidenced vicious cruelty regarding people's suffering. If the government manages it poorly, elect new government.

Answer 5

YES. Definitely support that.

In my country it's standard and it is important to ensure that EVERYBODY, especially children, have the same options when it comes to health problems. There has to be a minimum standard!

My brother had chemotherapy for 1.5 years in his life, as a child. Would we have been able to pay for that? No. Was it our fault? No. Does the national insurance pay? Yes!

I'm a student, neither I nor my parents pay directly for my insurance, that is covered by taxes and that's the way it should be.

Did you know that the death rate of babies is the highest in the US (among western nations)? Why is that? Because poor parents can not afford for their baby to receive some medical care.

Nobody should have to worry about money when it comes to health issues that need treatment. And yes, people who have the money have the responsibility that that old war veteran does receive his medical care, even if he can't pay it.

That's social!

edit:

It can work perfectly. In Germany I pay €10 every three months when I go to a doc (I don't pay anything if I don't go). That means I DO think twice before going, but with a serious issue I don't have to worry about money. People with a very low income do not have to pay anything.
In my country nobody forces me to see a specific doc; it is still I who makes that choice. My insurance offers a deduct on those €10 if I always go to the same GP first (before I go to a specialist) - but I choose the GP and THEN decide he's good.
If you need immediate treatment you get immediate treatment. If not you will have to wait a few weeks for an appointment (the optician, for example). That means that you plan the annual visits like dentists, gyn, optician a few weeks in advance, and the respiratory problem you have had for three days is treated immediately.

I call that fair!

Answer 6

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Answer 7

I support it.

In Canada, everyone pays for health care as part of your taxes. Its more important that everyone be taken care of, even if they can't afford it, than it is to make money.

However, I live in Alberta. We are the only province that pays additional monthly fees upon what they take from the taxes.

As an individual, I pay $44 a month upon my regular taxes, in Alberta.

If it were me and my family, it would be roughly $80 a month.

My husband does not live here so health care is not an issue. He will be paying about $200 a month once I move down to the US as family coverage.

I pay personally.

I support it because it takes care of everyone that should ever need it. I'd have been screwed after my car accident if not for nationalized health care. I'd litterally owe about $500 000.

In the US, you have a co-pay. We don't here. The system in the US makes no sense and increases suffering.

Answer 8

I do not favor a single payer plan but I do support national health insurance for those who cannot afford it and extending the ability for individuals to participate in the same policies available to federal employees. I support other intervention to reduce administrative costs and to change the way providers are compensated, and I think tort reform is largely unnecessary and the case for it based primarily on out and out lies.

I am Christian and have health insurance for my family of four via my employer.

Answer 9

Yes
Yes
No
Hell No

If the government is involved, it will be riddled with holes. Look at the Medicaid prescription fiasco. I can get a doctor's appointment now within three days. I have a co pay and occasional partial lab fees. Doctors are already stressed and completely disallusioned with HMOs. No doctor will want to work longer and harder hours for the government and all of its monumental red tape. Look at Canada. First they go to a PC . But that PC isn't always a fully certified doctor. Same thing in the UK. Is that kind of slip shod circus what we want here? And why are people crowing about the poor? They show up at any county hospital and get health and dental care now. That may not be optimum, but care is available.

Answer 10

Oppose it. Even Medicare and Medicaid would not be as good in America as they are if we had Nationalized Healthcare. Nothing "national" or "global" is worth a darn.

"I've never known a hospital or doctor in this country USA who ever said no to a person just because they are poor. When America starts refusing to aid the poor, America will stop being America.

Government can't mandate or enforce a loving heart. When love is removed from the heart of a nation; the nation is doomed. Without love in the heart neither man nor nation will stand.

Answer 11

The US spends more on administering its healthcare system than the UK spends in total. Yet the US system covers care to just 60% of its population while the UK covers 100%.

And the UK is just about the WORST nationally run scheme in the World.

The US proves beyond doubt that by all measures private health care is a disaster. It produces worse average outcomes at a higher price than anywhere on Earth.