would it be THAT bad to have national health care?

Question

I know it would mean higher taxes and longer waits for care, but isn't it about time that the American government realises that most of the taxes paid are by the poor? (since the silent dissolusionment of the middle class) It's the easiest thing to say that a system paid for by us would only be used by us......so i think i have answered my own question. (hope you enjoy those bills next time the hospitals and doctors ask for their next lexus payment)

note to babe......leave the things that are important to the average person to the average person. I am sorry if you happen to be willing to fork out stupid amounts for insurance on anything that insurance companies tell you that you should have insured, but it doesn't make sense to pay unholy amounts just to be healthy

Answer 1

It wouldn't be bad at all - right now, we're 17th in quality, so (for people who expect us to be No. 1) there's nowhere to go but up - and since the 16 nations above us on the list all have national health care, it's obvious what we have to do. Yes, the whining from the right-wingers will be unbearable, but the 47 million Americans who have no coverage would be covered, and we will become less of a laughing-stock in Canada and Europe.

Answer 2

1. Doctors in America deserve every cent they receive. I will change my mind when pro ball players in this society make less than someone who actually saves our lives.

2. The answer is to get rid of insurance companies. I have paid over $40,000 in my young life just to have "insurance". I have claimed less than $2,000 in return and I still have to pay a co-pay!

3. The answer is to reduce the bureaucracy known as insurance, and create a 401k type of incentive. If the only insurance companies to exist provided long term/major medical, you would see a decline in what doctors and hospitals charge because they wouldn't have to deal with insurance. They would be competing for your business just like anyone else in the free market.

My wife's DNC was considered "elective" by my insurance provider. Months later we finally had it reversed, meanwhile the doctor and hospital is losing money waiting on ridiculous claim rejections.

Can you blame doctors and hospitals for what they charge when they have to deal with such greedy corporations like insurance companies who delay payments left and right?

Answer 3

national health care would be that bad. look at tenncare in the stat of tennessee. last year the governor dropped thousands from coverage and said it would be solvant. this year it is millions of dollars short nad the state set up another system (cover tennessee) to cover some of the ones that were dropped. the cost goes up the administrative cost goes up and when they split the system the admin. cost really goes up. if you got paid the same if you produced 50 items a day or 25 how hard would you work?

Answer 4

yo numb nuts,the top 10% of the population pays 68% of the taxes!!! you can find this at the IRS web site.the poor do not pay sh*it ! nice try at class warfare. hmmmm,harry reed is that you?

Answer 5

Remember that the Post Office is probably the most efficient government organization.

Would you get your health care from the Post Office?

Would you get your health care from an organization that was run worse than the Post Office?

Answer 6

have you ever heard of earned income,that means any money payed by the poor in fed. income tax's is returned by at least 5 times the actual payroll tax's they payed there is no such thing as poor being taxed to support anything,remember when you invite 15 people to a picnic,and only 5 people bring food you will soon find that there is not enough to go around.and as long as there are dems/libs in our country we are fast approaching that scenario!

Answer 7

Some day we will. it is the only system that makes sense.
Only Bush-bots and conservatives will oppose it.

Answer 8

Look at how the school system has gone down the crapper as the government got its hands into it more.

Answer 9

The capitalist won't let it happen

Answer 10

if you allow it to be that bad then it will be. why should it be that way? if you create it with a defeatist attitude...i feels for ya, honey.