Does the general public realize that government funded healthcare will result in government employees ........

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rationing health care to save money? This will be a disaster. If I am a 70 year old person who will probably live 20 more years because I took good care of my health through the years, will I still be eligible for an organ transplant?

Medicare is not socialized medicine. A generally healthy elderly person can still receive a transplant if they are cleared by a transplant committee. The government will have to develop paramaters for who is and who is not eligible for transplants and other life saving treatments to avoid bankruptcy.

g, you need to educate yourself about the lifespans in socialized health care countries. They have very specific reporting mechanisms designed to discount the people who die because they were not eligible for treatment.

Charlie, you are misinformed. Under our current system an indigent person will quailify for Medicaid if they have a life threatening condition as long as they are a US citizen.

Shylock, 30 plus years in health care. Do your own homework. I stand by every comment here. Feel free to post something that proves me wrong.

Richard V, your friend should have been offered the services of a social worker who could have put her into a Medicaid program. My FIL was in the same situation but he was able to qualify with the help of a social worker.

My disappointment mirrors yours Shylock. I thought you could might be willing to put forth enough effort to research. You could educate[ yourself in your attempt to prove me wrong. ]

Old bald, please look at the amount of taxes the people pay to fund their own health care in the countries you cited. Do they provide care for the indigent?

Answer 1

government funded healthcare will be funded by the tax payers. AND it will be one of the worst things to ever happen to this country. But some people won't see it for what it is until it is too late.
Look what the government has done to our educational system. I don't want them in charge of my healthcare !

Answer 2

this afternoon I had a conversation with an older woman, who most people would probably just ignore...she had lost her hand from an anuerism and was all but completely blind for four years because she had no health insurance (she just turned 65 so she finally got her cataracts removed with Medicare)...she had a little too much assets (just over $2000) to qualify for medicaid but clearly could not afford Private Health Insurance...bottom line Health Coverage is a for-profit commodity in the United States, where the healthy and wealthy prosper and the poor and sick are discarded and insurance, HMOs and Pharmacuetical Corporations prosper by denying coverage... what an IMMORAL condition, every other Western democracy has Single Payer Healthcare where it is considered a human right!

Answer 3

Your propaganda has been well refuted by some very good answers. You're defending the undefendable; people who receive universal health care know that it is a good thing.
Where universal health care exists, there are some neo-cons like yourself who would like to scrap it or ration it to save money. Right wing politicians would secretly like to slash it to save money. They do not try - why? Because they know it would be political suicide to do so.

Answer 4

In the 1970's we were told that the European health care systems were broke and would collapse anytime now.
In the 1980's we were told the European health care systems were bankrupt and would collapse at any time now.
In the 1990's we were told the European heath care systems were bankrupt and would collapse at anytime now.
now in the 2000's we are being told they are bankrupt again.
Only it's the American system that leads in infant mortality's. It's the American system that leads in deaths from childhood diseases. Look at the German plan , look at the French plan , Look at the British plan. No one is complaining about their health care there. Guess why ? It works.

Answer 5

Nurse or not, you are seriously misinformed. Go here to see a good little video about how single payer health insurance works:
http://www.grahamazon.com/sp/whatissinglepayer.php

Some more sites for your enlightenment. I don't have a problem providing research for your edification:

http://www.familiesusa.org/assets/pdfs/medicare-privatization-oct.pdf
http://cthealth.server101.com/physician_group_decries_1_3_million_rise_in_uninsured.htm
http://www.americanhealthcarereform.org/html/socialism.html
http://www.who.int/whr/2000/media_centre/press_release/en/index.html

Answer 6

do Republicans really think that current insurance companies ration healthcare to save money now?

ever watch the news? there are constant lawsuits about this?

but I guess that's ok and somehow magically different?

why do most people in socialized health care nations have longer lifespans, if the system is so horrible for the elderly?

EDIT: why do Republicans talk so much about education... then never post any links? educate me... please...

let me guess? "I should do my own research"... the stock answer Republicans give when I ask them where they got their information and I can't find anything that states the same...

and IN EVERY NATION with socialized care they do this? some grand conspiracy? what are the odds?

EDIT2: so we're suppose to find a cite that says "Europe doesn't cheat on life expectancy" to disprove you? that's not usually how "making accusations" works...
using your "way of thinking" you could believe any number of totally insane ideas... as long as no one could prove them false...
I think I'm starting to understand Republcian thinking more and more... they just come up with some insane idea and believe it if no one "proves them false"... it's starting to make sense...

Answer 7

Would you be good enough to cite the sources of your information?

10 studies from various researchers with APA citations (I'd like to look them up and have a read) would work for me.

Answer 8

As opposed to the system we have now, where private companies steer their customers to the cheapest treatment, deny treatment, or cause treatment to cost an exorbitant amount of money and thus make it unattainable for a large portion of the population?

Government subsidized health care would not be perfect, but the present system is obviously even less so.

Answer 9

Another excellent argument against socialized medicine (or "universal," or "one payer," whatever euphemism you want) in the US is Medicaid. It costs taxpayers TRILLIONS, offers substandard care to the poor, and has created an enormous, ineffective bureaucracy.
The best way to fix the health care crisis would be to DEREGULATE medicine (in an intelligent way) to lower costs for patients, doctors, and insurers; rather than giving even more money and power to Federal and State governments.
The DMV. The IRS. The Post Office. Are these the types of people you'd trust with your body? With your health, with your life?

Answer 10

Medicare is government funded health care - what are you going to do when you turn 65? I'm betting you go with Medicare.