What is your opinion on Universal Health Care?

Answer 1

The bottom line is there is no perfect health care system. There are flaws with our current system and there are also flaws with its alternatives. Most people have the misconception that Universal Health Care is free. Free health care doesn’t exist and never will. Doctors must make a living and prescriptions will always cost money. Universal Health Care would call for a considerable increase in taxes or spending cuts in other areas such as defense or education, etc. Government mandated procedures will result in a decrease in flexibility for the doctor thus leading to poor patient care. Another thing to consider would be the long agonizing transition from our current health care program to universal care. This transition would involve a massive loss of jobs from the insurance industry, and business closure. And the loss of private practice options and the great risk of reduced salary may steer many would be physicians from the profession. Most doctors in the United States spend approximately twelve years in med school most commonly paid by student loans which would be very difficult to pay off on a government salary. Although our current system is flawed in more ways than one and a solution must be found, all pros and cons to each proposal must be weighed accordingly. Currently slightly less than 1/6th the nation is uninsured and although those people can certainly not be left behind in my opinion the current proposal of universal health care wouldn’t benefit the country as a whole.

Answer 2

Doctors scare me, but they also heal hurt people.

Medicare is a good thing. I'm more than willing to pay a few bucks to make sure some guy gets stitched up. Much like I'm willing ot give away my wonder drug for free if it makes life better for people that otherwise would go without due to being poor. I myself wasn't given dental or eye care growing up and now my body is damaged, I think providing the best life for the general public is only a good thing. I'd rather see the mass do well then the few live poche in luxury. I think that is a basis of our obligation as humans, and that is to do the most good we can for the whole.

But it ultimately comes back to resources and peoples willingness to perform. I think that a money driven society is there.. but at the same time it goes back to why god or reality itself would deprive people of basic liberties - it just isn't right, so really the system itself is flawed. - but it is things like public Medicare that reduce the social or human failing in the miseries that life gives us for some reason.

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I don't support an unequal society that allows people to live in anguish when the pain can be relieved isn't that the whole idea of a doctor, not how many digits you make?

anyway everyone has the right to do what they think is right... and we can all see an ideal life differently. I don't see the world through rose tinted glasses.

Perhaps it doesn't matter perhaps after the last remnants of our humanity will be drained or we'll wake up some day and realizing the sweat it was just a bad dream, unreal and in the past of the world that is not, or would that just be ignorance.

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I'd leave it all behind if I had the chance. But the world has me pegged into an urban prison. How sad is that, all the ideology and still.. if I had the chance I'd leave it all behind for some sand ocean view and fruit trees... some people are out to do where they feel most valued, the most benefit overall, I can't blame them. Who am I to say what is the most valued lifestyle to live - what basis? It ain't all money to me, but the place we are that maintains our spirit.. is that the way the world tells us things are good.. or is that just an illusion?

But Medicare, I think it makes sense for some things But I think that a public health system should exist - with a private one with the public system having precidence , and privateinsitututions needing to to overflow from the public system for presubscribed rates. I think essential medical needs should be met.

Answer 3

It's a nice sounding idea but a very very expensive one. The ones who need it the most will be the ones who are taxed the most. (HIllary doesn't mention that part).
I transport people from other countries, where UHC is a way of life and their main gripe is waiting a LONG time for simple surgeries because people jam up the doctor's offices for the smallest problems. (With UHC, you can go to the doctor anytime for any problem regardless if you are truly sick or not... and other pay your bills).

I do not have the answer because I do not like the current system in the U.S. either. It's not about being treated anymore; it's just a big business. When you go to a hospital or doctor's office the first question is not "What can we do to help you?"; it's 'Do you have insurance?". Alot of hard working people do not have basic health insurance and any additional costs are a major expense. To implement UHC would increase taxes for hard working people and not even guarantee them to get their money's worth for what they are paying. The politicians who promote UHC only show the cotton candy; they don't show the decay.

Answer 4

Some people comment on how many will fight for the unborn, yet not for the people once they are born. That is not altogether true. I have also found that many of those that will fight for the unborn will fight against universal health care for the mother so she has a better chance of having a healthy baby.

I find so many contradictions when it comes to health care in this country that it baffles me.

For instance, right now we have universal health care. Our military has it, as well as our federal leadership gets to use one of the best bastions of that, the Bethesda Naval Hospital. Yet those same leaders spend enough money for several universal health care systems through pork barrel politics and our belief we should be the worlds policemen. All while they get Universal Health Care. All of that to the privileged while we have our military, in vary strengths, be it from embassy protection to wars, in 135 countries. Plus, here is the real kicker, through war funding; both Iraq and Afghanistan have universal health care, provided by us.

I am truly baffled by how many contradictions our people allow.

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We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense,

promote the general welfare,

and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
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Promote the general welfare..........there you have it, our military and our federal leaders welfare, along with welfare for those we are at war with, but not OUR OWN PEOPLE.

Do you really need a more compelling argument why Universal Health Care should be a right, not a privilege for a few, especially our leaders?

Signed, vet, USAF/ANG, Honorable June, 1983

Peace

Jim

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Source(s)
http://www.gadling.com/2007/07/05/what-countries-have-universal-health-care/

Answer 5

Run a google search for on well being care and eu international places. Hmm... they have it for decades already. and also you should recognize first hand once you get sick and flow to the well being middle. The bill is liable to make you even sicker. My extra positive 1/2 had an somewhat undesirable cough. couldn't get sufficient air. ought to no longer get a Dr. appointment and changed into informed to flow to the subsequent emergency room. He were given a bill for over $2600. His insurance paid just about $1900 of it. He nonetheless has to pay $seven-hundred. What did they do contained in the well being middle? They listened to his chest, despatched him for x-rays (he paid for them out of his own pocket proper there) and prescribed some antibiotics and informed him that he has a foul bronchitis it extremely is about to reveal into pneumonia. word that each and each and each person the lab amenities and prescriptions were paid through him proper then and there... so.. seeing a Dr. and getting 10 minutes of that docs interest can value you an arm and a leg. Now you recognize why you should have oftentimes happening well being care. imagine you're in a automobile coincidence... and also you want to have an operation and stay in a well being middle for an prolonged time period. you should get a bill contained in the 1000's of thousands of bucks.... how will you pay for that?

Answer 6

Universal Health Care is a concept embraced by those who cannot afford to pay for health care for themselves and their families, a group of people that is growing by the thousands in the United States. I am among those thousands, and the thought of my government taking care of all my medical needs without paying does sound enticing; but, there will be consequences many have not considered.

Government-supported health care, where a person does not have to pay for anything, carries a heavy individual tax burden. Where do people think the money is going to come from to support UHC? Individual taxes will increase. Instead of paying 20% on yearly income, tax rates will increase to 40 or 50%. All medical professionals' salaries will be paid by the government. There will be no "free enterprise". Medical care will deteriorate.

Research the Veteran's Administration hospital facilities, the Native American clinics and hospitals. Interview patients who rely on these facilities for medical treatment.

I am a member of a Federally recognized Native American Indian tribe, able to get "free" medical care at any tribal hospital/clinic. My husband is a veteran of the Armed Forces of the U.S., and can apply for medical benefits through the Veteran's Administration. We are very happy these facilities are available for us, as our income is limited to Social Security benefits; but, we are not happy that we have to drive 100 to 200 miles roundtrip, and have to wait for five to six hours to see a doctor--and not the same doctor each visit.

My oldest daughter married a British citizen three years ago. Britain has UHC. She has told me health care in Britain is abominable. Doctors and nurses are government-paid, the government pays very little, and doctors and nurses are in short supply due to low pay. My daughter is an accountant at a car-rental agency, and reports that she makes almost as much as a doctor in Great Britain!

When my mother and father were children, over 80 years ago, families knew they were responsible for medical care. When my father and mother married and had children, they knew they were responsible for the medical care of their children. They saved money, or bought medical insurance. Today, medical insurance, unless provided by your employer, is the last thing on the budget. No one cares if they owe a doctor or hospital hundreds or thousands of dollars. Doctors make too much money anyway!

Answer 7

It would be something to be proud of if we could make it work without interfering with quality health care services. The way it works now in county hospitals or veteran's services is not appealing. There needs to be a system for Americans who are working hard but cannot afford insurance. They are at a disadvantage when it comes to medical care and medical care should be available on an equal level for everyone.

Answer 8

If you look at countries with universal health care, such as Canada, you'd see that the quality of the health care provided is not as good as privatized systems and it takes months to get in to see a doctor.

It's definitely not a good idea.

Answer 9

Remember the situation at Walter Reed Hospital a few months ago???
Do you want a health care system designed by peoplelike these?
(see link)

Answer 10

I was originally against it as i think everyone should earn what they get and not expect handouts or blame the wealthy for their misfortunes, but now that the government treats illegals better than it does citizens, bring on the freebies. If they get treated without thousands of dollars attacking their credit, i should too. But most cities already have free assistance via the welfare dept, people are just too lazy to apply, plus the people right on the line that can afford healthcare but are waiting to get something for nothing wouldnt qualify.