should federal government provide free universal health care for every resident of the US?

Question

why or why not??

Answer 1

All patients, meaning everyone over thirty, should feel mortally threatened by one payer system. Commie Care is cheap and deadly care.

Answer 2

Free?

No.

But then no one is advocating this.

If you make it completely free, there are too many people who will abuse the system.

AFFORDABLE is not the same as free, and that's what people are advocating (well, people who aren't in the pay of the drug and health care companies and who have more than one functioning brain cell).

What we have now is insane. The only way tens of millions can get any health care at all is to let their problems go untreated until they're taken to emergency -- which is expensive for everyone, as well as unhealthy and just wrong.

People who don't actually provide health care, but who's main job is to prevent people from getting the care they need rake off billions in profits. That whole system should be eliminated.

Drug companies make obscene profits, too; they should be reigned in.

The good plan for Medicare (the one that lost in favor of the really horrible plan we've got now), had a provision for the government to buy meds in bulk, at massive savings.

We need something like that, for everyone.

The drug companies will still make a profit, but not at 1,000% mark-up (which is insane).

The best care is preventative: immunization, pre-natal, dealing with conditions before they become life-threatening. Emphasize that, cut out the gouging and middle-men, and it wouldn't be so expensive.

Then subsidize those who can't afford even those reduced rates.

Answer 3

Absolutely not because there will be so much confusion caused from this idea. There will be too many people out of jobs and lines to be waited on will extend miles and miles. We will lose more people due to waiting on "free" assistance. Nothing in life is free; there is someone always paying for it and we should keep that in mind. We are in each other's pockets and we need to stay in our own. Lets talk about free education during our College/Graduate school years , so that there could be more citizens to earn a career which will allow them enough money to provide their own insurance/health care plans. It not our responsibility to save everyone's lives because we cannot save everyone. Maybe everyone should study medicine and take of themselves! How does that sound?! :O

Answer 4

The U.S. government should provide free comprehensive health care to every legal U.S. citizen who cannot afford it or who is not covered by an employer's insurance plan.
Those citizens earning the median income or more should be expected to pay for their own health insurance and medical care. Our government should be the champion of all those citizens who are poor, disadvantaged, disabled, undereducated, underprivileged, elderly, unemployed, sick, hungry or homeless.
Those who are wealthy, privileged, healthy, educated, able-bodied, employed, comfortably retired, fully fed, and sheltered should be able to fend for themselves. Why should these wealthy people be given entitlements such as Social Security, corporate welfare in the form of tax breaks, and anything 'free' from the government? Our biggest 'welfare' recipients and "entitlement' takers are those who are middle-class or upper-income individuals and profitable corporate entities. Where' the outrage? -RKO- 11/25/07

Answer 5

I don't like the government in any aspect of health care. I believe that all the monies that insurance companies have accumulated as so-called profit at the cost to the American working class would fund health coverage for a hundred years.

Answer 6

Rosa,
the word is NO.
'universal' health care is limited plantation health care.
those with money will leave the country on vacations to get real medical care as many foreign nationals now do on visits here.
there will be no real incentive to own or care for ur own body. ur Uncle Sam will care for u , do u remember how good the care was in Katrina?
the doctors will find something else to do when they can not provide for their families.
ask any doc why they no longer accept Medicare or other government programs.
the feds should require u to accept ur responsibility for ur body.
democratic socialism is good for no one.
people need to be PRO active about themselfs.

Answer 7

Germany did that .When you are no longer productive they unplug you?Here is Quotes from wackos in 1970 s -If radical environmentalists were to invent a disease to bring human populations back to sanity, it would probably be something like AIDS -- Earth First! Newsletter
The collective needs of non-human species must take precedence over the needs and desires of humans. -- Dr. Reed F. Noss, The Wildlands Project
If I were reincarnated, I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels. -- Prince Phillip, World Wildlife Fund

Answer 8

You are trying to be tricky in your question by refrencing RESIDENT, and to that I say no. I do believe however that every CITIZEN should be afforded healthcare at a reduced cost. For instance ER visits and yearly medical checkups for children and adults free to include dental visits.

Answer 9

No one is suggesting that. What is being suggested is mandatory enrollment in a private plan that would be requried not to drop covrage on anyone and allow portability. The government would priovide subsidy for the low income, but everyone would pay for their own. There IS no "free".

Answer 10

yes all other waelthy nations and many not so wealthy nation do it could be accomplished by asking rich to pay their share ans curbing out of control military spending. Also the same money that companies and individuals pay no would go further if it were not paying for the profits and overhead of insurance companies. The citizens of 40 countries whose healh care is provided live longer then ours