Does anyone really believe that some people deserve to work full time and NOT have health care?

Question

How does one justify that one of the wealthiest nations in the world (The U.S.) can't find a way to ensure that everyone who's willing to put in their share and work full time is able to have access to affordable health care for themselves and their dependents? Are there really conservatives who feel this is acceptable?

Sway, that doesn't answer the question at all. There are many, many people who work full time and do not get benefits. Someone has to do those jobs. Why should they not have the opportunity to see a doctor, or take their children to a doctor?

Answer 1

I don't think anyone feels that any person doesn't deserve health care, I think it's a matter of have these people taken advantage of all the programs out there to help lift them out of poverty, or are they just going to get what everyone else has worked to achieve. I am still undecided about the issue. I really can see both points of view.

Answer 2

I don't care if you work part time, full time or no time everyone in the USA the wealthiest country in the world, should have health insurance. I saw my grandfather who fought for this country in WW2 and couldn't work in his 70's due to a disability caused by that war, have to choose between eating dinner or buying his medicine. Other countries like England a man can decide to get a circumcising in his early 20's and have it completely paid for (this was not medically needed) I know this, he's my husband. It is a very sad thing. We really need to do something about it.

Well Leeann america is suppose to be a society we are suppose to take care of our sick our poor. and health clinics can't always see you right away. And as far as er's forget about it yeah sure they will see you but you will also get a bill in the mail and if you don't pay it you'll get bad credit. We shouldn't have to worry about these sort of things. If we are sick we should be able to be seen by a good doc that will take care of us and be able to go home and recoop and not sit worrying and waiting for that $3000 bill to arrive.

America is s SUPPOSE to be a SOCIETY, Sway you selfish pr*ck. If we arn't what makes up differant from Iraq or some third world country. I would be happy to help my fellow america, that's what being american should be about not the gread that it has become.

Answer 3

Priscilla many people are employed just under the number of hours that would entitle them to benefits. This is deliberate on the part of employers, so how does a worker figure out a way to get ahead of that game?
For small employers it would be far better to pay the required tax per employee into the large pool of funds for Universal Health Care. Workers will always leave a job without benefits for one with benefits and the employer has to find and train a new employee.
Once again posters claiming that the Universal Health Care of Canada and France is inadequate, please, please where is the proof for these statements?

Answer 4

Apparently quite a few people feel that way, or at least that’s the impression one gets from Yahoo Answers posters. I really don’t understand it. I consider myself fortunate to have good health insurance but that does not make me insensitive to the fact that many other hardworking Americans have none and others have inadequate insurance coverage.

I know individuals who live in Europe and they are very satisfied with their universal health care. These horror stories about universal health care that I see on Yahoo Answers can be matched by horror stories here in the US and they don’t represent the normal experience.

Answer 5

Do you know how much healthcare cost a month?

Most small business simply can't afford it. With big companies like WalMArt, I agree, there is no excuse. But health insurance runs between 600 and 1000 a month. That's a lot of money to a small business.

The real problem is the cost of health care. If we got that undercontrol, insurance wouldn't cost so much.

Have you ever know a poor doctor?

Let's put the blame where it belongs.

Joe

Answer 6

I'm conservative, and I hate the way lobbyists have infiltrated both political parties, causing politicians of both parties to sell out to corporations. Both so-called liberals and conservatives have sat idly by and watched corporations move their manufacturing operations oversees for cheap labor then turn around and sell goods back in America for high prices.... and no tariffs. Trade deficits are off the map. Companies are hiring illegal aliens without any penalties, and they're outsourcing. We are forced to compete in the labor pool with third world countries.

So those of us fortunate enough to have a job are left with dwindling benefits and rising health care costs. You can't blame this only on conservatives. And face it, universal health care will benefit lazy slobs more than us working people.

Answer 7

No one deserves to work and not have health care. The fact is that for some people health care is not something they prioritize high enough. How many people that choose to pay for fancy cars or bigger houses than their budget allows are hounding the govt for free health care? Monthly payments for health care are not cheap but they are affordable (I know, I work for myself and I purchase health care for my family). We choose to downsize some things in order to purchase something we believe is important.

It's called personal responsibility folks.

Health care is not a right. Nothing that requires taking something from someone else can ever be a right.

Answer 8

You said the magic words, people who work paying for their own affordable healthcare. That is the conservative approach, a financially healthy middle class who can afford to pay their own way. You're right on track.

Answer 9

Your argument is based on the premise that if someone doesn't have health insurance, they don't have health care - and this is false. Aside from all of the available "free" clinics and other programs for people who meet the income requirements, the federal government mandates that any hospital with an emergency facility has to treat anyone who seeks treatment - including illegal aliens.
I really don't feel that it is my responsibility to pay health insurance for someone who thinks that a new snowmobile or large screen TV or other expensive "toy" is more important than paying heath insurance premiums for their family.

Answer 10

As a conservative I think every "Citizen" deserves health care. With that being said, I also believe that government is unsuited to administer it. Our Government just cannot seem to keep a project from growing out of control. So yes I would not mind paying my premiums to a Universal plan and having that plan available to all citizens.