Unfortunately there are millions who have no coverage. I am a small business owner and I pay $1800 a month for my health care for my family. A health care company which can drop me and deny me coverage whenever the hell they feel like it. There have been months when business hasn't done so well that my wife and I almost had to drop our coverage to make our mortgage payment ... is that fair?
No one ever wants to talk about this when they are covered ... we are just a whining liberals ... Wrong ! I just want to be able to go to a doctor if I'm sick, and not worry about being made bankrupt by the bills ... you know like they do in Britain, France, Canada, Cuba, etc ...
Don't give me any of that socialist rhetoric scare tactics either please ...
2007-12-04 02:01:40 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Ok Sire... lets have it then. The reason I don't want to hear the socialist arguement is becasue I've heard it all before, and it still doesn't help me get health care ... Whats the solution?
2007-12-04 02:09:37 · update #1
Grrrr... sorry about the bad spelling
2007-12-04 02:10:22 · update #2
Yes Given I did ... I have Diabetes ...
2007-12-04 02:11:29 · update #3
Isn't healthcare the proverbial 900lb gorilla in the room that everyone is trying to ignore? Since the Clintons tried universal healthcare in the 90's everyone is afraid to talk about it...I don’t get it !
2007-12-04 02:15:57 · update #4
Just that simple steve ... Thanks for the well thought out response.
2007-12-04 02:17:08 · update #5
I completely understand you. I cannot even get Medical insurance because of Diabetes. We were paying about $13,000.00 a year with a $5,000.00 deductible and did not in- clude prescriptions. That is really ridiculous and now they have dropped me and i never met the deductible. Something has to happen. We cannot go to the Emergency room free as they will put a lien on what we own. I do not know what will happen the the 40 million people who do not have insurance.
Thanks for posting this.Ever time i address this I am called a mass of terrible names. Most do not understand as they are insured through their companies.
I do not want free anything. Just affordable and be able to have insurance.
2007-12-04 02:11:12 · answer #1 · answered by ♥ Mel 7 · 6⤊ 1⤋
Health care is the 900 pound gorilla in the room. Having an army of lobbyists swarming the halls of congress pushing their own agenda does not help the situation either. The sad fact is insurance companies, driven by profits, not your doctor are making decisions about what is medically necessary. Our health care system is broken and cannot continue the way it functions right now. Get the insurance and drug companies and lawyers out of the mix and let the health care professional do their jobs. No one should have to make the decision to pay their mortgage or their health care premium. It is shameful that the greatest country cannot adequately provide even the most basic of health care needs to its own citizens.
2007-12-04 02:31:46 · answer #2 · answered by ninaol 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The whining is the excuse used by the other side to justify the health care industry in this country. An industry that only the well to do can say is working. Hell!, If I had a great job and good benefits there wouldn't be a reason to whine...I might even start bashing liberals...but the truth is...the current system is broken and they'll continue milking everybody even before the cows come home.
2007-12-04 02:17:34 · answer #3 · answered by Fern O 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Instead of implementing a socialist health care system, perhaps correcting the problem where your health care company can deny you coverage would help? And efforts to lower costs across the board (subsidizing, just like they do for oil companies). I hate the idea of universal health care, and I know many people that live in countries where they got that. Well guess what: they don't like it. Anyone living in a country with a more socialist health care system will only like what they have now if they didn't have it before. If they did have it before, then they are only paying more for everyone else to get what they had, and they deal with increased wait times and decreased quality of care.
2007-12-04 02:25:30 · answer #4 · answered by Pfo 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
$1800 a month seems a bit extreme. Did you shop around a bit?
The thing is, Republicans have yet to introduce any ideas regarding health care. They assume that people will be okay with premiums rising at twice the rate of inflation and just suck it up. It's this thinking that will eventually get them voted out of office again and again. If socialized insurance isn't the answer, Republicans need to introduce some sort of alternative to make insurance affordable.
2007-12-04 02:09:39 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
Best I can figure is that it goes against the big business strategy of the republicans. Decrease taxes to encourage the rich to spend more for a stronger national economy, and privatize social security and health care. Instead of spending money on government programs for the people, its spent on national defense and diplomacy. Anyone who can't afford health care obviously doesn't work hard enough for it.
2007-12-04 02:16:06 · answer #6 · answered by Todd 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I will take a lot of heat for this, but it's okay. I have thick skin.
I think there are some industries that probably should not be allowed to be for profit - health insurance is one of them. All the health insurance companies continue to show profits up. For the members, the cost goes up, but the benefits to members go down.
The cost of my insurance will rise 67% for 2008. I will be downgrading in plans because I cannot pay it.
EDIT to SteveR: Thank you for the suggestion about a better job. My husband flew fighter jets for the Navy for 25 years. I can't wait 'til he gets home from his "retirement" second job, so I can tell him what you had to say about his service.
2007-12-04 02:09:18 · answer #7 · answered by cmw 6 · 10⤊ 1⤋
It seems to me that putting the burden for providing health care on our businesses is handicapping them in international competition.
The best thing we could do for our global competitiveness, as well as for the health (both physical and financial) of our population, would be to have a single-payer health insurance system.
We don't need to change the medical system -- we need to change the medical insurance system.
2007-12-04 02:10:16 · answer #8 · answered by Steve 6 · 6⤊ 1⤋
You are called that because the other side doesn't have a plan to solve the health care crisis in this country. Rather than come up with a plan that surely will be rejected they resort to childish name calling and personal attacks. It is how they operate.
2007-12-04 02:10:58 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 2⤋
We are labeled as whining liberals whenever we complain about anything. If Hillary is elected the Republican's will have a hayday of whining, yet it will be okay.
It is a FACT our healthcare system is a travesty!
2007-12-04 02:11:55 · answer #10 · answered by MadLibs 6 · 4⤊ 5⤋