Is america in a health care crisis?

Answer 1

Considering the cost of care, the cost of Insurance premiums, the decline on the amount of coverage, the continius rise of uninsured as well as the rise of government sponsored care, yes I would say we are in a healthcare crisis that appears to be neverending unless something changes.




---- Vote Obama his plan is the best start.

Answer 2

No, nobody is denied health care, you can go to the emergency room and even if you don't have health insurance, they have to see you.

People have to make choices as to what is important in their lives.

Is the following important to them:

1. $100+ cable bill?

2. $100+ Cell Phone Bill?

3. Brand new cars they can't afford?

4. 100's of dollars in material things that are really not needed?

So doing the math, if someone really says they can't afford health care, then they are not really telling the truth. If health care is more important than the above, then you will have good health care.

Question is, why do people want something for nothing. They want free health care and want someone else to pay for it.

Answer 3

Lets see, 20 million of the 40 million uninsured are illegal. So only 7% are uninsured Legal Americans. But AIDS is supposedly a crises and <1% Americans have AIDS.

Its a crises when we have a full blown national health care system and only the wealthy and get treatment and the poor have to pull their own teeth out like in England. (Michael Moore's movie had more propaganda in it than all of Hitler's rants combined!)

AND maybe we should try to fend off this recession we are heading into before we start opening up a debate about healthcare.

Answer 4

yes fact is USA is only 26 in the world for the standard of health care for the worlds richest nation this is poor. health-care should be free to everyone, if you are sick you should get the best possible care no matter what and all those people that think they are fine because you have health cover i would check your health cover carefully there is a very good chance you will find out that you are not covered for half the things you think you as many people in the USA find out when they have to go to hospital.

Answer 5

Absolutely. We have allowed health insurance companies to have way too much power. Because the average person either buys the policy or they acquire it through their employer, it has allowed the price for treatment to skyrocket.

At the same time, wages and jobs are diminishing because we don't buy American, making most basic necessities unfordable.

What we need from our government is not more dependence but independence. We need to encourage the government to stand behind American manufacturers and force China to play fair in trade. We also need to consider boycotting the insurance companies so that eventually the prices for medical care will go down in order to stay in business.

Answer 6

Not if you have great health insurance.

Thanks to less unions and sending good middle class jobs over seas less people have health insurance.

If you one of the 47 million working poor then yes we need to reform our health care.

I like the fact the fact that the 50 senators and 350+ congress men that get the best health care free for life say... Americans don't wont universal health care and the system for it does not work!!! So why are not any of them giving it up!!!

Answer 7

Lets see, 40 million out of 300 million or roughly 14% of Americans have no insurance. I call it a problem but not a crisis.

Answer 8

Over 50 million un-insured Americans, I think that would classify as a health care crisis.

Answer 9

No but we are in an insurance crisis. You don't get health care if you can't afford the insurance. You can't afford the insurance unless you are grouped together with other large corporations. Result? Volume. Thousands of dollars in income per second for the company and a large portion of your working day spent to cover it.

Answer 10

No. Anyone who needs emergency medical care can get it. Most of the truly poor can get health care free from the SCHIP program or medicare/medicaid.

Many of those screaming that they cannot afford health care have a cell phone for every member of the family, cable television, high-speed internet, etc.

The reality is that there are very few who truly cannot afford health care, and do not qualify for it from the government. And Bush wants to expand the SCHIP program, but Congress wants to expand it to the upper middle class, and will not compromise.

EDIT: You people keep citing 40 million uninsured. Let's look at that. SCHIP currently provides for 6.6 million uninsured children. That number is roughly 1/2 of who currently qualify. Bush wants to double the funding which would add 50%, so 13.2 million plus 50% is nearly 20 million of those uninsured. Now, of those uninsured 40 million, that included illegals. That number ranges from 12 million to 20 million depending on who you ask. Using the lower number, that leaves 8 million uninsured and uncovered by SCHIP who are legally here. How many of those 8 million do you think have cell phones, cable television video store memberships, etc...? NO WE DO NOT HAVE A CRISIS IN AMERICA!