86% of Americans have health insurance. Less than 10% of children don't have health insurance. Then there is medicare and medicaid to help cover the rest. Then there is an existing SCHIP program which covers even more, and if that's not enough, anybody in the country can go to a community hospital, and that hospital is required to treat them for free.
What do you want? Do my taxes have to pay for even more health care? Does everybody in this country have to have insurance? Are we that arrogant to think that we even have poor people in this country, when 86% have health insurance?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071212/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_veto
2007-12-12 03:12:18 · 14 answers · asked by Brad the Fox 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
300 million people in the USA, 46 million don't have insurance. 86% of Americans have insurance. Pretty simple math.
2007-12-12 03:24:47 · update #1
Blue, if that is right, then I pay for my health care, and my taxes pay for the medical care of 43% of America. Does that sound okay to you? 1/2 of America pays for all of America's health care.
2007-12-12 03:32:09 · update #2
Poor Becca. Everything is not free for you. How dare the medical industry make us pay a paltry percentage for our treatments.
2007-12-12 03:33:27 · update #3
It's not about health insurance, and it's not about health care. It's about power - plain and simple. If Clinton & co. can convince you that you need them, then you will give them the power that they want.
2007-12-12 03:16:41 · answer #1 · answered by smellyfoot ™ 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
I am assuming that you have company paid health insurance - which at this very moment there is legislation proposed to provide relief to employers and force employees to seek private insurance plans on their own. I just hope that you and your family are always in the best of health for the rest of your life and that you never have an instance where you have to use your medical insurance.
As far as your statement about 'anybody in the country can to to a community hospital, and that hospital is required to treat them for free'....i'd like to know where you get that 'free' care. It doesn't exist - even community hospitals have to pay the employees that work there - so where does that money come from? NO ONE gets free healthcare anywhere - even Medicare and Medicaid have deductibles.
2007-12-12 03:31:06 · answer #2 · answered by Becca 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Typical self absorbed thinking. So long I'm in the 86% I'm ok. Who cares about the rest who don't have it, until am one of the unlucky ones that don't have it.
If your so sure that the US doesn't have a health care problem why don't you go to a "community hospital" without your insurence card and see what type of care you'll receive.
The fact still remains that the more money you have the better the care. The working class should also have access to good health care and not worry about how to pay for the things "not covered" by insurance.
2007-12-12 03:46:11 · answer #3 · answered by cjgt2 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
We can thank FDR, at least in part, for the current mess our health care is in. It is from corporations finding a way around FDR's wage caps on executives that we get the idea that it is perfectly reasonable and valid that our employers are supposed to provide us with health insurance. This leads to the idea that we aren't "paying" for the premiums, when, indeed we are. Still, we go to the doctor with the attitude that it's "free" (minus the co-pay) and to heck with the cost.
But we don't say that about our car repairs or the car insurance. Why? Because, we shop for car insurance like we're at Wal-Mart on the day after Thanksgiving. We don't pay for anything we don't have to. Why don't we get our health insurance the same way? We'd get a better deal, that's for sure.
Also, there is the component of Congress (paragons of efficiency that they are) stepping in and requiring that EVERYONE be covered for things that they may or may not need. For instance, why is my husband paying for bariaric surgery coverage when he nor I will ever need it? It's a waste of money. But the law requires it, so it's a MANDATORY waste of money. Ah, government.
2007-12-12 03:36:23 · answer #4 · answered by cornbread_oracle 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
That 86% INCLUDES people on medicare and medicaid, which is about 80 million people. Without these programs, only about 57% of people would be insured.
First of all, you probably dont pay for most of your health care. People under an insurance plan from their employer only pay a small percentage of their health care costs. Using your logic, its not fair to your employer that they should have to pay for your health insurance. I pay about $60 a month for coverage that is worth $200 a month. Try paying for all of it. You'll change your tune pretty quickly. Then consider people who dont have jobs that provide insurance. Either retired people, or those who work at jobs that dont provide insurance. You expect them to pay $200 a month?
Taxes to go everybody. Can you honestly say you have never received any kind of benefit from the government that came from tax revenue? And is a few dollars a week such a big price to pay to provide health care to your fellow Americans?
2007-12-12 03:26:50 · answer #5 · answered by bluecollaraddict 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I tend to be rather cynical about these things. I believe for Hillary Clinton it is a PR move. Some "voters" will read about it and say, "She really cares about us," and so they tend to think that's another reason to support her run for President. In reality, a solution will only be found when President, Representatives and Senators start putting people and this country ahead of their desires to do whatever it takes to get elected. No one person, whether President or congressman will solve the health care crisis.
2016-05-23 05:23:17 · answer #6 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Where in that article are you getting 86% have Insurance?
"Of the 43 million people nationwide who lack health insurance, more than 6 million are under 18 years old. That's more than 9 percent of all children."
2007-12-12 03:16:02 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
We have the 37th best health care quality in the world (according to the WHO) and we pay much, much more then any other country for health insurance. I consider that a crisis. I am angered that the best, richest country in the world can't provide me with even a top 25 quality health care. If the US produced the 37th best cars in the world, but were by far the most expensive, you would probably demand to have Toyota available to you.
2007-12-12 03:18:54 · answer #8 · answered by Take it from Toby 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
at the very freaking least, I want health care reform. the "group" health care plan I was offered. Cost nearly $1000 a month and has high deductibles. This is for family coverage. The employees share is paid for. How many people can afford $12000 a year for health care. Throw in the deductibles and it is more like $15,000 per year. That is a joke.
we are getting screwed by insurance companies that are making record profits.....
2007-12-12 03:17:38 · answer #9 · answered by truth seeker 7 · 5⤊ 2⤋
Hell if it is a choice to abort a baby and it cost money so should other health care I stopped caring when I was told I have no right to my reproductive rights,
freaking baby killers deserve no health care and I have it but do not use it I go with God.
2007-12-12 03:38:51 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If even one child or one elderly person cannot afford health insurance or the medical care they need then the richest nation in the world should be ashamed. I suppose in school you settled for 86% on tests rather than trying to better yourself and get 100% right?
2007-12-12 03:16:42 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋