Would Universal Healthcare work in America? Why or why not?

Answer 1

Yes it could. It depends on what system you want though.

I work in the UK and most of us in the UK are amazed at your healthcare system which seems to do its best not to provide healthcare! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care#Economics Not only is the system you have in place more expensive than other countries, but it results in a worse life expectancy and infant mortality figures than in other western countries.

Do not get me wrong, the NHS I work in is not perfect, but statistically, you are more likely to live longer in the UK and a baby is less likely to die in the UK than in the USA.

Answer 2

YES IT WILL WORK IF IT IS IMPLEMENTED CORRECTLY.
there is no such thing as universal health care being proposed as nationalizing health care as right-wingers like to claim. Their fantasies of dems suggesting a socialized system similar to Canada or UK are misinformed, if not out-right lies.

It will work, because we already spend more than any other nation on health care. The reason for this, is because our current socialized system that covers the poor isn't being accepted by most doctors that run their own practices. This forces most recipients to go to the emergency room for health care, costing the tax payer far more than a regular office visit.
This can be changed simply by changing the system to an insurance program offered by private insurance providers, while subsidizing the premiums of the poor.
Private practices will accept the coverage, and the higher co-pays for emergency room visits will change the philosophy of medicade recipients, that they need to goto the emergency room for every hangnail.
So now, we have just decreased the cost to the tax payer for the health coverage of the poor.

Next we have this situation where medical bills are causing an awful lot of bankruptcies. When a person files bankruptcy on a medical debt, it costs the medical provider money. They lose money when a person does not pay their bills....Big surprise huh?
Anyway, when the medical provider incures such a loss, it is figured into the cost of providing the services, and causes the costs of people who can pay to go up. All companies do it. Doesn't take an econ degree to realize medical providers do it to. This works on the same principle that the right-wingers excuse for not raising taxes on multinational corporations do. If they suffer a loss, they pass it onto the consumer.
Anyway, in this manner, we are paying for the healthcare of the poor, and when someone from the middle class cannot pay their medical bills, we end up paying them anyway through higher costs for our own. DOUBLE WHAMMY for the same problem!
So, if we prevent these health care providers from losing this profit, we also prevent them from raising the costs of our own health care. Right-winger believe this effect works for oil companies, I wonder why they don't think it works for the health care industry as well?
Health care will nto suffer, because insurance competition is still in-place. Health care competition is still in-place. The opnly real difference is we aren't having the bills of people who cannot pay passed onto us in higher costs.

Put both of these together, and you have a situation where the government saves tax dollars on covering the poor, and we save money on our own health care expenses.
Either way you look at it, it gives the tax payer more disposable income....Boosting the economy, and gives the government a chance to lower taxes again, or not have to raise them in the future.
WIN WIN SITUATION!

Answer 3

there is fairly little data that socialized drugs works in any respect not to show if it would artwork in this united states of america. The gadget has failed interior the main socialist international locations interior the worldwide, why ought to we even evaluate it here? look, whilst any flesh presser worldwide gets sick and desires medical medical care, they continuously discover their thank you to this united states of america even nevertheless those techniques do not exist for the persons they symbolize. Why do you think of that is? the appropriate thank you to make well being care decrease priced is to do away with the gvmts administration in our well being care. To coach my factor, till now 1993 there have been approximately 23 Million without insurance. Then Hillary compelled us to flow into HMO's and function a family contributors prepare physician grow to be the gate keeper for expert. till now 1993, you could desire to flow to any physician you needed to. This became seen the reason at the back of our high priced well being care. Now there are 40 seven Million without well being care, the fee are 4-7 cases what they have been in 1993, and you're constrained on your possibilities. the appropriate direction of action is to get the gvmt OUT of our bodies and our well being care possibilities.

Answer 4

it works in other countries (despite the nonsense from conservatives mouths), but the US has lower taxes, spends much more on defense, and owes a lot more than these nations - i think it may be too risky to introduce true universal healthcare here at this time.

Answer 5

Universal Health Care has many meanings. To some proposing it now from the left it just means universal health insurance and that would probably work. Universal Health care to some on the right means socialized medicine and that is darn right scary.

The US spends 15% of its GNP on health care - nearly 33% more then any other nation on the planet....and it still doesn't work - giving it too the government is scary.

Answer 6

It is a great illusion. The fantasy is the poor will get the same health care as the Bill Gates of the world in a timely manor. Well the only group that will move up that latter are the bureaucrats that are likely to control how rapidly a doctor gets paid. The rest of us peons will just get into longer lines & pay higher taxes.

Answer 7

its a boondoggle. for every dollar you tax away and put into a government program to "serve the people" you get about 20 cents in real services. guess where the rest goes.

Answer 8

I think it's inevitable! Just consider that the cost we pay for health care in the US has increased 70% just since Bush has been in office. And it was considered a crisis before that!

Every other civilized country in the world has some form of universal health care. They all pay half or less what we do for health care, and get care that is as good or better than what we get.

Answer 9

It would work the problem is that many Americans don't want to give it a chance. They want to keep this failing system either out of fear of change or because they truly believe we have the best healthcare system in the world.

Answer 10

In spite of propaganda universal health care does not work in other industrialized nations which is why the US makes so many medical advances while other nations continue to lag behind in medical technology.

There is no doubt that some form of socialized medicine is required in the United States. The cutting of medical and retirement benefits by corporations must be taken up somehow.

Probably, the only compromise that could work, will be to force all employers to provide medical insurance and to fund some kind of insurance pool.

This would allow the United States to retain the benefit of a capitalistic health care system while also providing medical insurance for all citizens.