2007-12-15 09:31:26 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Many people think its a mess including Doctors, but if you dont think its a mess for you, then thats great!!!
2007-12-15 09:38:27 · update #1
Put on the heavy body armor. Serious sticks, stones and names are on your way!
Amazing answers: And obviously none of them understand (or are willing to admit) that the two most efficient and least expensive health care programs in America are gov't run-Medicare & Veterans Admin. Re: "quality", medicare used the private sector professionals and facilities and the VA Hospitals are widely recognized by the health care community as superb.
2007-12-15 09:35:03 · answer #1 · answered by golfer7 5 · 4⤊ 3⤋
I tell you one way to screw it up even more: universal healthcare. It's wrong and it will only make the working class put up with doctors from the state, they wouldn't have a say in what doctors to pick from. I don't understand why we need universal healthcare. Poor people get medicaid, the ones who can afford to buy healthcare do. So who is this universal healthcare going to benefit? Also, if is universal does that include the rich? Are we going to provide the rich with healthcare or is it only going to be based on a certain economic incomes? If so, then what would be the difference? We have that now, the ones who can't afford healthcare have medicaid or if they're adults but in college they can get Charity Care which is just like medicaid. I'm curious to see what type of people are the ones who "don't" have healthcare.
2007-12-15 18:17:51 · answer #2 · answered by cynical 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
That all depends on which way you think the battle should be fought. I am of the opinion one should attack a problem at the heart of the matter. Cut out the cancer as it were. So my solution is to cap payouts, and fix the insurance companies. Allowing the government to touch our health care will only less health care and services that will cost us twice as much. Work Smart!
2007-12-15 17:45:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
If the fix to our health care mess is nationalized health care, I will fight it to the bitter end.
2007-12-15 18:09:12 · answer #4 · answered by Danny 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Quite the contrary, I will be fighting to make sure it isn't made MUCH worse (i.e. I oppose Socialist Medicine)
One great stride towards remedying what ails our system is to reign in the John Edwards-type trial lawyers and their frivilous lawsuits, which have driven the cost of health insurance out-of-reach to many
Tort Reform must be a part of any equation devised to remedy the problem
2007-12-15 17:39:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 1⤋
the federal government was not formed to take care off\you or i. the health care system was fine, until the feds got involved ,then prices started to go up. now you have florida medical facilitiy getting close to 89% of the federal monies paid out for aids, when florida only as about 8% of the total aids population , education went down hill when the feds got involved, now they indoctorinate your kids instead of educationing them. johnny has to be like suzy or they put them on drugs!
2007-12-15 21:01:39 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I won't at all. They get their self into that mess and they can get out on their own.
2007-12-15 20:14:27 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Not very hard because my health care coverage is superb!
2007-12-15 18:24:03 · answer #8 · answered by Vagabond5879 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The health care system is working well. Americans would not be happy with government run health care.
The U.S. has preventative care. That increases a person's quality of life and increases a person's lifespan. HMO's are motivated by profit to make sure a person does not get sick. Any major illness costs HMOs money. HMO's learned a long time ago it is cheaper to buy the latest million dollar scanners than to deal with diseases after they have progressed. That is the difference between capitalism and socialism
Canada sends their sickest patients to America for treatment. Canada doesn't have the best and newest medical technologies or medicines because there are no financial incentives for them to buy it.
The U.S. has better cancer treatments says Canadian news reports.
Canadian cancer survivor: "There’s no question that going to the United States saved my life"
Colorectal Cancer Association of Canada - CCAC
http://www.ccac-accc.ca/news.php?id=53
"In Canada the average wait for procedures such as neurosurgery is more than four months; for cancer radiation treatment, over two months. The average wait for treatment after consulting a specialist for coronary bypass clocks in at up to 52 weeks, with four to 12 weeks for angioplasty. That’s the reality in our backlogged public health system, according to a recent survey by The Fraser Institute, a think tank based in Vancouver. In the United States, you can often be on an operating table within a week or two of referral to a surgeon."
"Canadian patients who go [ to the U.S. ] report speedier, better service....anybody can find the specialist he or she needs, or gain access to the most advanced technology available."
Canadian government:
"Four years ago when Suzanne Aucoin was diagnosed with colorectal cancer, she had to travel every week to the United States to buy life-saving cancer drugs " Medical Tourism Boosted by Long Wait Times - Embassy - Newspaper
http://www.embassymag.ca/html/index.php?display=story&full_path=/2007/march/28/tourism/
Many Canadians receive government-funded U.S. medical treatments in the U.S.. Canada's medical systems pays for sending many Canadian patients to the U.S. to receive cancer treaments, advanced body scans, etc..
Health insurance in America is affordable. In many states, good private healthcare insurance only costs around $100 a month. The problem is old insurance laws block the insurance from being sold from state to state. That stifles competition. Consumers should be allowed to purchase insurance directly from HMO's with no middlemen involved.
President Bush Delivers State of the Union Address,
"Allow Health Insurance to be Purchased Across State Lines "
http://www.whitehouse.gov/stateoftheunion/2006/healthcare/
Reforming Health Care for the 21st Century
"Why can't people buy health insurance over state lines?"
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ao0eomAKXMcJAyprF3hnaMTty6IX?qid=20070813004202AA9jlt0
2007-12-15 17:35:42 · answer #9 · answered by a bush family member 7 · 4⤊ 3⤋
what mess? You cant force people to sign up for programs already avaiable to them. So insteand you wnat to mandate government run health care for everyone just because a few people cant get off their butts?
2007-12-15 17:35:36 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 4⤋