Do you want Universal Health Care in the US?

Question

I'm one of many Amercians that are sick and tried and our current Healthcare system, I know this is Amercia and I know the HMO s are crooked I know that cost Insurance is too much and they don't help, in the Canada, Great Britain, France, and Italy they have good Healthcare programs its out our Tax-paying dollars but I take $4. for Hospital Visit and $3 for Medications I should get in the US, I make it clear its not free its affordable, So you believe its time for a Health Care System like Britain and Canada to be used in the United States or what.
Its not Socialism its Health Care for all You get 10 points I agree with your answer the most.

Answer 1

A one payer system that EVERYONE pays into and it pays your doctor and hospital. Yes !! Medicare admin costs are about 1.7 cents per dollar. Most insurance companies admin costs are about 17 cents per dollar. Privatizing some parts of medicare have been a disaster. Higher costs for those that opt out of the government run medicare and less service. Have you noticed that you never hear people in France or Italy or Britain complaining about there health care. Could that be because it works ? 25 years ago Conservatives were telling us that all these foreign health care systems were bankrupt and a disaster. Yet here we are and there systems are working fine and ours is still broke. Our infant mortality rate is the worst of any industrialized nation in the world. It's worse than some African nations. Our drug costs are the highest in the world !! A one payer system could demand lower costs for us. It would eliminate stockholder dividends that make insurance companies payments higher. Everyone would pay so hospitals and doctors wouldn't have to pass on the cost of those that can't pay to your insurance co. A one payer system is a win for everyone but the stockholders of the insurance co.s.

Answer 2

So basically you are saying that hard working Americans that get health care as part of their jobs and such should now pay for health insurance for those unwilling to buy it? I'd be willing to go along for those who can't buy it - but those unwilling to and can I don't agree with.

Those nations you mention - Canada, Britain and the like actually send far more patients to America then we send to them. Our system is the best in the world, but it can be better. We simply need to "help" the industry reduce its costs with things like tort reform, and we regulate electric company profits there is no reason why we can't do the same for HMO's and the like.

Ultimately we are going to run into a supply and demand problem. Whenever you have a limited supply and big demand the price goes up. So our government should work on increasing the supply before the baby boomers need it - not after.

Answer 3

No I don't want universal health care in the US. It does NOT work in any country--going bankrupt, they ration care, etc.
In the US the government programs don't work: VA is rationed--have to pass a means test which lets you know IF you will have ANY access, at what level, and what cost.
IHS gets about half what every other program does and it shows.
Medicare is going bankrupt--premiums up 120% in a decade, benefits actually down. Doctors leaving in droves--low pay, slow pay, and they get the shortage taken out of THEIR pay.
Medicaid is even worse than Medicare for pay and hard to get a doc and probably half fraud in any case because the income and asset requirements are ridiculous.

When government gets OUT and when third party payers are NOT ruling the roost, then affordable care happens.

Look at LASIK prices over decade.
Price a "tummy tuck" (MAJOR abdominal surgery) versus an appendectomy (make it uncomplicated and no peritonitis) for an uninsured patient.
Check out the "office visit" prices in Wal-Mart, CVS, etc. and compare with docs who take insurance. Then also look at http://www.simplecare.com/
Free market works; government bolluxes it all up.

Answer 4

confident, to 3 quantity. i'm in prefer of a setup the place the government has a public coverage that each man or woman can acquire and could subsidize the coverage for persons with low earnings. it won't be required and each man or woman can get inner maximum coverage in the event that they nevertheless prefer to. i'm a scholar and ex-militia.

Answer 5

I don't think a Universal Health Care system would work in the US. Think about how incompetent government employees are (e.g. DMV and the VA). Do you really want these clowns handling your health care? I don't. I think we need to hold insurance companies accountable for their current actions. We also need to get rid of hospital unions and hold hospitals accountable for over inflated prices. A stay at any US hospital for one day can run up to $10,000. Why? Because hospitals charge you $10 for a pair of gloves that they use to treat you. When they do that, who do you think pays for it? Insurance companies. That means they have to raise premiums for everyone else so that they can afford these crazy hospital fees.....it's ridiculous.

Answer 6

Yes it's time for the American people to pay more attention to what politician are actually doing with regards to health care and other issues. It's a disgrace that more than 25% of the worlds wealth is here in the USA and we treat it's citzen like that of some third world country concerning health care. There are people making fortunes off of people's deaths and illnesses. The whole situation sickens me. That's why I'm for Dennis Kucinich for president. The only true FDR politian that state true health care coverage for every american citzen.

Answer 7

Absolutely!!!!! And no, I'm not a socialist nor do I believe in dishing out mega-handouts to people. But people who need healthcare should be able to get it. I'm tired of hearing about people dying because they couldn't afford to pay for their doctor's mansion for him.

Answer 8

As a nurse in a ambulatory surgical unit in Florida we get an influx of "snowbird" Canadian patients. They can come to Florida and get their eye surgery done in 2 weeks for sseveral thousand dollars - or stay in Canada and wait several years (if at all) for the same surgery. There is a board up there that decides your need. If your need is "high" you get the surgery right away. If your need is "low" you wait, and wait, and wait, and may not get it at all. Health care is not a "right" it is a consumer product. Universal health care is like - everyone gets a free TV so they can hear the CD (civil defense) alerts. It ain't American.

Answer 9

Keep your ten points, I'll settle for my two points, because I don't want the government to "solve" all of my problems. True, health care needs to be reformed, but Universal Government Intervention is not the answer.

Answer 10

So, taking control from crooked insurance companies...

...and handing it to corrupt politicians directing underpaid government employees is going to make health-care affordable, fair, and efficient???

From my experiences with government run agencies, this solution will be worse than the original problem.