As an american tax payer, are you disgusted with people abusing our healthcare system??

Question

As an american tax payer, are you disgusted with people abusing our healthcare system??

Answer 1

Most people are concerned with it, but most people also understand it is not really relevant to the main points of health care reform in our country. Everyone has a right to decent health care without worrying about the costs inherent in receiving it. It is simple human decency. So, if I have to put up with some abuse in order to guarantee coverage for everyone, bring it on. We will deal with that when the time comes.

Answer 2

I am disgusted with our health care system abusing people.

Answer 3

What disgusts me is that about 12 times the population of Iowa does not have health insurance.  What disgusts me is that the insurance company my company uses pays its CEO over $100 billion a year but fights tooth and nail not to pay for things that it said it would pay for beforehand.  What disgusts me is that our health care system is very broken, and the health care industry is hard at work keeping any sort of reform from taking place.

Answer 4

I loathe anyone who uses our countries social services illegally or without justification.  The "safety nets" that this country provides are for those that truly need them.

Answer 5

I get disgusted with people abusing any system, medicare, social security, etc.  We set up a system for people that truly need help and others see that as their opportunity to basically steal from others.

We should allocate a certain amount of funds each year for certain systems.  Then, when someone abuses the system, it will be understood that they are stealing from the funds needed for helping the truly needy.  Right now, they don't think that way.  What ever they can get, in their mind, is coming from the government and is free or, to them, even better, from some rich person that doesn't deserve their money.  If they are removing funds that would have been used for others, then we could prosecute them more effectively.  Right now, we seem to just shrug our shoulders and keep pouring more money into a sinking hole.

Answer 6

Yes. But I'm also disgusted with Corporate Welfare.

Answer 7

Absolutely!  Our laws are so bizarre that people with a cold are coming into the emergency rooms!  My daughter is an emergency room nurse and tells me that the emergency room is overrun with persons not needing "emergency" treatment - making it difficult to find the time/space for those persons who are actually having an emergency.  Part of the problem is a lack of community health centers (they keep closing up at a rapid rate);  part of the problem is that the law says the emergency rooms must treat whoever comes in regardless of their ability to pay.   So ... guess who comes in?

I don't know the answer, but I sure know that this isn't it.

btw --- the compensation for the highest paid executive (including insurance executives) is $ 45,024,122 inclusive of all perks.   Not quite "$100 billion"

... and the number of Americans without health insurance is 46.6 million - or 16 times the population of Iowa (why Iowa?)

Answer 8

Well, there are alot of things we could do better in this country.

But I defy anyone to show me a system which is not subject to some form of abuse, whether it's the military industrial relationships, the medical care system, the social security system, the corporate financial markets, or any sufficiently involved system.

That social service systems (healthcare, job welfare, etc) are abused by individuals, - well, we should just be all sorts of happy and watch out for the corporate raiders. We complain about some "welfare mom" or "deadbeat dad" or "surgery happy" doctor or something, and those to be sure are abuses. But we don't concern ourselves too much when it's some crappy piece of legislation crafted by corporate lawyers or some billionaire who's defrauded untold numbers of people.

It's not that the system is corrupt, or potentially corrupted, - that's potentially true of any system, its that some people are no @#$@ good.

Answer 9

Yes, definitely.  Anyone who isn't disgusted is probably part of the problem.  The fraud and abuse attacks our hospitals are under day after day directly contribute to rising costs.

This is the number one reason we DON'T need nationalized health care, because abuse will always exist and it comes in many forms.

Answer 10

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Answer 11

Yes, it is all because our borders are open. People say we are heartless, how could we expect the Hospital not to help them. But I tell you if they weren't here they wouldn't be able to go to our hospitals in the first place. I am tired of illegals getting better treatment than the U.S. citizens. If I didn't have insurance they would kick me out.

Answer 12

PHHHHTTTTT!!!   I remember living on my own working in a grocery store not long out of high school making about $250.00 a week and I went to sign up for medical and was told I didn't qualify because I made too much money?!?  

           I bust my butt to get by, and I have to pay for someone elses medical insurance? How does that work?

          To this day I still dont  have health insurance, but money comes out of my check every week to pay for it.

          When I do go in to see a doctor, I pay cash and get gouged inflated prices to cover the hospitals losses for treating undocumented/illegals.

          Is anyone happy with people abusing our health care system?

Answer 13

yes give one good reason why my tax dollars should pay for people that come over from Mexico to have kids get medical care when sure they might work here but they don't pay into the tax system not only is the health care system messed up the tax system is to. If your poor get a job if you have a job get a better one it is not the governments responsibility to take care of you, you have to take care of your self first and for most but maybe that's just me I believe if you want anything in life you have to earn it but with the way politicians have screwed that up if your part of the middle class you pay for the majority of the people who expect someone to take care of them.