Do You Think USA Should Have Free Healthcare For Everybody?

Question

just so ya know I work and have been working since I was 15 (paying taxes out of my paycheck) I think the government can pay for some health care if you actually work

Answer 1

I think the Canadian style healthcare system would be a good thing..

Nothing is Free...

Answer 2

Our current health care system is broken and driven by greed. We need a single payer Universal Health Care system.

We need HR 676!!

What Is National Health Insurance (NHI)?

To begin with, it is NOT “Socialized Medicine”, far from it in fact.  Also, it does not mean that our medical system will be taken over by the government and run like the post office as many of our opposition friends would mistakenly have you believe.

Basically, House Resolution (H.R.) 676, the “New Expanded Medicare” bill now in sub-committee in the House of Representatives simply creates a new and far more functional “single payer” method of paying for medical services while leaving the medical system itself completely alone and intact.  This will eliminate the hundreds of complicated and redundant payment plans currently imposed on the system by private “for profit” health insurance companies and save literally BILLIONS of dollars every year by eliminating such wasteful duplication.  This will allow your doctors offices and hospitals to function much more efficiently and serve your needs much more effectively as well.   Just imagine what a huge benefit this will be!

Taxes: We all know that nothing of any real value is ever free, but if you think of the taxes that will be required to support national health insurance as simply a lower cost alternative to the staggering private health insurance premiums that most of us already have to pay but which will be totally eliminated under the new system, then it becomes immediately clear that this could be a really good deal after all!

Check out some of the tremendous benefits that NHI will bring and see what you think:

Every resident of the US will be covered from birth to death.

No more pre-existing conditions to be excluded from coverage.

No more expensive deductibles or co-pays.

All prescription medications will be covered.

All dental and eye care will be included.

Mental health and substance abuse care will be fully covered.(1)

Long term and nursing home services will be included.

You will always choose your own doctors and hospitals.

Costs of coverage will be assessed on a sliding scale basis.

Tremendously simplified system of medical administration

Total portability – your coverage not tied to any job or location.

Existing Medicare benefits for those over 65 will remain the same or be vastly improved in many cases.

(1)The United States has the unhappy distinction of having the largest inmate to total population ratio of any modern country in the world.  It is estimated that a full 53% of that inmate population is being confined due to non-violent drug and addiction related issues.  The combined costs to society of maintaining such a huge prison population is staggering in so many ways and accordingly, the cost savings to society of this one enormous benefit of national health insurance alone, that all drug and addiction treatment will be covered,  is simply beyond calculation.

The real irony is that this new system will be a lot less expensive and provide much better services than the largely dysfunctional system currently in place and still leave us with the best health care system in the entire world, only with the New Medicare… it will be even better!

Don’t be put off by all of the misleading and often inaccurate rhetoric that you so often hear about changing our system.  For example uninformed critics will ask “Do you really want your medical decisions made by some government bureaucrat in Washington DC ?”  Well, the truth is that with NHI, just about every medical decision will be made privately by you and your doctor.  But ironically, under the current system, many medical decisions about what’s best for you are now being made by some corporate bureaucrat working for a private insurance company whose main concern is making larger profits by denying your claims.  How exactly does that work out to be better for you??

Change is indeed often a very scary thing to most people, but when the need is so great and the proposed changes are so much better than the status quo, maybe changing to a NHI system in the USA is something that we can all think about supporting, whether you are a moderate, liberal or conservative, after giving it a lot of careful study and thought.  Please call your congressperson and let them know what you think.  They really need to hear from you on this issue.

"Of all forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane."                                                                                    

                        Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Health care is a defining right in a democratic society."                                                                                                              Congressman Dennis Kucinich

"This is an issue that has no political boundaries,

it has moral boundaries."

                                                                                                        Elizabeth Edwards                                                                                         Congressional testimony May 8th, 2008

Answer 3

its not free, it wont be free. the working class will always foot the bill, we already have some socialism in healthcare, the illegals get it free in the emergency rooms and those on welfar get it via medicaid and medicare. those of us who work pay for it all, the question is when will we demand that everyone be held responsible for their own.

Answer 4

I wish people would stop calling this "free healthcare."

That is such a misnomer.  Socialized healthcare would be one where taxpayers pay more taxes to have the bloated government bureaucracy try to run healthcare for us.

We will wind up with lower quality of care, longer lines, and tax payers paying more to cover those who don't pay taxes.

Have you ever gone to the DMV office?  That's what I picture.  We will all have equal access to the same, terrible healthcare.

Why do you think people who can afford to go from countries that have socialized medicine to America when they need medical treatment?

Answer 5

It would be great it if worked. However it doesn't work, Canadians are paying to come to the U.S. to receive medical treatment, because they have to wait months to be seen by any specialist. Can you imagine if you broke your leg and had to wait months to get it set. It takes 6 weeks to heal, it would have to be rebroken and reset. Same thing with cancer waiting months to get treatment could kill you. That's just two examples. I would have died waiting to be treated for my lung cancer. It's not worth dying for.      

Answer 6

NO, absolutely not. I think if the government is going to pay for insurance, then it needs to pay my electricity and water also. I also think I shouldn't have to pay for gas. And, there are 30 million kids not showing up to school with the right school supplies, so the government should pay for that also. I also think we should be able to attend NFL games for free, and the government pays the athletes. While we are at the game, we shouldn't have to pay for beer and hot dogs; the government can afford to buy me a guys night out, and that includes going to the strip bar afterward. I saw a beautiful Z71 truck today, the government needs to replace my old Chevy. I want a new house, and not some tired old used house either. It has to be new, with 4 sides bricks, and none of that vinyl siding stuff.

As you can see, where does it stop? There are plenty of special interests out there that would love to see the US turn socialist, and it is almost impossible to turn back. Look at social security, it clearly is failing, but where do we end it? Which generation gets screwed(personally, I think the baby boomers should, but only because they are a big ol' bunch of whiners)? There will always be a group that thinks they pay to much for some service, and the government owes it to them.

That's exactly how communism gets started.

Edit/// You are on the right track by demanding more bang for your buck. But, instead, how about taking away responsibilities from congress. They have done such a bang up job administering welfare and medicare, and let's not forget the condition of social security. I don't disagree the nation needs more affordable health care, but asking congress for it just doesn't make sense.

I'm sorry you missed my point, it really was funny, a true redneck cradle to grave scenario. If you look close enough, you can see how things rank with me.

Answer 7

There's no such thing.  Health care has to be paid from by somebody.

There are some serious lapses in the system we currently have.  I'd like to see that addressed in a significant way.

Answer 8

No. It would be ridiculous. Just think how much taxes would raise for this.

I am also against requiring people to get healthcare. You are basically telling them they have to have it before they can shelter, food, and clothing. Many lower-class Americans would be strongly against this, because it would mean less food in their bellies.

Answer 9

Of course, but we have been so financially ****** in the past several years that our economy is not ready for free healthcare.

That'd be so great, though.

Answer 10

Free health care is only a dream. Canadians, who can afford it flok to this country for the care because, they don't like standing in lines and what they do get is minimal. We as a society can not afford it under any terms.

Answer 11

No!

Because anything that big government is in charge of,turns out to be a great big expensive disaster

Answer 12

Sure why not. While were at it I want a free house, a new car every year, my utility and cable bills paid for, ohh and free gas for my car as well. I also want the American Taxpayer to foot the bill for all of that.

Answer 13

Yes, people in other countries have it & are much better off than we are. I watched this show that was on a few years ago (Oprah) where they took people from different countries & they told about their countries. This people were beautiful I don't mean the phoney American Barbie doll look I mean rich as in fulfilled looking. They had more vacation they spoke about everyone being rich. They had no poor. It was so sad to think of what we could have & instead have this constant conflict in this country. I had no clue other places were like that until I saw that show. This country has turned into a slave place so certain people can be greedy rich. I think it is this way because of relligions in this country that believe in polarity rather then just good. I belong to a spiritual center where no one beleifs in the devil or evil & we get along so well & have such great success.