How should health care be financed so that everyone has access?

Question

How should health care be financed so that everyone has access?

Answer 1

Everyone does have access.

You have been listening to Democrats.

Can you name a nation with better health care than the USA?

Can you name an 'everyone is covered' system that is not in trouble?  Want to help people by government taxation?  Send your own money to Canada first.

Answer 2

I am not sure? But, these days there are other companies picking up the slack from companies offering their employees insufficient healthcare benefits. These companies are making it possible for people with little or no health insurance to still seek healthcare services at discounted rates.

Answer 3

The easiest way for everyone to have equal access to health care is to have it financed by the government. Like here in Canada where each province finances it's own health care system with some transfers from the federal government. This covers all basic services (seeing a doctor, tests, hospitals, etc) and secondary insurance to cover prescriptions, private or semiprivate hospital stays, eye care, dental, chiropractic and massage can be purchased through the province (Blue Cross) or is usually provided by employers if you're a full time employee.

Answer 4

Excellent plan that is actually comprehensive, resolves abuses of the taxpayer, and allows for the legit care anyone needs:

QUALITY, ACCESSIBLE, AFFORDABLE health care for all.

That means preventative care (physical with follow up). Real medication (no Medicare "donut holes" the really ill are ripped off again.) No bogus ridiculously low "caps" on needed medical procedures. No abuse of the ER. No paying for the silly with the sniffles to go to the doc for free. No more bankruptcies over medical bills. I want THIS plan that ends abuse of the taxpayer, takes the burden off employers, provides price transparency, and ends the rip-off of the US taxpayer at the hands of greedy insurance CEOs (which has been repeatedly documented).

http://www.booklocker.com/books/3068.htm...

Read the PDF, not the blurb, for the bulk of the plan. Book is searchable on Amazon.com

Cassandra Nathan's Save America, Save the World

Nathan's plan is offered as a reformation of current government health care programs which simply do NOT cut it. However, she sees no reason why people can not BUY IN to it as well--a sliding-scale premium would make the plan available to all at a price they can afford.

Beyond what is in the plan you see in the PDF she addresses the real issues that drive up costs:

government meddling

lack of price transparency

special breaks for the large insurers

she also knows that supply and demand affect costs and explains how to increase the number of home-grown US-educated doctors, nurses, and other health care professionals--and without them going broke in the process--it is doable.

Prescription prices can be lowered by the use of bulk buying--and those savings can and should be passed on to the policyholders of the plan.

She really did her research, documented the actual problems (which is not a "lack" of insurance--75% of the people who declare medical bankruptcy HAVE health insurance. It doesn't work when they can with impunity violate contract law.) There are a lot of abuses the pols don't address--she did--and how to fix them WITHOUT coercion, mandates, relying on employers, etc. is all in there. It's doable if people will stop being distracted by the bogus UHC plans out there and focus on a workable solution.

Answer 5

I don't know the solution, but I do know that something needs to be done

I think the government needs to start looking at the profits that insurance companies are reeling in.  I'm paying 3k a year in premiums, plus my deductible and they just denied a claim for the common cold (sinusitis)

Answer 6

It already is.

Anyone reporting to an emergency room of any hospital in the United States has to be treated by Federal law, regardless of their ability to pay.

So, it already is.