Just how would socialized medicine/ "free health care"...?

Question

ruin our country? How exactly would it work?

Answer 1

Have you visited a free clinic?  If you choose not to visit them, why would you want to be forced to?

Answer 2

This is so much BS from people that don't know what they're talking about. Emergency health treatment in a hospital is not health care & national health insurance that covers everyone is not 'free health care', we'll all have to pay for it, although at a cheaper price than we're paying for now. People should learn what they're talking about before embarrassing themselves.

Answer 3

Not one single politician has advocated socialized medicine or free health care in this country. What is up for consideration is a single-payer national health INSURANCE program. Not a national health care program.

Be wary of scare-mongers who are content to let this misunderstanding persist.

Answer 4

Let me suggest a correction to your question:  Socialized Healthcare is not free; someone is paying for every government give-away program.  And there is trickery in the debate, which I will explain.  First, if you listen to the politicians, they are all talking about "healthcare insurance coverage."  That isn't the problem or the issue.  You can live in the USA and have no insurance and still get healthcare.  Go to any municipal hospital on a Saturday night and you'll see uninsured people getting healthcare.  The problem in the countries that have universal coverage is that you may have insurance coverage but not be able to get healthcare.  So everyone should ask this question:  "Would you rather have health insurance or actual health care"?  In Canada, the wait to see a surgeon after being diagnosed with cancer is six months.  How does that sound?  Would you rather have insurance but no access to healthcare or no insurance and access to healthcare?  There is a big difference.

Answer 5

Icarus mentioned my country, Canada, stating that the wait for surgery is six months. I'd like to correct his statement. I had breast cancer andI had my treatment and surgeries with no delay, even though my cancer was non-invasive. I don't know anybody here who had waited six months to receive treatment for a serious situation. It can happen, though, for no system is perfect. But if our socialized health care system were that bad, our life expectancy would be going downhill, which is not the case.