Why isn't health care free in the us?

Question

Why isn't health care free in the us?

Answer 1

Its because the government of the usa prefers to spend it's money on other things than it's people, they cut back school programs, to fund their military interests, they are involved with many countries that simply don't want them to be involved in the first place ex:iraq, Korea, Afghanistan, in Canada there is free health care because Canada cares about its citizens, I'm very proud to be a Canadian :P in other words the reason that the usa doesn't have free health care is because they simply don't care, they have their priorities mixed up, they care more about rebuilding iraq than repairing the damage that was done by hurricane Katrina, I think that show that they care more about Iraq's people more than they do their own people, maybe the usa people should look where their money goes to before they pay taxes, if the usa were a business they would be bankrupt and indited for embezzling money.

Answer 2

Because it has a cost.......for the same reason for example that: food, oil, clothes, houses, etc aren't free

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Answer 3

For the same reason it isn't free anywhere else in the world ( except countries getting large amounts of foreign aid ).

It consumes resources, and those resources need to be paid for.  Paying the government for health care ( AKA paying taxes ) does not make it free, it just changed where you send the check.

Answer 4

It isn't free anywhere. Somebody has to pay for it.  

Answer 5

For a variety of historical reasons.  If you're interested in researching it, the most notable periods with health care invovled the New Deal and FDR (he wanted national health care and the AMA did not support it) and Nixon with HMO legislation.

Answer 6

It isn't free anywhere in the world. Somebody has to pay for the education of the doctors, their time, the medicines, medical machines, etc.

The question is who should pay for it. Some people believe the tax payers should pay for it, some people believe that individuals should pay for it as needed. Obviously, the logical and ethical choice is for the individual to pay for it, not the tax payers. If I chose to play soccer and break my leg, it is my responsibility to pay for that, not the tax payers. It would be immoral, unethical, and tyrannical for the government to force the tax payers to pay for my medical attention.

Answer 7

Greedy White men who think that health care is a privilege and not a right. Other industrialized countries have universal health care run by the government and they are healthy than Americans.

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Answer 8

do you want to pay more taxes?

Answer 9

It is completely unacceptable for a person to die from a preventable illness because they cannot afford medical care.   The US leads industrialized countries by leaps and bounds in these figures, and that is crazy.  

Taxes should be used for the common good, and I can think of many things (illegal foreign wars, pork spending, corporate welfare, welfare in general), that are not going to the common good, but rather a priveledged few.   Combine all this money, with what we collect in payroll taxes and there would be plenty to fund a national health program.

Answer 10

Becuase it is a precious resource that must be rationed, and not an entitlement.

Answer 11

Because we have a pseudo-capitalistic economy where people are actually allowed to charge what ever price they want.

You should spend 16 years in medical school, buy a building, medical equipment, hire staff, and give away free medical care.

M O: People can afford doctor visits. They waste their money on cell phones, flat screen tvs, cars, air conditioning, and other luxuries. The average person in poverty in the US has a higher standard of living than the average european.