Why should we have to pay for healthcare?

Question

Why should we have to pay to keep on living?

Answer 1

Your right we shouldn't pay doctors or nurses for healthcare.

I'm sure all the people wanting to be doctors will still want to go to a college for 7 years so they can work for free.

Answer 2

Do YOU work for free?  

Doctors, who incur an incredible amount of debt getting that education, need to get paid for their services to pay off that debt.  AND, to pay the office staff, and office rent, to keep the office open.

Feel free to go to school for 12 years, amass hundreds of thousands in debt, and open a free clinic where you don't charge, but still have to pay rent, insurance, salaries, and supplies costs.

Answer 3

I pay for my food too...should restaurants be free?

Nothing is free unless you have nothing....then everything is.  But, I'm not so sure that's a good pay off....

Answer 4

Do you really care why "we" should pay for healthcare? It sounds more like your question is: Why should -I- have to pay for healthcare?

Well -we- should pay for healthcare because civilization has proven that shared responsibilities work much better than a random uncoordinated number of individual responsibilities for things we share in common.

Why should we pay for roads, an electrical grid, clean water or anything we share? We should do it because it is the most efficient and fair way to start. How exactly we share in payment and delivery of service is usually how we muck things up.

Currently, the U.S. has the most expensive healthcare system in the world per capita, but it isn't even remotely the best (despite what some dishonest people say, since they are pretending healthcare for the rich is available to most Americans). One reason is tha even though many of us pay, the system does not deliver as well as in other countries. There are a system of middlemen (mostly insurance companies) who skim lots of money out of the system without contributing much to improving its efficiency or quality.

Also, despite what another answerer said, there is not shortage of doctors in the U.S. One problem is that many doctors only work in the specialties that will make the most money. Also many doctors get subsidized education with the promise they will serve rural and under-served areas, then break their promise, but never get punished or forced to do what they promised.

I hope you really were asking this question with the honest desire to get a good answer, but your secondary question makes you sound kind of stupid.

Answer 5

it is precaution, if we will get ill or some operation etc you will get done with the payment you have already paid

Answer 6

Don't then, whiner.

Answer 7

Because every year health care gets more expensive and there is no way the government can pay for everyone to be completely covered.

The best we can do is give some coverage to those that do not have any. Another problem is doctors. There are not enough to cover almost 300 million people. we are not even trying to train more doctors. The person from Canada said that

they have free coverage, but they don't tell you that you can wait months for a major operation.

Answer 8

When you pay for health care insurance you transfer your risk (illness) to someone else (the insurance company). You are not obligated to buy health insurance. It is perfectly O.K. to not have health insurance. You assume the financial risk if you don't buy health care insurance. A financially responsible person would save money to cover expenses should they get sick. If you get really really sick, like needing a transplant for example, then you better have hundred of thousand of dollars saved up or this is when you really wished you had health care insurance. It's not a bad thing to have, really.

You see, people buy health insurance for the same principle that they buy automobile insurance. If the government did not mandate auto insurance, would you still drive a brand new, nice car without insurance? What if you hit someone or someone else hit you? Since you have a financial responsibility if you caused property/bodily damage to someone else, the government makes you buy insurance. They protect you from doing harms to other. They government hasn't mandate health care insurance yet.

I'd like to pay for my own health care insurance so I can retain my freedom. Freedom to choose my own doctor and my appointment time.

Why should you have to pay to keep on living? You don't have to but when you pay, you are more likely to have choices, convenience, and sometimes comfort. One form of payment or another you are "paying". Take a homeless person for example, they live rent-free on the streets. In exchange for rent-free they don't have a roof over their head or warm shower whenever they please. The currency that homeless people pay for a rent-free life is their convenience and security. Bathing in the river does not cost on my utility bill but I'd rather pay so that I can bath in private and with warm water.

Just my $.2. Thanks for asking

Answer 9

Well i don't have to pay. I'm canadian.!!!

Yeah we're better!

Answer 10

Well who's going to pay for it then?

Answer 11

Because nobody cares if we keep on living or not....everybody is money hungry.

Answer 12

Because healthcare is a way for companies to make money. Its all about making people rich.

Answer 13

We would be paying for healthcare one way or another.  Either we pay for it out of a paycheck or out of pocket, or we would be like other countries and have a high tax rate, but then the government decides who gets what meds or surgeries (ie-Germany approved a s*x change operation for a 17 year old...do you want health care to run like that?).  At least if we aren't satisfied with our healthcare, we can stop paying, switch companies and doctors, and find who we like.