Would universal health care ensure someone that they would get the best care available?

Question

Even if it meant $17,000 a month for cancer treatment?

Answer 1

No not at all. Universal Healthcare may sound good on paper but it would not be a good move. Our standard of care would lower dramatically. Need proof .... Walter Reed and other VA hospitals.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

No..

Answer 4

No.  Doctors would be backlogged with many, many appointments.  We probably wouldn't have personal doctors, we would have clinics.  Our personal medical files would not be accurately taken care of because of the high volume of medical treatments taking place.  This opens room for many mistakes on all levels of the health care profession.

Answer 5

Absolutely not!!! It create long waiting lists and a shortage of doctors like they have in Canada. It make doctors no more than govt employees. You would die on a waiting list instead of seeing a doctor.

Answer 6

No it would men they would get to wait in line.

Answer 7

No, it would only mean that everyone was entitled to some sort of healthcare.  There would be a shortage of Doctors and thus, they would begin to hire bottom of the barrel Doctors for people on the program.  The ones paying for their care would benefit from the ability to be able to choose their physician.  

Anything ran by the government always costs more and is of lower quality than its civilian counterpart.  Just look at the military for instance, they have their great members... but they dont stay long.  They move into private sectors and the retards are the ones left in the position of authority.

Answer 8

I have relatives in Canada and I have spent quite a bit of time there.  Canadians are very friendly and, for some reason I don't understand, they LOVE Americans.  When I chat with them, I -always- ask how they like their medical system.  I ask them if they know anyone who actually died waiting for an important operation or service, or who was severely disabled or in pain for a long time because of shortages of services.

I have never heard one horror story!  I must have talked to over 100 Canadians over the last 25 years, just random people I met in stores or at breakfast in a bed and breakfast, or on an airplane.  I have never heard one story of anyone who died because they couldn't get something they needed.

The closest story I heard was about a woman, a friend of a friend, who had cancer.  The Canadian doctors told her that they had done all they could for her, and they told her that she was going to live!  She came to the US and spent $15000 of her own money to get worked over at an American hospital. And she lived anyway.

When conservatives in the US say that Canadians come here for health care, they are talking about those rich enough to pay for their own care.  And yes, we do have the very best health care system in the world for those who can pay for their own care.

But if you have to buy insurance.  Well, just since Bush has been in office the price we pay for health insurance in the US has risen by 70%.  And it was considered a crisis before that.

The difference is the way we look at the health care system.  In the US, the primary purpose of the health care system is to generate profits for health care companies.  And from their point of view we do have the best system because it generates the most profits.  In all other developed countries, the highest priority of the health care system is HEALTH CARE!

Answer 9

You've asked a leading question. Our current system does not ensure that "someone" gets any treatment at all, unless they or their insurance company can pay for it. So comparing our unaffordable system that leaves 47 million people uninsured to one that has not been designed yet, but would be based on the principal of universal coverage, involves numerous issues besides quality of care. Good health is a right, not a privilege.