Would it be better to have a national health care plan for everyone, or just let uninsured die?
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Heck, as tax payers we pay for convicted criminals to live, eat, wear clothes, exercise, watch t.v, get educated, and get free health care. There is something wrong with that!! An honest hard working person has no health coverage but a murderer is taken care of for free. There should be a national health care plan, but knowing this country and it's politics, if it ever happened it would be so corrupt we would all be better off with out it.
If they cant afford to have a job and insurance then they should just move to canada. insurance is free there. But every job offers medical coverage now-a-days. well not every job but common my job service offers insurance so does mcdonalds. I understand that yes insurance and medical expenses are killers but its not like they are profiting 50% off of it. Medical stuff is just expensive.
How could you every think. sometimes insurance can be too high, give them some slack no one deserves to die because they don't have insurance.
First of all, Government keep out. We do not want the Federal Government in charge of your medical insurances. They will be able to set certain circumstances as do insurance companies on your health. It is more adviseable to look for job that offers medical coverage paid by the employer.
I am not a brilliant person. But I cannot believe that the people that run our government cannot figure out how to create a national health plan.
It has nothing to do with which party is in the white house. Hilliary was going to come up with a plan, remember?
It is very sad. I feel sorry for the people that need drugs to stay alive and cannot afford them, and as you said, they earn a few dollars too much. I have had insurance all my life. I am 60 years old. I recently had to go on long term disability. I cannot secure coverage I can afford. I almost had a heart attack. I went to the pharmacy to fill ONE inhaler for ONE month.The cost was $348.00!!!! I have several other prescriptions also.Can you believe any med can be that expensive?
I am ordering all my medication from Canada. The next presidential candidates had better concentrate on the United States and medical coverage. Whoever comes up with the most believable plan will get elected. What do you think? If they can make me believe them I will vote for them. What the hell, it is better than we have now, which is nothing.
HEY! THIS IS TO "SO BORED: Not all of us can go to work. I am on disability at 60 years old. I do not qualify for any coverage of any kind. I cannot afford $490.00 a month for cobra. You had better thank God every day for your medical insurance. Don't complain if you end up in the street with no job and no insurance. Tell us about it then, Miss So Bored.
The only way a person can be seen when they are sick and have no insurance or money to pay, is to go to the ER. When you go to an er, beside waiting endless hours, they do the usual workup to make sure you can go home rather then be admitted. The reason is only to protect their own behinds from liability. In the mean time they send you on your way and tell you to 'follow up with your primary care physician'..to whom you can't go because you have no insurance!
Hospitals by law have to see you, Doctors do not! Hospitals have charity care, Doctors do not.
So yeah, everyone should have universal health care, it should be the 'american way'. Foreigners get insurance when they come into the US, but the US citiznas can't always get it!
It would also make the care equal and not based on who has more money and gets better treatment. Canada is this way, so is Iceland,Finland and many other countries. I bet George Bush doesn't even give a second thought...as Bill Clinton never stopped thinking about it or the american people!
I think we should have an national health care plan for everybody because, just because somebody doesn't have enough money for health insurance, it doesn't mean we should let them die if we can save them.
The uninsured don't just die, they typically are treated regardless and it causes the insurance rates for everyone else to rise. That isn't to say they aren't conscious of the fact that hospitals and doctors routinely refer patients for collection (some even doing so regardless of the patient's ability to pay - had a friend who was harassed by creditors before getting the hospital bill, and had the money to pay it). So they often choose not to seek treatment until the situation is dire. This forces emergency care costs to rise, and causes expensive procedures to be done when they could have been prevented, thus, healthcare costs rise. Therefore, insurance costs rise to meet the rising cost of healthcare.
Fewer and fewer employers are offering health insurance these days, according to a recent study outlined in many articles earlier this year, due mainly to the aforementioned conditions. Therefore, at least half of Americans earning middle income are uninsured even though they have decent paying jobs (AP article featured both on Yahoo! News and AOLNews)
The qualifying standards for Medicaid continue to disqualify people, even though the government makes adjustments every few years for inflation, the on-hand asset requirement has remained unchanged for quite some time now. You cannot have $2000 in assets, whether an old 401(k) you don't plan to touch, money in the bank to pay the rent, or a vehicle. Unfortunately, it takes weeks to qualify, so if a family gets stuck with only $2000 in the bank and their normal household operating expenses are more than this, they risk eviction, utilities being shut off, foreclosure, reposession... Most are denied because of this or decide not to apply because they know they'll be denied. Still others don't qualify because they actually do make an income that is too high.
Thus they remain uninsured and the cycle continues. Universal healthcare has solved this problem for other developed countries, however the quality of care suffers. I would like to see a system that still adheres to capitalism, personally. In countries like Australia, Canada, and the UK, research and development is actually on the decline. There is little monitary incentive. If, perhaps, all uninsured could get universal healthcare at a certain standard, maybe those with insurance or private funds could see "better" doctors, get private rooms in hospitals, and be seen more quickly at offices than their uninsured, poorer counterparts. Yet all would pay taxes into the system. This way, those that desire best-of-the-best care can still get it, and those that are uninsured can still get the preventative care they need.
National health plan without the Clinton's involved in it.
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