Why is Health Care such a big issue?
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Okay, well, what about people who don't get health insurance through their jobs? What about people who have retired earlier than 65 years old and have to buy health insurance privately? What about people with pre-existing conditions that the wonderful insurance industry will not cover? I pay over $1,000 per month for health insurance and just under $100 per month for dental insurance. I'm on COBRA from my previous job and if it wasn't for that, no one would cover me. Does that seem fair to you? How can you all be so cavalier about this? It seems as though most of you are saying that if you don't have health insurance through your job, you are some kind of loser. Empathy is dead!
Incentive to go out and work harder for more money or a better job. Instead of putting a hand out and saying "gimmie".
Just my thoughts though, most won't agree.
It leaves them stuck. And in many cases we (society and tax payers) end up footing the bill anyway.
Health care has grown at significant double digit rates for years. Health care is not an option-- if you're sick or hurt, you need to deal with it. If you can't afford it, you're screwed.
Its not like wanting a new car or TV-- you can live w/out those.
I don't think national healthcare is necessarily the solution. But some form of affordable insurance and health care is needed. Yep, the market and negotiation can help here-- a supergroup can be made available for those who want to buy into it. that should result in lower rates given group size and the spreading of risk amoungst this group. Ind. rates are awfully expensive and many small businesses cannot affort it.
The people that I know get health insurance with their jobs. It's good incentive to get an education and get past the jobs at burger joints once you're no longer a teenager.
Health care is a big issue because the Democrats need to reverse a demographic trend - the decline in the proportion of the individual citizens who are dependent upon government. They can't use financial dependence anymore - a growing proportion of the population is financially independent of government and most of them understand that that is because tax rates are lower. But even if you're rich you can still get sick. And people are living longer, so the Democrats can actually scare you into worrying "what if I live to 100 and my savings run out!" Of course it's ironic because when you think of it, the reason you might live to 100 is because of medical advances the development and production of which was financed on US capital markets and it was a low-tax and stable-price environment that caused that to happen more rapidly than otherwise would be the case.
And the number of citizens without healthcare is not 47 million. Last claim I head was 41 million Americans which meant 41 million people IN America (meaning once you exclude illegal immigrants it's actually more like 25 million, out of 300+ million actual citizens, which is hardly a crisis).
They say 47 million citizens don't have any form of healthcare. That means over 253 million do! So roughly 85% of the country has some form of coverage. Why mess up what is good for 85% of the people?
How do you figure that most of the population cannot afford Health Insurance? An estimated 15.2% of the population do not have access to health insurance, but they do have access to health care.
Once again, Health Care is not a right granted to us by the Constitution.
Healthcare is not a entitlement program. You basically must pay for services rendered. Its like going to Target to buy your clothes.
The free market allows for goods and services to be provided for a fee. As soon as the government gets involved, things go to hell in a hand basket. Reason being is that government is not efficient at anything they do.
So by getting into National Healthcare, our healthcare system will go the way of Europe's and Canada's. We can get an office visit or surgery at the drop of a pin here in the USA. Why do you think the canadians come to the United States for elective procedures?
National Healthcare is a bad idea.
Its not my fault people cannot take care of themselves so why shoudl I have to settle for substrandard care because of them?
It's a big deal on the principle alone...it stinks of socialism. Besides the ideal though, those who aren't eligible for the handout now will get free services of crap as a result. I would rather rely on the private market myself even if I don't qualify for the handout.
Because of the Worst Generation. Baby boomers are aging and living longer. From the cradle to the grave baby boomers have sucked off the teat of their parents, The Greatest Generation. Boomers now expect to have everything handed to them as entitlements. The hippies of the past, so immersed in consuming every wordly pleasure, have not grown up. As aging ex-hippies (neocons) their pleasures are more "refined", i.e. more deviant AND expensive. They want to consume everything possible right up to the moment they die, and they hope that doesn't happen!
The answer is to vote baby boomers out of office and cut them off. No entitlements for the Worst Generation Ever, they did not EARN them.
My husband works at a fairly good paying job but we have 2 kids that I stay home with because even if I worked we wouldn't be able to afford the prices for babysitters. By the time we pay all of our other bills each month we can't afford health insurance. Not to mention half of the insuarances that I have checked on cost too much and still don't help a lot with healthcare expenses. So what's the point with wasting money on it! We just try not to go to the doctor unless we absolutly have to. And by the way it's the people who do work that don't have insurance because the one's that sit around and wait for handouts are the ones that are on medicaid/medicare.
It leaves them driving $40,000 SUVs, watching $2000 plasma screens and crying about not having health insurance.
The average American drinks 2 beers per day and eats fast food twice a day. That's at least $12 per day ($360 per month) of completely wasted money.
The average American wastes $300 per month in rent because they want to live alone instead of having room mates or living with family.
Americans can afford health insurance, they choose not to.
The sad truth is, we can't afford to keep people living forever on 19 medications, and we can't afford to take on any more ilegals who insist of giving birth here so they can stay.
We are drowning of our socialist ideals.
And I've got heart like you have no idea, but someone has to cut out the emotion and be logical.
Cause when you go to a care home,the care giver not only gets to treat you like crap but gets paid about $2500 a head to count pills , take your blood pressure , feed you , and take you to Dr. appointments.To care for three will make you about 90,000 a year and you don't have to speak good English.If you worked all your life and pay your tax like you should you get to suffer to death with Little or no pocket money(maybe $30)and the care giver gets a clean-up bonus when you die.
this question is not sensitive, because it involves about forty eight
million peoples, about twice the population of Canada and the African Americans and other minorities are very sensitive to
such abuses, and the one point two billion dollars are enough for them.
You answered your own question, but as for my own opinion, I think that Health Care is such a big issue because it crosses population lines that most other issues don't.
That is, lack of health care affects many different groups of people in many different places in the U.S., and there is really no effective solution to the problem as a whole, but just parts of the problem, like giving tax cuts to people with health insurance as Bush has just proposed.
It seems that health care in this country is a win-lose situation at best - expand the Medicaid and Medicare programs, and the poor and lower middle class win, but the rest of the middle class and the rich lose; make health insurance mandatory or reduce Medicaid and Medicare programs in favor of good quality but costly health benefits and the middle class wins but the poor lose.
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