should the government take a greater or lesser role in medical care?
as an aside, how do you feel about those who abuse the system by calling ambulances to their homes or going to the emergency room for minor problems like headaches and earaches and sticking the taxpayers with the bill?
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IN FOUR WORDS...the system invites perpetraters
the feds and state now provide health insurance for the poor, the children, and the old { medicaid, medicare, peachcare, etc}...we need to expand so everyone is covered....the 20 to 65 yrs is the healthest group so it should cost less per person for the government to cover them...let the ones with jobs pay for their coverage at the same time they pay their federal and state tax...everyone should have the same coverage and everyone should pay the same price as everyone else the same age....if the state can force all drivers to insure their cars, they can force all to have health insurance....the reason so many go to the E. R. is that doctor offices want cash or insurance...if all had insurance then these people could go to office instead of hospital....recent study showed that prisoners live longer than other people..maybe because they get on demand health care....dont we all deserve the same treatment........national health care for all will increase life expectancy and will cost less in the long run......plus alot of big businesses that are moving out of country because of the present high cost of insuring employes, will be able to afford the lower premiums....if goverment can insure the over 65 at the current cost, think how much less per person it would be to add in the young healthy workers......one of the biggest problem with the current system is not just the cost of insurance for indivuals but the availability....alot of people are uninsurable, because the insurance companies pick and choose who they want....this is unacceptable in America....
C frye says he wants his surgeon to be the most expensive...that tells you one thing...he has insurance and it probably isnt a personal policy that he has to worry about being cancelled....wouldnt it be great if everyone including C. Frye had that good kind of insurance....then we all could get the care we need....instead of being afraid either because we are uninsurable or cant afford the deductables ..
they should take a greater role to make sure everyone has access to outpatient and inpatient healthcare.
if most countries can provide healthcare for their people, then i am sure the great U S A can afford it..,,,if the goverment wont provide health insurance, or force people to buy insurance, then they should at least make sure that insurance is available.
non working people dont pay ins. now.....they are on medicaid or if older..medicare.......the only people who the government doesnt help find ins. or help pay for ins. is the people who have jobs...unfornantly alot of those jobs are low paying and doesnt offer ins....so the people have to ask is it better to work and have no insurance or not work and have insurance......Not acceptable in the greatest country in the world...........we paid for healthcare in Iraq and send help to Africa but cant provide low cost ins to our own?
you talk of free healthcare...it aint free if we are paying tax and tax is paying for it....you are not against free roads are you...why is health care any different......as a retired physician, i can tell you that most drs had rather government set the rules and prices rather than the corrupt insurance companies......if you dont want national healthcare then lets try it without insurance for everyone....i bet that would reduce the cost of healthcare.....either way,,,,let everyone be in the same boat.....that is what bothers the right the most....the fear of being in the same boat
Those that go to the emergency room for minor problems like headaches and earaches do not stick taxpayers with the bill. Those that don't have anyone else to pay their bill (employer or government) just ignore it and do not pay the bill. The hospital and the emergency physician eat that loss. Taxpayers are unaffected. For those on governmental assistance (medicare and medicaid) the cost to taxpayers is not increased because the amount paid to the doctor and hospital is below the actual cost of the care.
Congress has already established socialized medicine for emergency cases. If you have a medical emergency, the hospital is require to stabilize your emergency or transfer you to somewhere where it can be stabilized.
The biggest problem in america right now is the fact that so many people think healthcare is a right. They think it is something that someone else (the government, the employer, etc) should provide for them. When the employer pays the bills, there is no personal responsibilty to control costs. They want everything done, no matter what....
The quality of healthcare in the US is so superior because of free market forces. The free market assures good quality at low cost. When someone else pays for the care (the government), you will get what you pay for. There aren't enough taxpayers to pay for our free market system at the quality it is now. Look at medicare patients now: most don't get recommended therapies because the government reimbursement to providers is too low and continues to decline.
The only people I feel should get free health care and the old, sick and the young ones. Everyone elso should have to work and pay insurance so that they have health care. Stop all of these welefare recipients getting it all for nothing and make them start paying for their own. I get sick of going to the grocery store and trying to stretch a dollar and get behind some food stamp recipient getting all of the good stuff while I and other tax payers have to make do!!If you earn it then it is yours if you don't then you are a feeloader.
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