Will America be better off in the long run with its current health care/insurance policies?
Looking thirty years into the future, do you think we’d be better off if we just left it the way it is? Do you think that our economy will continue to flourish by connecting health insurance to employment? If there are 307,000,000 people in this country and 47,000,000 people supposedly are without insurance, should we really care since that is the minority? That means that over 250,000,000 people have insurance and are happy, so wouldn’t, in a democracy, the voice of the *majority* matter over the minority?
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May 20th, 2010 at 1:08 am
No. Costs will rise so much and price even more Americans out of the market, and decent healthcare.
I do not understand why so many Americans have fallen for lies about healthcare in the USA, abroad and also the planned reforms [1]. I mean, if the healthcare system in the USA is so good, why have no other nations taken it up? Could it be due to the following facts?
FACT – the USA spends more on healthcare PER PERSON than any other nation on the planet [2].
FACT – the US has higher death rates for kids under five than western European countries with universal health coverage [3].
Or if the US healthcare system is run so well, why not run the fire service like the healthcare system? [4]
Maybe that is because in the USA, insurance companies push up costs, buy politicians and refuse to pay claims that people pay for [5]. (Look up Wendell Potter on YouTube to hear more if the link below is too long.)
Obama wants to make insurance cheaper, stop insurance companies from refusing health coverage to those with pre-existing conditions, and make sure they pay out when they are meant to [6], a system similar to that which works in Taiwan [7]. He debated this before he was elected [8].
Is it right that a dead American four year old would have had a better chance of life if they were born in Canada, Cuba, Germany and so many other industrialised nations with universal healthcare?
If you think my arguments are wrong, e-mail me with proof. But if you can not, let Obama try to help America. If he fails, vote him out in 2012.
May 20th, 2010 at 1:08 am
Yeah! **** the people without health insurance! If someone dies from a treatable disease or has health insurance but is still sent into bankruptcy, who cares, right? Maybe they shouldn’t have gotten sick in the first place. FACT.
May 20th, 2010 at 1:08 am
NO THE PLAN IS PART OF ILLUMINATI
May 20th, 2010 at 1:08 am
Shareholders, yes. People, no.
May 20th, 2010 at 1:08 am
I’d rather stick with are current health care, rather then with obamacare.
May 20th, 2010 at 1:08 am
The current system is better that what is being proposed by the dems.
It could use some adjustment though.
Start with tort reform.
Ambulance chasers add nothing to healthcare except for the cost.
And those 47M can always to to the emergency rom and will not be turned away for treatment, everyone knows that by now and if they don’t maybe it should just be considered natural selection.
May 20th, 2010 at 1:08 am
The 47 million is the number used if you want to include illegals. It is more like 25 million Americans without insurance but a survey showed that about 30% of them could afford it but decided to take their chances without it. So, actually, we are really talking about 18 million people with health care.We need to make it more affordable for all–NO DOUBT. But to revamped the entire system is idiotic. The negative effect it will have on our economy is immense and it wont matter if you have health care if you dont have a job.
May 20th, 2010 at 1:08 am
we would be better off by implementing several bills that include
tort reform
a more competitive marketplace
a catastrophic pool for poor
reforming medicare/medicaid
better leveraging technology
We will be much worse off with a new bureaucracy of dozens of new agencies, a 2700+ page bill that nobody understands, and more government control over healthcare.
We will be much worse off taxing the crap out of people in a recession for several years before ANY of the benefits even begin to occur.
May 20th, 2010 at 1:08 am
no. i used to think all was good. i,ve come to believe that some form of mandatory coverage must be implemented. this means it,s gonna cost. my wife carries our insurance thru the county and state. it,s about $60 per month. it,s a great HMO. without a subsidy, it would be $1200.00 per month. this is the heart of the problem. if we were forced to pay on our own, we couldn,t afford it. how would this problem be resolved? i,m not sure the obama admin. has the solution. they,re trying to please too many special interest groups. now they,re supplying s.s. benefits to millions of illegal aliens. somebody ultimately has to pay for insurance. if this can,t be resolved, will will all go down together.
May 20th, 2010 at 1:08 am
Healthcare needs reform, not a take over. How many of the 47,000,000 chose not to have Health Care? How many are in the country legally? Obamacare is not the answer. If you want to see what a Universal Health plan in the US would look like, go hang out at any VA.
May 20th, 2010 at 1:08 am
nobody is proposing that nothing be done, but we need reform not a government takeover of
health insurance!!!
May 20th, 2010 at 1:08 am
The more we shift to the left the poorer well be, and cost will keep skyrocketing.
May 20th, 2010 at 1:08 am
When they go out and make a DETAILED, door to door analysis of those 47,000,000 uninsured people’s assets and can still say they CANNOT afford health care, I might give it a second though. I WILL NOT, however, as long as 50%+ of that 47 million chooses, purely by choice, to spend their money on possession rather than insurance.
I guarantee you that a very large part of that group has a LOT of unreported income that the IRS does not know about.
May 20th, 2010 at 1:08 am
There is certainly room for improvement, particularly on the insurance side of things. But simply because things could be better doesn’t mean that the "solutions" proposed by Congress are likely to make things better. Basically they want $849 billion to make nationwide health insurance mandatory under penalty of fine or imprisonment. That’s a lot of money for a "health care reform" that doesn’t include building even one new hospital.
For people who would like to help those who can’t afford health care, why not take a look at The National Association of Free Clinics (NAFC) (link below)? Wouldn’t it be better to take an active part than worry about those big spending bozos in Washington? There are also directories to help people find free health clinics. A brief search for free clinics can steer people who need help in the right direction. Many medical professionals, including retired doctors donate their time and skills to help. People can bypass the insurance racket altogether and receive medical care without any "help" from the federal government, and they can do it now without any new legislation being passed.
May 20th, 2010 at 1:08 am
The real answer to your question is somewhere in the middle. The current system, if it were tweaked, and the government did its job of enforcing laws pertaining to Medicare cheats, adding tort reform, and better control of insurance companies, could find economic space to care for the uninsured, to some degree.
It should not be a card blanche freebee unless we’re trying to apply an 0bama style socialism, but it should cover catastrophic issues, so that all Americans can know they will be taken care of in an emergency.
The majority issue is not reasonable because it’s like saying we almost take care of all of our citizens. I don’t believe this is what we hope to achieve.
May 20th, 2010 at 1:08 am
No, Americas health care system is a disaster.
May 20th, 2010 at 1:08 am
I think reform will fail, though I dont want it to. But we live in a country where the average person is stupid.