I do agree that our health care system needs to be changed, but I don't think socialized medicine is our answer. The real problems are the insurance companies. So many people don't have insurance, which increases our insurance premiums and makes health care virtually impossible to afford. If health care costs were lower, more people would have insurance, and I believe that would bring down the overall cost of health care.
Senators would tax high-value health insurance plans to pay for covering the uninsured, an approach supporters say would curb health costs because it would lead to employers offering less generous benefits. The more populist House would tax the highest-income people, placing the burden of caring for the neediest Americans on the backs of millionaires.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/10/17/toughest-battle-health-care-reform-democrats/
I found this article on Fox News and if this is true, this is completely wrong. Why does someone who has worked hard all their life have to pay for someone who can't even afford health care in the first place? This just proves that we are headed towards socialism. Taxing the wealthy more closes the gap between higher and middle class, giving everyone the exact same kind of health care, which will probably be limited to certain benefits. Socialism is definitely not the solution to our problems. And we certainly can't keep running from this any longer.
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Wow! This was a eye-opener. I never really though about how this before. This is a real problem and the fact that before reading this I never thought about the price of health care makes me wonder. How many people are blinded by this problem. I can't wait to see more of what you write.
ReplyDeleteCountries in the European Union have free healthcare like Spain. There are government owned clinics and hospitals which save lives. The democratic socialist country of Spain saved my aunts life. She had a tumor in her brain, and thanks to well prepared government doctors the tumor was removed and her life was saved without paying anything. She was not working because of her disease, so the fact is that the privileged rich must help the poor in order for them to improve their lifestyle. What is the problem with taxing the rich to save people’s lives? Will they suffer if they lose a few cents? Or is it because they need the extra amount of money for this superficial and materialistic society, instead of using the money to save a dying human’s life?
ReplyDeleteAlso, most of those Americans without insurance are also hard workers which wake up every morning to feed their families. The problem in the U.S. is that the current taxes almost completely go to the military instead of helping poor Americans, which by the way is more than half of the United States. If part of the taxes went to public hospitals then there would not be a healthcare issue, and the United States would truly be closer to becoming a “first world” nation, which I strongly belief it is currently not.
The problem with the whole "why should I pay for someone elses heatlhcare" is that people don't stop to think they are already doing this. When someone pays taxes, they are paying for some kid's education, or the construction of some road. People think that if someone can't afford health insurance it's because they aren't a hard worker, which isn't true at all. America's economy is not the best it's been, and many people are forced to take low paying jobs. My dad works a full eight hours a day monday to friday cleaning pools for a living. He certainly cannot afford health insurance. If health insurance were to be free, he would certainly enjoy the benefits.
ReplyDeleteAnother problem people bring up is the waiting times. Comparing the US to Canada, Canada has worse waiting times and a large portion of people who aren't treated at all. However, unlike what some people think, Canada is not the only country with universal health care. If I can I'll try and find a chart of statistics taken in recent years that compares waiting times of the US and universal health countries. It was interesting to find that Canada had the worst of the countries that were compared, and the US had it really bad compared to other countries.
One more thing: people think that if the government controlled health care, the quality of it would decline. Here's a little post from a site that describe someone's day.
"This morning I was awoken by my alarm clock powered by electricity generated by the public power monopoly regulated by the US Department of Energy.
I then took a shower in the clean water provided by the municipal water utility.
After that, I turned on the TV to one of the FCC regulated channels to see what the National Weather Service of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration determined the weather was going to be like using satellites designed, built, and launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. I watched this while eating my breakfast of US Department of Agriculture inspected food and taking the drugs which have been determined as safe by the Food and Drug Administration.
At the appropriate time as regulated by the US Congress and kept accurate by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the US Naval Observatory, I get into my National Highway Traffic Safety Administration approved automobile and set out to work on the roads build by the local, state, and federal Departments of Transportation, possibly stopping to purchase additional fuel of a quality level determined by the Environmental Protection Agency, using legal tender issed by the Federal Reserve Bank. On the way out the door I deposit any mail I have to be sent out via the US Postal Service and drop the kids off at the public school.
After spending another day not being maimed or killed at work thanks to the workplace regulations imposed by the Department of Labor and the Occupational Safety and health administration, enjoying another two meals which again do not kill me because of the USDA, I drive my NHTSA car back home on the DOT roads, to my house which has not burned down in my absence because of the state and local building codes and fire marshal's inspection, and which has not been plundered of all its valuables thanks to the local police department.
I then log on to the internet which was developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration and post on freerepublic.com and Fox News Forums about how SOCIALISM in medicine is BAD because the government can't do anything right."