universal health care in america?

Universal health care (one name for it) is a disaster. It results in crap health care for all. Proof? Look at UK where you can wait up to a year for a CAT scan, or Canada where you can sit in an ER for 30 hours waiting your turn to be seen, then wait 8 months for an MRI which is then done with "state of the art" equipment - well, it WAS state of the art in 1960. Governments in both countries are very proud of their health care systems, but patients lose out big time and doctors in both places tend to flee the over-regulated environments and go to places like America where they can actually practice medicine as oposed to simply prescribing drugs to subdue symptoms which (A) cures nothing and (B) shifts the costs from the system to the patient. The patient can see the Dr. for free, but the patient pays for the pills, the crutches, the parking , the Ambulance etc;. Patients in both places also tend to get themselves to somewhere like America for first class diagnosis and treatment - well, those who can afford to make the trip do. Many , many other points indicate that the Canadian/UK approach to health care does not and can not work, but look at income taxes and sales taxes in both those countries then look at the cost of health insurance in America. It is a lot cheaper to buy good health coverage in America than to get crap but 'free' coverage (provided through taxation) elsewhere.

the right fee for kin medical insurance the position I artwork is $one hundred/wk. that's basically what workers pay. the employer has been soaking up the the relax and the will develop for 5 years now. insurance is widely used, severe co-pay, no dental, minimum inventive and prescient. with charges on the point of $2 hundred/wk entire for kin insurance that's about 22% of my weekly income. i will't see how customary unmarried payer health insurance ought to fee a lot extra if it replaced into paid as a "tax" the different element is that if there have been Socialized drugs a' l. a.' Veterans administration, the rich human beings would ought to get in line in the back of the detrimental human beings.... and considering the rich have the flexibility, they'd extremely the detrimental not have insurance. Sister Godzilla, are you declaring that you do not have health insurance? and that you pay the for all of your medical your self? Self insured? ever have an operation? how about an MRI, PT for that shoulder tear?

And, who's going to pay for the healthcare?

It will come out of all of our paychecks, and if you remember, there will be even MORE people willing to exploit the system at that point.

While I agree that no patient should be turned away in an emergency situation, regardless of their financial situation, I also feel that if you wish to go to a private practice for preventative healthcare, you need to be able to pay for it. Private practices are considered a luxury, and so is most medical care, to be honest.

Free healthcare for everyone would have a detrimental effect on the economy, though. It would also ruin the value of a good doctor, and bedside manner would plummet.

Of course I think mostly all advantages, why should someone have to go without health care just because they don't have some great job? They're still working. I think people have said that if their was universal health care the doctors would get paid less , then they'd be lazy to do their job well and health care quality would decline. Which i think is ridiculous. they still make mistakes now anyway. A doctor in florida removed the wrong leg and the woman ended up without any legs. imagine paying for that surgery.

I think it should be free just like in Canada. If the US government makes an excuse like they can't pay for it just tell them to stop unjustifyable wars like the one we are currently in that is costing us billions. I'm sure those billions can pay for it...at least for a long while.