will free health care actually be free?

It wont just be your income tax that goes up it will be our tax on goods as well. when you are paying 27 cents tax on a 50 cent candy bar ask if it is still free.

take it from someone who lives in the US & the UK it is not free and not good

Wait until you get hospitalized and they stick you in a room with 8 to 10 people. Or when you wait on a list for 14 months to get on a dentist list because they lack dentist becuase they cant pay them enough

Cinder you really dont understand do you. It wont be cheaper becuase more people are on it it will be more expensive.

Since it doesnt cost them anything people will go to the doctor for everything no matter how small. It will drive up the cost.

Look at it like this.

I have freinds who have health care and they have to pay a deductable everytime they go in. Becuase of this they make sure it is something that they really need to see a doctor for becuase it cost them out of their own pocket.

I know a guy who is faking a injury and gets disability and his health care is free paid for by the goverment becuase they consider him disabled. He goes to the ER if he has a runny nose. He doesnt bother going to a regular doctor becuase the ER is closer. It cost 4 times as much for his visit but cost him nothing out of his pocket so he doesnt regulate himself to going only when neccesary.

Do you see how this is going to drive up the cost of health care!

MISTER do you also take into account that americas cost of healthcare is high becuase we pay for almost 100% of research and development on new technology and new medication becuase 90% of all of these things are developed and invented in the United States.

Once the universal healthcare is inacted and the money is no longer there for these companies to profit off of their new products they will stop making them becuase after all it is bussiness and not charity. once we stop doing so much research and development one of two things will happen.

1) new tech and meds delevopment will slow down and there will be less breakthoughs in medical advances and the whole world will be worse for it.

2) the other countries who have been leaching off of our Research and development will have to get off their but and wallet and start doing their own and their share of the R&D and their cost of healthcare will go up.

ADDITION FOR MISTER I will type slow so you can understand this time. I stated that the R&D were private owned. But once this healthcare plan comes into effect as clinton has stated she will pay for it by lowering what providers (doctors, hospitals) can charge for service.

Ok with that in mind if a doctor can only charge $20.00 for an X ray when he use to be able to charge 300.00. now a sales person approaches him and say I have a new machine thst takes better x rays and it cost 1 million dollars (half a mil more than a regular x ray mach) The doctor who would have bought the new one if he woas still able to charge 300.00 now says no thanks it wont pay for itself.

So now the company inventing them cant sell them for a mil each so they stop making them because it is not worth making them for what they can sell them for and they stop doing R&D that is too expensive.

STOP KIDDING YOURSELF no country in the world is close to the US when it comes to medicine and equipment research and delvelopement

ARE YOU THAT UNIFORMED. DO YOU THINK MEXICO REALLY PAYS THE SAME PRICE FOR MEDICINE AS US. DO YOU THINK IT IS BECUASE THEIR GOVERMENT HELPS THEM OUT? THEY PAY A FRACTION OF THE COST BECAUSE THE DRUG COMPANIES DONT PASS ON R &D TO THEM

It won't be free. Do not believe a word of it. To top it off, you could be thrown in jail for not buying insurance. What if you don't want insurance? Where will your rights be. Why should I be forced to spend money on something if I don't want it? I, personally, do have insurance and it is a thing my family considers a priority and we budget accordingly. But no one should make us buy it. Something is so very wrong here. I hate the fact that we are creating a society of people who sponge off others and milk the system. What happened to pride in being self supporting? No, let's just all stay home and watch TV, play video games, collect welfare, unemployment, food stamps, get free insurance/drugs. How can people look in the mirror at themselves and feel good anymore? I am all for helping people who are down and out for AWHILE but making it so easy for them to sit on their collected butts is a bad thing. A society of laziness.....

There will not be free health care, it will be universal plan, ,meaning we all can be on a plan, regardless if our employer has coverage. With more people the thought is it will be cheaper to all.

It is the very poor or illegal immigrants, or prisoners, that get FREE health care. Those people however can not have anything in order to qualify. But we do know that many get the coverage and we pay for it. I think we should help the poor, handicap and disabled. But if they are not here legally they should not get free coverage. Send them back to their country, they are breaking the law.

From what I understand..Hillarys health care plan would be the same as it is now,,except they would force you to buy insurance...whether you can afford it or not.....and maybe the income limits might be raised for subsidized care.

Obama..just wants free health care for children...which there is a similar plan already in place.

There isn't very much accurate info on the 2 but they sound like sheeps in wools clothing...as for McCain....who knows.

Haven't you ever heard, "Nothing is free."? Someone, and that means the working people in the country, will pay for it all through higher taxes and eventually through pain and suffering because of a clogged up health care system.

Its funny how republicans perpetuate this myth that universal healthcare will be more costly. Thetruth is that America already spends 15 % of GDP on healthcare AND still leaves 47 million (thats roughly 17% of the population) without access to close to adequate healthcare (not to mention all of the people who can only afford the bare minimum-read completely useless- coverage). While countries with UNIVERSAL healthcare tend to spend less. Canada only spends 9 %, in comparison, and covers EVERYONE. The problem is that the current system in America is incerdibly expensive and completely inefficient. This is in part because the insurance companies are only inetersted in profits, not getting people healthy. Senator McCain's health care plan will cost $3.7 TRILLION over his term. And it STILL wont cover everyone. In contrast Senators Clinton and Obama will cost $120 billion and $90 billion respectively. And will either cover everyone or at least all children. Yet ONE MORE example of how Republicans are experts at waisting tax payers money, and pad the pockets of the super wealthy (in this case the insurance company execs) at the same time. Even John McCain himself used to say how much money politicians waste. Now he's become one of them.

50%? It wont cost that much.

Taxes will go up, but it'll be offset by your personal medical insurance which will go down.

Problem with free healthcare is that people suddenly expect everything to be paid for. And you'll start to see the wonderful health-tourists, who cross the border and get fixed up for free, before going home.

Free health works well when its capped (i.e. people know it provides only basic care and the rest must be paid for) and where the population is small.

Of course not. The government can't give you anything it hasn't taken from you first, and it is their intervention and representation of insurance companies over patients that has made the thing so expensive to begin with.

Besides, look at quality. Walter Reed is government run health care.

Well It won't cost that much, at least Obama's plan won't. Hillary's will be steeper(hers is full universal health care, Obama's is universal Childrens Health care). And no it won't drive the economy into the dumps either one will, they will be only manditory coverage meaning that if you and your family already have health care then your covered.

The medical industry will jack up prices, taxes will go through the roof, every mexican citizen with be in our ER, kidney and liver transplants will be taken out of your check, you'll be so broke you'll have to sell part of you liver just to pay your taxes.