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If Healthcare reform is not needed...?

then why do so many show up to free healthcare events, held in rural areas, urban areas etc. Why do so many people show up if free healthcare is so wrong???

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  • 1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    Because healthcare reform is needed to make affordable healthcare accessible to all Americans. ∠°)

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    LOL -- I investigated your " free " government Medicaid for over 25 years for the government.

    Many people use " free " health care to fraudulently steal money and services from the government.

    Years ago a woman's purse was tossed out of a car window at a NYC Biridge Toll Booth & the purse contained 21 different Medicaid cards under 21 different names under 21 different ID numbers all with the same woman's photo on them

    We had a case in the Bronx, NY where a pharmacy was filling millions of dollars of medicaid prescriptions for AIDS medication @ approximately $ 450 per prescription for narcotics abuser medicaid recipient patients. After the pharmacy filled the prescription & billed $ 450 to Medicaid the medicaid recipient patient walked out the door and around the side of the building where a door with a peep hole opened and an outstretched hand gave the recipient a 10 dollar bill as the hand took back the medication to be resold.

    I also had a case where a new dental hygenist asked the Dentist why she wasn't sterilyzing the instruments that she was using on the mouths of different medicaid patients and the Dentist replied " What do you care ? They are all junkies with AIDS and they are all going to die anyway "

  • 1 decade ago

    People are showing up to protest the government's plans, not to give them a pat on the back. This is the best way to understand it... get a job and move out on your own. Then, give me 55% of the money you make and see how you like spending all your spare time working to support yourself but get less of what you work for than the government or those who don't work.

    Health care reform is needed, but that mostly means stopping fraud and getting people to pay their bills. Beyond that, why should I pay the medical bills for people who don't take care of themselves? Of all these people who supposedly can't afford health care, how many have a cel phone? How many have beer money? How many have cable tv? How many are overweight? How many drive SUVs? How many actually spend money only on needs? The numbers don't add up. It's an excuse to take even more of the people's money, and the ability to spend the majority of our money on what we want is the last true freedom we have. The government has already spent all of our social security money so there will be none left when we get old. There's over $60 Billion dollars in Medicare fraud each year - both of which are the current existing government run health care system. Why should we create yet another program for that takes our money before fixing or getting rid of the existing ones?

  • jackie
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    They show up because they have lost their health care. Reform is needed. Humana is charging $40. a month per person so people can get drugs at a discount that would cost $10. without drug insurance. Something has to be done or more and more people will die because of the greed of health and drug companies. Supplemental insurance costs as much as is the amount that is taken out of Medicare to pay for the 20% medicare doesn't pay. We are killing our elderly who can't afford that extra. If anyone loses their job and health care they wouldn't be so resentful of making sure everyone had health care.

    Source(s): Going broke just to make sure if it is ever needed it will the there.
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  • Jenna
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    There's a lot of room for improvement in healthcare. Change. But nothing that is government ran.

  • 1 decade ago

    No one says that reform is not needed.

    Everyone agrees that the prices for services are way too high.

    It's just that some of us realize that government intervention is what CAUSED the prices to go up in the first place! (regulations, deals with drug and insurance companies, etc)... If we can just eliminate the government's involvement, that would be a start!

  • 1 decade ago

    There is no such thing as free health care! If a poor person can not pay for their health care the government and the people of the U.S.A. pay for their health care. It's called taxing the tax payer to pay for it.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Because many people like to earn their way in life, rather than have it fed to us. If Obama would get jobs back, insurance usually follows.

    BlueChristy wants the reform because infant mortality rate is high in the US. Dont you also want free abortions?

  • 1 decade ago

    NO ONE IS SAYING IT DOESN"T NEED REFORM. NO ONE.

    What we are saying is that the reform needs not come from Big Brother. There are many things we can do besides reparations, err...government reform.

    TORT Reform

    Purchase insurance over state lines

  • Matt W
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    I don't need free cocaine, but I'd show up...

    No one is saying that reform is unneeded. Obama's brand of reform, however, will destroy health care for all of us.

    Are you going to be a total lemming and go along with any plan that Obama devises just because "something" needs to be done?

  • 1 decade ago

    Just because people show up for it doesn't make it right. Think before you type. One has nothing to do with the other. BTW it aint "free".

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