What is wrong with the health care system anyways? Isn't the US system the best in the world?

It is best....he just wants people with jobs and the rich to pay for the low income/poor and illegals......

According to the WHO the USs healthcare system is currently sitting at 37th in the world, France is first

1-50;

1 France

2 Italy

3 San Marino

4 Andorra

5 Malta

6 Singapore

7 Spain

8 Oman

9 Austria

10 Japan

11 Norway

12 Portugal

13 Monaco

14 Greece

15 Iceland

16 Luxembourg

17 Netherlands

18 United Kingdom

19 Ireland

20 Switzerland

21 Belgium

22 Colombia

23 Sweden

24 Cyprus

25 Germany

26 Saudi Arabia

27 United Arab Emirates

28 Israel

29 Morocco

30 Canada

31 Finland

32 Australia

33 Chile

34 Denmark

35 Dominica

36 Costa Rica

37 United States of America

38 Slovenia

39 Cuba

40 Brunei

41 New Zealand

42 Bahrain

43 Croatia

44 Qatar

45 Kuwait

46 Barbados

47 Thailand

48 Czech Republic

49 Malaysia

50 Poland

It does have some world class doctors.

It just has pitiful access to these world class doctors.

The treatment is reliant on insurance and pharmaceutical companies giving the nod before a doctor. People all over the world do not flock to the US for this treatment. It may seem like it considering many wealthy individuals from Asia and the Middle East may do so, but they also go to France and the UK and there are a large number from central and south America who also arrive in the US as "medical tourists/immigrants". It does not paint an accurate portrait of the availability of care.

The US ranks 37th in the World Health Organization's list. Hardly the "world's best" i'm afraid.

http://www.photius.com/rankings/healthranks.html

Universial helathcare is socialised medicine. that is no longer this style of sturdy concept. once you have the government telling hospitals and medical doctors what they'd and can't due, or determining who they are going to disguise you have chaos. They already meddle with healthcare contained in this style of medicaid and so on. As we've seen, government is the main inefficient thank you to unravel something. we would desire to enable the unfastened marketplace take over. many human beings disagree yet nonetheless, no person has seen the way it might paintings. i've got confidence via allowing opposition you're able to have decrease expenditures interior the long-term. some will nevertheless have bigger rates, others all-time low. human beings can then %. and decide which service to apply for coverage. some medical doctors interior the u . s . a . refuse to settle for medicaid and medicare as that is. the only different determination is to stay in a plastic bubble and all of us comprehend that would not be plenty exciting.

Well most liberals seem to think Insurance companies earning small profits is an evil thing.

They seem to think that if you took the profit away, that health care would somehow be cheaper.

But the 10 largest health insurance companies combined, made just 13 billion in profit last year.

That amounts to 0.6% of health care spending in the US last year.

So even if you did away with insurance Company profits all together.

It would save 11 cents per day for each americans health insurance cost.

Insurance cost so much, because medical care cost so much.

No plan before Congress right now, address health care cost or does anything to lower them.

Since the only way to lower health care cost, would be for the federal government to mandate that doctors and hospitals charge less for thier services.

No, the US health care system is not the best in the world.

We probably have the best doctors and facilities, but that doesn't do much good to the millions without access to them.

We are actually ranked quite low (37th) by the World Health Organization for overall quality of care (France is #1, Britain is #18, and Canada is #30), and are ranked around 27th in the world in life expectancy.

HAHAHAHA

As long as Canada exists there will be no chance for USA to have better health care than anyone.

What's wrong with our system is that it's all out of balance. People who need healthcare, who get sick often, are elderly, have histories of disease in their family, etc. have LESS chance of getting health care than someone who is healthy. The only way this makes sense is in a monetary view, but something like health shouldn't depend on how much money a company can make off of you not getting sick. Health care should be as wide-spread as taxes are. Everyone pays taxes, everyone should get health-care.

Actually, we ar 37th in the world because of the profit-based system we now have, which looks for ways to nickel and dime us on co-pays, and maximum payouts, leaving what's left for us to have to pay.

Government option will be great. It will make the privateers get their acts together, give those of us that have insurance an option, and provide coverage for the 50 million people in this country that don't have it.

This is truly a no-brainer.

The level of health care you can get depends on what you can afford. You can get the best health care here. But you can also get some of the worst or none at all. It all depends on what you can afford. Everyone should be able to see a doctor without having to worry if they can afford it.

I assume you're joking.

(You are joking...right?) ;-)

The healthcare coverage in the United States is ranked #37 in the world by the World Health Organization and yet we spend almost twice as much as any other country, enough to cover everybody with excellent comprehensive healthcare.

There is room for improvement within the system, but not what is being purposed by the government. The government cannot run anything without it costing us a fortune.