Why don't Americans want affordable health care for everybody?

Because all they get to consider is partisan one liners like your question.

Since 1974, Hawaii has required all employers to provide relatively generous health care benefits to any employee who works 20 hours a week or more.

This is a state where regular milk sells for $8 a gallon, gasoline costs $3.60 a gallon and the median price of a home in 2008 was $624,000 — the second-highest in the nation. Despite this, Hawaii’s health insurance premiums are nearly tied with North Dakota for the lowest in the country, and Medicare costs per beneficiary are the nation’s lowest.

They think affordable healthcare is not quality healthcare

They think healthcare for everybody, means less for them

They think healthcare is not a basic human right

They think it's somewhat evil

They think insurance companies have their bet interests in mind

They think Canadians and Europeans and Japanese et al are all dying in lines waiting for the one doctor who's just barely trained as a field medic

They think insurance companies operate differently than UHC in that with UHC your paying for someone else, but with private insurance apparently your not

Mainly it's because they don't know what's available to them, and the insurers and the government don't want them to know or they'll demand it and insurance is a huge industry in the US and the government can't afford to lose that revenue. Therefore they rationalise it's better to lie to the public than tell the truth and risk losing all that money and payoffs and so on.

We do we want affordable health care for everyone. We do not want Obama Care His plan is wrong for us. It does nothing to lower the costs of medical care but it sure does cost a boat load of money.

The other point is when has the government ever ever been right on the cost of anything? You know he low-balled the price just to make it look good at 1 trillion dollars if passed it will be more like 5 trillion.

They do. What is being done in Washington is not affordable.

Just because someone who makes $200,000 a year says $3,500 for a monthly mortgage payment is reasonable is it really?

How much is the insurance going to cost each person?

They say the same plan is on the table and that is $5,500 per year with a $50,00 co-pay each time you go to the Doctor.

The Hospital co-pay is different, much higher.

They won't say about prescriptions.

AND your taxes will have to go up 30%. This 30% is on top of what you pay now.

Soon the Government will get half of your paycheck.

How much will your state take? Most states have a state tax.

All states will HAVE to repay the stimulus. How much did yours get?

The Government will have even more control of your life.

I could go on and on.

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By affordable I presume you mean resonable health care fees ?

FYI - When Barack Obama was a Senator; Michelle Obama worked in the University of Chicago Hospital where her job consisted of negotiating HIGHER HOSPITAL FEES with the insurance companies.

As a result of these HIGHER NEGOTIATED HOSPITALS FEES that were negotiated by Michelle on behalf of the Hospital....the University of Chicago Hospital became ONE of the FIRST AREA HOSPITALS to DENY admission to non-insured or private pay patients.

Senator Obama then obrained a $ 250,000 grant for the Hospital shortly after which Michelle received a raise amounting to $ 125,000 bringing her annual salary to $ 375,000

Now you know the story about the Obama's and " affordable health care "

We do, but a trillion dollar behemoth isn't "affordable". Tort reform and allowing companies to sell their policies across state lines would make insurance much more affordable and wouldn't cost a cent in taxpayer money or require massive tax hikes.

Nobody ever said they didn't. However, people do not want to pay for others insurance or have their own insurance messed with or have the government in control of their health care decisions...why is that so hard for so many people to comprehend?

Because it's not affordable, look at our current NHS funding, it changes from an organisation providing medical care to an administrator's career dream.

It's simple. Tell me of a government program that works and stays on budget? All of our government programs we have are all over budget which in turn, is bankrupting the country. And now, some people want to add another governement program? That's like being 200,000 dollars in debt on a second mortgage and asking your bank if you could borrow 50k because you want to buy a Corvette. It's not gonna happen, so why do some people think we can just add a huge government program like this when it'll cost taxpayers in the long run?

Take schools for example. This is government ran and has education done well in the United States? No. Teachers are underpaid and alot of schools are not recieving the funds to stay current and up to date to compete with the rest of the world. Schools seem to be teaching kids to take state mandated tests more then teaching them an array of topics and subjects they'll need for college. So they go to college unprepared, and in turn, the state run colleges have to dumb down their subjects so the kids can pass and get there college degrees. Then we release them to the real world and alot of bosses of companies are complaining that we're not sending them quality college graduates. So how do you think universal healthcare will work?

Healthcare is not a right. Its not right if a drug user wants to screw up their bodies and then have me pay for their healthcare in taxes. It's not right for overweight Americans to screw up their bodies and then have me pay for their healthcare in taxes. It's not right cigarette smokers to screw up their bodies and then have me pay for their healthcare in taxes. It's not right for AIDs patients to screw up their bodies having unprotected sex or using dirty needles for me to have to pay for their healthcare in taxes. Healthcare is not a right, it's a privelage.

Ron Paul 2012

We already have it, the problem is you have to decide whether you will have health insurance or the XBOX, Cell phone, or 22 inch spinners on you janke 86 Caprice.