Re; snotnose "We'd be better off if health care was put back in the hands of doctors who sacrifice to obtain their skills and never never tried the tricks the insurance companies do. They are worse than wall street goons."
Most health care professionals support gov't run universal health care.
Unfortunately, quite a few doctors cannot be trusted either; check out all the overcharging scams on for-profit health insurance, Medicare and Medicaid.
UHC would be more cost-effective by bargaining with doctors and hospitals for a set fee for performing their duties. Both would be willing to accept less than they now charge by the simple reason that they'd be assured of getting paid, wouldn't have to spend money chasing down deadbeats or people who just plain can't afford it, many of whom go to the ER for the treatment they need.
It is estimated that somewhere between 1.5 and 2.5 million jobs would be created under UHS, which means more people off the welfare/unemployment rolls and paying taxes.
And we'd all get the health care we need and deserve without having to battle the insurance companies' death panels deciding who gets covered and who they can deny coverage to based on whatever BS they use.
We'd be a healthier and more productive society as a result.
Taking out the profit of insurance and pharmaceutical companies and their huge CEO payouts, often eight figures or more, would reduce the costs even further.
Instead of paying insurance premiums we'd pay for our coverage with payroll taxes.
It's unfair to compare UHC to Medicare, because UHC would be more efficient by buying meds in bulk like all other UHC-served countries do, plus some of medicare comes from added insurance payments for supplemental coverage and it doesn't collectively bargain with docs and hospitals.
The reason many in Congress are against it is because they receive huge campaign donations from insurance and pharmaceutical companies and many of these crooks in congress become lobbyists themselves when leaving office. As a way of saying thanks for passing legislation to make us more profitable.
If freakin' Luxembourg and Belgium can afford it, why can't we???
sometimes449:
agreed with some of the stuff you wrote about, I think you should add, "wealth is no longer made in the United Stares, but bought."
elizabeth968:
You mean I am still paying for that condom that broke, God it never ends _Kids... shut-up! Daddy is kidding the crazy people_ where were we? Do you mean a lack of water in Texas, the Mid West, California, Arizona, Georgia, or where, is it the water, freedom, or your mind that is shrinking?
desert jazzman:
As a Texan I think the best solution to the TSA problem and what is best for America is for Hick Perry and the boys to pass a law keeping all Texans from flying... I know I'll sleep better for it.
So the author can finally say she knows one person who likes the healthcare system we have in America. I'll admit our system is far from perfect, and it needs some reforms (now it even needs reforms from the reforms). I regularly travel to foreign countries for classes, however, and I will say that I would rather pay what I pay for my health insurance here than receive "free" healthcare that dictates what services I can receive and when I can receive them. I also like that our free market approach to healthcare has lead to better medical regulations and medical research.
Sure our freedom isn't perfect, but at least I don't have to worry if the person sitting next to me inchurch is a government spy like I have in some countries I have vistied. I've also never had to censor my writing because it's not party approved.
Long story short, I'll put-up with idiots who abuse our freedoms because once they regulate idiots whose to stop them from regulating smart people who go against the grain.
"As some members of the military remind us, freedom isn't free. We all pay a price." Sacrifice comes in time of war, our nation choose to launch 2 wars, when we declare war the nation accepts responsibility for the 6,000 killed and the many thousands more maimed and broken, and in doing so agreed to the costs of conducting wars in Afghanistan & Iraq would come from the nations treasury.
Sacrifice, for all you super patriots, means paying for both of those wars too, it means the primacy of paying for the war effort above all other budget concerns. the lack sacrifice for the Afghanistan & Iraq wars is obscene, not only have we dumped the 4 Trillion dollars for the wars into the total of the national debt, hidden from any real responsibility to truly pay for it, we are fine with using the inflated total of national debt to force the poor, the aged, and the infirm to take on all the costs of the wars.
We as a nation seem to be on hedonistic endless tax holiday that includes skipping out on the bill for 2 wars, and have no problem or guilt passing on our responsibilities to be used as a political weapon for those who can't see past the 2012 elections. The financal costs of American freedom... only for certain Americans?
Nothing in life is free. Nor should it be. The struggle and toil makes us value it even more. The only reason why I don't envy those who were rich from birth, they have to learn to appreciate what they got, which usually involves them going insane through their teens, twenties and sometimes thirties and maybe their entire life.
I like the US. Its ideals are based on of the people, for the people, and by the people. The government is essentially, us. Even if it gets hijacked by corporations and politicians from time to time. None of them become dictators and last in power for long.
And this country can acknowledge we are so far from perfect, which makes us even better. We still got work to do to make it a better nation. But freedoms allow that to happen. I had the honor to serve in the AF. That made me appreciate our freedoms even more-- when they are completely stripped away, you appreciate them so much more.
It's kinda like looking at your family. Unconditional love. They're the only folks that will take you in. No others will so easily, no other nation will either. Only other sense of unconditional love are from my peers in the AF and rest of the branches. Didn't matter politics, right, wrong, black, white, gay, straight, whatever. My wingman next to me was all I got.
This nation is all I got.
@Desert Jazzman : I couldn't agree with you more that the Executive branch has completely taken over, and that the majority of citizens are too apathetic to take a stand. It will be the undoing of the USA.
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