I have noticed presidential candidates talking about healthcare?

With Universal health care you won’t be able to afford a home to worry about losing. When programs become too expensive the government cuts out services and treatments. Fewer hospitals, cheaper doctors, and government staff(does Walter reed ring any bells).
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Social health care is failing in every country that is trying it, shouldn’t that be enough…
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I don’t know why the US is so against a universal health plan. It would be so helpful to so many people.

The people in the US seem to be opposed to anything that will raise taxes. Also — many companies hire lobbyists to convince legislators to vote against bills that do not favor them. It may be that the insurance companies are lobbying against such a plan.
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nothing will be done by anyone. Eveyone always talks about healthcare, but no one ever does anything about it.
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Talk to some Canadians about their system. Some people wait six to eight months to see a doctor. Walter Reed was part of the Military hospital system and does not fall into this area. Hilary Barak and John are saying anything, as all politicians do, to get elected. This Cow Droppings has been going on for years, Bill was yelling it too!!!
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Let’s stop saying HEALTH CARE. That’s not going to happen….nobody is talking about the ‘government’ taking over hospitals and putting doctors on salary. The question is HEALTH INSURANCE. That’s something that’s doable. UNIVERSAL HEALTH INSURANCE is the wave of the future in the United States…and if it’s up to the current GOP, it always will be. Their propaganda machine is in full cry against the concept of a national, non-profit, publicly owned, tax supported health INSURANCE corporation that covers all Americans. Should we ever get anything as realistic as that the executives of the current health insurance mafia would be diving out of windows.
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Because its not the governments job to provide you with health care. Sorry.

If you want to fix the health care system and make it cheep for everyone.. get government OUT of it. We *have* socialist health care now. Nobody is turned away.. Who do you think gets the bill?
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while the community of professional economists does say that improving health care will lead to higher output per person, you have to read the details to get the real points.

America already has the highest number of average hours worked per employee in the world. Further, if you strip out deaths caused by violence and accident [drunk driving being the major cause here], as a recent study did, America already has the highest life expectancy in the world.

The economic studies of this subject found fairly low (but still statistically valid) payoffs in terms of output per person for improving life expectancy.

America would do better, in terms of improving our per capita income, to invest the same resources in either further learning or in adding capital goods — both of these multiply the output, and therefore income, of the average worker more than increasing worker health.

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Of course, this has little to do with the politics of healthcare. The poltics are all about ‘uninsured’, as if ‘uninsured’ means ‘does not receive health care’ — which is FALSE.

Recent attempts in Congress would expand government paid health care to more illegal aliens — which steals jobs from poorly educated Americans.

There is always a push for more freebies to current and likely future voters. This is called buying the elections so your party can achieve power and cover its leaders in ‘glory’.

The high growth or large blocks of voters are the elderly [thus the Medicare drug program], baby boomers [and their employers are being squeezed by health care costs, so they want more freebies from government], and the growing number of illegals who hope to one day be able to vote [or already do vote in some places if you read the alternative press].

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While Congress and the major parties fiddle with healthcare, the real world competitiveness story is in education. Korea may surpass the US in the proportion of college educated adults in the next ten years or so. Singapore is also poised to do so, as is Taiwan.

When that happens, you should expect that per capita incomes in those countries will become higher than incomes in America. Since other nations are pushing on our workers who aren’t college educated as well, you can expect the dollar to continue to decline and well paid jobs to continue to grow faster overseas than here.

Singapore already has more capital goods employed per worker than America does. Korea and Taiwan are catching up. Meanwhile, one of our political parties wants to INCREASE taxes on capital to punish the rich … who’ll simply move more of their investing overseas and thus pay less and less in taxes to America.

They’re idiots, aren’t they??
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re causes of economic growth … see the work of Professor Lawrence J. Lau (now retired) at Stanford. Links are or used to be on his Stanford home page.

These Democrats are not the only ones. Mitt Romney is also talking about a healthcare plan like the one his state implemented with great success. His is very similar to obama’s. Hillary’s plan seems a little more socialist and kucinich has a total socialist plan.
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It is all about $$$$. Big insurance companies make lots of it and want to keep it that way. Drug companies make lots of it and want to keep it that way. Some politicians benefit from contributions from those companies and so they want to keep it that way. Meanwhile the people who need the services and medications suffer.

When people cannot do for themselves what needs to be done the government must step in and make it happen. Since the insurance companies and drug companies aren’t about to lower costs to the consumer on their own it will be necessary, in order to make quality health care available to everyone, for the government to get involved. I wish the government didn’t have to do that but I don’t think we have much choice any more.
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Other countries do it, theres no reason we can’t.
For those of you who say its not a government but a private responsibility, I have to things to point out, first, that we already pay for the poor to get emergency treatment that costs many times what preventative care does, second, that the government is involved with many aspects of health care, if you go to a foreign country they tell you which shots to take, if you get an illness that is going to make many people ill they have the right to order you confined to a hospital. When polio ran rampant in the fifties, every child was given shots of vaccine, and they didn’t pay a dime. It was a very successful government run program and the benefits were immediate, and saved thousands of children.
Insurance companies already make you wait for surgery, HMOs already make you wait for doctor appointment by making you see a primary first, if your insurance changes so does your doctor, unless he takes both kinds, you don’t choose your doctor now, you must take a doctor off their list.
Wouldn’t it be more sensible to eliminate the profit motive from a basic human need like health, and have a healthy and productive working population?
I mean we are the ONLY industrialized nation that collects change for kids needing operations in a can at the 711.
Doesn’t that make you squirm?
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Healthcare is just another step to having everything in this country be federally funded. Is that good or not? You decide for yourself.

I’ve lived in a country with healthcare systems and its just like communism; it looks better on paper than it is in real life. People don’t get to choose what doctors they want to see, families have to wait for a long time to get medical attention, everyone is paying for everybody else, the list of negatives goes on forever. Why would I want the government to force me to pay for somebody else’s healthcare out of my paycheck?

Move to a country with national healthcare and see what its like for yourself. I challenge you.
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I am one of the many uninsured Americans. I work two jobs and own my own business. I had health insurance but when my premium for myself alone (because of health issues) became $750 a month, I had to drop it. I have been uninsured for four years. I still receive healthcare when needed. I am more choosy of the medicine I take and how often. My doctor graciously supplies me with free samples when available.

I will fight to the death not to have "universal health care." I also work in the health care industy. If you want to deal with the cost of health care, start first with tort reform so that legitimate malpractice claims are paid at a proper balance to the unfortunate circumstance for which they have arisen. When doctors, nurses and hospitals do not have to pay outlandish costs for malpractice insurance, perhaps some our costs for their services will also decrease.

Secondly, these drug companies charging $20-100 per pill for any pill not made of pure gold is ridiculous. Something needs to be done about that. I, the uninsured, am the one footing the bill there for all those who have the $10 co-payment for their #30 pill Rx. I have to buy my migraine medicine one pill at a time because I cannot fill an entire Rx. Are you aware that on any given day of the week, a drug rep walks in and feeds your doctor’s staff lunch for free? Almost every single day in every office I have ever worked in. These drug companies spend an enormous amount of money bribing the doctors to use their drugs. Across our nation, in every doctor’s office, this must be an incredibly high "marketing" cost for which I pay dearly at the pharmacy.

Thirdly, the quality of our healthcare, unquestionably the best in the world, will deteriorate drastically under a universal health care plan. Check out these other countries that have this . . . we see patients every day from Canada just needing to get an MRI and have waited months and months for it.

Americans will be incredibly unhappy if they chose any president who wants to provide universal health care.
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Google "Ron Paul Health care"

Go into the first "hit"

Read on

P.S. Ron Paul is a doctor. He’s had to deal with this on a day to day basis. NO ONE ELSE is as intimately aware of what we need here!
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