Universal Health Care?
January 15th, 2008 by 
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With nearly 47 million Americans, or 16 percent of the population without health insurance and that number continuing to rise every year as health care becomes more expensive, what are your issues against universal health care?
Countries that do have universal health care like Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Sweden, and the UK all have higher life exectancies and lower infant mortality rates. As well, they all have lower per capita expenditures on health care (several thousand dollars less per person), lower healthcare costs as a percent of GDP, and less money as a % or government revenuse spent on health care.
My feelings is that universal health care will be very hard to implement in the US as Insurance Companies and the Pharmaceutical Industry all have a great influence on our politcal parties.
There may be a wait list for some procedures but statistically they still have higher life expectancies and lower infant mortality rates.
To the other person, these countries listed as an example have never been communist countries.
The numbers of those without health care is from the US Census Bureau. As well, I don’t consider it much of a choice to have to choose between health care and food for my family.
The ‘Healthcare has gotten expensive because of technology’ is an economically unfeasable argument. Technology should provide efficiencies to make procedures cheaper. If an advancement in technology means that it now become more expensive then it is not much of an advancement.
As for the socialism comment; welfare, unemployment insurance, and Government subsidized drugs are all forms of socialism. The funny thing is that our President pushed for the subsidized drugs that greatly benifits the drug companies. How many Canadian sneak over to the US to buy pharma drugs?
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6 Comments »
January 15th, 2008 at 11:40 pm
The 47 million number has been proven to be inflated and also that a large portion of the uninsured are already eligible for government insurance but have not signed up and another large percentage can easily afford to buy insurance but CHOOSES not to. The number of people who cannot afford it and dont qualify for government aid is very low comparitively.
I do NOT want the government running my health care. Besides where will the people from those other countries go when they need operations in a hurry but are on a waiting list at home???
January 16th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
You have been duped. The 47 million figure is bogus. For one thing, the government counts a person as uninsured for the year even if he is without insurance for one day. Millions of people can buy health insurance and choose not to. It is a basic freedom; insure or not insure as you wish. There are millions who are eligible for Medicare or Medicaid, who do not apply for it.
Countries with universal health care all have failing systems. The US has the best health care system in the world, regardless of the cost. If you are dying and want to live, you won’t worry about the cost.
Universal health care is socialism. It will not be implemented because people in the US value their freedom to choose. The lobbyists have no influence on Mrs. Clinton. She has been advocating socialized medicine Ever since her husband was governor.
January 18th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
You sorely misunderstand the Universal Health in these countries…Waiting to see a doctor for months to find out that you have a disease, then having to wait a few more months to see a specialists..THis is the true Universal Health..
January 20th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
i agree with your summation. in many places those who sell “protection” are considered gangsters. how did this change so radically in america?
i support national health care. many argue that they don’t want the government involved. the government has been involved for a long, long time. the big problem we’re having is simply paying for standardized health care for all.
January 21st, 2008 at 11:21 pm
If you’re rich you don’t care because you can go anywhere for healthcare.
If you’re middle class or poor you better be prepared for a huge tax increase with National Healthcare.
The countries you mentioned have very high tax rates to pay for their blotted healthscare systems. Not to mention the wait times for routine surgeries and problems. Being from an ex-communist country I saw first hand the “efficiency” of social medicine.
In my country healthcare was free but you had to be willing to wait several months for an appointment with a doctor. And when I was in hospital one time I heard a nurse in the next room apologizing to a patient in great pain because her allotment of anesthesia had run out during surgery.
January 24th, 2008 at 3:20 am
You paint a rosy picture but ask the folks who are coming from Canada to the US for treatment what their feelings are. The waiting time to see a doctor is getting longer and longer. I know a doctor who moved from Canada to the US to get away from their health care system. These countries charge enormous taxes and I would like to see your data on ‘several thousand dollars less per person’ as I don’t believe it!