Comments on: Universal Health Care?

By: ROADRUNNER

ROADRUNNER — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 08:20:40 +0000

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!

By: Fairness, why

Fairness, why — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 04:21:07 +0000

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.

By: Golden

Golden — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 18:49:39 +0000

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.

By: jvwatson4

jvwatson4 — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:13:30 +0000

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..

By: regerugged

regerugged — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:33:45 +0000

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.