Thoughts on universal health care.

[grayswan]

As a democrat that can't afford the 1/3rd of his check that goes missing every month who is already paying $400 per month for family health insurance that is pretty damn good. What do I think of proposed universal health care

Comments

Re: Compelling..... no.

[geminiwench]

The war is expensive, just like Universal health would be,... but INSTEAD of killing over a million Iraqis, over 3000 of our own soldiers, paying BlackWater and Halliburton to have contractors over there, paying for detention camps for people to be tortured to death/near death and tens of thousands of dead "combatants",... we're making sure 18% of Americans who cannot afford insurance, cannot go to the doctor when they are sick, spend years paying off when their kid gets a broken arm, or people having to get dentures when their teeth can be saved but its too expensive to do so..

Not to mention give better coverage to people who are underinsured, and hopefully stop the tens of thousands of bankruptcies (half of all bankruptcies in the US) declared because of medical bills.

The fact that 1/3rd of all our health dollars actually pays into overhead (hospital administration, hospital promotion, insurance billing, insurance administration, commercials, underwriting) can be cut and redirected into care for patients if real Universal health care is ever implemented. No need for extra staff for insurance research/billing/paperwork at every doctors office/hospital if EVERYONE is covered for free. But, we have to take baby steps to get there.

We already pay more than any other country, and still rank 42nd in life expectancy.

If you could afford private school, that is what you would choose, understandably. But can you? Are you glad there at least is an option that they can go to school ANYWAYS even though you can't afford private tuition? For people who have no health insurance, they have to go WITHOUT health care many times. I can't afford to go to any of my specialists (vascular, physical therapy, orthopedist or asthma specialist) I cannot afford my prescribed medication (the cheap prescription costs $107/mo and thats WITH government assistance programs helping me out with that) and my last hospital bill (while I was fully insured thanks to a government program, thank GOD!) was about $28,000 for a 3 day stay. Absolutely unaffordable were that to happen today.

Many who already are insured, might get better coverage under what they implement, PLUS cover the 48 million Americans who can't afford to ever have ANY medical emergency. There are free schools so we don't have to WORRY about if we can afford to send our kids to schools, and there should be free healthcare so we don't have to WORRY if we can afford take our kids to the hospital.