After all, it seems to work all right in great Britain, right? I learned that they have a cashier, but that is to REFUND people if they had to pay for a ride to the hospital! They pay nothing at all! They don't pay health-care, but pay taxes, just like us. Even Cuba treats people better than America. And Guantanamo Bay, the prison with huge terrorists directly related to 9/11? Great health-care. Fantastic, actually. Hospitals are denying care to needing patients! Is it all about the money? Why doesn't America want this???
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no everyone pays a 40% tax there....And people are dying on the waiting list there ...... Obama's health care plan is not Universal Healthcare it is Government sold insurance..Cost about $50 less a month and really only the middle class can afford it..This will not only put business out of business but also create job lose in the private sector because there business will not be able to compete with the rates the Government will be selling...All for 50 a month in savings...I would rather have the jobs...I don't think people can afford this health care at 200 a month either...
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Dude you need to talk to the people in Britain and Canada....it doesn't work and they aren't pleased! Cost is high and the wait long!
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America, like Barack wants affordable health care, but the republicans are giving the Democrats a hard time.
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If we didn't treat 13 million illegal immigrants for free, this would not even be an issue.
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Most people want Universal single payer Health care, but the HMO's and insurance companies have bribed all the politicians so it will never happen until we vote out all the corrupt politicians.
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We already have it. I choose not to go to free clinics now; why would I want to be forced to? Stop watching Michael Moore opinion pieces, and actually try those health care systems on your own. Then you can tell me how awesome they are.
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The people who are against universal health care are the same people who think that Bank of America, Citibank, Bear Sterns, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, GM, Chrysler, and Wells Fargo did a good job of managing their corporations. Go figure.
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You need to learn more about Britain's health care. And why doesn't America want it? With our government, that can't protect a 1500 mile border, can't police the streets, and can't deliver the mail? You want me to trust THEM with MY health care? Novel Zephyr apparently doesn't understand that life expectancy has little to do with health care and a lot to do with lifestyle.
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Most Americans want universal healthcare. The only people who don't are people who make money off the current broken system such as for profit hospitals, big pharma, and the health insurance industry. They pay big bucks to mount a negative propaganda blitz every time this solution is mentioned. When Hillary Clinton tried to get this through Congress during her husband's first term, the health profiteers spent big bucks to smear it and her.
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Michael Moore is a communist and his movie Sicko, which you are obviously referring to, is nothing but propaganda trash. America doesn't want Universal Health Care because it would lower the quality of care, lower medical advancements and put the government in even MORE control of our lives. Americans are not communists.
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Because health care will get worse. Health care is not working in Great Britian now. Nor is it working in Canada. They have inferior health care. I have a cousin in Canada that was told he would have to wait 30 days for a triple by-pass surgery. Can you see that happening here? A lot of people suffer and die waiting for proper care in socialized medicine. It just does not work. Old people don't get proper care because there are too many people waiting for care and they are considered a burden on society. Are you ready to throw your Grandma under the bus? You are delusional in your thinking if you believe socialize medicine is better than what the US now has. All we need to do is force insurance companies to lower their rates and accept all pre-existing conditions. By the way, it is illegal for a hospital to deny care to a patient who needs it. You must be foreign.
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There are people who make a ton of money from us not having it they pay fox & other right wing media to make it sound like it would be terrible. We actually spend the money anyway it would just give people less stress & this businesses that sell drugs & make money from people not doing well are behind it. I actually didn't have insurance & found a nice place to go to. They helped me so much I was able to get a job & health insurance. I missed the socialized care I got & the doctors I went to only wrote me presciptions & took my money. I ended up giving up my job & going back to the place where I went originally cause the care I got was so good. Many places around the world have Universal healthcare or whatever it is called & they function better than the people in the USA. It is all about the greedy people in this country.
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Universal Health Care has benefits for some people but for the vast majority of people it would mean less health care and less control of personal health care. Hospitals in the US can not by law deny health care to serious or critical patients. Many people without insurance use the local emergency room for minor doctor visits instead of using clinics or physicians because the hospital can not refuse treatment. These people don't pay anything and it raises the cost of health care for everyone else. In Britain, health care is "free" at the time of service but is paid for through higher taxes and loss of control of health care. Many countries with government paid health care refuse to allow surgeries or other procedures at the end of a fiscal year because they run out of money for health care. Many of them also use age as a factor for determining who will receive health care. If you are old, you are more likely to be denied because of their idea of cost-benefit analysis. Most Americans don't want the government determining what health care they will be allowed to receive. The ones that favor it are those that benefit because they don't pay for health care now and those that believe the inflated statistics of the uninsured. EDIT: One thing that people never consider when complaining about high prices of pharmaceuticals and health care in the US is that the vast majority of medical advances come from the US. These advances in medicine and drugs are possible because those "profits" are used for research. Can you name one new medicine that came from Cuba or Britain either? The private health care system forces companies to make advances in medicine. Public health care's main priority is to treat people with as little cost as possible. EDIT: The only reason many Americans want universal health care is that they think it will be "free". They don't understand the real "cost" involved.
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Americans DO want universal healthcare. Insurance companies are spending billions to bribe legislators to keep the status quo because that's how the companies make money.
