Hillary's Healthcare plan

Look this is simple, it is not the government to provide you anything. Look everything that the government has it has to take from someone. The thing I find funny is that government programs always get bigger never smaller. Government is alway adding new programs never taking away. To all the people out there that think we should let me ask what are you willing to give up. I mean this if I am paying for your Health care should not you be giving me something. I do not want the government to be in control of my health care. I do find it funny that the same people that say that the federal government screwed up the clean-up in New Orlean. Well I say why would you want the same government to take over your health care. I say if Hillary want to force healthcare down my throat, she should have to get rid of something. Only makes since to me.

Personally speaking I think a National Healthcare plan would be a good thing for the US. There are too many families with little kids that can't afford to take them to the doctors and something needs to be done about that. As for illegals....I think they need to go home! lol....I wish someone would do something about that one.

Unfortunately, since we're at the point where over forty million Americans lack health care coverage I think the government NEEDS to get involved. Let's face it, I don't think anyone would openly advocate refusing emergency treatment for someone who is uninsured and can't afford to pay for their care but as long as this continues to happen the costs for those of us who have insurance and/or can pay as we go will continue to skyrocket out of control. When there are millions of patients who can't pay their bills the health care providers are going to pass that loss on to those of us who do pay; that in turn means the insurance companies are going to be charged more for services rendered which means they are going to raise their premiums with no end in sight. On the other hand if everyone who isn't currently covered by insurance were allowed to buy into a plan similar to the one federal employees have the larger pool of consumers would make it possible for premiums to be reduced. People who can't afford to pay the entire premium themselves could get a tax credit or get reduced premiums based on income which would still save the government money because with more people covered by conventional insurance there would be fewer on the Medicaid roles. Also, if more people could afford preventative care such as routine tests and treatments before their illness became more serious and therefore harder and more expensive to treat everyone would save and fewer would suffer or die needlessly. ER's would save money because fewer people would be forced to use them as their family doctor. I'm opposed to the idea of garnishing people's wages who are unable to pay for insurance but I think this could be developed and managed in a way that this wouldn't be necessary. In my humble opinion if this is done right - and I'll be the first to admit it won't be easy and it won't happen overnight - it will add to the financial burden of very few and it will actually save money for the vast majority of us overall and in the long run. For example, if I were to pay $200 more in a year on taxes but saved $2000 a year I sure wouldn't complain about the extra $200 in taxes! Annie

Every Canadian is covered by a National Health Plan. Nobody in Canada ever loses their home,and their life savings because they get sick. Why do Americans not see the advantages of this? I Have American friends who can't afford the Health Insurance so they have to Gamble with their Health. If either of them gets sick the other loses the shirt off his Back. How fair is this? What other civilised country in the world would be happy with a situation like this. For the sake of all Americans I hope Hillary gets elected!

What a wonderful thing! Not having to pay $12,000 a year for medical insurance!!! Not everyone gets healthcare coverage at work and those that do don't dare leave their jobs because they will lose their coverage. We have become slaves to the health insurance companies. And those who can't afford to pay for it just get sick and hope for the best. We are supposed to be one of the greatest countries in the world and we spend more money on other countries and our enemies than we do on our own people!

When I was a child, people had healthcare but it was for hospitalization. They paid a monthly premium, pretty low according to my mom because doctors weren't anxious to put people in the hospital as surgery was more dangerous than it is now. (I'm only 53 so that shows how fast the advances have been made!) Everyone paid their regular doctor bills from their own pockets and bought their own medicine. That's why the insurance bills were low. Fast forward to 2008--everyone wants everything paid for, people are having cosmetic surgery and suing when it goes wrong. People believe everything their doc says and when he's wrong, they sue. Prices go up. Johnny gets a scrape, or a cough, and his mom takes him to the ER instead of the doctor and the insurance company gets a big bill. The insurance pays for the ER, the medicine prescribed, the follow up visit to the doc, etc. So...instead of wanting coverage for hospitalization, the people want everything paid for and by God, they're going to get it at the price they want to pay or they won't have it and then we pay for it. Get what I'm saying? I don't think gov't should become involved. Gov't trashes everything they touch, after the increase the prices and make it practically unusable. Then they tax us for it, and increase that tax yearly. I think rather than forced national health care, we should allow some sanity to creep into the medical field and give more control to the doctors--after all, they're the health experts not the insurance companies. We should accept more financial responsibility for our basic care so that everyone in the country doesn't have such high premiums. If we pay cash for a doctor's visit, the docs can lower the price because they save the cost of 30 minutes of filing all that paperwork plus the phone time arguing with the insurance company, etc. Hope I've explained my thoughts clearly. This subject kind of puts me on auto-rant sometimes.

Either Hillary's plan or Obama's plan sound like a great thing for the country...in the long run it would make insurance cheaper (because so many poeple would subscribe)-but, it would also reduce health issues because poeple would be in better health and not pass the costs onto taxpayers....just my opinion.