WHY change health insurance/health care? What's wrong with it anyway?
@valentinesdiner (1214)
United States
November 19, 2009 9:53pm CST
Hey before we fix the system... its already OK, right?
Envy of the world, right? Why mess with SUCH a GREAT system?
What would YOU change?
2 responses
@lelin1123 (15595)
• Puerto Rico
20 Nov 09
Sorry the system is not great by any stretch of the imagination. There are about 50 million people without health insurance. The people who do have insurance still have to pay an arm and a leg reguardless of insurance. Mainly because some insurance companies don't pay for certain procedures or for only a percentage of it. The thing that need to be changed is that everyone should have health insurance no matter what. If other countries have free health care for their people how is it that the United States of America doesn't?
@valentinesdiner (1214)
• United States
20 Nov 09
Shucks, those laggards who do not have insurance probably are on the "fringes of society" - - the healthy peopl who do not want the hassle or expense of insurance, or the "lazy unemployed" - - I am sure it is not "the system's fault".
If everyone had it, think of the expense to taxpayers like you and me.
Sure in a utopia everyone wo8uld have coverage, but this is not utopia (its America!) and I don't want my taxes paying for some lazy bum's elective health care - - right? Like Alfred E. Newman said - "What, me worry (about my brother's health care)?
@spalladino (17891)
• United States
20 Nov 09
I know you're having fun here, V, but the lazy unemployed probably qualify for medicaid so they're covered.
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@Koriana (302)
• United States
20 Nov 09
tell ya what, convince the gov't to stop taking money from my paycheck, tell the local gov'ts to stop raising their property taxes, increasing their fees, ect in the name of medicaid, medicare, and I will accept what is..
but the truth of the matter is, 80% of the people being served in our local hospitals are medicaid, medicare! that leaves only 20% of their patients being self sufficient....kind of a little out of kink with the statistics, isn't it, or are the recipients of medicaid, and medicare, schips and such close to 80%...
where's the rest of the population? I suspose they never get sick, need hopspital care??
na, they get sick, but they know, a trip to the hospital will come too danged close to bankrupting them, even if they have insurance! so they aren't there, not unless they get so bad that they just can't keep going without the care!
by the way, a recent study has shown that an uninsured person has something like an 80% chance of dying from a tramatic event than an insured person. it isn't that they are getting crappy care in the er, they just aren't getting much when it comes to follow up care!
now, let's get back to the beginning of my post..
at least in my area, it seems the taxpayers are footing the bill for somewhere around 50% to 80% of the patients getting medical care (the 50% came from the fox news channels, from a group of doctors....that's what they claim their patient ratio is.) if we can't get the care, if we are being denied the care, then there is no reason on this earth why others who just happen to fall in the lines drawn by society as deserving help to get the care, should be paying for their care!!!
God, let the single mom con the dad into delivering their next baby, maybe then, they'll grow a brain, quit having them!
but, no where in the constitution does it give the gov't the power to decide who is worthy of life saving medical treatment, and who isn't....
they are doing this now!