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I guess government healthcare may be okay for minor problems where it's okay to wait, but for anything urgent you'd need to have a big nest-egg saved up so you can pay cash at a private doctor.
I guess government healthcare may be okay for minor problems where it's okay to wait, but for anything urgent you'd need to have a big nest-egg saved up so you can pay cash at a private doctor.
you obviously have no idea of how a Govt UHC works. With a UHC you now wait no longer than using private insurance. I have given many examples of how the waiting times of a UHC are over exgerated on here.
I wonder why it is only the USA that is having such a huge problem with it's health service and not the UHC Countries. It's because the USA treats its Health Service as it does its now failing banking system..... Purely for profit and to pay it's CEO's obscene salaries and bonuses. No wonder the USA has one of the most expensive and least efficient health services in the World.
Would you sign a formal petition to be handed to the President of the United States to have a fully funded UHC created in America?
This is just to see How Many really would like to change the current Health System in America.
I couldn't vote because you didn't offer a vote of h*ll no.
you obviously have no idea of how a Govt UHC works. With a UHC you now wait no longer than using private insurance. I have given many examples of how the waiting times of a UHC are over exgerated on here.
I wonder why it is only the USA that is having such a huge problem with it's health service and not the UHC Countries. It's because the USA treats its Health Service as it does its now failing banking system..... Purely for profit and to pay it's CEO's obscene salaries and bonuses. No wonder the USA has one of the most expensive and least efficient health services in the World.
I would be glad to support this plan if the people of Congress have to join in, but they won't allow that. Why is it that they would want to keep their insurance option even with all the rest of us in your situation? I know, but you don't act like you do.
I would be glad to support this plan if the people of Congress have to join in, but they won't allow that. Why is it that they would want to keep their insurance option even with all the rest of us in your situation? I know, but you don't act like you do.
Why shouldn't congress keep their private health insurance? In fact why should anyone who has a private health insurance give it up. That doesn't mean they will not pay the tax to fund the UHC. You will be suprised how many will not want to have a private insurance obnce a UHC is in place. You will always get the ones who do want to pay for private insurance but that is their choice and no one should stop them.
Assuming that it'd help to solve America's healthcare crisis, hell yeah, I'd sign it.
Thankfully you are the minority as this poll and others reflect.
America is broke, the taxpayers are weary and tired of all the government participation in their lives.
To improve upon the system we presently have, we need tort reform.
There are probably just as many ambulance chasing, low life lawyers in our health care system as there are doctors.
Lawyers and frivolous litigation are the reason for skyrocketing costs and reduced care.
And seeing how government is inhabited primarily by these leaches (lawyers) why on earth would you think they could do it better?
Thankfully you are the minority as this poll and others reflect.
America is broke, the taxpayers are weary and tired of all the government participation in their lives.
Where are you getting your information? Sorry to be the bearer, but your post is completely inaccurate, regardless of what this particular "city-data" poll reflects. The truth is that according to almost every other recent national poll out there, anywhere from 51% to 76% of Americans are in favor of a government-run universal healthcare option.
A clear majority of Americans -- 72 percent -- support a government-sponsored health care plan to compete with private insurers, a new CBS News/New York Times poll finds. Most also think the government would do a better job than private industry at keeping down costs and believe that the government should guarantee health care for all Americans.
In an extensive ABCNEWS/Washington Post poll, Americans by a 2-1 margin, 62-32 percent, prefer a universal health insurance program over the current employer-based system.
Seventy-two percent of those questioned in recent CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey say they favor increasing the federal government's influence over the country's health care system in an attempt to lower costs and provide health care coverage to more Americans, with 27 percent opposing such a move. Other recent polls show six in 10 think the government should provide health insurance or take responsibility for providing health care to all Americans.
Fifty-seven percent of those polled say they are willing to pay higher taxes in order to provide all Americans with health care coverage. While seventy three percent of Democrats favor a tax increase to fund coverage, only twenty-nine percent of Republicans back such a move.
Americans overwhelmingly support substantial changes to the health care system and are strongly behind one of the most contentious proposals Congress is considering, a government-run insurance plan to compete with private insurers, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.
The poll found that most Americans would be willing to pay higher taxes so everyone could have health insurance and that they said the government could do a better job of holding down health-care costs than the private sector.
In fact, half of the 2,491 adults surveyed in the nationwide poll said they either "strongly" or "somewhat" supported the president's plan to overhaul health care. Twenty-nine percent said they were still not sure about the plan, while 20 percent expressed opposition to the Obama proposals.
Balancing the public-private option(s) is quite stupid. Private health insurance companies cannot compete with a government-sponsored system. Seeing how Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security are all run as publicly-funded models, a UHC is one step away from disaster. Think NHS and Canada's system are picture perfect? Think again. Many Canadians have to cross the border to the US to obtain prescription drugs and treatment either not available or delayed in Canada. The reason why the American system is messed up is because of lack of private competition, and we focus too much on treatment on not nearly enough on preventive care.
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