Do you think that the govt. would screw up any attempt at Universal Health Care?!


Question:

Do you think that the govt. would screw up any attempt at Universal Health Care?

Maybe we would be better off with private fire care ?
How about if you call the 'for profit' fire dept, and you find out that they lost your paper work, and said, please call back during regular business hours....then dail tone.!
How about a 'for profit' police dept. ? That sounds real cool !
Would criminals be able buy their way out of trouble?
Or would the criminals prey on folks not current will the police bill?
Or would 'for profit' health care mean that your family member will die on the floor of a modern hospital because of a funding issue?


Answers:

You may not be old enough to know that at one time our country worked rather well. Government actually helped people and did right by its citizens. In my neck of the woods we have volunteer firemen, and volunteer ambulance, and they have public funding too, for right now its working, but its on edge, life is too expensive now to volunteer.
I never have seen how layering on another layer of profits makes health care cheaper. I mean if you have to pay those exorbitant CEO salaries, and HMOs and insurance companies get some of the highest paypackets in the US, that money, in the millions in fact, doesn't go back to the people paying the premiums. Government, stripped of the politics that have given us Heckuva Job Brownie, and other assorted incompetents, does well by us, ask a senior the last time he missed a social security check, sure there are problems sometimes, but by and large they did a good job.
Right now we have the best medical care in the world as long as you can afford it, just today in our small town newspaper, there were requests for donations for a small girl whose head was hit by a boat propeller, and a request for donations for a burn victim, another child without insurance. We have some state help for kids here, but they need more for reconstructive work. I hate seeing those cans in the convenience stores, is this country in such bad shape that we have to fund health care by quarters?
We already can't go to which ever hospital or doctor we want, unless we pay for it ourselves, and even for working people that gets terribly expensive. When you have insurance or an HMO you can only go to doctors on the list. Other wise they either pay a minimum or nothing at all.
Do you realize that a huge proportion of bankruptcies are caused by medical bills, do you also realize that insurance generally won't cover you if your bills go over a million in your lifetime, a couple of bouts of cancer and you are on your own.




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