What do you think of American HealthCare?
People die every day in this country because insurance company's drop you for being obese, etc...
Whats your opinion on this country's poor healthcare system, and what are some ways to change said care.
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It's really kind of odd. Americans seem to value plastic surgery the most. The impoverished do without any sort of health care at all.
Recently, I asked that if American Taxpayers had a universal health care system, if they would be more open to gun control? You know, registering legal arms, getting gang violence and drive by shootings down, even domestic incidents. The replies were so harsh, I deleted the question. One guy even called me a Nazi.
And every single reply said the topics were "completely unrelated". And that universal health care was impossible.
Raising taxes on cigarettes and alcohol would be one was to fund it, but no one wants to hear that. But it would be most effective. Kinda ironic that these items burden the health care system the most.
If every doctor could set aside one day out of a week of private practise, where they could work for wages paid by the state, it would help so much. Getting health care to those living below the poverty line would make them more productive in society and the American economy more successful.
It is tragic that so many are unwilling to contribute to the health of their fellow Americans.
it is no secret that for such a rich country like america that our healthcare system sucks. needs to be some sort of universal health care available.
I think the healthcare system is worthless. We pay a company to pay for our health issues, then the company tries it's hardest not to do it's job (deny the claims). Since healthcare companies choose what to pay providers anyway, I think that we just need to stop using them. They are unnecessary if we could pay the amounts the insurance company pays now instead of what the doctor charges, we wouldn't need them at all. For example: I pay $35 to see my doctor. The doctor charges the insurance company $150 dollars; the insurance company pays the doctors $5, so if I paid $40 to begin with, I would save money.
American health care is an embarrassment to the country. However, do you really want to leave it in the hands of the government to correct?
I really don't think it is as bad as you think, the grass is always greener on the other side, I am in the health care field and how i would reform it is loose all the waste. stop all these law suits, what sucks is if you are poor, you can get state health ins. but only if you are poor enough, therefor i see a lot of people that could pull them selves out of poverty but can not get a job that pays very little because then they loose the health ins that they have through state. and then i see a lot of healthy 22 year old adult males with only them selves to support on state aid because they are LAZY! What needs to happen is he state needs to reform public health care and take it on a case by case scenario. yes this would cause more work but then after giving it to people who really need it and dumping the lazy people that never even attempt to get a job, a lot of money would be saved and placed where it is needed.
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I think out health care system is great.
Who would want the federal government to run the health care system?
You really want Bush running your health care ?
Most people don't even think of the cost when saying we need universial health care.
Medicare cost $5,000 per person, per year.
To do that for everyone, is 1.5 trillion dollars a year.
If you take out SS tax revenue, the entire 2006 federal tax revenue, was only 1.5 trillion dollars.
Can you say huge tax increase to pay for universial health care.
Since the federal government now spends about 580 billion a year on health care, we would need an additional 920 billion each year.
To raise an additional 920 billion from corporate and individual income tax revenue. They were 1.4 trillion in 2006.
Would require a 69% tax increase.
For someone paying :
10% in federal tax, it would then be 16.9%
15% in federal tax, it would then be 25.3%
20% in federal tax, it would then be 33.8%
25% in federal tax, it would then be 42.2%
Or. someone making :
$20,000 would pay an additional $1,380 per year
$30,000 would pay an additional $3,090 per year
$40,000 would pay an additional $5,520 per year
$50,000 would pay an additional $8,600 per year
Since the average person with health insurance (85% of us)
Now pays about $1,200 a year for thier health insurance, the companies pay the rest.
Your looking at a big loss of income to support universial health care.
Not counting, that there are 5,500 for profit hospitals in america and tens of thosands of clinics and labs,
That under a government ran health system, the federal government would either have to buy or lease.
That cost alone would run into the trillions.
I think that to say in most countries health-care is government owned and dispensed is inaccurate . . . it would be more appropriate to say that in some countries, medical care is subsidized by the government, and so is more affordable.
People die every day in every country because of poor medical care -- the difference is -- you're here . . . so you see our flaws, and not those of another nation. You fail to realize that while here, you can go around the corner and find an MRI or CT machine, and in some other countries, it may be a day-long trip to get an imaging study done.
There are reasons for the higher prices of medical care. The amount of education needed in the USA to become a physician is extreme -- in some countries, it's a 4 year degree . . . like a bachelor in English, or something -- here, it takes the 4 year degree . . . plus four more years . . . plus usually 3 or more years tacked onto that. The dedication to education is overwhelming here, where in other countries they may find an undergraduate degree in English to be less of a bearing on one's ability to diagnose and treat illnesses, than one's medical education.
A reason for medications being so high priced is the patenting system we have. It affords them the opportunity to charge us for the research and development -- while it results in extremely high costs for some medications, it also results in medications that are typically extremely safe, and medications (and new research) that are more effective, more selective, and more appropriate for a given illness.
I understand your dismay with our health-care system. I, too, dislike parts of it. I don't have insurance. As a result, I'm unable to afford a particular medication that I should be taking -- it costs over $200.00 a month . . . to get insurance, though, would cost me about 100.00 - 150.00 per month through work . . . plus a deductable (money I have to pay out of my pocket) to the tune of $2000.00 -- in addition to co-pays.
I'm a full time college student (and ironically) a full-time health-care provider. My annual salary is to the tune of $17,000. For me to spend $2000 a year, in addition to $3,600 for montly premiums, plus at least another $720 per year for co-pay on medications (for a total of at least $6,320.00) is a little much . . . especially when (even if my rent were subsidized) it shouldn't exceed 1/3 of my income (not to mention taxes, tuition, utilities, and that darned pesky food).
So. . . you ask -- what are some ways to change the health-care system.
The doctors and politicians are in bed together (maybe not literally, but at least figuratively). If we'd pull them apart, we may stand a fighting chance.
We need to make it more advantageous for pharmaceutical and medical research companies to decrease the costs of their products, while maintaining their funding . . . government subsidies could help with that (but do you know where the subsidies are coming from? Surely they won't cut the defense budget [we need to be able to blow up the world a gazillion times, and are in vital need of a weapon capable of aiming for the pupil in somebody's eye . . . when we're fighting "terrorists" who are wielding sticks] . . . it's coming from our paychecks.
We also need to subsidize the cost of health-care. We need to cap the amounts that can be charged. Say, for example -- no physician can charge any patient more than 30.00 for any visit, and a maximum of 10.00 can come from the patient's pocket . . . we would have to subsidize the other 20.00 (but even then, it may be more affordable than allowing tax write-offs of billions of dollars for bad debts owed to doctors who are charging 75.00 or 100.00 for a visit).
We need to cap the costs for other services, too (an MRI can cost thousands of dollars . . . why? It's a friggin' magnet . . . it's not the actual MRI that costs that much -- it's the research, the hospital building, the tech's salary and benefits, and the $250,000 salary for the hospital administrator).
Health-care in our system is broken . . . but to fix it will cost money (and to fix it like everybody else will cost lives).
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