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Canada has universal health care and it has been very affective. The country is already in a
recession, so free health care could only help. :) |
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Well of course it should. |
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NHS has worked well elsewhere, I'm sure that a single-payer healthcare system in the United States
and most other countries would be net-beneficial and sure to be an incredible benefit to those here.
Universal Health Care, as previously stated, is incredibly efficient when compared to how a similar,
privatized system would work. |
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Yes. Health care is not a privilege, it is a right. In the USA, everything is a commodity, including
the precious gift of good health. That's disgusting. I'm so glad I live in Britain. |
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What about handicapped people? I think they should get it free. |
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Absolutely. That's all i have to say. |
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Health care should be free to all upon entry like the NHSin UK. The only problem is that the private
sector take away the resources and drug companies rip off the government. |
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Yes after an initial payment of lets say a pound or two per visit. |
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Yes yes yes |
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People who pay taxes should. |
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Health care should be free. Doctors and nurses shouldn't work for free, the government should pay
them, we should not have to. Health insurance is so expensive. For a family in the workplace it
costs about 1/4 of each of your checks to insure them. Plus, there are copays for the doctor and
prescription. Many people go without and end up very sick because they aren't taking care of
themselves properly. On top of that, children aren't getting the coverage they need. Lots of
workplaces don't offer dental, so therefore cavities are not getting filled and kids teeth are
rotting. We would altogether be more healthy if the government would pick up the tab. |
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I think healthcare should be free. People talk about how taxes would be higher well taxes are
killing people too so at least if they were somewhere they could not worry about having to deal with
one more thing perhaps the US would be a little better. A doctor or health care person should not go
to school to make sure he makes a lot of money but if it is their will to be a doctor then be the
doctor for the very reason of helping a sick person. |
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Health is the biggest asset a person can have in life. Unless we get a good health we lack the
efficiency to work properly. Thus it is required to have a proper health free from diseases. Health
care issues are very much important in an economy and the Government should play a major role in
that. Diseases and health problems do not come by knocking us and thus any one can be affected with
any kind of disease, may it be big or small. Government though maintains its hospitals and tries to
give proper medication but at times that does not remain to be sufficient enough in terms of the
cost factor. Government should make healthcare absolutely free so that no patient dies out of
financial problems. It is a basic requirement in any society and in any economy. |
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When it come to how much money we spend of all things health care should be free!! People below the
poverty line should also have the same rights as the 'higher class'. I say this because the people
in the poverty line can not afford health care. So they get sick. And in turns get more sick because
they don't get any help! The number of uninsured citizens has grown to over 40 million.
Health care has become increasingly unaffordable for businesses and individuals.
We can eliminate wasteful inefficiencies such as duplicate paper work, claim approval, insurance
submission, etc.
We can develop a centralized national database which makes diagnosis and treatment easier for
doctors.
Medical professionals can concentrate on healing the patient rather than on insurance procedures,
malpractice liability, etc.
Free medical services would encourage patients to practice preventive medicine and inquire about
problems early when treatment will be light; currently, patients often avoid physicals and other
preventive measures because of the costs |
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Healthcare should not be free. If you can't afford healthcare, that's tough, then you should get a
job that means you can afford it. Well, what about the poor, the unemployed I hear you whine, well
they should get a job, shouldn't they, then they can get health care too.
Free health care drives down standards and drains the government's resources and therefore the
country's resources. What about old people? Well, if they had paid into a private health care
scheme all their lives, then they should be allowed health care when they retire. I don't
understand why we don't have affordable life long health care schemes as standard.
Where would you rather be treated? Quickly by expert doctors who are paid really well and don't work
all the hours that God sends, or would you prefer to be left on a trolley in a corridor for hours
waiting until someone remembers where you are and comes to see if you haven't died yet.
Private health care means REAL care. It means short waiting times for essential treatment and it
mean being made to feel cared for when you are there. Why should people expect something for
nothing. Well what about National Insurance? Surely you pay that. Yes, that's your pension and
your health care all in one. But the pittance that most people pay is ridiculously low. If
employers offered health care as a benefit, people would really care about keeping their jobs and we
wouldn't have a nation of disaffected people, working in miles and miles of factory-call centres
across the globe.
No, I do not agree, I do not think that health care should be free, I think we should pay for it, to
require a high standard and we can get treatment when we need it, not when someone can be squeezed
into an already bursting schedule to be seen by tired doctors who are looking forward to private
practice and six figure salaries at some point in the future as a GP. |
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Not all health care should be free . Because their are rich people and they should pay to give money
to the doctors. |
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Free health care isn't "free". No you don't have to pay when you go to the doctor's office but
somebody does. If doctor's worked for free eventually there would be no doctors, especially with
the drastic inflation. So technically the government would be paying for it and the money that pays
for it is taken out of taxes. Basically everyone is paying for everyone else. Why would you want
to have your money taken out if you very rarely need to go to the doctor and have it pay for someone
who goes to the doctor every time they sneeze?
Free healthcare is the beginning of communism and communism doesn't work. You people who
believe healthcare should be free are fooling yourselves. Nothing is free except the air you
breath. The money to pay the doctors for their services must come from somewhere, otherwise the
doctors couldn't support themselves. They would be working at a loss to help you but what would you
be doing to help them?
Rather than having "free" healthcare I believe doctors should be restricted on their fees. They
shouldn't be allowed to charge $200 (give or take) for them to come in and say "I don't know what's
wrong." |
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"It's worth what you pay for it" - hick proverb. Somehow people get the idea that we can have
quality health care without paying doctors or that it's cheaper to pay for it with taxes than to pay
for specific visits. If we were to tax everybody and give health care to people who were not paying
taxes (poor people) we would be robbing healthy people and throwing their money away on people who
don't benefit society. |
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In an ideal world maybe. People's wages needed paying. |
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There is no such thing as "free health care". Somehow, we will have to pay for it by our taxes or
insurance. The poor should get it free, though. |
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Nothing is free. What you really mean is that you think that the government should take more taxes
from us to pay for healthcare. This is a ridiculous idea. I shouldn't have to pay for other
people's health expenses, especially when I get sick very rarely. You are advocating socialism.
There is no such thing as a free lunch. All this will cause is a slow up in medical care. When we
don't have socialized healthcare, doctors know that they will get paid more by being a better
doctor, because there services will be more highly demanded. In socialized medicine, all doctors
know that they will be getting paid so much no matter how well a job they do, as long as they do a
good enough job not to get fired. People will die if from minor health problems if we socialize
medicine. |
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Not all healthcare should be free. First of all, its not a practical idea. The costs of doctor's
consultation, medical tests, operations, equipments, hospitals, utilities will be in billions of
dollars. Government could go bankrupt. I personally think that it should be cheap rather than freely
available. In your case, people will be putting responsibilities of their health on doctors and
medicines, rather than taking care personally by refraining from alcohol, smoking, and other harmful
substances. Nothing should be free! |
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17 Dec 2007 22:05
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