It costs money to provide healthcare? BS!
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Blue_dresses — 15 years ago(February 20, 2011 12:25 PM)
I agree health should be every humans right and not be a money making industry but think about all the doctors who spend years and years going to school, spending their money to learn and taking all their time to learn, who have to make a living after they put all their hard work and money into learning how to become a health practitioner. You know how many years, money and time these doctors put into learning their trade and can't live on air! And the ex ray techs, nurses and all the help need to survive after living on mac and cheese and studying for so many years. You have to realize they gave up their lives, time and small money at the time to take years to learn to be a doctor, ect. They are not going to be poor and broke and not be compensated after all their hard work to learn the trade. Logically, everyone needs to eat and live, and the more time they spend putting into a education and learning a trade, the more they should be compensated.
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an-usurper — 15 years ago(March 08, 2011 01:58 PM)
i'm sorry but your wrong.
while i can agree with your altruistic view, it would be lovely if everyone had healthcare, but you're not thinking rationally or logical.
healthcare is a service and a costly one at that. things don't just arise from nothing, money doesn't just appear; things cannot function without fuel. something is going to have to power the machines, devices and tools to preform surgery and whatnot, and that has to come from somewhere. the only logistical way for a gov. to ensure care for everyone is with taxes. now, maybe you don't mind paying more in taxes, but you are not everyone, and you can't say that other people 'should'. just like you can't make people work for free.
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tmo811 — 14 years ago(July 08, 2011 08:35 AM)
I would agree that some things need to be changed. If there were a way to regulate costs that would be great. I have no idea how to do that.
I also believe that people need some incentive to do things for themselves. The government is not responsible for our lives. If health care were free we would face long waiting lists for appointments, fewer qualified doctors and medical equipment built by the lowes bidder.
I am a military wife and I can tell you first hand what government run health care does to peopleThere is a long military history in my family and my grandfather died at age 55 because his blood pressure medication was changed because the Army found a cheaper manufacturer.
I have waited in the ER of an on base hospital with an actively bleeding child and an extremely painful bladder infection for up to 9 hours. The place wasn't even that busy.
When I opted to go see a private doctor for the same condition I was tested, treated and medicated within an hour. Yes, I paid a co pay for this visit, and I will gladly continue to do so because some things, even if they are "free" are just not worth it.
"I take a problem and chew on it til all the flavor's gone, then I stick it in my hair" -
obelix99 — 12 years ago(January 17, 2014 10:58 PM)
Health care is not a right. Why would you have rights to someone else's services? You have rights to your life, your liberties, and your paycheck. You have the right to keep what you worked for. You have rights to be protected.
But you have no rights to food, housing, cars, clothing, OR healthcare. If you don't have healthcareyou won't get treatment and you'll die. Guess what? If you don't have food, you'll starve, and again you'll die.
So by your standard, the food at the grocery store should be mine. I have the right to it right? After all, a man's gotta eat. If he don't eat, he dies.
The healthcare in the country is bad. We all know that. But the solution is not Obamacare. Anyone with half a brain will tell you that you can't have the government run your healthcare. They have no business running a business, let alone this one. It may work in Canada or France, but they have fraction of the population as this country.
the problem are all the freeloaders out therethe welfare lifers out there that are too lazy to take care of themselves and depends on others to do it for them.
Man the F up. Get a job. Go to school. Take care of your own family and don't depend on me, your neighbors, or your politicians to take care of you.