Comments on: “Universal health care” has failed again

By: Con

Con — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 02:46:17 +0000

KP27, you are obviously naive. You want a change and go to a Muslim for it. You are showing your intelligence. Why don’t you wait in line at the doctors office behind someone who doesn’t have to work for anything they get and you die waiting. So go ahead and support your health care plan you sick atheist. If the plan is passed I hope you are the first one who has to find out the hard way how this health ”care” plan will work. Why it is called a health ”care” plan I do not know, considering it will do more harm than anything else to our nation.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:47:30 +0000

universal healthcare sucks, ya heard!

By: KP27

KP27 — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:43:54 +0000

In Republican fantasy world I guess the government can’t do anything right (well except for the miltary, which Republicans worship and is run by the government). Just because things are not perfect in other countries where Universal Care is offered does not mean we can not do a better job. All you Republicans think we are superior to other countries, so why can’t we run our health care better than them also?

The bottom line is that we have over 40 million people without Healh Care and OVER 11 MILLION CHILDREN without Health Care in the richest country in the world. If you think nothing should be done about that, well then I seriously question what kind of a person you are. We can come up with 80 billion per year for a war in Iraq and we have the money to give $500,000/year tax cuts for the wealthiest 1% in Society, but we can’t find the money to give health care?

Also, I love the idea floated by Republicans that the government can do nothing right, yet private companies are always run very efficiently. I wonder sometimes if you people have even worked one day for an American Corporation. There is no waste and inefficiency in the American Business world? Hahahaha, ok…right.

Hey all you relgious Republicans, I have a news flash for you: Jesus wants kids to have Health Care, he thinks its more important than tax cuts for millionaires.

By: Mary

Mary — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:45:59 +0000

I work at a department store and make around 22,000 a year. I am by no means making a great deal of money, but I am still able to afford good health insurance with my employers contributions. Some of my co-workers claim not to be able to afford health insurance. HOWEVER, I watch them everyday buy new clothes, go out to eat, and run up high credit card bills. Health insurance IS available. One just have to be willing to make the choice to pay for it. I think it is very unfair that I will likely be forced into UHC because people simply do not want to give up going out to eat twice a week to pay for coverage.

By: Derek

Derek — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 05:54:45 +0000

Wal-mart, Starbucks, Burger king, all offer healthcare. Give me a break people cant get it. They choose not to get it. the 48 million is made up of people that won’t have healthcare unless somebody mandates they get it, or takes them up to the wealfare office and holds their hand for them while they sign up for Medicade. Think if Social Security went private, there would be about 50 million people in 20 or 30 years, that would say “i didn’t have the money for retirment” just like they say about healthcare, but its all the same its a choice.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:53 +0000

I agree

By: joe blow

joe blow — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 20:58:31 +0000

David, HOW COME OTHER COUNTRIES CAN TREAT EVERYONE AT A LOWER PER CAPITA COST WITHOUT ANYONE HAVING THE PAY OUT OF THEIR OWN POCKETS!!??

By: joe blow

joe blow — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 20:51:41 +0000

huh? I thought America ALREADY spends twice as much per capita on health care as many countries with Universal Health Care? Why then would a Universal Health Care system need tax increases? Couldn’t Universal Health Care actually decrease health spending then? Plus, the US spends more on the military than on health care? Isn’t there something wrong with that? If only some of that military money was spent on health care instead couldn’t the US EASILY have a great health care system that includes Universal Health Care.

By: Buddy

Buddy — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 14:02:38 +0000

No system is perfect. But we have been lied to. Did you know that there is not a nursing shortage? The truth is that there is a shortage of people willing to pay what nurses are worth. There is also not a physician shortage. There is a disproportional mismatch. Actually we have too many physicians in some metropolitan areas and a shortage in rural areas. Universal health care is a bonefied answer to our collective health care woes. Let me give you an example. Here an Alheimer’s patient is likely to be tied up and drugged in a bed to mess themselves and become more agitated. In other universal health care countries this same scenario is treated with a live person at the beside to care for the bodily needs of an Alzheimer’s or confused patient. Instead of knocking the patient out and strapping them to the bed, an assistive person can talk to the patient and help them go to the bathroom, and help them eat. Usually this type of approach helps immensely and the patient gets the sleep they need and gets better more quickly. Do you want a nice person to care for you when you get old and don’t know what you are doing, or do you want to be strapped to a bed and have to sit in your own filth?

By: Marry Canuks 4 HCare

Marry Canuks 4 HCare — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 14:41:24 +0000

Maybe your right. Maybe thats what Universal Health Care would be like in the U.S. since we can’t seem to get anything right, but I just watch M. Moores film “Sicko” and I have to say that I’m actually thinking about moving. The U.S. is 37th in health care according to the WHO and France is 1st. Citizens with National health care in the film actually laugh at the idea of having to pay for it, doctors still have million dollar homes, there are no lengthy forms to fill out, patients don’t have to wait any longer than we Americans do to see a doctor, and contary to what we’ve all been told about UHC, they also get to choose their own doctor and the govt. has no more involvement than picking up the tab.
The film also points out that of all the sellouts, Hilliary Clinton took the most money to drop the Universal Health Care idea which is why she’s fell silent about it ever since. Don’t look to her for health care reform in 08.

By: Nadja

Nadja — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:32:15 +0000

In my homeland we get medical care for free. But we have to pay a high amount of money (every month) and our taxes are very high. Because health is very expensive. But erveryone has a health insurance, that is ruled by the law. Also unemployed persons have a health insurance. Kind regards!

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 27 May 2007 09:36:46 +0000

I see that Blue Cross is setting aside 2 million dollars,(to start) with attack Ads against California’s plan to provide Health Care to the Uninsured.

This just shows that Insurance Companies will do anything to stop anyone from taking away their Cash Making Machine in CA. They always threaten to leave the State, they cry foul. Let’s do everything we can to show them the door, The Greed Stops here, as far as I’m concerned.

They want to compare the Health Insurance debate to the energy deregulation a few years ago, but what they don’t seem to realize, is they are the new Enron, manipulating the system.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 08:31:18 +0000

I had to write again because I’m so pissed off. To you Michael, I’m not a lefty as you just assume, no I’m just a very seriously injured person, who wants to be treated fairly. I’m not looking for a hand out, I’ll pay for health insurance, but if you are injured, you are at the mercy of some underwriter, who will charge you anything they want. I doubt you know, have you been turned down by 5 providers before, have you been charged 5 times the going rate of insurance for a plan they don’t even give to the general population. I have a serious neck and back injury, that puts major limits on what I can do, but I’m still healthy. Try convincing the underwriter of that, that is what I’m talking about.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 08:02:58 +0000

Michael, I hope you get hurt on the job, lose your health insurance, lose your house, your car, all that you own. I hope that you cannot provide for your family, if you have one, because you are seriously injured with terrible pain, that makes your arms and legs burn with numbness, cannot stand for more than an hour because the pain is too much, even with strong medication, then make such comments like the one above. People like you deserve to suffer, I pray every night that you and others like you suffer terrible chronic pain. Then I’d like to hear you sound off!

By: Michael Hampton

Michael Hampton — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 20:21:23 +0000

You were certainly told wrong if you were told that Americans are evil, heartless bastards who have to be forced to help each other at the point of a government gun and would let you die otherwise.

It’s quite likely that’s what you WERE told.

Nobody’s talking about “I got mine, screw you” except you and the leftists who want universal health care rationing.

You didn’t answer the question. Why should we try something we know is going to make health care more expensive, less accessible and overall worse for everyone? How is that going to help?