Should the goverment provide free universal healthcare for all Americans?
103141
Well, all working, retired and disabled Americans should get healthcare-only exclude lazy wellfare loving mooches.  We pay taxes, and the billions spent on a meaningless war could go very far for ensuring this and much more.
732781
... I think it's a right... \n\nyou can't put a price on good health... that's the reason the prices are going crazy... how can a good that doesn't have a price tag work in a capitalistic system? it doesn't...\n\nmore and more uninsured are proving that every day... but at this rate, soon the uninsured will be a larger number than the insured and they will just vote to change it... so it should take care of its self... \n\njust don't get sick in the meantime...
1081492
Adequate and timely medical care for all American citizens is already available. Do you need a list of companies to purchase it from? I have Afflac.
715306
It is not free.  That's one reason why TAXES are so much HIGHER in Canada than the US.\n\nMany other countries such as Sweden have universal health care, too.
263398
We have WORKING Americans who are not even afforded these luxuries.  Paying for noncontributors and not even being able attain these services themselves is not fair. This is what is making health care, college education, etc. unattainable to working class people.  Why should we pay for them when we can't get these things ourselves?
1032484
Yes, Americans do have to pay for their own health care IF they are lucky enough to have the money to afford it.  Otherwise, they have no insurance.  Where do our taxes go?  Every place EXCEPT back to the American people.  That's why we have millions of uninsured persons in the states.  Sad, isn't it?
836356
Ok As a canadian we DO NOT HAVE FREE HEALTHCARE!!!!! we have to pay for it through taxes.  With no competition our hospitals can virtually do anything they want.  Wait times are ridiculas, and not enough equipment as in MRI's.\nStates even though patients also look at it as customer service as well, their private sector pays for the equipment, which means more resources, when you tie the hand that can do better than the public sector, you take away the ability to build.\nA lot of canadians want more private industries to provide services, but be paid the same way by O.H.I.P. ( name varies with each province but is our insurance plan)\nAmericans could have the same thing.  Technically we have to pay out of pocket for services like eyecare, chiropraters, dentist are just a few.  Our health care system is one of the biggest eater of public funds.\n\nOur PM has more power than the American President except for veto rights.  It is hard to go after a sitting P.M. where in the states your President can be censured and removed.\n\nIn Canada we are not peaceful as many beleive we are just like americans when it comes to tolerance, and violence per capita.  Remember america has like 330 million people, while Canada has 35 million odds of probability are higher due to population.\n\nAmericans give chances to their people with the free market , here banks damage your credit rating your screwed nobody to turn to, at least american businesses will give you a chance.  Banks here are worse than the states, for no free compitition as in the states .\n\nCanada government and their agencies are like the big brother approach, which is worse than the American big brother approach.\n\nIf Canada was like america when it comes to opportunities and America was more like Canada on equality,  North America would be as strong as gravity.\n\nBut Canada and America are the most wanted locations for immigrants, America above canada.  We have an image but my cousin in Florida who has lived in both countries says in short there is no difference at a citizen level, as in ordinary people everyday life.
379120
On both sides yes!  The $$$ spent will be much less than what we're spending on schooling, healthcare, legal system,...etc.\n\n\nThen, abolish welfare and those lazy @@d Americans would have no choice but to work!
539755
I'll do better than that. I'll give you 5.\n\nPass a Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution. The current philosophy of ever increasing debt mortgages our children’s future and could collapse our economy. A reasonable amount of debt fixed by GDP or some other productivity measure would be allowed.\n\nEvery American citizen should have universal access to affordable health care even if they don’t have health insurance.\n\nNo American Citizen should be allowed to work in a job that pays less than the federal poverty level.  New workers with limited experience or under 18 years of age could be paid a training wage.\n\nEvery American should be able to choose which school their children attend. Schools must be allowed to compete if they are to improve.\n\nOur borders are to be respected, illegal immigration will be stopped. If you want to work in this country you must do it legally and you must respect our laws, our culture and our flag or you will be sent back to wherever you came from
363120
yes i think it would be a great idea for the goverment to provide us all with health coverage, it would set in place a standard rate of cost for proceedures of all kinds and employ more doctors and more staff at offices and hospitals, medical standards would be set and therefore medical mal-practice would be more governed by the actual courts and dis-allow for frivolous lawsuits. it would also thereby de-organize the pharmacuetical compnanies and how they practice. medicines would be more available at cheaper rates due to more people using the drugs provided by pharmacies.so "yes"
188571
Healthcare should be available to all people regardless of age, sex, race, ect...  Limited availability of health care is usually a result of the economic situation of a country.  The health care system of the USA is driven by cold hard cash and capitalism.  The good thing about this is that if you have tons of cash you will recieve excellent care.  The drawback is that most people get substandard treatment if they are poor or middle class.  It's harsh but true.  There are so many people who are only in health care for the money rather than the humanistic altruism behind the hippocratic oath.
142069
Yes sure ...as us ppl want be in free so i think they should 2
941323
I am one of 45 million people without access to affordable health care. It affects my life every day as I am a diabetic and I do not take all the prescribed medicines that I am suppose to. It will probably shorten my life but it is the best I can do. I do not think it is a big issue for the general public, they are not effected by it one way or the other. But for those of of us that need to be able to see a Dr. regularly, It is a dangerous situation. I think that the real answer is to do away with the private insurance company's and offer national health care so that everyone has access to it if they need it. I understand that this would not be free health care as it has to be paid for by taxes, however I would rather see my money going for people like me then to send 10 billion a month to a war in Iraq that should have never been.
1084622
I'd like to have free health insurance, too.
760724
Absolutely. When you get something for nothing, and then are told over and over again that you actually have earned it by the simple fact that you were born, it destroys your ability to take care of yourself.\n\nThere should be no free ride for any able-bodied person. We can supplement income for people in bad situations, but 1) they need to work toward actually living independently, and 2) there should be a definite short-term end to any assistance program.\n\nLook at the people hurt by the hurricanes. The people on welfare sat and waited to be rescued. They sat and waited to be placed in temporary homes. They sat and waited for someone to find them a new home and a new government check.\n\nThe people who actually had jobs and work for a living planned for the disaster, picked them selves up immediately, and got on with their lives.\n\nNeed any more proof?
1009969
I personally would. I'd say about 70% of people would be ok with it. A lot of people might freak that that's not right. But as long as you visit them often, it's probably better because then they'd have all the healthcare and help they could need at any time of the day... But that's just my opinion.
148949
If the government fails to do the job of protecting the body politic then according to Jefferson we have the right and the responsibility to do something about it.\n\nWe are Americans, one of THE halmarks of Americans is that we are self-relient, we don't depend on government.  It is no different than a neighborhood watch looking out for your neighbors, when they spot criminals they call the police.