do you think the usa should have a full national health service like the uk?
491738
Yes I do. I think America has put it's self backwards with poverty, and the division of rich and poor with this issue. I don't understand why the wealthy want to use this issue to control the population of America anyway when they are looking towards a World market.
379511
I think we're potentially heading in that direction.  I don't believe the US will be totalitarian communist, but economic socialists like the French.  France is basically a Marxist nation in terms of its economic policy.  I already see the US trending in this direction.  When did healthcare become an entitlement?\n\nI suppose I'd probably move to Australia.
1028930
Heck, as tax payers we pay for convicted criminals to live, eat, wear clothes, exercise, watch t.v, get educated, and get free health care. There is something wrong with that!!!! An honest hard working person has no health coverage but a murderer is taken care of for free. There should be a national health care plan, but knowing this country and it's politics, if it ever happened it would be so corrupt we would all be better off with out it.
739611
It should be paid for by the government but at cost.  Then laws should be passed only allowing the minimum emergency healthcare to those here illegally.   This brings up the need for immigration trained social workers, or National ID cards.
345810
America is the only industrialized nation in the world who does not have a national heath care system. People who aren't wealthy, don't have health insurance, and aren't poor enough to qualify for medicaid, get screwed.\n\nIsrael also has guaranteed housing, while we have homeless.\nDoesn't make sense to me...
457602
If anyone has to go through Parkland Hospital's Emergency Room in Dallas, Tx, they won't say they don't think America has a health care problem.  The line to be triaged is up to two hours long, the wait for prescriptions is over four hours and then patients are often refused the prescription because of one reason or another; patients are often refused treatment for not having the mountain of required proper paperwork and the indigent are treated like sub-humans.\n\nThe reason the govt. won't improve America's health care is because the 30% of insured Americans with great coverages are the same 30% who control the resources of our country, and as you can see, they don't see a problem.
454977
Repuglican idea: screw you get your own. \nDemocrat idea: national health care set up on the order of Canada or England.
128661
Yes! The UK is needing social workers so badly they're recruiting the US and offering veyr nice perks. There's an abundance of social work jobs in the UK. \n\nGood Luck.
171910
The quality of service would go way down. A lot of good doctors in Canada left because they can make more money in the US. \n\nAnd because the government would be controlling it, the bureaucracy would cause you to wait for months or even years just for needed basic procedures.\n\nIt's just bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad.
161111
me neither, but america is supposed to be responsible for americans, some are not eligible for medicaid or medicare,welfare or other care,so the hit the streets,along with there children. but since they are already here, the government doesnt need to make thim friends, so they are forgotten,rather than take care of your own.\nkinda like teddy right,veterans we will take care of you, now it is only if you have other insuraance and are 100%, not 80 or 70, or just missing one leg, or arm or and eye and a arm, it is 100% service coonected.\nwell what about the 100% american citizen, like i said they dont need made friends with, and we need more quick food stop owners and cabbies for when all the american die off:)
716775
Yes, it is possible to establish free healthcare in a nation.\n\nAlmost *every* other developed nation On Earth, that is, in Europe, on the Pacific Rim and on the North American continent, almost everyone who *can* afford to do so has done so.\n\nWe haven't.  Why?  Because the Rich Man Says So.  Not much else really....it's just the suits, and they own the media so they get to play an endless mindgame with us all, telling us that if *one more grandma* got her meds paid for it would just *bankrupt* the nation when poorer countries than ourselves *have* national healthcare that covers *everyone*.....\n\nReally.  And some clever folks will piss and moan about "socialism".  Look....socialism is actually *normal* for the rest of the developed world, ok?  It is.  Look at the UK, France, Austrailia.....even Canada, they all have national healthcare, all have it cheaper than we do, and none of them are bankrupt nations.\n\nThen look at Japan.  They definitely are pacifist, and socialist compared to us...and how do we know this? *America* wrote their constitution post-World War II, that's how!  Think about it.\n\nSocialism is normal for the rest of the world.  It isn't a dictatorship like communism, people still own their property, and the rich guys still get theirs, just not *rapaciously so* like here in the USA....\n\nSo yeah, it's *possible* to have free health care in the US....everyone else who can do it is in fact *doing it*.\n\nWill we?  Nope, because our Rich Men have made us all *retarded*.  Really, they call it "special", but when the cameras are turned off, we all know which meaning of "special" they really mean.....\n\nJust saying.  :)
138964
In Britain we pay for the NHS, so everyone has a right to life. This doesn't really kick in until you see someone collapse in front of your eyes and know that if it wasn't for the NHS they might have to die there.
173059
I am opposed.\n\nWhen socialized medicine is enacted a single huge infusion of money is provided.  Then all growth stops.  When the profit incentive is removed how many people will be doing research on newer and better diagnostic tools and procedures.  Okay, that would be the government and we all know how efficient the government is.  \n\nIf you want to do some research, check out the number of MRI machines, or CT scans, or any other sophisticated diagnostic tool per person in England or Canada or any other country with socialized medicine.  \n\nMy uncle had open heart surgery 5 days after his doctor said he needed it.  A co-worker was under the knife in 4 days and a former boss had his surgery 3 days after the decision was made.  All three of these men were very ill and wouldn't have lasted long untreated.  I have read where 2 and 3 year waits are not uncommon in Canada.  Haven't heard how well England does getting things done.\n\nTo be fair I worked with a German for many years and we discussed the issue on several occasions.  He said that under the German system everyone had an annual physical.  I would never say that is "a bad thing".  On the contrary it would almost certainly make for a healthier populace.\n\nStill, with all things being equal, I'll stay with my current system.\n\nI heard someone say that if you think health care is expensive now, wait until it's free.
653889
only if it is free to do as it wishes without govrnment laws and rules .                 yes i do in fact make it its own country the idea that every state should be the same is just nuts people need a variety of choices we should have at least one state where doing whatever you want is ok lets make it new york then we could get ride of people who cause us problems like people who hate others and only allow you to do what they beleive is right. enough peoplelive in newyork to make it the kinda place thats deverse enough to handle its freedomif the government didnt take so much from newyorkers maybe they could fix a few problems they have put out all the homeless and sick people and the lazzy ones on welfare the biggoted ones who spread hate the hetero sexuals that fill the city till it over flows wait i have gone to far all these rules and laws ruin a people as diverse as americans and making all states the same is no freedom at all let california have legal pot if you dont like it move .let georgia have drunk drivers give florida all the petofials they well have a tough time finding people young enough to molest lol but you do  get the point i hope we all cant agree all the time so the needs of all the people should be met if 50.000 people are killed because of drunk driving that means alot of people wanna drive drunk if 1,000,000 people are in jail for drug crimes then alot of people wanto do drugs if you dont want to live by these peopledont make them criminals give them someplaceto call home new york sanfransisco la. atlanta chicago  create unsafe zzones where people can be free to choose  rebuild new orleans  but make it free maybe .
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.
327874
Like most people (according to public opinion polls), I believe the US healthcare system is terrible.  The free market approach leaves too many people without adequate coverage...yet another dysfunctional consequence of capitalism.\n\nThere is little way to improve health care within the current economic paradigm, which privileges profit above concern for human health and life.
362003
This is good for so many reasons.First, big companies should be happy they now play a more important role in the well being of the their consumers. Second, when you have universal health care, more people visit the doctors; 1- at the onset of a problem instead of waiting until it becomes worse, 2- visit the doctor for regular check ups, and 3- visit for preventative care. These reasons make for a healthier population in general thus often negating the need for more costly an evasive procedures down the road.  When a poor person goes to the hospital now a days, its usually because they have put it off for so long because of no insurance, that they are in worse shape than they would have been in if they had gone at the first sign of trouble. Their care now costs the state and the taxpayers more, or puts that poor person in DEEP DEBT for the rest of their life.\nWe are the only modern industrialized country in the world without Universal Health care for ALL its citizens.\nA good way to measure a nations moxie is to look at the way it cares for its population. All Americans should ask themselves this:\nDo you care more for the profits of big corporations, than you do for our poor, our children or our elderly?\nHealth care should be our # 1 priority. Good for you MASS!!