What are your opinions on the US health care plan?
I аm doing a project аnd writing a nеw health care рlаn, аnd wanting others views οn thе subject. Whаt dο уου find thе strongest points аnd weakest points οf thе health рlаn now? Alѕο whаt dο уου thіnk needs tο bе changed іn ουr health care рlаn now? GIVE MY YOU THOUGHTS!!
What needs to be changed is that people need to realize that not every problem can be treated with a prescription. People don’t to doctors for help – they go for prescriptions which they equate with a "cure".
People need to look for other solutions – diet (cures diabetes, heart conditions), exercise (also cures diabetes, heart conditions, depression, anxiety), turning off the TV (cures depression, helps positive outlook, obesity).
We DO NOT have the right to free health care – we do have a responsibility to prevent illnesses.
A lot of people will not agree with this – especially those in health care.
Well if you have insurance you can afford to be ill if not no.
Best just to nationlise medi care so everyone regardless of wealth can have treatment.
If you think health care is expensive now, wait until it is free.
I do not want the people who caused social security and medicare to go broke to run a health care system. That would be stupid.
Do we want the people who handled hurricane Katrina to handle our health care?
Just watch Sicko and you will be sick with our health care system. I had insurance for a few years at a job, and are much happier without it. Unless you have a terminal illness, if people really sat down and figured out how much they pay out compared to how much they really use, they would just drop it.
Example. I used to pay $200.00 a pay check at my job. That ended up being $4800.00 a year. But that was just my share. My company paid for 75% of it. So health insurance for my family was really $19,200 a year. Then the insurance had a $500.00 deductable and only covered 80% of the cost. I usually had an OBGYN once a year, and maybe a doctors appointment or two for each of the kids and myself. And usually a trip to the ER twice a year. The most I ever used in a year was around $5000.00. But remember the deductable and the 20%. That was about $1500.00 out of my pocket every year that the insurance didn’t cover, plus I paid in $4800.00 from my paycheck.
So, between me and the company, we paid $20,700 for insurance for them to only pay $4000 worth of bills. Our system is a scam. There are all the what if? people out there with thier senerios, but to me, it’s not worth it.
My what if? was my daughter breaking her arm and it cost about $2000.00. Anyway, unless you plan on having more than $20,000 of medical bills in one year, save your money and pay as you go.
Unlike Canada, Japan and other European countries, US does not have national health insurance coverage insuring every citizen of the country. All is left up to individual and private insurance companies.The price of insurance as well as medical costs are up to what the market calls for.
In view of the current economic condition, there are more Americans who just cannot afford any health care coverage which includes children. When Congress came up with a government sponsored "Children’s Health Care Plan" last year, Bush vetoed it.
Many of us who have private medical insurance claim that the coverage is not enough but cannot afford more coverage.
If we have a basic national health coverage and we are to only supplement extra by private means, it would be the ideal. But the trade off is that our tax will probably go up in order to support the program.
Before nationalizing the health care, government to audit enormous medical charges by hospitals, doctors and drug companies and trim off the excess.
When I had surgery years ago and obtained a full billing, the hospital charged me $2 per each bandade, $8 each for marking pen used by my doctor and other amount alike that are absolutely ridiculous amounts. We need to do something about these charges. Although insurance paid for it but in order to cover these ridiculous costs, insurance premium keeps going up.
Since current Bush administration did nothing for universal health care, even vetoed children’s health care, I hope that incoming administration work hard to come up with fair and equitable health care policies for all Americans.
There is no universal healthcare available now???? Unless I am wrong!
The problem with healthcare in itsself is that its oo damn expensive, they need to cap off the amount hosiptals can charge in valid emergencies…for instance I was taken BY ambulance and had emergency surgery at 1130pm, by 4 am they kicked me out!! I was begging to stay cause I was so weak. But nope, the doctor stated on her orders that I was ok to leave. Well then I get the bill and its charging for an overnight stay in the hospital, and a room charge…but I nnever even went to a room.
the bill was over 24k, not including all the other bills I received from all the doctors I had!
We can’t afford it.
It’s a patchwork system that is inefficient, expensive, and leaves way too many people out. As a result, hospital emergency rooms are filled up with uninsured people who use it for routine medical procedures and the costs are passed on to insured people through higher premiums and less coverage. What’s worse is when people are brought to a hospital and the first thing the workers do is ask for their insurance cards before they will treat them.
It’s the best system in the world for those who can afford to pay for it. For everyone else, it’s not. Something needs to be done. People shouldn’t have to choose between eating and getting much needed medication or having to declare bankruptcy because a catastrophic medical crisis wiped them out financially.
I will not dare to comment on this subject,Yes its that bad.