Does the U.S. Need Government-mandated Universal Healthcare?
Two Takes illuminates both sides of the debate on the current, imperfect healthcare system in the United States. On the one hand, Judy Feder argues that government-mandated universal healthcare is the best way to keep the country healthy. Newt Gingrich, however, responds that the new federal bureaucracy would worsen the situation. Does the United States need government-mandated universal healthcare? What do you think about such proposals? Post your thoughts.
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Reader Comments
universal healthcare
The united states has universal health care in Medicare and medicade also SSi . all the government has to do is take the monies that is collects and get it out of the general fund and put it back where it once was . When Al Gore was Vice president he suggested this as a cure for the ailing health care system. Try it . It will work.
Unviersal Health Care
I think it does. The United States could save considerable amounts, in the billions, with this kind of care. It could reduce the need to use drugs to attempt to care for oneself because of better access. It could mean less crimes being committed by the desperate. And it will help reduce sick days, bring more people back to work, and get the moral up within the nation.
We are the only industrialized nation without this kind of health care. The Universal health care plan will not be a socialist program, it will be one of the best things that has happened to the US.
managed health care plans are a pain to deal with, this kind of plan would make it much easier. Just think Stafford Loans compared to high interest private student loans whose debt can't be forgiven even by bankruptcy. The government wants to make it EASIER. And to that I say if they can make this work, my hat goes off to them.
Health care Reform
I practiced hematology, oncology and internal medicine for 22 years before, at the age of 54, I had had quite enough. In the end, it was governmental paper-work that was my undoing. But it was more than this. Never having been sued, the other aspects within the medical-system pie proved too much. Corrupt insurance companies, the routine mark-up (150% sounds accurate) in prescrition drugs, and what I call "medicaid families"-who for generations- make their living by suing doctors, hospitals, restaurants and anyone else within their and attorney's target-sites, are some of the main actors.
However, unless President Obama seriously restructures the legal climate,the entire reform effort will be significantly compromised. Their is no way on God's green earth that any ER doctor for example, will be willing to forgo a significant measure of defensive practice with the legal practices in place at this time-it is not going to happen! The ENTIRE system of healthcare delivery must be restructured if one expects a more favorable outcome for our citixens and our country.
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