Universal healthcare poll

My wife has a job. She raises our three children and keeps the house in order. I wouldn't have it any other way.

If I get seriously ill my wife shouldn't have to work. I would want her by my side and the children. In the universal healthcare model, this scenario is possible.

I was also thrown back by her post. Someone must have hacked her account on GFY.

I don't disagree with you, Tony. Government spending my money on "outsourcing" is just as bad as them spending my money on programs they run directly. What i want is smaller government expenditures. While governments overall are quite inefficient that is only part of the story for me.

You think you have a RIGHT to healthcare? Well, fine.

I think i should have a RIGHT run my business for a profit without 50 cents of every dollar I spend (federal taxes, state taxes, city taxes, property taxes, sales tax) being "redistributed". It's straight-up robbery! How far we've come since feudalism. Now instead of the local lord forcefully taking half of everything I earn a buncha dudes in Washington DC VOTE to forecfully take half of everything I own.

I work for myself also and have to write that check every quarter but seeing with my Dad and before this with my sister. Changes have to have happen.I also look at my taxes as I get to live and work in this great country that has an environment that I could make the living I make so I give them their share. To prosper in this great country and then bitch about taxes is wrong to me.

"bitching about taxes" is how this country started in the first place.

Exactly. It amazes me that of all people, we are hearing that people in THIS INDUSTRY want more government involvement in their lives!!

Actually there is. There are STATE PLANS (not the federal government) that provide this.

Here's some information from Lance Armstrong's site:

http://www.livestrong.org/site/c.jvK...nformation.htm

So you're saying the government should take care of them instead of

1. Having the wife get a job
2. Having good health insurance in the first place
3. Saving throughout your life so you have money to pay for your own medical care
4. Getting private donations

You guys CONSTANTLY complain about how horrible the elected officials are, what horrible decisions the government makes, how they are too big and into too much, BUT you want them to come running and make decisions on your health and the health of your loved ones??!!

I just don't get it. I wouldn't trust the government to take care of my dogs.

Again.. obviously you are someone who has NEVER had something significant happen to someone in your family. Our medical prices are so inflated that no middle-class family could afford to pay for them.

So you're saying that by not saving for the $500,000+ operations, it's their fault for being irresponsible? Or are you saying that we should just let people die?

In a perfect world, sure.. we should be able to pay for our own healthcare. But because of the current system, hospitals have to charge 200%+ for procedures, in the hopes that HMO's will pay half of what they ask for. This drives prices up so far that it's impossible to pay the bills (for an average family).

And, I know you're going to say "it's your fault for not having insurance." So what about those people that can't get decent insurance due to "pre-existing" conditions?

Again, please watch the movie. It might not change your mind, but I'd at least like to hear your thoughts afterwards. I've always hated Michael Moore, but this topic was hot before he brought it into the spotlight. Most Americans have been too complacent to do anything about it, hopefully this will light a torch under our asses.

100 commies!

I dont have healthcare and I want it.

It's one thing to say you think something is a problem. It's quite another to say that it is the responsibility of a government to fix it. There are a lot of problems in the world. What does that have to do with government?

Cigarettes are a problem. They kill people. We are just 'letting people die" from them. Is it the government's responsibility to ban them?

No the government shouldn't ban them but if you've seen the movie Sicko you would know that in the UK the doctors make more money based on the health improvements of their patients . a doctor will make more if he helps you stop smoking.

and the doctors are paid very well not like you would be led to believe ..

What's wrong with communists? The USA was founded by communists.

Actually, yes I have. I paid over $25K of my own money in 2000 because I was under insured. Was I pissed? Yes. At myself.

I paid probably $5K a year for prescriptions for the first two years I had insurance because migraines were an excluded pre-existing condition for 2 years. I sucked it up, paid the $$$, realized I had screwed up by not having continuous coverage and now my migraines are covered.

Did I want the government to come in, take over and fix the problems I had created for myself? No. I tend to want LESS government involvement in my life, not more.


But that's me.