MajikMyst
Honorary Non-member
80% HAPPY WITH THEIR HEALTHCARE?
How can people be happy with the high premiums, co-payments, deductibles, have to chose from a network of doctors and hospitals, no choice of healthcare plan but what their employers select for them, do not cover exiting illness, will drop you if you get a major illness and cost them too much, will not cover your child in college or you disabled child and will deny services? If you are happy with this, KEEP IT but there are those who are not happy and those who cannot afford the high cost of private healthcare even though they are working every day.
Healthcare for those who do not have is going to cost and no matter what the cost or who has to pay it, WE OWE IT TO OUR FELLOW AMERICANS. We, at the least, do it for those who are not in this country legally and putting their American born children in our healthcare system and we have to pay even though we cannot afford it for our own children. To care for our poor is going to cost money and lots of money and if we cut spending, we cut services to those who need it the most and we all know what happens when we do not take care of our own.
The 80% number came from a poll about how many Canadians like their healthcare system.. Ever since then rightwing media has been desperate to paint a simular picture..
Those same studies, however, show that a surprisingly large 70 percent of the estimated 46 million Americans who don't have insurance say they do, in fact, receive health care, and that a vast majority of them are satisfied with it.
The above statement came from Faux Noise.. Here they actually claim that 70% of the people that don't have insurance are happy about not having insurance.. That is simply absurd.. Granted, anyone can recieve emergency care.. But that is not healthcare and shouldn't be confused with healthcare.. None of those 46 million people that seem to be so happy will be able to have a Breast exam, or a colonoscopy to screen for cancer.. And that is the problem.. It would be a lot cheaper to give those people the screens to find cancer than it would be to treat full blown cancer..
What would you rather treat?? Allow 46 million people to be tested and find the cancer early and treatable, or wait until they all have flull blown cancer and has spread to other organs?? Which would you think is cheaper??
Healthcare is preventative care... Healthcare keeps you healthy and not just treat you when you are sick.. Let's see Faux Noise put out a real poll and explains that to participants.. See what the results are then..
I would wager that in a real poll, of a mixed group of insured and uninsured.. We might find that only 30% to 20% actually like their healthcare plan.. Most of which would be made up of people on golden healthplans or cadilac plans..