High expectations? Accountability? Yep, that's exactly what comes to mind when I think of government employees. Public school teachers? DMV workers? Politicians? Medicare/Medicaid? How on earth does this encourage accountability? Expanding Medicaid will only encourage doctors to provide bare...
It's good for Europeans and Canadians. The former is going bankrupt left and right (let's follow their financial policies, yeah?) and the latter takes months to get a nonvital surgery.
And since Rand utilized SS and Medicare it's her fault? She didn't create the system. If the government...
It's true that they get care through the ER at a high price, courtesy of the taxpayer. But the ER only provides care immediately vital to survival while expanding medicare would also cover general care, tests, home healthcare, and many other costs. It's a double edged sword. Plus, will ERs still...
Give it some time. Obamacare has barely been implemented and the effects are a ways off. Also, the number may not decline, but the quality definitely will.
If you want to live in a country with universal healthcare, Canada is a short drive away. Or maybe Europe, I hear the fall is nice there.
As for Rand, I don't have to agree with everything she has ever said. I simply respect her value of productivity and creation of a product. Something you...
American's should have to pay for the care they receive. From where I stand, increasing qualifications for Medicaid to 133% of the poverty level will increase the number of people on Medicaid by 50%. That's 20 million more people having their healthcare given to them courtesy of the taxpayers...
BTW Luddly, are you really arguing that Obama's plan is less socialized than the current plan? The current plan only covers ER costs of uninsured while the ACA takes a huge chunk of the uninsured, puts them on Medicaid, and covers nearly all healthcare costs.
It's pretty dense to claim that...
I never said I supported the current healthcare programs, nor did I say that I am against mandated health insurance. I am against medicaid being utilized by those who never intend to pay anything back. I am against Medicare covering every little cost and whim of those who didn't pay much into...
Agreed. You put it very well. A true right is inherent. The government isn't capable of providing or protecting any "right" to healthcare. The right to healthcare is as crazy as the right to not ge sick or not be poor. They simply are not possible.
I don't understand why you have me pegged as a socialist. I am against the ACA. I am against paying for someone else's healthcare and being treated like a murderer for not wanting to. Healthcare is not a right. It's a bummer that some people get cancer but I didn't cause the cancer. I am against...
I don't think I made myself clear. Concerning healthcare as a right: how can we say something is a right if we are not capable of giving it to everyone? If we were able to treat every disease, then if we believed it was a right, we could claim it as such.
Healthcare is not a right. It is an...
Just because it's in the bill doesn't make it a fact. Here's a fact: increasing the number of people covered by government healthcare will increase the amount of tax money allocated toward government healthcare.
Who has to pay for that? Taxpayers.
It's as simple as that.
Because obviously if something works in Massachusetts it will work everywhere.
Yes, the numbers of doctors increased, but what about the quality? Will the number of physicians rise 5-10 years from now?
The huge problem with forcing this on the entire nation is that it won't work in all...
True, but they rationalize these huge charges because they have to deal with so much government intervention. FDA approval contributes a huge portion of the expenses which are passed on to the patient. Unless we remove these laws and restrictions, which increases risks, we will probably just...