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Voted : No
Allow me to rephrase this.
Hell, no, it doesn't. I see almost weekly the mess that a lack of comprehensive insurance causes the economy. People who have to miss days off to bring sick loved ones or themselves to the hospital or clinic cost billions a year in lost productivity.
Our healthcare system is ass-backwards, and the drug companies, in conjunction with the FDA, are screwing us.
I support national healthcare for the U.S. The system we have now is getting worse and worse.
On the other hand, the obesity epidemic in this country is increasing the costs all around. And smokers aren't doing any favors either. Many of the health problems people have today are self-induced.
^There's no cure for free will, for better and worse.
^ What Bostonian said first.
Hospitals and doctors screw the insurance companies. That's not saying that insurance companies don't do their own screwing, but many times doctors, hospitals, pharmacies, etc.. will charge more for products and services rendered to people with insurance.
That happened to me and my dad when we were shopping for a special walker. They asked if I was insured and they pulled out a list and started looking up prices. The old man knew what was up so he told them, "My mistake. She doesn't have insurance.". They pulled out another list and started to quote a lower price when he told them "No thanks" and walked out of the place.
People have so be vigilant and watch out for crap like this. Don't cater to businesses like that. It's the stuff like that that builds up and causes medical care and insurance to skyrocket.
The solution is to get government out of the healthcare industry altogether. They made this mess.
^Do you mean end Medicaid and Medicare?
I agree with what a lot of you have said, but the idea of national healthcare would be a total disaster, about the only way to solve this is some sort of way to curb 'medicine for profit' but to do so would take away what makes the United States medical community the leader in cutting edge medical technology.
Nationalized healthcare doesn't work the way it is intended. It is good for the very lowest of income persons who wouldn't have a chance in hell of ever buying their own, but for the majority of people, it would screw them over, they would have much longer waits for even the most basic of health care, and God help you if you would need a major procedure.
I'm not really sure what the answer is. I don't think 100% government supplied health care would work, and certainly our current form of privatized 'for profit' health care is also problematic.
skylab
End ALL government inteference with free exchange.
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