Q&A: Do You Think We Should Have Free* Healthcare for All in the USA?
Question by Meg24: Do you think we should have free* healthcare for all in the USA?
I originally come from Great Britain where health care is free -well kinda – we pay a small percentage of our income to cover it.
You can walk into a doctors surgery or an Emergency room and not have to pay a penny!!!
No remortgaging our house, NO rip off insurance companys that try to get out of paying, NO small print where it states that your insurance doesnt cover this or that, NO premiums to pay – absolutely nothing to pay – apart from that small percentage that we pay through our income.
Every British citizen is entitiled to care no matter if they are working or not.
Perscriptions cost around 12 pounds ($ 24) no matter what you get.
We also have less people addicted to perscription drugs as our doctors do not make money from perscribing certain drugs to patients for example Oxycoten, xanax, lortab etc
Our preventative, emergency, Desease, Cancer, Terminal, Rehabilitation, general heathcare, maternal, Drug rehab, family planning(Birth control & STD etc) Care that we recieve is great.
If you have say a dicky knee and you need to see a specialist you may have to wait a little while – but that is for just minor things.
I lived in Oxford and we have one of the best hospitals in Europe the “John Radcliff Hospital” . And our hospital equipment is just as good as in the USA.
We also have less drug recalls than in the USA because we dont let the drug companys get away with what they do in the USA – which is kinda like human trials, or at least thats what it seems to me.
Dont let anyone in the USA tell you that so called “Socialist or Goverment controlled heath care is bad” Because it is not.
I believe that it IS the government duty to make sure its citizens are healthy and kept that way.
And I am really shocked that “Christian” America does not take the same view. Lots of people here in the USA take the view of “Well I am covered and my family is – so I dont really care about everyone else”
Doesnt sound very Christian to me. Jesus was poor – do you think he would have afforded Insurance?
If you have a common cold you can call a doctors office and be seen the same day!!!
And if you cut your hand off you would be seen as soon as the ambulance gets you to the Emergency room – A free ambulance by the way.
But I do believe that it will change here in the USA in the future – well hopefully anyway.
I am glad that if I get cancer or something as serious while living in the USA I can just go home to Britain and get taken care of for free – I am very lucky
Best answer:
Answer by keltillos
I am 100% in favor of socialized healthcare. Its gotta be better than having 40% of our children unable to get medical care.
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