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Is Universal Healthcare really the biggest issue?
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Posted almost 4 years ago I was just reading "how do nurses feel about Universal Healthcare" and I made the comment: "I agree the health care system needs to be fixed. Is universal Healthcare the answer? I am not sure but I do know there are things no person should be with out; Food, water, shelter, health care, education. In the US we should be able to have all of us have these things but the truth is the rich are getting richer and poor are getting poorer. How can we talk about health care with out talking about any of the others? We all know the best form of care is prevention. We as a whole need to look at the bigger problems in the country FIRST! "
Am I the only one that sees it this way or does anyone see this as the bigger issue? |
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| Posted almost 4 years ago Good luck maintaining this discussion. The comments will be interesting and rightfully so. I will wager that the same proponents and opponents will face off but with even more heated passions shortly given the breadth of your points. |
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| Posted almost 4 years ago I hope people do comment on this. It just seems if we don't see there is more to the topic then yes or no of universal health care it would be like trying to fix a sinking ship with chewing gum, yes you are doing something but it is not going to help anything at all. Am I saying do nothing? No but we should put our efforts in to something that would help the situation. |
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| Posted almost 4 years ago I am not a preacher and this is a medical forum not a hallelujah session. But Jesus, a wise man if ever there was one, said the poor would always be with us. Many people choose to be homeless. Some are too darned lazy to work. Our country has an unbelievably large number of illegal "immigrants" whose children attend public schools on our dime. There families receive food stamps and welfare benefits despite there being regulatuions forbidding just that. Many receive electricity and gas from the same companies I do but at a reduced rate due to their economic situation. In this case I, as well as all other regular rate payers, am subsidizing their utilities. There is no way to address every problem. I believe that the federal government should address only those problems that the people cannot address themselves. This includes things like an army, an interstate highway system and such. This MAY include universal healthcare if individual states cannot get that job done. I can picture that scenario (Blue VS Red, Dems against the GOP, Yankees VS Rebs). I think it is realistic to have a plan that forces (yes forces) unwilling health insurance providers to assume a share of the burden of the uninsured if they will not do so voluntarily. It would require assigning individual acuity levels so that no single company got stuck with all the losers. I do not want this to happen but it may come to that. It would only be after the insurance lobby fought against it tooth and toenail. However I cannot see the public having to provide more free or reduced cost public housing than we do already. Force private builders to build free houses on donated land? Can't see that ever happening unless we go socialist or truly communist and God forbid that ever happens. Education I already addressed. And the illegals going to our public schools without paying the property taxes that fund the schools is already a longstanding sore point here in the border states. Heck kids from Juarez, Mexico cross the border every day to attend public school for free in El Paso's numerous school districts. FREE to THEM but not the property owners in the area. |
