Thursday, December 9, 2010

Will America be better off in the long run with its current health care/insurance policies?

Looking thirty years into the future, do you think we'd be better off if we just left it the way it is? Do you think that our economy will continue to flourish by connecting health insurance to employment? If there are 307,000,000 people in this country and 47,000,000 people supposedly are without insurance, should we really care since that is the minority? That means that over 250,000,000 people have insurance and are happy, so wouldn't, in a democracy, the voice of the *majority* matter over the minority?
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No. Costs will rise so much and price even more Americans out of the market, and decent healthcare. I do not understand why so many Americans have fallen for lies about healthcare in the USA, abroad and also the planned reforms [1]. I mean, if the healthcare system in the USA is so good, why have no other nations taken it up? Could it be due to the following facts? FACT - the USA spends more on healthcare PER PERSON than any other nation on the planet [2]. FACT - the US has higher death rates for kids under five than western European countries with universal health coverage [3]. Or if the US healthcare system is run so well, why not run the fire service like the healthcare system? [4] Maybe that is because in the USA, insurance companies push up costs, buy politicians and refuse to pay claims that people pay for [5]. (Look up Wendell Potter on YouTube to hear more if the link below is too long.) Obama wants to make insurance cheaper, stop insurance companies from refusing health coverage to those with pre-existing conditions, and make sure they pay out when they are meant to [6], a system similar to that which works in Taiwan [7]. He debated this before he was elected [8]. Is it right that a dead American four year old would have had a better chance of life if they were born in Canada, Cuba, Germany and so many other industrialised nations with universal healthcare? If you think my arguments are wrong, e-mail me with proof. But if you can not, let Obama try to help America. If he fails, vote him out in 2012.
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