starrider89
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Yes without a doubt I would be in favor of doing that. Health Cost are skyrocketing at an alarming rate and more and more Americans are either without it due to unemployment or the insurance that their job offers is inadequate. There should be no reason why one American man. woman or child has to worry about whether or not they can afford to go to the doctor or whether or not they will be decimated financially if they have to go to the hospital for any reason. Health Insurance should be a basic right available to all Americans regardless of income or job status. |
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TaxGurl
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NO. Not until EVERYONE is required to contribute to it. I am sick of picking up the tab for people who choose not to work or make stupid excuses for why they can't work. I have worked hard and obtained an education so that I can have a good job. I have never asked for a handout from anyone. The government needs to stop being a charity for the masses. |
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Mikey D
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The Veterans Administration is our national based health care system. It provides good treatment in general but most people want to have more decision making in their healthcare. |
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Frank V Galena
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Absolutely not. A national based health care plan will never work. It would be laden with corruption. We pay too many taxes now. There are better answers than a national health care plan to make health care affordable for all. The first step would be to get rid of HMO and employer paid health benefits. They don't pay for your car insurance, your home owners insurance, or any other personal insurance. The result is that there is a competitive market that keeps prices down and gives us plenty of choices. If our employers paid us the money they are presently paying to our health care providers and were prohibited from providing health care to us, it would open the market so we would shop, just like we do for every other insurance. The possibilities would be infinite. Imagine, while your young, only buying catastrophic health insurance because you don't need to go to the doctor very often and could afford to pay for individual visits. Start your family and then add OB Gyne and Pediatric insurance. As you get older and the need arises you add more insurance. How great would that be?
I don't need or want the government telling me how to manage my health care. They do such a great job with everything else they manage (read sarcasm here) I just can't imagine how great a job they would do with my health. No thanks. |
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annie r
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100% YES!! My husband and I are self employed young, healthy, non-smokers. We pay $250 per month for individual health insurance with a 5k deductable. We are also SOL if we want a family because indivdual health insurance NEVER covers maternity or delivery! |
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Marshall A
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i think it's time we get on board with a national health care plan. i'm tired of paying over $450.00 per month for private health insurance. it has become so expensive my wife and i are tempted every month to cancel. my companies group health plan has reached $820.00 per month for our small group policy. this is why i could not afford to keep group health. the average american!!!! cannot afford health care premiums but if you are an illegal alien you get medicaid free. this is unacceptable. our health system is overcrowded with illegal aliens getting treatment that hard working americans are paying for. this cannot and should not continue. it is a recipe for disaster. |
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r_kav
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I would support a national health insurance system, similar to Medicare. I don't want the government to "provide" my health care, like the VA. (Think Walter Reed) |
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lyllyan
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No - national based health care will not work in the United States. It does not work in other countries, either. |
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joycebstack
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No. Anyone remember socialism? Communism? Looks great on paper but hasn't worked yet. For any country. |
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wax
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If I could get the same quality of service for about the same cost. I would support it.
I only pay $85/month for my health/dental/eye, but I'm the only one on my policy. |
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Rebecca S
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NO!! |
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Matthew K
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No way! Medicare/Medicaid and Social Security are going to fail in the next 20-30 years. Why should we add another unsustainable program to the national scene?
We need to learn from SS and m/m. It sounds nice and is an easy sell to the public to say that everyone will be covered, everyone will have healthcare but it is not the right thing to do. There is a reason rich people from other countries with socialized medical systems come to America for surgery.
I'm not saying the system works really great now, but it would be much worse under some nationalized system. We don't need Hugo Chavez's ideas here. |
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dedication62
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No. The government has screwed up enough in this country. |
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Billy
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Yes If the increase was reasonable. I would like to see if operated by an independent nonprofit, non - government group that is elected - one from each state - and free of political ties. This group could buy medicine and medical services in volume and have control over the costs,
I would like to see this increase put into a separate fund that can't be touched by congress thereby averting another fiasco like Social Security. |
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Bradford D
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No, I would not pay more. I would pay for a national based health care service by eliminating the funding of questionable programs all over the world for nations and people who already hate America yet continue to come to us with outstretched hands expecting more. |
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bdawsdr
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No, put the National Sales tax (Fair Tax ) in place and this country will have plenty of money. |
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jumpllc
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No Government was never intended to be the pacifier of the people.Not one thing they have touched in the last 60 years has turned out to be anything like what it was promised or projected to be. If we as a people do not learn to take care of and responsibility for ourselves and our own actions without looking to some great outside source, we are doomed to go the way of all civilizations who fail to learn this lesson---extinction and or at the least anarchistict rule |
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Harry B
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No. I would support health care for everyone. But NO MORE TAXES! |
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Brandi(A,K.A-Bmoney)
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Of course not. National health care is bankrupting the countries that use it. The Canadian supreme court ruled that part of national health care system is unconstitutional. In England 1 out 5 people with cancer needlessly die because they had to wait for care. Beside considering how bad the government has run the war why would anyone want them to manage anything? |
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Dot S
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NO, NO, and NO. that would be a catastrophe. |
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michigan
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NO!! Everyone in this country should have health care. And could right now, IF all the pork money that congress pass was stopped. If all the criminal activites and pilfering of taxpayer money stopped. If the billions that go monthy to the Iraq war machine was stopped. If big oil companies didn't rape the American taxpayers, shall I go on? The money is there for health care now, the government just wastes it. This government should be ashamed of themselves. |
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MJ
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NO, look to the north (Canada), government healthcare doesn't work.
NO, look to the Walter Reed medical facility fiasco to see how government delivered care works.
Healthcare needs to be private. Healthcare needs to be community driven and supplied, not manipulated by government reimbursement policies that currently have the privately insured subsidizing the whole system in addition to taxpayers whose dollars support medicare and medicaid and the likes. Get government out of healthcare! |
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soul_confidant
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THERE IS ALREADY ENOUGH MONEY IN THE SYSTEM TO COVER A NATIONALY BASED HEALTH CARE SEVICE. WE JUST NEED TO ROOT OUT ALL OF THE BAD POLITICIANS, WASTING ARE DOLLARS. WE HAVE TO FIND A WAY TO CANTAIN OUR OUT OF CONTROL GOVERNMENT. JUST WAY TO MUCH MONEY BEING WASTED. |
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pa_stor
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Yes. We missed the boat fifty years ago when we should have gone to a national based health system that the powerful doctor lobby rejected, called "socialized medicine". |
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Colonyhkman
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Yes. I would love to see a socialized medicine. |
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justolmama
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While I understand that doctors go to medical school (expensive) and must have malpractice insurance (also expensive), if they continue to charge exhorbitant fees, it will soon be for naught, because nobody will be able to afford to go to the doctor. My great grandfather was a country doc. He was grateful to even receive a chicken for payment. Now I'm not saying that would work today, but let's look at the perspective. My daughter just delivered a beautiful baby. The hospital charged her $4.00 for a box of Kleenex. I could have gotten that at the dollar store -- for a dollar. Even at Walmart for $1.29. The fees charged are the problem right now. And if you don't have the legalized extortion of insurance, you are just up a creek.
I'm not sure national health care is the answer, but some sort of reform is definately needed. |
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Molly
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No.
States are trying to push through health plans right now too.
I guess if they are willing to crack down on unreasonable lawsuits and horrific hospital and clinics rates then it might work. |
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kvnh2o
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NO, period. Before anything like this can happen. The medical field, as well as the major drug companies have to adopt a new agenda. Which, at this point, is not possible. Unless you expect doctor's and drug company's to work for free. This is a pipe-dream. Just look at Canada. No, the question should have said,"Would you pay more in taxes for mediocre health care? Or pay what you pay now, in the system we currently have, for quality health care"? Also, lets not forget, most healthcare issues in this country involve "lifestyle choices". |
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B C
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Absolutely not. I do not believe that the government is an efficient (or good for that matter) provider of health care. Look at Medicare. The bureaucracy, waste, and fraud in the system should tell any person looking honestly at the system that the private health insurance based system today is the best one in the world. Is it perfect? Certainly not, but I believe strongly that national health care would not only be detrimental to our nation's economy (which it most certainly would), but to our health as well!! Thanks for the opportunity and I look forward to learning more about your stands on all issues as the race continues. |
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bud.bromley
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No. Instead, health care expenses should be one of the only deductions (along with tuition and childcare) to a 15% flat tax on all income. Also, all tax on corporate profits should be eliminated and the death tax should be eliminated. Corporate taxes are a hidden tax on all consumers and cause prices to increase. |
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Allan E
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When businesses merge or acquire other related businesses, we always here about "economies of scale." Undoubtedly there would be increased costs in some areas, but if it was run like a business, those increases should be offset by the savings from having efficiencies across the business. We should demand no less. |
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