On one hand, I understand that state health care in Europe, Japan and Canada has some serious problems. So, I understand that people are concerned that if we copied them we would also copy their problems. Not to mention, people with money can afford to get better care than what the state provides and so large inequalities still exist. Also, many Americans don't like the government to be too involved in private affairs.
On the other hand, having the majority of health care funded privately isn't working out so hot here in America either. Lots of employers can't or won't pay for health care. If you wanted everyone covered privately, you'd still have to mandate that somebody, each employer or each citizen, pay for it and then you'd be back to the trouble of the government being too involved in private affairs. If you don't mandate that everyone be covered privately, the government is still involved because people's health care costs end up making them dependent on state aide.
On the other hand, there are plenty of people who believe everyone should pull themselves up by the bootstraps and take care of themselves and if you need to sacrifice nonessentials in order to pay for health care for your family, by golly, be a grown up and do it! Except, if you look back through history, the only people that's ever worked for is rich people. Poor people sacrificed and saved and did all they could to take care of their families and ended up paying for it with their lives and the lives of their children.
I know that nothing is easy and the solutions are going to have to involve some things that I don't like. I'm cool with that. I don't see how any answers are going to be put into action though, because like so many other debates going on, it seems like too few people want to work it out. Most sides just want to win.
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What's most alarming to me is the fact that you apparently have 3 hands.
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Charlotte - LOL.
Tonia - I have to admit, I'm quite confused too. In general I think everyone wants the same things. Everyone wants sick kids to go to the dr. etc. etc. But people have very different ideas of how to make that happen. We watched the Hallmark movie on CBS last night (I know, we're lame), and it was about a deaf kid who's parents were fighting about whether or not to accept the cure to make him hear or not. And they both wanted the same thing. They wanted their kid to feel loved and accepted and prepared for the future, but they had very different ideas about how to make that happen. And I think people get overly passionate about it because they've invested so much into their idea that if it gets shot down they get all defensive. Anyway, I don't really have anything super to add. Just that I've been feeling the same things this election year, and as un-democratic as this sounds, I'm a little wishing I could find a little hole to crawl into until the inauguration is over. :)
I agree and I'm paid by the BIG EVIL Pharmaceutical EMIPRE! I'm confused by this issue everyday. I centainly have compassion for those that cannot afford thier drugs and or care but, companies in a capitalistic society have a right to develop a product for a profit. Is health care a right or a privilage? Are drugs a right or a privilage? Thank God for the Walmart $4 perscription list. It helps to off set my guilt.
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