Universal Health Care
From Liberapedia
Universal health care is something they have in reasonable liberal countries like the United Kingdom and Canada. It's available to everyone and it's free. In most of Western Europe there is some degree of free medical care (with Germany having the oldest system still in use, dating back to the 1880s). [1] [2] Now does that mean that every single industrialized country apart from the United States is wrong and liberal biased? Andrew Schlafly and other like minded idiots Conservatives like you to think so.
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Mortality
In most of Western Europe people live on average slightly longer than people do in the United States. This is probably due in large part to substandard prenatal care for the poor and the resultant higher infant mortality rate.
Benefits
It means that when you are sick you can concentrate on getting well and don’t have to worry about how you will pay for the doctor or whether your Medical Insurance will cover all the costs. It also means that if you are chronically sick and can’t earn enough money to pay for Medical Insurance the state will still look after your medical costs.
Bankruptcy
In the United States millions of people could become bankrupt if they or someone in their family becomes seriously ill and their medical insurance doesn’t cover it. When people are sick and need health care they can least afford to work and pay for it. Medical Insurance Companies care about the profits of their shareholders and therefore they pressure sick people to get cheap health care rather than the health care that’s best for them.
Who pays?
Young healthy people pay taxes and National Insurance to cover the cost of Universal Health Care. Later when these people are older and need more medical care or when they become sick they are glad they don't have to pay.
Paradox
Free Market Health Care is paradoxical. Healthy people are the highest earners. Healthy people can afford to pay for medical treatment but do not need it. Less healthy people need more treatment but can pay less. The most unfortunate are those born with chronic illnesses or disabilities. Such patients may in the worst cases never in their lives earn the money they need to pay for medical treatment. Universal Health Care is seen as compassionate. It looks after those who through no fault of their own cannot look after themselves.
What Americans want
75% of Americans would like to see Universal Health Care but the Conservative Republicans didn't provide it. Conservative politicians like to claim that universal health care system doesn't work. Poor, uneducated fellas, they have obviously never heard of Canada and United Kingdom.
Arguments Against Health Care
Anti Health care advocates like to complain that Socialised health was something they had in Nazi Germany, quite how this is relevant it unknown as Germany had universal health care for roughly fifty years prior. They only took health care away from the Jews, something Obama is certainly not trying to do.
See also
External links
- Barack Obama's plan for Universal Health Care
- Ensuring America's health
- The Case for Universal Health Care in the United States
- Universal Health Care
- Universal health Care Plans
Videos
- "Dear Number 1036924053887" by Roy Zimmerman Roy Zimmerman suggests solving the Health Care crisis this way.
