6 Listens Question
Should the government provide health insurance to citizens that can't afford it?
President Obama answered questions from an audience and discussed ideas for how to fix the health care system during a special broadcast Wednesday night (June 24, 2009) on ABC and WATE.
WATE also hosted an online discussion during the program. You can review what was said here.
Now 6 News wants to ask you a fundamental question. Should the government provide health insurance to citizens that can't afford it? Please answer add to your answer with a comment.
Read more >>Yes
54% (35 votes)
No
46% (30 votes)
Total votes: 65
NO!!
The question of government forced health care should be asked this way - Should those citizens with jobs be forced to use their earnings to pay for the health care of those who don't have it? NO! Medicare and Medicaid already takes away money from wage earners to pay for healthcare of many millions of people now. The government only wants to cease more control over peoples' lives and further destroy their freedoms by imposing such a national healthcare system in this country. Socialism is now rampant in this country, and if we don't put a stop to its progress we'll soon be just another communist country trying to survive like the others are.
My experiences with the current fradulent health care system
First, my family (especially 2 of 4 grown children) have no health insurance, being laid off from good jobs. The only contact with doctors they have is for real emergencies going to the ER for care...which is what over75% of the uninsured have to do. Then, all you who complain about the poor bilking the system...you will pay for this lack of coverage!
Another daughter is required to take a drug that is used to counteract chemo in cancer patients. This cost, over $240 for 20 tiny pills is covered by her employer's health coverage. BUT, what if she had no coverage?? Cancer patients face this dilema every day...
Next I would point out the victims of the TVA disaster in Roane County. The sick people over there are never mentioned in any coverage of what TVA is NOT doing to help them get well...and most doctors refuse to agree that they are sickened due to breathing toxic air...why? Because they do NOT want to be sued for telling the truth.
We must have a public health care option. And by the way, Medicare and Medicaid have been run very well. It is the fraud that is causing these programs to fail...by doctors, drug companies and insurance companies over billing, double billing, etc...That statement from the President was totally taken out of context.
So this is why I answered YES!
Choices
Living in liberty is about choices.
I choose not to have health insurance. It's an expense I'd rather not incur.
When I need to see a doctor I go to one; I tell him I don't have health insurance and I ask for a discount. By selling me his services at a discount he actually nets more money than he would billing an insurance company. It's a win-win.
I am 53 years old, married and a small business owner. I couldn't qualify for welfare (Medicaid, TNCare) nor would I try. We made the choice to not breed. I respect your choice to have babies, but am appalled that you imagine I have any obligation to pay for their expenses. It's sad that they were laid off, but I made sacrifices to learn a skill and we went without to invest in my business. Maybe things would have been different in your lives had you chosen another path in life, but you and your offspring chose the path you took and now you must live with your decisions.
I went to the ER once. It cost $700+ to ride the ambulance, another $700+ for the ER and yet another $700+ for the doctoring I got there. Twenty-one hundred dollars ain't my idea of a freebie!
Those poor ignorant people who go to a hospital instead of a regular doctor or walk-in clinic aren't costing taxpayers zip! They're costing the hospitals, and the hospitals and the big corporations that own them are the main thrust behind this new push for Socialized Medicine.
The solution to their dilemma is a lot simpler than the total destruction of our healthcare system, but the PR for hospital corporations would be very bad if they suggested this: Get government out of the mix. Government requires by law that hospitals treat the poor. Remove that totalitarian law and return liberty to the land and this problem will evaporate.
Remove the rest of the welfare that government so poorly manages and allow the people to keep their earnings and the poor will be taken care of as they have been for centuries: by caring humans who have enough disposable income to volunteer their time and money for just causes.
doc@halebobb.com
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I am 74 y.o. an am shocked to see what is happening in our country since our last election. I know of NO country that has a successful Single Pay Public Option Health System. NOT Canada, England, Germany, France or ANY OTHERS. I have traveled the world for 35 years. It always results in not enough Doctors, rationing of health procedures. drugs, and surgical operations, extremely high taxes and heavy government involvement which becomes very political, etc.
Our government hasn't successfully run anything from Katrina Recovery to the Post Office to responsible spending of public money, banks or even itself, NOTHING, and now the politicians what to run our health care too? It's all about money and power.
All of the governments current goals reflect the inexperience in governing, lack of understanding how wealth is CREATED, denial of constitutional protections such as private property (GM and Chrysler bond and stockholders), and very much in the style and orientation of a community organizer.
I have never wanted anything from government except to stay out of my way and freedom to raise my family and follow my ambitions legally to as far as it will take me. What I earned was for my family and me. Yes, I paid taxes but only as much as required and NO I didn't mind sharing what we had accumulated AFTER taking care of my family's needs. We successfully raised 4 children, who are now all married and successful
I'm neither a Democrat or Republican, but am a very responsible, financially conservative. What I see going on in our Government today is nothing more than PUNISHING THE SUCCESSFUL and REWARDING to POOR AND UNSUCCESSFUL.
I concur with your take on what's happening with our government
You are absolutely right about how the government is out to wrest as much control over our freedoms as the citizenry will allow.
Govenment heallth care
Government motors
Government banks
Government health care
Whats next???????? Government Religion!
Socialism is alive and well deep within the Big "O".
Stay out of our lives government!
I think that the government
I think that the government can provide health care to people who can really not afford it...but not to people who put themselves living beyond their means in the first place. I think that people who want it should have to submit their bills - electricity, water, gas, automobile, cell phone(s), home phone, insurance, rent/mortgage, student loan payments, etc. and pay stubs for each eligible person - just like food stamps to see if they qualify for it.
I know a mother that made 1,000.00 every 2 weeks and she had the nerve to tell me she couldn't afford health insurance on her child. But she could afford all the clothes, the 50 ringbacks each month, the 500.00 car payment, and several cell phones for her "friends" though.- People like that should not have access to free health care. I don't work, have two kids and live off my husbands little salary and I still can't get health insurance or food stamps from the state beacuse he makes too much. We have less than 100.00 per week for grocery.
fed government inc.
the federal government is a corporation. obama its ceo, a few rich stock holders tell the ceo and board of directors{congress}what to do. that fat corporation should provide health care for its workers[us].the federal government isnt even part of we the people.
insurance
everybody should have some reasonable access to health care.no matter how poor.
I am NOT a Republican!
I am decidedly NOT a Republican! I don't even like Republicans. Our first Republican, Abe Lincoln was the worst traitor this Republic ever witnessed, and Obama is a huge fan of that racist, white supremacist!
This isn't a debate; Obama has decided he will implement this socialism scheme, and like all dictators, he will force his wishes upon us at the point of a gun!
He admitted just now that Medicare and Medicaid are breaking this nation. Here's a clue: these two systems are government run healthcare! What makes him think another government run healthcare system will work better?
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