| Subject: When people say 'free healthcare' they refer to healthcare that is free at the point of service. |
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James M
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Date Posted: Tue, February 19, 2008 11:47:23
In reply to:
Tommymittenz
's message, "There's no such thing as free money (or free healthcare, housing etc.) It's more of our own money the government is allowing us to keep. Money we earned. One more thing...." on Mon, February 18, 2008 7:21:58
Of course, it is not free, it has to be paid for.
In nations that have national health coverage, I suppose children get healthcare in that none of them are expected to have paid for it in any way.
For those of you that would be concerned with paying additional taxes towards such a health system, do you not already pay sums greater than that currently for your health coverage? Employer health coverage is not free, it has to be paid for. An employers wages bill will take that into account and would be in a position to pay its employees more in absence of having to foot private health policies.
The cost of healthcare is so expensive in the US because so much costs are involved in the administration of policies, salesmen and dividends paid out to those who have invested in the industry that benefits off the sick. With economy of scale, no profits to be made, no teams of salesmen to be accommodated, the overall cost would come down. Of course the politicians and people with their pockets being lined by the shareholders of the current health industry will do their best to tell you that that is not the path you should take.
And could not the removal of the trauma of not knowing when your loved ones are covered, at a time of already great anxiety when they are injured in an accident or have become seriously ill, be worth a lot to you? Or even knowing that no one else in your nation, especially any child, would have to endure such an ordeal; would that not be of value to you at all?
A halfway house system may still be expensive as some of the the same aforementioned kind of administration costs may apply. I would recommend going the whole hog, a health care system for the people owned by the people.
Of course there will always be some net losers, those who are lucky to have had healthy uninterrupted lives and who have had the fortune to have a good education and been in an area of affluence. For some of those people, losing a little bit of it will always be too much and they will protest loudly against the implementation of a national healthcare system.
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