How do you fix health care?
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — John Q
obelix99 — 12 years ago(January 17, 2014 09:25 PM)
When I watched this back in the early 2000, I agreed that we needed national health care. I always tried to convince others that if Canada, France, England, can do it, why can't we? I will happily pay more taxes if I know at the end of the day, my family and I can be taken care of in times of health crisis.
But let's be honest. That system will NOT work with 300+ million people. Plus I don't want government running my healthcare. Our government can't even put on a website correctly, how will it manage health care? The red tape. The bureaucracy. The level of imcompetent. We've seen it before a hundred time. Imagine being 65 and having a heart attack.
What do I propose?
Well for starters, we have to change the mindset of this country: we as indviduals need to take care of ourselves. We cannot rely on others to take care of us. Not our neighbors, not our millionaires, and especially not our politicians. It starts with you. You need to take care of you and your family.
I would then have tax benefits for health insurance. I would lessen the tax burden, and allow people to save up money for heathcare. If you're young and healthy, then buy only catastrophic insurancekinda like buying liability on a beater car. Everyone else can buy whatever they feel they need for coverage. The older you are, the more coverage you need, so buy insurance to cover that. We have to let the market play itself out. When you do that, prices go down.
So instead of paying $200 every paycheck worth of worthless taxes, the government gives me back that money to keep. As a RESPONSIBLE citizen, I would stick that into a HSA or even savings or buy insurance. The insurance companies would compete and you'll see prices drop. Again, let the market work.
It's by far perfect, but certainly better than what we have now or what we currently call OBAmacrap. -
liverpool26 — 11 years ago(October 20, 2014 03:53 PM)
If we can do it in UK I can't see why the US can't. Our population is only 65 million but now we have free movement throughout Europe everyone in EU can use it despite the fact they don't pay anything towards it.
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footsperry — 11 years ago(January 10, 2015 01:46 PM)
The current system is not government health care - it is government subsidized health care insurance. The care is still provided by private doctors, private hospital corporations (among others), private insurance, etc etc etc.
But the issue of providing health care to 330 million Americans through a national health care program is doable. If EVERY OTHER INDUSTRIALIZED NATION IN THE WORLD can do it, so can the US.
The major cause of families' bankruptcies in this country is health care crises.
Do you want to have to save an extra $240,000 in case you might have to have a heart transplant? It is simply not possible. And so, people everyday went to the hospital, and charity had to subsidize those ross, and hospitals absorbed those costs, and health insurance costs and hospital costs went up to spread out those costs - or the hospital went bankrupt and closed.
We already have national health insurance - it's called Medicare, and it has a lower rate of "waste" than other healthcare programs. It works.
And to your last claim: The health care insurance companies compete right now - and their costs have gone up less this past year than before the ACA went into effect. The market is still involved.