keep it the way it is and lower healthcare costs. simple

I buy my own health insurance..

I DO NOT want government healthcare. I like MY doctors, and I like the good quality care that I get from them.

I do not want any government interference with healthcare.

exactly! they leave stuff out not covered anyway.

And what of the millions who either cannot afford it or don't qualify for it? Not everyone under the current system can get Health Insurance, even if they want it and can afford it.

Plus there are are nearly 50 million people who don't have insurance. Many of them are using our emergency rooms for care. And guess what that does to the cost of medical care.

You guessed it.

Our costs go up because of all the uninsured americans.

It's my opinion that we need to keep Health Insurance privatized, and out of the hands of government. But government can make it mandatory, just like they do with auto insurance.

I think we should have a 2 WAY system.

Let people like ME, who can afford our own health insurance, use it, but also have a system set up for those who cannot afford health insurance.

On a side note, I think that if you cannot afford healthcare, you should not be having children and adding extra burden to your family. That also raises costs, because these people end up being welfare users.

Healthcare is not a 'right', just like owning a car is not a right.


I believe that at some point people need to take responsibility for themselves.

I do not want to be forced to be covered under any government plan.

people sometimes have children unexpectedly, so saying, "well just dont have children" is a bit naive. Also, saying that healthcare is a not a right, well it should be and comparing it to a transportation vehicle, well, thats just silly of you. I will not die if i dont have a vehicle, but i surely will if i dont have healthcare. I wish the government would make it easier for people like me who dont have healthcare, to get it. Because i believe preventative care is a lot better and less expensive than healthcare

i dont qualify for it. the only things i need it for are not qualifying aspects of insurance.

I'm Canadian, so I don't have the same problem. We have universal healthcare provided by each province and is funded through our tax dollars. We don't have to pay ANYTHING when we go to the doctor. It varies from province to province, but generally, the basics are covered. Here in Ontario, we have to pay for dental, optometrics, physiotherapists (when it's not an emergency), and over the counter drugs... all of which can be covered by private insurance.
I have no qualms with it. Though Canadians, on average, pay higher taxes, I think it's overall worthwhile. There are problems with our system as well, don't get me wrong, but I like knowing that I have a right to a standard of healthcare regardless of financial standing.

I'm totally for universal healthcare.

Ideally, no one should have to die or suffer because of money, especially in the more industrialized nations of the world. The US can award billions in contract money for overseas operations but millions of it's citizens cannot afford to go to the doctor?

Limiting access to healthcare to only those who can afford it and calling it a priviledge is classist.

I do not know what the solution is, but I know that the current solution is set up for failure, pain, and suffering.

Read the thread, "The Profitability of Sickness" here: http://ehealthforum.com/health/topic108680 .html

Is the answer!!

My family and I can afford it, we save money and we are never denied, even with pre-existing conditions.

We pay $49.95 per month for the household medical/dental/vision/prescription/chiropr actic/hospitalization and specialists.

As a matter of fact anyone who does not meet the income requirements for Medicare/Medicaid can afford it and even some who do can as well.

I would post the link but that is against the rules it appears, but if this is something you could benefit from, feel free to message me.

I was lose my health insurance after I switch the new job.(no more job on old company).Then I get cover on Cobra for a year(pay)
After I get cover from my wife's insurance ( 1199 SEIU),but , just a month,the UNION told they don't get enought money then kick me out.
I was lose the health insurance again.
I don't qualify for Low income insurance.
If I buy it from insurance company,It was $ 4000.00 a MONTH for family plan.Who can pay for $ 4000.00 a MONTH ?
THat mean I need to join the un-insurance team.

What can I do?I can do nothing? If I get sick I will get kill.
Bush send all our money to war but don't want to pay back our money to our health,it so bad.
What can we do......What can we do......

I'd go with C, but I think there needs to be a government control of private healthcare systems to make sure they do not take advantage of people. They should each receive a certain amount of tax dollars from the government based on how many high risk individuals they take into their program.

Also, companies should not be allowed to deny people coverage. If they are high risk, they should have their specific conditions not covered, but the people should be able to at least be able to get catastrophic insurance.

I encourage everyone to see Sicko by Michael Moore! It is such a great, eye opening moving.

I like the consumer driven health care idea. Its more of a catastrophic insurance but includes your CDHP and HDHP. The HDHP also gives the advantage of allowing you to save money for future medical expenses.

I have high blood pressure, athsma, and crohns disease..

I am 5'6 and 125 pounds..

My health insurance IS expensive, but I dis qualify for it.

MANY companies will insure people with conditions, you need an agent to help you figure out who can.

What about education? And access to safe water? Or even food?

We are born and we die. Somewhere in between I think that taking care of one another is a evolved response to the human experience. If not for compassion, how else are we different than even the animals who can understand the natural law that the strong survive? It is simply a lower path to "do it on your own" and believe that cutting off others to save yourself is right.

It is not anyones job to FEED, clothe, house, or take care of me. I BELIEVE that each person is responsible for themselves.

I understand falling on hard times and needing a month or TWO of help, but that should be it..IMO.

I've got health issues that demand lots of doctor visits & meds with high co-pays (there's no way I could buy most of them without insurance.) My husband has insurance on us through his job. I have Medicare as a secondary insurer because I'm on disability. My out of pocket medical expenses in 2007 took up 80% of the disability I received.

I'd love to see some kind of universal health care, but my reaction is this: Think about what our government has done to our schools. They can't take care of disaster victims properly or maintain our infrastructure. What do you think they'd do to healthcare??? I believe they'd run it into the ground very quickly.

I believe those who could afford private care would be getting prime medical care from private physicians (many of which would probably flee from government funded practice as soon as univeral health care laws were passed.) This would leave everyone else to receive what I believe will be second rate health care. Which physicians will be in the government health system? Probably not the best and the brightest. What kinds of waits would there be to get basic care? Would we have to wait 8 months (as I heard is common in Canada and Brittan) to have an MRI?

All I ask is that people think this situation through before they make any decisions.