Answered By: Chris B - 7/10/2009 |
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Ayn Rand said it best: "These are all great ideas, but at whose expense?". Where do you think the government will get the money to pay for "free" health care? Same place it gets all money it ever has, by sucking it out of the "private sector" somehow, usually be taxing individuals or business. Everyone who has health care now will have less health care in the ObamaNation because there will be more people using the same resources, many of whom will not contribute to its costs.
There are a couple of ways poor people can get excellent health care now, at your expense: County Hospitals and Medicaid.
Goods and services will be more expensive because the cost of health care must be borne by the economy, either by taxing it or by hiding the tax in prices, as with cap and trade.
Meanwhile, back in Europe, those Socialist Paradise Countries are trying desperately to figure out how to get rid of their National Socialist health care because it is bankrupting them. And the wait times for patients are much longer than here. Same with Canada.
Answered By: who is #1? - 7/10/2009 |
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Thats one of the fundamental pros for universal health care through teh economic perspectives. absolutely, thats why obama is brilliant
Answered By: 11dimensions - 7/9/2009 |
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Yeah, one of the many reasons for health care overhaul is for expedited economic recovery.
Answered By: Jared - 7/9/2009 |
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It would make no difference.
Answered By: pinkturbokitty - 7/9/2009 |
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In our country, government takes great care of us. So many people take advantage of it and does not have job but live nice living style.
Answered By: dokomo - 7/9/2009 |
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No, they and their workers would be more taxed to pay for it.
Answered By: Dude - 7/9/2009 |
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Depends on whether savings made on health insurance outweigh profit loss from taxes.
On a whole, most businesses do appreciate Obama's Healthcare plan, even the unrepentant capitalist Walmart.
Answered By: Back - 7/9/2009 |
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Your right universal healther care would help our buisnesses.. but wait wouldnt those buisness owners pay higher taxes on universal healthcare? causing that buisness owner to not have a buisness anymore
Answered By: luke P - 7/9/2009 |
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How would a wasteful government entitlement program like Social security and the other 13 entitlement programs this government is running into bankruptcy cause business to be more profitable ? God bless
Answered By: mopar Mike - 7/9/2009 |
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No. especially when Cap and Trade are put into play.
There are 300,000,000 people to take care of, that is a lot.
Massachusetts couldn't take care of their of the 6,000,000
residents with out going into the hole( in debt) for 1.5 billion.
Why can't the government just add these uninsured to the programs that already exist oh wit minute silly me they are all bust, broke..
Answered By: callenqhranch - 7/9/2009 |
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I guess I just don't understand where the money is going to come from to pay for all this universal health care. It isn't taking a burden off the private sector if they are taxed heavily to pay for it.
Answered By: Gremmie - 7/9/2009 |
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Be forewarned, im a republican :]
and now to voice my opinion, look at countires who DO have universal healthcare, All of Western Europe, Canada, and many countries in northern europe. productivity is low and unemployment is high (I am portuguese and have visited the country and have seen this myself) while on the exact opposite of the spectrum, we have countries like China and India which are anti-socialists (no matter how hard china tries to persuade the world they are communists, they arent, theyre just capitalistic totalarianists) their employment is high and their productivity is high,
now i dont think we should adopt a system like china or india, but it just goes to show the two extremes of the spectrum.
i think there should be a tax break on small business workers so that they may go out and buy healthcare in the private sector...
do you really want your government running healthcare, look at how they run our schools, (i go to a private school :] )
Answered By: chrispereira93 - 7/9/2009 |
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No, all of those extra Billions of dollars in profit would ruin American businesses.
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Right wing idiots, and the liars at the HMO's
Answered By: BigDog - 7/9/2009 |
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The way I see it, companies and individuals will still have to pay for healthcare. It will just be done through higher taxes.
I'm skeptical of any plan to increase access to healthcare which doesn't address supply and demand in the medical field. I think building more medical schools and providing financial assistance to medical students would do a lot more for the goal of expanding access to care.
Answered By: jimbad05 - 7/9/2009 |
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Politicians are expert at buying votes by giving out benefits, and concealing the costs. The costs are still there. Having a third party pay my bills won't make me any more responsible about costs, will it?
Working on reducing costs makes more sense than passing a load of money thru politicians hands.
Answered By: jeff m - 7/9/2009 |
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I don't think it matters exactly where the money comes from it will cost a lot more money than what it does right now. If those costs are passed on to the consumer then we all will pay for it that way if legislation is passed to accelerate taxes to cover it then (those without clever accountants will likely have to pay) the public pays.
IF the cost spiral CAN BE CONTROLLED as is hoped by Obama then the well-being as well as the profitability of American business will increase.
The MAJOR BENEFIT of universal health care is the humanity afforded by getting help to those in need. Reluctance and scoffing at its proposed benefit is a result of the MASSIVE ABUSE perpetrated by unscrupulous operators who have been defrauding the Medicare & other systems.
The EU system of value added tax is a validation of the premise of all participants paying a share for the common good---it sounds really great but my friend in Germany who has corollary financial difficulties has no medical insurance and is tax broke anyway!! Germany is still paying for the absorption of Deutsche Demokratische Republic so may not be a fair parallel even though our system is overburdened with welfare for poor people and for Wall Street.
Since our government is now in the business of bailing out failed enterprises once they reach a certain size what is the definition of profit any way ??
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The rich get richer and the poor get poorer and Uncle Sam get the blame.
Answered By: klby - 7/9/2009 |
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I ONCE was a proponent of Universal Health Care...no longer. Although I reserve some points to ponder because I haven't heard ALL the ideas on the table, this is another idea BY THIS ADMINISTRATION that will go haywire and cause more harm than good...and most especially with small business. I must point out that small businesses are the major contributors to our economy now that manufacturing has made us the most UN-industrialized nation among those who ARE industrialized nations. The backs of small business are breaking right now...and if cap and trade and this health care bill passes and LOOKS anything like it does right now, IT MAY WELL BE ALL OVER for business as we know it. YOUR BASIC IDEA is a good one. But we must take in the WHOLE picture! That picture MUST include what is happening to small business from MANY DIRECTIONS right now and the implications of what they will be asked to deal with if the REST of Pres. Obama's bills manage to take hold and PASS. MANY, MANY businesses that are MAJORLY contributing to our nations "tax base" cannot afford ANY employee based health care. They WILL be required to pay for it if this bill passes as it is. This added burden is one our small businesses will not be able to handle. The expence will be too great...even if it is cheaper than from current insurance companies. My son runs a small business and today he had to walk off a job before completion due to the rules and regulations imposed within his area of construction by Federal, State, County and City laws passed which would require him to PAY a little over a thousand dollars in fees, JUST TO DO a job he bid for $1800...to help the home owner who is struggling like we all are! At this rate, he will have to fold his company and go to work for a LARGER company, that CAN afford all the taxes and fees. So how long will it be until LARGE companies are the only practical choices left? And with all the small businesses OUT of the picture, what pricing and cost will be charged to the homeowners or clients that THEN will have little if any competition? How EFFICIENT are larger companies compared to smaller ones in general...the answer is NOT at all! With a half million Americans losing their jobs EVERY MONTH....WHO will be left who is able to sustain our American Economy by HIRING these large companies....so then DO THEY GO BROKE??? Yes, they will. The government cannot sustain our country. Only our people, small businesses and independence of choice will save us. And has anyone THOUGHT of the repercussions of "basically putting all the insurance companies out of the health care business?" HOW MANY JOBS WILL THAT COST US? Do we really believe they will NOT TRY to sustain their incomes by RAISING the cost of OTHER INSURANCE COSTS? And among those other costs are MANDATORY vehicle insurance. IF it is still MANDATORY to have it and they LOSE their ability to obtain clients willing to buy health insurance THESE COSTS WILL RISE. So in the end, I will make a "kinda dumb little joke to provoke thought" by saying that the MOSTLY POOR people left in our country MIGHT GET FREE OR CHEAP health insurance and NOT BE ABLE TO DRIVE TO GET TO A DOCTOR OR HOSPITAL.
There was a good time to re-vamp this issue and "sensible" ways to at least insure MOST people. But now is definately NOT the time.
I am one that most definately believes that our government has lost ALL CONTACT with the people who they are suppose to serve AND I will go one step further by saying they are ACTING as though they have come from some other planet! What has happened to common sense and concern for the "little people" of whom make up the majority of Americans?
WAKE UP!!! WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH BUSINESSES LEFT TO BE COMPETITIVE AT ALL IN THE GLOBAL MARKET!!! ALL our major and rock solid 'foundations' of business were SHIPPED AWAY with the passage of NAFTA! I was a governmental worker whose job it was to place displaced workers who lost their jobs almost immediately when NAFTA was passed into law. In Missouri, we lost 30 major factories within the first month after!!! I, personally, did the "paperwork" for over 800 workers the first month after NAFTA. I left the "sickening" business very quickly when I began to feel "tarnished" by the GREED and EVIL FEEL of the job.
The answer is really simple here...people BUY things...even if it is things they need, they MUST buy them...and WILL buy them. We and the WORLD are made up of necessary THINGS.
Now all the THINGS are being made somewhere else. What are we left with WITHOUT small business. NOT EVERYONE can go to college and expect to find a proffessional job! Our world STILL needs service workers and all the businesses and people who provide low-level THINGS. In my governmental job, we use to come upon people we called "career students." They went to school and got degrees and then went back to school for MORE degrees...feeding off of the grants and loans available. THAT is what Obama and the Dems are doing, now...
Answered By: Bunny7 - 7/9/2009 |
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It would allow individual citizens to become more profitable, given today's cost.
Answered By: syntax - 7/9/2009 |
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Hi there kasey!
Yes it would be nice. I fear to many coordinators and dispensary spenders would have their hand in the kitty....kinda like social security.
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Answered By: bilbo baggins - 7/9/2009 |
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I suspect that those who want universal health care in US are those who have not a hope in hell of providing it for themselves through an insurance company either because of underlying health problems or the sheer cost when trying to earn a living.
Those who do not wish for it either have a financial stake in private only health care or can afford it possibly through a company scheme. Being a cynic I suspect also that those who lose their jobs with the company health scheme and also fall ill will change their opinion.
Being a Brit I would not like to live without our health service which over the years seems to have become over administrated and a political football.
Answered By: Scouse - 7/9/2009 |
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The health system you have in the USA is a right old racket. The cause and cures for ALL diseases was discovered decades ago. The treatment for most diseases is elemental and very cheep.
But your doctors totally ignore nobel prize winning research in favor of conning you all into buying expensive drugs and surgeries that in all probability will kill you. The medical profession in the USA is the single biggest killer of the lot. Mostly from bad reactions from their expensive drugs.
http://www.ash-info.com/ASH RESEARCH GUIDE - UPDATED - 1- Melinda - The pH Advantage.pdf
Practicing Shaman... quantum physics rocks.
Answered By: Val - 7/9/2009 |
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