Politics – NPR is covering Universal Health care in various countries this week. Japan produces cars, color TVs and computers, but it also produces the world's healthiest people. It has the longest healthy life expectancy on Earth and spends half as much on health care as the United States.
I listened to the this report yesterday on NPR. It seems that the Japanese people benefit from this program quite well, but the doctors and the Hospitals are struggling. There needs to be a "sweet spot" established that makes doctor's, hospitals, and patients comfortable with he arrangement. Insurance companies should never be allowed to profit on people's health. Period! Sorry for the double post.
First off the fact that Japan "also produces the world's healthiest people" has nothing to do with Universal Healthcare as this author implies. They were healthier before "Universal Healthcare" and will continue to be healthier even if the US has Universal Healthcare.
Now the reason I am against universal healthcare is quite simple-where do we stop?
What's the point of having healthy people if they don't have a home to live in? Everybody deserves a home right? Universal Homes.
How healthy can people be if they don't have food? Everyone needs to eat and should have food right? Universal Supermarkets
How are people going to even get to a doctor without a car? Everyone deserves to have a way to get to work and to the doctor right? Universal Cars
Next thing you know we are a mix of communism and socialism, not where I want this country to go.
Idiotic. Why do we have the things we do? They are chosen and (sometimes) paid for. We need, IMO, to choose this. It is shameful that poor children suffer and die in this country for lack of proper health care. It needs to be seen as a public responsibility, just like an army or roads or schools. It would save us a bundle, that is all of us not in the health insurance racket.
I believe it's just as shameful that "poor children suffer and die in this country" for lack of food, shelter or the ability to even get to a doctor.
Under your logic should not all those things be "public responsibility"?
Where's your calls for parental responsibility?
Also, please refrain from immature name calling, thanks.
Pleasr reread my post and if the shoe fits, wear it. I wrote that things are CHOSEN and imo this needs to be chosen. There is no logic in there. Why do we not have private roads, schools, armies? Nobody need starve or go without shelter, if they but look. But people DO go with no health care, or inadequate health care. And their children sometimes do, too. We are paying WAY too much for what we get as a nation.
Oh, and please refrain from the prissy personal criticisms. Your COMMENT is idiotic. I can't do one right thing 'cause where would it stop? OH LORD! Now I have to worry whether my brothers are hungry and homeless, just because I made sure they had health care! If I were name-calling, I would say: "YOU are and idiot." That's so you can tell the difference.
Isn't that what a government is for? And let's not forget, Cuba is ranked 39th by the WHO in terms of lifespan. The US is 37th. And Cuba would be considered a 3rd world country by most.
But Cuba has Universal Health Care.
Take a look at Canada's system, as well. Canadians are pretty much like us in their lifestyle. This story details the differences after 35 year of universal health care.
http://www.yesmagazine.org/article.asp?ID=1503
"Infant mortality rates, which reflect the health of the mother and her access to prenatal and postnatal care, are considered one of the most reliable measures of the general health of a population. Today, U.S. government statistics rank Canada's infant mortality rate of 4.7 per thousand 23rd out of 225 countries, in the company of the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Australia, and Denmark. The U.S. is 43rd--in the company of Croatia and Lithuania, below Taiwan and Cuba."
Where's your calls for parental responsibility?>>>>>>
Where do they get the $$$ for health care? My daughters family of three pays $1000.00 every MONTH to the greedy insurers. That's obscene! If one parent loses their job, then what? And what about families with only one parent? GAWD, ;you're a jerk.
The economics of profitability of Health Care Insurers will continue to be a problem until the risks and rewards of the entire population are evenly spread among them. Maybe we need a system the directs coverage costs in an even way among all health insurers, and passes an even premium, that reflects those costs, on to the whole population.
Bill Moyers is also doing this topic this week. I believe it is Switzerland that has a single-payer system in which doctors are well paid, less than many U.S. doctors make, but they also don't have to pay for their education and liability caps are low. Quality of care is good and doctors make enough to be happy.
Maybe we could stop subsidizing farming for high-fructose corn syrup and transfer the money to health care, at the same time reducing obesity and other widespread health problems.
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I listened to this on NPR yesterday. The Japanese pay less, but the doctors and the hospitals suffer as a result. The Japanese system is great for the consumer and bad for profits. Maybe there is some happy medium in between. A literal "Sweet spot" where doctor's make enough money, Hospitals have enough for operating costs, and people are skinned alive.
"A literal "Sweet spot" where doctor's make enough money,"
What's enough money? Say pay back all their loans and then enough to live a well-off but not extravagant lifestyle?
Do they note the way medical malpractice lawsuits are handled in Japan. Is it loser pays? Is it you aren't allowed to sue? Then again do they allow medical care for those illegally in their country?