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2008 Presidential Candidates: Where They Stand on the Issues
The United States presidential election is scheduled for Tuesday, November 4. Not sure whom you are going to vote for? Read about the candidates and where they stand on issues that hit close to home, such as health care, taxes, education, and more.
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My family members live in both Canada and in France - both say they can see their doctor the same day.
What do you think it costs American tax payers, when a middle-low class family can not afford routine preventative and early-detection appointments...so healthcare is postponed until diseases have progressed enough that they must reduce or quit work...then, after using any and all assets they have, are eligible for medicaid/medicare - a tax-payer supported program! At which point, tax payers also care for their young families (food, shelter, clothing, medical) because the parent is unable to work.
Wouldn't it have been cheaper, not to mention better for the family, to share the cost of those lower-cost routine appointments?
Have you seen the movie SICKO?
1. You can afford healthcare and YOU dont need it to be provided by the government so you dont care.
2. You think that people that can not afford it should suffer BUT still pay taxes and send money to the government but receive nothing. Lets look at Canada's Health Plan their taxes are about %50 of their checks with full healthcare coverage. My family pays about %32 no coverage. The average American will pay %20 of the checks to healthcare and thats IF they dont get sick, if they do need more than just a simple check-up then the price skyrockets. So yes taxes would go up but you would be paying close the the same you are now, but if you of sick or whatever it would be paid for without the price shooting upward. I have a brother we call "The Hundred Dollar Baby" because when he was born his lungs didnt develop correctly and had be in the ICU for a few weeks we ended up with a bill over $100,000.00 maybe Dittomom would like to tell my brother that We are not entitled to healthcare it is not a freedom. It was not anyone's fault his lung didn't develop right, but now we have to live with this bill and the average American salary is approx. $28-32k you do the math
Also the "...hurts working people..." Does it seem like Canada is going to fall apart? Are there a great deal of people losing money because of this? "Stand in lines for your healthcare and wait months to see your doc?" How often do you need to get a check up? Yes, you act like an responsible adult and plan your appointment in advanced. Now if you mean that the hospitals will be over stuffed and you wont be able to see a doctor, they of course see who ever is in a more critical state first. This could actually make more jobs for people, because then we would need more hospitals and more nurses and more doctors giving people more jobs. Also if a person becomes sick and then disabled that means we have to pay for there all there stuff. So would you rather pay small amounts for the check-ups and stop something before it get serious or wait until they become disabled then we pay for more then just there medical bills? We are all apart of the government. We all pay taxes. We all should get more out of it, free healthcare is a good start.