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What is a public option in the health care debate?

Why is there even debate about universal health care in the USA?

  • Look I come from a country with universal health care (Australia) and a doctor visit and medication cost me 11$. And every other time i've needed health care it's always been cheap, i've never had to wait too long for health care. I've never even heard of people going broke from health bills but apparently 60 percent of bankruptcies in america of from medical bills http://news.health.com/2009/06/04/medical-bills-bankruptcies/.

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    UHC has been bankrupting country after country, leading to worse and worse care as the time goes by... France has been on the verge of bankruptcy for a LONG time and their UHC is a large part of the problem. You have to remember that each COUNTRY in Europe is about the size of a SINGLE STATE in the US... What is taking the EU a couple of decades to figure out would bankrupt the US in FAR less time simply because of the SIZE and POPULATION of our country. Fraud is already a multi BILLION dollar a year problem with Medicare and Medicaid alone... If we did ObamaCare, the fraud alone would bankrupt the system... Additionally, we don't want to have to give up over 50% of our income in taxes to pay for people that milk the system... What we need is Tort Reform... Do the same thing with health insurance that we did with Car Insurance and no longer regulate it so that each insurance company in each state is different from any other state... Each arm of the umbrella company offers different rates and different coverage and you have no choice but to take it or leave it. Example: Blue Cross Blue Shield is a national corporation but Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois offers a MUCH greater range of coverage than Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona, which SUCKS... When car insurance companies had to cope with NATIONAL COMPETITION, their prices went down and coverage went up because consumers had CHOICES... That can't happen with how Health Insurance Companies are regulated.. Competition is the mother of invention... And if you stifle competition, you lock consumers into taking what is offered... And on top of EVERYTHING ELSE, our Elected Officials voted on UHC BEFORE the bill was written... BEFORE any of them had actually READ what was in the bill... The bill is full of unconstitutional things like making the IRS a police force to go after people that have not purchased health insurance or registered with Obamacare. They would LITERALLY have the IRS billing citizens for not purchasing something. I WOULD KILL FOR GOOD HEALTH COVERAGE because I'm disabled... I need a hip replacement and have needed one since my joints went bad at age TEN (10) and I would KILL for good mental health treatment... But what is being presented in the US for UHC is not feasible... Not for a population this large...

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Awesome but what you have there and what we will get in the US might be different Most Americans like to keep what they earn They don't like being taxed

When you are providing a service where you know the government will be picking up the tab no matter what, what happens to your rates? How much is added to that rate to support the health care government bureaucracy on top of that? With that in mind, do you think that the medication, offices expenses, doctor's fee and all the other things that make up a bill only cost $11.00? What was the total bill to the government? Who paid that bill?

People here are dumb enough to think it's an issue.

Your question was why wasn't there a debate on Obama care answer simple there never was one to know what was in it you just had to vote for it. and trust the commy bas----ds that crafted it needless to say the progressives almost broke their necks running to pull the yes lever then got their free cup of kool aid.

now that question will get all the children here in an uproar.

I know it seems impossible to understand why the US as we are, cant have national health care, but even from a liberal point of view, its just not practical. The hospitals here are not government run, they are a private business, just like any that makes money. The reason health care in the US is so expensive is that people either have too little coverage or not enough and end up with huge hospital bills. Since I live in Massachusetts, and we have UHC, I use this. We are the only state that has it. And I can tell you that for regular office visits, the level of care is appalling But I have no choice and take what is given. For those that pay for their care and have a good plan, the level of care is excellent. And this is why they don’t want UHC. They see the level of care that people get with government assisted programs and they know they will pay just as much for a lower quality level of care under a UHC. And if you can afford good healthcare, I don’t blame them.

The discussion about health care took place 2 years ago. There cannot be universal care in the U.S. because private insurance companies dictate health care policy and pay off Congress members not to pass universal care bills. People in the U.S. are afraid of socialism which they conflate with universal health care. Americans want to retain the current private system. During the discussions in 2009 Congress would not even approve of the government selling insurance. We have 308 million people, quite a different situation from other advanced countries.

What happens when your country goes bankrupt? (European Debt crisis)

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