How can anyone NOT support Universal Health Care?

• Please take a few moments to watch this debate clip featuring a Emergency Department doctor Art Kellerman supporting Universal Health Care (UHC) administered by the federal government before answering my question. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VR2yh3-tlM Now, with all the evidence that exists and UHC working so well in so many countries globally... France, Canada, Norway, Australia, UK, Hong Kong, India and many more why would anyone in the US be against some form of Universal coverage for all citizens? Clearly, many doctors and nurses would prefer UHC - it means a lot less paperwork and they can see (and help) more patients. An overwhelming majority of people who live in these countries with UHC will sing the praises of world class health care (including preventative medicine) for what amounts to only a small compulsory tax offset. What happens if something horrific happened to you or your family, and even with private cover and a HMO, your request for payment of a hospital bill and treatment is declined? What happens if you lose your job (and employer health benefits) tomorrow? None of this happens with UHC, you will always know that you are covered. A good government wants you to get better and be a contributing member of society as soon as possible, not lose your home on medical bills. I find it surprising the attitude of many responses here on YA already on this issue. Like it's "their fault they didn't have health cover" and "I shouldn't have to pay for anyone else" which seems quite selfish and most ridiculous! You already pay (through taxes) for roads, law enforcement and emergency services, defense and many other things you may never use - yet the most important of all, health, is something that people actually don't care about anyone else? I don't expect people to accept and support Obama's plan for healthcare, but surely there is a government option that will include every single man, woman and child when the chips are down. This is people's lives here and you could be one of the unlucky ones - even if you DO have insurance, to go bankrupt next. Nobody deserves that. I do not believe UHC is about socialized medicine either, that's just a stupid right wing scare campaign. No government bureaucrat decides under UHC if you get the operation your doctor decides you need, whereas under the current system your HMO can refuse to pay for it using loopholes and "pre-existing condition" clauses. I'm sure there is a place for HMO's and private funds, but not at the expense of turning the profit making medical profession into a universal and caring profession. Please don't block UHC in America, at this point.... it's sorely needed! What do you think?

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  As you can see it is really difficult to get this across, the madness of having a for profit system run by insurance companies is so stupefyingly crazy that you would think any normal rational thinking person would see this. It unfortunately comes down to one thing, and yes you have guessed it MONEY!!! The scare tactics, the lies, the selfish ideology, the waste, and unregulated pricing of treatments and drugs is just one big money machine, and god help anyone who tries to put the skids on this baby!!! Hence the very successful attempt at brainwashing a whole nation into believing that health care is not a right but a privilege, and the rubbish about the constitution, that it is some holy grail to be abided by even over two hundred years later in 2009 The fact that just about all Americans are one serious illness away from bankruptcy gets totally ignored, most foolishly think that their insurance no matter how crap will be there for them if anything bad happens, yeah right!!! But as that person said in his/her post ''why should you care" I think that sentiment sums this country up in a nutshell!!!