That is right, I said free emergency care and then the care they are supposed to pay for, they do not, for the most part, have the means to pay their medical bills off. As bad as that is we have citizens, taxpayers, hard working blue collar Americans that are refused care. The healthcare assistance programs are so tapped out from the tab of illegal aliens’ care that paying for a 12 year olds heart transplant is impossible to do! I do not see how or why this goes uncorrected. In the 40 years prior to 2002 there were 900 cases of leprosy in the United States.
Germany has universal health insurance that is funded by employers, employees and government subsidies. Premiums are a set percentage of a person’s income and family members of registered member are covered at no additional expense. Drug costs are lower in Germany and new drugs cannot be released to the public without proof that is has a greater benefit that therapies already in place (Commonwealth Fund, 2013). Lastly, Switzerland requires all residents to purchase health insurance and cannot be denied coverage
The affordable Care Act represents an attempt to provide national health insurance or direct health service delivery by the public sector for the United States, just as there is in all other advanced industrial democracies. Although approximately 14 percent of the American people now depend directly on the federal government for their health care, another group of the same size receives Medicaid funded jointly by the states and the federal government, and still others receive most or all of their care from emergency rooms in municipal hospitals, there is still resistance to a comprehensive program. By definition, health care policy denotes rules, regulations as well as guidelines that are in existence for operating, financing and molding
The questions still remains: why can’t the American people provide the best and most effective medical care for all of our elderly citizens? And, how can we accomplish this goal and fund it in a fiscally responsible way? Research still needs to continue in order to resolve these questions. Conservatives criticized Medicare because it is a nuisance to the party’s ideology, which views the private marketplace, not government, as the solution to society’s most pressing social problems. By applying the strengths perspective, which uses human strength and resiliency as a guide for helping individuals overcome personal obstacles and challenges, conservatives would rationalize that older adults should plan for their retirement many years earlier, preparing a way to provide their own medical care.
Funding in VA Health Care Unlike private hospitals, which collect money from insurance companies, patients and other sources, VA hospitals are funded almost entirely through taxpayer dollars. Veteran’s hospitals do get reimbursed by outside sources—including veterans and their insurance companies—for certain medical expenses. However, these sources fund less than 10% of the VA’s total health-care budget (Yakowicz, 2006). VA Hospitals Verses Civilian Public and Private Hospitals Until the early 1990s, care at VA hospitals was so substandard that Congress considered shutting down the entire system and giving ex-G.I.s vouchers for treatment at private facilities. Today it's a very different story.
Recently a new bill was passed (H.R. 3962), which took an important step forward to health care reform. The bill includes a public health insurance option it also prevents insurance companies from discriminating against people with preexisting sicknesses, and bans insurers for dropping people just because they get sick. The plan would cover 36 million uninsured Americans. One of the goals of socialized medicine is ensuring universal access to health care.
This creates a major problem that a large percentage of Americans cannot afford health insurance. The federal government should provide basic health insurance in order to preserve life but not a system that allows all people to go and get medical attention whenever they want for minor things that are not life and death situation. There will have to be a slight tax increase or something to pay for this however. Everyone has the right to live. Approximately twenty-five percent of Americans pay no or less of a fair share of taxes today.
President Obama has given 54,000,000 Americans coverage for preventive services free of cost; 32,500,000 Americans who will not have to pay co pays for many preventive services; 3,600,000 seniors who saved $2.1 billion on prescribed drugs; 3,100,000 more young adults that have health insurance under their parents plan and 50,000 uninsured people with pre-existing conditions have gained coverage. President Obama’s health wants to get rid of Obama’s health care which would up costs. He also just wants to give insurance or healthcare to people who already had existing coverage. This shows that Gov. Mitt Romney does not care for the welfare of all Americans like President Obama.
Illegal immigrants who do not pay taxes are costing the American tax-payers because of their visits to the hospital and the education that America provides for their children. "The economic and social consequences of illegal immigration... are staggering... Illegal aliens have cost billions of taxpayer-funded dollars for medical services. Dozens of hospitals in Texas, New Mexico Arizona, and California, have been forced to close or face bankruptcy because of federally-mandated programs requiring free emergency room services to illegal aliens…The total K-12 school expenditure for illegal immigrants costs the states $7.4 billion annually" (Haughen
The nurse who assisted me was worried about my medical savings because turns out rabies shots cost almost R700 a shot at private hospitals. She advised I go to a Government Hospital where the shots were administered for FREE. Can you believe it? R700 plus consultation vs FREE treatment. I was out of there like well…a bat out of hell.