Comments on: Will the new health care system punish people with a healthy lifestyle?

By: Sonia

Sonia — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:55:44 +0000

I think you do have a point. However health care still means traditional medication system.

By: Daisy

Daisy — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:31:58 +0000

WAKE UP AMERICA IF YOU HAVE HEALTH INSURANCE OR NOT, AND/OR GO TO THE DOCTOR OR HOSPITAL YOU ARE ALREADY PAYING FOR THOSE WHO DO NOT PAY BECAUSE OF NO INSURANCE AND NO MONEY!!!
When a person shoplifts the loss has to be paid by someone, usually the consumer. When a person receives medical care it has to be paid for also therefore those that do pay pay for all.

WE NEED TO FIX HEALTH CARE IN THIS COUNTRY

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 07:22:10 +0000

No more I think than the current system does. I mean, when you get private insurance, you’re paying for people who smoke, are overweight, don’t exercise, etc. Also, as my doctor, a died-in-the-wool conservative, put it, the current system allows people who don’t pay for health insurance to freeload off of the people who do, because when they get a serious illness they can’t pay their bills and the rest of us end up absorbing the costs of their bankruptcies and paying higher rates to the doctors and hospitals that get shafted.

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 01:27:17 +0000

People with a healthy lifestyle can still get really ill. Some of the healthiest people I know have developed rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis.

By: The Patriot

The Patriot — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:27:42 +0000

No.

First of all, Obama is not going to bring in universal healthcare, a fact that many people (including those who voted for him) seem not to realise. He wants to make insurance more available to all.

Second, of course universal health-cover sucks. That is why we in Western Europe have it. We think, hmm, our healthcare system sucks. I know, lets keep it. I guess that is the same with Japan and Canada as well.

FACT - the USA spends more on healthcare PER PERSON than any other nation on the planet.

FACT - the US has higher death rates for kids aged under five than western European countries with universal health coverage.

That means that a dead American four year old would have had a better chance of life if they were born in Canada, France, Cuba, Germany, Japan etc, all of which have universal health coverage.

By: BigDog

BigDog — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:15:16 +0000

Yes, healthy people will be chained to walls and beaten mercilously.

By: Steve K

Steve K — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 21:26:53 +0000

Any communist give-me program punishes the working class up through the affluent. It only helps the worthless, unneeded, useless, POOR!

By: dcarpenter72

dcarpenter72 — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 09:55:48 +0000

No body is perfectly healthy so you will be effected no matter what.

By: g

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 04:41:28 +0000

you probably won’t get anything more out of it…

but the hope is that it will be cheaper at the end of the day… so you won’t be paying as much… overall…

other nations with socialized care pay about half as much as the U.S. does per person on average…

By: marc2oni

marc2oni — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:34:47 +0000

im more worried about the lower middle class person who has a bad accident with no health coverage. im willing to pay a little more on my end to help out a fellow human being on their end, its human.