Universal Healthcare

I live in Canada, and I totally agree with you. I woudln't get John McCain into Canada, if I had the choice. I woudln't let him across the border. Nothing wrong with universal healthcare. Some Americans are just scared because it reminds them of COMMUNISM!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hey, Communism was just fine until Stalin got a hold of it.

I wish we had universal healthcare. My family has not had insurance for years because we cannot afford to pay about $600.00 a month plus the $10,000.00 deuctible every year. That is outragious.

I am hoping to get Obama into the White House and I hope to have universal helathcare. I am a working woman who is married and has two children and unfortunately, I can't afford much healthcare and the cost of prescriptions would break most banks!

Everyone is angry. Everyone wants to talk. Does anyone listen? Is there something good to discuss about this world and this election? Will it be more of the same gripes and ineptness after the elections? Lol!!

My good friend lives in Canada, they have the free health care system, but it doesn't work very well for them. Obviously their taxes and prices are a lot higher, but they lack doctors. Why would you want to be a doctor when you don't make good wages. Those looking for a career in medicine come to the states to be better paid. This makes the wait for life saving operations incredibly long. Canadians actually come to the states to pay for treatment. Yes it is difficult to pay for health care. My family has insurance but still can't cover all our co-pays and other fees associated with it, even for well visits. What's worse is that we are forced to go to the doctor for check ups every year, even if not sick, just so the kids can be enrolled in school. They must have up to date physicals. And the doctors keep adding all these new things like urine tests and finger pokes, which we have to pay for because the insurance company doesn't think it's necessary, so won't cover it. But universal health care is not the answer. It's only going to raise our taxes and hurt us in other ways. Instead they should look into more insurance options, especially for the lower income families. Something that will cover the co-pays and other fees that our primary insurance doesn't cover. That would be much more affordable for both the government and the people.

It is very sad to say that people today are not thinking about universal health care.Universal healthcare is very important. without universal healyh care we cannot protest ourself. Inorder to maintain universal healh care each and every individual must have humanity. There are somany villages which doesnot have minimum hospital facility nearer to them.And there people who doesnot have insurance.so educated people and government must educate the uneducated people.

Universal health care is great. However Obama is going to obligate me the business owner to provide health insurance for my employees. That means higher prices. Therefore less customers. Which leads to less work in turn less employees. So it leads to an unemployment crisis. So Obama's plan will lead to higher prices and less jobs. I don't see how more people having less money is going to stimulate the economy. This is my current situation. I can't find good employees. People do not want to work. Several business owners including myself can not find employees with a good work ethic. That is why the unemployment rate is so high.

I'd like to say I think that is why my ancestors hid behind trees and dodged bulletins to emancipate the colonies from England, but you might not appreciate that I was just tweaking you. I mean "appreciate" in the sense of fully understanding, not of liking it or not. But speaking of combat, why don't you ever repeat any of the the snide remarks the noB man makes against the war hero he is running against? I guess you hadn't been born yet when we were allies with Britain in WWII, but as I recall a lot of our fine American soldiers risked their necks flying over England to drop food and supplies and shooting down England's enemies. Not all of them came back alive. But I guess we can be called warmongers when it is expedient and saviors when the chips are down. I guess that kind of duplicity hides under the label "free speech." Everyone who needs health care should have access, but when the government gets involved over its head, that is exactly what drives the prices up so that many people cannot afford the care they need. Then nobody has access. So please try to understand that people who are against Big Brother style government do not do so in contempt for those in need, but in an effort to maintain the greatest good for the greatest number of people. Please stay well.

I'm ticked off as well. I can't understand the American aversion to socialized medicine. My wife is Canadian and gets wonderful service. Unfortunately, I'm American so it's always cash up front if I need care.