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| Yes | 72% | 137 votes | Total: 191 votes | |
| No | 28% | 54 votes |
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The United States absolutely needs to implement universal health care. It is a sad fact that the wealthiest country in the world is one of very few that does not make health car...read more
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We are in a mess today because of some misconceptions and some facts that have deliberately been ignored. Not any more! Let's first put to rest a misnomer, "Health insurance...read more
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by METurner
While serving my US Army tour in Germany, I made lots of German friends and became very familiar with the German culture and language. Often I would go to the German health spas...read more
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Universal Health Care is a badly mis-understood term. Some refer to the health care generally found in the European areas, most notably in Scandinavian countries. Some refer to...read more
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by Stacey Wayne
More than forty years years ago I asked my Dad what this Golden Parachute was that the local NEWS Anchor was referring to, My Dad replied, why its Medicare, its a insurance prog...read more
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Sirs, I VOTED YES to this proposition as I wanted to forward my opinion that proper, equitable and speedy health-care should be available to all...irrespective of wealth or abi...read more
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Traveling in India is often a mixed blessing. My country offers 7000 years of history, enormous ethnic and economic diversity and breathtaking scenery. The beaches of Goa, which...read more
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by Erik Hopkins
Our insurance companies make billions of dollars off our fear of death and sickness and business is good. They tell you to be afraid of things like universal health care, spend ...read more
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There are many different types of universal health care in the world. Europe isn't the only place to have it, it is also found in Canada, right above us. If universal health car...read more
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Health care is increasingly expensive in the United States, is it time to adopt European style "universal health care"? No doubt something needs to be done. More and more p...read more
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by snowglobe
I am so confused on what our Country is thinking when it comes to health care. I am a married disabled mother of two. I pay for Medicare out of my Social Security Disability i...read more
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by Patty Stultz
Government funding for the medical care of its citizens is a lofty but an expensive endeavor, but it will happen, not soon, but sometime in the future. Having said that, let me ...read more
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by Bryan Belrad
In today's day and age, it seems no issue of importance can be discussed rationally anymore. Extremist political rhetoric has polarized our nation, to the point where anyone who...read more
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Universal health care means health care for the whole world and I don't think the Americans are willing to pay for that. But if they would develop a system of national health ca...read more
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It's time to seriously consider a 'universal health care' alternative. As a cancer survivor I know first hand the trauma and financial devastation that goes hand in hand as we ...read more
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by Regina W
Health care costs in the United States continue to rise daily, as does the number of people that can no longer afford it. Americans will never agree on how this problem needs to...read more
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Yes. Obviously. When you pay out an inordinately large chunk of your paycheck to cover your family in case of medical need and still somehow end up having to pay for most of t...read more
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There should be a more compassionate system of health care in the United States than what currently exists. "Universal health care" has been made out to be a negative thing sinc...read more
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by Leplen
The single most effective challenge to the United States' adherence to a market system is in the realm of health care. What most of the defenders of a market system fail to rec...read more
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When a nation's institutions are insufficient to meet the needs of the people, it is the government's responsibility to change national policy and fix those institutions. When e...read more
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by Tom Sutcliff
No! Going to a socialized medical system like they have in Europe will decrease the availability of health care and reduce the quality. We cannot succumb to this entitlement ...read more
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by Robert G
Cheap things, let alone free things, are never the highest in quality. The higher the quality, the more you are going to have to pay. When I go out to eat a hamburger, my favori...read more
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No, we should not adopt a universal health care system. Why, because I am an American citizen already living with socialized medicine and I can tell you that it does not work. ...read more
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No one would argue that with over 40 million uninsured United States citizens, and the cost of health care quickly becoming so expensive that the average family cannot even affo...read more
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by Nancy Lynam
Health-care throughout the world is a major concern. While one of our democratic hopefuls spouts off about "universal" health-care, I am here to say that it sounds like a huge ...read more
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There's an old saying that's always rang true for me: "You get what you pay for". We live in a society where healthcare is pretty expensive, but it's also the best in the wor...read more
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No! The fact is a very high majority of heath issues are self-inflicted, a universal healthcare system in short is me paying for you being foolish and that doesn't go over so we...read more
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Absolutely not! Universal health care is not the answer simply because it is not efficient and does not provide, you, the patient with the best care. Sure it sounds like a gre...read more
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by Dex Teh
Universal health care is not a good solution to rising medical cost. The following are just a few reasons. Universal health care systems have not been very efficient and effect...read more
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