Do you favor a National Health Care Program for Everyone?

[Double T]

and do you think the US will ever have a National Health Care program?

[CTLawGuy]

1. yes and yes

people will soon realize how a national health program is cheaper and more efficient than what we have now, and will demand it.

[madinmaryland]

2. Absolutely.

Though I don't know if it will happen in the near future.

[WLKjr]

3. That is something I wouldn't have a problem with being taken out of my

check to pay for either, just knowing I can go to the hospital anytime I need to for free.

[Gildor Inglorion]

4. STRONGLY favor it (Nat'l Health Care Program)

and I think its implementation is inevitable; I just don't know when. The allocation of health care according to ability to pay is evil and just plain wrong.

[truebrit71]

5. Yes and God I hope so.

It never ceases to amaze me that the "richest" country in the world cannot care for all of it's citizens....Seems to me that should be job number one....

[babylonsister]

6. Yes-everyone should have coverage! nt

[Warpy]

7. Yes, and it will happen state by state

with some lesser populated states doing it regionally.

Health care doesn't belong in the for profit sector because illness is not a consumer decision.

[RaleighNCDUer]

37. I like that statement.

"Health care doesn't belong in the for profit sector because illness is not a consumer decision."

Can I steal it?

[LaurenG]

8. Yes me too n/t

[Cleita]

9. Yes, I do and yes, we will.n/t

[Flying Dream Blues]

10. yes and yes!n/t

[gaspee]

11. Hell yes!

[Deep13]

12. 'course not!

I also oppose refrigeration, indoor plumbing and tooth brushes!

:evilgrin:

And I'm getting sick of all this book learning too!

[Maraya1969]

13. YES eom

[bunkerbuster1]

14. Yes, and yes, but it will be called something else.

We'll be stuck with some quasi-single-payer thing in all likelihood that'll suck but be an improvement over what we have, which is nothing (save for Medicaid).

I'm one of those optimists who believes the pressure to nationalize health insurance will be the result of some death-cage match between the insurers who currently skim a despicable amount of money from us, and the employers (and their employees, of course) who are getting screwed.

Golly, ya think maybe Dems could make something out of this for 2006?

[Deep13]

18. "maybe Dems could make something out of this for 2006"

Only if the spine transplant has been perfected.

[Double T]

27. If not in 2006 at least make it..

part of the party platform for 2008. Hopefully the spine transplant will be perfected by then.

[Deep13]

32. They don't need to succeed in passing legislation ....

.... just make an issue of it.

Gee, the Ds are against a lotta stuff, but what are they for? How about free health care for every man, woman and child in the country?

[sweetheart]

15. Yes, free cosmetic surgery for all comers.!!

Really, necessary heathclare should be an issue of "national security"
that the nation is able to defend itself from biological problems
and has the infrastructure to do so. I'm in favour of shifting 50%
of the defense budget to national healthcare.

But short of that, cannabis, cocaine, mushrooms and other medicinal
herbs are freely available across the USA thanks to the hard work of
the drugs-war-assholes and the criminals in the white house... so
at least medicinal herb is around for the pains when no doctor is
available.

[KarenS]

16. Strongly favor and Yes, eventually.

Democrats must become the Majority party in both House & Senate, first.

[DURHAM D]

17. We already have it for senior citizens. You know, the group

that won WWII. If its good enough for them it should be good enough for us. Oh forgot, we lost Vietnam - must be spanked.

[Dogmudgeon]

19. Yes -- before I die, I hope

I am uninsured and have chronic illnesses.

It sucks.

--p!

[Double T]

25. We will all hope for it...

specially for your situation. It must be an awful burden on you.

[Dogmudgeon]

30. Fortunately ...

... none of it is life-threatening. Not at this point, anyway. The hypertension is the worst of it, but that is starting to come under control without drugs now (diet, exercise, green tea).

But I also need surgical treatment for an ear problem that also produces a lot of pain. Once my personal physician retires, I'll have to go on another drug hunt, since so many physicians are too scared to prescribe anything.

And to think, I used to work in medicine, and made a few contributions to the field, too. Well, I guess the fight against Socialism is more important than the public health!

--p!
And thus endeth my Rantte.

[Sandpiper]

20. Yes and yes

But it will start at the state level.

[Walt Starr]

21. I support a national healthcare program for all U.S. citizens

and legal immigrants.

[TahitiNut]

22. Yes, and I support a Universal National Service obligation ...

... where one of the service options would be the Public Health Service. It's time to take the profiteering out of health care. It's morally bankrupt to profit from the misery of others, imho.

[etherealtruth]

23. An emphatic YES

[dogday]

24. Yes

[patdem]

26. When I was a teen there WAS a National Health care..and it was called

The Health Department...pregnant women without health care went there and were cared for...STD's were tracked and diseases of all types were taken care of and it was only for the poor...I do not think we have a Health Department Clinic in the state of VA any more?

[Mr.Green93]

28. No not for everyone

Republicans should fund their own heath care.

[bloom]

29. yes.

I hope so.

[redqueen]

31. YES and YES

It's frickin common sense.

[driver8]

33. Yes, I favor it and no, I don't think we will ever have one.

Too much money to be made in the health care industry...

[Southsideirish]

34. Yes, but people would have to take better care of themselves in terms

of losing weight, quitting smoking, etc. to qualify and stay in it. Yesterday I was dragging myself along on my daily 5 mile run ((I'm retired) and I passed two women half my age, twice my size and smoking. This boils my blood!

[pinto]

35. Yes, for everyone. It's one hallmark of a successful national society. n/t

[RaleighNCDUer]

36. Yes, yes.

There should be a high minimum care available to everyone in the country, citizen or not.

If the rich want to retain their prerogatives they can pay extra for private rooms, catered meals, whatever the hell they want, but they should not be allowed to get diagnoses and treatments that others cannot get just because they're rich. They can fly in their specialists from the Mayo Clinic or Switzerland or whatever, but even the poorest supplicant should be able to get qualified care.

Health care must be taken out of the hands of the bookkeepers and insurance companies. Eliminating those middle-men will reduce the cost of healthcare probably by half.

[leftofthedial]

38. yes

no

not until we eliminate the capitalists, which is highly unlikely.

[damntexdem]

39. Yes. No.

As it declines economically and in power, will America be able to support health care for anyone?

[Raksha]

40. Yes and yes. n/t

[barb162]

41. yes to first and probably no to second because of the way the

economy is going