Should the US Universalize Healthcare?

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-01-2007
Should the US Universalize Healthcare?
282
Mon, 08-04-2008 - 12:45pm
Should the US universalize healthcare?

  Event.observe($('fullSizedImage'), 'load', function(event) { pageTags.addTagListToImg('fullSizedImage', ); });      

Pages

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-28-2007
Mon, 08-04-2008 - 3:44pm

No, it shouldn't.


Simply put, healthcare isn't a "right", and all "universalizing" health care will do is create another income transferral - in this case from healthy people to sick people.


Community Leader
Registered: 09-14-1997
Mon, 08-04-2008 - 3:49pm





Yes


In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms.


The first is freedom of speech and expression--everywhere in the world.


The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way--everywhere in the world.


The third is freedom from want--which, translated into universal terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants-everywhere in the world.


The fourth is freedom from fear--which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor--anywhere in the world.


That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation. That kind of world is the very antithesis of the so-called new order of tyranny which the dictators seek to create with the crash of a bomb.




iVillage Member
Registered: 05-29-2008
Mon, 08-04-2008 - 4:05pm

Absolutely not.


MySweetPerm

iVillage Member
Registered: 01-02-2008
Mon, 08-04-2008 - 4:19pm

"The third is freedom from want"

One of the more stupid things Roosevelt ever uttered.

rhonda-1.gif picture by fouripleys

Photobucket
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-28-2007
Mon, 08-04-2008 - 4:21pm

Apparently Congress disagreed with Roosevelt, since I don't recall universal healthcare being implemented in 1941.

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-19-2003
Mon, 08-04-2008 - 4:40pm
Absolutely NOT!!!!
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Mon, 08-04-2008 - 6:04pm
Something is going to need to be done.

 


 


I disagree with you, but I'm pretty sure

iVillage Member
Registered: 09-08-2006
Mon, 08-04-2008 - 7:06pm
I agree.

 

iVillage Member
Registered: 07-03-2008
Mon, 08-04-2008 - 7:18pm

Something needs to be done. The fact that so many people do not have Health Ins is a disgrace. A major reason that they don't have Health Ins is because of greedy ins companies. Ins companies should NOT BE ALLOWED to regect people who have pre-exhisting conditions.

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-28-2007
Mon, 08-04-2008 - 8:34pm

Insurance companies are businesses.

Pages