which presidential candidates support fully socialized healthcare?
Billal A asked:
Which presidential candidates have fully socialized healthcare plans like that of Canada or the UK. I have heard about Clinton and Obama, and their plans for Universal healthcare, but I am not sure if they are fully socialized, or just require a low premium. Any info would help. Thanks.
Which presidential candidates have fully socialized healthcare plans like that of Canada or the UK. I have heard about Clinton and Obama, and their plans for Universal healthcare, but I am not sure if they are fully socialized, or just require a low premium. Any info would help. Thanks.
April 4th, 2009 at 8:18 am
The ones that are lying to get votes
They all know it has no chance of ever passing the senate
April 4th, 2009 at 10:23 am
I’m pretty sure none of them, but it is a step in that direction.
April 6th, 2009 at 4:54 pm
Listen, Hillary has a agenda for you. Take your money to pay for everybody elses’ health ins. and you won’t be able to say a word about it. That’s socialism. and I don’t have health ins. but I don’t want her communistic ideas.
April 9th, 2009 at 7:30 am
Edwards is the only one that I have heard talk about a truly universal health coverage that is administered through a single payer system
April 11th, 2009 at 3:39 am
I don’t know anymore. It all sounds like more taxes and and less health care.
April 14th, 2009 at 11:39 am
Clinton truly supports a FULLY socialized healthcare system, whereas Obama and Edwards want a fully socialized healthcare system but don’t know how to create and implement one.
April 17th, 2009 at 8:02 am
Well Clinton wants to control you and force every single person to have healthcare, while Obama will make it affordable for everyone so that everybody will want to have healthcare anyway.
April 19th, 2009 at 8:28 am
Clinton has always supported socialized heathcare. I do as well!
April 20th, 2009 at 5:50 pm
I think you want Ron Paul actually.
I’m against socialized medicine but your answer would be Clinton. Obama wants to socialize it in a way that makes it more affordable for everybody. Clinton wants to make it more or less free to people who can’t afford it.
But, if you think government run health care is the way to go, we already have it.
Most people call it “Walter Reed Army Medical Center”.
You know, the one that often makes the news for not being able to take care of our troops who are injured. They have to wait 6 months for surgeries they need today.
It’s your vote and it’s a free country, but based on how well it’s not working for the rest of the world and that we already have a failing example, that’s all I need to know.
Not to mention, for a country without socialized medicine, we do have a pretty high recovery/survival rate.
I don’t know your situation. I do know a few people who are hurting VERY badly right now and cannot afford things on their own. There are options. I have a family member in that situation right now. Unfortunately, a lot of the people using the free services available caused their own health problems. I think priority should go to people who did not live a lifestyle resulting in their health issues, at least for the currently free solutions.
Nobody gets denied health care who REALLY needs it anyway. There’s always a way be it NPO Hospitals to spending 6 hours on the phone making the right calls as I have done for family members.
April 20th, 2009 at 10:37 pm
No presidential candidate supports a British-style socialized health care system where the hospitals are government-owned and the doctors and nurses are government employees. Dennis Kucinich has proposed a single-payer universal health care system along the lines of the Canadian system where doctors, nurses and hospitals remain private but all Americans have access to it with the bill for their services being paid for by taxes paid into the government.
The Edwards plan still uses the HMOs and health insurance companies, with the stated goal of eventually phasing them out in favor of the single-payer universal health care model.
April 22nd, 2009 at 5:52 pm
OBAMA PLAN IS A MIX OF TAXPAYER FUNDED AND PRIVATE FUNDED….
The Obama Health Care plan will have the following features:
The Obama plan will create a National Health Insurance Exchange to help individuals who wish to purchase a private insurance plan.
Mandatory Coverage of Children.
Employer Contribution: Employers that do not offer or make a meaningful contribution to the cost of quality health coverage for their employees will be required to contribute a percentage of payroll toward the costs of the national plan. Small employers that meet certain revenue thresholds will be exempt.
Subsidies. Individuals and families who do not qualify for Medicaid or SCHIP but still need financial assistance will receive an income-related federal subsidy to buy into the new public plan or purchase a private health care plan.
Barack Obama’s Record
Health Insurance: In 2003, Barack Obama sponsored and passed legislation that expanded health care coverage to 70,000 kids and 84,000 adults. In the U.S. Senate, Obama cosponsored the Healthy Kids Act of 2007 and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) Reauthorization Act of 2007 to ensure that more American children have affordable health care coverage.
Women’s Health: Obama worked to pass a number of laws in Illinois and Washington to improve the health of women. His accomplishments include creating a task force on cervical cancer, providing greater access to ****** and cervical cancer screenings, and helping improve prenatal and premature birth services.
April 23rd, 2009 at 6:37 am
Hillary talks about such a system but I believe she means one for just her, Bill and Chelsy! Anyone else better have cash money or go without!