Another nice response
think there are going to always be some ups and downs with it. I've seen it every day. I am a Navy Corpsman and, for those who don't know, the military uses a system for active duty and dependents that is similar. There are going to be those that abuse the privilege and then there are going to be those that truly need it. When I did my clinical in the VA hospital, I was assigned to do daily treatments. One of them was to rub eurcerin cream on a WWII veteran’s feet that were so dry they would bleed when he walked. He would cry and say thank you everday when I came to see him, because he had no one else. If it wasn't for that system, he would have some serious problems. But on the other hand, I've seen quite a few active duty abuse the health care system for reasons like, trying to get off duty so they wouldn't have to be outside or because they wanted to go home for the day. Dependents are even worse. After waiting over an hour to see the doctor, who was treating someone diagnosed with a serious illness like pneumonia, meningitis, or chest pain, they get upset when they find out they had to wait so long to be treated only to receive robitussin and cough drops. When all they had to do is go to Wal-Mart and get some cough syrup. There are going to be some serious problems. Look at this MRSA epidemic going around. It’s antibiotic resistant. I've seen Mom's arguing with doctors trying to get a script for antibiotics just in case their child had an illness. In the doctor’s defense, you cannot take antibiotics continuously for an extended period. If you do then your system will not produce its own antibodies to fight germs that are everyday in life. So essentially you become dependent and if you stop taking them, a sneeze could possibly kill you. That may be the extreme, but it's the concept of the rule that matters. There are already a shortage of doctors and nurses. There surely going to be a supply and demand problem here if this happens nationwide. The wait to see a doctor is going to rise sharply. And if you think doctors are making mistakes now, just wait and see what's going to happen. I know firsthand what it's going to be like. Is health care a crisis in the U.S.? Yes it is. Who's to blame? The individual. Think about what happens to your insurance premium when you have an accident, it goes up. Everyone knows the cost goes by factors that influence the rates like, age, type of car, and previous infractions. But if you are a good driver you get good rates. The same thing is going on with healthcare, but its people who don't take care of themselves that make it worse for everyone. Of course there are many other issues also that has driven up the price of healthcare in America, but it all comes down to the individual. For instance, look at what it takes to become a doctor, how long it takes, and how much it costs. Think about how much insurance is for the doctors. It's because of people taking advantage of the system. This affects you. Now I understand there are some truly sick people in this world who dearly need treatment, but like the examples i stated above, is what's making the quality of health care so bad. Having universal healtcare doesn't seem so attractive to me. Healthcare has a lot to do with customer service also. Think about customer service you may have recieved somewhere, were the employees happy? Or were they disgruntled? Was it because their pay wasn't all that great? Or was it because something you did? You've seen that movie Waiting, right? Apply that concept of customer service to healthcare. No one wants that to happen.
