Why is national health care so difficult to create? We can put a man on the moon but we can’t give out aspirin?
Written By: admin on March 15, 2010
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Not that simple buddy.
Because to many insurance companies have their hands in the cookie jar.
Why not let the states mandate whats best for their people. Its simpler to go states than countries.
Because politics is involved.
Once we were done putting a man on the moon, the costs stopped. Socialized medicine costs will never stop, and the CBO estimates costs to hit $1 trillion in the first 20 years.
Because the special interests against it that make huge sums of money off the current broken system, like insurance companies, line the pockets of politicians to vote against it.
I can see some benefit from putting a man on the moon (velcro, tang, etc) but there is no benefit to socialist healthcare.
medicaid and medicare already exists….why do people reckon there is no universal health care?…..if you can’t afford health care the gov already provides it to you….oh that is right the government is the deciding if you can or can not afford it…..lol
We place a man on the moon AND we made a healthcare system in America.
And guess what. NEITHER WAS FREE
people dont want free asprin. they want free narcotics
It’s not the Gov. job to provide health care for us.
Oh, please. If not for liberals, we probably wouldn’t have the headaches requiring the aspirin. Buy your own, it’s like $1 for 100.
Try reading the US Constitution sometime. It does not provide anywhere a “right” to healthcare from the government. They couldn’t have place a man on the moon when the US C was drafted, but they DID have doctors and healthcare–they could have included it and chose to limit rights to “inalienable” ones.
Because there wasn’t any money in keeping people off the moon.
Because Democrats are the burden to the society.
GO away, DIE ALREADY!!!! Leave us ALONE!!!!
edit:
I was kidding.
It would be called extending Medicare. You would need to add slowly to the ranks by groups to prevent a collapse and at lest temporarily fund the cost until they find this hidden money. I guess they don’t want to cut the waste first. Can’t figure that out. Is it really there? Is this OBS? The O stands for Obama
There are lots of things we CAN do. That doesn’t mean we SHOULD.
Go to a free clinic and get your aspirin.
I say scrap nasa and obamacare…we need to get out of debt not get into it further!
Really, as a space flight enthusiast, it saddens me to report that we can’t seem to place people on the moon any more, either.
It’s been 37 years since the last one.
And currently, the safest, most reliable way into orbit is on board a slightly-updated version of a spacecraft first launched by the USSR in 1966.
Dying empires leave many holes in the social and practical applications of their technology.
The U.S. is no exception.
That’s why, with some of the best medical tech on earth, it has the worst health care system in the developed world.
And that’s also why the next person on the moon will probably speak English only because they studied it in school for their foreign language credit.
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Auburn Tigers, despite being confused about the right college football team to support, together with Scott B are, so far, the only people whose answers show that they can see the obvious. As long as we allow mega-corporations to form oligopolies and monopolies wealthier and more powerful than most nations, we can expect them to abuse their power in order to bribe (usually legally, as in the form of campaign “contributions”) individuals who are supposed to represent not these corporations but their constituents.
The problem is not the difficulty: far more successful health-care systems that ours abound; at about half the per-person cost of our system they have better outcomes and universal care. We could learn from their successes, problems, and mistakes and make the best health-care system in the world. The problem is standing up to the power of the stakeholders in our for-profit systems, especially the for-profit health-insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies.
***Edit: Other entries show that more people have a grasp on reality than I thought.
It is incredible to me that anyone would have so small respect for life that she would want that person to go ahead and die already.
Seems that you can manage to make a national “defence” care – its called the army!
Seems that you can educate people – cause its indispensible to a modern economy.
I suspect national health care is more hard because it costs money and the rich and the greedy don’t want to help out their neighbour if the neighbour is poor.
I suspect certain health insurance companies are making very large profits and can pay for lots of advertising, propaganda and senators.