Obama wants to force you to pay for health care,Can you afford it and the co-pay ?

This question is above my pay grade and Obama is an idiot.

I will probably vote for Obama since a drastic change may be needed, but I don't believe what he promises. He says he would cut taxes for middle class, but other agendas would cause him to raise taxes in a long run. He promises universal health care, but I really don't know how many politicians will support it. Also, if there is universal health care, how the hell are we going to cut taxes when we need more money? If fed. deficit is ok in his perspective, it might work, but I don't know if it is what American people want.

Other countries do not have free health care. What we want isn't free health care, just affordable health care. I personally think it's kind of inexcusable that a lot of kids these days don't even get physicals because their parents can't afford the skyrocketing prices. There's a pretty disturbing track record emerging of hospitals turning away people who need lifesaving treatment because they didn't present as an immediate emergency and they don't have insurance to cover "non-emergency" procedures. The lack of health insurance is also taking a toll on hospital services for everyone; the money that hospitals do use to pay for patients who can't afford their emergency care comes out the the hospital's own funds, which generally originated with taxpayers money.

Please do some research on the issue before speaking about it. You'll find that we have the best healthcare in the world, for rich people. For everybody else it's kind of a die toss.

So, because Canada's plan doesn't work means we cannot possibly come up with a plan that is better than what we have? Our health care system is not working. My employer pays my health ins premium, but we have had double digit increases in premiums for the past 10 years. If you have no insurance getting sick can bankrupt you. The way our system is set up now is a joke. If you have no insurance you pay 100 percent the marked up price while medicare and insurance companies get a 70 percent discount. There are lots of problems with the current system that need to be fixed. Continuing on the course we are on is not the answer. We are the richest country in the world; we should have the best health care and the best retirement plan for everyone. Our Federal Goverment does a fantastic job with their retirement and medical plan. Why can't they do the same for us?

We鈥檙e the richest country in the world; we should have the best health care and the best retirement plan for everyone. The Far Right could care less if the lower middle class and the hard working poor can鈥檛 afford good health insurance. It鈥檚 almost impossible for a family making less than $30,000 a year to afford good health care. Look at the current healthcare system in the USA, it has one of the highest death rates of kids aged under five in the western world. It鈥檚 so sad that the Far Right Loons could care less.

If Tiny Dan lost his job and couldn鈥檛 come up with $700 + a month for health care, like millions of other Amaricans. He would then talk out of the other side of his mouth.

Open heart bypass...$125,000.
Cancer treatment..$250,000 and up.
A young woman down the street from me was in a car accident and died after 9 days in a comma. Her mother got a bill for $925,000. Her Mother lost her home and her life savings. This could happen to you. Now, if you work or retire from the Fed.Gov. with lifetime medical, you don't have to worry; the hard working taxpayer will pay your medical bills for you.

i already have healthcare , i have a job , why dont people just get jobs?

my employer pays most of it the rest comes out of my check , seems like a reasonable deal to me , are all these people complaining about healthcare losers or what?

Not me! I can't afford it and I should not have to. I do not want to give up my plan, which is luckily affordable, to finance what the government should have fixed years ago. Hillary was right. Still, I'm not going to jump ship on my party.

Can you afford not to have health care?
Universal health care is not free. It is financed by premiums and higher taxes.
By the way, do know what the co-pays will be with universal health care?

IF ITS CHEAP, I WOULD
IT WOULD BE HARD TO PAY FOR ALL OF US
WE HAVE MORE PEOPLE THAN BRITAIN AND CANADA
SO IF ITS VERY CHEAP, WHY NOT
HELL, EVEN THE RICH CAN HELP US, THEY SHOULD TAX THEM MORE

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What are you talking about? You don't know anything about Obama or his policies. Just stop spouting of rhetoric you can't back up.

if pay and purchase and price were on a balance set (that life could bare and peace throughout the galaxies)every one can afford with out a special co-exist card we wont have to worry about who gets an office or who has a cup.

He would have to pass it through Congress first.

And yes, if it meant that somewhere a young child could receive care without racking up medical bills, I would. Wouldn't you?

If I could afford it I would have it.

how do you know if you can afford it or not when you do not know what the cost is?

people won't be dying in the streets, and not seeing doctors when they are injured. so yeah, it's worth it.

well, theres always CANADA!!!!!

I could and I would..Mack

I've been able to afford it so far, why would that change?

I am not worried about it I am holding out for Mccain to win. :)

Obama won't get my money or my vote.