Comments on: Should Anyone Have To Pay For Any Kind Of Health Care?

By: Tina Goody-Two-Shoes

Tina Goody-Two-Shoes — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:29:20 +0000

I think the companies should make back in profits what they spent to do research and development and testing (and employee paychecks). And a bit more so they keep happy. (They aren’t doing this for free or at a loss!) And some drugs they work on just don’t make it to market because they didn’t work out. So they need to recoup the costs for those, too, or they will go bankrupt. (Remember, if they hadn’t created it in the first place, it wouldn’t exist and no one would have any.)
Here in the USA, I believe the companies have a set time period on their drug’s “patent”. When the patent’s time period is up, other companies get to jump in and make the drug cheaper. I like this idea.
As more people age, I believe more officials will be elected that will make medical care less expensive – because “us old people” don’t want to pay all that money. This, of course, pushes the cost into taxes which will end up being paid by everyone – and mostly by the young people who are still working.
I am thinking SOME medical/dental care should be paid by the government (which means taxes which means by us). I am just selfish and don’t want to pay taxes to pay for ALL medical/dental care.

By: blair b

blair b — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:42:01 +0000

that reallies on the government too much for money. Meaning more taxes. Plus say you wanted a good doctor who had a 90% chance in a surgery and then there was a doctor who had a 65% chance that cost 3000 dollars less. gee, i wonder which one the government would pick seeing as you don’t have a choice

By: bregweid

bregweid — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:59:53 +0000

the wealthy run the governments and they pay for their own health care – they don’t want to pay the taxes to support the healthcare for others. It’s simply the old class conflict.

By: Blunt Honesty

Blunt Honesty — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:28:32 +0000

It is a service, and someone should pay for that service. The better question is “Can they justify charging so much?”

By: macdelan

macdelan — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:21:05 +0000

Forgive me, but I think your question is too simplistic.
Do you understand, how many years can be spent, in trying to produce a drug, which is safe and which will cure, or ease a particular disease? It can in many cases, take many years.
Who should pay the researchers???
You say that medical care is a basic human right, but you do not say, who is going to pick up the tab, for the wages, of the doctors,the nurses, the surgeons, the physiotherapists, the cardiologists, the porters, the cleaners, the cooks and all of the other staff, involved in healthcare, that I have unfortunately and not deliberately, missed out.
I think that it is time that you grew up and faced the real world.

By: stanthem

stanthem — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:50:23 +0000

Yes, drugs that can save and improve lives should be available to all. If the richest nations in the world can afford to wage war on another country then it can afford health care for its population – whose taxes are going on funding the wars.
In England people are not getting the cancer treatment that could save their lives but we can afford the olympic games? It doesn’t make sense.

By: zbak

zbak — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:03:39 +0000

Yup the UK has a *free* health service but there are enough problems attached to that – long waiting lists, doctors with quotas to meet etc etc. Its paid for by those working and yet when those working go to get their medication from the pharmacy we still have to pay for that. In other words my tax benefits others completely and me only partially. Is there an idiot-proof answer?

By: Lobster

Lobster — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:45:22 +0000

In the UK, you’re not charged for medical care, but *most people* are charged a hefty amount when they pick up their pills from the chemist’s/pharmacy. Personally I think that’s a tax on health and should be done away with.

By: kadrt50

kadrt50 — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:10:50 +0000

excellent question.
we need more officials who will raise money to pay for health care.
of course ther are a lot of rich people and we should simply take their money and pay for health care. they get too many breaks as it is.

By: I am that I am

I am that I am — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:49:12 +0000

With all the wealth in the world today no one should have to pay for medical or prescription drugs, also education should be free, most people have vary short memories when it comes to electing governments, in Canada we send more money out of the country than they spend in and on the country, unfortunately we have a lot of knuckle heads in this country that keep voting in corrupt politicians.