Should Everyone Have Health Care? CNBC

Center for American Progress Director of Health Policy Karen Davenport joined CNBC to debate the future of health care in America and the challenges facing US businesses by rising health costs. 6/12/07

For more of the Center's work on health policy please see: http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/domestic/healthcare

What if everybody had health insurance?
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• business
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• money
• insurance
• sicko
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• hospital
• debt

[seeprogress]

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[josisof]

In Denmark; where I live, the treatment for any disease is free! Our Health Care is one of the best in the world! We have close to no debt! We are in war in afghanistan - just got out of iraq! Wealth in a christian, democratic

capitalistic country - is about having a healty and well educated workforce! Our educations, on all levels is free, you get paid to be educated! Taking care of your fellow Americans is not only the only decent thing to do - its good buisnes!

( sorry for my english )

[metaljh]

I live in the Unted States. I am a student, and I am in debt. My mother is disabled from a work related accident. She cannot work, but she does get money from social security. This is only enough to cover insurance, medicine, and some of her bills. I try to help her with other bills, but as i said before I am only digging myself a bigger whole. Even before my mother was injured we were poor. I wish people would do something. The government is run by such crooks and it sickens me!

[shellnet]

Just too out of dub to take as legit

[alienzettaexcell]

this is a fucking disgrase. how can some people be so inhumane.

[TargetGuy2245]

BUSLLHIT

If it's free then why the hello are taxes in your country the way they are? How much are cigarettes? Gasoline? A motel room?: Nothing is "free".

[jboritzki]

If doctors were unpaid there would be no doctors. There would be no medical supplies, no medicine, no hospitals, etc. Profit is a good thing and it is why things get done. Without the profit side, people would still be dying at 40 instead of 80. People live longer because of the profit. Because companies want to make money. The only way for thme to make money is to develope new treatments, drugs, & tests. It's profit that drives these new developments.

[halftimeman]

I find it so unchristian to make profit from a sick and dying person, profit from suffering is wrong, very wrong, the US is the only country in the developed world with private insurance making the decision obout your care based on profit, 47 million with no health coverageshame on you all who go to church and hurn your head away to the less inteligent, rich, able. Understand that its a sin to not want to care or contribute, health is not a life choice, the companies have brainwassed you forcash

[onlyrey]

Mr. Cato guy, shame on you, you have to know you are wrong. The medical advances DO NOT come from health insurance and hospitals. NIH, and other government research institutions pay the bill for research of medical devices and therapies. Drug companies do development in clinical phases. BUT, most of the bill for research of new technologies is paid by Americans using TAXES.

[HarveyRex23]

With all the debt Americans have inherited in exorbitant medical bills to college student loans to home loans to car loans to credit card debts to payday loans for the working poor, etc. It's like what Michael Moore said in his movie "Sicko". It benefits the system when people are shackled in mountains of debt. Hell, the US dollar is backed up by debt. Americans put up with a lot of shit, and yet. We still do nothing about it.