Why is healthcare so important?
Good Health Care is important for many reasons, longer more productive living for one. However, Most Americans who want health care do have it. Is it the most affordable? No, but until this Administration came into power it was the best. Health Care wasn't even a topic of discussion during the 2008 Presidential Campaign. It was all economy and jobs. So why Obama care? Because it's the fastes way to make this a Socialist Country. Job creation? Please, if you wanted job creation why would you threathen all the major US companies with tremendous new Health Care exspenses and tax hikes simultaneously? No one in their right mind could have actually expected private sector growth with policies like this. Why do you think these companies are sitting on their cash. They want to invest in the US, but not when some political clown who never created a job in his life is waiting to take it from you to pay off everyone who got him elected. Lawyers who encourage everyone to sue doctors are who we really need to be calling out, because they drive the cost of Health Care up. Good Health Care important? Yes! Bad Health care policies? no.
Is free healthcare (Canada/UK) really THAT bad?
I have had so, so many people tell met that it's really bad and they think it's ridiculous. Mainly about the quality and waiting time. I live in the US, not qualified and can't afford any kind of medical aid. Now I think having free health care would be *amazing*! For someone like me if you get a cold going to the doctor's costs around $150-$200, breaking an arm is between $10k and $20k! And those are quick fixes, not anything near the level of a longterm sickness. That's an insane amount of money to pay out of your pocket! So my question is basically: why do people think free healthcare is bad?
Isn't the real reason liberals want government health care is that they want someone else to pay for it?
No, that assertion doesn't even make sense. Liberals are among the highest income earners in this country, so who is this "someone else" that you refer to? The recent health care legislation is based on the purchase of insurance coverage from private insurance companies. The "government health care" that you reference is a different subject. I am not sure what you're talking about.