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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (16840)	4/14/2010 10:32:05 AM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 42652

Again, I'd say it is not good enough for Americans, precisely because of the example I gave you about my Grandma. The bottom line is that cheap nursing homes result in more abuse, because they hire unqualified people to run them. Same thing goes for health care. Cheap health care means bad health care, generally. In this country, you get what you pay for. If Medicaid can only pay for the bare minimum to keep our elderly off the streets, then the bare minimum is what they'll get, which is what my Grandma got. So I'll continue to say Medicaid is not good enough for Americans, because I want for Americans what I personally am able to afford. However, I know it is not realistic to expect that we as a country can afford that for every American, but surely we can afford better than what Medicaid offers now? I think if we diverted some resources from war and the military, we could easily afford it.