Why do people running for president keep promising health care? We don’t already have it?

A lot of presidents running for 08 have been promising national health care. Why, don’t we already have it? And why is that so important, to have health care? What are they talking about?

National Health care or health care period is subject that can get lengthy, so bare with me.

America does not have national health care. National health care means every legal citizen of America has some type of health care coverage. There was a 2005 study that estimated 16% of the American public has no health care (that is about 46 million people). Health care has become an increasing hot topic to discuss due to the extraordinary rising costs and upcoming babyboomer retirement.

Ask yourself these three questions. Why does anyone need a health care plan? Why has health care become so expensive? What happens when someone seeks health care and has no health insurance?

Everyone who drives in America is required to have car insurance (and you may go through life without ever having to use it). Health insurance on the other hand is a different story. There is an incredibly high probability that you will need to go to the doctor and/or hospital for service and/or prescription drugs.

We, Americans, are paying for a massive, inefficient health care bureaucracy. Administrative costs, marketing and profits account for 22 to 31 percent the ever-increasing health care cost. In America’s for-profit private insurance healthcare system, medical technicians must contend with hundreds of different forms, billing procedures, regulations and requirements from hundreds of insurance companies; U.S. healthcare companies spend money for advertising and marketing; and, the U.S. healthcare system is based on profit. The increasing cost of prescription drugs also is increasing the healthcare bill, and U.S. drug costs are the highest in the world; Americans pay 30 percent to 80 percent more for prescription drugs than citizens of any other country.

When a person doesn’t have health insurance but has to go to a doctor and/or hospital, their cost of care is paid for by local tax money and drives up the health insurance for those who already pay health insurance.

Everyone should have the opportunity to purchase affordable healthcare insurance. The well-being of America’s citizens are first and foremost. The problem is how to implement a national health care system and manage the costs.

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