Americans Want More Health Care Investment (Pew)

[struggle4progress]

(Angus Reid Global Scan) – Many adults in the United States believe their federal administration is not doing enough to help them with the cost of medical services, according to a poll by Princeton Survey Research Associates for the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press. 70 per cent of respondents think the government spends too little on health care. <snip>

Do you think the government spends too much, too little or the right amount on health care?
Too much 11%
Too little 70%
Right amount 11%
Don’t know / Refused 8%

Do you think the average American spends too much, too little or the right amount on health care?
Too much 65%
Too little 17%
Right amount 12%
Don’t know / Refused 6%

Source: Princeton Survey Research Associates / Pew Research Center for the People and the Press
Methodology: Telephone interviews to 1,405 American adults, conducted from Mar. 8 to Mar. 12, 2006. Margin of error is 3 per cent.

http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/index.cfm/fuseaction/viewItem/itemID/11332

[Lostnote06]

1. Do Not Believe for a second that by dumping money

...into health care, all is resolved........I am sitting at ground zero for the largest bonding project in my states history(UKMed School/KY)......In the process of expansion they happened to eminent domain/condemn my gals business of 14 yrs.......being the leasee in this process is certainly a reminder of justice at the end of a barrel......A woman must start all over to re-build her business since it was effectivly wiped out..

[Warpy]

2. Throwing money at buildings isn't the answer

Nor is duplicating expensive equipment available at other facilities. The system we have now is disorganized, expensive, inefficient and cruel.

Where we need to throw the money is at developing universal, single payer health insurance, either federally, regionally, or on a state by state basis. What we have now simply doesn't work, and throws an unconscionable amount of money at facilities while leaving people stuck without access to that bunch of gold plated buildings full of state of the art equipment.

For profit healthcare just DOES NOT WORK.

[hedgehog]

3. I loved the cartoon I saw recently in which the wife proudly

shows her husband the two for one deal she got at the cut rate colonoscopy service!


As you said, for profit health care just doesn't cut it. Any health care plan that doesn't include full dental is missing the boat too. People need their teeth to eat, and a moth full of infected teeth and gums just leads to other problems.

[WhiteTara]

8. throwing money has never worked...the wrong

people get the money and don't use it appropriately. Sorry to hear about your friends business. I think eminent domain is going to be a really big business. Welcome to DU BTW Lostnote06 :hi:

[rodeodance]

4. Too much 11% ---this is a lot of people

...Do you think the government spends too much, too little or the right amount on health care?
Too much 11%

[ConcernedCanuk]

5. Actually, Canadians (through taxes) spend less per capita than the US

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It's all the different uncoordinated systems, plus the outrageous costs for pharmaceuticals in the US that leaves close to 15% (43 million) of Americans with no coverage, and leaves many more "under-covered".

Maybe the US should "outsource" a National Healthcare system to Canada?

Might not be as crazy as it sounds,

But "pharmaceutical terrorism" in the US will persist (yeah - it's a real term, Google it if'n ya doubt me)

The HMO's and the pharmaceutical giants in the US would scream bloody murder

And of course the politicians would miss all those mega donations that said companies now bribe their lawmakers with

never happen

(sigh)

[area51]

6. "never happen"

This is what I fear, that the U.S. will always be the only industrialized country that is barbaric enough to let people die due to lack of medical care. The HMOs, etc, are so rich w/the hard-earned money of Americans that they got from denying people healthcare, that they buy all the legislation that they need. Because of the lack of affordable healthcare, America is a country to escape from, not a country to go to.

[Toots]

7. Our National debt is rising at over $100,000.00 per second and we can't

provide health care for our citizens. It is far more important to kill muslims.. How very Christian of us.