What exactly is socialized health insurance?!


Question: What exactly is socialized health insurance.?
I have heard much, but I still am not fond of what it generally is. Please explain. Thank you!Health Question & Answer


Answers:
Alice, a socialized health care system in America would be most beneficial to the millions who cannot get any medical coverage. Medical and pharmaceutical costs would be reduced to an affordable level. An American socialized health insurance plan run via the US Government would provide free health care to Americans that would be revenued through higher taxes and not cover elective treatments. This would ensure that all Americans received the healthcare treatment they needed to stay healthy.

Right now the average American has to do without health insurance in many cases. When there has to be a choice between feeding your family and having medical coverage most choose to eat. The American that falls through the income crack has fewer options than any other group of American. Hopefully someday all Americans will be able to get their medical needs met no matter what income bracket they come from.

Hope I answered your question.Health Question & Answer

Socialized/government health insurance discussions often involve whether the government should provide everyone, or universal, health care. In the US, there is already a system of government health care, but it is not universal. It includes Medicaid, Medicare and the Veterans Administration. Medicaid pays medical bills for those with little money, Medicare for the older generation, and the VA, for veterans.

Despite these three huge government subsidies, many working people still do not have any health insurance since they do not qualify for one of the three government systems and they cannot afford private insurance. Proposals for change usually involve either abolishing the complex government/private system we now have and creating one system to cover everybody, or expanding Medicaid to cover those without coverage while leaving the private insurance system intact.Health Question & Answer

Socialized medicine exists in the US in the form of Medicare for the disabled and retired. Medicaid for those living in poverty. The rest of the population seems to not care to participate in receiving benefits from either of these programs they are paying for.

Fact is though people pay at doctors and hospitals for others that cannot or will not pay. What we have is not perfect nor would complete socialized medicine. Deductions are made from income to pay for the socialized medicine.Health Question & Answer



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