Universal Healthcare is NOT Communism!!!

This is one of the best things a country can have, then everyone gets treated fairly. I'd hate to have treatment done in the USA for the simple fact that you'd have to get a health insurance (which not everyone is guaranteed to get). If you can get insurance you could be talking about hundreds or tousands of $ worth, or paying so much each month for an insurance to recieve health care.

I've not had any surgeries or anything, but I think the NHS we have is the best and fairest policy we have, and I hope to god our Government do not take it away from us.

I'm American and have heard people talk badly against "socialized medicine" and how it's one step closer to communism. I never was able to understand their reasoning, but heard my high school teachers spout this bullshit. I lost my job in May and my coverage was finally cut in August. There is a plan in place called COBRA that allows me to purchase the same insurance my job was paying the majority of. However, it's nearly $200/month. If not for reforms Obama made, it would have been over $500/month! I have no job and can't pay it so my parents are and it's a strain. I suffer from bipolar disorder and need daily medication which is over $100/month with the insurance! What if I were not fortunate enough to have my parents to rely on? I checked into public welfare benefits, and if I had a child (or it may have been 2 children) I would have qualified. I told my mom that I could easily buy false identities for my two cats for $1000 and declare they were children. Then I'd get free health care and would save my folks a lot of money. I was joking off course, but desperate times equal desperate measures; so I'm sure that someone has done it or is doing it. The US is screwed up! The people spouting all the bullshit about how the NHS is bad are more than likely rich and Republican. The US health care industry is so lucrative for so many people and has very little to do with "care" in my opinion. It's just another example of how capitalism has warped peoples minds and the almighty dollar has blinded a few to the needs of many.

Omigosh that is absolutly rediculous, lets say your parents COULDN'T afford that, you'd be left without medical insurance. What would happen if you go ill? Or needed some sort of life saving operation?

I can understand in a way that people say the NHS is bad, bad in the sense that there have been many problems with funding, they are probably in millions of £ worth of debt and because of that, my local Hospital - Chase Farm - has had the most important parts of it closed.

But without it my mother would probably have died when she had her heart problems, because I know if we had to pay for insurance and health care, we would have to go without because we just could not afford it.

It's so stupid that people think that Universal Healthcare is communism and nazi and blah blah blah.
First of all, I'm studying Nazi Germany for a class, and the Nazis hated communists with all of their little Nazi hearts. The Nazi regime was fascist.
And universal healthcare is socialist, not communist, and socialism is not evil. Any good government has to be made of components of several types of government:socialist, free market, etc.
Any one system in entirety would ruin any country.
Our economy is already too free market; the banks have maxed out on con loans that they gave to people who couldn't afford them, healthcare insurance agencies are declaring normal procedures as "experimental" as an excuse to drive up prices and deny coverage, America is a bloody mess. Obama had no idea what he was in for when he got into office. His intentions were good, but I don't believe there's been enough change and hope.
I mean, he's improved things quite a bit, but he's no Roosevelt, and there's no New Deal this time around.

So I'm an English trained nurse who lives in the US now.I'm a 20 yr vet of the NHS as a practitioner.Had been a service user for 40 yrs when we moved.
I choose nursing as it was free at the point of delivery.It met peoples needs at the point of delivery in a way that was to the best that could be managed with the funds available.I work in the National Health Service.
The American system is an industry.It's goals are to generate profits I has little focus on client care.
I have no right to vote or work in America.I am at 45 a dependent.I have no voice.
I watched the State of Union address and I found it truly powerful.
I think America has a chance to move away from profit and embarrass a humanistic.We are all born and we all die but it's the care that we receive between those two points that will most impact our life experience.

Wow, I think I should move to Canada..

Here in South Africa you have to pay for everything to do with doctors, meds, operations, etc. We have medical aid, but it doesn't cover ANYTHING except if we get injured in a car accident and need a blood transfusion or something like that.

I've always been a very sickly person and it kills my parents to have to pay for everything: going to the doctor usually around twice a month, all my prescription medication, my mirena I got in December, getting my massive scars removed with laser treatment. The list goes on. No one in this country can use medical aid for anything other than accident coverage =

Some of the old features of the site have disappeared including the ability to edit !
My second from last sentence should read

*move away from profit and embrace a humanistic approach.

Makes more sense to me that way.