To all working Us citizens

 Too much government! That means the government would be controlling our healthcare. Would we be able to choose our doctors? Probably not! Our taxes would be much higher! Longer waiting periods to see your doctors! It would be a form of Communism. The whole point of the United States is freedom, isn't it?!

 THIS IS A BIG FAT CAN OF WORMS! THE GOVERNMENT DOES NOT OWE US ANYTHING AND CERTAINLY NOT SOCIALIZED MEDICINE. However medical insurance is a very flawed system whereby the Insurance Companies get very rich at the expense of the doctors and the rest of us. There need to be some serious reforms. Poor people with less than perfect credit have a hard time getting affordable insurance with any decent kind of coverage. If the insurance industry does not police itself then big government at the "Liberels" urging will step in and push us into socialized medicine. All you liberals think "HealthCare for all" is so wonderful. Countries that have it are the ones with the highest tax rates and even then you have to wait to get treatment and you rarely get to choose your doctor.

 I live near Canada & I can tell you it doesn't work! There is a horrendous waiting period to see a doctor. Some medical conditions they don't treat because by the time they get the treatment it's too late! Doctors are overworked & underpaid so they go to the US. Giving money to a government is the worst way to solve a problem.

 I do think that we could use a program for young adults getting out on their own, but as far as nationwide health care goes... No. It's too much power to place into the governments hands. Politicians are corrupt. Why is it a good idea to place essentially your body into their hands? I already feel backed into a corner as it is. Free health care of course sounds wonderful, but you pay with quite a large chunk of your freedom.

 I agree with UMPLE, the social security we pay in needs to be taken out of the general fund and not let any other government program touch it. This should have been fixed years ago.

 Socialized medical systems like Canada stink. Why do you think so many Canadians come to the U.S. If they have something seriously wrong with them. They are taxed through the nose to pay for the medical system (if you really believe it is free, you are practically braindead), and since everyone treats it as if it is free, everyone goes to a doctor for every case of sniffles.

This results in unbelievable waiting periods to see a doctor.. Often months. God help you if you suffer from something that is pretty fast acting. Hate to wait six months to see a doctor, then have him say "Gee, too bad we did not catch this lump 4 months ago".

You want to bring down medical costs, and hence make medical care more accessible to everyone? Put a cap on awards given in malpractice suits. Someone has something relatively minor, say losing a toe because a doctor messed up, should not get $20,000 actual damages, and $20 million punitive damages awarded. Punitive damages do not hurt the doctor, other than raise his insurance rates, which get passed on to future patient's medical bills.

 Wait, doesn't the government already do that? Isn't it called medicaid or medicare? I mean granite, you don't qualify if you make over a certain amount of money but generally speaking they do provide insurance for people.

 It is not the governments responsibility to provide our health care it is ours.Plus it would not be any less expensive.Who will pay for it?Everyone who has a paycheck. Remember the problem with social security,being depleted because it does not go into a seperate fund it goes to the general spending fund and is used up as fast as it is collected.That problem has yet to be fixed.Look at your pay stub at what is taken for ss which you will pay til your 67 and unless the government fixes the problem the money will not be there for you to collect when you retire.Are you sure you want to give them whats left of your check and trust them to run health care?Because that's where the money will come from.

 Universal citizen-insurance might be the death of alternative medicine, typically supporting the medical community and subsidizing disease and ill-health by taxation. There's more $-flow in treatment than in cures.

Such taxes diminish individual funds for heath maintenance supplies: Food and any necessary non-prescription supplements.

 No way. People should pay their own way

 It would be nice to have my insurance paid for, but if it was, I and most everyone else will go to the doctor whenever we have a cold, causing long waiting lines and eventually appointments may be weeks or months away from when we called the doctor.