Comments on: Hawaii Ending Universal Child Health Care

Citing Budget Shortfalls, Only State With Universal Coverage Eliminates Funding After 7 Months

[erasmus81]

What we pay a month for health care, covers all surgeries, bloodwork, specialists, tests and doctors visits.

[erasmus81]

I don''''t know what the cost would be in Canada, last year I had some blood clots in one leg I was sent to the Hospital and spent two days. they gave intravenous
blood thinners for 24 hrs. and kept me another 24 hrs. to check the only treatment I had was the blood thinner and the bill was 12,700.00 dollars this is outrageous the room was 2400.00.

Posted by d7767w at 09:14 PM : Oct 18, 2008

In Canada, we pay nothing for anything done in the hospital. It doesn''t matter what it is. We pay so much a month for health care, which I stated in an earlier post, and that''s it. We do pay so much a day for a bed, but it is nothing compared to what you pay.

[rwsmith29456]

After I saw there were 5 posts of the same thing I didn''t even bother to read it.

[standlee5]

A state official said families were dropping private coverage so their children would be eligible for the subsidized plan."

Isn''t this the same thing Bush said would happen and the media made him out to be a villain.

[almeric1-2009]

I am a patient and provider in the Canadian system. My daughter had to wait 6 months for a specialist referal and test which should have been done in a week. Consequently she nearly died and suffered a permanent reversal to her health. Any health system, whether private user paid, commercial insurance based or government insurance based is only as good as the people working in it and organizing it. Some government run schemes such as in France or Germany seem to deliver excellent care. Equally it is possible a right minded private system might be acceptable. With the expense of modern medicine however some degree of state financing is inevitable. The big problem with the Canadian system is that the law (with a few exceptions) forbids you to seek care outside the system in Canada. So if you are not happy you must seek care outside Canada and pay for it. Also, contrary to comments from an earlier post, Canadian health care is not financed fully by individual contributions but mostly from the general tax pool. For you Americans waiting for universal health care I say, "don''t hold your breath." No country can afford both universal health care and the military.

[erasmus81]

JC9567

I think ONE comment would have been sufficient, don''t you? When you post the same comment over and over, you just look like a nutjob, and most people will just ignore what you say.

[jc9567]

We are able to find billions of dollars to bail out banks, international corporations, and other bribers of politicians.
But when it comes to services to the general population it becomes too expensive.
The basic services of health care should be provided to all.
"Those who can afford it" are paying for their own health care and paying for the health care of "those who cannot afford it." Along with college educations for those who cannot.
If we are to have a society where all are equal under the law and we consider certain basic needs to be necessities then those basic needs should be equally available to all.
Those expenses can be distributed across the whole of the society with more benefit than the welfare we are giving to the rich and politically elite.

[jc9567]

We are able to find billions of dollars to bail out banks, international corporations, and other bribers of politicians.
But when it comes to services to the general population it becomes too expensive.
The basic services of health care should be provided to all.
"Those who can afford it" are paying for their own health care and paying for the health care of "those who cannot afford it." Along with college educations for those who cannot.
If we are to have a society where all are equal under the law and we consider certain basic needs to be necessities then those basic needs should be equally available to all.
Those expenses can be distributed across the whole of the society with more benefit than the welfare we are giving to the rich and politically elite.

[jc9567]

We are able to find billions of dollars to bail out banks, international corporations, and other bribers of politicians.
But when it comes to services to the general population it becomes too expensive.
The basic services of health care should be provided to all.
"Those who can afford it" are paying for their own health care and paying for the health care of "those who cannot afford it." Along with college educations for those who cannot.
If we are to have a society where all are equal under the law and we consider certain basic needs to be necessities then those basic needs should be equally available to all.
Those expenses can be distributed across the whole of the society with more benefit than the welfare we are giving to the rich and politically elite.

[jc9567]

We are able to find billions of dollars to bail out banks, international corporations, and other bribers of politicians.
But when it comes to services to the general population it becomes too expensive.
The basic services of health care should be provided to all.
"Those who can afford it" are paying for their own health care and paying for the health care of "those who cannot afford it." Along with college educations for those who cannot.
If we are to have a society where all are equal under the law and we consider certain basic needs to be necessities then those basic needs should be equally available to all.
Those expenses can be distributed across the whole of the society with more benefit than the welfare we are giving to the rich and politically elite.