I was asked last night (following a news bite), if I had the opportunity to ask one important question of all three candidates, what would it be. Right off the top of my head I had two…”Give me a definitive on when would you end this ‘war’ and bring those men and women home.” and/or “What will you do about healthcare being financially viable for everyone…from poorest to richest, oldest to youngest?”
I’ve been pondering that today and, for myself, I can only really see one real question to ask and be answered…..”For months now…and probably until November…each of you is banging on about ‘change’. Change is needed, we have to have change, I can change things, elect me President and I will change things.” …and the war, healthcare, economy…has all come under that banner. I want to know…with ALL this talk of change and how you want or will change things so needing change, so ready for change…just how are YOU going to effect those changes if Congress does not co-operate?” See…no matter their rhetoric or even their good intentions, promises…false or otherwise…for all their talk of what they will do to change things, as I see it they can’t. They can talk a good game, get people excited and hopeful, yet without the tacit approval it all means nothing….just empty bumph.
Knowing absolutely nothing about American politics, I am hardy in a position to comment.
One thing I do know is, what the UK and USA have in common, we have troops fighting wars, young people losing their lives or being injured. I do not agree with wars and hearing on a daily basis of lost lives for no good reason makes me more than angry.
On another note, as to the Healthcare, people complain in the UK about the poor healthcare service. I personally cannot fault the healthcare my Husband and myself receive in Scotland. It could be that our local hospital is one of the biggest teaching hospitals in Europe, who knows. My Husband has been fighting Cancer for over four years and still receiving treatment and operations His Consultant has discussed every possibility with us for a better quality of life for my Husband, and is prepared to allow us to make the decison that is best for us which means an operation evry three months. Every other avenue has been explored. At the moment, it is working but it means taking up a hospital bed, Consultant’s time but they allow us to do do this.
Recently, I attended a breast screening clinic at the request of the Health Service and was found to have Ductal Carcenoma Insit u.
Within a mtater of three weeks, I underwent tests, an operation and was told I was one lucky lady that it was picked up in time as the tumours were pre-cancerous.
I was operated on by one the top Professors in this country.
Now on the road to recovery, yes we pay National Insurance via our salaries, but had I or my Husband gone private, we could never have received better treatment and so quickly either.
So, come on America, start following in our footsteps. Do everything you can for your citizens.
Very glad you brought your personal plight(s) up, annied. There is a serious misconception here with regards to universal healthcare proposals and, consistently, the nay-sayers continue to return to mocking UK, other European and Canadian systems. The horror stories used as examples would make one laugh if on didn’t know those horror stories are nothing but fairy tales. One of the issues somehow always neglected is the fact that in the UK, at least, anyone has the option…if they have the means…to maintain private health insurance. I can see why some might want to do so when it comes to matters of elective surgeries but to even suggest to Americans that “you have to wait months, even up to a year, for a bed for treatment” is not only a lie but appalling, unconscienable, to boot. In my entire life I’ve never known of anyone who had to do so. Looking at your own example…I know of no-one here who’s had speedier treatment, start to finish. I do know of those who have had insurance companies refuse certain treatments, refuse to cover pre-existing conditions when health insurance (and it is NOT cheap) has been applied for.
I’m not sure this country will ever go for a universal health care system but one option that would be better than what we have now, in my opinion, is allowing doctors and medical services to be openly competitive…like any other business. The health insurance ‘industry’ has not and does not seem to serve well. Of course, it also behooves us, as consumers, to note how petty law suits on the medical professions has not improved matters.
The very least we can do here is make it possible for everyone to be assured of…and afford…health care without worrying what it will cost and how they can possibly manage to pay for it.
I’m so tired of hearing a repeat of things that have already been talked about this debate has gone on to long and getting old!!!!!!!!!!I wish Hillary would stop pulling at straws the straws have run out and she doesn’t know it. I’m tire of the debate this is the longest debate I’ve known of.
I agree Perrie! This debate is just turning into bickering back and forth and nothing being accomplished. I wish the two democrats stop fighting and talk more about their plans when in office and how they will carry them out!