Why do people have a problem with introducing state health care to the US?

[evilberet]

ok i'm form the uk so i don't understand the whole situation but i cannot see why people don't want free healthcare. in the UK you don't have to worry about it, if you get ill you get treated simple as. the US system is percieved as very unfair with people with cancer etc unable to pay for care and everyone at the mercy of insurance companies. why do people have a problem with it?

 

[White House Watching]

The Constitution of the United States.

 

[the rick]

first of all IT IS NOT FREE someone has to pay for it either thru higher taxes or cuts to other programs ,secondly Americans happen to really like their FREEDOM,when you give the government control of anything you LOSE some of your freedom and lastly being at the mercy as you say of an insurance company where you do have the oppourtunity to pursue litigation if you feel you were wronged as opposed to being at the mercy of the government in which you will have NO WHERE to turn in the same situation is much more preferable. so there is just three simple reasons Americans don not want government run healthcare and prfer FREEDOM of choice

 

[The Patriot]

Because of the many lies told about it.

I am always amazed how many Americans seem not to be aware about the real healthcare issues relying instead on FOX and other sources to spread lies about the healthcare system of the USA and those abroad. I mean, if healthcare in nations with universal coverage is so bad, why do they keep it?
Obama wants to make insurance more available to all and change the system so that it gives the American people value for money [1]. He also wants change so that the insurance companies find it harder to get out of paying for treatment. The system he is proposing looks similar to that which works in Taiwan where private companies are involved in providing healthcare [2].
Obama campaigned on reforming the healthcare system. He said he wanted to make insurance more available and he was elected by the American people to do this [3].
FACT - the US has higher death rates for kids both for kids aged under one and those under five than western European countries with universal health coverage [4,5].
FACT – American insurance companies push up prices and work to stop paying out claims on those they cover [6].
FACT - the USA spends more on healthcare PER PERSON than any other nation on the planet [7].
That means that a dead American four year old would have had a better chance of life if they were born in any western nation with universal health coverage.
If you do not like the policies that Obama was elected to bring in, he can always be voted out of office in 2012. But if you disagree with the facts, please let me know. I am always willing to learn, but please provide proof. None of those who disagree with me have been able to do that so far.