Or...go to Mexico, get a Mexican passport (will probably sell it to you for a song) slip across the border into California, check into a hospital under your new "Vicente" alias, have your kid, then just stiff the rest of us with the bill!
True. I agree with you national health care is the answer. Lets stop a couple of wars and close some overseas bases and trim down foreign aid a little, trim back the tax breaks to the oil companies and there you go, the health care for ALL Americans is paid for, painlessly. Then our American business can reap the benefit of reduced health care costs, and the reduced cost of workers comp. The right is brain dead to not look at all sides of the health care issue.
A national healthcare system only works if you cap costs. When you cap costs, you end up with rationing. My wife's sister lives in Canada. She badly injured her knee in a car accident. She had to wait three months for an MRI and an additional four months for surgery. She was in excruciating pain and had to take strong pain killers. After seven months of pain pills, she was addicted to painkillers and she had to go through treatment for that problem. Now she's finding out that seven months of painkillers caused kidney damage. What a nightmare. The following article says that wait time for surgery in Canada is over 18 weeks. http://www.canada.com/health/Surgical+wait+times+increase+Canada/3933033/story.html Come up with a way to control costs that doesn't result in severe rationing and the entire country will support a national healthcare system.
The problem is there aren't enough doctors, because we don't have enough medical schools. It's a supply problem. We need 500 medical schools at least. There is a lot of obstruction in academia and special interest.
It doesn't cost $10k per year to raise a child. I have a 3 year old girl and it costs us about $2,500 per year for food for her and $500 for clothes and that is it. She gets gifts from other family members. She will be going to public school where it is free. Do you really think that poor people are spending $10k per year per child? Some of them have 5 kids and they are not spending $50k per year for all of them.
All that fraud you always hear Medicare and Medicaid are fraught with comes out of the private sector so there you have the prospects for handing over what your premiums will be controlled by and who. They're just salivating at more of the tacit collusion premium hikes are governed by. Overpaid CEO's who'll scream till their death that they earned every penny. Rough work dreaming up schemes for adding to your bottom line. McGuire's of United Health Care's golden parachute should be a lesson forever.
Why care what the CEO makes? It has zero effect on service provided, the amount of money paid is a very small percent of company revenue. These companies pay more per year for office supplies then for top managment. The issues are all in your head.
$1,000 to have a baby is very cheap. What country are you from? Someone should make a documentary film about different countries' costs for various medical procedures compared to the U.S. Would you happen to know if a U.S. tourist goes to a hospital in Europe for an emergency, do they have to treat you, even if they know the tourist won't pay the bill?
Once everyone is required to have health insurance in the U.S. starting in 2014, I bet everyone will be waiting longer to see the doctor and get treated in the emergency room, plus an aging baby-boomer population will increase the wait times.