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People in Haiti have no healthcare. Have you ever seen any Americans not able to get medical attention?

If not why do so many say that we have a healthcare crisis and that so many are without insurance? Every single person in the United States illegal or not gets treatment when they need it. Why such drastic measures when the system we have already works fine?

Public Comments

1. Americans get get healthcare, but they they have to declare bankruptcy when the bill comes and the unpaid bill gets passed on to all the rest of the Americans... dont you know how it works?
2. I sure have! Saddens me to think about it.
3. You can compare anything to foreign countries and claim it is worse. That doesn't mean it isn't a crisis here. Your logic or lack there of is atrocious. All it takes is one small outbreak in America caused by one little terrorists and some very nasty things could jam up our entire health care industry and our food supply. In Haiti they don't have that problem, because they don't have much in the way of mass production of crops. You realize you could also use Haiti's education to claim how good Americ's public education is to right, so no need for vouchers? I mean if Haiti has 45% illiteracy most people in poverty and a very few extremely rich, why do Americans need education or any other form of elitists rule? Haiti is also a good example of what happens when poverty prevents you from rising above that horrible station in life and makes it impossible to exercise your most basic rights. just pointing out your epic failure of logic.
4. no if you have a heart attack you can go to the emergency room, but you will not be staying the night in the hospital, and if you can't afford the expensive medicine you will most likely die, and the same with cancer and aids.
5. Not too many people desire to leave the US health care system unchanged. The debate is more focused on whether we need more government involvement (sponsored by the left) or less government involvement (the right). The current patchwork mesh of semi-free markets and bloated government regulations is highly unworkable. Haiti has limited access to health care because a 7.0 earthquake leveled everything - it has nothing to do with the design of their health care system.
6. Yes. Doctors turn down patients every single day. No insurance, no cash no service.
7. Precisely the point I have been trying to get across. There is no health care crisis-there is a health insurance problem. No one says that everyone has to have insurance. All insurance does is hedge your bets against a possible problem. It is paid for up front-big deal. No insurance, pay for it after the fact. The care you get would be no different.
8. Have you ever sat in an emergency room? The biggest problem with health care is that those that can't afford it put a huge burden on those of us that can by going to the emergency room with ear infections and common colds because they have no doctor. They can't afford those kinds of services, so the other patients have to eat the cost in their own bills. The best thing to have happened to health care is those walk in clinics at Walgreen's. I don't know how much they are, but I know it is a lot cheaper and easier to get into one of those when you are sick than to try to make an appointment with a doctor who sometimes can't schedule you until three weeks out.
9. Hey genius, you do realize there is such a thing as Project Hope were we send $$$ to Haiti to help them right? Maybe we could start helping our own poor in a way that would be cheaper for those of us who do pay our own medical bills.
10. "Every single person in the United States illegal or not gets treatment when they need it." This is not true. Preventative health care (checkups, screenings, medication, etc.) just isn't given to everyone. And in the case of emergency treatment, it's given, but the bill still comes and they are on the hook. For these reasons, people sometimes forgo treatment unless it's life or death. So they live with ailments that lower their quality of life (pain, etc.). The system does not work fine. We pay twice as much as other developed nations and really do we get twice the care? We don't live twice as long. Our life expectancy is shorter and infant mortality is higher. And even those with health insurance are worried that they'll lose it if they switch jobs. There's lots in our system that could be made to work better.
11. Please don't give anyone any ideas. The next thing you know, we will have to pay for health care for every poor country like Haiti. We can't even get decent health care for people of America who pay into our tax system. Churches claim that they are helping with aid, but all I see are tax free elaborate church buildings and holdings that are acquired from their tax paying members.
12. To answer your question, the uninsured do not get preventative healthcare. It surprises me that so many Americans seem not to be aware about Obama’s healthcare plans [a]. During the election, he campaigned for these changes stating that he felt it was unfair to have a system where insurance companies try to escape paying claims and was elected to bring in changes [b]. First of all, too many people do not know that Obama wants to make insurance more available to all. His system is similar to that which works in Holland, Taiwan [c] and Switzerland. It works there and private healthcare companies provide most the insurance to the people there. FACT - the USA spends more on healthcare PER PERSON than any other nation on the planet [d]. FACT – insurance companies admit that they push up costs, buy politicians and do not pay out for many claims when they should [e]. FACT - the US has higher death rates for kids aged under five than western European countries with universal health coverage [f]. That means that a dead American four year old would have had a better chance of life if they were born in Canada, France, the Netherlands, Cuba, Switzerland, Germany, Japan etc, all of which have universal health coverage. And no western European nation with universal healthcare has moved away from it. And the sad thing is, that the insurance companies have spent loads of money to fight these reforms [g] and loads of politicians are taking the thirty pieces of silver from them to fight the reforms, rather than fight for the health of the American people. Remember, I back my facts up with evidence. Those who say they are wrong tend not to. If they are wrong, e-mail me with proof and let me know.