Health care
This is a really tough problem. As a senior citizen I have benefited greatly in free health care and so has my wife. The cost of her heart problems and diabetes would be devastating financially. Other countries such as Canada and Australia have socialized medicine and all is not well. There are long waits to get needed operations. Often these citizens have to go to other countries and pay for operations out of their own pocket in order to get the care they need.
Medical care and prescriptions are very expensive.
Sometimes seniors have to decide between eating or getting their medicines. Medical care is also extremely expensive for the working class. Often families have to go without needed care because they just can’t afford care or medical insurance. Being self employed most of my working life our family seldom had coverage.
This problem needs to be solved from many directions. What are some ideas you have to make health care available to all at a price they can afford?
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It would be a nice idea to have complete health care for everyone, but is the price too high? Look at Canada and Australia with high taxes and long waiting lists for operations. We need to lower the cost of care to help make insurance more affordable.
One of the issues faced in trying to lower the cost of health care is malpractice suits. Doctors continue to have to pay out high rates for malpractice coverage just to stay in practice - rates that can often make being a country doctor unfeasible.
I work for a healthcare software company. We are doing our best to improve and develop software that helps to eliminate many of the errors that occur in healthcare (such as monitoring allergies better, preventing a patient from being given a drug that will interact badly with one they are already on, etc.)
Healthcare will continue to change and adapt. It has actually been rather interesting to see the presidential canidates' stances on what needs to be done in healthcare.
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