I live in Sweden and I've been to the hospital dozens of times when I were child, without paying anything. Do children in the United States have the same fortune? Of course I know tax-payers paid for my healthcare, and I'll happily help paying for theirs when they get sick.
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you don't get it free.the tax payers pay for it.the same goes for here.
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No. Nothing is free. If the childs parents are low-income, they can be covered under a state insurance program paid for by tax dollars.
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No, not in 100% of the cases. Some are covered under their parents, some can't get covered under their parents...until last week, that is...and some are poor enough to qualify for medicaid under their individual state. Until last week and until the rest of the health care reform bill goes into effect, a lot of children go without along with their families. It's a shame.
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your parents healthcare pays for it or taxpayers do
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How can healthcare be "free", genius? Are you honestly too thick to comprehend that someone, somewhere, somehow foots the bill? Do you think these highly educated and trained professionals work for nothing? Really?
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That is really AMAZING. You mean to say that in Sweden all the health care providers donate their time and the drug companies donate their drugs, and the medical supplies are donated and someone somewhere gave millions of euros to build and equip modern medical centers to be used by the children when and if they need care. What remarkably generous people you must have there! If on the other hand, you mean that the country taxes individuals and uses the proceeds of those taxes to pay for health care so that the child and their family do not pay for it directly then yeah we have it here, it is a little less centralized than I imagine it is in Sweden and families have the option to say "no" to the health coverage, but it exists. Free is a silly word to use with respect to health care. It isn't ever free unless it is specifically donated. Please be careful when you toss around the term.
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Yes totally paid for thru my taxes, I have two kids, total cost from "conception" to age 14, $60.00 because I rented a TV and Phone for my wifes room. Oh wait......I'm Canadian................Hahahahahaha I laugh at you!
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Let me start by saying that if one cannot afford to provide the proper care for a child they simply aren't ready to be parents. That said , for those irresponsible enough to have children they can't afford , Medicaid and similar programs provide health care for those who can't afford it at the taxpayers expense.
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Folks here we have the mind set of those people over the pond ''I don't pay for it so it must be free''
10 :
Only for foster children.
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If a child is under 18 and his family are very low income, they can apply for their state health care program. Many states have only a state/federal funding under Medicaid but they may also have a state program for children only rather than the entire family. That child qualifies the rest of the family. There are many low cost clinics around the U.S. and some used to be free but not reliably so, and you dont have a regular doctor and you dont know when they raise their rates, or if they go out of business. Every state has different laws and different standards and you have to look up your own state's programs. http://www.freeclinics.us/ http://www.hrsa.gov/gethealthcare/affordable/hillburton/facilities.html
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no parents are expected to pay, or to arrange for their insurance plan to pay.
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just because you want to donate your money to childrens healthcare doesnt mean you have the right to force others to do the same.
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No, in america we think the kid should get a job and pay for their own healthcare...same goes for those lazy 80 year olds. we think the only thing that needs our support is our bloated army. as you can tell from your answers...we are a compassionate country
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