Uninsured Are Satisfied with Their Healthcare
Its unclear why there needs to be universal health care when those that choose not to have insurance for health care report high satisfaction with their current health care.
While 93 percent of the insured say that they are “satisfied” or “very satisfied” with their own health care, fully 70 percent of the uninsured who indicated their level of satisfaction said the same thing.
Americans dissatisfaction with health care seems to be based on the perception that fellow Americans without insurance receive no health care.
Yet only 44 percent were satisfied with the overall quality of the American medical system. The reason is that most Americans seem to believe that lack of insurance for others means that those others receive no access to health care.
However it seems the term ‘uninsured’ is being used deceptively:
The explanation for Americans’ overwhelming level of satisfaction with health coverage - even among the uninsured - is that the term “uninsured” is misleading. Having no insurance doesn’t mean someone goes without health care. The government Medicaid program effectively covers at least some of the uninsured who are dissatisfied. Since Medicaid does not exclude people based on pre-existing conditions, many of those effectively covered by Medicaid do not register until they become ill - they are effectively insured at all times even though they haven’t joined the program. Many of the others who are uninsured are illegal aliens.
Honestly, is there any good reasons to universalize health care?