Should the government be responsible for healthcare?

In a recent poll conducted by world opinion.org, people were asked whether or not they thought that it was the governments duty to ensure basic food, eductaion and healthcare to its citizens. Due to our recent dilemma with healthcare, I thought that it was interesting that although 74% in the US said yes, the government should be responsible, 25% responded no which was by far the largest percentage of citizens saying no than any other country.

Most all other countries had a 84-98% of the population saying yes (despite India, which had some erros in its poll due to gaps) that these were areas that the government needed to be responsible for. Some, not all had universal healthcare plans.

This poll shows the different outlook that the U.S. has on the governments role in our everyday lives possibly because some may believe that if the government was able to control these three topics of interest, it may overstep the U.S. Constitution which is something that many other countries are not familiar with in their own realm of laws. The U.S. has a chunk of its population that it needs to convince before the healthcare system is handed over to its government.


http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/articles/btjusticehuman_rightsra/565.php?lb=bthr&pnt=565&nid=&id=