With taxes at a breaking point government has little recourse but to try to hold down costs. Government cutting budget for health care sector affects every aspect. Since labour is the main component of health costs, income for health workers and professionals have been brought under tight government controls. This causes brain wash. Health professionals will migrate to other countries were they would compensate for the same services they provide. This causes shortage of labour force in health care sector which in turn causes long patient wait time.
Though healthcare is currently very costly, studies show that universal healthcare would be cheaper than the current privatized system (Conor). Healthcare acts as an umbrella: covering a group of people by spreading out healthcare costs amongst everyone under the umbrella. The problem with a privatized system is that the umbrella can fluctuate due to competiveness between insurance companies. The United States has a privatized system of healthcare; and out of twenty-nine countries, the U.S. is doing the worst when it comes to healthcare (Conor). There are many reasons why this is so.
Many of them don’t currently have health insurance because of how expensive it is. I think it should be our right as free American citizens to gamble with our life or our finances if we don’t want to purchase health insurance. It’s not like they don’t understand the potential consequences of not having insurance and it’s a choice they should be allowed to make. With the prior stipulation of the word “qualifying” health insurance I am sure it is going to cost them a great deal of money that they probably can’t afford. If they choose to pay the tax than they are paying up to $2,100 that they could be spending on healthcare if something was to happen to them.
There have always been reasons to why the U.S. has not taken the step towards universal healthcare. Insurance companies could end up losing many different patrons, the enduring anti-government sentiment, the complications of this type of health care, and even the racial politics of the South have kept the United States from taking the next step towards universal coverage (Quandagno 12). The inevitable truth is that the United States needs socialized medicine, even if it is hard to come by. Health care costs more per person in the U.S. than in any other nation in the world (“Health Systems” 1). According to the US Census, the percentage of citizens within the United States without any type of health care coverage was 15.3%, or 45.7 million people, in 2007(U.S. Census 9).
With the unemployment rates so high; more and more Americans have to go on a government funded plan. These plans are very time consuming for the doctors which again takes away from patient care time. Yes, the incentives were out of hand before with the drug companies, but now the regulations for such are very strict and very limited, why can’t we find a happy medium. Now, with the healthcare reform benefits, premiums, and services covered will be a lot worse. Guidelines and limitations on prescriptions, tests, and specialists will be even more stringent.
As for whether slashing military spending would deny us needed protection, one could as well ask whether we are safe today with policies that risk "blowback”, bankruptcy, and monetary disarray. All through the debate over health-care reform last year, I cast a somewhat jaundiced eye on those critics who said the United States could not afford it, because frequently those critics also seemed to be supporters of the Iraq war. Their thrift seemed to stop at the war’s edge. They said we could not afford health care, when we plainly could afford it, given our outlandish spending on a war of choice, to say nothing of a Wall Street bailout. $700 billion for the war.
Their plan is supposed to restrict the growth of Medicare. This is a good start, but they have no definite plans on how to restrict it. Basically, the Republican plan aims to balance the budget entirely at the expense of the young (for whom we are trying to balance the budget), the environment that they will inherit, the poor, and the weak, while sparing the rich, thealready-by-far most powerful military in the world, the elderly (the ones who accrued most of this debt for us), and those who poison us and our environment.^3 Because the Republican plan to balance the budget is not an earnest attempt to secure the future of ournation by sharing the sacrifices across the population, but merely a political maneuver, it should be vetoed. This way, a more evenly distributed sacrifice, balanced, bi-partisan, and effective plan can be put into effect. Sources: 1. http://sunsite.unc.edu/concord/home/cc_sample.html 2. http://sunsite.unc.edu:80/concord/news/courier_v4n1.html 3.
I don’t know if it’s ethical to require someone to have health insurance, however, I think it is admirable to want every American to have health insurance. My only concern is that there will be bias decisions based on the type of coverage that you have just like it is today. Majority of Americans can afford to pay for the best insurance plan .Whereas the rich will be able to pay the best coverage therefore leaving the person with low income the inability to get the best coverage available.” The national health system reform law is expected to reduce the nation's uninsured population to what could be an all-time low. But even after the major reforms take effect starting in 2014, millions will remain without coverage, whether by choice or
Essay #2 On the general controversy of health care, Peter Singer’s text “Why We Must Ration Health Care” and Michael Moore’s film Sicko both address common concerns of the average American. While these two texts support healthcare, Moore’s film focuses on the basic idea of free unlimited national healthcare while Singer’s text persuades his audience that rationing healthcare by establishing a limit is in everyone’s best interest. Although these two arguments contain both personal experiences and those of outside authorities, the effectiveness of Moore’s use of emotion is greatly decreased when compared to the immense use of statistics throughout Singer’s text. Generally speaking, in all effective arguments, statistics and reasoning are two of the most commonly used rhetorical strategies. Both Moore and Singer use these strategies to support their arguments however, to different extents.
The extremely high number of illegal immigrants living in the United States is frustrating to U.S. citizens who pay taxes and have health insurance. It does not make sense that a U.S. citizen and illegal immigrant could both be provided the same emergency hospital care but the illegal immigrant’s care would essentially be a completely free service to him or her because the undocumented status of citizenship exempts them from taxes which pay for Medicare and Medicaid. The new immigration law should provide a basis for getting the financial affairs of the country back into order, or at least expelling