Should Medical Care Should Be Free?

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Consider the view that all medical care should be free. New diseases and ailments are springing up as quickly as old ones are being eradicated. The developing countries are still trying to cope with basic sanitation and health problems that their counterparts conquered decades ago. Fully developed nations are also not without their share of deadly diseases. The question arises then that should not people be granted their essential right of being allowed to live and prosper with adequate protection against death and disease? The issue is a relative one. Basic health care should be to every individual. Only countries which have succeeded in doing so for their citizens can aim to make all medical care free. In nations of the Third World where basic health care is lacking, for all medical care to be free can simply be regarded as a dream. Yet it can not be denied that basic medical care should be free. Every individual has a right to be given a chance for survival regardless of the fact that he can or can not pay for a healthy life. Human beings have made immense progress. It was over thirty five years ago that man first stepped on the moon. Hence it is a shame really that people are denied the right to live just because they are poor. Things like vaccines and clean drinking water should be provided to everybody. The same is true for emergency treatment. How can we, in this age of liberation, allow a man to bleed to death just because his family can not afford to pay the surgeon who has to perform the operation? Every nation should have a budget that covers the cost of basic health care for every individual. Developed countries can help poor nations in this endeavour by setting up organizations that extend monetary and technical aid. Every human being that goes to sleep on a full stomach each night has a responsibility towards the dying children in famine

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