Why we should have Universal Health Care Did you know that 45,000 Americans die each year because they can’t pay for medical help. Universal health care is the remedy to the problem we face. A universal health care system extends care to anyone regardless of social status or bank account. Secondly it will reduce overall medical costs. Thirdly there would be a greater demand for doctors creating more jobs.
It boasts of the best hospitals, research institutions and competent and highly skilled personnel in the world, yet it is among the countries that perform poorly amongst industrialized nations in terms of long-term care. Its healthcare system is inefficient, bureaucratic, and divided. This has been contributed by misconceptions across the American population concerning healthcare issues (Malhotra, 2010). Some of these are: U.S. has the best healthcare system globally; healthcare rationing is impossible in America; many migrants are in the United States because of healthcare; immigrants are the cause of rising healthcare costs and socialized medicine is not
However, working adults can use the benefits of the medical insurance, which will give them an opportunity for a decent medical service and reduce the general taxation burden. The issue of health care throughout the years has been a major issue in the society in the United States and it is one of the most important aspects of an election campaign of any political party. One issue concerning healthcare is that it is very expensive and more than 52 million people do not have any coverage or they have less adequate coverage. In addition, it is very important for people to have coverage for general healthcare maintenance and just in case, something drastic occurs, in their life. A well-organized, efficient health care system is not that easy to provide and one of the key problems on the way to the ideal hospitals and medical help is proper funding.
It is the only industrialize nation that does not provide health coverage to all of its citizens. There is widespread opposition to providing universal health care because of the substantial cost that will be added to the country’s budget that is already heavily burdened. Indeed, while this is a valid and understandable concern, every citizen in the United States has the right to quality health care coverage. The cost of health care has been on a steady rise for the past several years. According to The Kaiser Family Foundation, the average cost of family insurance coverage in the United States was $13,000.00 per year in 2009.
Dulce Cambron Mr. Houston English 101 29 October 2013 Sicko by Dr. Michael Moore The film “Sicko” by Dr. Michael Moore is a documentary on health care in the United States. It is focused on health insurance and its pharmaceutical industry, but it also compares the for-profit of the United States system with the non-profit health care systems of France, UK, Cuba and Canada. The United States is the greatest country worldwide with the largest groups immigrating there, yet we do not receive free medical care such as Canada, Cuba, UK, and France. Since we pay taxes every year to the government I believe we should receive medical care for free just like those countries. Even though the United States does not give free medical care, and the rest of the countries mentioned above do, they have a better life status.
Economists estimate about 2 trillion will be spent on medical care in 2007. That is about $6,830 per person, which amounts to 16 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product. Clemmitt, Marcia (2006, April 7) Rising health cost (vol.16, Issue 13). Recent reports from (Clemmit,2006) recognize the fact that rising health care costs have made health insurance too expensive for many employers to offer and health care itself too costly for tens of millions of Americans.
Health Policy Determinants Timeline HCS/550 October 12, 2014 Health Policy Determinants Timeline American’s have recognized the US health care system as broken and fragmented. With an estimated 48 million uninsured people and approximately $2.5 trillion spent on health care yearly, reform was overdue. The concept of health care reform was not new. New legislation had been attempted without success. “During the 2008 US presidential election, then-candidate Barack Obama (US Senator, D-IL) campaigned for the need to reform the American health care system, stating that the cost of health care was a threat to our economy and that health care should be a right for every American”("History of the," 2011).
According to Shi & Singh (2012), reports showed that 1 in 3 or 87.6 million Americans were uninsured between 2008 and 2009 under the age of 65. This has contributed to the raise in health care costs. In order to reduce costs, the U.S. health care delivery system needs to have a plan in place to ensure that all of America’s population is insured such as the creation of the Obama Care Plan. The term delivery refers to the provision of health care services by various providers (Shi & Singh, 2012). Providers include physicians, hospitals, clinics, private doctor offices, and other entities.
If we did change over to socialized medicine, a lot of factors would cause negative effects in our economy. Many developed countries outside of the United States have higher tax rates than us, that might change if we choose socialized medicine, , "In 2006 U.S. taxes at all levels of government claimed 28 percent of GDP, compared with an average of 36 percent of GDP for the 30 member countries of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)" (Williams). Privatized business competition would die out, , " With a public plan in the mix, there's no way to run a side-by-side competition that would be fair to private insurers”, said Karen Ignagni, chief executive of the health-insurance lobby America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP)..." (Clemmit). Government workers claim socialized medicine is completely optional; it is unlikely that businesses could keep going while they are competing with socialized medicine. People would be forced to pay for healthcare whether they wanted it or not, and businesses
with all of its technology and high industrial development is still lacking to provide all its citizens health services. The health care system in the U.S. has major faults that affect both patients and physicians. Many Americans lack health insurance, and cannot be seen by a physician routinely. There is a shortage of physicians due to the cost of medical school and of malpractice insurance. In order to provide free education for medical students, malpractice insurance for physicians, and free health care for everyone, taxes need to be raised.