Analysis of “Organ Sales Will Save Lives” English 112 11:30-12:45 9/19/2012 Analysis of “Organ Sales Will Save Lives” Thousands of people die every year from a tragic disease known as end-stage renal failure. However, these deaths could be easily prevented with the legalization of kidney sales for transplant. Countless people around the world are either desperate to sell or buy a kidney, yet restrictions on such transactions have caused the black market organ trade to thrive. Restraints on kidney sales not only promotes risky conditions in which to purchase one, but cheats the seller out of due compensation if it were legal. In her essay “Organ Sales Will Save Lives”, Joanna Mackay explains how legalizing kidney sales would be beneficial in more ways than one; saving the lives of patients willing to buy kidneys, and with legal compensation, helping to end poverty in the countries of those willing to sell.
Johnson doubled the amount of money being poured into the office of Economic Opportunity to improve the vile conditions in the Appalachian Mountain range. Also passed were Medicare laws which provided health insurance for both the elderly and the poor. While his policies “to give almost half a million underprivileged Americans…” assistance were beneficial, much of the assistance was taken from the program to help fuel the Vietnam War (Doc. B), (Doc. E).
First the pro side, the first main issue is the fact that the 32 million Americans that don’t have health care will now have access to health care coverage. Many Americans can’t afford health care coverage and this policy lowers the cost so that more Americans will have the opportunity to get the coverage they need. Another pro is that people with preexisting conditions can no longer be denied coverage. Insurance companies have been getting away with denying people the coverage they need because they either get sick or because they have a preexisting condition and this policy puts an end to all of that. Lastly, the amount of personal bankruptcies will be reduced.
As a country, we are spending over $190 billion a year treating these diseases, diseases that could be prevented by increasing exercise and decreasing calories. The scariest fact is that one in three children under 18 are overweight or obese, a rate that has tripled since 1960. The fact that the obesity rates are so high shows that as a society we accept this lifestyle. We need to be proactive as a country, and stop accepting this lifestyle and work towards a healthier society. If this continues we will have a new generation of people that don’t outlive their parents.
Illegal kidney trade is reliable because kidneys gotten from black markets come from a living donor which could last a person a lifetime compared to an organ from a cadaver which is estimated to function for about ten years. In third world countries, people do anything for money especially the poor who are vulnerable to anything that involves money; so they sell their organs for about $1,000. By my understanding, a lot of bad and evil things happen on this earth. People kill for diabolical reasons, others trick their fellow humans into doing things and making decisions they
Patrice Ford Trident University International MSHS - Health Care Management & Clinical Research Administration CRA500: Health Care delivery Systems Module 1 Today in the United States the strength of the economy comes from the wellbeing of our society. Health care cost is at an all-time high many Americans do not have health care benefits or even access to good healthcare. Reforming our healthcare policy will enable everyone access to quality healthcare a preventative measures while lowering healthcare cost. The high cost is stemming from the treatment of many chronic illnesses and medications. Dr. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey whom is the current president of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation points out the six steps that we as a nation
| PRO: The health reform includes the largest health care tax cut in history for middle class families, helping to make insurance much more affordable for millions of families. | | PRO: Tax credits up to 35% are offered to small business to make employee coverage more affordable. | | PRO: Bans health plans from dropping people from coverage when they get sick. | | PRO: Restricts new plans’ use of annual limits to ensure access to needed care. |
Based on Census statistics the United States has a child poverty rate that is more than twice as high as many Europeans nations. The Poverty rate for children living in the U.S has increased to 22% in 2010. The poverty rate for U.S. adults is only 13.7 % today one out of every four American children is on food Stamps. Also 50 percent of all U.S children will be on food stamps at some point in their lives before they reach the age of 18. There are also 314 countries in the U.s where at least 30 % of the children are facing food insecurity.
In America, the stereotype that obese people are inconsiderate, lazy, overeaters is largely accepted. What many people fail to realize is that many of these obese people cannot lose weight because of the environment they are in. David Zinczenko, author of the article, “Don’t Blame the Eater,” emphasizes the problem of obesity and how it affects society. Zinczenko suggests that the obesity epidemic is affecting all of America. He states that before 1994, only five percent of all childhood diabetes cases were obesity related, or Type 2 diabetes.
Many Americans found themselves very uphappy with the recent tax increases in 2013. They received their first check only to find it slightly lower then checks from the year before. There was a large outcry from the working class across America admonishing the current administration for further taxing the working middle class American public. The current administration estimates that universal healthcare will cost the United States over a trillion dollars over the next ten years. Many have safely assumed that this number could double, increasing a deficit on an already financially unstable government.