Universal Health Care
by America is the only country in the entire world without a Universal Health Care plan for everyone.
According to the American Student Medical Association (AMSA), it would only cost approximately 69 billion dollars to pay for medical care for all American citizens. We currently spend 623 billion dollars on our defense budget, which is more than 123 billion dollars more than every other country’s defense budget in the world combined (Global Security Org). It is therefore feasible for everyone to be able to obtain medical treatment with the help of government programs without raising taxes, we’ll just use what we already have, but in a different way. Another source of medical expenditure money could be ending corporate welfare. According to an older USA Today article from 1995, “Put an End to Corporate Welfare”, the government gives over 85 billion dollars a year to the people who need it the least and the people who need money (and in this case medical care) end up paying for it. With those two sources of money saved from two other sources cut, we’ll have a whopping 208 billion dollars to spare. There’s all this money to spare out in America’s governmental expenditures and it seems that whenever there’s a war going on benefits to poor people and the rest of us are always the first to go.
I believe that Americans not having full access to health care is completely ridiculous. We work just as hard as the other countries and despite having more money, more supposed access to more physicians than any other place on the planet, and the best health care in the world we still spend twice as much and many people in our country do not benefit from our overspending. Today, Capitalism has gone too far, sick people should not be profited over, we should give our brothers and sisters of America equal and respectful treatment the same way other countries like Canada do.
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Post CommentFrank
On April 5, 2008 at 4:07 pm
Yeah man. i totally agree with you. We definately need a health care system. Except the government and all the people in power won’t let us have one because it’ll be bad for business. The last thing they want is an egalitarian society where everyone is provided for. If we all just took what we need, instead of the rich power elite taking everything they want, the world would be a better place for everyone.
David Dzidzikashvili
On December 20, 2008 at 10:25 am
We have seen that the private healthcare does not work well and the government run healthcare system has also failed in many countries that tried it. Private health insurance companies are unfair to sick people – sometimes people get disqualified because they have one of the million sicknesses listed in the pre-approval applications and those companies try to give insurance to healthier individuals because healthy individual = less doctor visits, less medications and less drug coverage = more profits for private health industry.
I think what we need is cooperation between government and private insurance companies. I do not believe it is right to list million health preconditions as a qualification test for applicants and deny them healthcare. This is unfair and barbaric! Can you believe in 20th century America we can disqualify an American citizen from healthcare coverage because 5 years ago they had an emergency doctors visit? That’s where the government should step in and redefine all rules for private healthcare companies. These companies should not be able to easily disqualify families for coverage and if they want to stay in the game they have to actively work with the people, not just push them away. I think the better model of such healthcare system is in Europe, where the doctors still get paid very well and every sick person can go to doctor and take care of the their medical needs.
So the problem is obvious: get rid of health industry lobbyists and drug company lobbyists and start listening to the people, it’s time to start addressing the average people’s needs. Until the lobbyists will have money, power and say, we will have this problem follow us in future as a shadow from dark past.