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I feel that healthcare is a fundamental right that every human being should have. Every person has the right to live and receive health care for a healthy life. Unfortunately, in the United Sates we treat health care as a privilege, which only those with money should be allowed to receive it. Health care is based on fundamentals of making money and has turned in to money making institutions. These fundamentals should be focused solely on the health of people instead of dollar values. I believe that our government is unfairly imposing limitations simply by allowing our system to discriminate healthcare services based on economic status. Those that live in poverty and meet the qualifications of the government can receive optimal care for free or at an extremely low monthly fee. However we are not taking care of the middle class families. Our middle class citizens are the ones that keep our communities running. They work at our supermarkets, schools, and customer service. I know the world is a huge diverse place with many different races and classes of people, but one thing we all share in common is that we will all at one point in our lives experience some type of illness or have some type of accident which will lead us to the doctor or the hospital, and at that time we will need to have some type of insurance or cash to cover the expense. Healthcare is not something that should be given to those who can afford it, it should be evenly distributed throughout our country from the poor to the rich, no one should be forced to suffer because they cannot afford healthcare.
Healthcare reform
Is healthcare a fundamental right or is it a privilege? Defend your position
I believe healthcare is a fundamental right all of us should have. Many countries have universal healthcare and their residents have the right to get medical attention whenever they need it. It not only keeps their citizen’s healthier, which keep their medical costs down. In America without universal healthcare there are a lot of citizen’s who have no healthcare, so they wait until they are so sick they have no choice to go to the hospital. Which usually means their treatment is going to be more expensive because their disease is usually a lot worse than it would have been if they had the ability to go to the doctor or hospital when their symptoms first start to occur. Treatment could have not only been easier on the patient but also a lot cheaper than trying to fight a disease in its later stages. If it were a privilege, only the wealthy could afford going to the doctor. Then what would happen to the rest of the citizens who could not afford to pay for their healthcare, they would not seek out medical attention until it was too late. Then it would fall on the people who have money to pay for the healthcare of everyone else who do not. This usually is the government, since we as a country are already in massive debt, it would only add to our already large deficit in this country. If we did not charge our doctors so much to go to college, then they could offer their services at a cheaper price and still make a nice living. If we offered our citizens, the chance to get proper medical care, their treatment would be a lot cheaper and we could cut the price for medical care down, which would help lower our deficit.
Is healthcare a fundamental right or is it a privilege? Defend your position.
I personally believe that healthcare should be a privilege.. A health country would be better for all of us. However we must explore what a right is. A right is something your born with and does not depend on the existence of others. In fact, only by the actions of others can it be taken from you. We do not have the right to healthcare.
No one owes us anything. We do not deserve healthcare because it depends on others in order for it to be applied. We have a right to decide for ourselves what healthcare plan we want and then to go for it. In the case of the poor, that is where AHCCHS and Medicare step in to assist. There are many poor and uninsured individuals who should be given basic healthcare. These individuals are often so sick by the time that they arrive to a hospital, that we the taxpayers often have to foot the bill. Hospitals definitely cost more that doctors checkups so publically funded programs would help us save money.. Thus we would in an essence be saving money.
Who would pay for the right of healthcare. It will definitely be the ones who can afford it, who have income and who are taxed even more. For many people one of the reasons that we go to work is to get our "benefits." One of the major benefits is healthcare. If we have to work to pay for it, shouldn't everyone?
It is sad to see that in a country like this we cannot still provide every fellow American with healthcare. Healthcare should not be a privilege but an equal basic human right to have. Money should not decide whether some Americans receive good healthcare while others suffer and struggle to get it. Because of the system we have now some people are not insured or receive only little healthcare. A lot of middle working families don’t have insurance because they earn too much to qualify for state healthcare. All these problems with healthcare can then lead to other problems of mortgage and job losses because of trying to pay off medical bills.
As long as insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies and doctors and medical suppliers keep competing to make money, this process is slowly going to break down the country’s economy. This process also leads people to get denied for care because they can’t afford to pay the premiums these companies are asking for. America being one of the leading countries in healthcare technology is still lagging because it cannot supply its citizens with healthcare like other countries. Another factor that corrupts the healthcare system is tax payer’s money; it’s misused by fat salaries, insurance frauds and lawsuits. When medical physicians get sued or have to liability damages that money comes out of consumer because they now have to raise prices on medical care to pay for fines.
Many American believe that America has one of the best healthcare systems in the world. But it’s only the poor and the middle class that are finding out now that’s not true. Other countries use universal healthcare were all citizens get free medical attention. There government believes in this idea because having healthy citizens keeps costs down. By getting free checkups they can detect early symptoms on a person that can save money and lives.
Rather than treating somebody with an advanced serious terminal disease can be costly and can lead death. This is an option we should all look into for better healthcare for our country.
I believe that basic healthcare services are a right that citizens should be afforded; moreover, I believe that the healthcare crisis in this country could be greatly lessened if a healthcare system similar to managed care was implemented. In this system, citizens would be assigned to a primary care physician to whom they would see on a regular basis for physical exams and basic services in a program that promotes health maintenance and management rather than diagnosis and treatment. I think the current healthcare system directly contributes to inequities and excludes those without insurance and those who cannot pay for healthcare. Unable to pay for healthcare or insurance, many are forced to forego treatment on a regular basis, so health maintenance and management are not achieved; rather, such individuals often wait until illness, injury, or disease has progressed to the point requiring emergency medical attention (which ends up costing much more in the long run). Unfortunately, when patients are forced to delay seeking medical treatment, in the cases of many chronic illnesses, their conditions are far more complicated, therefore, much more costly to treat. Clinical cases such as congestive heart failure lead to many comorbidities that, in turn, increase treatment costs. Such patients end up neglecting their healthcare even further; sadly, delayed diagnoses in illnesses such as cancers may result in premature death of patients who, may have survived with earlier interventions. So to answer the true question of is this matter, is it ethical to treat only those patients who are able to pay for treatment? No, this should not be the case.
I believe that a system similar to the one mentioned above would be possible to achieve and that such a system would eventually lower the costs of healthcare enough to enable such a system to work. In this perspective, funds are really redistributed.
I believe that healthcare is a fundamental right that every should have it. If the united states wants a healthier country and less medical bills everyone should be able to recieve healthcare instead of having people wait till they are very sick and go to ER because they did not have medical insurance and now it is too late. If you go to other countries things are different healthcare is provided and less people are less likely to end up in the hospital. United States treat healthcare are a privilage where only the rich people can recieve it and the poor people suffer with whatever health problems they are goin through. The only way poor people can recieve healthcare is if they meet the qualifications of the government and you can not try to move up because if you try to than your healthcare will be taken away. Which I dont think it is fair the government should encourage individuals to go higher and not to stay at the same spot and progress themselves. You will hear people that will say iI dont want a raise or a promotion at a job because they will lose their healthcare . That is sad because it seems like the government just wants the poor to stay poor and the rich get richer. Healthcare should available for everyone to have a better healthier country.
PP11
Health Care Reform
I think health care should be a privilege. I think everyone should work for the services or benefits they need. I understand that there are many poor and unemployed people but it is not fair for the people who can afford private health care to have to pay more just to make health care available for everyone else. I guess what the government should do is make health care available for middle and lower class people more affordable but not take money from insurance companies to cover that. The people should have to pay some sort of premium depending on their household income. I think that if we all end up with a national health care system the doctors will not be as wealthy as they are now which might force them to cut back on the “nice” offices, products, or machines they have. I like having a private insurance even though we pay quite a bit every month it’s good to know that in case we need to see a doctor or go to the ER everything will be covered. I also like having the privilege to go to a doctor’s office that is well kept and clean, where it is not full of people every time I go for an appointment. If the health care reform gives everyone a right to health care then we would all end up being treated “the same” and that’s not always a good thing, it may also mean that it will take even longer to see a doctor because now everyone else will be able to and the offices will always be full. I know I probably sound like a horrible selfish person but I think we don’t just have the right to anything; we have to earn and work for our rights. I think that is the only fair way.
I honestly feel that health care should be everyone’s right, not a privilege. The United States needs to take care of their people. If more people got health coverage then there would be an overall increase of healthy people. There would be way less people getting sick on a regular basis, because they’re getting regular care. Plus if everyone got routine checks at the doctors, then things would be caught a lot earlier and the severe timing yet costly medication or treatment might be avoided. There could definitely be a lot of lives saved in the end. Yes there’s no doubt that there would have to be some drastic changes for this to work. I’m sure there would be many cuts to medical staff income, but I think that, that’s a sacrifice everyone needs to make to better everyone. I don’t feel that it’s ethical for someone to suffer with a condition that’s causing them pain or anything and I also think that it’s ridiculous for someone to go bankrupt due to medical bills.
No one should be left out. As a nation I feel that it’s everyone’s responsibility to look out for each other. We all have to make it work for everyone else. Everyone has to sacrifice a little to contribute to the big picture. You look at some of these countries that have universal health care and even though people may be making a lot less, they have better life expectancies and seem to be happy. Anyway there’s just so much that everyone can benefit from having access to medical/insurance. Our kids and their kids could have better life expectancies and live healthier lives because everyone would be covered. I don’t think that anyone should have to wait until they are so sick, then finally they make that decision to go see a doctor or go to the emergency room. By that point things with that person’s health can be a lot worse and it all could have been avoided if that person had coverage from the beginning. I think that the United States of America’s citizens would have an overall satisfaction with their lives, because they have access to medical treatment. Healthy citizens equal happy citizens
I think that healthcare should be a right even though I think there should be some kind of control I think that there should be a limit on to what is a right and to what is a privilege I think that any thing that is necessary for a person to live and to have a comfortable life should be their right if a person has a disease and they are dying and cant afford healthcare what kind of life can they possibly live they cant afford to see a doctor so therefore they have no medicine for pain or comfort or what if the disease they have could have been cured if they would have been to the doctor and they would have cought it ontime they would have took their medicine or did there treatment and they would have gotten cured but since they couldn’t afford all that all they have left to do is to just sit at home and wait till their time comes to die but then what if the disease they had was contagious not only will they be sick but every body else who surrounds them will be sick and dying to and so on and so on when all of this could have gotten taken care of if that first person would have had healthcare they would have just went to the doctor gotten cured and all these other people would not be sick so I do think that every body should have healthcare I just think that their should be limits as to when it is a right I think that as long it is a person who is sick and really needs the care it should be given to them like when they have broken bones diseases yearly check ups for men women and children ob visits and any other services that are for early detection of any thing that can be contagious or lifethretning or prenatal care I think that they should draw the line when people try to do plastic surgery just because they want or other kind of procedures just because they feel like it if we as a society could only figure out when to draw the line I think that we as a society would truly benefit from this because every body would just be more healthier
Healthcare should be a fundamental right of humans whether it is for the poor or rich. Even though some people are entitled to, basic insurance and others have premium insurance due to household or individual income. Our current private health insurance system is the most costly, wasteful, and most complicated health system in the world. Its function is not to provide quality health care for all, but to make huge profits for those who own the companies or operate the system. With thousands of different health, benefit programs designed to maximize profits, private health insurance companies spend an incredible percentages of each health care dollar on administration and billing, exorbitant CEO compensation packages, advertising, lobbying, and campaign contributions. Public programs like Medicare, Medicaid, and the VA are administered for far less than private healthcare insurance. In recent years, the country experienced shortage of primary health care doctors as well as nurses and dentists. We are paying for huge increases in health care and bill collectors. Over decades, the number of administrative personnel has grown compared to the numbers of physicians while health care costs are soaring, so are the profits of private health insurance companies. For example, a data shows from 2003 to 2007, the combined profits of the nation's major health insurance companies increased by a tremendous percentage. In addition, while more and more Americans are losing their jobs and health insurance. In this case, additional insurance should be made available to those who cannot afford to pay insurance costs moving toward a national health insurance program that provide cost-effective universal, comprehensive, and quality health care for all will not be easy. However, at the end of the day, as difficult as it may be, the fight for a national health care program will prevail. Like the civil rights movement, the struggle for women's rights and other grass-roots efforts, justice in this country is often delayed - but it will not be denied. We should let our elected official know that the people suffered and had enough insurance companies’ bureaucrats and its time the healthcare system overhauled. As a nation, we should overcome this soon.
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