America's Difficult Decisions

has the world’s most expensive healthcare system, yet one-sixth of Americans are uninsured. Approximately one-third (31%) of adults and a little more than one-half (54%) of children do not have a primary care doctor. Federal spending on healthcare in 2005 alone totaled $600 billion, a massive one-quarter of the federal budget. Someone files for bankruptcy every 30 seconds in the U.S of health concerns. And every 1.5 million families lose their homes to foreclosure due to unaffordable medical costs. The U.S. spends six times more per capita on the administration of the health insurance system than Western European nations, who insure all citizens.“ www.realtruth.org/articles/090203-005-health.html. “In United States, the annual cost of health care per capita is $5,711. http://www.visualeconomics.com/healthcare-costs-around-the-world_2010-03-01/#ixzz12f0I1lbk

Even though free healthcare is negatively associated with U.S. debt, deficit, and higher tax pay, all Americans should have the absolute right to free healthcare because it can save lives.

I strongly believe that all American citizens should be entitled free healthcare. This is due to that fact that this can play a big role of ensuring that there is an improved access to health services. In addition, ensuring that all American citizens have an access to the right health care will also decrease health care costs. For instance, by allowing people to receive regular and preventive medical care and not wait until they are persistently ill to request treatment when medical costs are much higher (Niles, 2011). In relation to this free health care will promote equal chance by decreasing the number of people who are economically deprived in society (Niles, 2011). This can be because of bad health and other medically-related financial problems.

America: The Land of the Free. Or, as someone who is familiar with the US health care system would call it, America: The Land of Overpriced Health Care That Covers a Fraction of it’s People. The US spends more money on their health care than any other country, yet there is a myriad of problems that exist within the system preventing it from being efficient. Billions of dollars are poured into the system for medication and treatment, when a lot of this spending is unnecessary.

America is known for democracy, freedom, and the American Dream. American citizens have the right to free speech, free press, the right to bear arms, and the right to religious freedom to name a few. The Declaration of Independence states that American citizens have the rights including “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” America promises equality and freedom and the protection of their rights as outlined in the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. But with all the rights and freedoms that American citizens enjoy, there is one particular area where the United States seems to be lacking. That area is health care. The United States is the only industrialized nation that doesn’t have some form of legal

(Pros and Cons) The money that is used to save the lives of terminally ill patients can be used for pre-natal care, infant care; it can also save lives and improve the long-term quality of life for other patients. A third reason is that it’s the patient has the right to choose whether they want to die or not. Assisted Suicide is a constitutional right. “Individuals have a constitutionally protected right to autonomously make the most intimate choices and decisions regarding their lives, including the choice to end their lives” (Bender 33). The Constitution does not say that the government has the right to keep a person from imposing any religious beliefs and choosing whether to die or not; people have the right to make their own decisions. “Two Federal Circuit Courts of Appeal…agreed that the Constitution forbids the government from flatly prohibiting doctors to help end such desperate and pointless suffering” (Bender 35). Another important factor is that vital organs can be used to save other patients. There are long waiting lists for patients in need of kidneys, hearts, livers, and other necessary organs. Also, when terminally ill patients request physician assisted suicide and are denied, the unbearable pain they are suffering may lead them to take their own life to relieve the

This however does not come without a cost for both parties since the family will have to incur the expenses and the as to struggle with self determination during critical decision making (Werth and Crow 195).

Many people have been faced with having to deal with hard truths of both life and death. One of these decisions that can be fronted to a person with a terminal illness may be what to do next. With what can be considered looming doom, one has to ingest the decisions of self, family and the pain that lies ahead. The debate over physician assisted suicide has been a long time argument wielding both positive and negative views exactly how a person should proceed once a decision has been made. Three questions are often asked in the attempt to argue the case for physician assisted suicide, that of legality, ethicalness, and morality. In the long run, the debate between the cause, effect and personal ideology that is social

In 1997, NYU law professor Annette Gordon-Reed undertook the duties of a historian without abandoning her legal background. An American Controversy examines two relationships: The alleged one between Thomas Jefferson and his slave Sally Hemings, and, more importantly, that between Jeffersonian historians and this potential stain on the legacy of the third President. At the time the book was written, the consensus among historians was that this alleged liaison between master and slave was nothing more than a myth. Reed's work attacks the journey to this consensus as much as it does the consensus itself, building up the argument for the affair's existence and ruthlessly attacking the ways in which and reasons why the possibility of the affair

Another benefit associated with free health care system is that it preserves life as it ensures free treatment to the entire citizens despite their financial status. Apparently, the life of a human being is sacred and incomparable with any amount of money. It is unethical for an individual to die due to lack of finance. As stated by Obama, the United States is known to have the most skilled doctors and healthcare facilities in the world (526). Ironically, the two third of the Americans have no access to health insurance cover, meaning, they cannot afford to get the health services from the best doctors and the best facilities in the country. To protect life and to avoid unnecessary deaths of the innocent citizens, free access to medical services should be a distinct system to be employed in the United States of America.

or any other places that don’t have free health care. Some say it would be a good thing some say it would be a bad thing to have free health care. “Right to life and right to health, Some people live in a society in when they are diagnosed cancer, the first thought that comes across is the cost. with medical issues that affect someone's life long-term health care should be free”. “We should have free health care, Some people in this world may be really sick but at the same time they might not have enough money to pay for their medical stuff.People should not have to be able to pay for doctors or nurses to help them with their health.My opinion is that us should stand for whats right in this world”. This is what some of the people that agree with free healthcare say about it. “Taxes will raise,Health care could not be free because it will never be free. Even if we make it affordable to everyone in america it will never be "free" because we will have to find a way to cover the cost... And every indication points to this being covered by taxes being raised”. “No it should not,If health care be free then how can a doctor earn money and make a living? On the other hand many people die each year because they don't have enough money to pay and treat their illness . Then in my idea each government should give doctors an amount of money and of course a place to work in and treat the illness of poor people”. And this is what many people say about why we shouldn’t have free health care. (Debate.

Hospitals are a local monopoly. The result is that hospitals may tend to monopolize their local area, consolidating or driving competitors out of business and then charging rent-extracting prices for their services.  Given the basic necessity of healthcare services and the resulting political sensitivity of the issue, this is generally viewed as a Bad Thing.  So government serves a role by treating hospitals like an airport,

A person who is suffering from a terminal illness will have constant medical bills. According to Nathaniel Pallone, the average person should only incur $1,000,000 in medical bills in their lifetime. In Pallone’s article, he explains how an unnamed person watched his wife die before him and how he could see the terror in his wife’s eyes. In just nine years this guy has paid $631,027.46 in medical costs, which is getting pretty close to hitting the lifetime cap of $1,000,000. That’s only in nine years, imagine if he could have kept his wife alive longer. Just because a person dies from a terminal illness does not mean that the medical bills will just disappear. All the bills from the surgeries, radiation, and chemotherapy will still be there. This is another instance where I would definitely say yes to physician assisted suicide. Not only do I want my family to remember me in the better part of the terminal illness, but I do not want to leave my family with the medical bills after I pass. I would look at this the same way if it were my mother. Of course, a person wants to be selfish and keep their loved ones alive, but you need to let them make their own choices, it is their body after

Problems. Dilemmas. Quandaries. Life is full of it, thus, there is avoidance. As human beginnings, we live attempting to avoid as much difficulty as possible. Yet in doing so, matters only become worse. Nevertheless, not all adversity is meant as a hindrance; some are meant to force something of people. Lead them to be a better person since they have found a solution. However, people fail to realize a huge discrepancy. There are two kinds of problems, the easy problems, that are naturally a part of life. Then there are the hard problems, the ones that we create. And those are the ones that have led to an immense amount of suffering. The biggest dilemma we have created for ourselves is our inconsistency in our actions and in our beliefs. Furthermore,

Health care is important because it is needed in today’s world for people who need treatment but cannot afford it because of their financial situation. Everybody in this world is not rich. With this in mind, health care should no longer be something that citizens pay for. It is a doctor’s job to make sure their patients are healthy and leave much better than how they came. Without money, it is almost impossible to do that.