Why Do We Need Free Healthcare?

The comparison between health care in the United States and health care in Canada has been a continuing debate. America does not have a universal health coverage plan for it's population, while Canadians are privileged to have universal health coverage. Normally a patient will pay twice as much for health coverage in the United States compared to treatment in Canada. This puts the US in first position of having the most expensive health care system on earth. (http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/health-care-for-all/has-canada-got-the-cure) Most of the population in the United States have no health coverage at all. Compared to Canada, the wait time for elective procedures in the United States is somewhat longer. Many Americans feel the

America is a country that is commonly appreciated by its citizens for the values that it fought for and stands by today. When new policies and ideas are brought forward and introduced to our society, proponents and opponents frequently rely on our historic values such as freedom, equality and democracy to support their stances. While capitalism is something that has always been important to the United States people, it is important that we don’t confuse the systems that should be accessible and guaranteed to all with the systems that are excludable and look to make a profit. Health care is one system that should be easily accessible and available for all American citizens

Canada’s healthcare system is more accessible than the U.S, because Canada’s healthcare system covers all Canadian citizens as opposed to the U.S. healthcare system which depends on a person’s insurance. The U.S healthcare system is an insurance based system. In 2012, the U.S spent 2.8 trillion on healthcare (). Despite such spending on health care, many U.S. residents had no health insurance and several aggregate measures of health quality and outcomes recorded in the USA were poorer than the corresponding data from other high-income countries. In the U.S. if a citizen does not have insurance they will have to pay out of pocket for normal health care services. These out of pocket costs are usually extremely high. To put it in perspective, 18% of U.S citizens do not have health insurance (Costello,

The Canadian healthcare system is one that I believe has been long coveted by many Americans. One thing I found particularly unique and also a bit of an eye-opener was this quote from the text, “ Wealthy or poor, employed or jobless, retired or younger than 18, every Canadian receives the same health insurance, financed in the same way. No Canadian would even imagine that leaving, changing, retiring from, or losing a job has anything to do with health insurance.” Canada has it right, health insurance should be a right regardless of age, employment status or income. A few months ago I

Imagine having terrible throat pains, having a burning headache, and moving anything somewhat hurts. Going to the hospital as an american in America would be a good idea, but going will hurt in more ways than physical. Today visiting the hospital for strep throat can cost up to $531.00. An important topic discussed in America is “Should americans have free healthcare?” In America americans do not have free health care. All over the world health care is a service that can help pay for most things medical, like medicines, doctor visits, and medical procedures. Most evolved countries have this today, like the United Kingdom, but countries like the U.S do not. This means that most americans need to pay the full price for those things. That is

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.

“If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don 't want to be subject to it,” stated Senator Ted Cruz. As financial and social hardships began to become apparent in the United States, one major problem facing the citizens and governing body is Health Care for all. Socialized medicine is a health care system where the government funds and runs health care facilities and employs the health care professionals, also paying for all health care amenities. This idea of giving high quality care to citizens previously unable to afford healthcare has caused problems in the United States, and this idea of “socialized medicine” has proven to create hardships in other countries in the past. Obamacare has introduced socialized medicine in the United States which has caused negative effects both financially and ethically.

Everyone in America should have health care. Nobody wants to have to pay the full price of medical costs when they visit the doctor or have a hospital emergency. This is why the Affordable Care Act should be put into action because doing so would enforce people who do not have health care to get the health care they need. Some people do not believe they need health care because they do not plan on getting hurt or sick, and if they do, they do not need a doctor. As much as we would all like to believe that, we are human and cannot always stay healthy.

According to Squires and Chloe, the United States of America is considered as the greatest country in the world, with the largest economy, military powers, freedom of religion and speech, and one of the most successful democrats (2). However, the United States in the only western modernized nation that does not offer free healthcare services to all its citizens. Apparently, the costs of the healthcare services to the uninsured individuals in the US are prohibitive, where the insurance companies are interested in making higher profit margins than providing adequate health care to the insured (Squires and Chloe 4). These conditions are unexpectable and incompatible with the United States

Health care is an essential service "like education, clean water and air and protection from crime, all of which we already acknowledge are public responsibilities." Never mind that many Americans do not believe that public agencies are in fact providing adequate schooling, pollution control, and crime prevention. If we think health care is a right, then we should be appalled that the United States is the only western democracy whose citizens do not have universal access to health care. If you think health care is a commodity, then you should accept the fact that some of those without coverage will end up at the mercy of their hospital when the medical bills come due. Realizing that there is no free lunch when it comes to health care. That is why health care should be rationed by government regulations.

Healthcare is the maintenance or improvement of health and the prevention of sickness diagnosis, and treatment of disease, illness, and injury. Because of the need for healthcare is so important, the America government had to come up with a way to make sure people have healthcare and be able to pay for it. The government came up with a healthcare system that use insurance and premiums to make sure one has coverage when they go to the hospital for healthcare needs. If the government and hospitals really care about people’s health, then why do they make insurance and premiums so high that people cannot afford them? In 2005 there was an estimate 45 million Americans that lacked health insurance, and the numbers have been climbing since (Clemmitt, Universal Coverage 1). If the government says that they care about human life, then there should just be universal coverage so everyone can get their healthcare needs met no matter if that person is poor or rich.

The fact that health care isn’t free for everyone causes problems. Wealthy people being able to afford health care and poor people not are the first and biggest problem that we have today. This is very unfair. Whether a person is rich or poor, they still need the proper treatment and care in order for

In Canada, healthcare comes from the ‘Single payer system’ (Canadian health care system, 2013). Single payer is known to be quite normal in many other countries, for example, New Zealand. It is basically a publically funded system that is provided by the provincial governments through taxes with guidance and some funds from the federal government (Canadian health care system, 2013). This health system covers Canadian citizens, permanent residents and temporary

If that is the case for people with health insurance, think about the people who cannot afford health insurance and have to live their lives hoping everyday that they won’t get sick. Another scenario displayed in the documentary Sicko examined a scenario of a man without health insurance and the horrors he had to face. This man was working with a table saw and accidently sliced off the top of his middle and ring finger. The doctors were charging him twelve thousand dollars to replace the ring finger and thirty- six thousand to replace the middle finger. Could you imagine paying that much money to have your fingers replaced? In a public health care system you would never have to worry about such large expenses. Canada is a great example of public health care but still consists of some faults.

With accessible access to free health care, it would improve public health in the United States. The rate of new developing medicine is improving the life expectancy every year for humans around the world. But if U.S citizens are not able to gain access to these medicine because of the lack of health care, what good does it do for them? In an article “New Study finds 45,000 deaths annually linked to Lack of Health Coverage” David Cecere explains, “Nearly 45,000 annual deaths are associated with lack of health insurance, according to a new study published online today by the American Journal of Public Health…The study, conducted at Harvard Medical School and Cambridge Health Alliance, found that uninsured, working-age Americans have a 40 percent higher risk of death than their privately insured counterparts, up from a 25 percent excess death rate” (Cecere). Citizens are dying at an enormous amount, because of the lack of health care they receive. With the growing population, the United