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Pros And Cons Of The Conservative Side Of Healthcare

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Sandra Cuevas
Mr. Hopper
CP English 11
18 January 2017
Health Care Why should healthcare be free or at a low cost so that anyone can afford it? There have been several political debates over this topic in recent years. Some people agree with the liberal side of healthcare while others with the conservative side. Most liberals believe healthcare is a basic human right for ALL people. It is the pursuit of a social insurance system that provides universal health coverage. Now on the other hand, conservatives believe that healthcare should be privatized and your economic situation should determine if health care will be free or at a low cost. With some people disagreeing, liberals believe healthcare should be a basic human right for everybody …show more content…

For example, some people agree that the government should not regulate health care. There are some pros and cons to the conservative side of health care. A pro the conservative side has would be, “Most conservatives support small government and low tax and oppose progressive and corporate taxes, believing that economic health is best guaranteed by wealthy individuals and corporations having money to invest in a job creation”(Bodenheimer). This means, if we are wealthy and able to pay for the best health insurance, there will be no need to worry about not getting cured or not getting the best healthcare available. Basically, people who are wealthy are cared for differently when it comes to health than people who aren’t wealthy. Young adults are being charge more for health insurance: “In a social insurance system , everyone pays once; they young and healthy pay more than they benefit so that when they become old and sick, they can benefit more than they pay”(Bodenheimer). These young people are being charge more but there's a low chance of them becoming ill, yet they still have to pay more because it is money that will benefit for the future. Affordable health care is very important in my perspective because it is for our own good and for all of us to live a long healthy life, and it should not depend on ones

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