Should the United States Have Universal Health Care?

Today it is a common debate amongst Americans on Universal Health care. Universal Health care is also referred to as Universal Health care Coverage, or, Universal Health care Insurance. Universal Health care Insurance is a system which provides health care and financial protection to all citizens of a particular country. It is believed that Universal Health care Insurance will hurt the American economy. Universal Health care Insurance will be good for the American economy because there will be a one payer source system, we can get rid of insurance claims submission, high deductibles, claim approval, denials, and providers will be able to make a more concrete diagnosis. Having a one payer

The United States has the most expensive health care system in the world and some 45 million Americans are uninsured under the current health care system, and these numbers continue to grow. However with universal health care coverage everyone could enjoy equal access to health care, as a right afforded to them as American citizens. In a country as wealthy as the United States, there is no justifiable reason why Americans should go without health care and/or die

Universal healthcare in the U.S. would be a bad idea for the reason that the government would have to spend more money, which means that the American people would have to pay higher taxes than we already do. In the U.S.A. the public pays $4,103.82 per person and the private cost per person is $4,609.18 which put together is more than $8,000.00 dollars per person.If you are to have universal health care in America government spending would have to increase. But you can't just take a country where the government spends about 47% of the health care cost in the U.S. to a single-payer. Universal health care, government spending would have to increase and if government spending increased taxes would be higher.

“That the U.S. health care system is broken and needs to be fixed is widely agreed to be true” (Universal Health Care Opposing Views p 19) is immediately apparent following a brief research of the organization of health care in the nation. There is an inability to control rising health care costs, and the system, although considered the most technologically advanced in the world, is riddled with waste and inefficiency. Year on year, doctors are spending increasingly more time dealing with insurance related administrative work rather than healing patients, there is gross overuse of care because employees view healthcare as part of a work-related benefit package, access to health care is based on ability to pay, and there is constant anxiety caused by the fear of losing employer-sponsored coverage. In contrast, a system of universal healthcare offers free services that are accessible to all, releases doctors from insurance paperwork to focus on healing, removes overuse of care because citizens fund the services through the payment of taxes, and may lead to healthier populations, among other things. Therefore, although vastly different from the current system, one could consider whether the introduction of universal healthcare would be beneficial for the USA?

           Although there are many positives that go along with universal health care, there are negatives aspects as well. Some of the cons include longer wait times, caps on provider costs, and care that is unequally distributed. First of all, universal health care puts treatments in order based on priority. This means that those with conditions that are not life threatening get pushed back by those who are in urgent need of treatment. The outcome for many turn into long wait times. Along

1. Its unfortunate when reading the text you realize how much the country you live in is lagging behind so many others in healthcare. Japan, Germany, Canada, and the United Kingdom all provide universal healthcare for their citizens, something that the United States does not do, yet we spend some much more on healthcare than those nations.

Taken at face value, worldwide statistics show that the United States spends more than double the amount per person on health care as the median developed nation. These

Should the United States have Universal healthcare? Healthcare is a huge part of everyone's daily lives, from receiving check-ups, to acquiring care for medical emergencies such as cancer, or other things we can not control. Sadly, these services all cost an absorbent amount of money and a lot of insurance plans may not cover all services. Many people die from not receiving the proper medical care they need. High out of pocket expenses can force people into medical bankruptcies. These problems would not occur if the United States would have Universal Healthcare. Having Universal Healthcare will result in many benefits. Everyone would have access to the care they need, the government would pay for the services, and the services would still

Despite people’s fears that a universal healthcare approach would cost them more money, the truth is it would cut overall healthcare spending by billions of dollars yearly.

Another argument that deters the idea of Universal Healhcare is the increase on taxes and general cost to the average American. Yes, taxes will increase but that isn’t necessarily a bad thing when looking at the broad picture and future generations. Much like how our current taxes are being used for security, schools, libraries, parks, road safety and even wars, it may be to our benefit to have healthcare included. This idea provides us, Americans, with coverage ranging from a common cold to lengthy hospital

It is really hard to say whether or not Universal healthcare is a good idea. There are good and bad parts to this plan. It is hard to just get rid of it and start something new when so many people are currently taking advantage of the plan now. Everyone has the right to have healthcare, and we just need to figure out how everyone can afford it without it hurting the country.

The U.S. is one of three members of OECD, the other two being Greece and Poland, without universal health care. In 2005 the United States, as well as other members of the World Health Organization, signed the World Health Assembly resolution, which stated that they would "transition to universal coverage of their citizens... with a view to sharing risk among the population and avoiding catastrophic health-care expenditure and impoverishment of individuals as a result of seeking care.” So, the question is, why hasn’t the U.S. adopted a single-payer plan? It’s apparent that the U.S. should implement universal health care, as it would improve public health and is a right of the people.

Universal health care is a system that allows all legal residents to have healthcare insurance coverage. Being covered in universal health care doesn’t matter age, race, health, job status, marital status and or gender.We as a group feel like the United States should have universal health care. There are many benefits to universal health care such as improving public health, boost economy, human right, equal access to healthcare and stop medical bankruptcies. Some downfalls for universal healthcare is long wait time, lead to a socialism state, medical abuse, no competition, no innovation and increase government debt.

Millions of Americans suffer from not having health insurance each day. Many Americans cannot afford health coverage or they have been denied by insurance companies for outrageous reasons. Because of the current health care system, many families cannot manage to pay for health insurance. Many people with pre-existing illnesses are denied coverage, and many medications that people, such as seniors, need are too costly to pay for. Every day, someone is suffering from a life threatening illness that could easily be cured with proper treatment if they had health coverage. I believe that free universal health care should be available for all Americans because everyone is worthy of medical care even if they cannot afford it.

There some pros and cons to this issue. I think that Government should provide free universal health care because people pay taxes and they should have some benefits for paying them. People also can’t afford some paying insurance but they do pay taxes. I also think that they shouldn’t do that because our economy, it’s not that good and that will affect our economy even