Universal Health Care In America

Universal healthcare (Obamacare) is it worth the trouble to sign up for and then be able not to qualify for the healthcare insurance. Universal typical mean all Americans, there is no way that all Americans have health a plan. America is the only country that does not have this type of care. The healthcare system is not up to par, there are so many to choose from how one know the right one for their particular needs. There are more questions than answers. This is impossible to navigate when making decisions about medical insurance. The marketplace for insurance has to be a joke because not everyone qualifies for their insurance, so that means those who do not qualify have to find an alternative to insurance. Universal healthcare is not crucial for American to sign up for it made things more complicated.

It was a cold December morning when Monica, a community college student, woke up with a stomach pain. She felt a sharp pain in her stomach, and she thought it could have been a bad burrito that she ate last night with her friends. So she went to her bathroom and realized that she was constipated as well. Out of the curiosity, she decided to take a close look at her stool and found traces of blood in her dark stool. At that moment, she knew she have to visit her doctor to talk about the symptoms. The next day, she visited her doctor office and the doctor sent her to do a screening test. Once the test result came back, Monica have colon cancer and the treatment cost her about $67,856. Now, Monica is one of the thousands of Americans that filed bankruptcy due to high medical cost. Before 2010, the United States was the only major developed country without an universal health care. The issues of having an effective, universal health care has been going on since the 1930s, when the Roosevelt administration pushed their agenda into implementing an universal health care for all Americans, but it was not passed. However, the success of implementing a public health care was President Lyndon Johnson when he signed Medicare and Medicaid into law during the early 1960s (Andrew and Walter, PBS). Another milestone of universal health care is when President Obama passed and signed the “The Affordable Care Act” in 2010, which opened a Federal healthcare marketplace and the requirement for

U.S. health care reform is currently one of the most heavily discussed topics in health discourse and politics. After former President Clinton’s failed attempt at health care reform in the mid-1990s, the Bush administration showed no serious efforts at achieving universal health coverage for the millions of uninsured Americans. With Barack Obama as the current U.S. President, health care reform is once again a top priority. President Obama has made a promise to “provide affordable, comprehensive, and portable health coverage for all Americans…” by the end of his first term (Barackobama.com). The heated debate between the two major political parties over health care reform revolves around how to pay for it and more importantly, whether it

Health insurance creates an impact in people in the way they receive their care. The fact that America does not have national health care system has formed a barrier for those too poor who cannot pay for medical coverage. Robert L. Ferrer, Professor at the University of Texas expresses, “A universal health care system is the only way to provide for the 24 million uninsured Americans suffering without proper health care” (Balkin

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.

Universally, health care is known as the maintenance and restoration of health by the treatment and prevention of disease through trained and licensed physicians. As a twenty-year-old, full-time college student, I have not had an actual health care plan since I was in high school. I also make less than $7,000 a year as a part-time substitute teacher. When I get sick, I cannot go to the doctor because I simply cannot afford the cost to be seen by a physician. I do not know what I will do if I ever become seriously ill or injured. I have no savings because all of my money goes to what I need for school, rent, food, and other similar needs for living. Unfortunately, many other Americans are in the same predicament as I am. Although it is known universally what health care is, it is not known how it should be distributed universally. The United States of America should enact a free universal health care plan so that others like me can be provided a bit of not only financial security but also general welfare.

The United States is one of the only countries of the 34 members of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the only major country that does not provide its citizens with universal health care. In the past, however, many presidents and people tried to give Americans universal health care but unfortunately failed. Nevertheless, most people believe that universal health care should be provided to citizens because the cost of medicine and health care are increasing and the number of people without insurance is increasing as well. But opponents argue that the right to health care will lead to socialism and health care should be the individual's reasonability, not the government's. However, even though universal health

Health care in the United States is unique in comparison to any other developed country. Most countries that have a health care system in place have a universal health care system where the government plays the major role of being responsible for who is insured and for what. The United States has a system that is managed mostly by employers, private insurance companies and a few government managed programs. Universal health care is not a common practice or even a rare one in the U.S. Based on the demographics of the population the government has some interference with health care delivery. If a group of people meet certain financial and economical factors they will qualify for one of two programs, Medicaid or Medicare, depending on age

The promise of a universal health care in the United States over the years has only been limited to more words and a very little action. Those who can afford to pay for their well-being are better with or without it, but it’s the people living below the poverty line who are the real victims of these broken policies. With an increasing health care costs, it has become extremely difficult to get treatments for even the minor illness if one is not insured. This is a plaguing concern in both the small and big cities across America today.

In her 2012 book, Health Care for Some: Rights and Rationing in the Unites States Since 1930, Beatrix Hoffman discusses the different viewpoints on the idea of a universal right to health care in the United States as well as the various manners in which health care has been and continues to be rationed the country. Unlike other developed nations in the world, the United States has never established a right to access to health care. Furthermore, arguments against a universal right to access to health care in the country have centered around that right resulting in rationing. Hoffman goes on to describe the numerous ways health care is rationed in the U.S (2012). Additionally, she makes the case that the U.S. style of rationing leads to increased health care costs and poorer outcomes as opposed to resulting from cost control by providing increased access as proponents to universal health care claim.

The subject is Universal Health Care. Universal Health care is a worldwide program set instills for the financial protection of citizens and provide good healthcare as well. Once this act was recognized, it spread like a wildfire. I will give you a little pattern to show you what I mean. Throughout the history, the pattern started to increase New England imploded the healthcare system through a series of steps stated in 1939 ending on 1941. The United Kingdom began to follow procedure on July 5, 1948. Universal health care soon became popular and useful it was introduced to countries of Sweden, Iceland, Norway, Denmark, and England. Soon after it, the idea was spread to Australia and Italy but guess what? It did not end there. In the concept

We are known as the wealthiest country in the world but we still have failed to give people

Nation by nation, state by state, from the poor to the wealthy, Universal Health Care is an idea and public policy that is quickly becoming the norm. The United States however, remains almost exclusively the only country that does not provide Universal Health Care for its citizens. With our newly elected government attempting to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, our attempt in providing affordable health insurance for all, a public policy with high approval from both parties, this could be our golden opportunity to provide high level health coverage for all of our citizens. I will compare Kerala, formerly one of the poorest states in India, and their implementation of universal health care, with the United States.

Temkin LS concludes that pursuing universal health coverage (UHC) would subsume competing priorities for a country.

It was a cold December morning when Monica, a community college student, woke up with a stomach pain. She felt a sharp pain in her stomach, and she thought it could have been a bad burrito that she ate last night with her friends. So, she went to her bathroom and realized that she was constipated as well. Out of the curiosity, she decided to take a close look at her stool and found traces of blood in her dark stool. At that moment, she knew she had to visit her doctor to talk about the symptoms. The next day, she visited her doctor’s office and the doctor sent her to do a screening test. Once the test result came back, Monica discovered she has colon cancer and the treatment cost her about $67,856. Now, Monica is one of the thousands of