Essay On Single Payer Health Care

To briefly state, a universal single payer care as stated before is a health care system for all. We are the only industrialized country that has not yet adopted this type of health care. Why though? Mostly because many Americans are not educated on the subject of this type of health care. Yet health care cost has risen dramatically in the past years, but with this new implementation of health care “The program would be funded by the savings obtained from replacing today’s inefficient, profit-oriented, multiple insurance payers with a single streamlined, nonprofit, public payer, and by modest new taxes based on ability to pay”. This way Americans may be able to save more money and have decrease in spending’s on health care. One may question just how could cost of health care get lower with this implementation? Well that’s because “no competition, a non-profit structure, and a reduced number of administrative staff. The high salaries for administrators and sales people are eliminated in a single payer system.” Since the government will be the only health care insurance this will eliminate physicians from increasing rates on equipment
“One of the disadvantages of a single payer system is that physicians, research universities, and medical equipment manufacturers become for all intents and purposes employees of the government.” Thus many people believe this will be an invasion of privacy within their life and too much government control is not always a good thing. Another major con may be the tax on the higher income, already a heated debate many do not believe they should pay for another person health care or feel that they are responsible for it. “The increase in staff is paid by all of the people in a country that work. Some see this practice as unfair to working people who end up paying extra taxes but receive no extra benefits from paying more