Free Health Care Research Paper
"Free Health Care: Best for society as a whole?"
Watching these videos reminded of watching Michael Moore's "Sicko" documentary, but on the other side of the spectrum. Before I address anything else, free health care sounds appealing, doesn't it? But what about its underlying and obvious repercussions? For society as a whole, why would you want the almighty, sinister government intervening with the coverage and dealings of your health? They would have even more control over us citizens than they already exercise.
As some people know and practice, there are a multitude of resources for free or assisted health coverage. According to the videos, most people that do not have health coverage are very low income earners and/or illegal immigrants, …show more content…
Why shouldn't a person's employer provide free health care for its employees? Even in this case, your employer gets an even higher upper-hand when dictating the contingencies of coverage. But, dealing with your employer is much easier and realistic than having to deal with your own "barely visible" government. And, with the notion that employers should provide free health care, this would create competition amongst employers under the idea that you could potentially obtain better health coverage through a competing employer. Competition seems to always better society as a …show more content…
Even knowing the costs of an emergency visit, I still don't want government intervening with my lack of health care. In the United States, people can still get the same care regardless of having coverage or not. The only difference is the bill that you can decide to pay or not if you are uninsured. If you desire free health care from the government, move to Canada or France; "Sicko" made this seem quite appealing. But, when seeing the lady with the bladder problem, the fact that government policy states that there can only be 12 of those procedures a year taints the prettiness of free health
Watching these videos reminded of watching Michael Moore's "Sicko" documentary, but on the other side of the spectrum. Before I address anything else, free health care sounds appealing, doesn't it? But what about its underlying and obvious repercussions? For society as a whole, why would you want the almighty, sinister government intervening with the coverage and dealings of your health? They would have even more control over us citizens than they already exercise.
As some people know and practice, there are a multitude of resources for free or assisted health coverage. According to the videos, most people that do not have health coverage are very low income earners and/or illegal immigrants, …show more content…
Why shouldn't a person's employer provide free health care for its employees? Even in this case, your employer gets an even higher upper-hand when dictating the contingencies of coverage. But, dealing with your employer is much easier and realistic than having to deal with your own "barely visible" government. And, with the notion that employers should provide free health care, this would create competition amongst employers under the idea that you could potentially obtain better health coverage through a competing employer. Competition seems to always better society as a …show more content…
Even knowing the costs of an emergency visit, I still don't want government intervening with my lack of health care. In the United States, people can still get the same care regardless of having coverage or not. The only difference is the bill that you can decide to pay or not if you are uninsured. If you desire free health care from the government, move to Canada or France; "Sicko" made this seem quite appealing. But, when seeing the lady with the bladder problem, the fact that government policy states that there can only be 12 of those procedures a year taints the prettiness of free health