Health Insurance By Tarmisha Gee: Story Analysis
Health Insurance
By: Tarmisha Gee
The author used Deductive Reasoning in his story. He provided true facts to back up his conclusion. The uncompensated medical costs incurred by uninsured people in the United States totaling more than $56 billion. The cost of this uncompensated care is born by insured individuals in the form of higher health care cost and insurance premiums and by the government. Health care and insurance industry need reform. People are trying to figure out who should pay for the health insurance and whether such insurance should be compulsory. Health care was not just a personal matter. People said it was connected to poverty and other …show more content…
social and economic inequality. The plan they came up with they called it “sickness insurance”. The first health insurer was Blue Cross. It was founded in 1929. The government started funding health insurance in the 1960. Senior citizens and the poor really suffers the most because the cost of health insurance is too much for them to afford. The government came out with an insurance for people who are older than 65 and with disabilities. It is called Medicaid. In my opinion I believe it should be called the “substitute insurance”. The reason I say this is because you have to meet a certain criteria in order for you to qualify for it.
There is a health care plan called Obama care. This plan was introduced in 2009. This promising coverage covered over 36 million previously uninsured Americans. The opposition from the right stemmed primarily from the “public option”. This is a government insurance provider. The loudest objections accused the plan of being “socialist” because it called for using tax revenue to fund health insurance for those who can’t afford it. In the health care system we need to come up with something that will not break everyone’s pocket but still be effective and affordable for everyone including the poor. We tend to forget about the unfortunate. The government need to come together and fix this problem that we are having with our health care system. The United States spends more money per capita on health care than any other industrialized nation: an estimated $2.3 trillion in 2008, far more than any other industrialized country. Yet its healthcare outcomes lag behind those same comparable countries in terms of health indicators such as life expectancy and infant mortality. Much of the world’s cutting-edge research in genetics, pharmaceuticals, and technology occurs in the United
States, yet it is the only wealthy industrialized nation that does not offer some form of health care to all of its citizens. Ensuring that illness and accident do not signal financial ruin, using preventive care to create a healthier population, and avoiding a politically unpopular burden on the taxpayers will be a puzzle for yet another generation of policymakers.
Cited
Health and Medicine, “Health Insured”. Opposing viewpoints online collection. Detroit: Gale, 2013. Opposing View points in Contest. Web.25 Nov.2013
By: Tarmisha Gee
The author used Deductive Reasoning in his story. He provided true facts to back up his conclusion. The uncompensated medical costs incurred by uninsured people in the United States totaling more than $56 billion. The cost of this uncompensated care is born by insured individuals in the form of higher health care cost and insurance premiums and by the government. Health care and insurance industry need reform. People are trying to figure out who should pay for the health insurance and whether such insurance should be compulsory. Health care was not just a personal matter. People said it was connected to poverty and other …show more content…
social and economic inequality. The plan they came up with they called it “sickness insurance”. The first health insurer was Blue Cross. It was founded in 1929. The government started funding health insurance in the 1960. Senior citizens and the poor really suffers the most because the cost of health insurance is too much for them to afford. The government came out with an insurance for people who are older than 65 and with disabilities. It is called Medicaid. In my opinion I believe it should be called the “substitute insurance”. The reason I say this is because you have to meet a certain criteria in order for you to qualify for it.
There is a health care plan called Obama care. This plan was introduced in 2009. This promising coverage covered over 36 million previously uninsured Americans. The opposition from the right stemmed primarily from the “public option”. This is a government insurance provider. The loudest objections accused the plan of being “socialist” because it called for using tax revenue to fund health insurance for those who can’t afford it. In the health care system we need to come up with something that will not break everyone’s pocket but still be effective and affordable for everyone including the poor. We tend to forget about the unfortunate. The government need to come together and fix this problem that we are having with our health care system. The United States spends more money per capita on health care than any other industrialized nation: an estimated $2.3 trillion in 2008, far more than any other industrialized country. Yet its healthcare outcomes lag behind those same comparable countries in terms of health indicators such as life expectancy and infant mortality. Much of the world’s cutting-edge research in genetics, pharmaceuticals, and technology occurs in the United
States, yet it is the only wealthy industrialized nation that does not offer some form of health care to all of its citizens. Ensuring that illness and accident do not signal financial ruin, using preventive care to create a healthier population, and avoiding a politically unpopular burden on the taxpayers will be a puzzle for yet another generation of policymakers.
Cited
Health and Medicine, “Health Insured”. Opposing viewpoints online collection. Detroit: Gale, 2013. Opposing View points in Contest. Web.25 Nov.2013