Pros And Cons Of Making Health Care Affordable
Making Health Care Affordable:
Lack of insurance in the United States leads to unnecessary deaths, loss of work, and unemployment due to disabilities, driving the country into debt taking on the emergency room fees piled up by the uninsured not being able to pay their bills, therefore, America desperately needs to implement a universal health care program like the health care programs in other developed nations around the world. Health care in a developed nation such as the United States of America should be considered a human right and not a privilege.
The United States Census Bureau reported forty-eight million adults in America had no health coverage in 2012. That is 15.4% of the American people. When the uninsured fall ill or are accidentally injured they …show more content…
“In the NHS, there is no insurance premium to pay, no co-payment, no fee at all. The doctor’s bill is paid by the government, and the patient never even thinks about it.” (Reid, page 104) To keep its service free, the National Health Service keeps its costs low and is recognized by experts around the globe as one of the most cost efficient health care plans in effect. Health care should be considered a human right.
Everyone in Canada is covered by a taxpayer-funded hospital insurance program that covers all medical and psychiatric care in and out of the hospital. “No Canadian dies because he can’t afford a doctor; No Canadian goes bankrupt from medical bills.” (Reid, page 127) Canada has better health care statistics, longer life expectancy and lower infant mortality rates than the United States of America.
The United States needs a health coverage plan that is universal, compulsory, and affordable. “The control of medical practice by market economics does not serve the health care needs of patients very well and is not compatible with a strong, ethically based profession.” (Relman, page
Lack of insurance in the United States leads to unnecessary deaths, loss of work, and unemployment due to disabilities, driving the country into debt taking on the emergency room fees piled up by the uninsured not being able to pay their bills, therefore, America desperately needs to implement a universal health care program like the health care programs in other developed nations around the world. Health care in a developed nation such as the United States of America should be considered a human right and not a privilege.
The United States Census Bureau reported forty-eight million adults in America had no health coverage in 2012. That is 15.4% of the American people. When the uninsured fall ill or are accidentally injured they …show more content…
“In the NHS, there is no insurance premium to pay, no co-payment, no fee at all. The doctor’s bill is paid by the government, and the patient never even thinks about it.” (Reid, page 104) To keep its service free, the National Health Service keeps its costs low and is recognized by experts around the globe as one of the most cost efficient health care plans in effect. Health care should be considered a human right.
Everyone in Canada is covered by a taxpayer-funded hospital insurance program that covers all medical and psychiatric care in and out of the hospital. “No Canadian dies because he can’t afford a doctor; No Canadian goes bankrupt from medical bills.” (Reid, page 127) Canada has better health care statistics, longer life expectancy and lower infant mortality rates than the United States of America.
The United States needs a health coverage plan that is universal, compulsory, and affordable. “The control of medical practice by market economics does not serve the health care needs of patients very well and is not compatible with a strong, ethically based profession.” (Relman, page