...Healthcare a Right or a Privilege Cheryl Alcala Intro to Ethics and Social Responsibility Noel Sauer September 17th 2012 Should healthcare be a right or a privilege? In today's society it is becoming more of a privilege than a right. I believe that this is not the way things should be. Our government did not originally intend for it to be this way. I believe that our fore fathers wanted everyone to have the same rights. Was healthcare in the constitution? No, but I do believe that if our forefathers were alive today things would be much different. The issue at hand is healthcare and should it be a right or a privilege. The problem that this presents is this. Do we allow healthcare for everyone or do we chose who has the right to healthcare? Healthcare should be allowed for everyone in the united states. I feel that everyone has the right to be healthy. Other countries have implemented free healthcare and I feel the pros out weigh the cons. With free healthcare you are promoting a healthier society not to mention possibly increasing ones life expectancy. In retrospect your allowing people the chance to live longer healthier lives. Our government it is my belief wants to control who gets healthcare and who doesn't. I feel that this is their way of controlling our population, and continuing to remain in control of our lives. Why is it fair for a wealthy person to receive full medical and dental benefits yet a person of low income status cannot? Do you...
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...The constitution is always brought up when discussing whether healthcare is a right or a privilege. “ If we interpreted our Constitution correctly, America was built on the principle that government exists to protect our rights that already exist, not dictate what rights we have, do not have or should have,” (Williams,2012). I do not thing that healthcare is a right or a privilege. If referring to the constitution, it states “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Our nation was built on the notion of the free market. Healthcare is provided through public and private sectors. “f we want to live out the liberties granted to us by our Founders, we should reserve our right to purchase healthcare on the free market, allowing opportunities for those to purchase at affordable rates, not by allowing healthcare controlled by bureaucrats,” (Williams, 2012). The problem comes due to our entitlement generation. I do believe that basic health needs should be given to all people. Due to constant medical and technological growth, healthcare is more expensive and more advanced. I do not think that all advanced medicine needs to be provided equally to all people. Basic healthcare needs to be identified and provided for all individuals, but the individual can purchase “luxury” healthcare at leisure. Our generation feels that they are entitled to every aspect of healthcare. The healthcare market is a business like any other and the conglomerates and insurance companies want...
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...Rough Copy Essay Taxes in Canada isn’t that great these days, there are numerous of complaints that taxes from health care, home, jobs, and children taxes not getting paid enough for their jobs or not enough money to pay for children free health care doctor are too much and some people that are richer than others have to pay more and it’s very unfair to the wealthy people. What everyone thinks is that all the taxes should be the same and no different from others. People in Canada here be angry with the taxes they have to pay because the government has been adding lots of helpful future upgrades like better hospitality or better roads. What makes Canadian citizens mad is that we never agreed that we wanted to buy a house with higher tax rate....
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...enforce the laws, the legislative branch to create the laws, and the executive branch to perform national security duties. And politics are the tool utilized by the government. They both utilize political science which is the study of government and politics. While they both perform and aid the same basic function of running the country, politics is just the process while the government is the actual facility performing the tasks. 2. What is anarchy? Can anarchy ever a viable alternative to government, in your opinion? Why or why not? · Anarchy is living in a state of lawlessness. I believe it cannot, because humans do not function correctly without some type of structure. Without structure there will be total chaos. Murders and other unmentionable crimes will occur with no repercussions being put into place. 3. What are the three main levels of government in the U.S.? Which level is the most powerful? Which level is the most important, in your opinion? Defend your answer. · Federal is the level that runs the whole country, they have three branches: Judicial, legislative, and executive. · State is each individual’s state government, modeled after the federal government with three branches as well....
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...he or she may be of no help’’ (Institute of Healthcare Communications 2014) Effective communication in health care is crucial for health care professionals, their patients and the establishment providing the care. When there is mis-communication in the healthcare industry, mistakes can happen, poor medical care is given, indirect clarification and ultimately the patient suffers. The ways in which we communication may be verbal or nonverbal and being in the health care profession, most likely you will need to understand on more than one level. With effective communicating skills, you will be able to understand and be understood with clarity. Listening and responding to the needs of others is one of our primary goals as health care professions. Effective communication amongst all healthcare team members greatly influences those goals and the quality of our working relationships, and the job performance and outcome while assuming the role of patient safety. Gaining the trust of your patients is important and once you achieve this goal you would have built a quality interpersonal relationship them with. This means that you take time with them, put in effort, have a strong desire for their well-being, you understand, you have gained their trust, and can provide them with disclosure and feedback that are suitable for them as an individual. This also means that you have a better relationship with all the staff around you. As for your team by gaining a quality interpersonal relationship...
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...OBAMACARE: The facts of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Affordable Care Act (ACA), better known as Obamacare, is the president’s answer to the increasing healthcare costs. The purpose of this plan is to promise better quality healthcare at a more affordable cost to the Americans, and also regulate private insurance company to ensure Americans get more rights and protections on their healthcare. According to a 2012 study by The Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF), over 47 million non-elderly Americans were uninsured in 2012. Unsurprisingly, the majority of the uninsured are in the category of low-income working families. With the healthcare act being reform, there will be millions of uninsured Americans getting coverage for the first time. Additionally, Obamacare introduces Health Insurance Marketplaces (HIM)-a new organization that allows shoppers to compare Health Plans that include all new benefits, rights and protections. In another word, it also means the people can’t be denied health coverage based on health status, and can’t be dropped from coverage when they’re sick. Although millions of Americans will get access to health insurance with the healthcare act reform, the government has to create new taxes in order to get the money to help insure millions of them. The news taxes are as follow, Individual mandate fee, employer mandate fee, Advanced Premium Tax Credits, and Small Business Tax Credits. The individual...
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...lives when it should be a credit. We as people should be able to have access to healthcare at an affordable price with quality service which are three aspects that are the most important in healthcare access, quality, and cost. Healthcare access is simply being able to have it when you need it although many don’t have it due to cost or because they don’t have the knowledge to access it. Access to healthcare effects the consumer’s quality of life which can lead to fatally. Cost which is being able to afford the healthcare is one of the biggest issues according to www.cdc.gov.com the percent...
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...the health care system, they continue to spend billions of dollars in aid through Medicare, Medicaid, Tricare, and other government programs - Dollars that could perhaps be better spent on funding programs to ensure every American is provided an affordable health insurance. Over the past year it has become apparent that insurance companies are looking to capitalize by setting premiums higher, as the President talks about implementing a mandate on citizens to have health care. The debate on whether health care should be a profit market or Government controlled should be considered. Through all the turmoil, one thing is certain: America is in need of a Health Care Reform. PREFACE Growing up on poverty, my parents did their best to provide what they could. I was fortunate to be put into State custody at a young age and my brothers and I received full medical treatment under Medicare. A government funded subsidy that allowed us to have free medical attention. As a child, not much thought went into the idea, but as I got older I realized the importance of health insurance. My foster mother had to be rushed to the hospital a few times due to really bad asthma attacks, apparently she had no coverage and the hospital had to bill her directly. A couple of weeklong stays and a few trips to the hospital by ambulance can get expensive. My parents found themselves in a situation unimaginable at the time; sixty-two thousand dollars in debt from medical attention...
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...when it comes to the recession that we are experiencing there should have been other options that should have been thought out instead of turning over money and bailing out companies that are going to continue to be in financial trouble. I look at my husband; he is/was a school teacher. He continued to get laid off every year for the past 3 years and has been collecting unemployment for close to 2 years. He is at the end of term as far as receiving compensation while he continues to look for work. What happens next? Should he settle for a job “flipping burgers” or should he ride it out until he finds something that is comparable in wages to what he was making before this all happened. I think instead of focusing on the car dealerships and other large organizations that will continue to have problems until the job market changes, it should have first gone to government needs. This includes; healthcare, police, fire departments, schools, medical. Now we are facing a loss, lose situation. What is going to happen to those who have worked hard, and yet they can’t get the money the need in order to work. * Free will is the ability to do what you please at any time, Truth is when an individual is telling a fact that has happened and can be proven something that has a witness or can provide some sort of article or documentation can be presented. Knowledge is the research and experience you have on different subjects; opinion is something everyone has, it varies with each individual...
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...HEREDITARY Each person is a unique individual. At the time of conception the hereditary traits are inherited from the mother and father to form a unique combination of traits. Since thousands of traits are involved, the possible combination are limitless.Therefore, each person, from the time of conception, is endowed with a one-and-only combination of traits that will affect that individual throughout life. Some traits are expressed, meaning the individual will definitely manifest that trait. Other traits are unexpressed but predispose that individaul to manifest the trait under certain conditions For example, a person may have the gene for a specific hereditary disease but will develop the disease only if the life situation includes certain conditions. A person who has the gene for a disease but does not develop symptoms is a carrier; that gene can be passed on to the children, who may manifest the disease. A genetic disorder is one that results from individual’s genetic makeup. It may be apparent at birth, may appear as a developmental disorder, or may appear later in life as a disease or health problem. The study of hereditary has expanded rapidly and is making significant contribution to medicine and in the medical office. (Feelings about patients, 2012) CULTURE Culture is defined as the sum of attitudes, customs, and beliefs that distinguishes one group of people from another. Each patient represents a specific subclass within the larger society. The major subclasses...
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...Gabriela V. Hernandez Prof. Thomas PHI2604 12 November 2014 Film review of “Sicko” Michael Moore’s last two films were based on opinions that many people vehemently opposed: that America has too many guns, and that George W. Bush is a bad president. It didn’t matter how persuasive the films might have been, because half the population disagreed with them before the opening credits even rolled. But with “Sicko,” Moore turns his attention to the American healthcare system, and his central theme is that it needs to be reformed. I think that’s common ground, don’t you? We can argue about what remedies the system needs, and the best way to go about it, and plenty of people will think Moore is off-base for suggesting socialized medicine. But Republican or Democrat, liberal or conservative, don’t we all agree that the current system is wrong? Let’s use that as the starting point and let the discussion evolve from there. There are 50 million Americans who have no health coverage at all and “Sicko” is not about them. “Sicko,” Moore says, is about the other 250 million Americans, the ones who have health insurance yet STILL get a raw deal. This movie is about how American health insurance companies exploit every means possible to avoid actually paying for their customer’s medical needs, and how people sometimes die because of it. The “lucky” ones live, and are stuck with astronomical medical bills, you know, the bills that were supposed to be taken care of by the insurance...
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...New Analysis Affordable Healthcare Act Com/310 Abstract This paper will explore three published news reports on different opinions regarding the new Affordable Health Care reform Obamacare. The analysis will be from three different news channels all regarding the same issue. The report however varies in their opinions for how each new station feels towards the new Affordable Health Care. Fox news does not agree with anything in terms of Obamacare, the station is completely against it and have nothing positive to say in regards to the new plan. MSNBC News on the other hand thinks the new healthcare is great and is working fine. CNN News is in the middle, thinks the new plan could use work, but in the long run thinks it will work out just fine. This paper will examine each news stations to suggest the stations opinions on Obamacare. Fox News Analysis Obamacare Fox News has thought Obamacare has been an issue since day one, in recent news they covered a story, “President ignores Obamacare horror stories as human, financial cost pile up”. According to Bent Bozell III (2014 Fox News) the Obama administration and many in the Democratic Parties are trying to peddle the story that Obamacare is now working because the healthcare.gov website is functioning better. Fox News claims for each success there are countless failures. The cost of empty promises and outright lies is enormous bit in human and in financial terms. Fox News claims what these people are experiencing is exactly...
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...Tanya Waddell Sociology 120 Instructor: Amber Anderson December 21, 2013 Healthcare in the United States! Now that is a question for the ages. Is Healthcare a right or a privilege? Ask 10 people and you will get 10 different answers. Some say yes some say no, however almost all have caveats to their answers. This is where the dilemma starts. As a nation, we agree that individuals should be accountable for their actions. People often argue that those who are reckless with their bodies by ingesting chemicals via cigarettes or drug use and who subsequently develop cancers shouldn’t be subsidized by others’ insurance premiums as the latter group works hard at staying healthy by exercising, maintaining a healthy weight, and eating generous portions of fruits and vegetables. Somehow it isn’t fair. Unfortunately, life and good health aren’t quite that easy or predictable. Children who haven’t had time to abuse their bodies do develop cancers, have type 1 diabetes requiring insulin, or are born with genetic problems, like cystic fibrosis, that require expensive medical therapies that potentially are lifelong. Once diagnosed, these children are now plagued with the “pre-existing” label and unable to get health insurance. Over the past many years, the leading cause of personal bankruptcy for individuals and families is due to medical...
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...Daniel Lichtenberg Reflection SOC 459 The movement and shifting of our ideologies, highlighted in this weeks readings regarding our health care system, has challenged my own ideologies towards what our health care system should be modeled towards. I believe it is immoral to have a system that benefits from the chronically sick, but, what I think is even more disturbing is how this privatized model does little to care for its patients and instead treats our bodies health like a ‘routine’ or a machine. On the one hand our current system tells us to “take the blue pill and live with your chronic disease” while the other hand says to “take the red pill so we can see the effectiveness of our new miracle drug!”. What our health care system is lacking is a patient-centered health care model that cares for patients like human beings instead of test subjects. What I found most intriguing about this weeks reading is how we have been tricked into believing that the “New Right” ideology is morally based and has nothing to do with increasing the profits of big corporations. In fact some of us are led to believe that corporate interests lie within improving our lives with ‘fancy new medical machines’ and ‘high tech’ facilities, along with new miracle drugs that ‘make it easier to live’ with our newly developed chronic diseases. We have internalized the notion that our health care system is the best, and changing the status quo or returning to pluralist care systems (which...
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