...“Why Healthcare Should Be Free?” As Marcy Jackson walked to the counter of the Healthcare information desk, she took a deep breathe. Marcy had been to the healthcare desk once before about 4 months ago and she was denied access because she was overweight. So Marcy thought if she lost the 13 pounds within this month, she could go back and reapply. Walking up to the desk, she was accompanied by her daughter, who was 6 –years –old, Anna Jackson. The receptionist asked her, “How can I help you today?” She replied, “I am here to re-apply for healthcare.” She received the forms, filled them out and was told to wait for a phone call in a couple of days. A few days went by and Marcy was away at work and missed the call from the Healthcare organization, but they left her a message on the answering machine. The message said, “Hi, sorry that you missed our call. I am a representative from the healthcare organization that you applied to a few days ago. I am so sorry that because of your weight, you have been denied access for affordable healthcare. If you have any questions you can contact us at your local healthcare location. Have a nice day.” Marcy fell to her knees she could not believe what she had just heard. She tried so hard to lose the weight and just when she thought it was enough, she failed again. Marcy worked two jobs just to keep things in order and being able to afford healthcare for her and her daughter, just was not enough. And this should not be the case, it should not matter...
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...In your opinion, should healthcare be free? No, I don’t think healthcare should be free. Well I take that back, I do think basic healthcare should be free. I think we should all be covered under something like Medicaid for the basics like routine exams, dental, vision, etc. I think beyond that you should have to purchase a plan either through your employer or directly from the government. I don’t think our taxes should pay for extended care such as specialists or elective surgeries but I don’t do think basic care is a right we should all have as an American. If we are the richest country in the world, surely we can afford to do that. I think the Affordable Care Act is a step in the right direction but we need to go further. I think programs like Medicare should still exist as it does today and you would transition into that at age 65. I personally find it very difficult to stomach the fact that I pay taxes for someone who is probably very capable of getting a job to have free healthcare (I also have issues with Welfare and Food Stamps – but that’s for another day). There are circumstances in which it’s warranted, like disability or even in between jobs but not so you can stay home and do nothing. It’s not fair, so I believe we should all benefit. Now in this world, if you do not have a job, you can get free extended care, however, it would be highly regulated. Meaning, you can’t just be on this program and not doing anything. There would be monthly check-ins to...
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...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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...Should healthcare/Insurance be free? You rush to the hospital and your son has a broken bone. You arrive to the hospital and you don’t have a budget to pay the doctors after the surgery. Healthcare is way too expensive, which many can’t afford. Many people think Obamacare was useless and couldn’t really benefit people. This essay will outline the disadvantages of having to pay healthcare. “The average annual cost of healthcare for a typical family of four is over $20,000 every month,” states website “healthcare.procon.org. “Approximately 33 million people in the United States (10.4% of the U.S population) did not have health insurance…,” this could mean that people couldn’t approximately afford $20,000 every month. In the United States, fewer than 10% of patients wait more than two months to see a specialist. “...US Senator Barack Obama stated that healthcare should be a “right...
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...The Governments Fiscal Policy and Healthcare Proposals Trisha Elledge Colorado Christian University Abstract Bernie Sanders is looking to convert our country to a universal single-payer healthcare system. The following paper will break apart the article written by Avik Roy for Forbes titled Bernie Sanders’ Single-Payer Health Care Plan Would increase Federal Spending By At Least $28 Trillion. By converting to a single-payer healthcare system households would suffer more than they would thrive. Increased taxes, less government revenue and a higher unemployment rate can all come from implementing Berniecare into our country. Although Bernie Sanders is claiming to give “free” healthcare to all, I will point out why it is not free at all and why we should give the control of our healthcare back in to the hands of the people and out of the control of the government. The Governments Fiscal Policy and Healthcare Proposals According to Reem Heakal with Investopedia, “Fiscal policy is the means by which a government adjusts its spending levels and tax rates to monitor and influence a nation’s economy.” This can include the changing of tax rates nationally or adding a new local tax, adjusting where money is spent and allocated or changing where our government dollars and tax dollars will be used. Each year the government decides where our money will be divided out by agreeing on the upcoming year’s budget, however; as the year goes on money is overspent or gets cut and has...
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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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...Business and Canadian Government Policy; Initiating A New Policy Introduction This paper looks into a proposal on the introduction of a universal pharmaceutical policy or pharmacare in Canada. Canada is a country that has a global reputation of offering a successful healthcare to its populations. The Canadians enjoys free healthcare facilities because when they get sick they just need to visit the hospital or their doctors even when they do not have money. The government funds for the universal health policy by use of government revenues. The government gets the funds to pay the policies through taxation of Canadians who are well-off. Most Canadians especially the ordinary Canadians have benefited from the universal healthcare as it has increased their accessibility to health services (Fierlbeck, 2011). Although most Canadians and stakeholders consider the Canadian healthcare policy as universal, it is not comprehensive. A comprehensive healthcare policy should offer a complete healthcare package for citizens. The current healthcare policy in Canada does not substantially offer a comprehensive healthcare policy. This is because various core areas of healthcare are not covered with the current policy on healthcare. The core areas that have been left out by the policy include dental care, prescription drugs, and prescription glasses. The prescription drugs are more important as it remains hard for a person to recover without drugs. Drugs are very expensive to buy and they prices...
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...private health care. However, breaking out of this calamity is very possible as the Universal Healthcare System offers care to all citizens of a particular country. Through this type of coverage, health services are granted without any financial hardships, in some countries, being free....
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...People do not believe in free healthcare until they have an accident and could not pay for their treatment. Some people in the United States consider that healthcare should be the individual’s responsibility. They affirm that healthcare is not essential for the society, and using the government funds and support would diminish the accessibility, quantity, and quality of health care. Also, they think it would increase the government debt and deficit. Contrary to these arguments, most Americans sustain that universal healthcare will contribute to the country in many ways. The United States Government should provide free universal healthcare to American citizens, because it is a human right, improves public health and saves lives, benefits the...
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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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...by providing a good healthcare to all, regardless of patients’ ability to pay, private hospitals are usually determined by the search for profits. This event has caused many arguments when the issue of privatizing healthcare in Malaysia arises. Most citizens disagree with this idea because the administration is moving far from giving almost free human healthcare services, citizens are not sure to give a piece of their wages and are confronting high dangers of corruption. Therefore, Malaysia should not privatize health care services. According to (Jayabalan, 2012) the main reason for this problem is the government is moving far from giving almost free human healthcare services. The existing healthcare system is already effective as it provides cheap and affordable healthcare as well as excellent healthcare coverage (Ng., 2012). Furthermore, the World Health Organization (WHO) had rated the current healthcare services ‘excellent’ (Ng., 2012) Bloomberg on the other hand has reported that Malaysia was put 27th on the Most Efficient Healthcare 2014: Countries and InternationalLiving.com's yearly Global Retirement Index reports that Malaysia are one of the nations that give the best and most reasonable social insurance on the planet. Therefore, the current system should be maintained, not changed. Plus, the citizens are not confident to give a part of their wages to the government (Jeyakumar, 2012) .Generally, the quality of medicinal consideration should exclusively be on the...
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...Walter Olejarski Ms. Marshall SYG 2000-02M 15 March 2012 Healthcare in the United States: A Flawed Society People in the United States pay too much for the healthcare benefits they receive, and some have a poor quality of life. Advancements in technology and medical science allow people to live longer, but at times living longer has an adverse effect on the elderly. In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson wrote, “all men are created equal,” yet in today’s healthcare system, all citizens are not treated as equal. Moreover, quality healthcare is provided only to those who can afford it. Due to sociocultural differences and socioeconomic changes in the United States, health disparities are at an all-time high. Rising healthcare costs and the under-regulated health insurance industry directly correlate to poor health, and true healers are few and far between. In our society, those who can afford it stay healthy, and the remaining population is forced to live without proper medical care. Many problems exist with regard to healthcare in the US including poverty, crime, ethics, and policy, but the most overwhelming is cost. President Obama’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, called Obama-Care by some, is a start, but our society has a long way to go in bringing affordable healthcare to all Americans. Functionalists would view the healthcare system as if nothing is wrong, calling it a trend in society and finding some rationale to justify their position...
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...Care? Introduction: On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) into law, which creates health insurance reforms that will transform healthcare over the next four years. The PPACA will ensure that all Americans have access to quality, affordable health care and will create the transformation with the health care system necessary to contain costs (The Patient Protection). One of those health insurance reforms started on September 23, 2010, which will provide free preventive care. The PPACA will eliminate co-pays and deductibles for recommended preventive care, including preventive care for women, provide individuals with the information they need to make healthy decisions, improve education on disease prevention and public health, and invest in a national prevention and public health strategy (The Patient Protection). There are some exceptions to the law for grandfathered insurance plans. This preventive services provision applies only to people enrolled in job-related health plans or individual health insurance policies created after March 23, 2010 (Preventive Care). This law is supposed to improve quality healthcare and lower costs for patients. This paper will discuss what effect the new law may have on the United States healthcare system. What is Preventive Care? The definition of preventive care is "a pattern of nursing and medical care that focuses on disease prevention and health maintenance. It includes early...
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...The United States faces a long battle to repair its economy. Issues like unemployment, the federal budget deficit, immigration, gun control, etc, seem to create never ending discussions without any resolution. The healthcare system is one of the many issues that have been affected by the economic crisis and according to president Barrack Obama, reform is a must. Besides all economic factors affecting the healthcare system, the system has been blamed for inefficiency, excessive administrative expenses, inappropriate waste, and fraud and abuse. Many Americans today are having trouble keeping up with the continue rise of healthcare costs and many firms cannot afford to provide coverage to their employees. Although the government is working on a reform for the healthcare system, many questions are still pending to be answered. One question that has raised polemic discussions around the country is: should the U.S. government provide healthcare to all citizens? While many feel there should be a simple yes or no to this questions, many others realize that we do have to consider any potential ethical, moral or legal issues that can cause collateral damage to our economy and also the healthcare system. President Obama has been focusing on a reform for the healthcare system prior to his first election and to give a little overview of his reform, according to The White House (2013), see table below: Overview of Health Reform “It makes insurance more affordable by providing the largest...
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... from the Operating Room. She has seen many changes occur in healthcare during his career. This paper will discuss some of the values he finds most important for creating an equal healthcare system. In order to establish an equal healthcare system, coverage needs to be affordable, with equal opportunities for everyone, and American’s need to feel they have the freedom of choice for the type of coverage they want. Healthcare coverage first of all, needs to be affordable. Employers should pay all or most of the healthcare premiums to cover their employees. The coverage should be competitive and at the same time the employee should have the right to choose if they want to be covered or seek private insurance. Mandatory physical exams and blood work should be discussed in detail at employee forums and human resources should not just assume all employees know their coverage rights. Physician’s office staff should be well educated in insurance literacy to let their patients know what their coverage rights are. This will keep the patient from getting a surprisingly high statement in the mail. Those who are eligible for Medicare should not have deductibles. If they are on Medicare then they obviously fall below some standard and therefore do not have the money to pay for medical coverage. Carla states, “Medicare should not be eliminated unless the federal government is going to hand out free healthcare coverage to the elderly.” According to the Future of the Affordable...
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