Health Care Should Be Both A Right And A Privilege By Brian Jondeph

My article is on health care and whether it should be a right or a privilege. The writer Brian C. Joondeph, MD argues that health care can and should be both a right and a privilege. He uses ethos, appealing to the readers emotions. He states that a family can have a child that has cancer and can't afford the care for them. Many readers would find this sad and it is one of the many reason people want health care as a right. He also uses logos when he states that a young person could get into a sporting accident and go to the hospital. What if they had a medical bill and no insurance, savings or family to help out? He points out that there are logical reasons for everyone to have health care. Even young healthy people need it sometimes. The author is a medical doctor; his trait gives him credit with the reader. This gives him automatic ethos. Many readers would like to know what a doctor has to say about health care because they experience it first hand and understand how it works. At the beginning of his article he writes about how the house bill to repeal and replace Obamacare failed. Many Americans were up in arms about this. He started out with this as a way to connect with his readers. He’s saying that he’s also …show more content…
This could help his get more readers to give his idea a chance. The author does not favor health care as a right or a privilege but as both. He states that is would be the best solution to the problem to have parallel public and private healthcare systems. The way the author sets up his argument is vital. He starts out by bringing attention to how republicans and democrats can't agree on the healthcare matter. They both want the opposite resolution for health care. He has supporting evidence for his idea and he puts the evidence right before he unleashes his main idea. Making readers think about all the problems that both the solutions would have if we choose one of them