Pros And Cons Of A Universal Health Care System

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As healthcare costs are rising, less and less people are wanted to register and pay for it. Tax payers arent keeping up with the money demand that the increase in price. People believe that a "universal health care system" would bring costs down and increase access to care, however, others think that doing that would be to expensive and would "reduce the quality of care."

People who think that a universal health care system would bring costs down and increase access to care believe that everyone should have insurance. However, not everyone can afford to pay the taxes on insurance so this would cause problems with the people that do have to pay taxes. These people are going on the idea of everyone being able to get the same care no matter

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