Everybody Should Have The Right To Health Care For Everyone

The United States is one of the few developed countries who do not have universal health care, leaving nearly 33 million people without any health insurance. People who oppose the right to health care for everybody may argue that it is taking and extracting from another person and that it is an individual’s responsibility to get health insurance. Everybody should have the right to health care because it is a human right that could improve public health and lower the cost of care in the United States. Also, everybody should have the opportunity to receive healthcare because it contributes to the productivity in the United States.
People opposing the right to health care say that it will overall have a negative effect. They claim that taxes may …show more content…
The right to health care is a human right, the declaration of Independence says all men have “unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness” which could mean that the right to healthcare is the right to life and the right to the pursuit of happiness. Also, the cost of healthcare could be lowered overall if everybody had the right to healthcare due to the lowered administrative and prescription drug costs. The right to health care will also improve the overall public health mainly because everybody will have access to basic medical care . The number of illnesses will decrease because everybody in the community will have the opportunity to receive the same health care, there is no fear that of it being unaffordable. Hillary Clinton says “As your president, I want to build on the progress we’ve made. I’ll do more to bring down health care costs for families, ease burdens on small businesses, and make sure consumers have the choices they deserve. And frankly, it is finally time for us to deal with the skyrocketing out-of-pocket health costs, and particularly runaway prescription drug prices” she plans to keep the Affordable Health Care act and expand on that to make in better. She also plans to allow everybody the access to health care no matter their status and lower the cost people are paying out of pocket for …show more content…
Everybody being provide with health care is good economically, people with healthcare live healthier lives and tend to miss less days of work. The University of Colorado and Pennsylvania did a study that showed that people with health insurance missed an average of 4.7 less days of work that those who did not have health insurance. ”World Bank President Jim Yong Kim stated that all nations should provide a right to health care "to help foster economic growth" this is true because with health insurance the number of premature deaths and sicknesses will decrease. Providing the right to health care to everybody will also benefit private businesses . Currently many private business in the United States pay for their employee’s health insurance but the if everybody was provided healthcare the high prices would not have to be paid by the employer. Providing everybody the right to healthcare could also stop and or lower medical bankruptcy. If there was a single-payer system all the medical bills would be paid for by the government not individual citizens, which means medical bankruptcy would not be a problem. Jill Stein says she wants to “establish an improved “Medicare For All” single-payer public health insurance program to provide everyone with quality health care, at huge savings,” also she wants to expand on Obama care and provide healthcare for