How Welfare Discourages Self-Reliance Tragically, poverty is ubiquitous, everyone has encountered poverty in one way or another. Whether it be a personal experience or something as casual as crossing a homeless man on their street. The first instinct of any Good Samaritan is to assist any beggar they might encounter, however this might not be the best option. When viewed on a larger scale, such as the government’s many welfare programs, it becomes evident that simple charitable donations might not be the most effective long-term solution to America’s poverty crisis. The copious amounts of welfare received by the poor, encourage them to continue to receive compensation for not working instead of breaking free from poverty’s grasp. Almost without
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It is impossible then for a system so large that is capable, to a certain degree, of providing health care to an entire country. Clinics and hospitals have to purchase medical supplies, pay doctors and other medical professionals, and so on. The money, which provides for all of these expenses must come from an increase in taxes. Sweden for example, another country with publicly funded health care has tax rates that are nearly double that of the United States’ (Dietz). Even with increased tax rates supposedly paying for health care costs, many Canadians are finding that the public health care system Canada is known for, might not live up to its reputation. In 1993 the time between a referral and a meeting with a specialist has increased from 3.7 weeks to a staggering 8.3, however that’s only the beginning, wait times between meetings with specialists and actual treatment has increased by 4.2 weeks in the same time period (Krauss). Canadas failed public health care system has ended up costing recipients more and taking up more of their …show more content…
The problem has become so insurmountable that despite privately financed medical procedures being illegal, overwhelmed with patients, public hospitals are actually sending patients to these illegal private hospitals and clinics, which are so successful they are opening at a rate of one per week (Krauss). All of this paints a prime example of how welfare not only fails in assisting the public, but inversely harms them by costing them even more money for the same services. In order to force people into abandoning the tried and true private health care sector, Canada outlawed privately financed purchases of core medical services, and is the only industrialized nation to do so (Krauss). In order to entice people into using their system Canada had to outlaw any other alternative, ironically known as a monopoly which is also outlawed, and yet they still failed. Citizens in the thousands fled to illegal clinics and hospitals in order to escape the failed and unwanted welfare program and decided instead, to remain a little more
It is impossible then for a system so large that is capable, to a certain degree, of providing health care to an entire country. Clinics and hospitals have to purchase medical supplies, pay doctors and other medical professionals, and so on. The money, which provides for all of these expenses must come from an increase in taxes. Sweden for example, another country with publicly funded health care has tax rates that are nearly double that of the United States’ (Dietz). Even with increased tax rates supposedly paying for health care costs, many Canadians are finding that the public health care system Canada is known for, might not live up to its reputation. In 1993 the time between a referral and a meeting with a specialist has increased from 3.7 weeks to a staggering 8.3, however that’s only the beginning, wait times between meetings with specialists and actual treatment has increased by 4.2 weeks in the same time period (Krauss). Canadas failed public health care system has ended up costing recipients more and taking up more of their …show more content…
The problem has become so insurmountable that despite privately financed medical procedures being illegal, overwhelmed with patients, public hospitals are actually sending patients to these illegal private hospitals and clinics, which are so successful they are opening at a rate of one per week (Krauss). All of this paints a prime example of how welfare not only fails in assisting the public, but inversely harms them by costing them even more money for the same services. In order to force people into abandoning the tried and true private health care sector, Canada outlawed privately financed purchases of core medical services, and is the only industrialized nation to do so (Krauss). In order to entice people into using their system Canada had to outlaw any other alternative, ironically known as a monopoly which is also outlawed, and yet they still failed. Citizens in the thousands fled to illegal clinics and hospitals in order to escape the failed and unwanted welfare program and decided instead, to remain a little more