IDRISSA AGALASSOU ALASSANE
Requiring citizens to enroll to healthcare plans has been in the middle of controversies for years. Obliging one to have health insurance without knowing his/her background (social class for example) is far from being a good idea. It is true that everybody must be considered as equal but some people might not be able to afford healthcare if imposed or the costs related to it if universalized.
Nowadays, the U.S healthcare represents a large amount of the countries budget. Over 3 trillion of dollars is spent on health expenditures( Health, United States, 2015). There is too much money invested on that area compared to other developed countries like Canada or Great Britain. Making healthcare available to all the citizens …show more content…
If it is universalized which means free for everyone, poor people might enjoy that. But when healthcare is required for every citizen at a lower price or free, working people must pay for unemployed ones. To finance the universal healthcare, taxes will increase by a fair amount as in countries as the U.K where taxes on income are relatively high compared to the U.S. Increasing taxes can contribute to make even poorer the poor middle class citizens. Universal healthcare is good but taxes will replace a fair amount of the cost of healthcare. Which is unfair a portion of the population. Requiring everyone to have healthcare goes against self-determination. Everyone must be able to decide whether they want health insurance. Universalizing it will raise taxes for individuals who are not willing to have health insurance therefore marginalizing them because they were imposed to enroll. Also, if the government pays healthcare, anybody can use it, there is going to be an increasingly number of patients which will at first cause the quality of detection of chronic diseases like cancer. In fact, the U.S is doing well compared to certain countries in Europe and Canada in terms of cancer treatments. Another financial impact will be that, doctors and medical personnel will have lower salaries. We’ve seen in the past with government sponsored …show more content…
It will also help to avoid high taxes on income like in the U.K for middle class workers and poor workers. Universalized healthcare also reduces the quality for chronic diseases treatments since to many people are coming for care. Doctors will perceive less money from the government than from private insurance companies, it will contribute to a decrease in the purchasing power of people working in the healthcare
Requiring citizens to enroll to healthcare plans has been in the middle of controversies for years. Obliging one to have health insurance without knowing his/her background (social class for example) is far from being a good idea. It is true that everybody must be considered as equal but some people might not be able to afford healthcare if imposed or the costs related to it if universalized.
Nowadays, the U.S healthcare represents a large amount of the countries budget. Over 3 trillion of dollars is spent on health expenditures( Health, United States, 2015). There is too much money invested on that area compared to other developed countries like Canada or Great Britain. Making healthcare available to all the citizens …show more content…
If it is universalized which means free for everyone, poor people might enjoy that. But when healthcare is required for every citizen at a lower price or free, working people must pay for unemployed ones. To finance the universal healthcare, taxes will increase by a fair amount as in countries as the U.K where taxes on income are relatively high compared to the U.S. Increasing taxes can contribute to make even poorer the poor middle class citizens. Universal healthcare is good but taxes will replace a fair amount of the cost of healthcare. Which is unfair a portion of the population. Requiring everyone to have healthcare goes against self-determination. Everyone must be able to decide whether they want health insurance. Universalizing it will raise taxes for individuals who are not willing to have health insurance therefore marginalizing them because they were imposed to enroll. Also, if the government pays healthcare, anybody can use it, there is going to be an increasingly number of patients which will at first cause the quality of detection of chronic diseases like cancer. In fact, the U.S is doing well compared to certain countries in Europe and Canada in terms of cancer treatments. Another financial impact will be that, doctors and medical personnel will have lower salaries. We’ve seen in the past with government sponsored …show more content…
It will also help to avoid high taxes on income like in the U.K for middle class workers and poor workers. Universalized healthcare also reduces the quality for chronic diseases treatments since to many people are coming for care. Doctors will perceive less money from the government than from private insurance companies, it will contribute to a decrease in the purchasing power of people working in the healthcare