Poor health among uninsured people cost almost $125 billion in 2004. That's a Huge amount of money. That large amount is sometimes charged to people who don't have the fund or the means to pay. Roughly half of personal bankruptcy filings are due to medical expenses. Many people claim that having a universal heath care could avoid many people avoid going bankrupt. The funds to finance this Universal health care would come from taxes. It would create a government controlled health care.
Some people state that having a universal health care would unbalance the economy and weaken it to the point of it not being a sustainable system. Universal health insurance does not necessarily mean universal access to health care. It would lessen the quality of health care and the wait time. Unbalanced economy would cause a already 1 trillion dollar dept to rise. Tax rates would go up substantially for the middle class. Here is a testimony I heard on the train a couple weeks …show more content…
Not to radical as to a government run healthcare but not insufficient enough so that the people who need care don't get it. A suggested model is a support system on a case by case basis. Another one from Ben Carson Instead of the technocratic behemoth of Obamacare, empower the individual. "When a person is born, give him a birth certificate, an electronic medical record, and a health-savings account to which money can be contributed--pretax--from the time you're born till the time you die. If you die, you can pass it on to your family members . . . and there's nobody talking about death panels." Ben Carson Breakfast