In the United States our health care system is the talk of much debate. Single payer healthcare is a health care system in which a single organization organizes the health care financing for all health care in the country. In a single payer system, the single payer organization would collect all health care fees and pay all health care cost from that money. The United States should use a single payer system for health.
The first reason that The United States should switch to a Single payer system is because it would allow everyone to receive health care coverage. In the United States there are millions of people who do not have health care coverage because they cannot afford to pay for health care coverage. Even with the Affordable Care Act millions of people cannot afford health care. According to an article by Megan Winkler “6 Reasons Universal Health Care is the Right Answer for America” states that there are still “27 million Americans will remain without insurance despite the full implementation of the Affordable …show more content…
The health care industry has no regulations. Which means things like prescription medicine can have extreme price changes over night. Which has happened in recent years. The in article by Tom McKay called “Here 's How Much More the US Spends on Medicine than Everyone Else, in 6 Charts” he mentions how “The world has been repulsed by Martin Shkreli, the Turing Pharmaceuticals head and former hedge fund manager who bought the rights to the anti-protozoal drug Daraprim and raised the price by 5,500% overnight.” (McKay) Then Martin Shkreli claimed that the price increase was to help with the cost of researching. Which is absurd. Could you image if from one day to the next the medicine that you cannot live without had a price increase of 5,500 percent. That should not be allowed to happen to
The first reason that The United States should switch to a Single payer system is because it would allow everyone to receive health care coverage. In the United States there are millions of people who do not have health care coverage because they cannot afford to pay for health care coverage. Even with the Affordable Care Act millions of people cannot afford health care. According to an article by Megan Winkler “6 Reasons Universal Health Care is the Right Answer for America” states that there are still “27 million Americans will remain without insurance despite the full implementation of the Affordable …show more content…
The health care industry has no regulations. Which means things like prescription medicine can have extreme price changes over night. Which has happened in recent years. The in article by Tom McKay called “Here 's How Much More the US Spends on Medicine than Everyone Else, in 6 Charts” he mentions how “The world has been repulsed by Martin Shkreli, the Turing Pharmaceuticals head and former hedge fund manager who bought the rights to the anti-protozoal drug Daraprim and raised the price by 5,500% overnight.” (McKay) Then Martin Shkreli claimed that the price increase was to help with the cost of researching. Which is absurd. Could you image if from one day to the next the medicine that you cannot live without had a price increase of 5,500 percent. That should not be allowed to happen to