The Importance Of Universal Healthcare

The United States is one of the only industrialized nations without universal healthcare for its citizens. Universal healthcare provides health insurance coverage and financial help to all citizens of a nation. There are many individuals and families that are not able to receive the medical care they need because medical coverage is expensive and not easily accessible to those who are not able to afford it. David Cecere, Director of Media Relations with Cambridge Health Alliance, acknowledges that “Uninsured, working-age Americans have a 40 percent higher risk of death than their privately insured counterparts” (Cecere). People that are wealthy are getting good health insurance coverage while the impoverished people are remaining ill and dying. Americans should receive the right to healthcare because it would improve our nation’s overall health status. We are also one of the very few major nations that do not recognize healthcare as a basic human right. Having a healthcare system that performs to its highest ability well will help the nation feel …show more content…
Furthermore, America signed the World Health Assembly resolution 58.33 establishing that “everyone should have access to health care services and should not suffer financial hardship when obtaining these services” (“The World Health Report”). In spite of this, the United States is one of the very few industrialized nations that does not provide publically financed health care. There are many nations that use a universal healthcare plan, a few include the United Kingdom, Canada, Sweden, and Germany. These nations all have a single payer healthcare system that is publically funded by the citizens of the nation through taxes. Good healthcare is a right other nations recognize to be necessary for a properly working