The Government Should Not Have Free Healthcare

The government should NOT provide free healthcare. Free healthcare is a plan to increase taxes and would not help the financing of this country. It is also too ambitious and would be very hard to regulate. In the past free healthcare has been exploited by patient and Doctor. In the chapter Night Doctors the Lacks family doesn’t trust Hopkins because they allegedly stole African Americans in the night to do experiments (Skloot 165). Hospitals like this took advantage of poor and black people doing research on them without consent. Furthermore, a doctor's performance and wage will decrease due to free healthcare. We could spend the money general welfare instead of free healthcare. In the chapter a miserable specimen the doctors had written in the description that she looked like a miserable specimen. …show more content…
And in that same chapter they did nothing to help her charring skin. They sent her home after radiation treatment and they didn’t keep her in the hospital like most doctors did at the time. Another reason that free healthcare shouldn't be given by the government is the doctors may take advantage of patients. This is shown in the chapter Diagnosis and treatment it says that "like many doctors of this era, TeLinda often used patients from the public wards for research, usually without their knowledge," (skloot 290). This shows that doctors use patients without their knowledge. The government should not provide free health care because it would be difficult to regulate, the doctors do a worse job, and Doctors exploiting