Everyone deserves to be happy: the poor and the rich alike. Americans have this idea that poor and homeless people should have worked harder to become successful or are just lazy and don’t deserve basic happiness and care. This idea needs to be changed. Everyone in our country is entitled to live with health and basic comfort. The condition of life for all inhabitants of the United States needs to be improved by fixing the minimum wage, social expectations regarding reproduction, and the healthcare system. People are not getting paid enough to make a living. Women and People of Color (POC) are being paid as low as 54% of what a white man gets paid, according to the American Association of University Women (AAUW). This wage gap is so large
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To achieve universal healthcare, there would need to be only one healthcare system, instead of many, that is federally administered. This would actually save the U.S., as well as its citizens, millions of dollars. Lower-income citizens would only need to pay a percentage of the costs while the other costs would be paid for by a change in the tax structure on wealthy citizens and corporations. As written on Bernie Sanders' website, “Americans would no longer have to fear losing their health insurance if they lose their job, change employment or go part time.” Making one cost-effective healthcare system would relieve stress on businesses that are currently obligated to provide healthcare to employees and on people that have to worry about keeping their jobs in order to maintain their healthcare. The healthcare system needs to be changed so that anyone in the U.S. will be provided with care without all the burden that comes with today’s …show more content…
has some major issues that need to be worked through. Making the minimum wage high enough to live off of would make a huge difference in how well people can take care of themselves and their families. Making contraceptives available to everybody and teaching about them, abortion, adoption, and where to find help with parenting will prevent more unreasonable situations for people. Changing healthcare availability for people is so important to making sure everyone can be healthy and cared for, no matter their wealth. Fixing these problems in the U.S. is only the first step to ensuring that everyone can truly have our country’s promise of, “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of
To achieve universal healthcare, there would need to be only one healthcare system, instead of many, that is federally administered. This would actually save the U.S., as well as its citizens, millions of dollars. Lower-income citizens would only need to pay a percentage of the costs while the other costs would be paid for by a change in the tax structure on wealthy citizens and corporations. As written on Bernie Sanders' website, “Americans would no longer have to fear losing their health insurance if they lose their job, change employment or go part time.” Making one cost-effective healthcare system would relieve stress on businesses that are currently obligated to provide healthcare to employees and on people that have to worry about keeping their jobs in order to maintain their healthcare. The healthcare system needs to be changed so that anyone in the U.S. will be provided with care without all the burden that comes with today’s …show more content…
has some major issues that need to be worked through. Making the minimum wage high enough to live off of would make a huge difference in how well people can take care of themselves and their families. Making contraceptives available to everybody and teaching about them, abortion, adoption, and where to find help with parenting will prevent more unreasonable situations for people. Changing healthcare availability for people is so important to making sure everyone can be healthy and cared for, no matter their wealth. Fixing these problems in the U.S. is only the first step to ensuring that everyone can truly have our country’s promise of, “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of