Universal Health Care: A Case Study

To ensure healthy lives and promote the well-being for all at all ages, is an extremely broad goal, involving several specific problems and all with their own solutions needing to be addressed. As I read through the several issues that exist under health, I have come to the conclusion that all could potentially be resolved if health insurances was made to all. Health insurances protects you from having to deal with the financial risks and most importantly, the health related issues. Individuals without health insurances are exposed to the high medical costs that could easily lead them into deeper debt and worse case scenario into bankruptcy. In the United States, fixing a broken leg can reach costs up to seven thousand dollars. The average …show more content…
Services, such as several screenings for children including vision and hearing, many vaccines and immunizations. Blood pressure and cholesterol screenings and mammograms, and all other procedures relating to cancer and etc. Individuals without insurances are not able to receive the essential free benefits, which can ultimately identify diseases at its earliest and prevent it from escalating. However the gap to reach that goal is immense and perhaps with how the current ideals and priorities are in the world it may never be achieved. For as of 2014, the percentage of individuals in America alone without health coverage is thirty three million. In Canada there is the issue of the homeless not receiving basic medical care and refugees unable to access preventive services without passing through their hearing at court. By having no coverage of any form,individuals most likely postpone the necessary care. Since the uninsured most often do not have a regular standing doctor and limited resources to prescription medicine. They are most likely to be hospitalized for conditions that could have been