In many countries, healthcare is considered a comfort or in some cases even a luxury. However, a few select countries around the world offer healthcare to their citizens for free. These citizens, along with many political parties in the country, believe that healthcare should be freely accessible to everyone as a basic human right. In my opinion, having experienced the Canadian model, free healthcare is something I don’t personally need because I rarely get sick. Although, seeing people suffering all around the world in poor, developing countries without the benefits of free healthcare makes me think that it should be offered everywhere. Saving the sick and weak people in poor countries (that don’t provide healthcare to their citizens) can
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This means that only about thirty percent of the countries in the world offer this service. Considering that only countries with a miniscule population provide government funded healthcare (China and India, the countries with the largest populations, have yet to introduce free healthcare), a lot less than thirty percent of the world population have healthcare available to them. The government of the country may see this as a waste of money, but this can help the country greatly by increasing jobs and wages, starting to industrialize the developing countries. Clearly, free healthcare is a lot more than just a social service. It is a human right because everyone should have a chance to live their life without having to stress about paying for their sicknesses. For me, free healthcare isn’t too important, although it has saved my family multiple times. For example, when my little brother broke his leg, expenses would’ve been around $10 000! But OHIP covered almost all of it, and the rest was covered by insurance. But this was nothing, when my elder brother was diagnosed with cancer, the total expenses for his chemotherapy was about $100 000. This was again covered by OHIP and insurance. To conclude, I am very happy to live in a country where healthcare is offered at no charge. My family would have been in serious trouble if we were living in a different country such as the US where the capitalistic system of economy doesn’t allow for healthcare to be
This means that only about thirty percent of the countries in the world offer this service. Considering that only countries with a miniscule population provide government funded healthcare (China and India, the countries with the largest populations, have yet to introduce free healthcare), a lot less than thirty percent of the world population have healthcare available to them. The government of the country may see this as a waste of money, but this can help the country greatly by increasing jobs and wages, starting to industrialize the developing countries. Clearly, free healthcare is a lot more than just a social service. It is a human right because everyone should have a chance to live their life without having to stress about paying for their sicknesses. For me, free healthcare isn’t too important, although it has saved my family multiple times. For example, when my little brother broke his leg, expenses would’ve been around $10 000! But OHIP covered almost all of it, and the rest was covered by insurance. But this was nothing, when my elder brother was diagnosed with cancer, the total expenses for his chemotherapy was about $100 000. This was again covered by OHIP and insurance. To conclude, I am very happy to live in a country where healthcare is offered at no charge. My family would have been in serious trouble if we were living in a different country such as the US where the capitalistic system of economy doesn’t allow for healthcare to be