Health insurance pays for medical and surgical expenses for the people that are insured. Millions of Americans participate in the game of insurance. By investing money in insurance, they hope to stay in the game of life a little longer. Although, nothing catastrophic may happen to you, most people pay the money to feel secure and for “just in case” circumstances. Health insurance is mostly for the dying. The dying constantly need money and care to hold on to their ticket of life just awhile longer. Now, “nearly 42 percent of terminally ill Americans receive some sort of hospice care; 83 percent of them are older than 65, and more than one-third are older than 85” (Fay). With that being said, the average cost of hospice in 2010 was “approximately
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Health care is not basic such as food, shelter, water, and clothing. People could endlessly invest and there is no guarantee that good results will be achieved. It is not right to establish a uniform health care welfare right or to consider hospice a part of health maintenance. Hospice being considered a covered benefit would result in medially politicizing all elements of personal conduct and constraining free choices. And we know from the prohibition of alcohol in the United States from 1920 to 1933, that maintaining people’s choices never goes well. The ban resulted in overburdened courts, penal system, and police. US district attorneys “spent 44% of their time on Prohibition cases” (Florien). All this time spent on prohibition takes away from the people that really needed the police and courts to protect them and their possessions and bring justice, “not enforce a religious sec’s morality” (Florien). Even with good intentions the prohibition of alcohol still led to more physical harm. Since alcohol was illegal, its purity could not be regulated. Ironically, it also increased the amount of people that drank and got drunk. When you tell someone you cannot have something, often times that thing becomes more desirable and when people did go out, they had to finish the whole bottle because you couldn’t be seen with it. This dilemma made hard liquor more popular, it was easier to smuggle and more
Health care is not basic such as food, shelter, water, and clothing. People could endlessly invest and there is no guarantee that good results will be achieved. It is not right to establish a uniform health care welfare right or to consider hospice a part of health maintenance. Hospice being considered a covered benefit would result in medially politicizing all elements of personal conduct and constraining free choices. And we know from the prohibition of alcohol in the United States from 1920 to 1933, that maintaining people’s choices never goes well. The ban resulted in overburdened courts, penal system, and police. US district attorneys “spent 44% of their time on Prohibition cases” (Florien). All this time spent on prohibition takes away from the people that really needed the police and courts to protect them and their possessions and bring justice, “not enforce a religious sec’s morality” (Florien). Even with good intentions the prohibition of alcohol still led to more physical harm. Since alcohol was illegal, its purity could not be regulated. Ironically, it also increased the amount of people that drank and got drunk. When you tell someone you cannot have something, often times that thing becomes more desirable and when people did go out, they had to finish the whole bottle because you couldn’t be seen with it. This dilemma made hard liquor more popular, it was easier to smuggle and more