Article 25 of the Universal declaration of Human rights says, “Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including medical care.” Since President Barack Obama took the charge of the United States, one of his main goals was to provide health care to almost everyone, especially those people who were uninsured. From an economic perspective, it was going to be a challenge to both reduce the uncompensated care cost of the uninsured people and provide health care to the entire nation. However, since the ACC (Affordable Care Act) went into effect in January of 2014, there have been positive results regarding to what the …show more content…
But, what else can be done. Lets bring a hypothetical scenario in which more people would be able to get insured and there would be a considerable reduction of the uncompensated care cost. Supposing that in the future (taking into consideration the favorable statistics), most of the citizens possess health insurance, a possible way to reduce more the uncompensated care cost would be eliminating the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act. This posture would only occur when the majority percentage of the population get their health insurance. Eliminating the law would mean that the money that government, insurances, and private sectors spend would decrease since hospitals and other medical centers would provide health care only to those insured people. Since insurance premiums get increased because of the high cost of uncompensated care, this reduction would bring no increase in future premiums or even a possible reduction of them. One negative aspect about eliminating the EMTALA would be the cruel view of the population. In a general perspective, people who are not able to apply for that health insurance would be still covered for the universal coverage, but the key here would be to encourage those who can acceptable applicants to get insured. Ethics policy would become an important role here, would the hospitals deny health care service to a person who is dying or would they follow their principles and provide the proper service to him, a very good