Uninsured in the United States

The Affordable Care Act of 2010 was enacted, as America’s first universal health care law for the purpose of ensuring the targeted population of all American citizens and residents who are legally “residing in the United States who are not currently incarcerated” (GET SMARTER.COM) have accessible, quality, and affordable health care insurance while boosting the nation’s economy through the reduction of health care expenditures. As of March 2015, approximately 11.9% of American citizens and legal…

is widely believe that health care should be a citizen’s right. It is difficult to predict whether health care in United States is a right or a privilege, because the health care in United States is still going through extensive transformation. Affordable Care Act (ACA) has definitely provided more and more people an access to care they need, which implies health care in United States is becoming more of a right than a privileged. Is the Affordable Care…

are too low to afford insurance. However, a solution has emerged for those of this particular socioeconomic status, the Affordable Care Act. (ABOUT) It has proven to decrease rate of uninsured Latinos by implementing expansion of eligibility for Medicaid across states. The percent of adults ages 19-64 who were uninsured within the Latino population decreased from 40% to 34%…

standards for providers. The government would administer and subsidize coverage for low-income families the government would increase reimbursement levels to attract physicians to states experiencing shortages. Should the United States implement a comprehensive national health insurance plan like Canada’s or the United Kingdom’s where government pays for the health care for all of its citizens? Yes, we should adopt a National Health Insurance Plan because we should have a right to health care in…

need in order to live a healthy life. The government needs to take care of its citizens. There is not enough health care coverage in the United States at all. Even with the new Obamacare (ACA) act that was passed. Even with this act there are people who are uninsured and underinsured. Both "disabled and ill Americans remain disproportionality likely to be uninsured" (Weitz p.195). If we could just tax the top 1% of earners we could easily cover everybody's needs. There are people who are dying…

health care delivery in the United States. The United State 's health care system differs from other…

“There are more than 45,000 deaths a year due to the lack of health care, 44 million uninsured Americans, and another 38 million Americans with inadequate health insurance” (The Uninsured). While it may not sound like many deaths for a big country like America, these are deaths directly caused because they did not have the resources in order to obtain it nor the help they need. A quarter of the population of America does not have the protection they should deserve People are forced into terrible…

The United States is considered a wealthy and industrialized nation. However, the healthcare system in the United States is somewhat flawed compared to other countries since it doesn’t have a universal healthcare system. According to the US Census Bureau, “the percentage of Americans without health insurance was 16.3%, or 49.9 million uninsured people in 2010”. Basically, the rich percentage of the population have the best access and quality of healthcare and medicine. However, if someone…

change they would either move to a different state from the United States, or they would go back to their own country. Some companies or business people could lose their customers because of this, a lot of people only like to deal with people from the United States, but the moment they see Texas…

In 2013, 17.1% of the United States’ GDP was spent on healthcare, making it the largest healthcare budget in the world. Yet, 33 million Americans went uninsured the following year. Despite our nation’s spending, more citizens are left vulnerable in the US than in the next top 12 highest spending countries combined. We now face challenges on how to expand coverage without expanding our budget, but our problem lies within the system. We must adopt multi-payer, universal healthcare as a right for…