Mandatory Healthcare Research Paper

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There is a wide spectrum of views on what the extent governments should be responsible for mandating healthcare for its citizens. On one side there are people that believe that governments should supply one hundred percent of its citizens will full coverage for all health needs, using only the citizen's (higher) taxes. On the other end, there are the people that feel as if everyone should be able to provide for themselves and that their own personal tax money should not be going towards somebody else's care. There are also people in the middle who may believe that the government should give programs or offer services to help, yet people are still responsible for signing up for and paying for those programs themselves. In my opinion, the government …show more content…

This model is based around using tax money to set up and build hospitals, pay doctors, and cover everything anybody would and ever will need. One of the better real-life examples of this system is the Canadian healthcare system, although Canada’s is less extreme. In theory this is a perfect system, as it eliminates all competition, so no hospitals have to outperform any other ones with unique services, and hospitals can just work on being good hospitals and providing quality service. This system is theoretically the most fair, the easiest, and even the most equitable, but unfortunately, in theory rarely translates into real life. The main problems with this system are that it can make payments unfair, and can also can lead to people taking advantage of the system. The payments can be seen as unfair because of the way it works. Everybody, every year, pays their taxes. A portion of those taxes, equal for everyone, will go towards a large pot of money, which is divided between whatever is needed to supply citizens with healthcare. Some people argue that this system is unfair or too beneficial to some people, as they pay too little or too much for their taxes to account for what they use for their healthcare. Because some people are healthier or less healthy than others, someone in perfect health and somebody on the opposite end of the scale pay the same amount in their taxes for their healthcare. However, the person in perfect health might only need a checkup every one of two years whereas the other one might be accessing the hospital weekly. Even worse, some people make the choice to not care about themselves, which causes them to need that healthcare. This brings up the argument of why somebody who chooses to be healthy must (in theory) pay for the extra strain that is put on the system because other people choose not to

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