Pros And Cons Of Right To Health Care

It is unbelievable how society wants to help those out of the country rather than to help the people down a few blocks from them, people from their neighborhood. Some say it is an individual’s responsibility to have health care and that the government should not hold responsibility to provide people with health care. The right to health care will stop medical bankruptcies, reduce over health care spending, and improve public health. The following reasons explain the pros and cons, and reasons to the right to Health Care.
First couple of things that must be considered to understand is the pros and cons of the right to health care. One pro of having the right to Health car, would lower medical spending and medical insurance. “Instituting a right

to health care could lower the cost of health care in the United States…According to a study in the American Journal of Public Health, Canada, a country that provides a universal right to health care, spends half as much per capita on health care as the United States”(Right). Also a con for having health care would be that the United States debt would increase. According to US House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI), government health care programs are "driving the explosive growth in our spending and our debt”. Take into consideration, what is Not having Health Care doing to people?
Now moving forward from the general economic outcomes of having health care and going to the effect on individuals who do not have health care. Medical expenses include prescription drugs doctor’s bills, medical equipment, and nursing home care and many more. All these expenses seem to bankrupt a number of people.
“The U.S. health care financing system is broken, and not only for the poor and uninsured,” the study authors wrote. “Middle-class families frequently collapse under the strain of a health care system that treats physical wounds, but often inflicts fiscal ones.” (Parker-Pope)
People seem to go bankrupt when a family is ill. Health care should be an easy access to everyone. “It also expands Medicaid to all poor people — except illegal immigrants — and gives subsidies to low- and low-middle-income people to buy insurance” (Clemmitt). Maybe overlooking the facts of what health care could do to the economy. What about public health?
The last explanation to the subject is public health. Would the right to health care improve public health? According to Howard K. Koh, (assistant secretary of health for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services) says that people can expect to overall public health to improve if we provide quality, affordable health care coverage for all Americans. “Health insurance reform will link people to health care services and assure access to quality health care” (Cohen). The right to health care would create a massive cleaning sanitation throughout public areas, less people that are ill, less bacteria and illnesses spread to others.
In conclusion, it is informed that there are downsides of people having the right to health care, but there are also a grand amount of reasons why people should have the right to health care. One reason being that people (as individuals) would not be bankrupt by medical expenses, but it also can put the U.S in debt, public sanitation would increase and could also save many lives. No one should have to worry about problems from going to the hospital; many people already suffer enough trying to manage ever situation the government makes them pay for.