Universal Health Care

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General background of Universal Health Care: Universal healthcare is the system which usually refers to a healthcare system which provides healthcare and financial protection to all citizens of a particular country. Universal health care can be determined by three critical dimensions: who is covered, what services are covered, and how much of the cost is covered. The United States spends more of its budget on healthcare than other nations and it even spends more on healthcare than housing and food per person.The Obama administration passed a health care bill that is called the Affordable Care Act ,also known as Obama Care ,that takes the U.S. part of the way towards a government-controlled system.The reason universal health care failed is …show more content…

Universal Healthcare provides health insurance which helps poor americans a lot as in a few hospitals they won’t treat the patients if they don't have health insurance. Universal health care also helps with pre existing medical conditions and they don’t step back saying you were not aware about it so we won't give you money for your treatment. Universal health care also helps every state as it works on federal database, so if you are in a different state and get sick the doctors will have your background medical history so it we don’t have to fill out paperwork every time we go to a new hospital. Health care saves many lives. As seen in a research study that says in 2009 the risk of death increased 40% because people did not have enough money to have health care. It even helps in improving public health as everyone will have health care. If everyone has health care, there are more chances of being healthy and having a long life …show more content…

First, it is too expensive for everyone to afford universal healthcare and because of that few people choose not to have an heathcare. A few research studies have said that universal healthcare is more expensive than housing and food per person in the United States. Health care has become too expensive for businesses, as they have selected amount of money to use for health care and labour so if they spend more money on health care the labours wouldn’t get any raise which will create problems. It even affects the debt and the deficit; for example in 2012 it took 21% of the budget from the federal government, which leads to increasing in country's debt. Health care is not really free anyway as americans have to pay tax for it. The people who are drug addicts could go to clinic’s so they can have drugs for their own pleasure at the expense of the taxpayer. People work hard to get paid and from that government cut off money for healthcare but people who do not work does not pay any money which is not fair for the people who work hard and do not get as much money as they

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