Argument Paper on Healthcare

Ninnette Amene

Com Studies 72

Professor Jo Alverez

1 September 2010

Yes to a National Health Care Plan

Healthcare, by definition, is the maintenance and improvement of physical and mental health, especially through the provision of medical services, which in turn means that a healthcare worker is someone who is paid to improve one’s physical and mental help. The United States Healthcare system has been one headed by insurance companies, everyday hospitals, and money. These everyday hospitals, which are filled with qualified healthcare workers, should by definition, help to improve the patient’s physical and mental health. However, insurance companies and, of course, money has become a definite factor in improving a patient’s physical and mental health, and from that a patients well-being becomes something of a necessity, than an obligation to these healthcare workers. Michael Moore’s movie Sicko gave one a first hand look on how the welfare of human beings in the US are now more than ever based on the money aspect of it all, the insurance one does or does not have, and how badly we need a successful national healthcare plan, like other countries have, that give every citizen free health care, no matter their socioeconomic status. I agree with Michael Moore’s claim on the want and need of a national healthcare plan in the United States, however many often disagree with this claim.

Opponents to a National healthcare plan in the US, like the American Medical Association in an article posted in The New York Times, say that “The introduction of a new public plan threatens to restrict patient choice by driving out private insurers, which currently provide coverage for nearly 70 percent of Americans.” The private insurers, however, have become very selective on the services and ways to improve their clients health because of the prices involved, which shouldn’t happen in the first place because when someone becomes unexpectantly ill, and aren’t part of the upper...