Universal Healthcare

UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE

When we first started talking about this topic, I thought I would be on the liberal side, completely for it. But, as we have been talking more and more about it in class, and as I’ve been reading some articles online, my opinion has changed. Not too drastically, but it has changed.

I still think it would be great. I still think that everybody deserves to have good healthcare, because it’s a human condition, and I consider it a human right. I think that how much money you have shouldn’t decide if you deserve good healthcare, and sometimes if you deserve to keep on living.

On the other hand, though, it’s not very realistic. Taxes would be too high, and it wouldn’t be that fair to some people. Doctors, for example, would get payed a lot less than they do now, after having studied for over 8 years in college. But, then again, you can’t have everyone happy.

If there was a chance of doing it, I would prefer to have both available. Raise taxes a little bit, to get better public healthcare for anyone who needs it, but still having private healthcare for the people who can afford it and want it. That’s the way it is in Chile, and it seems to work pretty well. Yes, private healthcare is way better than the public one, but it should be the people the ones who choose whether to have the good and expensive one, or the cheaper but worse one.

As you can see, I’m not 100% pro or against the idea. And, the more that I think about it, the less sure about what I think I am.

I just think it’s very unfair that doctors can charge how much they want on everything. The same test can be twice it’s price, depending on the doctor. So, if you have the money to do that, to pay for all of that, great. But what happens with the people who can’t? “Get a job” is not always the solution. A person I know, who DOES have a job, but didn’t have enough money for insurance, applied to Medicare, and didn’t get it. She needs it.

All in all, I think there should be a...