Although the topic of health care has created much debate and controversy, no solution has been created to end everyone's conflicts. Many complain of Obama's health care policy because they claim the federal government will take over health care, it may be too expensive to fund universal health care, or universal health care will take away from jobs of the insurance companies. So many people probably wonder "how can this be solved?" We may not have a perfect plan to solve everything, but there are ideas that may help.
Having the government take over health care would upset many people for various reasons. For one, workers of insurance companies would lose their jobs, which worsens the issue of unemployment. Next, this would give more power to the government, allowing them to control the procedures, tests, and prescriptions doctors give to their patients. Patients may worry about being neglected in the universal health care plan because they may have to wait to be seen if doctors see other patients with worse conditions, even if they should have been seen first. Having the government control all health care may also be troublesome because they would probably raise taxes to fund health services. If the bill for universal health care is actually passed, I think the government should have it run by the people, but they may fund it with taxes. These taxes should mainly be from the upper (rich) class and our country should spend less on the military. This way, the government would be able to spend that money on health care, and possibly also fund for the retired--social security. If this is successful, state/federal governments also shouldn't but school and education budgets (we, as students, are affected by this!).
As the conflict of health care continues, citizens must wait patiently for a solution. In creating a satisfying plan, the government must consider many factors: would they be able to fund it? How much money do people earn--would they be able to afford it? Would it be more beneficial or be harmful to the people of our country? We can only hope for the best outcome and solution to this major issue.
Christina I agree that health care should be run by the people. If the government had control over it who knows how they would use the money going to them. I also believe that we could cut military funding down to fund our health care to decrease the price. A lot of people can not afford it and hopefully with military funding cut down and more funding to health care we can get more people to afford it. Hopefully our health care system can be as successful as other nations health care systems one day and that we can all be insured.
ReplyDeleteI agree that if the government took over, it would not be good. People would be upset if taxes were raised and it would decrease the amount of time given to each patient because each doctor would have so many more patients. I also agree that it should be run by the people. In my opinion, having us run health care programs would be more beneficial to everyone than if the government did.
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