Arguments Against Universal Healthcare

Universal Healthcare: Justice For All Julie of Sparta, Michigan, was conflicted when she was unable to afford the insurance offered by her employer. Julie was presented with county insurance, for which she was grateful. Her doctor recommended she see a gastroenterologist as he suspected an illness, but no specialists in the area would accept her insurance. “Flirting with colon cancer” without any diagnostics or treatment, Julie is forced to put her health at risk. It's heartbreaking that such stories exist, but we must face the reality that many people do not have access to healthcare. Without access to healthcare, individuals may be forced to neglect their health or delay treatment, which can lead to serious health complications and even death. …show more content…
This can be divided into two parts, private or employer-based coverage (government-based for public sector employees or private). This system is outdated and, unless modified, won't keep up with the influx of uninsured Americans. While many are skeptical and even in refusal to pay additional taxes to help cover those in need, a tax increase is a small price to pay for the countless lives that can be saved each year, “around 68,000 lives a year” all while “reducing U.S. health care spending by around 13%.” Let alone the benefits we all can get from keeping our people healthy. In 2010, the rate of Americans without insurance reached 50 million (NHS). This number is unimaginable as it includes men, women, and children, unable to receive necessary medical treatment. Following this opinion, in 2008, Barack Obama declared healthcare to “be a right for every American” further insisting on the necessary shift healthcare must take to go from being a privilege reserved only for those with the means to afford it, to being a right, available to all. Successful implementation of an accessible healthcare system can alleviate much more than just providing medical …show more content…
For far too long, medicine has become a business. The field of medicine should be for the people, providing aid is the whole idea. Even the infamous Hippocratic Oath states that “if he is in need of money to give him a share of mine.” Selflessness is baked into it so why is it that medicine has become a method of gain for the providers, for the government, and not the people? The field of healthcare is known to be a rewarding, and respected profession in which you get to help those in need, however, “Modern medicine has morphed from a healing profession into a business where the primacy of profit takes precedence over greater human needs.” (PNHP) It is absurd and concerning that those trusted with taking care of human life have altered their profession for their own personal gain. Today’s healthcare workers must learn to see more than money, more than a business, and instead see the light, the difference, and the impact they can make. All in all, when dealing with an issue as vital as the condition of the US population, we must make a change by lowering costs, preventing disease, and rebuilding our crumbling healthcare

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