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TruCoz : Your Platform for Political Sound-Off
- TruCoz
- Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
- The only rules for this blog are: 1) Keep it PG 2) Discuss, debate, and argue; but DON'T demean another blogger. If you do, you won't be posted. 3) ENJOY
6 comments:
Health care a right or a privilege?
I have to say it's both a right and a privilege...
Every american citizen has a right to heath care. Any time in everybody's life they will experience a health concern. Growing up my parents paid for and supported health care not only for themselves but for the family. Paying for it gives us the right. Now that I'm old enough and able to support myself I choose to have health care because I know that it will benefit me - paying for health care will give me a better opportunity to be seen at a higher and better quality. In my opinion..
I think health care is a right. Our constitution states all men are created equal. If we are equal then why is something as necessary as health care a privilege?
Everyday millions of people are sick or break a bone and can't afford even the simplest of health care. Then there are the people with life threatening illnesses and they can't afford the medicine necessary to stay alive. I think our nation needs universal health car for sure!
Health Care in the united states is a privilege, not a right. although there are government agencies that offer it at little to no cost it still isnt giving to everyone.
You have to meet certain requirements to able to recieve it from the government or from your employer for that matter. If it was a right to have everyone in America would have which we know isnt true.
I am one who has has the chance to see the way that the way that heath care in europe. Also i am american so i have heath care here and i enjoy it. I enjoy the being taken care of in the USA,
I noticed while living in the Czech Republic that the heath care system was not as good as ours. They are run off the universal heath care system. I feel that the quality and effectiveness was not as good as it is here in the USA. The doctors seemed not to be as motivated to work on their patience. Thats just my take on it.
I love this debate. I think it should be a right. There was such a good point made in class Wednesday night, that a 911 call for a fire or a robbery (or even a domestic abuse situation for that matter) is not billed to you. However, you call because your child is unconscious from nearly drowning and you're billed for everything down to the gas for the ambulance ride.
My boyfriend was walking home from trax one day last year and had a small seizure and collapsed in a parking lot. Of course someone called 911 and the next thing he knew, he was in the emergency room. In a matter of days he received a bill for over three-thousand dollars. To this day, he feels that it's unfair that he should have to pay for services he never requested. He didn't call the ambulance. Turns out he was simply exhausted and dehydrated, but no one could argue that the person who called 911 did the right thing.
So what's the answer? Should we move to public healthcare? People argue that they have it figured out for themselves and shouldn't have to pay more taxes for someone else's healthcare... people will abuse it, etc. I say okay, sure - then let's do away with taxes all together and and you can pay for your own policing and your own firemen and everything else taxes pay for as well. People who can not afford healthcare are still getting it in emergency situations and when they are unable to pay for it, it raises the cost for the rest of us anyway.
I understand that change is difficult and many sacrifices will definitley have to be made, but isn't that the what we discussed the first night of class? Things could have gone in a different direction. Our country is what it is today because many changes and sacrifices have been made over the last two-hundred plus years.
Health Care is a privilege. I think all to often we have the idea/mindset that something is owed to us or that we deserve something that we really don't. That being said...I do think there are serious problems with our health care system but I don't think that universal health care will solve it.
As to the comments about being billed for calling 911 but not for calling the fire dept or police dept...we do pay for those in the form of taxes. "There is no such thing as free lunch." Or in other words...everything has a price/cost associated with it.
Speeking of things not being "Fair"...why is it "fair" that if I do the responsible thing and get a job with benefits to support not only the financial needs but also the medical needs of my family that I be penalized in the form of taxes to pay for somebody elses financial/medical needs. Who is that "fair" for?
I know there are those that have major health issues and that is why I say the system needs to reformed...but again, good solid research on "universal healthcare" will show that it will not solve the problem.
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