Introduction
As many of you know, universal healthcare is adopted in most countries excluding the united states. This is a crucial reason why America has a higher crude death rate than most other developed countries. Europe has a lower crude death rate in comparison due to the implementation of universal healthcare, making medicine available to all economic classes. Health care should become universal in the United States and the implementation of this would benefit middle class Americans greatly.
Hefty Costs
Harvard Professor Robert H. Shmerling, MD, writes in a recent article that “despite spending far more on healthcare than other high-income nations, the US scores poorly on many key health measures, including life expectancy, preventable hospital admissions, suicide, and maternal mortality. And for all that expense, satisfaction with the current healthcare system is relatively low in the US.” In summary of this, Shmerling says that healthcare in the United States is overpriced and it is not working out for citizens. Healthcare is a pay to win system in which the upper class benefit from better doctors, but the lower class and and jobless people will not be able to afford necessities such as medicines.
Unequal Access
Health insurance is provided by companies in which you are employed in. Imagine how much Americans who recently got layed off during our economic recession are suffering. They are unable to get health insurance from their employers and will have to pay for basic needs such as medicines, X-Rays, and dentist appointments. The U.S. also has a high tendency to deny/delay good health care access to those that can’t afford it which unavoidably leads to racial disparities. Healthcare companies also try to deny expensive treatments to customers since it will put the company at a loss of profit.
Conclusion
Some insured Americans spend more out of pocket for their healthcare than people in most other wealthy nations, and some resort to buying medicines from other countries where they are cheaper. Overall, this is a call to the U.S. government to make healthcare universal and easily accessible. I know for a fact that this would benefit the lives of many Americans.
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