Pros And Cons Of Free Healthcare

Health care is the preservation and improvement of physical and mental health through services that diagnose, treat, and prevent illness and injury. In the United States, almost all health care facilities are owned by the private sector. Private industries are not government owned and therefore can charge whatever price they want for their product, therefore it is not surprising that the number one cause of bankruptcy in America is medical reasons. The government has enacted some laws to help provide healthcare to those who cannot afford insurance, but there is a lot of controversy surrounding how to pay for the “free” healthcare the government provides. I believe that everyone in the United States should have access to health care regardless of his or her legal …show more content…
In Article One, Section 8 of the constitution it states that we are “to promote general welfare.” Health care, just like voting, is not a privilege, but an inalienable right. President Barack Obama said “I think it [health care] should be a right for every American. In a country as wealthy as ours, for us to have people who are going bankrupt because they can't pay their medical bills -- for my mother to die of cancer at the age of 53 and have to spend the last months of her life in the hospital room arguing with insurance companies because they're saying they don't have to pay her treatment, there's something fundamentally wrong about that." Although, I realize that it may require higher taxes, there are ways to avoid this that people choose to ignore. For example, the Unites States government wastes 1 trillion dollars a year, money that could be redirected into health care. Also, instead of the people who cannot afford the taxes being imposed on them, the government needs to tax the richest 1%. It is also essential that the government prevent corporate tax