The quality of the medical services will deteriorate as queues extends leaving the better off persons to look for services else where outside U. S. The plan will destroy privacy as someone else problems will be mine and vice versa, this mean everybody will be directly be affected financially by overconsumption of alcohol or change in eating habits. The system also destroys one’s liberty where the procurements for the medicines will be from the government friendly large companies and thus ignoring the upcoming small companies encouraging monopoly.
The current system leaves majority of people uninsured or under insured and there fore a need arises to have a system with everybody’s health needs taken into consideration. The record keeping for diseases occurrences and prevalence will be uniform, a case that will make treatment easier and coordinated between different doctors. The method where both the business and the individual taxpayer are the source of funds for the scheme should be adopted as such large sums of money can only be efficiently be raised from tax.
This will mean that justice is done to everybody since everybody is liable to payment of tax. Another reason is that the free and universal health care scheme will be knitted for the benefit of the American citizen no matter the economic strength; by so doing the health security to all the citizens will be guaranteed. Thirdly when people are in good health their productivity increases counting towards improved output in their places of work. Thus businesses being the overall beneficiary should feel obliged towards this workers health welfare. Conclusion
Recently Americans have become more and more insecure economic wise and health wise due to increasing cost of living principally brought about by soaring health costs (Malhotra, 2008). Jacob . S. Hacker points out that the provision of services such as insurance and a host of other services have shifted their abode and perched on the shoulders of the American worker right from the employer and the government. The American health writer describes it as the time for a vision where the health care risk must end by evaluating a service that will provide the much needed health security.
With over 46 million people uninsured and other millions under insured such a single payer health care package would come at appropriate time. With the cost of health increment being twice the economic growth rate the common worker will breathe a sigh of relief once such a program has been implemented. When the health care system is less fragmented cost on administration will be cut and the money put on other important health areas. Universal health services provided the companies will no longer impose their health expense on the employees similarly; the health care for the retirees will be met.
Since the burden of meeting the workers health care will be lifted from the companies other overseas companies will be encouraged to come and invest in America increasing employment opportunities while earning the government revenue inform of tax. The government will as a result take up the initiative to encourage its citizens to adopt better health approaches saving on health costs while creating a better, healthier nation. Times to act on the health issue is now, by creating a universal health care a fair, inclusive way of pledging health security to all citizens in the land.
What America is waiting for is the government action first through legislation then regulation and taxation.
References
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