Health care in the united states is a very important topic, one that is in headlines all the time. Everyone talks about the high cost, the lack of accessibility and poor quality. Trying to figure out how to draft health care coverage is a very difficult task. I think the easiest answer would be to say to research and figure out what works for other countries and implement them in our country. Health care in the United States is not at the top of the best in the world, it is actually very low although we are the country that spends the most money on health care.
For example, countries like France and Canada have free health care, they don’t pay at all for any visits or having health coverage, they just go to get care without having to worry about paying. This is an idea that has been trying to make its way into the United States but it never makes it through because some people disagree that it would benefit them or have other issues with it.
I think it is extremely difficult to say who can and cannot be covered, I would say that for me everyone would be covered but that’s a very hard point to reach, so I would have to say the ones that are in need of care the most. I also think that things that I would include in this coverage are those that are either life and death, or things that could lead to that. Also cover medicine, surgeries, care or whatever else that affects a person in their daily lives. The only thing I wouldn’t cover would be things that aren’t actually needed but are being wanted by the patient because they aren’t as necessary. Funding it is another difficult thing to figure out, but I would have to say through taxes like other countries do, if it greatly would benefit us, I think this way would be the best. In a documentary I saw called Sicko, they interviewed a lady about how high taxes affected her in her daily life, she said it didn’t at all, she didn’t have to worry about her health and health care cost, her money was going to the house she lived in, and groceries and didn’t really struggle in her everyday life because of taxes but rather was a relief to not worry about her care.
I think obviously the way that we have been going on about health care in the U.S. is not the best way, we need to change the way it is set up to make sure everyone is being care of properly.
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I like that you provided France and Canada’s health coverage compared to the U.S. I completely agree with all that you said, the U.S. charges us so much for health coverage yet we have the worst health coverage. How does even make sense? Additionally you provided an interview with a woman on Sicko and her feelings towards higher taxes for better health coverage and it makes sense. She feels more at ease because she knows her care is covered. We tend to stress about health coverage because we can’t afford yet we pay a bunch not only on care but also in taxes. It would make a small difference on our income because we would be taxed more but we would have free healthcare, bringing down our worries about being covered. I remember when I was younger and learned that France provided free health care I wanted to move there!
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I also have seen the documentary Sicko and really enjoyed it! It did really anger me that other countries are doing so much more to help their citizens than the US is. The US should create a better healthcare plan that will benefit everyone. There will be people who will be upset at the beginning, but I think after a while they will realize what the goals and benefits are and will support it, even be less upset about being taxed more. In the documentary there was that part where Michael Moore took sick 9/11 respondents out of the country to receive care that they could not afford in the states. It is sickening that that had to be done, there is no valid excuse as to why the US is not doing better.
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Hello,
I like how you incorporated the different healthcare options in different countries compared to the United States. It puts a lot of thoughts in perspective. I do agree with he woman on sicko with what she said about taxes and healthcare. I would rather know y tax dollars are going to something beneficial and contributing to the quality of life for me and others. I also agree that we as the US needs more efficient way to provide good quality healthcare to every citizen that wanted it.
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