Critical Response to the Most Important Question: Should All Americans Have Health Insurance?

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Society has, throughout history, introduced several questions that we, as a people, have to answer. However, none of these answers can satisfy everyone and have some negative drawbacks. The editors of Searching for Great Ideas agree with that statement based what they said on page 30… Some current issues that can be examined are gender and sexual equality in society, the access to education, and health care. I feel that the world’s most important questions involve, in some way, health care. One such question that I feel has the uttermost importance is that our system of health insurance is linked to employment. Health insurance usually is provided by the employer, with some contribution from the employee; but more than ever, we have many people working part-time, or working through other non-traditional arrangements (like at home). Therefore, it limits many people from receiving health care insurance and proposes “do you think that all Americans should have health insurance?” I feel, like most people, that everyone should have the option to have health care insurance if they so choose. This also causes several subcategory questions to formulate from this question. As a future Dr., these will be issues that I will have to deal with on a daily basis. Even though I won’t have the authority to change some important health care legislation, I do have the power to comfort my patients through their tough times. Do we have a moral obligation to provide health care to everyone as needed or is health care a commodity that should be subject to the same marketplace influences as other commodities? I feel that everyone should receive health care; otherwise, health care will be subject to the similar issues that education falls under. For examp... ... middle of paper ... ...t solution to contain it. One solution (or theoretical models to explain it through gravity, nuclear physics, atomic physics, and more) cannot solve the problem. Even one component is left out of the equation; the computer cannot simulate the star’s explosion. One solution can’t solve a problem with democracy, agreeing with the book Searching for Great Ideas (on page 30..). The Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) I feel contains, in embryonic form, the provisions to move the nation in the right direction, but it’s going to take several steps in the legislation to come to a reasonable resolution. Works Cited Wynia, Matthew K., et al. "Physician manipulation of reimbursement rules for patients: between a rock and a hard place." Jama 283.14 (2000): 1858-1865. "ObamaCare: Pros and Cons of ObamaCare." ObamaCare: Pros and Cons of ObamaCare. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 May 2014.

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