Persuasive Essay On Health Care

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Do you enjoy paying medical bills? Healthcare accounts for about 1/6 of the entire economy, more than any other industry. Researchers find that the spending on health care totals about $2.5 trillion which is about 17.5% of America’s gross domestic product: a measure of the value of all goods and services produced in the United States (New Health Insurance). It covers money paid to health care providers such as hospitals, outpatient centers, veterans’ affairs and other clinics, doctor and dentist practices, physical therapists, nursing homes, home health services and on-site care at places such as schools and work sites. Also included are retail sales of prescription and nonprescription drugs, premiums paid to health insurers, and revenues of makers of medical devices, surgical equipment and durable medical equipment such as eyeglasses, hearing aids and wheelchairs. It also counts out-of-pocket payments by consumers for health insurance premiums, deductibles and co-payments, along with costs not covered by insurance. Healthcare is one of the biggest economic problems Americans are facing. Medical care and health insurance expenses are impacting the lives of many Americans today. The focus problem, which once was uninsured Americans inability to pay for their medical care expenses are no longer a problem that is affecting only those who are uninsured, but is also steadily becoming a problem for those with health insurance. The problems of health care are affecting many American people: the uninsured/underinsured and insured, the unemployed and working, children and retirees, single individuals and families, men, women and small businesses. The list goes on. These problems can be solved in a dramatic reform to socialized healthcare. ...

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...t those people will benefit from socialized healthcare but just because they lack the motivation to sustain employment does not mean they do not deserve medical care. You also have to consider the people that are unable to work. They deserve medical attention of the same sort as anyone else who is employed.
Although some people are against socialized healthcare because of their misguided conception of the American dream, need to feel superior to others, and belief that it creates government dependency, the need and benefit of this reform outweighs those claims. We can still be America with a different healthcare system. The want to feel superior to another is what causes inequalities to our country and its policies. Government decency is not something new but it won’t be encouraged by socialized health care and is not an original ideal of someone who is unemployed.

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