Healthcare For Everyone
Healthcare access in the U.S. has been a huge problem for those who can’t afford it. Allowing those who cannot afford their healthcare access to it would prevent many deaths. For example, the U.S. has the lowest life expectancy at birth, the highest death rates for avoidable or treatable conditions, the highest maternal and infant mortality, and the highest suicide rates. The price of healthcare has grown a large amount since the COVID-19 Pandemic. Prices are so high that people feel that they shouldn’t even buy it because they might not get the medical attention they need. Many believe that the price of healthcare should be lowered to allow others to be able to access it when they need it.
My first reason for supporting more affordable healthcare is that more people deserve access to healthcare because everyone comes from different things and we never know what someone might have and what they might need treatment but with the price of healthcare this isn’t possible. According to the Health Administration at the University of Southern California, 31.6 million people of all ages were uninsured in 2020 and 3.7 million were uninsured children. These are children who could be in danger and be at risk if they get sick they aren’t going to be able to get the treatment that they need. This shows why healthcare should be cheaper so our future can be safe, not get sick, and be able to have access to professional treatment and not just store-bought medicine.
Another reason for my position on affordable healthcare is to ensure good funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program, retain Medicaid expansion, and implement expansion in more states. Doing so will allow our adults and children right now to stay safe and live their lives thoroughly when they get older but without allowing them healthcare this is putting them at risk of getting hurt or catching something that needs medical attention. This is why healthcare should be more affordable because it gives everyone the ability to keep themselves and their children safe.
Another perspective may argue that healthcare being cheaper could ruin the system, but I disagree because although it could flood hospitals with people it would also make room for a safer world to live in. By making the world safer it can eliminate things like people dying from diseases that can be cured. This allows more people to live and do what they want to do. There has also been a shortage of physicians. They aren’t getting patients because their patients can’t afford to keep having to pay a lot of money just to go for like a checkup or something. So these doctors and physicians can’t make money if they don’t get any patients. This shows how affordable healthcare does not only affect the patients but also the doctors because it doesn’t allow them to make income and it doesn’t allow those to have healthcare who need it.
The price of healthcare should either be lowered or everyone should have full access to some type of healthcare. This benefits the children of our future and the adults who also have their future ahead of them. But expensive healthcare affects everyone the doctors and the would be patients because they can’t get help when they need. Also the doctors don’t make their correct salary. As human beings we all need to make things right for everyone around the world and make it a safer place.
Sources
“How to Improve Access to Health Care: Issues & Potential Solutions.” USC EMHA Online, 17 Nov. 2023, healthadministrationdegree.usc.edu/blog/how-to-improve-access-to-health-care.
READ, 3 MIN. “5 Ways to Improve Access to Health Care.” American Medical Association, 15 Mar. 2020, www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/patient-support-advocacy/5-ways-improve-access-health-care.
McGough, Matthew, et al. “How Has U.S. Spending on Healthcare Changed over Time?” Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker, 15 Dec. 2023, www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/u-s-spending-healthcare-changed-time/#Average%20annual%20growth%20rate%20of%20GDP%20per%20capita%20and%20total%20national%20health%20spending%20per%20capita,%201970-2022.
