HealthCare.

I had to do a speech for my econmics class.
well im soo goddamn proud of it i decided to share my opionin with everyone. :D

“Each family should pay for their own healthcare or ask for charity from private parties if they can not afford it.”
Position- Agree

Many American citizens are fooled to believe that it is the government’s responsibility to provide the citizens with healthcare. Supporters argue that everybody had the right to healthcare. Therefore they believe that it is logical for the government to set down minimum standards of care and availability to all and to determine how the cost burden should be shared. In reality each family should pay for their own healthcare or ask for charity from private parties if they can not afford it. What many people do not see is that we can not depend on the bureaucracy to determine our healthcare. Socialized Medicine or “Universal healthcare” –as many politicians like to describe it - simply will not work. Paying for our own healthcare or asking private companies for charity is the best way for anyone one who wants healthcare to receive it.
The current method to provide healthcare for American citizens how can not afford it is to raise taxes. Even if one person makes more than another, no one should pay more for the same healthcare coverage. Currently every working citizen pays into Medicare and Medicaid on their paycheck whether they qualify for it or not. Medicaid is described as a “government funded” program. First of all, it is the tax-payers of this country who are paying for this long-term care to low income people who have used up all their assets. Both programs are flawed and do not cover enough people for as much as tax payers pay into it. So-called “free healthcare for all” will cost American citizens more as a whole. It will limit our choice to the type of healthcare we want. How can we trust our government with our health, no our lives, when they proved to us time and time again that they can not even effectively provide us home? For example, “The Projects.” We can not depend on the bureaucracy to provide us with the adequate healthcare that should be specialized for the needs of each individual. How can the government determine the specific health care needs for 300 million people? Many government funded programs have billions of dollars unaccounted for such as the Bureau of Indian Affairs. How can we be so sure that Universal Healthcare would be any different?
Each citizen should hold the right to decide whether they want healthcare or not. They should have the right to go to Mexico and pay three dollars for a doctor visit and $27 for medicine as opposed to $125 and $120 for the medicine here in America. If we choose to go somewhere else for our healthcare needs, we should not be stopped. The framers of this country built it on minimal government interference with our lives, and now they want us to trust them with our healthcare? That is not in our constitution. Who knows how you are feeling better, the doctor who gives you great service and you pay for and knows you can choose to leave if their service is not to your expectations or the public worker in his nine to five cubical who is hundreds of miles away determining your health needs and whether you deserve the service or not? Right now, administrative cost in the US is at 31 percent of U.S spending. It will reach so much higher if we adopt universal healthcare.
Why would any one want to be paying for the health coverage of the man down the street who is considered to be in poverty and is not working to change and better him? These free riders are people who would not choose to pay for a certain good or service but are more than happy to get the benefits of it anyway since they are provided as a public good. Socialized medicine will only encourage that type of behavior. Socialized medicine defined by MSN Encarta, is healthcare subsidized by government; a system of national health care that provides medical care to all and is regulated and financed by the government. Publicly funded healthcare will promote higher waiting times for treatments. In England, where they have established a National Health Service, the median admission wait time for treatment is about six weeks. In Canada, there is a higher waiting time in waiting rooms when the population of the area is high. If every citizen was able to choose where and with which doctor they wanted to go to they could avoid these waiting times. Medical resources are rationed in socialized systems so that people are either denied care or have to wait for it depending on what the government thinks is more of a problem. You may have the biggest and to your opinion the worst headache, and you want care now, if you let the government take care of that, you’ll have that headache for a long time, if you choose to pay for your own healthcare you can take care of your headache when you want. And if your insurance company makes you wait, you have the right to change health insurance companies. It is the power to choose. Americans should be allowed to buy the best health insurance for themselves, based on their own circumstances, instead of being limited to only the policies available in their State.
We need to eliminate all government run healthcare. This would force private companies to accommodate the grand majority of people, in price and service. Competition will promote private health insurance companies to be rational on their policies. The government already gives yearly taxes breaks to people who give to charity, they are known as tax deductibles. Private health insurance companies and hospitals to give charity to the people who can not afford it and their actions are recognized on their yearly taxes. There are already many organizations such as St. Jude Children’s Hospital who get many donations from caring people who CHOOSE to give to the association. This cooperation of people and business provide better health care for those who can not afford because the people who donate will make sure that the money they are donating is doing what is was set out to do.
Every person has the right to healthcare, if they want it. They reserve the right to receive any type of health care they can afford. For the people who can not afford it and want it, they should ask for charity from different types of private parties. The government has no business interfering with our healthcare. We can not depend on the bureaucracy. Socialized medicine, just will not work. Private companies have been and will continue to give to charity. The founders of our country built it on a little government involvement as possible. We can not let them determine our health.