Universal Healthcare System

Universal Healthcare System Mary was a widowed mother of two kids. She was forty-two years old. She worked at Wal-Mart as a cashier. She earned about $1,300.00 per month. She wanted to buy health insurance for herself and her family but she could not afford to buy it because she had high-blood pressure and diabetes. If she paid for health insurance, she had to pay around $350.00 per month. She could not afford her rent and food expenses if she took $350.00 out of her pay every month. So, even when she felt dizzy, had a headache, had muscle pains and a fever, all she did was stay at home and take pain medicine. Over time, her liver and kidneys failed due to the over use of drugs. She could not go to work due to her condition. Eventually she lost her job. She became depressed and it affected her well-being. When she got to the hospital the doctor said, “We cannot cure your illnesses because your illnesses are too far developed.” She later died from a heart attack due to stress. All of this could have been prevented if she had been able to afford good medical care to begin with. Medical care is too expensive these days. The United States should go to a universal healthcare system. Fifty million Americans are unable to buy health insurance and premiums have doubled over the past decade. A Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) said that health insurance premiums will continue to rise “$ 1,700 a year to the cost of family coverage in 2013 and $ 600 for a single person. By 2019, family premium could be $ 4,000 higher and individual premium could be $1,500 higher.” Our country’s total health care bill is projected to hit $ 4.3 trillion by 2017 and account for about one-fifth of the total economy. That’s double the $2.1 trillion we spent in 2006. (Bittle, Scott and Johnson, Jean) Health care costs in the United States are hurting individuals who are uninsured.
What the average person pays for health insurance rose by 50 percent between 2003 and 2008, from an average of $7,200