Salerno 14th September‚ 2014 Universal Healthcare: Why We Need It Now As citizens of the United States of America‚ we enjoy many rights‚ freedoms and free services such as public education‚ public law enforcement and public safety services. We take pride in having a developed nation‚ however a basic human right is missing from the list: free public healthcare. Since the United States is one of the wealthiest nations in the world‚ should we not expect medical care to be provided to its citizens
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have universal health care‚ but Americans are yet to conform with the rest of developed countries. In 1912‚ Norway was the first country to implement universal health care. They were the start of all the other great developed countries‚ helping their citizens by supplying universal health care. 54 years later‚ Canada joined the medical transformation. Other common names include universal health coverage‚ universal coverage‚ and universal care. The internet has defined universal health care as‚“A
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One of Canada’s biggest originalities as a country is its Universal HealthCare (HC). It has become rooted into our heritage and is what we are identified as by other nations. The reason we are so strongly passionate for our current system is because we are often comparing it to the United States for how different theirs is and the poorer results they have. What many regular citizens of Canada do not understand is that they are comparing their HC to the worst country on the common wealth fund
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first “successful” democracies and of course the American dream. Yet‚ one thing that most people seem to forget is that the United States of America‚ the most dominant force in the world‚ is also the only westernized industrial nation without a universal healthcare system. I believe that healthcare should be available for everybody regardless of socioeconomic status. Almost 50 million of all Americans lack any form of healthcare insurance. Many more are underinsured. Consequently‚ a great number
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more expensive than paying for healthcare. On the other side‚ it’s said that taxpayers would have to pay a lot of money to pay for this "free" healthcare. One of the biggest reasons people believe there should be universal healthcare is because it’s a human right. It says in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that "Everyone has the right to life‚ liberty and security of person." Now when it’s said that "everyone has the right to life..."‚ I feel that healthcare is needed to survive. Another
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Debates on America’s health care system‚ namely between politicians‚ have been going on for many years. The U.S. currently has a for-profit private health care system‚ aside from a few exceptions (e.g. Medicare and Medicaid). While some people are happy with the private system‚ there are others who would like to move to a universal health care system‚ where health care for all is publicly funded. America is the only major country without universal health care. Countries such as Japan‚ the United
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Sicko is a documentary movie that investigates health care in the United States which focus on the people who are covered by their health insurance and others who are not covered at all . The film show the difference between the United States health insurance system with the universal health care systems of Canada the United Kingdom‚ France and Cuba . There are nearly 50 million Americans without health care insurance in the United States alone and 18‚000 Americans will die simply
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World health organization states: an affordable access to quality medicines is a critical and fundamental component for proper functioning health systems (WHO‚ 2016). WHO declared that it is the government’s obligated responsibility to promote necessary health care services‚ including prescription drugs (Morgan‚ Law‚ & Martin‚ 2015). Canadian medicare is an identifiable national pride. Currently‚ Canada is the only developed country with universal health system without universal coverage of prescription
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or not Universal Health Care should be granted has been very controversial ever since the early 1800s. With Universal Health Care‚ all members of society would be given health care and it would be paid for by our general tax funds. On the other hand‚ Privatized Health Care allows only the insured members of society to receive it and the insurance is paid for by employers or individuals. Between the two‚ there are problems that arise if one is chosen over the other. Universal Health Care is recognized
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there are many people in the U.S. who are uninsured‚ and many people see universal health care as a solution. The problem is that the concept is not as simple as it sounds. There are many flaws and sacrifices that come along with the system‚ and that is what most Americans are unaware about. Universal health care is defective because of the government’s inability to pay excess costs‚ the poorer quality and tardiness of health care services‚ and the doctors’ limited access to cutting edge technology and
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