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Argumentative Essay On Health Care

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HealthCare hasn't always been available to citizens of the United States. During Theodore Roosevelt's presidency the thought of healthcare in the United States was suggested. The campaign for health insurance soon began with the American Association of Labor Legislation (AALL), in 1906. In the year 1915 the AALL decided to draft a model bill. The bill limited coverage to the working class and all others that earned less than $12,000 a year. In the 1920s doctors and hospitals improved on their knowledge of disease and infection more than previous years, allowing them to be more helpful. As a result they raised their price and it was often more than the average person could pay. With the coming of the Great Depression an administrator of Baylor …show more content…

On February 19th, 2016 Presidential candidate Donald Trump was asked questions about his opinions on today’s healthcare status. According to Alan Rappeport, reporter for the New York Times "unlike most Republicans he did not call for removing the individual mandate that requires Americans to have health insurance. Asked how people with pre-existing medical conditions would purchase insurance if the health law and the mandate were eliminated, Mr. Trump said, “I like the mandate. So here’s where I’m a little bit different,” he continued. “I don’t want people dying on the streets.”" Trump continued with more comments about healthcare, shocking conservatives. He is currently in triage mode and claims it was all a misunderstanding. On February 2nd, 2016, The House of Representatives failed to repeal Obamacare. "Tuesday's near party-line vote to override Mr. Obama's January veto of legislation gutting much of the law was 241-186, but that fell short of the two-thirds majority needed to reverse a veto. House Speaker Paul Ryan said the effort to force enactment of the bill, which would have also ended federal payments to Planned Parenthood, would send an important signal... Ryan said the GOP will offer its own proposal this year for replacing the law, saying it would lower costs and "restore the doctor-patient relationship." Republicans have struggled unsuccessfully for years to coalesce behind a replacement plan." According to CBS

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