Bernie Sanders thinks the opposite and believes that health care shouldn’t be seen a privilege and make it more of a right. To make it more of a right, our government needs to try to make it a goal to make health care affordable. He comes up with that a national health insurance program would be beneficial for this country and that Barack Obamas plan is the reason why he got elected and his vision of how everyone should be covered and not be left out (Sanders, 2009).
Although, Senator Ron Johnson supports health care as a privilege. Sen. Ron Johnson was speaking to high schoolers and was answering to the question “is health care a right or a privilege?” He is on the side of it being a privilege and is certain that a right is only life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, and freedom. “Past that point everything
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The senator gives an example on a cancer patient getting chemo and how it is seen as a privilege for her getting it, if she can afford it. If the patient is not able to pay for health care to covers those charges, then it is all up to her own personal finances (Benen, 2017).
Personal view
Throughout this course, I learned more than I ever thought I would on health care and the organization. This was a new topic for me and I came into this class blindsided. From every piece of article I researched on health care being one of those three, it had changed my mind and educated me more about what it could possibly be. Everyone has their own opinions which helped me form one of my very own. Health care was always something I never wanted to talk about because it was frustrating and everyone had different opinions.