What Are The Pros And Cons Of Universal Healthcare

The United States health care is at an all time high and is continuously rising. People believe there is a solution to this issue and suggest the use of a universal health care system instead. This universal health care system would provide quality medical services to all citizens of the United States. They would receive the help they need regardless of the fact of whether or not that citizen would be able to afford that medical service. Although this sounds like a blessing to all, some people disagree with this idea and believe health care should stay as is. As discussed earlier universal health care benefits all citizens rather than a portion of them. This eliminates the cost of dealing with these private health insurers and results in doctors only having to deal with one government agency. This is basically forcing these doctors and other health care providers to give the same standard of service at a low and reasonable cost. Many citizens of the United States can not afford these skyrocketed prices for basic health care needs. In a website I found titled “Universal Health Care in Different Countries,

This is the controversy that some have with this specific type of health care. This angers people because many Americans could be adverse to their taxed earnings paying for the health care of someone who doesn't work at all. Along with this issue there is also something called competition. In an article titled “The Pros and Cons of Universal Health Care in the United States” it argues that “Competition in the medical community has done much to help support the American economy over the past couple of decades.” Since universal health care is funded by the government this would cause potential for these new medical breakthroughs to be held back resulting in companies to leave the industry and no profit being