The debate of free healthcare in the United States is an ongoing discussion that holds many pros and cons. Many people believe that free healthcare is the key to one of the many problems we have: Medical expenses. As a country that's always triving to be better healthcare is constantly mentioned as something we can improve on. With many European countries providing free healthcare for their citizens, why doesn't America?
A main reason for why the United States doesn't have free healthcare is because the resources and money needed to make it "free" is an astronomical amount. For example, in Canada, a lot taxes are much higher than in the U.S. This increase in taxes drastically helps provide for the so called "free" healthcare. Calling the healthcare free is kind of a sneaky lie. This is because the increase of taxes is comparable to the rates we pay in America.
There are many pros to free healthcare. For example, it is easily accessible and even people who are financially struggling can access it, this would be a major benefit to any country, considering the unemployed or homeless populations. Another pro is that free healthcare promotes visits to the hospital and routine checkups. This can then lead to early detection and prevention of potential disease and early treatment. However, there are many cons to free healthcare. For example, as I mentioned before the skyrocketing of taxes doesn't usually go well for people and is a major drawback to the free healthcare system. Another con is that resources could be majorly impacted. With everybody having an equall access to these resources, there could be an overconsumption of certain drugs which could lead to depletion of resources very quickly.
I feel that many Americans think that free healthcare is the greatest thing in the world, however I think if we were to institute this system, then reality would set in and people would be very negative towards the fact of higher taxes. This would then lead to people being opposed to the free healthcare system. So in conclusion, I think that either way if we have a free healthcare system or not, some people are going to be upset, whether it's from paying increased taxes, or not having a free system for their health insurance.
What do you think about America establishing a free healthcare system?
Would you be willing to pay the extra taxes if it meant free healthcare?
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I completely agree and I can understand where you're coming from when you are talking about how you might not want to pay for it in the situation that you were in. that makes total sense and that could relate for some people. So if you are in a bad situation like that then I understand why you would not want to raise taxes.
I would pay the extra taxes because it would be worth it because you could save a lot of money in the long run. And it would help people while still making people work.
I disagree with the statement because the taxes would be raised significantly higher and it would not be cheaper because of that significant raise. I don't think it would be helpful to you if there was free health care just because of the crazy raise it would be. Therefore I disagree with your statement about it being cheaper.
I think we should keep helathcare as the way it is because if not people would take advantage of that and just not work and only pay their housing and other stuff they need.
I personally think that america should keep healthcare just the way they have it because from my perspective there is nothing wrong with it in america at the moment. Also I have never heard someone who complains about healthcare but that is just what I think.
I agree with you I think they shoud keep it the same. It will aslo keep the econmy good
I would not be willing to pay extra taxes. Even though im not at the age where i pay any taxes, when i get older this would be one thing i would not be looking foward to do. It would cause so many problems for many people. I agree with you when you said that some people are going to be upset either way. It would not make everyone happy no matter what we do. This is one of those topics where everyone has very diverse opinions on it.
I think no. I feel like our taxes in teh US are already very high and they dont need to be higher. If we had free health care it would be very bad in my opinion. I think that there are many cons to this and only little pros. One big pro of this is that it would help people who cant afford health care and it would also help the homeless. They would be able to get the help they need, and it would be a big benitfit to them. But i think it would just be bad overall for everyone else.
I agree with the face that you said there is many cons and only a few pros. I think it would be helpful for homeless people and people who cant afford healthcare to get the chance at a healthy life. Overall though free healthcare would make problems in society arise.
I am also against the idea of free healthcare in the United States because it takes away from personal responsibility and a limited government. The costs that would go into making a free healthcare system would be extremely high, which would result in higher taxes for everyone. I think we should focus more on making healthcare more affordable through competition in private healthcare businesses. Lastly, letting the government control health care would take away from choices Americans have when they can select the best treatment for themselves.
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