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 feel like America should not have free health care. Taxs are already high enough in this day of society, so rasing them higher would just be awful. Even tho I don't really pay for my own helath care or really any taxs. If health care were to become free I would not wanna pay it. I can see all the benfits tho for free health care. Then homeless and other people who are not finicail stable will be able to get the medical care they need. But some people will abuse this power, they may act like they are in pain but they are just using this to get medicine that they are addicted to. So I can see both sides of this and I really think that it should not be free.
I agree with you, the "free" healthcare would not really be free. They would have to raise taxes or else the government would go into even more debt than we have now. The United States has enough debt and doesn't need any more .
I also think it is a very good point that you said some people would abuse this and get drugs that they are addicted to. Some people are not very smart these days and would do anything for what they are addicted to. This is just another reason why I agree with not free healthcare.
I definitely agree with this because there are a lot of people that already complain about taxes and adding more wouldnt help the scenario. There are some benefits to free healthcare but I think you are right on saying not free healthcare is better.
I agree with you because people already have a problem with paying taxes, and if they were raised it could even more anger. There is benefits of free healthcare like you said. I also like that you provided your opinion on people absusing this power. Nowadays people do unbelivable things and having the chance to get medications might cause problems.
I agree with your opinion. This is not a good idea becuase taxes would get very very high. I agree with the part where you stated that some people would use it in non-benefitial ways, and just use it to get medication that they are addicted to. You made a very good piont when you said that. i also think there are only minor pros of this.
I completely agree with you. I think that many Americans would be very upset with an increase of taxes. I also think this increase on taxes would require the increase of income for the average American, because if you are required to pay more taxes, then you will have to have an increase on income to keep the economy in line.
I disagree, a new tax for health care going up wouldn't make a massive diffrence as the tax would not be a life or death chnaging diffrence sure it could be a struggle but even then you could do something on the side for money (assuming you have a part-time job because any full time should easily be able to cover the tax)
I disagree with your point that a small tax increase wouldn't make a big difference. Many people, especially those in low-income places already struggle with expenses, and a higher tax would only make it harder for them financially. Not everyone has a full-time job or has enough money in their wages to not notice the tax. I think we should make some changes to healthcare to lower the cost and make it more efficient, which would give people better access without making the working class pay more.
I disagree with this, just because you can just pick up a part time job doesn't mean people are willing to do it. For example, if I was an employee at some large company getting made minimum wage, and I think that I could start a business that would perform better than this major corporation, I wouldn't have anytime to start up my own small business, and this would make starting a business and being an entrepreneur much more risky.
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