issues in health care?

Question

I need some good debate points on why it is good to have "health care for all, not just for some", because of ...
Also, how would it work?

Answer 1

Utilitarianism. The greatest good for the greatest number keeps society healthy (pun intended). Health care for all is a dream now because the interests of the few seem to overwhelm the interests of the many, to the dismay of all but the few.

Answer 2

Oh boy where to start with issues of health care.....with the rising cost of malpractice/disability insurance that physicians need to carry and decrease in payments made to physicians many physicians are finding it very difficult to stay in business.

Reason for increase in those insurance costs....this country is "law suit happy" they try and most of the time succeed to sue for anything and everything.

Physicians are only human and humans make mistakes and/or miss things and a lot of cases have very limited information to work with ie: people either don't know family/personal history of things or just flat out leave things out when explaining to physicians.

The smallest things that seem to mean nothing could mean everything when it comes to physicians decision making, therefore truly becoming the persons fault for mistaken diagnosing but the physician gets faulted anyways.

Another problem with health care is insurance companies, they decide what tests and treatments should be used/tried in most cases not the physicians with many more years of education than the person sitting in a call center with very minimal knowledge of human body.

As far as how community health care would work in this society I could not even begin to think of, quickly I think it would work in some ways and not others.

I could go on all day but hope this has some good points for you, good luck with your research.

Answer 3

Too many US citizens are without even basic medical coverage today. The reason is the expense of such, even if the person is working. With rising costs, employers are more and more unable to cover the full (or substantially partial) cost of coverage. I've known people who have turned down even high-partial coverage offered by their employer in favor of having those few extra dollars to have as spendable income. We are short-sighted as a nation because our working poor tend to use an emergency room at a hospital for their primary medical care, and the hospitals then have to write off the majority (if not all) of those costs. Additionally, people without even basic medical and dental coverage tend to become more ill as they age, with worse medical problems that could have been stopped or made much less a problem had they seen a physician or ARNP earlier. I know we are anti-socialist medicine here, but that has to be looked at as one possible answer. The answer we don't have now isn't helping at all.