The U.S. Single-Payer Universal Health Care Plan
So here is what I came up with in my final paper for Justice and Health Care class; what do you think?
While a number of citizens of the U.S. are able to benefit from a society where the best health care in the world is available to those who can afford it, many of her citizens do not even have the means to benefit from the simplest of medical procedures. The purpose of governments ought to be the protection of its citizens and their rights. How then, can a government protect its citizens without providing adequate health care to keep them alive and well? America has a responsibility to provide every one of its citizens an equal access to health care and continuing support of research and implementation of new technologies, which aid in improving the lives of its citizens. Simply, the United States ought adopt a similar health care plan to that of the Canadians, with emphasis on continuing the excellence in health care research and services the U.S. is famed for.
Many would argue the well-to-do in the U.S. have access to the newest technology and best medical professionals in the world to solve their health problems, but at what cost does it come the rest of society? With, what some say the best, medicine in the world available in the U.S., there were 45 million medically uninsured Americans in 20031; that was 15.6% of her population unable to receive this care. In articulating the U.S. governments responsibility to provide a single-payer system of health care to all of her citizens and to continue research and use of new technological advances in medicine which improves their lives, this paper will discuss one’s universal right to healthcare, the justice of a single-payer system, a commitment to continued research, funding, as well as oppositions to the previous arguments. It will draw from the Canadian system of health care, James Sterba, Norman Daniels and Kai Nielson.
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