I believe that healthcare is a privilege and I am firm in my opinion and always fight this way in class. I have many reasons for the fact that I believe that it is a privilege, but I am going to put all those aside in this blog to fight for the other side. It is true that your argument for any type of fight will be better if you understand the opposing side of your argument. So for this blog, I will be arguing for the side that healthcare is a right. This blog and the arguments that I make in it will only make my argument better by me understanding the opposing side.
In our books, it explains on page 28 that if we had universal healthcare we would correct the internal inequities would save the U.S. billions of dollars and improve the healthcare system. This basically means that if we had this universal healthcare, we would actually have better healthcare in turn and more Americans would have healthcare. If we had universal healthcare, a lot of new laws would also be passed to improve healthcare regulations since we would all be underneath the same healthcare unless we chose to pay for more coverage. I think this will help Americans to have better healthcare because if everyone has the same basic coverage, then people in power would be more willing to help out the poorer population.
The media sensationalizes the fact that most people that are for universal healthcare are only for it because this means that they can stay living off of other peoples' money and taxes and off the government. This is not true. The American people as a whole, do have some people that leach off of the government and taxes but there are good people in the world that just need a boost to get back on their feet. This healthcare solution would help out those people since they would be able to get the healthcare that they needed and then when they could afford, get better healthcare than just the basic. But, on the other end here, wouldn't having universal healthcare be just like what we have now? The people that can't afford health insurance now would just have the government appointed health insurance and the people that could afford health insurance now could get the basic plus a complimentary health insurance plan if they wanted.
If we had universal healthcare, everyone that works in the healthcare field would actually be an employee of the government. If we kept the same regulations that we have now for government employees, the healthcare employees would actually enjoy working for the government. The doctors and nurses working in hospitals now would be better off working for the government and they may actually get paid better if they were government employees. The last argument that I will be discussing is the fact that a lot of children in America do not have healthcare right now because their parents cannot afford it. This is very wrong, we need to be helping out these children because if we don't then who else will? Just because their parents cannot afford healthcare does not mean that a child should be turned down if they need to be seen by a doctor because they do not have health insurance.
In the prompt that we are supposed to write is about how the Cleveland Clinic is one of the best hospitals in the world yet the county that it is located in is not a very healthy county. I believe that this is because not everyone in the county keeps themselves healthy. I would like to see statistics about how healthy this county is compared to every other county in America. This also may be because this county has a lot of poorer people in its tiny boundary. There are many people in this county that live in the inter-city Cleveland area. As everyone may imagine, many of these people cannot even afford to feed their family let alone have healthcare.
This blog was very difficult to do since we have to fight for the other side of this argument. I did not feel right arguing this point since I do not believe fully in it. I am very big on arguing your point and knowing what you believe in and fighting for what you think is right. So, this assignment made me very uncomfortable and made me feel as if I was lying during this whole blog. That being said, after I did all of this, I do feel like I have a better understanding of the opposing viewpoint and in turn I have a better understanding of my side. After doing this blog, I feel more confident in my ability to argue my point since I know more about the opposing view.
I agree that this was hard to do, but it helps us to not have tunnel vision when fighting for our side and not recognizing the other. I agree with your statement about the Cleveland Clinic, and the surrounding communities around it. There are so many factors that play into this and why Cuyahoga County is "unhealthy".
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ReplyDeleteGood work. always try to incorporate gaudium as well. Thanks.
Amy, there's nothing harder than defending something you don't fully believe in. It was something I ran into while creating my blog as well. But I, like you, am still firm in my belief of healthcare privilege.
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