A major issue in the 2008 presidential election will be Universal Health Care. Health Care is something that affects us all; at one point or another every person will need to go to the doctor. That is why the concept of not having to pay for a trip to the doctor sounds so appealing. The problem with this is while your care is being paid for; you are paying for everyone else’s through taxes. This includes drug addicts, bums, and people who are in this country illegally.
In the countries that have already made Health Care universal, doctor appointments are set up by ranking the person’s ailment. A person with a pencil stabbed into their spleen will be treated before the person with a broken leg; one is simply more life threatening than the other. But as a result the person with the broken bone may wait weeks just to have it set. The rule applies to people with life threatening diseases. A person with cancer is not going to drop dead if they do not get treatment that day. So again, they have to wait months, even years for treatment. The United States does not have Universal Health Care and has the highest survival rate for cancer in the world.
Everyone should bare the cost of his own Health Care. And while the concept of employer based insurance should be revisited, we should not switch to Universal Health Care.
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