In 2007 a consensus came out stating that there was a need for a change in the way the United States funds our national healthcare systems. Two major sides came out to suggest ways to reform. One is the comprehensive side. This group is out to focus on universal coverage. While the other side, the incremental wants to focus on improving the current way healthcare is being administered. Universalists argue that decades of running health programs such as Medicare and Medicaid have fueled the national healthcare debt. It created an enormous bureaucracy while providing nothing but more dangers to the uninsured citizens. Some reforms that are thought of is providing citizens with tax credits or money that enables citizens to purchase health insurance. Other reforms would be that the government funds basic healthcare plans and people can purchase add-ons as they gain policy. Incrementalists on the other hand oppose and say the way our healtcare is set up, there are too many employees that would lose their jobs as an account for universal healthcare. They say that instead the government could set up Health Savings Accounts and tax deductions for people who buy their own health insurance.
I would have to sway to the side of incremental healthcare supporters. To me the healthcare scene is rather vague. Yes people need healthcare and it is a very important thing to have in desperate time, but it should be a choice people can make themselves. The ratio of people who need healthcare must be a lot compared to people who do not need healthcare, but if you look at the close details then you will see that the actual overrall percentage of what people are treated for is feasible right out of people's pockets. If not, then people need to ask themselves if they really need the drug or treatment, or if they are not just using and abusing because it is there. That is what I figure, I get free chiropractic under my insurance. I know the feeling of taking each opportunity that comes to me. When you think about universal healthcare, it is kind of like controlling part of our free nation. The government is stepping in and taking over funds and jobs that private insurance agencies fill. These people get left out of a job because the government thought it would be less cost effective to control the health field themselves. Though this could make poverty rates increase drastically.Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee supports incremental healthcare. He says that the government should focus more on more opportunities for small businesses to gain insurance and people with pre-illness people the right to not be denied healthcare. I agree with him. These businesses and people are just a like everyone else. They deserve to have the same rights as all other Americans can. Healthcare should be an optional and free choice for us sovereign people.
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