Exemplification Essay: Hands Off My Health Care System

Hands Off My Health Care

In the early 1920’s American hospitals began offering their services to people on a prepaid plan. This then sparked the emergence of organizations, like Blue Cross, to start reforming and developing this system into what we know now as modern day health insurance. Over 80% of people in 2015 now have some form of health care that the individual pays for. Now that health insurance is mandatory a growing number of people insist that their government should subsidize this so there is no cost to the individual, because they see it as a right. You can not have a single payer system because of the financial and medical employment issues it would inevitably result in.

Yet some who stand by the right to health care declare it will lower the overall cost of health insurance. With healthcare being a right they assume that all medical insurance will be reduced without affecting anything else. This absurd assumption is shown false from vigorous studies by Paul R. Gregory shows that if America finances a universal right to health care their payroll taxes will more than double. If we look at other countries that have a universal right to health care these studies prove true. Europe has a implemented universal health care system and their payroll taxes average 37%, this

But the quality of health care in the single payer system described by David Gratzer and Arduino Verdecchia is definitely worse. Verdecchia’s studies show that all cancer patients in the United States have a 64.6% survival rate under the current healthcare system they have. On the other hand, Europe on a single payer system has a cancer patient survival rate of 51.6%. Gratzer also furthers these statistics by showing that the United States also has better cancer patient survivor statistics than Canada because of the United State’s higher cancer screening