Universal Health Care Advantages

The decision towards deciding the best application and form of health care can be assessed through a spectrum that goes from one to five with two significant extremes. At one end of the spectrum under number one, health care is controlled and applied completely through the government. Such a form of healthcare most likely falls under a single payer national healthcare service, which is a form of healthcare that is financed entirely by a single entity; e.g the government. On the other end of the spectrum at number five, healthcare has no government intervention whatsoever. This form of healthcare is categorized as free market healthcare and is a form of health care wherein prices for goods and services are set freely by agreement between patients

Evidently, Universal health care does cause an increase in taxes. Politicususa.com, reports that if the U.S were to use Universal Health care there would be a predicted tax hike of at least 20 percent. However, having coverage over the entirety of the population and an increased tax burden is better than having a relatively small minority having access to medical care. Additionally, having public institutions that provide medical services may mean that someone will have to wait for weeks or months in order to see a doctor. However, this does not mean that the quality of Universal health care happens to be worse than a free market system or totally government controlled system. The United kingdom, which employs a form of Universal Health Care through a compulsory but government-subsidized public insurance plan ranks among the top twenty countries in the world in terms of quality of health care; whereas the U.S ranks at number 36 even though it is a developed nation. Overall, tax hikes and the time allotted to wait for medical treatment is far outweighed by the fact that more people have access to care and this is important as it takes into account the needs of the

Universal health care is at it’s most fundamental level economical, due to the amount of money it could save for the U.S. Additionally, it has the most compassion for society through its solutions to inequalities in wealth within the context of health protection and helping those with preexisting conditions. Although, Universal health may have disadvantages within the country 's tax system these are offset by the advantages that it provides to coverage and quality of medical management. Overall, during the past two weeks, my viewpoints have changed but not drastically. Before starting our research into insurance and health care I had a firm stance towards total government controlled healthcare primarily because of my parents talking about how the current insurance system we have has been a total scam. Additionally, I had also been disincentivized from thinking that a free market system was at all any good because I had thought that leaving control to private institutions to regulate the costs of goods and services would be horrible for those that could not afford it. However now knowing the freedoms that a government controlled system takes away, in terms of our ability to choose what we pay for as well as having taxes that