A Just Society Should Not Leave Anyone Unable to Get Treatment

If the word 'universal' means that everyone has access to medical care, it seems indisputable that a just society should not leave anyone unable to get the treatment they need. The argument rather is how the care is provided, and how it is paid for.  The current system is broken, with 47 million people depending primarily on emergency rooms or out-of-pocket expenditure for all their care. U.S. companies are watching their medical insurance expenses climb much faster than inflation, leading to decreased competitiveness in a world market crowded with companies from countries that provide healthcare for all their workers.  Looking back on the prosperity of the 1990s in America, a major contributing factor was the restraint in the growth of health care costs that resulted from the expansion of health maintenance organization care at that time.  From a moral standpoint, as someone who has studied Catholic and medical ethics, I feel there is an imperative to change what we are doing now.


tklaver's picture

There has not yet been anyone , I know who was denied care , Because They did not have insuance , I find this to be a flase statement, No one living in the united states has ever been denied , Care unless they choose too. It would seem that , this false information , Laeds people to think our Medical Profession Has no Heart and need s GOVERNMENT to step in and play RESCUE. Many Doctors , Good Doctors are LEAVING because of the Obama Health Care Legisulation , and they do not want to work for the GOVERNMENT, to tell them What to , do When to do, and how to do, it .They Do The Best," For the people," .............., Ask Canadaians what they think about their Universal Health Care? It is deplorable. What about Russia where you are told you will be a Doctor , Read the Hypocratical Oath. Our health care system is only going to go downhill from here. When ever GovernMent steps into something Things get Worse not Better,

moby clarke's picture

You have no solution? Why? If you are the expert, you should have a solution? Further, why do those who want universal insurance, because calling it care is intellectually dishonest, analyse those who are not insured. Could some of them simply not want to spend, in their view, money that would be wasted? How many of your guesstimated 47 mil would fall in to that category? I never seem to get an answer to these questions.

jxzac's picture

The solution is very simple. You train all students who are willing and wanting to learn the medical field, via tax dollars. YOu make the medical schools cheaper, via modern technology, and tax dollar, with sheer steep oversite on spending. Modernize it, it's cheaper then the myths and fable being held by dominate legacy property holders.

Then you socialize the facilities on a local and state level. The city's people the counties people, the states people, should provide the facilities for the expensive machines. The operators should be trained. paid fair but not exhorbadant prices. Modern medicine is being transformed into a witch doctor shaman practice. Modern medicine owes nearly all it's work to Google.

So i will say it again. Train doctors by state funding. build new schools. train new students. new medical workforce. there is no alternative, Anyone in else who opposes this should be removed from office. They must be removed. This is the only course.

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