Blog #2 Soc 490

            Looking across the world you can see a lot of differences between different countries, but one thing you will notice is that there are many countries and many people who cannot afford health care. I think well developed countries get so caught with in their own lives that people forget how hard it is for other people and how they desperately they may need the extra help and this is not always out of laziness. I think it’s easier to use the examples of people who are in underdeveloped countries just to show this is how it is for people even in developed countries. People get so concerned with the fact that people could take advantage of something they become ignorant the overwhelming number of people that universal healthcare would help. All humans have a right to healthcare.

            A big problem is that many people who do not think that healthcare is a right feel that they feel people will become lazy and will take advantage. What they fail to realize that in any system that’s set there will be a few that will take advantage you can never help that but giving people universal healthcare I think the benefit of helping so many people should out way this small percentage trying to take advantage. A lot of the people that have no healthcare are not lazy they are hardworking people who work a very large amount of hours just to support themselves but at the end of the day still just don’t have enough money to provide healthcare for themselves and their job does not provide it for them either. Things happen too people that can’t not be controlled I don’t think that just because some are paid less means they are undeserving to receive health benefits so that they may continue taking care of their family. Have this cushion to know you can count on help I don’t think would make people lazy it would just comfort them knowing if something happens to them they won’t lose all their savings trying to pay for the insanely high prices of healthcare. A global example of this that I personally dealt with in a discussion with a random person was the Ebola outbreak. I was discussing with a girl and she felt the United States even being such a Strong country should not go over and help the countries that Ebola was hurting the most because it was a waste of money and she did not want there to be a danger of the virus making its way back to the States. She told me literally,” They should deal with it themselves we shouldn’t have to danger ourselves to help them with their problem. They’ll be fine.” Is this not ignoring the basic calls of humanity? Why let people just die out, they work and have families too but still are just too poor and don’t have access to the technology to help themselves health wise. It is our jobs as humans to help other humans in desperate need of help who can’t provide a solution to their problems with what they have and knowing that you easily have the means to help them. That is what makes humans human, isn’t it? You have insurance companies asking for almost impossible things for these people with nothing to get any kind of help, “They need proof of homelessness and income, a birth certificate, photo identification, copies of bills and a mandatory interview with a case worker.”-Redmond. Many people born into situations out of there control does not have access to many of these things.

            Not only do you have they people who just can’t afford health care with the jobs they have but you also have the mentally and physically disabled who can’t work for themselves. “Mental illnesses among the uninsured often go untreated, or benefits are limited, with the result that some uninsured end up in prison”-Redmond. This is immoral letting people pretty much just fend for themselves who were born and in certain situations who can’t work for the money to help themselves just fend with themselves. This will always have a negative outcome and having universal healthcare that help many of these people receive treatments for their illnesses.

            As defenses to not give universal healthcare many companies say it would be too expensive for healthcare to be a right for everyone. This really means they do not want to make money for themselves and their stock holders. They are more than okay with letting the poor and disabled suffer so they can continue to make their millions, this is inhumane. “A good public plan would be open to all individuals and employers that plan would be open to all individuals and employers that want to join. It would allow all members to choose their own doctors. It would eliminate high deductibles. It would allow members to negotiate reimbursement rates and drug prices. The government would run it. And it would be backed up by tough cost controls and a requirement that all Americans have health coverage.”-Dorrien. This is just one idea but there are ways to make it affordable for everyone to receive healthcare. We just have to get the power out of the hands of the greedy insurance companies, which is of course easier said than done but one this is for sure. All humans have the right to affordable universal healthcare.