by Andrew Randazzo

Created on: May 26, 2007

Universal health care is becoming a necessity to the well-being of people in the United States. With roughly 47 million people without health insurance and 80% of those without health insurance being of the working class it is obvious something needs to be done. Health care must be provided to every man, woman, and child in the United States. Having health care coverage should be a right of every taxpaying American Citizen.

If the government wants to continue receiving tax revenue the people need to be working and when something goes wrong with your health that is often not an option. If you don't have health care coverage to assure you are able to receive the best possible medical treatment how are you supposed to recover? If you can't recover you can't return to work and you lose your job. Once you lose your job you no longer have income and not only will the government not receive part of your paycheck but infect they will be paying you via social security. If many of the people on disability had the coverage they needed they probably wouldn't be in the position they are currently in. They would be able to receive the medicine and treatment they needed that would help them get themselves back out into the work force and bring in income, and therefore tax dollars. So wouldn't it be logical to ensure they have the coverage they need? Universal health care would provide them with that coverage.

The major reason the government doesn't want to set up a universal health care is because of money. Not only the fact that universal health care would increase costs of the government but because they would lose all of that money that the drug companies fork over while lobbying the politicians. As far as increased costs goes, we have already established that you would maintain and in fact increase your tax revenue because you would be keeping people in the work force and helping people not currently working return to the workforce. Also the government would be bringing in more revenue from corporations because they would be saving huge sums of money by not having to provide there employees with health insurance, so therefore the corporations would be more profitable, and more taxes would be collected. On top of that if the government implements certain management techniques such as switching to electronic filling systems. If we switch to electronic filling we could save roughly 77.8 billion dollars a year between the huge amount of money we spend on paper and ink as well as the enormous amount of money we spend on file clerks. Seventy Seven billion dollars annually is a big chunk of money that can be used to help pay for the added expenses. Also the politicians need to release that they are serving the people and not there pocketbooks.

People who are poor deserve the opportunities that proper health care would give them, people who are of the working class deserve to have health insurance and be properly insured, people who are rich deserve to have that equal right to health insurance. It needs to be our government's job to give them that. Universal health care would eliminate worries of weather you have enough health insurance, and worries of what happens if your child gets sick. People would be able to get proper health care and not worry about there finances or nay kind of contribution to make up for what the insurance company doesn't cover, because everyone would have the same coverage, and everything would be covered. America needs universal health care in order to continue on being a prosperous nation. The government needs to adequately serve the people and that requires providing them with proper health care.

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