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This is not the way it should be; people should not have to choose between what is best for themselves and what is best for the people they love because an insurance company is standing in the way of their lives. People have the right to health care and the right to be the healthiest that they can be, whether that health is given through medical visits or through sustenance. A universal health care system would ensure that every citizen has the opportunity to receive the best care possible so that they can live and healthy and long life no matter how much money they make and what job they have. Health care is not something that is negotiable in a country as wealthy and developed as the United States.
Universal health care would improve the health of the people of the United States and would ensure the health of the individuals who will become citizens in the future. The research shown has proven that countries where a universal health care system is in place have much healthier people when compared to U.S. counterparts. The research is obvious and the facts cannot be denied. The United States can learn a lot from the countries that offer a universal health care system -- countries such as our close neighbor, Canada, and neighbors that are not so close -- like Japan.
The United States is one of -- if not -- the richest nations on the earth. It does not matter that are health care system is embarrassing or an abomination in the eyes of other countries, what does matter is whether or not our health care system is embarrassing or an abomination in the eyes of ourselves and our own nation. If we cannot see that everyone in this nation, this rich nation, deserves health care, has a right to health care, then we are what the abomination is -- not the "system" or the "industry."
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Now that Obama's universal health care program has been green-lit, it is up to time to tell whether or not our country will do well under it. but, one has to ask, where can a country, which is made up by people, go wrong when its citizens are not only treated, but they are taken care of? To prevent illness and disease is what medicine is about these days. We have the tools to see that certain diseases, certain cancers and the like are avoided, so why would we put our nation in jeapoardy by not giving people the preventative care that they -- not deserve -- but have a right to as citizens of the United States?
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