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¶ … National Healthcare
In your opinion, is health care for United States citizens a right or a privilege?
National healthcare for American citizens is not a fundamental right in the sense of other constitutional rights or recognized rights of national citizenship. On the other hand, quality healthcare is not a privilege either, in that - unlike privileges such as a license to operate a motor vehicle on public roads - access to healthcare is not regulated or restricted by the government; healthcare, like any other commodity, is available to anyone who can afford its price.
However, the cost of healthcare increased so much in the last decades of the 20th century that record numbers of Americans can afford neither long-term health insurance nor the costs of acute medical treatments, which must be borne by healthcare institutions themselves, as well as by all Americans who do pay for health insurance, because premium costs reflect the high price of medical care and materials priced by providers to recoup some of the costs of their services to the uninsured and underinsured individuals to whom they must furnish essential care regardless of their ability to pay for those services.
Critics of American healthcare administration point to less wealthy countries worldwide - Canada, most notably - where all routine healthcare costs have been absorbed by the government (Madore 2003) for decades. Clearly, American citizens have expressed their vocal concerns for a similar national healthcare plan, which many believe is far more important to the health and well-being of the People than the vast expenditure of taxpayer funds on global conflicts of dubious importance to Americans in remote regions of the world and on humanitarian aid and medical care, to foreign people.
References
Madore, O. (2003) the Canada Health Act: Overview and Options
Canadian Library of Parliament online. Retrieved January 12, 2008, at http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/library/prbpubs/944-e.htm
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