Presidential Candidates and Healthcare

Healthcare/Presidential Candidates

Response

No one is happy when taxes go up, but few people recognize the benefits of taxation especially with regards to essential services like health care and education. Americans often forget that public education is fully funded by taxpayer money; citizens simply accept the fact that education is a universal right and that even individuals without children in school know that our society is better off with socialized school systems. Using the same argument, our society would be a much better place if health care were universal and no individual were excluded from receiving the care he or she needs. Rather than suffer, the poor and middle class would boon from universal health care. Taxes would be raised, sure, but the benefits would more than outweigh the costs for almost all taxpayers. The cost of insurance premiums and medical care costs are completely out of reach of the poor and middle class; the amount of taxation required to fund a universal health care program would not even come close to the amount of money spent on insurance. Finally, the wealthy would be paying a higher percentage.

Response to Answer 2

Indeed, Hillary Clinton's proposal is ambitious but amounts to little more than sitting on the fence. Instead of proposing a comprehensive plan for true universal health care, she suggests a convoluted system of tax credits. Income tax forms are complex enough; few citizens can navigate their way through their pages without hiring an expert, and only those who are well-off enough can afford to do so. Hillary's plan only improves slightly on an outworn system. Instead, we need to entirely revamp the concept of health care and change the way Americans view socialized medicine. Whether or not Hillary Clinton was involved in nefarious scandals, she should devise a health care plan that more closely resembles those used successfully in many other countries: taxes fund a federally-funded health care system that completely removes private insurance companies and strips power from the big business stakes at heart in the medical and pharmaceutical industries.