US Healthcare

Should healthcare be a right given to the people in the United States? We recently watched the film Sicko by Michael Moore. In the film he evaluates the health care system of countries like: Canada, Britain, France, Cuba, and the United States. All the countries that he visits offers free healthcare to its people except for America. America was the only country in the movie that did not offer free healthcare to its people.

                So should the government offer free healthcare to its people? I think yes. If other countries all over the world can make it work, why can’t America. People in other countries seem to enjoy the free healthcare provided to them by their government. Doesn’t the US government feel like people living in America would also enjoy healthcare being provided to them also.

                With healthcare prices constantly rising, more and more of people’s income is going to their medical bills. Some people are avoiding necessary treatment and hurting their own health because they can’t afford to receive care. Some of the people that receive care can hardly afford to live because their medical bills are so high. Yet the doctors that are supposed to be helping these people just keep getting richer and richer.

                I think the government needs to open its eyes and look at the people, because the healthcare system we have now isn’t working.