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Response to: The United States Should Provide a Universal Health Care


The United States should provide a Universal Health Care by Alora Boot is an editorial that addresses an important issue in the United States.  Adopting a Universal Health Care System has been debated on for many years, but never come to fruition.   The author attached two articles with substantial evidence of how citizens and the government can both benefit from a Universal Health Care System.  One article points how other countries, some less wealthy than the United states, that have already adopted the universal health care system actually spend less per person than the United States.  In the other article the author attached, it states that many citizens file bankruptcy to survive drowning in debt from medical bills.  I agree with the author that our nation should adopt this type of healthcare system. 

Our government does not stand by its Preamble to the United States Constitution: “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”  I believe a right to a universal healthcare system does and should fall under that preamble.  A government that is always declaring they are “for the people” sure do a poor job of exercising that especially when it comes to healthcare.

Health is unpredictable, and many health diagnoses such as cancers or organ transplants, etc. are very costly.  And like the author stated, “People should not be dying when there is a cure that they just can not afford.”  It is sad to think that people go bankrupt and or die because they can not afford health care to get proper treatment.  If our government was truly “For The People” healthcare would be a priority. 



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