Nichelle Daniels Debate Worksheet
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Con side of the debate: You must be against government provided healthcare for
everyone.
Opinion Statement:
There is a common debate amongst people, legislators and healthcare providers today
on whether the government should provide healthcare, or universal healthcare coverage
to all people. In my opinion, I do not support the idea that the government should cover
everyone’s healthcare. I think if there was universal healthcare for all, then it would
overwhelm doctors’ offices and hospitals that would decline access to care and decline
adequate healthcare for others who work hard for those benefits and pay for them out of
pocket. If the doctor’s offices are overwhelmed due to the number of patients they see,
it leaves very little room for paying patients from private insurance providers
(Bloom,
Khoury & Subbaraman, 2018).
There could also be an influx in the number of patients that need specialty doctors, for
cancers, surgeries or emergency procedures that require special types of doctors. If
there is an influx in patients needing specialists, it would certainly add to those doctors’
workloads. Overwhelming specialists can impact the amount of patients a doctor can
see, access to life saving measures for those who pay for access to these healthcare
providers can be significantly reduced (V
ogenberg & Santilli, 2018).
Lastly, physician pay can be reduced and limited due to the patients that are on
specialty government programs that guaranteed compensation for their services. If the
federal government takes on such a feat as universal healthcare, being able to process
all the claims and payments would be overwhelming and cause significant delays in
payment that is up-to-date for the physicians and medical providers that service patients
daily (Davis, 2001).
Three Sources:
Bloom, D. E., Khoury, A., & Subbaraman, R. (2018). The promise and peril of universal
health care.
Science
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361
(6404), eaat9644.
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Davis, K. (2001). Universal coverage in the United States: lessons from experience of
the 20th century.
Journal of Urban Health
,
78
(1), 46-58.
Vogenberg, F. R., & Santilli, J. (2018). Healthcare trends for 2018.
American Health &
Drug Benefits
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11
(1), 48.
Opposing side argument 1:
Universal healthcare is needed because there are children that are suffering and
deserve adequate healthcare access in these life and death situations. For those
families who cannot afford insurance, many of these children go without seeing the
doctors and specialists they need. With a governmental program in place that can help
cover costs of care, get children into doctors that can help reduce their underlying
health issues. Universal healthcare is needed to create healthier generations, to
improve children’s’ health and lifestyles through health promotion activities such as
access to dentists, nutritionists, dieticians and primary care doctors, this can impact
future generations of people significantly (
Davis, 2001).
Your Response:
There are children suffering, but there are also other ways to improve the health of
generations to come, through advanced education, community garden programs,
promoting health and wellness activities and programs in communities where they are
most needed. To start at the mostly costly root of a healthcare problem will only dig the
government into a difficult and drowning hole of debt. With other alternatives like those
listed above, the government can start healing families, children and people heal their
communities and bodies using resources we currently have available (
Bloom, Khoury &
Subbaraman, 2018).
Opposing side argument 2:
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Access to health care is needed now more than ever, but access must mean that in
communities where there is a lack that there are changes made to allow access. Access
means opportunity. People cannot get the proper healthcare they need if they do not
have access to it due to lack of service providers in their area, lack of coverage or even
knowledge of those services that are available to them
(
Bloom, Khoury & Subbaraman,
2018).
Access means that healthcare systems consider community needs, ways
community lack access and ways to improve overall access especially for minority
communities.
Your response:
Access to affordable healthcare requires money to build resources, to bring providers
into communities where they must establish healthcare systems and practices. The
infrastructure, human and environmental capital needed to make this type of investment
can be astronomical in comparison to the amount of dollars spent to even pay for those
healthcare services (V
ogenberg & Santilli, 2018).
Thus, it is important to remember this
when speaking of healthcare. Accessibility requires investment, financially and with the
resources available to make adequate changes to infrastructures in order to support this
level of universal care overhaul.
Marielys
I think healthcare and access to healthcare is a right that people should have, even
those who are less fortunate, who may not afford healthcare or those who come to the
U.S. seeking asylum or citizenship. For health insurance, it should be more preventative
care provided instead of the responsive care that is more commonly found now in
hospitals, doctors offices and urgent care offices throughout the country. With
prescription drugs becoming more commonly used, many big business pharmaceutical
companies are taking advantage of sick patients and using that to increase their profits
and business sales (
Walshe, 2003). As this continues to be a common trend, t
he
treatment of humankind currently in the world around us is why the earth is sick, people
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are sick, while companies continue to make money off our needs for medicine and
measures to keep people alive.
Nichelle
References
Walshe, K. (2003).
Regulating healthcare: a prescription for improvement?
. McGraw-Hill
Education (UK).
REPLY #2
Shelby
I agree with you that finding healthcare providers can be a strenuous situation to deal
with, especially when there is a lack of physicians and healthcare providers. Often,
health benefits and adequate healthcare access are too very different objectives that
have their own sets of difficulties. With federal government intervening, along with state
legislations that can change and differ between states, it can be difficult to find coverage
and insurance that is accessible, especially for communities that struggle with lack of
access and lack of representation (
Diamond, 2009).
With the difference in providers,
networks and services, it impacts not only patients’ lives, but providers ability to stay
afloat, stay paid and in business and keep their employees gainfully employed as well.
References
Diamond, M. A. (2009). Con: Single-Payer Health Care: Why It's Not the Best
Answer.
American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine
,
180
(10), 921-
922.
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