HCMG1010 Health Care Systems

Introduction

Good morning, friends and teachers. I am (enter name) and today I am going to argue thar universal healthcare should not be provided to all as it is not feasible for neither the people nor the state. The concept of universal free healthcare is the healthcare service provided and funded by the government to all its citizens (Legido-Quigley et al., 2019). They are provided under a single service like Medicare or Medicaid which is available to all the people in the country.

Discussion

Universal free healthcare comes with various issues and challenges which makes it almost a juxtaposition. Universal free healthcare means that the citizens are not paying for healthcare. However, the largest source of money for any government is the taxes paid by the people of the state and in order to provide universal healthcare, tax money will have to be used (Fossati, 2017). When the service is being paid by the tax money of the people, they cannot actually be called free. Moreover, spending a large amount of money on healthcare services, the debt and deficit of any country will rise as subsidizing for healthcare is a costly matter.

Providing universal healthcare is not feasible as it increases wait time of the people in receiving healthcare service, thus increasing the risk of adverse situations in acute care needs and makes maintenance of the quality of healthcare service delivery unstable. Research shows that universal healthcare services like Medicaid or Medicare increases the wait time of the patients while receiving healthcare (Cesur et al., 2017). There are situations where they have to wait for months before they can see a doctor. Moreover, providing any service in a rationing manner means that the quality is bound to fluctuate and thus, a constant quality service is not possible.

On the other hand, there are also ongoing argument that healthcare should be free for everyone as it is a humanitarian right of the people and thus should not be denied. Having free access to quality and hassle-free healthcare is a right like that of right to live, right to liberty and pursuit of happiness. With quality healthcare available to all, a person can ensure that are exercising their right to live (Tambor et al., 2021). On a humanitarian level healthcare should be provided by the state to all the citizens irrespective of their social status and financial ability. This ensures a healthier population as people who are in the lower socioeconomic position, they are affected the most due to lack of healthcare access and through this they could have a better chance of having better healthcare. This reduces the differences in social stratification and ensures better equity and justice to the people in the state.

However, providing universal free healthcare in a country like U.S comes with many challenges and drawbacks. Healthcare is a costly affair and in order to provide healthcare to all the citizens means that the people who are in the upper level of the social stratification will have to pay more tax in order to cover for the expenses incurred by the people living in the lower status. This may create unnecessary burden to those people, especially when financial crisis or volatility hits the market (Legido-Quigley et al., 2019). It will also incur heavy cost of the state in providing free healthcare service to every citizen. There is also a chance that providing universal healthcare would lead to socialism in the countries which is form of government where resources and services are controlled by the government itself and is not preferred by most people. Thus, providing universal free healthcare is not a feasible option and should not be followed.

Conclusion

From the above discussion, it can be concluded that free healthcare is an oxymoron which cannot be achieved universally. The provision of healthcare services by the government are funded by the public tax money which makes the service a paid one. Moreover, universal healthcare increases debt and deficit of the state. While there are humanitarian arguments in support of free universal healthcare, it increases the waiting time for healthcare service and makes quality of healthcare unstable.

References

Cesur, R., GüneÅŸ, P. M., Tekin, E., & Ulker, A. (2017). The value of socialized medicine: The impact of universal primary healthcare provision on mortality rates in Turkey. Journal of Public Economics, 150, 75-93.

Fossati, D. (2017). From periphery to centre: Local government and the emergence of universal healthcare in Indonesia. Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Journal of International and Strategic Affairs, 39(1), 178-203.

Legido-Quigley, H., Pocock, N., Tan, S. T., Pajin, L., Suphanchaimat, R., Wickramage, K., ... & Pottie, K. (2019). Healthcare is not universal if undocumented migrants are excluded. bmj, 366.

Tambor, M., Klich, J., & DomagaÅ‚a, A. (2021). Financing Healthcare in Central and Eastern European Countries: How Far Are We from Universal Health Coverage?. International journal of environmental research and public health, 18(4), 1382.

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