The government either wants to give us all responsibility or no responsibility for our own healthcare. Being Americans, we won’t do very well with our own responsibility because we are not knowledgeable enough about healthcare. We are also too lazy to figure things out on our own. But, also as Americans, we don’t want the government to run everything.
Consumer driven healthcare is where Americans have a set amount of money to pay for their healthcare. It still won’t give people without healthcare anything. Right now, some Americans are getting healthcare that they just pay for and don’t usually have to worry about so if we were actually given responsibility over our healthcare, we wouldn’t be able to do it. We trust doctors to diagnose us; we don’t have the degree to diagnose ourselves.
Universal healthcare is also not going to work. America is seen as a free nation, run by the people. Government can’t run healthcare. Most of their programs haven’t worked anyway or people have found loopholes that ruin it for everyone else. They need to find a happy medium between Consumer driven and universal healthcare, but they will never please everyone.
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Andrea,
ReplyDeleteI like how you showed both sides of the argument. I too think that no matter what, there are going to be problems with both of them. However, I feel that consumer driven healthcare does slightly outweigh universal healthcare. As Americans, we need to be less lazy and do some of the work ourselves.
Andrea, actually the government is running health care for old people and it is working quite well (Medicare). The government is also running the health care for members of Congress. They have universal health care, but not us? Be sure to refer to specific readings to support your position.
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