Universal Healthcare: Second Negative
I. Let’s say that you have just entered the medical field as a pediatrician. After eight years of schooling, and three years of gaining experience, you are a young, eager doctor who is ready to get started. However, you quickly discover that due to the ever-continuing line of patients, and the government’s upper hand in control you do not have flexible hours at all. You work day and night, as hard as you can but despite your greatest efforts, your yearly salary is too similar to the passionless doctor next door. You also notice that many times, the conditions of your young patients are rarely a case at all. But rather a mere concern their mother overreacted about.
B. Good morning and thank you for your patience. My name is Christine and today I will be telling you why I believe Universal Healthcare for the United States is both impractical and undesirable.
1. Establishing a Universal Healthcare system will reduce the quality and drive, as well as flexibility of our healthcare due to lack of competition.
2. Also, will create a painful process to switch and lessen job opportunities, as well as piling on unnecessary responsibilities.
3. And lastly, Universal Healthcare leads to many financial arguments.
II. With competition comes determination, and with determination comes success. Without the persuasion of competition, the quality and flexibility of our healthcare will most likely not be as high, or lenient.
A. I think everyone in this class would agree that if you were a doctor, you would not try nearly as hard as your full capability if you would make around the same as any other doctor in your particular criteria. This is much like the quality and effort of your not-turned-in homework assignment, compared to your 100 point essay.
B. When the government is involved with something, politics always seem to get into the decision-making. Various steps will have to be taken to keep costs of healthcare under control. Also, countless rules will be put in place as to when doctors can perform certain expensive tests or when drugs can be given. As if Insurance companies are not already keeping doctors busy, having a government-mandated system will only make things worse.
C. Universal Healthcare will not only reduce the quality of our healthcare, but flexibility as well.
1.Due to the ostensive line of people waiting to get medical attention, it is unlikely that doctors will have much flexibility in their schedule.
2. But the problem with flexibility does not only effect doctors, but patients as well.
-In Canada, where they have established Universal Healthcare, the average wait for a mere checkup is 7 months. Canadian patients sometimes offer additional money, or come to America to get their medical needs taken care of. -Also, since a visit to the doctor is free, many will take advantage and go to the doctor for even a simple cough or the common cold.
-When you first look at it, Universal Healthcare seems to actually increase the flexibility of patients. Afterall, you are entitled to visit any doctor you desired since the government pays for everyone under one, universal plan. However, Universal Healthcare will also come with various tags. Will lasik eye surgery be covered? What about breast reduction for back problems? Or a nose job to fix a bump from a car accident? Medical procedures will come down to an argument for who qualifies under Universal Healthcare and who doesn’t. Whenever the government gets involved, attachments and loopholes are sure to follow, a complicated process, which brings me to my next point
III.A Universal Healthcare system is a burden to the American people as well as the government in several ways, setting new responsibilities and problems that we are not subject to.
1. As stated before, there will be an ongoing debate about what Universal Healthcare specifically covers.
2. Also, the process to start Universal Healthcare will be a messy one with countless files, papers, more laws, obviously, more taxes, as well as new patient records.
3. Universal Healthcare has no need for health insurance, therefore depleting the entire field. Also, many workers at the hospitals who dealt with insurance would lose their jobs. There is, of course the idea that more jobs will be created due to the higher demand for medical attention, however this increase will most likely be from the 15% of Americans without health insurance. 15% compared to 100%+ working with health insurance is just not comparable. Why take away millions of jobs from innocent people?
4. With Universal Healthcare, America will see a loss of private practices, therefore possibly dissuading future doctors from further pursuing the career, another reason despite loss of flexibility and competitive pay that may decrease the interest and pursuit in obtaining a job in the medical field.
VI. And for my final point, Universal Healthcare isn’t really “free” in the first place, but rather expensive.
1. We still have to pay for our medical bills with higher taxes, and possible spending cuts from other areas the government is involved in, such as defense or even education. What exactly is the point of taking away our health insurance bills, if the taxes rise by that much, and even possibly higher?
2. Overall costs in healthcare will be several times of what they are now due to the fact that people will take advantage of Universal Healthcare. For ever ache, pain, or cough Americans will go to the doctor for what they normally could have just taken some pain relievers or medicine, wasting doctors’ time, other patients’ time, and wasting our money.
3. With Universal Healthcare, you
will pay a little more than the average health insurance- a small price to pay for the millions you cover, right? But is this fair that we have to pay extra taxes for someone else? Sure, Universal Healthcare will be extremely beneficial to the few who have extreme surgeries and illnesses. However, this is only hurting the perfectly healthy people who must pay for their neighbor’s flaws. And nobody wants to clean up someone else’s spilt milk.
Today I have covered why I think Universal Healthcare is both impractical and undesirable. Universal Healthcare will
A. Decrease the quality, flexibility and drive due to the lack of competition in the medical field
B. Be a painful and burdening process.
C. And is an expensive, wasteful system.
So the next time you decide whether or not Universal healthcare is a profitable idea, think about it; is it all really worth it?
