I have a research report and I chose as my topic to debate why healthcare should be free, could I get a doctors perspective on why it should be? Or if you’re opposed you’re reasons for that too?
In a country as rich as America, it’s absolutely ridiculous that we haven’t made healthcare a basic right of our people. We have universal public schooling and have all agreed it’s beneficial for the country to offer free education but we haven’t made the same connection with healthcare. Every other developed nation in the world has some form of socialized medicine. We are being selfish and cruel to not follow suit.
It would save our country billions of dollars in the long run to have universal healthcare access. When people have access to preventive care and primary care, they tend to live healthier, more productive lives. This means more people in the workforce, sick people being less sick when they’re admitted to the hospital, and lower infant, maternal, and childhood mortality.
I don’t have the best argument for universal healthcare other than it just feels right to me as a Christian and as a doctor who wants to take care of people to offer care to everyone regardless of payor source. It’s good business, it’s good medicine, and it’s good for humanity.







