Sunday Blog #19

Hey this is Sara and I would like to talk to you about a debate we are doing in English. And my topic is about health care and this pharagraph is for it!

“If it ain’t broke don’t fix it.” Many people think that are health care system ain’t broke and we don’t need to fix it, but if you look more closely at our health care system there are many problems. The first problem I would like point out is that many many people are uninsured. Like, 47 million! This shows that the system is broken.
Insuring all people is very important because it’s way cheaper to keep all people healthy than it is to take care of them in a crisis. Even Senator Richard Moore of Massachusetts knows this when he argues “That the reason for having all people insured is to make sure they get routine screenings, which can prevent trips to the emergency room.” The senator see’s the wisdom of preventative health care. Financially it makes good dollars and cents to be proactive than reactive.
Private health may look like a good thing but it sometimes back fires. Steffi Woolhandler of Harvard is part of a research group who had discovered a relationship between health costs and bankruptcies. Sometimes health care only covers so much that the insured person has to pay the difference which has led to many people going bankrupt. This is a good example of a plan backfiring. Steffi Woolhandlers group “Found that too often private health insurance is an umbrella that melts in the rain.”To conclude, you can see by my examples that a system is broken.