Health Care

Social Problems

4. Americans lack health insure because they do not want it.

I completely disagree with this statement. There are many reasons as to why Americans do not have health care, but not wanting it is not one. More than half of uninsured adults say that their main problem is paying their medical bills. The chief obstacles to good health in developed nations are lack of access to good medical care (Kornblum and Julian, 2007: 56). Our health care system has always had many flaws when it comes to accessibility. One of the main reasons as to why health care is unattainable for some is the rising cost for it. The chances of the poor being able to afford health insurance gets smaller and smaller as the rates go up. Not only that, but the poor are a lot more susceptible to illness. The fact that they have little or no money means that they cannot afford to eat healthy food, which in return weakens their system (Kornblum and Julian, 2007: 56). Since they are more likely to be less healthy than the non-poor, they need easily accessed health insurance.

Other countries such as Canada and various countries in Europe, feel that health insurance should be an entitlement of citizenship (Kornblum and Julian, 2007: 57). They use this system called the single payer health insurance plan. Now the question is why do they not bring this system into the US? It would seem that the higher class people feel that since they can pay for better quality health insurance, that they should get it, and changing the current system that we have now would not benefit them (Kornblum and Julian, 2007: 57). This problem though lies within men and there natural good nature.

So in the end, its not that people do not want health insurance it is that they cannot afford it. Even when another option is put out on the table, it seems that there can be no compromise due to differences in social