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Liliana Meraz
Abstract
The United States has one of the worst and most expensive health cares in the world, on top of
that not everyone is properly insured and if you are middleclass you will be fined if you do not have an
insurance, and if you are too poor in some states you might not even get any insurance. Some of the
people that might not have insurance are the ones changing jobs and the ones that dont have enough to
The bills in the hospitals are becoming exaggerated and it is almost impossible to evade them.
With the medicalization from the moment you were brought to birth till the moment you die you might
have to get to a hospital any time, this meaning that you will have to use money for it. With the corruption
of the doctors now a day, In the moment of birth they are making women have cesarean births just to
charge more money not caring of what risk they are imposing on the mother and the child. They are also
doing this for peoples deaths, making them go through a lot of procedures they didnt had to go through
We must educate ourselves to not be fooled by this people, we need to learn and spread the
Now that President Trump has decided to mention a lot the issue of health insurance in the United States,
more people are beginning to wonder what is going on. Many people dont know about this, but the
United States has the most expensive and poor medical care. This meaning that we are paying a lot of
money to get bad medical care and most people cant afford it. There is a problem, but is universal
The Healthcare in the United States is expensive, and we are certainly not getting what we pay
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that is a lot of people. Now, every time you go to urgent NETH $5,099
get in medical debt. These facts, except for the exaggerated SWE $3,182
medical bill ones are from eleven years ago, now there is a
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hybrid of a universal care, which is Obama Care.
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The United States is falling behind the other
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industrialized countries with their healthcare. Like
while not so much people have it, but there was a sense of hope with the Affordable Care Act, according
to the studies it "could further encourage more affordable access and more efficient organization and
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delivery of healthcare," (Medical Economics, 2014). There was a study comparing the United States to
eleven more countries to determine their health expenditure per capita in which the United States ended
on the last place. The only difference from the United States and the other eleven countries was that the
From the 1930s to today we have been using the hospitals more frequently. Almost ninety-nine
percent of child births are performed in a hospital, when it usually was performed by a midwife (Hall,
2017). Birth today has become more expensive, medicalized and dehumanizing. Expensive because
pregnancy and birth were marked as the most expensive conditions to be in by the Medicaid which cost
them ten thousand dollars per vaginal birth and twenty thousand per cesarean, for private insurers it costs
twenty-thousand per vaginal birth and thirty-thousand per cesarean and if you want to pay it yourself, it
would be thirty-thousand dollars per vaginal birth and fifty thousand per cesarean (Hall, 2017). It is pretty
expensive to be a normal function that most humans do at certain points of their life. Sometimes doctors
make women have cesarean births despite most of them wanting it vaginally. Despite most women want
vaginal births thirty-two percent of them end up having their kid through a cesarean , even though
medical intervention might have higher chances of the death of a child during birth (Hall, 2017). The
increased infant and maternal rates are due to over medicalization, or the greed of the doctors wanting to
take more money in their pockets by forcing a woman to have a cesarean birth when knowing a vaginal
birth is safer. Now, one dies just as one was delivered in this corrupt world, a bunch of unwanted and
unnecessary procedures done to you in the hope of remaining alive and incredible amount of money in
debt. Death is just as medicalized as a birth. Like birth, one died at home and that was it until the 1950s
where death became medicalized (Hall, 2017). According to Medicare the costs of the last year of life of
someone is forty-thousand dollars while the last hundred and eighty days of someone with cancer cost
eighteen thousand six hundred dollars (Hall, 2017). They try to prolong the time a terminal patient is alive
even though it is shown that they have a lower quality of life while they are alive in those weeks, most of
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them would rather die at home than in a hospital but only twenty-five percent can get to do that (Hall,
2017).
Universal health care is usually one of the solutions people think of when it comes to getting
everyone affordable health care, but what is it exactly? Universal healthcare is a form of medical
insurance provided to all the citizens of the country (Rich, 2017). It was until 2010 that the United States
began to get something similar to universal health care, which was Obama Care. There had been various
attempts before done by Theodore Roosevelt for universal healthcare, but people just didnt wanted to
pass the law (Rich, 2017). There is still a lot of controversy with the Obama Care since most people are
being forced into it. The people affected by Obama Care are the middle class, because if they didnt had
insurance before, now, they are being forced to buy one or they will be fined (Romano, 2014). Although
they might have options that seem affordable, they end up confusing you even more, such as the bronze
plan that they have which is two dollars and twenty cents a month but with a deductible of six thousand
dollars a year or the silver plan which is a hundred and thirty a month and nine-hundred dollars as a
deductible (Romano, 2014). This idea only sounds good on paper but in real life it seems to be a little
more complicated. It might be possible to have a good universal healthcare in the United States, but for
that we would have to work on it as a society (Rashford, 2007). This means that we should support more
people with lower socioeconomic backgrounds. People from other congregations, such as churches and
small shops should also help educate people in healthcare (Maxwell, 2016).
It is more important for the young people of the United States to understand how important
healthcare is because sooner or later they will need it and need to know how it works. It is important to
know about this because we do not want the government to babysit us and take advantage over us. Like
Kennedy once said Ask not what can your country do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
This meaning that we have to take a word in this issue, because we will soon depend on it.
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