Should Healthcare be free in the United States of America

Evidence suggests that there is a positive association between social class and a person’s health outcomes. A person of lower social status is more likely to have a lower life expectancy compared to their counterparts who are financially stable. A probable course of action in ensuring medical care access to all would be to provide free medical services. The provision of free healthcare should, therefore, be implemented because it is a logical step in reducing complications and mortality associated with chronic illnesses. The focus of my essay will be on the relationship between Avoidable Hospitalization (AH) and access to Primary Health Care (PHC). Some of these difficulties include over-utilization of healthcare resources and dependence of its allocation on a society's wealth, which in turn, will lead to an imbalance in providing the now freely available services to individuals from the various organizations (Maruthappu et al.