Should all Americans have the right to be entitled to healthcare

The issue of equality in health care has always been sophisticated and therefore people and scholars either support or disagree with the fact that Healthcare is a human right or a privilege. FACTORS THAT SUPPORT RIGHT TO HEALTH CARE Right to health care is an obligation of the government as service to her citizens According to Reagan, health care law and ethics requires that a government should protect her citizens in order to maintain a healthy nation. Poverty is in most cases attributed to bankruptcy as result of increased healthcare expenses. As a result, health is a basic requirement especially when it comes to protecting a nation from disease outbreaks and fighting the very dangerous and fatal diseases. For example, the government is responsible for health care as a human right when it comes to dangerous diseases that affect the general public in large numbers such as Cholera and Ebola.

" the poor could not afford to pay for insurances. This lead to introduction of the patient protection and affordable care act (PPACA). As a result, being American citizen by birth guarantees entitlement and a right to affordable healthcare by default (Sledge, 2017). By doing this the citizens are impressed that the value of the taxes they pay to the Federal and state government benefits them. The idea was not welcomed immediately but later with the invention of Obama health care plan in 2008, the idea was implemented up to date. Right to health care improves public health According to Cheung in a study carried out in the Annals of internal Medicine, wider and broader health coverage helps attain improved population health due to better access to necessary health care especially to the less fortunate.

In the united states, over 30% of the population do not have access to regular doctors, atleast 25% are more likely to have unmet health needs and over 50% of the population lack access to medicines to cater for their health issues. According to a research carried out in 2008, a high population of working Americans were most affected by heart disease and diabetes due to lack of access to health care (Cheung, 2017). Universal health care would encourage people to go to health care when they need to According to Bitton, the United States should make necessary health care free and unnecessary health care expensive will help the citizens understand what is important and not important to their health. This reduces time spent by those people who can afford health care by being treated unnecessarily.

Providing free health care would therefore lead to shooting up of prices instead of lower prices that would result when health care firms compete(Nambiar 2017). Waiting lists According to Saini, when free medical care is entitled to the public, health carecenters will always be overcrowded as a result of many people demanding treatment. As a result, there will no beds to accommodate the crowds increasing daily and poor quality of services offered at those health centers (Saini, 2017). Long waiting lists would even increase the rates of deaths as people have to wait long hours to be treated and also the quality of services offered are low. As quantity of people in need of free health care increases, the quality of health care in turn deteriorates therefore a right to medical care leads to other problems arising in the health care sectors.

Low quality and unavailability of disease screening and treatment Eduardo observes that countries with universal right to health care have low quality treatment since there are many people who demand for treatment because it is free. Severe diseases such as cancer, heart attack and stroke that require screening cause most deaths since there are no available equipment required for screening and treatment of these diseases (Eduardo, 2018). Public health centers lack these equipment that helps in handling these severe diseases unlike if there are private hospitals that could afford these equipment to help the public cope with these diseases. Countries without right to health care have increased cases of survival rates for these infections because they can afford the equipment required for screening and treatment of these diseases.

Overusing health care resources Brownlee suggests that when the public is entitled to universal health care and are not held responsible for the cost of medical services and equipment, they tend to over utilize these resources more than necessary. Works cited Brownlee, Shannon, et al. "Evidence for overuse of medical services around the world. " The Lancet 390. Cheung, Andrew, et al. "Primary care physician volume and quality of diabetes care: a population-based cohort study. "Telehealth solutions to enable global collaboration in rheumatic heart disease screening. " Journal of telemedicine and telecare 24. Nambiar Bejoy, et al. , "Improving health-care quality in resource-poor settings. " Bulletin of the World Health Organization 95.  Welfare medicine in America: A case study of Medicaid. Routledge, 2017. Miller, Rex, Phillip Williams, and Michael O'Neill.