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Debate:Should Americans be required to buy health insurance? (view source)
Revision as of 00:19, June 15, 2010
, 00:19, June 15, 2010→YES
==YES==
==YES==
There are 47 million Americans without health insurance.
There are 47 million Americans without health insurance.<ref>http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/80897.php</ref>
The result of the above mentioned people being without cover is a death rate estimated to be around 45,000/year<ref>http://www.harvardscience.harvard.edu/medicine-health/articles/new-study-finds-45000-deaths-annually-linked-lack-health-coverage</ref>
Current schemes result in high costs for Americans, and are responsible for around 60% of all declarations of bankruptcy.<ref>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/documents/american_journal_of_medicine_09.pdf</ref>
For the above reasons, the humanitarian/utilitarian decision is evidently to support public funded healthcare in the United States of America. Furthermore, from an ecconomically motivated point of view it is also beneficial, as the cost of healthcare in other nations currently implementing a taxpayer funded system is demonstrably lower than that in the United States<ref>http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0934556.html</ref>, where individuals have to find their own insurance.
It is also worth noting that there have been many cases of insurance companies either 1) denying cover for those with pre-existing conditions (thus leaving them incapable of surviving without government funding, and creating a burden for the taxpayer much higher than it would be in a public system) or 2) exploiting legal loopholes to deny cover paid for for arbitrary reasons.
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==NO==
==NO==