Harry Chin
Professor Knapp
English 1A
21 April 2013
If I
could change anything in my society/community, I would change
If I could change anything in my
society/ community, I would change how the healthcare program works. In general
terms, i would change how one could obtain health care and how I would make it
affordable for all. Note, I stated affordable and not free. I think this one component would change the
world for the better. If you think about all the the misery, fear and anxiety that
many people experience who are uninsured, or even that have insurance but it still
consider it really expensive. If many people had health care their health would
improve, there would be much less people who die from premature deaths and
people's overall mental sanity would improve.
The reason why I said this plan
would be free is because it’s just unrealistic. If we speak in terms of our
whole society, what would make people willing to pay for another man’s needs?
According to the Scragged news article database, they quoted Justice Ginsburg in
the article Why Do We Think Health Care
Should Be Free?: “Justice Ginsburg seemed to agree, saying the
mandate was a response to the fact that uninsured people receive free health
care that ends up being paid for by others. ‘The problem is that they are
making the rest of us pay, ‘she said” (Offensicht). So what Ginsburg was trying
to imply is that in our society, it would be most definitely beneficial towards
the people if we had free health care for all, but at the same time, will
people be willing to pay more taxes for it? Health care programs are never
free. The money comes out from one place or another. The hard earned money of
American workers is not easily given away and as a result this idea becomes
nonexistent.
I want to create a program where
people would be able to have health care and not worry too much about the
expenses of it. I was thinking probably along the lines of incorporating
healthcare to most jobs. Money wise, we should rework how money is distributed
in our society and even it out. I would not dare to raise taxes because of the
reaction of the society. This long term plan is still under development; there
are many flaws and holes with this plan thus far. This is just an idea so far
and maybe with some more and thought and research, I can come up with a solid
program to make this happen.
Works
Cited
Offensicht, Will. "Why Do We
Think Health Care Should Be Free? | Scragged." Scragged. N.p., n.d. Web.
22 Apr. 2013.
<http://www.scragged.com/articles/why-do-we-think-health-care-should-be-free>.
Thanks for your post, by 2016 'Obamacare' will be fully implemented, so you may want to research this new regulation to create your annotations post. You may want to argue in favor of "Obamacare' in your letter because there are many who continue to be very much against your ideas as they are set up here (these ideas are the same principals of Obamacare). Or you could argue why Obamacare does not go far enough to achieve the goals you have set forth here.
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