Critique for The United States should provide a Universal Health care

On December 05, 2018 a blogger posted an article titled “TheUnited States should provide a Universal Health Care.” The blogger explains that the price of health care in the United States is too high, and many Americans can’t afford to pay their monthly copays. Many families are left with the endless amount of bills to pay after a hospital visit, making it impossible for average people to ever catch up. In result it causes many Americans to file for bankruptcy due to the amount of unpaid medical bills.

I agree with the blogger health care should be available and affordable to every American no matter if you have a high paying job or not. Many people will benefit from it allowing them to have a better quality of life and no need to worry about high medical bills. Medical bills are one thing and prescription medication is another. The prices of some of the medication as ridiculous, $300.00 for a 30 day’s supply of heart medication. Yes, of course some pharmacies are nice enough to have a saving plan for all routine medications but, what happens when the medication is not on that savings plan formulary? Well the patient is now having to pay out of pocket for the highly priced medication or the just refuse to pay because they can’t afford it. Now that person will spend thousands of dollars in medical bill and didn’t even received the full treatment and may possibly end up back at the hospital or doctor’s office. The government will also benefit from it as well, they can put a health care plan in place that will be affordable to every -one no matter your income status, in the process saving money and taking care of its citizens. We are all humans and we should be treated as such. I also liked that the blogger included evidence to support his article.

Should Birth Control be Free?

Many American argue that birth control should be free to all woman since insurance itself is so expensive on its own making it unfair for lower income women to afford the ridiculous copays or deductibles.  Since 2011 woman haven’t paid for their monthly birth control prescriptions thanks to the Affordable Care Act placed by Barack Obama, but all may change since Donald Trump is getting rid of the Affordable Care Act. Denying many women all over the United State to get their birth control for free, and from my understanding this only applies if the women that have insurance, that being a personal insurance obtained from their job or government issued insurance such as Medicaid. Still leaving many women struggling to obtain their birth control at a reasonable price they can afford. 

I believe birth control should continue to be a free benefit for all woman with or without insurance. Birth control is not just a contraceptive it has many benefits for woman for example it can reduce women’s cancer risk, one being ovarian cancer. Also, different types of birth control can help treat other conditions like heavy menstrual bleeding and most commonly use among teenagers for acne problems. It could help prevent so many unintended pregnancies among teenagers and in the lower-income women. In 2011, 45 percent of 6.1 million pregnancies in the United States were unintended that not continuing miscarriages. 42 percent of unintended pregnancies ended in abortion and 58 percent ended in child birth.

It cost the government more money to support an unintended pregnancy than it is to provide free birth control to all American women. In 2010 51 percent of the nearly 4 million births in the United States were paid for by government health insurance like Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program. Public insurance covered 68 percent of the 1.5 million births that were unplanned, versus the 38 percent that were planned. Overall, the government spent $21 billion on unintended pregnancies that year. 

The government would rather spend billions of dollars every year supporting unintended pregnancies than provide free birth control or long -lasting methods like IUD's.  It would be great for birth control to be free for anyone that needs it or wants to use it but there could also be a set copay for the consumer that is affordable and reasonable.