It Is More Serious Than A Cut

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One of the major problems facing this presidential election is the topic of our American Health Care System. Unfortunately this is a major problem and unfortunately not much is being done to fix it. Regarding Jason Pyles critique of the Moore films, I agree with him. Moore documentary of international health care gives us reason to believe that the international heath care system is in just about every way superior to ours.

Our health care system in American has many problems today. I believe that these problems are large in scope and there is no immediate remedy for them. Each of the candidates has a different remedy or solution for solving the problem. McCain hopes to harness market comprehensive reform along with preserving the quality of health care by individual responsibility. McCain suggests giving individuals $2500 refundable tax credit for health care. He says we need to control health costs so manufacturers stay competitive. McCain believes in no mandated universal system or insurance coverage. He thinks we should be able to re-import drugs from Canada.

Even the Republican candidate, McCain, solution to the problem is not what is needed in this late in the race. McCain declares the main source of the problem as the rapidly rising costs of US health care system. He wants to save Medicare and Medicaid along with protecting the health care benefits for the retiree. Even McCain is not offering the solution to the large scale problem.

The solution to this problem is a universal health care system. Monroe says that one out of nearly 50 million Americans will not have health insurance this year. And out of those 50 million, 18,000 Americans will die because they are uninsured. These numbers aren’t matching up. One of Moore’s documentaries takes the audience to France and Britain where they use a universal health care system.

The cost of health care is extremely high and many families can’t afford it. Even if they can afford it they might not be covered by everything. The candidates in the presidential election are not finding a solution to this problem. They are merely trying to come up with remedies for the problem. But I believe that the problem is bigger than the candidates have bargained for.