Healthcare in the US
Healthcare and healthcare coverage has always been an issue of controversy in the United States. ... Although some believe healthcare should not be a basic human right, universal healthcare should be implemented in the United States because, the rising price of healthcare causes discrimination against the poor and elderly, present government healthcare programs such as Medicare and Medicaid aren’t working, and it is a basic human right. The rising price of healthcare causes discrimination against the poor and elderly who often are the ones that need it most. Nobody can argue the fact that sick people need healthcare the most. The biggest group that most often need healthcare is the elderly and secondly the poor. ... Healthcare is expensive to begin with, and when a family can barely afford to pay their bills and provide food for their families, how can they be expected to pay for medical insurance. Of the top ten industrialized countries, the US spends the biggest percentage of budget (13.4%) on healthcare but yet but is number 10 as far as life expectancy goes and has the highest infant mortality rate (10.