The American health care crisis is all over the news right now and the American Government is working on developing a new plan to lower the cost of health care and make it possible for all Americans to be able to afford health care for themselves and their families. The fact that there are so many people without health care in this country because the providers have escalated the price of care and made it impossible through regulations and rules is a tragedy to say the least. The cost of health care is very expensive and with the number of people who have lost their jobs recently the percentage of the American population that is without coverage is much higher that it traditionally has been. I believe that our government does need to step in and regulate the health care industry in some form to make health care more affordable and keep the insurance companies from denying people insurance who are willing to pay for it for whatever reason they feel like it. I do not believe that health care should be "universal" or government funded or regulated in the sense that the Government is in control of the health care system. I believe that health care is a privilege not a right and that you must be willing to have a job, work hard and pay for it just like anything else.
The problem with what's going on right now is that people are talking like it's a right to have health care and that everyone should have the same ability to go to the doctor and have the same coverage as the next person. People act like doctors are just something that should be available to everyone, free of cost like drinking out of a water fountain or using a public bathroom. It's absurd to think that some of the smartest people in our country, who have gone to school and devoted their lives to learning the art of medicine and medical procedures should be lumped together and treated like what they do should just be a public service because everyone needs their help. I don't think that health care is a RIGHT for everyone to have in America just like it's not a RIGHT for everyone to drive a Mercedes or have a Plasma TV and cable in their living room. You have to work hard in this life to be able to provide for yourself and your family in order to be able to afford the luxuries and things that you want. Having a house isn't a right, having a car to drive around isn't a right, having a job isn't a right, getting an education isn't a right. These are all things that everyone should want to have and work hard to achieve but just because you were born here in America doesn't give you the right to all of these things. People need to realize how good we have it over here and we need to take a good look at the values and morals we have as a nation and try to improve the foundation before we start building again. This country is spending money it doesn't have on things it doesn't need just like the American people have done which has caused the housing market to crash along with many of the major corporations in this company. We have spent and spent and never looked back until it all came falling down and then we were looking for someone to blame when in reality as a country there's nobody to blame but ourselves because we didn't think there would be any consequences for the way we were living. To bring it back to the health care issue why don't people take a look at what is causing the health care crisis and why people are getting so sick instead of pointing the finger at the doctors and insurance companies saying they are just greedy. That's also a problem but the real problem is that people aren't taking care of themselves anymore. People have gotten lazy and they don't exercise or eat healthy anymore. The fast food generation has caused many problems for many Americans yet we don't hold McDonald's responsible for their quarter pounders and french fries. Why is that? Why don't we take a good look at the root of the problem instead of pointing the finger at the easy target and saying they are just being greedy we want free health care for everyone now.
The leaders of this country need to step up and do the difficult thing which is address the root problems instead of taking the easy way out and saying the "government" is going to take care of everything to buy them some time to think of a real solution. We are cursing our children with this problem if we don't step up and handle it ourselves. When are we going to be truthful with ourselves about what is going on in this country?
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