Healthcare for all in the US

The pleasure is all mine. Good luck! The first thing I need to make completely clear is that although I do not support Healthcare for all, I also do not support the system we have right now because the facts largely show that our system does a poor job of supplying people with affordable healthcare. I contribute this to the mass regulation in the U. S. Healthcare industry. There are three main attributes that characterize a given healthcare system: 1. Affordability 2. Universal Availability 3. Quality The fundamental problem in this debate is that no system can effectively meet all three of these attributes. It has never been done nor even theorized. What makes the United States healthcare system so bad is that it only encompasses one of these three, Quality, And what makes Universal Health care slightly better but not the best is that it encompasses the two that nearly coincide with each other, Affordability and Universal Availability. Evidence largely suggests the U. S. Healthcare System is a much higher caliber of quality of other Universal Healthcare options. For instance, In countries such as Canada, Citizens die on the wait list because of long wait lines [Source 1]. It also takes roughly 10. 8 weeks to get an MRI scan [Source 2]. For those who are unaware, MRIs play essential roles such as pinpointing injuries, Scanning the brain, And scanning the spinal cord, And recently, I actually dislocated my kneecap, Tore a ligament, And sustained a fracture (I do not recommend doing this. . . ). I was able to get an MRI WITHIN a week. As far as treatment, The U. S. Not only does the best job at treating cancers [Source 3], But also has an overall higher quality and opportunity for treatment. The United States also has the most innovations in medicine [Source 5] and by far the most health publications in all areas [Source 6]. Whereas in other countries you are limited in your treatment by the capacities of your government, Which are always lower than necessary, In the United States, You are limited by your paycheck because treatment options are truly the best and most abundant in the world. Now it's time for the problems with the present U. S. Healthcare System. As I already stated, It is far too regulated. Did you know that it is impossible to get a concrete cost on something as simple as an X-Ray [Source 4]? If you ask a doctor, They can't tell you because they have to negotiate with insurance to come up with a cost. Because of this, It makes it impossible for competition to drive down the prices and make healthcare more affordable. Let's look at Epipens which are essentially shots of adrenaline in the case of a severe food allergy. I use Epipens because I have a tree nut allergy (also do not recommend); the problem is that since there was only one company because of a government controlled monopoly which caused a 400% increase in cost [Source 7]. Epipens costed $30 to make [Source 8], Yet they were $300 to buy. With competition, This number would probably be around $50. There is a widely accepted notion that just because every other nation has Universal Healthcare, And that the U. S. System is far from great, That it is the right solution, And that is false. Quality is indisputably the most critical attribute for a healthcare system, And the U. S. Has it, Now we need to fix prices, Not by literally fixing them by more regulation, But by actually allowing for competition in the healthcare system which would make it much more affordable and, Therefore, Available to everyone. When it comes down to it, To repeat, The debate comes down to which of the three attributes previously stated, And if the U. S. System were not so regulated, We would have excellent quality and affordability which would in turn make it much more available. The only thing it fails to offer is free healthcare for absolutely everyone, Although the decreasing of prices may make it affordable to everyone. To sum up each based on their principals, My proposed solution is entirely based on the idea of the equality of opportunity where the possibilities are endless and people should have the best odds of surviving with the best medical care in the world while Universal Healthcare mandates equality of outcome, Making everyone's outcome equally worse. I would like to control my fate, Would you like to control yours? Source 1: https://www. Factcheck. Org. . . Source 2: https://www. Fraserinstitute. Org. . . Source 3: https://www. Forbes. Com. . . Source 4: https://health. Costhelper. Com. . . Source 5: https://www. Cato. Org. . . Source 6: https://www. Scimagojr. Com. . . Source 7: https://www. Dailywire. Com. . . Source 8: http://time. Com. . .